skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that in most sports there’s an “open” division where everyone can compete - though that means in practice men dominate. The “women” division is then created as a way towards better representation. It’s a progressive policy, not discrimination. If we get rid of the women’s division we’ll be left with men-only sports.
Medical image generation: a comprehensive evaluation
I’ll echo a sentiment I also had but perhaps I was wrong. I believed that users of GitLab used GitLab because they didn’t want to pay a premium (or pay at all) for GitHub; thus I viewed it as a cheaper alternative in the same vein as buying a Hyundai vs buying a Mercedes. I assumed only frugal “developers” were using it, and surely any legit companies would opt for the superior GitHub.
"Idiot" is relatively high praise.
I don't think so - no. There's no turning back the clock here. Prior to the "big change" Boeing was one of the last survivors of the huge industrial boom that followed world war 2.

It's difficult to overstate how gigantic that boom was in the aerospace field and how unique the industry it created in the US was.

So many aerospace related companies, all competing with each other, all continually improving the aircraft technology, engineering best practices, manufacturing practices, corporate structure and governance, and everything else associated with aircraft manufacture so they produced the best product.

The competition produced some incredible advances and some unique corporations (like Boeing was) that functioned in a way not before seen (and not presently continued) for an American corporation. Basically, an engineering firm that as sort of side business produced airplanes.

The problem was, of course, that the boom couldn't last - as other countries rebuilt their industries, the US was no longer the only game in town. For a long time, the US dominated aerospace because not only did this unique industry exist here but also because we had a huge head start.

Eventually, though, through mismanagement and delusions about why the US was in the lead, that lead was squandered, companies were sold out, consolidated, and markets shrank as regulation caused aircraft manufacturing to be a more specialized industry.

Boeing was one of the last firms that retained the focus on engineering from that post war boom time. Now that it's changed, to change it back would require a new generation of employees to make a conscious effort to do so, to replicate what happened during the post war boom.

That's nearly impossible.
> The whole point of intuitive design is to realize that you shouldn't make your users "think", insofar as making effortful cognition (i.e., Kahneman's "Type 2" thinking).

Defined like this, this makes "intuitive design" a very destructive trend.

There's only so far you can go trying to "leverage built-in assumptions of how the world, per users' intuitive mental models". Computing world is not like everyday experience in many important ways, and trying to pretend it is only burdens the user with inconsistent mental models that don't allow them to navigate and grow their intuition.

The way I see it, it is the failure of UX design that it tries to hide the nature of computers - instead of making it apparent, so that the users can learn and internalize the important axioms of this different world. Intuition needs to be calibrated to the underlying reality for it to be useful.

> Yes, the learning curve is (arguably) minimal; that's not the point. It's that there is a learning curve at all.

There's few things in the world that have no learning curve. Almost everything is learned. Almost everything that's important in life is learned either through direct training, or picked up over time from exposure. This is where every UX designer inventing their own "simplifying" abstractions is hurting users: nobody is training them, but software is so inconsistent nowadays that they don't get to learn from exposure either.
Same here. In over forty years of driving I have had only two tyres fail that I noticed while driving: one went flat over a period of a few seconds and the other was as you described, a pothole, I was only doing about 30 km per hour but the tyre was damaged beyond repair. In addition I've had a couple of slow leaks due to nails embedded in the tread but they were so slow that I didn't notice for days.
Copy.ai Announces Series A Funding
Someone else did some testing, and they seem to have found the problem, which was indeed a visual issue that an algorithm misinterpreted. https://www.truthorfiction.com/stand-up-for-what-you-believe...
The expensive Samsungs are the foldables and things like the ultra, with super zoom cameras.
WhatsApp now lets users encrypt their chat backups in the cloud
Principles and Key Concepts of Sustainability
> but it is independent of ZF

Yeah, if I recall that's why forcing was invented, to specifically prove that C and CH were independent of ZF. Yeah: [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cohen#Continuum_hypothesi...
I wasn't aware of this story, thanks
Yes, I anecdotally have had two different recruiters at different companies on the phone before interviews tell me they definitely would follow up after the interviews with feedback and in one case I got a form letter email and no response to a reply email I made (asking about that feedback they had "definitely" promised me) and the other time no response at all but checking their portal and showing the thing was closed (again after promising me they always give feedback). It's so very weird and doesn't give me a lot of confidence right now that recruiters aren't just wasting my time.
GM modified seeds can not be usually replanted after harvest. Sometimes they need proprietary fertiliser.

Genetic sequences are patented. There was a case where GM seeds spread to neighbours, and Monsato sued neighbour...

