skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had one of these for years and the right size makes all the difference. Some fun things include the ability to feel where the metal studs are in building walls, where the electrical lines are under the ground and of course the microwave. The most interesting part is how I conceptually had thought of electrical fields as 2d (because of pictures and school), but in reality they are 3d and so it is like reaching into a sphere of various sizes, the deeper you go in this sphere the stronger the field.
Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode
It’s often the “we chose nextjs” problem…
egoist/sitefetch: Fetch an entire site and save it as a text file
Yeah, I'm thinking of creating a WAP version. (-;
It’s $50/month online course. As effective as it can be, I can’t justify this expense for myself, as much as I’m fascinated by math.
Technically, you have a point. But it is unlikely that "too good" variant in Turing time was interesting.
I don't consider what I've seen here an overreaction, especially not seen in the light of how anyone who dared to venture outside of the desired narrative was treated in the last decade or so. If anything the reaction is quite mild which I consider to be a good sign for the future discourse on this site.

I am here for the same reason as you are and I voice my opinion on 'political' subjects just like you do, we just happen to be on different sides of the political divide in at least some areas. The mere fact that you do not agree with my stance does not mean I am in 'transmit-only mode' (whatever that means). To solve the problem of polarisation it is necessary to first recognise it exists which includes looking at your own position and recognising it as being not the centre of truth but a point somewhere on the plane of the allowed discourse. This goes not just for you but for everyone, myself included. It does not mean you need to relinquish your position as soon as someone voices disagreement or starts labelling you in some way - *-ist, *-phobe or some of the more creative ones popping up every now and then. This goes for everyone as well, what you consider to be existential truth is probably hogwash to some others out there and vice-versa.

So, AnimalMuppet, we both peruse this site for our own purposes and may meet again, may this be in the spirit of constructive dialogue and not in one of bitter resentment versus those who dare to disagree. An open mind for a different view, and nothing else matters after all?
Consider the source: Jonathan Haidt has been accused by a credible source of cherry-picking data to support his moral panic. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/jonathan-haidts-claims-o...
Most software vulnerabilities aren't intentionally added backdoors, but flaws in the software that shipped on a device.

> After all, how many widespread hacks do you read about on old, single-purpose fixed analog or digital devices (which in a sense are similarly 'read-only').

Quite a lot -- these are some of the easiest devices to hack. The only saving grace is that most of them are not connected to the internet so they are only vulnerable to local attacks. But garage doors, cordless phones, keyless entry, smart locks, smart home protocols, etc are notoriously vulnerable.

The reason you don't hear about new vulnerabilities each week is precisely because they're aren't updatable. The fact that they don't get updates with new vulnerabilities is not an advantage when they permanently have older vulnerabilities.
I’ll take option 1.
Why, because it’s prettier.
Ain’t any other way to draw conclusions I can see.
Coding help on StackOverflow dives as AI assistants rise
> I slowly and methodically improved my sleep, and I feel like a different person.

How do you do that? The smartwatch may give some info, but what do you do with it that allows falling and staying asleep, while all kinds of random variables may affect the metrics?
I'd love to see the connection line come from both particles and join between them! Ooo and also if they can like start with random colors and slowly as they meet their colors average out
That's very true. As a child, I was confused by all the chaos. Adults seemed to know everything, and yet there was constant war and famine and dysfunction all over the world. As an adult, I'm confused by the fact that anything works at all.
No one is suggesting to sue. The suggestion is to get advise from a professional, i.e. a lawyer rather to listen to random people on the internet. A lawsuit may or may not follow.
> Underwriters Laboratories, UL. Look at the back of pretty much any mains powered device and you'll see their mark.

I just looked at the closest mains powered device I have here (a fancy humidifier/fan), and only saw an Inmetro mark, there's no UL mark at all.

(My point is: plenty of people are not from the USA. I happen to have already heard that the UL is sort of the USA equivalent of our Inmetro, though like many things in the USA it's a private entity instead of a government entity, but the parent poster probably hadn't heard of that.)
>because various material things can change our consciousness. LSD, for example.

I feel really encouraged here, because I think this example has surfaced recently (to my awareness at least) of a good example of material impacts on conscious states that seems to get through to everybody.
> A copyrighted video might not be uploaded to YouTube, in which case you'd have to fall back on the video creation date

Correct, but in this case we know there was no earlier video anywhere, so the only conclusion to draw is that they simply weren't checking the date at all. If the only "source" video being compared with the "offending" video had a newer upload date, the claim never should have been allowed to happen. If there's truly some external video with an earlier upload date, compare to that.
If someone says "it's 250 miles from Houston to Dallas" you know that there will be some error involved. From precisely what part of Houston to what part of Dallas, does it include the outskirts, are they estimating, is it rounded to a nice number, etc.

