skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VGA/DVI/HDMI ports have an I2C interface (though DP tunnels I2C over AUX), which is normally used to read EDID information from monitors and control brightness, but on Linux (not Windows) you can control it as a general-purpose I2C bus, dump and even rewrite EEPROMs placed on the monitor bus. In theory you could even hook up a Nunchuk or Classic Controller to a display output (with level shifters if you want to run the Nunchuk at 5V off a 3.3V bus), and write a Linux driver to communicate with the peripheral and expose it as a game controller.
for technical users yes. for grandma, absolutely not
Note that cookies now have the SameSite cookie option which should prevent this
omnidirectional treadmill
> For the uninitiated, doomscrolling is essentially when one passively scrolls through endless feeds of content on social media until eventually stopping to realize that they've wasted the last five minutes of their life doing something entirely unproductive.

This is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling

"Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media."

In other words, doomscrolling is about scrolling the bad news, specifically. Like covid-19 or war.
Broken links should be fixed right now. Sorry about that.
The issue isn't the mere existence of two thinking modes (algebraic vs. geometric), but that we’ve culturally prioritized and trained mostly algebraic modes (linear language, math, symbolic logic). This has obscured our natural geometric capacity, especially the neurological pathways specialized in visually processing and intuitively understanding phenomena, particularly light itself (photons, vision, direct visual intuition of physics). Historically, algebraic thinking was elevated culturally around the Gnostic period (200 BCE forward), pushing aside the brain's default "geometric mode". Heck, during that period of history, people actively and forcefully campaigned against overly developing the analytical use of the mind. We should be actively mapping neurological pathways specialized for direct intuitive visual-physical cognition (understanding light intuitively at a neurological level, not symbolically or algebraically) for that to happen. Also: Understanding or explainability is not directly linked to consistency in the logical sense. A system can be consistent yet difficult to fully understand, or even inconsistent yet still partially understandable. We are talking right now here because we were put here through a series of historical events. Go back to 200 BCE and play out the Gnostic or Valentinus path to 2025.
>I think that's a net-benefit compared to human-only generated code.

Net-benefit in what terms though? More productive WRT raw code output? Lower error rate?

Because, something about the idea of generating tons of code via LLMs, which humans have to then verify, seems less productive to me and more error-prone.

I mean, when verifying code that you didn't write, you generally have to fully reason through it, just as you would to write it (if you really want to verify it). But, reasoning through someone else's code requires an extra step to latch on to the author's line of reasoning.

OTOH, if you just breeze through it because it looks correct, you're likely to miss errors.

The latter reminds me of the whole "Full self-driving, but keep your hands on the steering wheel, just in case" setup. It's going to lull you into overconfidence and passivity.
Understood, thanks for nicely explaining it instead of downvoting ;)
My personal favorite tidbit about a company which gave surveys years ago was that they claimed they were anonymous but when I was late to submit mine one year, the CFO called me and asked me to do my survey since it was late...
Rubber doesn't age well.

I guess that we've all had some kind of gear that still works fine, but the rubber coating is all tacky and nasty, and leaves smears on your hand.

I had to toss out a bunch of really good mice because of that.
Code testing is “human in the loop” for LLM generated code.
It is less possible when people choose to live further away and to live in constant fear of predators so their kids can't walk/bus themselves home.

If you are married to a teacher, how is that not flexible hours? Half the reason people become teachers is that they can pick up and drop off their kids around school times. It isn't like you have to drop off or pick up at start/finish time exactly. There is a good half hour window on either end. Those periods were some of the most fun you have at school as a kid IMO.

And yes if you make different choices they have different tradeoffs. Mum and Dad don't both have to work full time. You don't have to live an hour away from work. You don't have to pretend a 10 year old can't get themselves home fine on their own.

It is a myth that wages have been stagnant for decades. The basket of goods you compare to then vs now are completely different. You can buy a 1970s fridge that cost kW more to run for cheap. A new bigger more efficient fridge is a different product so you can't just compare prices then and now. Same with all products: today they're bigger, they last longer, they need less maintenance and they are much more efficient.
I know Musk is a regular ketamine user but I don't get the joke. Do you mind explaining it?
He’s written and cowritten 5 books on the subject, going back nearly 40 years. I think he can as much as anyone can be considered an “authority” on something as inherently hard to observe or develop falsifiable theories as subjective conscious experience.

This isn’t an example of physicist stumbling into a new field for the first time and saying “oh that’s an easy problem. you just need to…”

The ideas of a very smart person who has spent decades thinking about a problem tend to be very valuable even if you don’t agree with them.
I was too thinking that based on the title, but it looks like that the goal is a little bit different and indeed quite interesting:

The idea here is to harvest the energy from the "RF" ambiant noise, not from a pre-provided relatively powerful signal like the one that is powering RFID tags.

