skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, i imagine in cases where this is to be expected, the sumps themselves need to be much larger (or have more of them) and the pumps need to be higher duty and intended to move more water. Certainly exceptional, but i'd hope anticipated in the design.

Our sump here runs all the time when it rains, but then it goes for weeks without moving any water (especially in the winter). When we moved into this house, the pump was broken, but there was also water damage in the basement. First thing i did was replace it and now its a common sound to hear the pump running.
In my experience "working for yourself" means in practice "working for your clients." You still need an external party willing to give you money for your work. And they will have requirements about how it is done and when it is delivered that you won't necessarily like
How did this happen? I've never seen this in practice if you weren't doing something "obviously" wrong.
Impressive author list!
I am not a doctor. This information is from the Mayo Clinic website:

When to see a doctor

Contact an eye specialist immediately if you notice:

• Many more eye floaters than usual
• A sudden onset of new floaters
• Flashes of light in the same eye as the floaters
• Darkness on any side or sides of your vision (peripheral vision loss)

These painless symptoms could be caused by a retinal tear, with or without a retinal detachment — a sight-threatening condition that requires immediate attention. [0]

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/eye-floaters/...
> how is it going to help me? How many other people have written a game in that language using that library in this genre trying to do this task before?

Because you write code using a bunch of patterns: iterating over data, destructing an object, calling functions etc. If you can generalize the usage of these patterns in such a way that it understands the context where you want to use them you're essentially doing this Copilot thing.

I agree that it'll be hard to have it understand fully the context and paradigms behind your existing project, but if it can help me automate some things in such a way that I can just let it run its thing and than have me "poke around it to get it right" then this is still amazing.
Ahem, I prefer beanie propeller hats.
How wonderfully liberating when people dare to be honest with themselves and others. It's a good thing.
One thing is the “confusion” made by CDC or WHO at the beginning of the pandemic, they have released some controversial informations but because the pandemic is a totally new fact and, as also you said, science takes time.

Another thing is the true disinformation that some guys/channels are making, big and true fake news like “the vaccine contains 5G microchip” and other crazy theories, that are the point of the article, and some big tech are not doing enough or are doing it late.
This is one of my favorite spy devices ever. One of these days I want to create a replica using a wood CNC and use it as a demo, that would be so friggin cool.
The better interpretation is:

“I’m a successful businessman. This is how I acted. So did these other successful business people. And as a matter of fact, some of the greats of history in other fields also acted like this. Put together, I think that this behavior is conducive to success (in the way I define it).”

Personally, I find it much more useful to go into each of these reads to find some piece of something I can incorporate into my life.

I don’t think it’s particularly useful to disparage the author. In this case, I don’t think he has a megalomaniacal belief in his legacy as a luminary, but even if he did, I trust my ability to extract information from what he writes.

There’s also a meta-discussion here. In human speech a common technique is to use X_j (j=1..n) diverse objects that each have k (k=1..m) characteristics Y={Y_jk} where for each j, there exists some k such that you can form a subset Z of Y which has the property that for any y_1, y_2 in Z, |m(y_1)-m(y_2)|<d, for some interesting measure of the characteristic m, and some small number d to illustrate an idea.

Usually, the idea is that the diversity in X_j resulting in this form of Z points to some commonality among the elements of Z. The idea is usually not that all Y_jk are in an equivalence class but that the subset Z is in a single equivalence class.

To put it more plainly through illustration: Messi, the fifty year old drunk Sunday leaguer, and I all choose to warm up before games to avoid injuries. This indicates that perhaps the warming up is a good idea. What it does not indicate is whether Messi, dad, and I are equivalent across all our characteristics. In fact, the interesting part is that we aren’t but that we share this.
The *Lisp language wasn't CM-lisp -- it was a different thing, somewhat lower level, originally written by Cliff Lasser and Steve Omohundro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp
The older I get and the more I read this stuff... I just think man PG... your priorities suck!
How was I rude? The assertion, "One person claiming that a drug has effectiveness based on their anecdotal experience" is absolutely false and not at all representative of their channel content. I think the burden of proof lies on the one making the false assertion. Also my comment was also after this topic was flagged and taken down. I find that extremely rude and intellectually dishonest.
I've been dealing with Webpacker for almost a year and it's been a nightmare every time I've tried to use it. And yes, I did sit down and try to figure out what the hell was going on.
If you read his footnote, he’s talking about how these alarm bells go off on the order of days, not hours, and how taking vacations is good.
()() is not a palindrome, but)(() is
I had the exact same issue in my undergrad. I was suffering from pretty severe anxiety/depression during highs school, to the point where I dropped out in my junior year. I started “thriving” in my undergrad, if by thriving you mean busy and getting good grades, and my anxiety was much reduced. But the reason it was reduced was because I was going to school full time and working 40+ hours a week and I simply didn’t have time to stop and think. Whenever I had a vacation, or significant time off, I had extreme anxiety, to the point of panic attacks, about not getting anything “important” done.

