skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kind of true but not wholly true

Give us an example of some relevant label that would be "«wholly true»" instead of "«just kind of true»". Because metaphors, and the whole system of fuzzy pattern relations, are based on fuzzy pattern relations.

> none of the definitions treat learn in a non-collective way

You have misunderstood my post. I would prefer that you read it again.

You are complaining about loose use of the language: I noted that you yourself used the term 'person' more than loosely, with a dubious jump. When one says '«like a person learns»', that is supposed to be "like a specific individual in his own individual characteristics will learn" - instead you used to say "like people in general learn". A "person" is a "definite form", not a general individual representing common features - it is the opposite.

> very loaded statement

Which you are taking out of context. I said that you have to call the moulding of your functions something, and that "learn" seems a very acceptable term, since it is bottom-up instead of top-down, it is automated instead of encoded: it is developed against data, it "learns". And that if the term is disliked, there could be a very good reason, because 'learn' was born as a sort of a hunting term¹ - it really means something like "investigate" -, which is a happy coincidence because what is largely missing in AI is critical thinking, part of the active process of learning ("learning" is active as investigation is). And the day John will have to check «accepted standard[s]» to see how things are, I will be willing to comply to his sad request for mercy.²

¹Irregardless of what the Merriam-Webster will write, because you get a none-the-wiser relative notion but not knowledge from a "dictionary of use", as at the paragraph for 'life' you will not find the meaning of life.

²John must be, tautologically, an "active learner". (He will check personally.)
What is your chance of getting a modern car that does not have this sort of thing?

I do not want any wireless connections to my car, unless I add them
When you drag and drop something into an object, you are actually adding a component to an entity.

It's kinda behind the scene ECS.
Facts about Americans and Twitter
I think it's just Doom. Doom is the word for doom obsession.
Oh wow, didn’t know that!
You keep leaving out a key word:

> The most-deflating response ... is the immediate TL;DR of the business world ...

So, here we are, having a text-call to clarify your comprehension of something you actually read (if uncharitably). Because I can tell you bothered to read it (and it bothered you enough to comment).

If I could tell you hadn't bothered to read it--then yes, I wouldn't want to clarify it.
I can see a couple factors:

* To be useful to science, the telescope needs a huge diameter which is more than can be launched so they had to make a folding telescope that can be later unfolded.

* We only get a single chance for success so testing becomes critical. Lot of testing was needed to make sure everything would work out in the end.

* The technology needed was pushing the limits of what we are capable of so lot of R&D needed.
OK that's a lot of reading (HN equivalent of a Gish Gallop?), but only one seems to be about Germany and it doesn't mention experts advising on the closure of nuclear plants, so I'm just going to assume there is indeed no source for your claims that any of them were on Russian payroll.
Estonian has 14 cases:
http://estonianlanguage.blogspot.com/2010/04/estonian-locati...

Here's a whole grammar book in English:
https://pangloss.ee/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Est_grammar-E...
Windows is not affected because it uses IBRS instead, which is less performant than retpoline. So the question is, is IRBS overhead less or more than 28% now?
This is what I’ve found - (medium.com) indicates medium quality at best, rehashed junk at worst.
This sounds dangerous. You’ll eventually get used to the warnings when backing out and wont even check if they’re actually false alarms. Little Timmy becoming pancake mix as a result.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-it-woul...
Yes.

I need to redefine my definition of trolling.

I am too tolerant, and could be accused of it myself if my definition so far off.

A learning experience
Absolutely. We (MicroConf/TinySeed) ran some numbers to try to quantify press coverage of “boring” software companies, which confirms dsaavy’s comment: https://tinyseed.com/latest/measuring-the-depth-of-the-softw...
Slimbook Executive is a lightweight Linux laptop with Intel Core i7-12700H
> Do you concede that inflation robs people of purchasing power?

Think this through. Whose purchasing power? If you have a billion dollars and I have nothing, and prices go up 2%, which of us lost purchasing power? Keeping in mind that inflation drives up wages too?

