skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was expected given the recent decline of his health.

I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and definitely worth watching, but if anyone who didn't know him wants a primer on his complex, sometimes surreal, but I think ultimately endearing personality, then this is a nice introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0
Look him up, perhaps. If you’re a geek, nontrivial parts of your profession wouldn’t be possible without him.
Even if you buy the game you need to bypass encryption in order to dump the game data to run it on an emulator. A big part of why Nintendo prevailed in their lawsuit against Yuzu is that they proved the emulator could not be used without extracting encryption keys and bypassing copy protection.

So no, there's no legal way to use a switch emulator. At least not for playing commercial switch games, I guess you could theoretically home brew your own game to play on an emulator.
Ask HN: Has anyone built a tax simulation environment?
Was curious if anyone had attempted such endeavour. The use case I see is you input your finances (eg. money spread over different investments, in a business, multiple incomes, etc.) and your goal (purchase home that costs $x) and an optimizer will try different solutions (eg. sell these assets for this tax liability, take this mortgage at this rate, pay it in lump sums to be able to withdraw assets from your business as dividends spread over N years, etc.)
This feels like a perfectionist fallacy. One has to start somewhere, pornography is something we can pretty much all agree children shouldn’t be watching. It’s theoretically a mostly-achievable goal.

Solving one problem doesn’t mean we can’t also work on solving the others.
Can confirm. It sounds so weird to me, but I hear my kids and their friends call each other "bro" or "bruh" all the time, regardless of gender.
If I understand correctly, the library doesn't index the codebase but just generates a good, formatted representation of the repo. I'm curious to hear what you think about more meaningful way to represent a codebase? There is a lot of tribal knowledge in the repo that can help the LLM.
Yes. Similarly, the “agree” should have the option for “Okay yes, but just for this session.”

The fact that this part of the UI is not escapable by the user is hostile and breaks the interaction model. If the “webpage” is asking me this question, why is the browser acting as a middleman and forwarding me this message without letting my continue unless I answer. Let me respond to the webpage or ignore it as well.
I had to get certificates revoked for HeartBleed. :P
I mean it's not actually summarizing the threads. It's glancing over and then giving itd own personal opinion.
I'm a freelancer and sometimes I have to recommend software or services for my clients.

When I evaluate choices I automatically remove all of those that don't have pricing up front as I have no time nor intention to do this. I don't think any company lost millions on me, but many lost tens of thousands.

API providers are the worst, but I kinda understand them.
oh boy. I'd understand if you said to try Mullholland Drive first, second, and third and then go from there.
> Niche Communities

> Designer News - A community for designers, where you can share your design-related side projects and get feedback from other designers.

Sadly, Designer News looks like it has shut down: https://www.designernews.co
Buying a used game means the original owner can no longer play, and has to repurchase if they want to play as again. The same is not true for emulators
> pager bombings in Lebanon were a masterstroke but a breach of the known rules

What military over the past twenty years had this (or something similar) as an option and didn’t do it because it would be frowned upon?

The truth is nobody has been following the “known rules” since the 90s. Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Transnistrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Hong Kong, Crimea, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Gaza and soon Taiwan. The rules-based international order has been crumbling for years. The only governments still defending it are in Europe.

> they are used as justification for civilian attacks on the west by some unknown group

Who previously would have refrained?
We should start recommending UIs as the default way to learn Git. It would solve a third of these problems and another third wouldn't even come up.

If you later decide that the CLI is faster, go ahead. But first, people need to see visually how they can interact with the tree.

I like fork.dev, but most clients are pretty similar at this point.
One aspect that modern finance has laid clear is the concept of monetization of various assets one possesses. In the past, it wasn't clear that one's brand was monetizable or how one could do that. Individuals would happen upon these now and then, even if it wasn't systematized. The most obvious answer is that R. A. Fisher happened upon a way to monetize his brand in a way that aligned with his politics: he was a good statistician, and therefore people believed him, but the value of "being a good statistician and known to be so" is much higher than just being a good statistician and this was one such thing where he could extract more value. The part about aligned politics is that it helps when you're trading reputation.

Today, most of this is well understood. MIT sells its brand under MIT Media Lab, something you can easily understand if you read the theses published by this division of the university. Other universities sell their brand under things like 30 day courses that grant a certificate named similarly to their graduate degrees. In some sense, they are internalizing the surplus generated by the brand. Interesting model.
This is my favorite passage from the article:

"Beyond this, people make mistakes. Brilliance represents an upper bound on the quality of your reasoning, but there is no lower bound. The most brilliant scientist in the world can take really dumb stances. Indeed, the success that often goes with brilliance can encourage a blind stubbornness. Not always—some top scientists are admirably skeptical of their own ideas—but sometimes. And if you want to be stubborn, again, there’s no lower bound on how wrong you can be. The best driver in the world can still decide to turn the steering wheel and crash into a tree."