It is horror show similar to software patents.
You can't really use machine learning based image upscaling for that type of work
The name Macro makes perfect sense. It doesn’t refer to the size of the subjects being shot, but rather to the magnification factor. Macro lenses are capable of preserving 1:1 scale between the subject and film/sensor
Oh that is so bad.

It's events and negligence like this that give credence to credentialing requirements for software engineering.
SqlAlchemy 1.4 async ORM with FastAPI – rogulski.it
Google bets on the cloud breaking up
It took me about 10 years to really understand the enormous differences between my native culture and my current culture. And those differences are staggering. And they are both western.

You're assuming you can "see" the cultural differences.

Sometimes you can easily see it, but often it's really hard to figure out, because they are going to express themselves in edge cases that you have to run into, which takes time and then it takes time to run into enough of them to be able to see a pattern.
To laypersons HTML comments or display:none is invisible. But I agree, this is like a blast from the 90’s when View Source was leet hacking.
So when do we start prosecuting for malicious prosecution and gross incompetence?
Stories from the Deere hometown paper:

https://qctimes.com/business/local/uaw-strike-is-underway-de...

https://qctimes.com/business/watch-now-striking-uaw-workers-...
Everything Blender shows on screen is rendered using OpenGL.
There's definitely room for a book or blog series along the lines of "F# for python programmers" or something.

Unfortunately there's some level of .NET tooling you need to understand before you can do much today, and several .NET concepts creep in with that.

The good news is that .NET Interactive is shaping up to be a great way to avoid most of that. At least so far all you need to do is install the .NET SDK, then install a VSCode plugin and you're good to go - just write code like you would in a python notebook, and acquiring packages is even easier than in Python: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive#notebooks-with-net
We've always known that using DevTools was a criminal activity. In fact, the sheer number of people using them places this at criminal conspiracy levels. Better start filing those RICO cases against the browser devs. /s
FTFY: It's a requirement for being a governor in a red state.
Any takeaway lessons for evaluating future FOSS startups? Like maybe place higher weight on rate of adding new users?
>Here's another example of this: IIRC one of the most frequently searched terms on Google is "facebook".

one of the other most frequently searched terms on google is "google", because people don't understand that the chrome omnibox performs a google search, and they want to go to google to perform a search from a dedicated "search" box rather than a URL input - essentially, they want what the firefox UI gave them.

if you're trying to draw any conclusions about user preferences from user behaviour, you have to accept that you're going to be wrong about a significant portion of your users. one workflow might be "better" for some portion of your users, but it won't mesh with the mental model of some other portion of your users. different groups will form different expectations and habits, and a single UI will not completely satisfy the expectations of every group.
While I agree I think the reason a lot of big companies are funding Blender is because they use it internally as tool.
I can imagine Photoshop is used internally at Apple and they will just pay a license for this.
So there is no reason they would start funding Krita or Gimp.
The scene I hated in Squid Game
If Apple gave me 120k a year and made a merge request for a Metal backend for Krita, I wouldn't say no to either, being Krita's maintainer.
Is this how the Governor saves face?
>>If you've ever had a passing interest in Blender or 3d modeling I recommend checking out the donut tutorial, which is fast becoming the "hello world" of blender -

I can attest to this. The donut tutorial is really good. It has all you need to know if you are starting from nothing.
It's seems there is a certain set of political beliefs that enshrine intolerance of knowledge. Perhaps shared across multiple parties.
I’m just hoping there’s enough momentum and support for addressing climate change that NOAA can keep getting things done. Regardless of who might be in office in the future.

Last thing we need is a new administration in 2024 completely undoing all the progress we’re making again.
Tell me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state without telling me you're the Republican governor of a deep red regressive shithole state.
This is how I feel a lot of health "news" works. I'm pretty hesitant to start eating "better" because everyone, even so-called experts in the field, seem to have not just differing, but oftentimes polar opposite opinions or guidance about things.

It is so insanely hard to filter the truth from the lies when it comes to this stuff.
The UI is pretty flexible -- each panel can be resized and the elements of a panel can be blown up/shrunken. It does it's best to reflow things sanely... with varying levels of success.
Its easier to let the water out of a tractor tire than to take a 500lb wheel plate off...when changing a tire.

...added weight is for better traction. Almost all 2WD tractors will have their back tires filled with a water/radiator fluid mixture (ice doesn't work well if you want to keep the tire on the rim).
>don't think it's so bad? Vijay Prashad: "iPhone workers today are 25 times more exploited than textile workers in 19th Century England" [4]

One thing I love about studying history is that you can dismiss claims like that immediately.
This happens much more regularly than most people know. Everyday I see moderates and conservatives sharing screenshots of very reasonable posts that resulted in past account suspensions or bans, or post-specific censorship, content flags ("missing context"), etc. In most cases they are given no reason other than a vague claim of violating 'community standards'. The net effect is that one side of many controversial topics has little representation and exposure. When foreign powers distort societal discourse, we call it "propaganda". We need to start using that same label when tech companies do this.