If someone claims "it's 500 miles from Houston to Dallas" they're wrong.
it's like learning the letters of the alphabet permits one to see meaning behind their glyphs, namely the words; and then through reading text you perceive stories and so on

when somebody learns enough letters of "the mathematical alphabet of concepts" one begins to perceive a sort of "meaning", the mathematical realm i.e. the "garden"
You need to factor in member’s ability to “cross the aisle” and the power of the party whip. In the U.S. members can vote against their party’s legislation without instantly being thrown out of the party.
Why? Gopher works fine!
Thanks for refreshing and sharing this again!

The visualizations are so similar to integrated circuit layouts; they immediately reminded me of some of the coasters that GamersNexus sell which represent simplified computer subsystems.
Wait, why would anyone do this, though? It’s like taking a personal loan from the government that is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. The interest is going to accrue every year you go to uni.

If you use that to go long on the stock market, I get it since the S&P500 beats interest rates right now, though there’s a risk. Using it on personal expenses seems like the lowest EV choice!
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633880
i used it daily for a couple years and had no idea the impact it was having on me. i was an angry, irritable, grumpy person, and i completely changed when i finally stopped taking it.

i had an addiction but didnt abuse it. it got to the point that i craved ambien during the day for reasons i can't even explain. i just inexplicably wanted to take it. i wasnt even taking full pills of the usual dose, i usually cut them in half.

it took me a long time to learn to put my phone away before taking it. i would text people i was causally dating overly romantic and loving things and have zero memory of it. thankfully whenever it happened the people involved always just thought it was funny, and i did have the awareness to preface those texts with "maybe its just bc i took some ambien". After a few dates with someone i warned them i take ambien and might text them something stupid but loving, so they were well prepared
Jan 6th gets a lot of attention. But the Bush v Gore Florida count seems to have been completely forgotten. It ushered in what is quite arguably the worst Presidency in modern history. Jan 6th was blunt and obvious but Florida 2000 was far more surreptitious. I think it deserves more attention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/10/politics/supreme-court-sp...
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It is not black and white. In my experience, what people want is heavily influenced by the company culture.

If building platforms is cool then everyone wants to be there. But if building products is the thing then people want to work with this.
The problem with those is that they are insanely expensive for what you get. Here locally the DS423+ (4-bay one) is like $614 USD + shipping without any disks, and has a Intel Celeron J4125 and 2GB ram. They are unfortunately ridiculously overpriced
Funny enough it was you I was attempting to paraphrase :)
It’s lack of / small size of processor caches on the chips that are used Android phones that’s the big issue — Alex Russell has a good post about this somewhere
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This is a tough one. It’s systemic —- MS provides a “best fit” code mapping from wide Unicode to ASCII, which is a known, published, “vibes-based” mapper. This best fit parser is used a lottt of places, and I’m sure that it’s required for ongoing inclusion based on how MS views backward compatibility. It’s linked in by default everywhere, whether or not you know you included it.

The exploits largely revolved around either speccing an unusual code point that “vibes” into say a slash or a hyphen or quotes. These code points are typically evaluated one way (correct full Unicode evaluation) inside a modern programming language, but when passed to shell commands or other Win32 API things are vibes-downed. Crucially this happens after you check them, since it’s when you’ve passed control.

To quote the curl maintainer “curl is a victim” here — but who is the culprit? It seems certain that curl will be used to retrieve user supplied data automatically by a server in the future. When that server mangles user input in one way for validation and another when applied to system libraries, you’re going to have a problem.

It seems to me like maybe the solution is to provide an opt-out of “best fit” munging in the Win32 space, but I’m not a Windows guy, so I speculate. At least then open source providers could just add the opt out to best practices, and deal with the many terrible problems that things like a Unicode wide variant of “ or \ delivers to them.

And of course even if you do that, you’ll interact with officially shipped APIs and software that has not opted out.
Literally every newspaper kiosk, convenience store, etc had racks of cassettes in half of mainland Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Portugal) during the 80s and 90s. I use to relish trips to the mainland to stock up on the latest ZX Spectrum games.

Later on they were a good source for those pirated multi-game carts for consoles.
I think you misunderstood what Biohacking is and replaced it with body modification.
No one ever knew this until government TV told us! Thanks!