It's absolutely true that central bankers and other cartoon villain fatcats are trying to enrich themselves. But the way they do that is by investing their wealth in the economy, and then manipulating inflation to make the economy grow as fast as possible.
I don't think Apple releasing a self driving car is good fit for the Apple brand or product development culture. Especially their value for secrecy and consumer privacy. We've already learnt from Waymo, Cruise and Tesla the importance of getting millions of miles of driving data. This "data first" approach has been challenging for each company. Apple is trying to go design first and delaying collecting data to refine their self driving capabilities - this will most likely delay their ability to be competitive from a safety perspective which is the most important thing for a customer. Pretty phones can't kill you but pretty cars can.
Even if it is, Waymo has a much more robust track record, and a history of prioritizing safety.
> both the author and reader is a customer of Medium
> only the author is [Substack’s] customer

That suggests that Medium should be more reader-friendly than Substack, but it seems the opposite is true. I suspect that even when readers are nominally customers on Medium, they are really still just the product (in the sense of “if it’s free, you’re the product” — except it’s not free here).
Note that there are few ethical ways to prove single variable causation over long times in human studies :)
Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?
I have noticed that a lot of simple tasks are becoming more difficult to do with smartphones. For example in Android, it's basically impossible to set a countdown timer if the phone is locked without using a voice assistant. Apple might have implemented this specific feature better by allowing users to access the timer through the Control Center. However, iOS's calculator is just too cumbersome to use due its lack of features and sadly, there aren't a lot of decent alternatives in the App Store. Moreover, you couldn't delete all of your alarms at once without using Siri. What are your thoughts?

Edit: typo & additional examples
Its funny because those dollars were not stolen from the Government and they end up with them... Actually it is sad bit that's besides the point.
Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Ban the Sale of Location and Health Data
You're proving my point here. You seem to think being labelled a refugee is literally a blank cheque and the only limit on where they settle should be how far they can get with whatever funds they take with them. Remember also that there are organizations that will happily pay people money to let them relocate to more desirable locations.

I don't really have a dog in this fight one way or the other, but people like you need to realize this - that sort of attitude and activism will sooner or later mean the end of the asylum system for everyone. We are already seeing credible candidates for Prime Minister want to withdraw from the ECHR to make deportations for failed asylum possible (not even easy, just possible) and it's because the public has no patience for the endless flood of "refugees" who inexplicably find France unacceptable. Abuse of the system will lead to it being terminated, and that will be popular with voters.
Medium is a bad value proposition for those who make good content, therefore they tend to leave and as a result the only thing left is trash.

“Medium.com” nowadays is a sign of low quality and I personally started skipping articles because of that alone.
He was also human.
That's disappointing to hear!
Don't forget that organic and healthy versions of processed meats often simply replace the chemical nitrates with... celery derived nitrates.
But they are doctoring it to make it more artistic/presentable. I have no doubt that real astronomy presentations/papers want to see the undoctored data at some point.

Did you mean you thought they were adjusting the content and not just fixing noise?
You gotta say RESTful if you want to emphasis RESTfulness. But I personally don't care. I don't mind JSON RPC.
JavaScript library for WhatsApp cloud API
It's really easy for this to be noise from false negatives. On an A/A test with five guardrail metrics and a threshold of p>0.05, you'll get a false negative 22.6% of the time.
Maybe a stupid question...

For user machines running JavaScript in the browser is the most common case of running untrusted code. Since 2018 when Spectre became public, has a single JavaScript program become public that exploits Spectre (whatever variant)? Unpatched user machines exist proably all the time.

For the cloud where your neigbors might run whatever (bad) they come up with is this just a simple Linux vulnerability? (Or HW vulnerability Linux did not work-around well enough) Wouldn't you alway need to attack the hypervisor? Of course, that might be Linux, too. Has there been any piece of software published that just reads your neighbors memory? Of course major cloud providers patch at disclusure, but I'm sure there are smaller ones where it can take a long time.

If yes, how could I miss that? If no, Linus hasn't been that wrong that the attacks are not feasible. Unless one assumes the NSA has been running them since 2018.
A Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work
I ran into a site like this recently. Honestly, I think it's great because you can tell what action you need to take to resolve the error. Clear cookies? Come back later? They're actually out of business? The stack trace reveals all.

I enjoy how transparent client-side apps are these days. I remember trying to order something from an online store, and the "submit" button wouldn't work because some third-party license key wouldn't validate (I think it was to load a map to show your own address?), and that error stopped the actual sending of the HTTP request to submit an order. I patched that out and submitted my order. Easier than finding their email address and waiting a week for their contractors to fix it.
preferred over journalistic coverage.