Ultimately the overwork gave me a chronic neck injury that forced me to have quite a bit of time off work, and over the years I have become very happy with myself, to the point where I can sit and do nothing, be alone with my own thoughts, for days without the anxiety and self-loathing entering my mind at all. I’m not sure when exactly the switch flipped, but it made me a much better person. And I am much happier with myself, my life situation, and my work.
When you have come apart
> Yes, people tend to adopt a personal narrative that maximizes their own moral status

Exactly, that's what I'm saying about rationalizing. The only thing those who've yet to succeed lack is the vantage point of the successful. So I'd argue the successful are operating with an information advantage.
> People who’ve succeeded at achieving ambitious goals are able to look at success from both vantage points: from having yet to succeed and succeeding.

You fell for the classic survivorship bias fallacy.
listening != hearing + transcribing
Interesting. How do you know a drop shipping product by looking at the shopify site?
99.99% of businesses are NOT evil. But Google most certainly IS actively evil - perhaps the most evil of an increasingly evil lot. ...and I don't use the word evil lightly.
People make mistakes. With computers people make mistakes much faster :)
We had a Thinking Machine at the University of Minnesota. The person who was in charge of it learned to determine if the code running on it was efficient by watching the patterns of the LEDs.
> IIRC, the 1500 byte MTU was selected empirically.

That’s what I was told when I worked at PARC in the 1980s. Folks these days forget (or never learn) how Ethernet worked in those days.

(There’s no reason people should know how it worked — the modern work of IEEE 802 has as much relation to that as we do with lemurs).
Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report
Probably common, but connecting that function to the web (via PHP in this case) is pretty stupid.

I would think it would run a firmware function to do the resetting, and if not that, then some sort of sell script that is not callable by their web interface.

Due to all this stupidness, my weekend is going to be consumed by trying to find out if my Synology has something stupid in it (assuming I can even figure that out).

So my trust in "personal" network storage devices has been shattered. Hopefully Synology is not as dumb.
That may or may not be true. Certainly I'd like the option of good open source visual CAD software.

But the code/textual format is a boon for me personally: version control, Thingiverse's customizer, and easy re-use. You can grab geometry or constructs from other projects. Whether or not those properties are incompatible with a visual approach - I'm not sure?
Is there no proper care for concrete though?
How about many of those OS-level restrictions can be bypassed by hacking into private APIs, which is one of the things that'll get you banned from the App Store?

The OS does what it can, but the OS is entirely out in the open to be hacked, bypassed, subverted, worked around and so on. A pair of human eyes and a private app scanning process does what the OS can't.

No, it's not perfect. It's not even great lately. But it'd be worse without it, as you can witness on desktop operating systems.
I wonder how or if it will impact publicly available code and even open source on a larger scale
One reason React won over Angular is it relies on JavaScript instead of custom templating syntax. E.g. You loop with a forEach, not some ng-...
Illusions of empire: Amartya Sen on what British rule did for India
That’s how GA started and it’s still possible for anyone to set it up that way, although Google kind of hides it. If you use GA without Tag Manager or Doubleclick integration, the data is aggregated for your analytics but not tied to other Google activity.
Automation has always produced an increase in jobs so far, although sometimes in a disruptive way. I consider this like the switch from instruction-level programming to compiled languages, a level of abstraction added that buys a large increase in productivity and makes projects affordable that weren’t affordable before. If anything this will probably lead to a boom in development work. But there’s a bunch of low skill programmers who can’t do much more than follow project templates and copy paste things. Those people will have to level up or get out.
"MIT will continue to offer courses to learners worldwide via edX, as well as on a new platform now known as MITx Online. MIT’s Office of Digital Learning will build and operate MITx Online as a new world-facing platform, based on Open edX, that MIT is creating for MITx MOOCs.

MIT faculty may choose to continue to offer their courses through the new edX after the transaction is completed, or move them to MITx Online."

It's worth reading the article - there is much more that's not being addressed on HN.
That site is generally aiming at providing exact replacements, and quite a few of its examples are not great for various reasons:

Some use a bad technique; e.g. “Empty” removes the first child repeatedly, which is O(n²) in many environments, rather than removing the last child repeatedly, which is O(n), or `el.innerHTML = ""` which is shorter and more efficient in general)

Some suffer because they’re supporting IE which no one should do any more (fite me); e.g. “JSON” is long because it’s using XMLHttpRequest, but the Fetch API would make it vastly shorter (`data = await (await fetch('/my/url')).json()`—as an aside, suffix await like Rust settled on is so much nicer: `data = fetch('/my/url').await.json().await`); and “Each” should use `document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach((el, i) => …)`; and “Matches Selector” is just `el.matches('.my-class')` now.