Government TV goes MAHA!
Pretrained Models for Atomic Simulations
What I can't stand about Taco Bell is the fake nacho cheese. The ordinary grated cheese that is on (say) a hard taco is OK even if it's not the best, but it takes me a strong act of suppression to choke down anything with Velveeta in it. Maybe their tablet interface can be drilled into to get ingredients but as it is it's a game of chance. (Funny there is a taco stands that has the best street tacos I've seen anywhere except LA a block from Taco bell but too often it's not open when I'm there)

Seriously though,

https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-SQL-Smarties-Programming-d...

is a masterclass in extreme SQLmanship.
So you mean, the AI should figure out when a problematic scene is coming, and only then add labels and whatnot? Not impossible, just somebody must teach them, same with subtitles positioning.
> the only thing we can do is to encourage everyone, the users, organizations, and developers, to gradually phase out ANSI and promote the use of the Wide Character API,

This has been Microsoft's official position since NT 3.5, if I remember correctly.

Sadly, one of the main hurdles is the way Microsoft's own C/C++ runtime library (msvcrt.dll) is implemented. Its non-standard "wide" functions like _wfopen(), _wgetenv(), etc. internally use W-functions from Win API. But the standard, "narrow" functions like fopen(), getenv(), etc., instead of using the "wide" versions and converting to-from Unicode themselves (and reporting conversion failures), simply use A-functions. Which, as you see, generally don't report any Unicode conversion failures but instead try to gloss over them using best-fit approach.

And of course, nobody who ports software, written in C, to Windows wants to rewrite all of the uses of standard functions to use Microsoft's non-portable functions because at this point, it becomes a full-blown rewrite.
1. Now you have two problems (did the writer translate what I said correctly and did the summarizer translate what the writer wrote correctly).

2. This is absolutely true and it does help somewhat. However, writing the test cases is now your bottleneck (and you're writing them as a substitute for being able to read a reliable high-level summary of what the workflow actually is).
I mean, I would love to make it illegal for a journalist to say "The science says X" when the science does not say X, but understand that for nearly all science, a journalist is not equipped to know that!

Journalists are not scientists, and they are especially not scientists, and they do not have the foundation and fundamentals necessary to evaluate whether a paper backs up what a university PR department tells them to publish.

The wealth of human knowledge is insanely vast, and basically infinitely recursive. A scientist in one tiny niche of physics can barely evaluate the papers of a scientist in another tiny niche of physics. Most niches in most sciences can't even fill an auditorium with experts.

The most important thing to know in science is that if you are not reading the actual paper, you aren't getting scientific information but rather someone's interpretation and marketing copy. The second most important thing to know is that if you haven't written a scientific paper in the same domain, you will likely struggle to accurately interpret the results of one.

When everyone was freaking out over LK-99, none of the losers on here or twitter were able to accurately assess the situation, and plenty of people outright bought the lies of that russian furry who claimed to be able to reproduce it, despite any evidence. It took actual domain experts, who were always emphatic that it didn't have good enough evidence to get too excited.

There was a similar situation during the "Cold Fusion" nonsense in 1989. A couple chemists did some mediocre science and went on a PR tour with their "findings", quite literally saying their data was unquestionable and the rest of science needed to adapt their theories to the cold fusion data, which meanwhile was unpublished. These two fairly well trained and practiced scientists went and asked congress for something like $25 million on next to no data. An entire conference of Chemists cheered for them and their "findings". The findings were always invalid. Their experiments never generated the kinds of products you would expect from fusing deuterium.

If even a room full of trained chemists cannot evaluate other chemists making downright basic errors in their research, how can we possibly expect average people with no scientific experience to keep up?
Practically there's uses in areas like cryptography and simulation where Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are used. If the numbers aren't irrational then there may be flaws in the assumptions being used.

Beyond direct application, knowing a number is irrational can be a form of validation for theoretical modelling. If a number arising in a model turns out to be rational, it could mean an unexpected simplicity or symmetry, which is worth exploring further. Conversely, irrationality is often expected in complex systems and may confirm the soundness of a mathematical construct or physical model. I guess a good example of that is the relationship of light spectra and Planks constant.
'Dysfunctionally functional' is probably a term that I read elsewhere. It's almost a curse because if things were to fully break, then everyone on earth would consider that a sufficient wake-up call. Instead, we limp along focusing all of our functional resources towards our dysfunction, almost like the most proficient addict who finds new and inventive ways to fight sobriety. It is truly a sight to behold.
One simple but genius detail about the Atari ST's case design is that the case screws on the bottom have square holes while other screws have round holes.
You don't have to learn beforehand which screws are which, or risk loosening things inside that you didn't intend to.
I'm not sure what you mean. I have migrated versions without having to update any applications that connects to it?