That's not in HN's rules - original sources are preferred but often good reporting is the best source especially when the thing being reported has multiple sources. The goal is really quality rather originalness.
As a Turkish citizen, I found this change as stupid as hell
Someone into "driving fast" in an ICE will also go through tires quickly, so there's no added tire cost.
I take it your visitors either cook all of their own food at home, or with their inability to use what passes for a restaurant menu these days, they have starved to death by now.
Actually that's sort of a large correction, thanks for pointing that out. Isn't it a bit of an inversion of the norm in astrophysics? I'd thought many grants included money for telescope time.
And a literal translation of that would be "Middle Kingdom." So if the Middle Kingdom wants to call itself "Middle Kingdom," why not?
which reminds me, i need to update my dark library and get a light for flats.
No worries - it depends on what your constraints and context are. It's fundamentally something a wasm-emitting compiler cannot solve performantly in general. You can use trampolines, as the sibling comments mention, but you'll take a heavy performance hit.

If we stretch things too far we'll end up in the "wasm is Turing-complete and thus can run anything" type of territory - if you're doing something performance intensive, say x86 virtualization like I believe apignotti is at Leaning Tech, I think it's fair to describe the problem as unsolvable by the compiler.
I'm guessing that being part of a much larger company allows them to spend more time on UX and "the little big details" that might not directly contribute to profits.

Maybe Github Actions has brought in a lot more revenue, too. They get a "discount" on Azure hosting, I'm sure.
The researchers said that it’s capable of locating and leaking a Linux computer’s root password hash from physical memory in about 28 minutes when running the Intel CPUs and in about 6 minutes for AMD CPUs.

Presumably under very ideal conditions? I've been indifferent to all these sidechannel attacks since the original Spectre/Meltdown and continue to maintain my opinion that this is really not of any significance to a single-user PC.
Said the person unironically citing a TV Show as justification for the plausibility of their hilariously out of touch fake theory.
I'm not sure how you're blaming JSONSchema for "Half the fields in the type will be required … and the schema will say they're optional". But JSONSchema has plenty of ways to define sum types: http://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/c...
as an open-source developer, i can confirm this is a real phenomena

best gigs i’ve got are because of relevant contributions and from companies depending on my software

if you have a strong open-source profile, many companies will skip the screener and invite you straight to interview (i believe this is called “red carpet treatment”)

public work makes you trustworthy and you will stand out among other candidates
Ask HN: Are you cutting back on subscription services?
With a recession looming and inflation already here, are you cutting back on any subscription services?

I have recently gotten rid of Spotify, Amazon Prime, my paid email service, Playstation Network.

I still have Google One (I use Photos, Mobile VPN, switched back to GMail, Google Calendar). I am currently on a trial of Youtube Premium (with Youtube Music) but I probably won't keep it.

I still have iCloud extra storage, Dropbox, GoPro cloud, Netflix and Disney+.
Thank you so so so much for this detailed history! I love the people webs that exist around some of our favorite tech.
> In the pre Facebook era people thought social networking would be distributed over thousands and millions of blogs with the help of RSS but that didn't happen because it turned out that centralized commercial services are better than FOSS distributed ones. That's why Facebook and Google won; they offered better services because they were centralized commercial services which were constantly updated and improved all because ad revenues were skyrocketing and all the best engineers decided to work for them instead of trying to pursue decentralized/distributed FOSS solutions.

I think they mainly won because they figured out that capturing a huge amount of data about user behavior (i.e. industrial-scale spying) was incredibly lucrative. That's also part of why, despite being free services, they despise anything that might take your activity (so, valuable data) somewhere else for even a second, so, open standards and any kind of inter-operation. This let them provide free services with tons of income to put into development and, vitally, promotion.

I think the key insight from there is that that sort of situation doesn't just discourage use of free alternatives—it discourages development of them. I'm certain we'd have more and better free (and paid!) alternatives, and way more developers putting free work into that space for protocol and client/server development, if not for the huge moat that is creepy data-hoarding to feed monetizable AI. Competing—even on a volunteer basis—against unassailable behemoths with what may as well be an unlimited advertising & development budgets is discouraging, to put it lightly. I'd never think of working on that kind of project right now, because the market, enabled by the legality of mass-scale stalking by corporations, means it's pointless no matter how good a product you make.
You were probably a teenager during Youtube’s (and every other online video service’s) extensive loss-leading period where they didn’t show ads. It’s a standard practice for VC viral growth. It really was a golden age for online video.
My conjecture is that "Changing Body Composition" is a better goal than "Lose Weight" for individuals who are trying to become healthier. As a long term aim or as a population measure, "Lose Weight" or "Lower BMI" fine; however, as a personal goal "Lose Weight" can be demotivating and flat out counterproductive, especially in the short term. It just doesn't work for many many people.