Also some look bad because jQuery optimised an operation that isn’t terribly common or should generally not be done, such as most of the width/height things (most uses of measuring element dimensions in JS are unnecessary, bad or wrong; aim to use CSS most of the time), “Index” (needing to know that an element is the nth child element is decidedly esoteric), “Type” (if you use this, you’re almost certainly doing the wrong thing), and “Parse HTML” (picture me running away, screaming in horror; this method is practically a primed security grenade). And remember, jQuery having optimised these things means you’re paying to ship that stuff that you’re not using.

And finally some seem more complex because they’re matching some unnecessary jQuery complexity, e.g. in “Set Height” (and alike in “Set Width”), $(el).height(…) takes a string, a number, or a function that returns a string or a number—but you’d be wiser to write `el.style.height = string;` or `el.style.height = number + 'px';` rather than being unnecessarily flexible.

Most people that use jQuery use a tiny subset of its functionality. The site is about showing that most uses of jQuery could actually dispense with it at little cost, if they’re the sort that value performance and such and want to ship less unnecessary code.
What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)
Keyword in JavaScript
The technical description of this phenomena is a bit conflicted. It seems to say the differing experiences are probably a result of different people having different visual refresh rates, and then somehow makes a logical jump to the test telling us about how visual spacial people are as thinkers. It seems to me that this would tell us a lot more about how our visual cortex interprets input. This is an experience of actual vision, not visualization.
> Nodes, not interfaces, have IP addresses, so you can use multiple paths.

SCTP has multi-path routing, no?
Looks exciting! It is kind of disappointing the AI generated main example on their home page has what appears to be a url encoding bug in it though (in text=${text}, text should be url encoded before being passed to fetch).
I was originally worried at how dishonest seemed to faculty and TAs who have spent years creating many textbooks' worth of content for edX. Something akin to MIT Press selling their catalog to Elsevier or Pearson wouldn't be tolerated by the faculty. But, in the press release they do mention that MIT faculty can opt-out and operate in a MIT-only instance & fork of the Open edX platform:

"MIT will continue to offer courses to learners worldwide via edX, as well as on a new platform now known as MITx Online. MIT’s Office of Digital Learning will build and operate MITx Online as a new world-facing platform, based on Open edX, that MIT is creating for MITx MOOCs.

MIT faculty may choose to continue to offer their courses through the new edX after the transaction is completed, or move them to MITx Online."

With that in mind, it seems that Open edX development will be under a new non-profit held by MIT and Harvard. I hope this new non-profit will be less at odds with itself in respect to maintaining openness while creating profitable pay2play courses.
Those subtitles on the youtube trailer video are not good. The movie itself had good subtitles.
Most restaurants already have a website.
Do you think project managers are overpaid too?
I respectfully disagree if you have some other things to do in your free time than maintaining dependencies, trying to figure out why your project won't compile at all in 6 months of time while reporting 100 security issues, what will be the next change in webpack to will require to update both your config and some plugins, why does npm now cry for you to use a "--legacy-peer-deps" flags to nicely handle dependencies you didn't know you had while being happy you can't compile your frontend project on a small raspberry pi. It's not because you can use all those tools than you should
I personally much prefer scanning a code on my receipt then pressing the apple pay button to handing my debit card with all my payment details on it to a stranger.
>yes, more space is created out of nothing! because there's a vacuum energy density that inflate the local patch of universe.

I don't think you can say that with that kind of certainty. We don't have a theory of quantum gravity, we don't know what dark matter is, and we don't know what 'dark energy' is, so we don't actually know what is driving the expansion of the universe, so saying that 'space is created out of nothing' is too strong. Even something like the theory of cosmological inflation, which has some explanatory power, hasn't been experimentally verified, but rather tuned to match the observations.

It's something I've noticed in a lot of communicators of science (whether they have a background in science or not). They tend use terms that overstate our actual knowledge in some specific area of science.
I believe the grant stipulates that the board must approve share sales, so leaving the company would not enable the possibility of a sale.
Lots of new religions, just less focused on supernatural deities. Crypto maximalists are basically fundamentalists in a particular belief system. Even those who are loyally devout to a particular sports team are basically practicing a religion.
> One person claiming that a drug has effectiveness based on their anecdotal experience

How about 31 randomized control trials?

https://c19ivermectin.com/

A nice meta analysis page:

https://ivmmeta.com/

Ivermectin is not the only substance studied:

https://c19early.com/
In general: (1) training ML systems on public data is fair use (2) the output belongs to the operator, just like with a compiler.