It is one of those profound realizations that seems so obviously true it's irrelevant. But then ask if we evaluate the decisions and statements from smart people this way. Generally the answer is no.

While the brilliant person will have higher quality reasoning on average due to the stretching of the distribution... any individual belief or statement they come up with is being drawn from a distribution that still includes boneheadely wrong.
In most of these discussions, people on the sales side claim, "but our customers WANT this! Trust us!" and most of the people on the buying side scream, "We hate this. Please let us buy it without this song and dance."
It's a shocking disconnect to me.
(For what it's worth, I'm squarely on the fouder/engineering buying side and hate the call song and dance, and only engage in it as a last resort.)

Parting thought: SpaceX tells you how much it costs to ship something INTO SPACE. I bet you can figure out a way to tell me your SaaS price, in ballpark terms, and what it depends upon...
When you don't how valuable it's going to be, you at least know how expensive is it to make.

For a company wanting to make a profit, you need to cover your costs, so that's a minimum, with some reasonable profit on top.

If you can't figure that out either, well...
Are you me? I'm a CTO too, and I feel _exactly_ like this.
Both Maemo and WebOS were better UIs than iPhone and Android, and eventually both iPhone and Android had pretty much adopted a Frankensteined combination of the two. Android's process "card" UI is indistinguishable from WebOS, and I think it was designed by the same person.

Nokia could have competed, they were just internally a mess. So, the board wanted to sell to Microsoft, and brought in a guy whose job was to wreck Nokia and shepherd the deal (and pretend like it wasn't intentional.) The N900 showed too much potential, so I assume part of the wrecking was to force them to rewrite Maemo into Meego for the N9, which would be buried on release.

The resistive touchscreen was amazing on the N900, and I have no earthly idea why people claim to prefer capacitive screens (my guess is a bunch of cheap Chinese products with cheap resistant screens.) They hate being able to point with precision without a special pointer, not having to wear special gloves or to take off your gloves in the cold, and a screen that doesn't shatter?

You had an N900. How was the screen worse than any contemporary (or current) capacitive screen? I still an N900 as an mp3 player daily, and I still don't understand.
I've tried to avoid spoilers below, but there are some minor ones for anyone reading who has never read Dune Messiah.

I've read Dune at least a dozen times and followed up with Dune Messiah a few times. Sometimes I get that feeling of disjointedness. At its most extreme, Paul feels like a total stranger. (Stilgar might as well be a different characters; we see a changed character, but not the change.) Sometimes it feels like the books flows nicely despite the time jump. My best guess is that it depends on what aspects I've been most focused on while reading.

I'm reserving judgment as well, but one part is really stuck in my craw. Although I felt like Villeneuve's Chani was generally stronger I felt the last scene made her look like a child and my first thought was that it was a weak attempt to set up a particular relationship for Part 3.
You could do worse than Paul Graham's On Lisp. If Lisp is not your thing, try the Pragmatic Programmer (David Thomas and Andrew Hunt)
I wonder a little bit why this is slower on Android than iOS. On iOS I've never experienced this, and my phone is a couple years old now.

Not saying I have the answer, but it is a curiosity
That's interesting, about the probability being zero in 3D. Is this on an integer lattice? The source that cannot be cited on HN without loss of karma says that the probability of returning to the origin in Z^3 is approximately 0.34.

I don't see how it could possibly be zero, even for reals, unless you're relying on the idea that the probability of any given real emerging from a uniform RNG is zero. That would seem to apply in 2D as well.
When google started summarising and presenting the summary as fact rather than just returning results, is when they started acting like they were making truthiness decisions about the information.
If you are good those numbers are an order of magnitude off. In truth it is probably mostly auth or something. If you simply avoid json you can radically attack these things fast.

RTT to nearest major metro DC should be up to 20ms (where I am it is less than half that), your DB calls should not be anything like 200ms (and in the event they are you need to show something else first), and 10-20ms is what you should assume for rendering budget of something very big. 60hz means 16ms per frame after all.
As I remember it there was a time before and after 3G for web browsing. The fidelity of the iPhone Safari early on was great, but those early 2 generations didn't really have the bandwidth to do much with it. Still, I agree it was a leap ahead of the rest.
One of the beauties of Git is that as long as you’ve created an object, it’s impossible to lose that work (short of nuking the .git directory).

Committing often is key. Precommit hooks (that take more than ~100ms) go against that.
> There is no such thing as proving something "safe".

Is that not what NCAP does?

Or what NTSB and FAA do with aviation?

You can prove that some things are safe. Does not mean infallible, means safe.
As far as I can tell the only reference to something that Fisher said was a clip from a newspaper article where he said that criticizing smoking was terrorism. The rest appears to just be other contemporary evidence that the cigarette execs knew it was bad but some scientists (not Fisher?) didn't believe that it was bad.