Part of this is enabled by the hyperbolic language used to justify censorship. "Hate speech" is really just code for "speech that disagrees with the progressive left". The reason these policies are written they way they are and enforced the way they are, is because these companies have employees and leaders that are biased, who brought their own political biases into the workplace. If a company is mission-oriented and tries to represent the interests of all customers, they would take a different approach that is more balanced. But at this point I don't think a small clique of urban West Coast companies can be trusted with the kind of power they have. The solution is to regulate social media as a common carrier, because it is a basic essential service in the modern world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_utili...
Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur
This is a great point. A "Cambrian explosion" the likes of which the JS ecosystem experienced over the last 10-15 years will slow down eventually. Curious to hear whether other folks agree or not.
Verizon’s Visible cell customers hacked, leading to unauthorized purchases
>We really should build more Nuclear.

California's last nuclear plant is almost done. Environmentalists are against nuclear and so it's difficult to build more.

In all the world, I believe only about 100 nuclear plants are even planned. Most of which are in China.

https://endcoal.org/tracker/

Looks to be about 1,000 new coal plants being built or at least planned. Most of which are in China. Which will no doubt operate for decades.

Obviously North America is more interested in Solar, Wind, and Natural Gas. Eventually we will get to gridscale power storage. Suddenly it'll be problem solved.
The Pinto an the MAX are drastic preventable failures that took the lives of passengers. If your take away from these failures is that the American public is somehow at fault for blowing things out of proportion you have come to the wrong conclusion.

If they had sufficient information to put people's mind at ease as you described above then the inherent failure is not providing it because it was entirely certain that everyone's mind is going to fill in the blanks with the worst possible thing that fits the bill and everyone's mental pictures is going to be of air frames disintegrating in the air. This was entirely predictable.

More likely the actual details haven't been communicated because it isn't nearly so reassuring. Let me speculate blindly...

It's a structural part the failure of which threatens the life of everyone on board the plane but rather than merely failing 5% faster it would never have passed spec in the first place and would if left alone have been found in the aftermath of hundreds of people hurtling to their fiery deaths and would tend to have started failing when the part failed halfway through its original expected lifespan.

It is only not an immediate threat to safety as 787s have only been around for 9 years and we still have literally single digit years before they would have started falling out of the sky so because they managed to discover this before falling planes took down the rest of their reputation they have time to strategize how they will take care of this in a way that simultaneously isn't ruinous to them or airlines.

This is like discovering your breaks don't work a half a mile before the edge of the cliff instead of 100 ft from it or having your appliance catch fire when you happen to be on hand to use your kitchen fire extinguisher.

They never should have moved substantial operations to a state full of complete idiots who can't be trusted to operate a toaster let alone build planes. THEY are reaping what they sowed.
Translation: search for a certification on the public website, receive an SSN in response. Only 'hacking' by reporter was to then press 'Ctrl+U' in the browser and read the characters.
My cold tire pressure is supposed to be 33PSI, my TPMS doesn't alert until it's below 28PSI, so there is a significant delta still.

The TREAD law does not specify when TPMS must alert, other than the tire being 'significantly underinflated'.
16 years ago, I was an intern at the European HQ of a Japanese tyre brand.

We received and chain forwarded a "leaked" video of Michelin testing a similar design.

We ICT folks thought we were doomed as it seemed miles ahead of our own R&D.

16 years later and we are yet to see these tyres on the streets.

This time, I'll believe it when I see it ;)
Pointer arithmetic is not needed any more only when the programming language provides high-level operations with arrays, like APL, J, K and similar languages.

A very good optimizing compiler could generate a code for accessing the arrays that would use either indices or pointers, depending on the target CPU and on the desired operation.

Otherwise, if you have to write explicit loops and the compiler is not extremely clever, for optimal performance you might need to use pointers instead of indices in many cases. The optimal choice can differ between target CPUs, e.g. for Intel/AMD CPUs indices are often better than pointers, while for ARM or POWER CPUs pointers are more frequently better.
But it's not a DE just extension of Gnome? I've never actually tried Pop OS but after installing pop shell, I only got windows tiling. The only thing missing is the command palette which I don't really mind.
Mattermost End-to-End Encryption Plugin
Except 0/100 isn't a lot of granularity to indicate "still slowly working". (0/1000 or 0/10000 if you show percentages to the second or third decimal point aren't much better either, especially if the working set is in the millions or billions of things to do.)
That story reminds me of this homeless guy I helped out one night. He was wearing a suit, which is why I believed him, actually. He said he was a pilot, who just moved into a house but locked himself out with his wallet inside. So he attempted to break into his own house. The neighbors called the cops and he was arrested. Now he was “homeless” until he got things sorted out. I ran into him a few days later, he taught me how to fly and became a friend that I still email from time to time.
I kinda realized after the fact that what I wrote made it seem like I'm using Blender for CAD. (though it would be nice if it had some more CAD capabilities) CAD just happens to suffer the same pricing issue general 3D packages like Maya do. Both are expensive as hell for non-professionals.