On the training question specifically, you can find OpenAI's position, as submitted to the USPTO here: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OpenAI_R...

We expect that IP and AI will be an interesting policy discussion around the world in the coming years, and we're eager to participate!
Weather app has changed multiple times. It didn't have animations to match your location's current weather conditions back in the day. Rain fall over time, and other things. Plus, iOS 15 does have huge changes: https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/11/ios-15-weather-app-hands-on/
Svelte hasn't taken over because React is way too popular already. If you want a job you have to learn React (the same way Java is still one of the top lang to get a job but it's for legacy rather than technical reasons).

Svelte performance is a nice bonus but it is the last reason I prefer Svelte over React. I prefer Svelte because it is truly reactive (unlike React) which makes everything easier, cleaner & more readable.

Svelte is the only framework you can grasp in 10min by just looking at a few examples. To get started, you don't even have to read a tutorial or documentation, the code is self-explanatory.

React is a complex beast and, in my opinion, all this is an overkill / overengineered environment for expressing UIs.

I find Svelte to be the only framework that "make sense". Ultimately UI is not that complex, it's a store -> derived variables -> UI where each step is a reactive function of the previous one. A framework should let you express this very concisely and take care of everything else for you.

If x = y + z then I want to write x = y + z, end of the story. Like in a Excel sheet, just write the formulas and that's it. No useStates, hooks, componentShouldUpdate(), and other wierd stuff.

Svelte is to React what Pluto is to Jupyter Notebooks, less popular because of legacy, but, in my opinion, obviously more elegant & cleaner
TV sucks, I don't think anybody should watch it when a better alternative is available. Radio too.

There might be good things shown on it occasionally, but there are better ways to get at them nowadays. Ways that don't require you to synchronize your watching with availability.

Main appeal I see in TV/radio is the constant live-ish stream of content, and more access to hard-to-license content than competing livestreams.
Yeah I think for the sort of creative work I find myself doing that I don't really have more than 5-6 hours a day of it in me. Having the afternoon to recuperate and spend time idly thinking about the thing I'm trying to make would be great.
> This is pretty a simple stack that keeps everything in one file (for something I am calling Locality of Behavior[1]) and all of them are dependency free.

Not to be "that" guy but what you're describing is a .vue file. And with a Vue single file component you have 1 dependency: Vue. With HAT you have 3. Or am I missing something?
I'd rate myself as "above-average receptive" to ML-based tooling, but after trying two "AI autocomplete" tools (Kite and TabNine) I've decided it's not for me. The suggestions were usually good, but I found having complex, nondeterministic IDE commands pretty unsettling.
And I outside the terminal!
Using float is perfectly OK since using fixed point decimal (or whatever "exact" math operations) will lead to rounding error anyway (what about multiplying a monthly salary by 16/31 (half a month) ?)

The problem with float is that many people don't understand how they work to handle rounding errors correctly.

Now there are some cases where float don't cut it. And big ones. For example, summing a set of numbers (with decimal parts) will usually be screwed if you don't round it. And not many people expect to round the results of additions because they are "simple" operations. So you get errors in the end.

(I have written applications that handle billions of euros with floats and have found just as many rounding errors there as in any COBOL application)
reminds me of the time(2018) outdated MikroTik routers got patched by a grey-hat[0].

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-mysterious-grey-hat-is-patch...
I haven't kept up with the adversarial ML field recently, but I wonder how vulnerable these models are to adversarial attacks.

- Could someone deliberately publish poor code to reduce the overall performance of the model?

- Could someone target a specific use case or trigger word by publishing deliberately poor code under similar function definitions?
Car Dealers Are Selling More Vehicles Above the Sticker Price
As I already stated, Bret and Heather both have PhD's in biology and the episode in question with Dr. Kory also featured Dr. Malone the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology. You are misrepresenting the content.
Me too. Took it in classroom from a Cisco partner when i was a junior webdev 20 years ago and not exposed to any network equipment. instructor was a network admin at big Co and made us crimp ethernet Jacks and shared a Lot of stuff between the lines. most of things i learned there still applies in my daily job as Solution arch
How can you eat with a mask on? Or are you referring tot non-restaurant places?
I don’t begrudge the founders taking their payday. That said, I really do miss the special place they made.
While that's true. If the email is wrong, password reset isn't going to work for them anyways right? So may as well fix it for the majority of users who do know their email and typed it correctly but forgot their password. Usually even a "sorry that email address is not found" message is frowned upon in terms of security.

Also if you're app is sending reset passwords emails to emails that don't exist, that's a bigger issue.