Am I missing something -- does this article spell out to what extent Fisher himself defended smoking?
Using Uv as an Installer
https://www.phind.com/search?cache=mrvch82ai4szf4ulx1c98eqt
Cui Bono?
The absence of anything >200G isn't reassuring there...
AWS Management Console supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts
Isn't self promotion frowned upon on lobste.rs?
Are the big players (minus Google since no one blocks google bot) actively taking measures to circumvent things like Cloudflare bot protection?

Bot detection is fairly sophisticated these days. No one bypasses it by accident. If they are getting around it then they are doing it intentionally (and probably dedicating a lot of resources to it). I'm pro-scraping when bots are well behaved but the circumvention of bot detection seems like a gray-ish area.

And, yes, I know about Facebook training on copyrighted books so I don't put it above these companies. I've just never seen it confirmed that they actually do it.
I think this is being quite pedantic, especially if you've done enterprise sales before.
It occurs to me this might be of interest to readers in this
thread.

A couple years ago I put together a list of sites that render
well using Lynx and EWW. Since both browsers don't support
JavaScript out of the box, maybe this is interesting to people
here?

https://ohmeadhbh.github.io/bobcat/

I noticed the Greycoder site has several sites I should probably
add. But if you have a link you think should be included,
please submit a PR on GitHub. While I'm not horribly sensitive
to Github's weirdness after being purchased by Microsoft, I am
sensitive to people who are sensitive to it. So if you don't
want to go onto GitHub to submit a PR, you can find my email
address at https://github.com/ohmeadhbh, just send me an email.
Sometimes it turns out that contract law only applies to the poorer of the parties engaged in a contract.
How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen?
Still, you didn't remove it as you claim in the article. For a potential customer booking a call there's no difference, even if your intention is for it to only be a "discovery call". What did you actually change on the website?
I was glad to see the discussion as well but it feels like the downsides were also very understated. Working on an RN app as a native dev requires a lot of cross-domain knowledge that isn't typical for a native dev.
I use Notes on my phone for film / book recommendations, shopping lists, and stuff of that nature. It's just there.

Then I use workflowy for tasks.

And for stuff I really need to not forget I email myself, and flag the email.

I have a physical calendar where I put reminders for meetings (actual detailed meetings are in google calendar). It's not paper/pen, it's a sort of pegboard I 3d printed.
Perhaps it's just user error, but if you compact the wax in your ear by shoving stuff into it then you'll be in for a world of pain when the doctor uses a watergun to uncompact it.
Is it ok to criticize both candidates? Or do I have to like the other candidate if I don't like a candidate?
Lynch had the cojones to show a guild navigator
That's where baristas worked before Starbucks.
Through running is to avoid an upcoming real estate grab / bodogale where Stephen Ross's Vonado wants to let the state of NY use emmenent domain, skip city land use review and demolish an entire block 8th ave to 7th fromst 31st to 30th street. This is for him to build mega office towers and build more terminus rail platforms.

The idea of through-running is to not have trains parked like that in an over crouded midtown. That way they can reduce the number of tracks and widen the platforms. It has beem done with great success in many big cities already. The idea would be to have NJ Transit trains run to platforms at their rail yard in Queens. This is a large ripe for development area between Long Island City and Sunnyside Queens. It could also go farther to Port Morris in the Bronx and link with Metro North and the further North East rail corridor. Long Island Rail could go to a new terminus rail yard in NJ which could have a bus terminal to reduce the amount of busses into NYC. The main issue I can see is some of those commuter runs are too long for crew rotations and may require crew shifts who just do last stop in NJ through to the outer boro NYC rail yards.

Here is the group advocating this idea. Rethink Penn Station NYC https://www.rethinkpennstationnyc.org/
But it's so little hassle: just send the blog author an email saying vaguely what the problem is!

Someone emailed me about an issue with my RSS feed once. I don't remember what the issue was anymore, but I was grateful and I fixed it. Being the author of a tiny blog, it was just really nice to know that someone wanted to read what I wrote enough to care that my RSS feed was borked.
Yes, but that can be better understood as the hypercube becoming more pointy, not the sphere. And it's true; the cube's vertices get arbitrarily far from the origin, while the centers of its faces stay at ±1.

There are other ways in which a hypersphere can be considered "pointy", though; for example, consider a point lying on the surface being moved some epsilon distance to a random direction. As the dimension increases, the probability that the point ends up inside the sphere approaches zero – the sphere spans a smaller and smaller fraction of the "sky".
I think Ancel Keys is in this category, and we are still suffering and dying from his opinions, which are a leading reason for the upside down food pyramid. I don't doubt his sincerity or intelligence at all. He's just an instance of how badly top scientists can get it wrong with the best of intentions, and how enormously expensive such failures can be.
> just a stubborn contrarian pushing against the orthodoxy.