Based on what says the article, the power level of the "ambient" energy is too low to be harversted by current technology except the one presented in this article.
The fear indexes for Stocks and Crypto are near highs, which historically signals buying opportunities rather than reasons to panic.

The old adage "be greedy when others are fearful" holds true, backed by market history.

More money has been lost trying to time the market than simply staying invested. If this is long-term savings/investing, staying in the market is almost always the best move.

If it’s short-term money, it shouldn’t be in stocks anyway. For short-term capital, treasuries and cash-equivalents are safer plays.
The only speedrun I can personally do is the Warios Stadium N64 Mario kart level where you can hop over the wall right at the start!

My favorite from Baldurs Gate 3 is where a speedrunner found that if you kill Shadowheart and stuff her in a box, you can quickly get through the story. Sucks for her!
The Putinization of America
Today on "everything that's wrong with modern web and more"
I honestly don't think it's that far fetched. It meshes perfectly with the rest of "government busting" moves they've made so far, and it has the added elegance of catering to their crypto bro friends in the process. They don't have to burn all the social security on this to cause serious trouble.
heh, thanks! :) To be fair, the feedback has always been more positive than negative.
As a former Intuitive Machines employee, I feel obligated to correct the title! IM-1 landed on the moon last February and although it didn't stay upright, it was still operational and returned some decent scientific data.
And they do all their manufacturing in Briggs, TX about 30 minutes north of their HQ.
Two santas theory.

I worry that the solution is a race to the bottom. As long as this shit helps only one party it won't get fixed.
Tell your representatives to get their head out of their asses?

Democrats: why aren't you more engaged with this?

Republicans: How did lowering grocery prices turn into dismantling the services of our government, kissing Putin's rear, and daydreaming about Trump Hotel Gaza?

Also, let your friends, family, and loved ones know how you feel.
Nobody’s making a big deal about in it in this thread but you.
Espionage knew TW was developing nukes, CIA informant merely confirmed for US, who had to coerce TW to stop because they knew TW nuclearizing was PRC redline, and TW would eat PRC nuke if it didn't stop. Just like how modern day TW is still thoroughly infiltrated by PRC, and any attempt at nuclearizing would get decapitation striked very hard (PRC ordnance can hit anywhere in TW in ~7m). Functionally TW hasn't been nuclear turnkey capable since PRC got their nukes and launch vehicles
There’s plenty that is monetizable that hedge funds choose not to because they’re after a quick buck, and some things—rightfully—take time.

In other words, what hedge funds do or do not monetize has little predictive power over anything meaningful.
Having a good product is marketing and parallels chatgpt
You're romanticizing software. To place more value in the code than the outcome. There's nothing wrong with that, but most people that use software don't think about it that way.
Ever heard the term to google something. Viral marketing is still marketing.
Colin from "This Does Not Compute" used the same Kapton tape fix on an Apple tablet prototype: https://youtu.be/OM64l8tZSwY?t=293

I was wondering whether the flat tape makes some cylinders physically inaccessible but it seems like this is not an issue.
Incredible conflict of interest here.
While I completely agree crypto is full of shysters and most likely crypto has zero intrinsic value, as well the current administration tries to enrich itself through crypto, I disagree that recent change in prices after announcement proves it is a scam. Because if the government would have announced a strategic reserve in maple syrup, the syrup futures would have increased in price drastically as well.
Drive around at 2am. I haven’t lived in China since pre-covid but back then you would see in the early morning police coming to wake them up and move them along. But middle of the night you can drive around see people sleeping under bridges, doorways, alleys, tunnels. Never somewhere permanent. As there is an image to maintain in the cities.
In this case, you've been refuted by an explanation that the growth is almost entirely at the school of medicine, and most of that increase has been in staff that are providing care. And you're continuing to advance the point anyways.
The Day the Muse Died
I don't get that advice from the kindergarten teacher. Can you explain please?
Single squashed commits with a linear history.

This scales for monorepos with thousands of engineers, too.
This comes from ML (as in SML or OCaml), where 'a reads "alpha" and is a type parameter.
The urinal choice game was formative for me.
> saying something as stupid as women are better workers than men in general

Is it? Girls do better than boys in school, period. Women are more likely to attend college and to graduate once they're there. The fact that they do better in school and not in early career earnings has, in fact, been a long time point of evidence that gender imbalance exists. Yet the instant it looks like that might be reverting to mean, we see men screaming that it's somehow unfair and we need to put the finger back on the scale.