I use Blender these days mainly for direct manipulation of meshes in ways that a parametric CAD program won't let you. If I was doing character animation again, I'd probably still use Blender for that. General modeling, Blender is very good. I just hope the UI continues to improve and not obscure so many things behind various icons.
“Hacked our system” — LOL. Nothing like our conservatives for a great laugh. What a moron.
Surviving is a low bar
This is because there are labor markets — men’s soccer as a global labor market makes so much more that players have better options even if a specific team is not doing well. That’s why you don’t do wage comparisons on a team basis but market basis. I’m sure there’s some flagging software company that earns lower revenues than a thriving restaurant, but the devs at that company will still earn more than the waiters at the restaurant.

The only way to change that is to make it illegal for workers to look for better employers, and make it illegal for firms to look for cheaper workers. But until that changes, individual employers will pay the prevailing wage, regardless of how much revenue they are getting.

This also works in the other direction. Company X makes so much but they only pay their cooks such low wages, etc.
A viable solution for Python concurrency
Hey, another YipYip lover here!

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Ask HN: What is the best step by step guide to launching a product?
My situation - I have an MVP of a product (a personal brand enhancer to people in the sales/business development industry), and a very large list of warm leads. I also have a dedicated staff member who, though not an experienced marketer/growth hacker, can accomplish much when given clear direction.

I would like to launch the product to the general public and then (say three months after) to my list of warm leads. Can anyone recommend a very detailed step by step book or guide (ideally one they have personally used) to marketing and launching a product that could be outsourced to an intelligent non-marketer?

I realize that what I am describing is not an ideal way to market a product, but the assets I have are what I have, and the perfect is ever the enemy of the good.

Thanks Everyone!
You're right about the community being mostly dead.
There are a lot of bugs and performance issues in the underlying libraries, and Gulp's developers have not been able to get the upstream updates integrated.

I just redid our Grunt stuff in Gulp. It was painful - difficult to find up-to-date information, and the result was not that great. I expected a much greater SCSS compilation performance increase compared to FS-based tooling. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I'd switch to something like ESBuild and leave SCSS for dead, but it's not an option for me yet :(
Like this?

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305
Bridgestone said bike tweels were close 4 years ago, and then again 2 years ago... I won't hold my breath! :)
Nearly all of them. Changing the media center is a well sypported third party customisation for most vehicles.
Quote from the St Louis Post Dispatch article is even more groan-worthy:

"In the letter to teachers, Education Commissioner Margie Vandeven said “an individual took the records of at least three educators, unencrypted the source code from the webpage, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators.”

I guess webpages are kinda like encryption for idiots.
LineageOS's default phone app supports call recording out of the box. I'm using LineageOS 18. I don't know if this is true for earlier versions.
We've got some presidential mis-speaks a plenty too. Some haven't been a governor, and didn't come from a "red" state.
> Parson said...the reporter was “attempting to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”

Literally a reporter's job.
Because Microsoft couldn't make it more confusing... lol
Every browser have access to the HTML source, even it is merely right click here and there. If the SSN is in the HTML source, then the blame should be on the webmaster who designed that code. Of course, accountability is not part of their tenet, it is too foreign for them.

And look at the age of the governor, clearly shows that he is inept with the fundamental of the internet.

I forgot to add one more thing. Did they not realize that there are scrappers who will scrap every bit of information of everything including the HTML code. I wonder how mcuh scammers/ID theft scrapped the data before this come to light?
Jenkins (and the like) are build script obfuscation frameworks.
Darren here from GitLab — warms my heart to hear that our remote guides are being used and making lives/companies better. Thank you!
South Park is a bad example. They're available for free without a subscription - all of them.
True. Perhaps my issue is that I know how that's implemented and my brain can't see it the same as sequential statement execution ;)
Authoritarian blue states do this crap too. This has nothing to do with the set of policy positions on your party's official platform and everything to do with being a totalitarian jerk, a characteristic that abounds among politicians and high level government officials in general across many parties and nations.
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