It's not enough to be a contrarian, you also have to be right. Acknowledging that cigarettes are bad isn't "group think", it's an easy consensus because the evidence at every level, scientific, personal is very clear. Just walk up a bunch of stairs with a heavy smoker.

People who constantly act contrarian because they cannot accept that orthodox opinions are, most of the time, established opinion for decent reasons are both annoying and especially these days a blight on public discourse. They don't move science forward (forward progress is by definition only possible if matters are, at some point, actually settled instead of repeated for eternity), they try to get attention by standing out.

And of course companies tend to use these people because they can easily become useful idiots, it's no surprise that there's an entire cottage industry of "heterodox thinkers" these days. The book in the article, Merchants of Doubt, gives some great examples on this in regards to pollution and climate change denial.
I hear this point parroted all of the time, but I think it is a misunderstanding and a poor visualization. Consider the same situation, but instead of focusing on the radius of the center sphere, focus on the distance between the spheres on the corners to the origin. For 1-dimension, these 'spheres' are unit intervals and so the distance is 1 (Central radius is 0). For 2-dimensions, these are circles at a distance of root(3) (Central radius is root(2)-1). 3-D: root(3) (Central radius is root(3)-1). Etc. So, it isn't the central circle getting more 'pointy' allowing the central radius to increase, but rather that the corner circles are getting further from the origin, allowing larger N-spheres (increasing proportional to the root of N). Thus, pointy is not the right way to conceptualize these spheres. For the more visual folk, I would recommend drawing this out and you can see this in action.
More clearly, if a sphere became 'spikey' then the distance on the surface of the spike should be further than a neighboring point, which is NOT the case.
Not trying to attack you, I just see this same point over and over and think that this warrants more thought
The Unresolved Tension Between AI and Learning
(Although the IndieWeb community has this weird thing against "side files" and prefer having the content inside the HTML, marked up with Microformats2 special attributes. A social reader then polls the HTML and parses it additionally with the Microformats2 algorithm. I suspect this cultural preference is a result of the usage of static site builders of the early IndieWeb pioneers like Tantek.)
Strong opposition to this regulation seems to be one of the main things that led a16z, Oracle, etc. to go all in for Donald Trump. It's interesting that Meta too fought the regulation by its unprecedented open sourcing of model weights.

Regardless of who is currently in the lead, China has its own GPUs and a lot of very smart people figuring out algorithmic and model design optimizations, so China will likely be in the lead more obviously within 1-2 years, both in hardware and model design.

This law is likely not going to be effective in its intended purpose, and it will prevent peaceful collaboration between US and Chinese firms, the kind that helps prevent war.

The US is moving toward a system where government controls and throttles technology and picks winners. We should all fight to stop this.
> only if you're straight. if you're gay, the Palestinians will throw you off a building.

This is such a gross statement.

First of all, Palestinians are not all religious fundamentalists. Hamas is not Daesh. There is no sharia law in Palestine. Your statement is textbook islamophobia.

Second, are you really invoking gay rights in the context of a genocide? I'm sorry can you please send me the news article you must have read stating Israel is using LGBTQ-avoiding bombs? Because to argue that the LGBT community would have it worse under Palestinian statehood than the current genocide is truely mind-boggling.

Would you make the same claim about gay Jews in Germany? In the concentration camps?
AmEx to Pay $108.7M for Deceptive Marketing and "Dummy" Account Information
My point is not "if we don't solve everything it's not good". My point is "if you focus on this very specific part of the supposed problem while never mentioning the rest, I very much doubt the sincerity of your goal" (you being the government in this case). This is just "think of the children".
For me it's only ever an issue if I stop renewing a domain, which triggers issues somewhere next renewal and now nginx doesn't reload.

Other than that, I've never had to babysit certbot. It's just a systemd timer job.
This `regulations.gov` is leaking info on who accesses what, to Google (via `www.google-analytics.com` tracker).

There should be a federal regulation about that.
I wouldn't write off the use of IP certs just yet.

AFAIK IP address certs would provide a way to create a secure browsing context in your browser, which is required for service worker ('offline' background threads) and some File API, which could open up a new class of programs that host for friends and family.
The differently styled images of "astronaut riding a horse" are great, but that has been a go-to example for image generation models for a while now. The introduction says that they train on 37 million real and synthetic images. Are astronauts riding horses now represented in the training data more than would have been possible 5 years ago?

If it's possible to get good, generalizable results from such (relatively) small data sets, I'd like to see what this approach can do if trained exclusively on non-synthetic permissively licensed inputs. It might be possible to make a good "free of any possible future legal challenges" image generator just from public domain content.