This is what I meant upthread about people being mentally unprepared. Seriously: what if it's true? For myself, I think it's probably true that women are more valuable blue collar employees. It's the theory that fits the data best.
I truly don't get it. All these supposed software engineers who can't seem to grasp the basics of the tools of the trade. It's like watching carpenters argue about a hammer every few weeks for ten plus years.

There's no excuse. Either learn git, or stop using it. If you can do neither, stop complaining, because plenty of people use it just fine.

And no, you really don't have to understand the internals to use git, but you DO need a mental model of what's happening: what a commit is, what a ref is, what a branch is, what merging/rebasing does, etc. These don't involve knowing the internals, but they do involve maybe reading the manual and actually THINKING about what is happening.

Too many developers confuse not wanting to think about something with that thing being difficult. I learned git one summer during a college internship 15 years ago, and I've been fine ever since. I am really, truly, not that smart, and if I can do it, so can you.

Everyone needs to just quit their bitching and actually learn something for once.
> reasoning through someone else's code requires an extra step to latch on to the author's line of reasoning.

And, in my experience, it’s a lot easier to latch on to a real person’s real line of reasoning rather than a chatbot’s “line of reasoning”
This is all a deflection from the inhumane treatment she has received. But I can’t tell: are you deflecting because it’s an uncomfortable topic, or because you genuinely don’t care that human beings are being treated this way?
We are coming to the end of the era where you could avoid major exposure to crypto speculation by simply not "investing" in it. When the government and major banks and top S&P500 companies are putting their money in crypto, just imagine the damage the next bubble pop will inevitably cause.
Ladybird has the advantage that they can start with a new architecture, and they seem willing to sacrifice features. But I doubt we will see them become a real competitor for Chrome and Firefox. And we will have to see whether they will at least support DRM-services like Netflix, YouTube, etc. making them a viable alternative for the casual users, giving some foundation for gaining traction in mainstream.
I too have fixed (temporarily) a hard drive by opening it open and moving the arm back and forth a few times. I got about 20 minutes out of it. Was able to save some photos… that are stored on another hard drive.
> Right, this seems like a very bad idea and now everyone has to do CSRF because of it?

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

CORS doesn't have to enter into it though: evil.com just has no way to read the CSRF token from bank.com, it's a one-time password that changes with every form (one hopes) and it's embedded in places that it can't access. It can send an arbitrary POST request, but no script originating from evil.com (or anywhere that is not bank.com) can get at the token it would need for that post to get past the CSRF prevention layer.
You have a (very common) mistaken view of what the W3C is and how it works. It is NOT an independent standards body that tells browser makers what to do! In fact, it's the exact opposite: the browser makers (and Google is a big one) tell the W3C what to do.

This makes perfect sense if you think about it, because the browser makers ultimately decide what goes into the browser. If the W3C was "in charge" and tried to make Google (or another browser maker) do anything, Google could simply ignore them. That system wouldn't last.

It has to work this way ... and Google (along with Apple, Microsoft, etc.) have decided this syntax is best for them (and possibly their users).
I had forgotten about Quantum hard drives.. I bought a Quantum harddrive in the 1990s for my mac like "Tower Power Pro".. It stopped working about a week after I got it with clicks. The first clue something was amiss was the person on the phone stating "thats a little early for it to fail". Got a replacement drive... 2 weeks later same issue. I think they were bought out by someone.

As I get older I wonder how may of my burned DVDs will still work.. My MiniDiscs still do as of this fall when I dusted them off (different technology). I had heard of tv networks "baking " magnetic tapes to get the information off.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
Also, nothing prevents you from checking the host server-side according to arbitrary logic and putting it into the CORS header dynamically.
I've worked in more than one place where a 'clean history' was deemed so valuable that someone and re-applied all the deltas after the fact to create some kind of alternative timeline where everything landed just so, and we all had to eat the resulting force pushes to main
Anyone know if they flew over the site of the Apollo 11 lunar module landing?

Surely they'd do it just for the publicity and ability to shut up Joe Rogan and the other nutjobs that consider that landing fake.
There is so little to write about and so much to overengineer about our text systems that all we can do now is endlessly debate punctuation.
All of this. Could have saved me a comment [0] if I'd seen this earlier.

When people talk about 30% or 50% coding productivity gains with LLMs, I really want to know exactly what they're measuring.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43236792
Well, if “we” were deliberately weakening the US, either to destabilize the government in order to being about a radically different system of government, or on behalf of a hostile foreign power (or, perhaps most relevantly, as part of a hybrid movement whose members have a mix of those motivations), then “we” might want to cut a large number of things that would seem nonsensical to cut for people who don’t share that goal.
Spending or saying they are spending is marketing but when people use their product the model doesn't matter.
its mostly a bunch of stuff i whipped together myself, but the short of it is i have a docker container that acts as a "vpn broker", establishing multiple vpn connections and then exposing access to them over socks proxies, and in the tab containers you can natively assign a socks proxy per container group

there's probably software already out there that does this same thing and probably does it better, id be hesitant to open-source what i have without a lot of cleanup and security changes.

so certain tab container groups go out certain proxies which in turn egress specific vpn tunnels
I'm arguing with an AI about this too, because my firm belief is that the act of changing a 1 to a 0 in a computer must radiate heat - a 1 is a voltage, it's not an abstract "idea", so that "power" has to go somewhere. It radiates out.