Maybe it is a driver specific issue? I have used Python/Java, and haven't updated any of my code or dependencies because of a major Postgre update
I just wish I could print this
Oh! How thrilling! Do you have any details about how they’re going to do that?
In order: Why would you ask an LLM as a way of getting important news? See previous. Absolutely not, I wouldn't trust ANY company in the modern age to not suck up every byte of data they can, whether the CEO comes with a halo or horns. Probably not, since that data is incredibly valuable and gives them an edge over competitors, otherwise sure they would everyone does.

And leadership morals matters? Then I guess we're in a bit of trouble given the morality of our leaders, but lets not pretend this is new or limited to OpenAI. I'd also argue that in terms of what impacts society, the impact of OpenAI on the job market is MUCH more severe than the impact of Sam Altman's alleged person misdeeds.
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>The brain truly is a system with terrible service availability

Taking this as a jumping off point for a way of thinking about those 'services'. It seems remarkable to me that we can initiate the attempt to think of an elephant, and then get there in one shot. We don't sort through, say, rhinos, hippos, cars, trucks. We don't seem to have to rummage.

Of course when it comes to things on the edge of our memory or the edge of our understanding, there's a lot of rummaging. But it could have been the case that everything was that way (perhaps it is that way for some animals), instead, there are some things to which we have nearly automatic, seemingly instant recall.
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Curious if it would be possible for a manufacturer could do similar hardware attestation as what's done for iPhones while allowing for the hardware and its attestation key to be swapped for a different set only if one has a certain private encryption key.

I don't do hardware at all so this may be infeasible or misunderstood but I imagine a scheme whereby one needs the encryption key in order to properly change the key that the hardware attestation firmware is expecting. The attestation key is encrypted with a separate private key and is decrypted by the firmware with the corresponding public key.

Presuming that's feasible, it would only really work until that private key is leaked and our hostile trade partners pinky promise not to use it. Perhaps some licensing could be used to make the people who own the device to be responsible for repairing it at an approved repair shop but that still has to be enforced.
Diving into history, creating a mobile version was impossible in the earliest versions of CSS. Viewport units were amended only in 2012 with the introduction of CSS3. Prior to that, the only way to create a mobile version was to check the UA and, if it was a mobile device, redirect to a specific HTML page that was adapted for mobile devices. Probably, we will do this in the same way.
I agree that building visibility makes accountability easier. Its relatively trivial to build observability for individual services and we have achieved some version of it.

The problem is when 30 odd microservices (each team owning between 5-10) talking to each other. In pre-production setup, changes in few of these services might not have noticeable impact on cost which will become quite apparent in production. When this happens, we definitely notice an increase the cost and the unit metric. But then we dont know where to start fixing this problem from. Right now, this becomes a war-room situation based on the severity but I dont think this is sustainable.

In comparison, if we take API latency as a metric, the accountability and ownership are clearly defined: If an API slows down, the team that owns it, fixes it. They can work with anyone they need to but its their job to fix it.

Did you face similar concerns/issues? Not sure if this is a problem other engineering teams are struggling with or even considering as a real problem to invest it.

I'm also not sure if theres a "standard" way of doing this which we should be thinking about. So, looking for ideas and thoughts here.
yes tired but can't stop.
Surely that must use conventional HTTP referrer data—for which we have well established standards, decades of experience managing interactions and edge cases, and norms for respecting user consent—and not some apparently wishful query parameter?
Do they require auth and use solid crypto? If not, they are vulnerable, it's just that the vulnerability requires the attacker to be within range.

People thought old analog 900mhz cordless phones were fine until others realized you could just tune a radio to that freq and listen to your neighbors.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_representation
I use pinchflat mostly for archiving channels that occasionally take videos down. It technically has an inbuilt video player, but that's more for "debugging". The intended non-archival usecase is have the download folder picked up by your Plex or Jellyfin and watch it there.

Of course that deprives you from interaction with the actual youtube content. But for support, $1/month on the creator's patreon goes further, and for engagement you can join the creator's discord. The only thing you are really missing out on is feeding the youtube algorithm.
See also: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/supporters-of-chromium-based...

It's truly baffling to me why The Linux Foundation would be interested in supporting and fostering Chromium monoculture. Perhaps they were just tempted by Google money?
No, denial of “post-acute care, or services and support needed after a hospitalization” claims is a narrow category, it’s not all claim denials.