I'm not really arguing with you, i just think if i simulate entropy (entropic processes, "CSRNG", whatever) on my computer ...
I used to cynically think that things breaking down over time was mostly a choice for built-in obsolescence. After doing some real physical product design though, I can say that it's really difficult to build things to last.
Yes, strongly agree
The funny thing for me is that I reposted pre-grand-reorganising USENET to a mail list 2-3 years after the disaster, as a stream of consciousness thing and it felt "old" at the time. People emoting about mod.* and the structural semiotics of names, all kinds of things.

Old is as old does. I think Henry Spenser's utzoo postings would be interesting to see.
really, are we trying to model our economy after Russian oligarchy? After free markets have gotten us this far? Quite counter-intuitive and stupid
Here is the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NHTRgH3G0

(Caution very NSFW language)
i guess you converted all your investments to cash then?
Soo.. any of these had any real applications by the Pentagon? Or then why is the Pentagon using their budget to fund general research? It could be perfectly valid research, but that's not their job.
the heat radiated is entropy and will eventually wind up in a black hole. we missed a step.
Discovering a Stunted Giant: Intermediate Mass Black Hole Hiding in Milky Way
> My less cynical side assumes that nobody ever warned them that you have to put a lot of work in to learn how to get good results out of these systems

Why am I reminded of people who say you first have to become a biblical scholar before you can criticize the bible?
The only winning move is to learn your tools and develop a mental model of what they're doing. You know, like everything else a programmer needs to know.
They do a good job of publishing their results in technical industry publications (advancing the field overall in a surprisingly open way) but I agree can be misleading in their marketing.

It will be interesting to see the results of the Cape project once they do multi-well laterals from a single pad power plant with larger diameter wells. That is really more a demonstration of power plant economics beyond the technical feasibility of creating a horizontally fracked reservoir that can be operated for a year.
> Most gay men are just average dudes and you'd never be able to tell, no matter how many overly dramatic portrayals of gay dudes there are on TV.

Let's not be obtuse. You're acting as if most gay men are completely straight coded in society. That's just not even remotely true. Most gay men I know are "obviously" gay to straight women because straight women find most straight men to be a threat. Code switching like that is very common within the gay community when present around women. Very much being more flamboyant than they would otherwise as to make women feel more safe and allied with them.

I have dozens of gay male friends (yes, dozens) and I have rarely ever met a man and thought, "wow, he's gay? I never imagined! Seemed straight to me!" It happens but it's very uncommon.
That's just one of many goals. More goals include:

- Selling American assets to billionaires to exploit

- Gutting anything that helps average Americans so as to create justification for lower taxes for the rich.

- Gutting Ukraine so as to cut spending so as to provide tax cuts for the rich.

- Restricting any freedom of speech so that no one may complain about anything.
Yeah, there have been a dozen different attempts to make "an FPGA, but analog". This is one of them. They all failed. You'll note the page hasn't been updated since 02006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060715013941/http://www.anadig.... Analog circuits aren't fungible the way digital circuits are.

I'm not saying it's not a worthwhile research direction, just that it hasn't borne commercially viable fruit so far, despite decades of attempts.
Put differently, the last two months have had almost as many cases as the average of the past 24 years.
Personally I’m going to stick with FF until Ladybird is released and then jump ship.
The trp operon in bacteria is WILD.

If there's a lot of tryptophan in the bacteria, the ribosome scoots along the mRNA quickly and a kink forms later in the mRNA that boots the RNA polymerase off of the DNA prematurely, and stops the cell from making the mRNA that encodes for proteins that make tryptophan.

If there is a deficiency of tryptophan in the cell, the ribosome stalls, and a different kink forms in the mRNA that allows the RNA polymerase to keep on transcribing the genes necessary to make tryptophan.

This only works in bacteria, because there's no nucleus, and transcription and translation can occur simultaneously.
> Hallucinated methods are such a tiny roadblock that when people complain about them I assume they’ve spent minimal time learning how to effectively use these systems—they dropped them at the first hurdle.

This seems like a very flawed assumption to me. My take is that people look at hallucinations and say "wow, if it can't even get the easiest things consistently right, no way am I going to trust it with harder things".