If you had a magic wand and changed all of an obese person's fat mass into muscle mass, that would not produce a healthy person. But that doesn't happen in the real world.

Here's what happens in the real world - when you start a workout program you gain a little weight. That small weight gain is not bad, but it can be demotivating if your goal is "lose weight". It can stop people from exercising, which is good for long term health.

Weight fluctuations are also confounding to the goal of "Lose Weight". I've often heard that a good goal is to lose 2 pounds a week. I have several problems with that. I can lose up to 4 pounds on a long walk. I can gain up to 5 pounds overnight. Neither of those reflect body fat loss (the walk may represent a few ounces). You may say "That's just water weight!" - Ok. How does my scale know that?

Being specific is very important in the personal experience of weight loss ahem change of body composition.
I spend my time doing horse sports photography, and I can tell your mirrorless is fine.

Zero latency problem, really. Go for it, you'll love it! It's a game changer.
I trusted using curl to find out it just returns a HTTP 404 page :)
My '18 Subaru doesn't FWIW. Stick shift is a bit of a deterrent too
We use LaunchDarkly for our iOS app(s). It's the industry's big Kahuna. And, like IBM, "nobody gets fired for buying LaunchDarkly." You can create a plethora of flags via the website. And, then in your Swift code, wrap conditional code. It allows you to developer release features months ahead of time. And unveil it in the app when you're ready ...
Anyone using zxing bar code generator [1]? it has a Wifi option.

[1] https://zxing.appspot.com/generator
Collision warnings are a backup system. The driver is also expected to look where they're going. Little Timmy will be just fine, unless he made little Sally cry, in which case he's fair game.
I got a bundle of a Fujifilm S9800 and S8200 for $100 on eBay. Nobody else bid.

https://www.dpreview.com/products/fujifilm/compacts/fujifilm...

It's great. It even takes AA batteries so no hassle with some specific pack & charger.
On my Android phone, I go to Clock -> Timer tab
Oh, I meant at regular border control, I'm not rich enough to spend money on VIP services and not feel terrible (that is, like I really should have done something else with that money) about doing so.
RedwoodJS
Titles like these seem disingenuous. As long as there have been rich and poor there has been been a "war", it's nothing new and it waxes and wanes.
Could you say that it encourages local supply chains?
Nope. This speaks to the moral character and psyche of the Wests leaders. The Covid crisis highlighted the absolute indifference of the West's leaders to human rights and freedoms, and we are supposed to believe that their hearts are bleeding for the Ukrainians in this war.

> In regards to Ukraine, advocating for a peaceful agreement that is anything less than unequivocal Russian withdrawal and a reparations plan is endorsement of force over democracy and law (rewarding bad behavior), and at odds with common human values.

Russia considers Ukraine joining NATO to be an existential threat. As far as their concerned it isn't going to happen. The same principles which underpinned the US invasion of Grenada and Panama which you have probably forgotten about is the same principle underpinning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Put it this way. The West always likes to crow on about how they defended freedom in Europe by defeating Hitler, forgetting that Hitler's only crime was to believe in the right to subjugate other white people as much as the rest of Europe believed they had the right to subjugate the black, brown and yellow populations of Africa, Asia and Latin/South America.

Sure Ukraine may be a huge white country with a population of 40 million, but Russia considers part of her domain as much as the US considers parts of the world her domain, and Russia sure as hell aren't going to entertain Ukraine falling in the hands of her enemy. Russia considers NATO to be an ENEMY not a RIVAL, and you would do well to keep this in mind.
> The researchers said that it’s capable of locating and leaking a Linux computer’s root password hash from physical memory in about 28 minutes when running the Intel CPUs and in about 6 minutes for AMD CPUs.

Given this attack vector, it makes some sense for relatively static secrets like these to be moved into something like the Secure Enclave where the CPU can perform signature verification but never store the secret itself in memory or cache. I know other ARM-based SoCs have these too. So presumably Intel and AMD offer something like this in their latest-generation CPUs?
Tech doesn't last.

If I were to spend $2500 on a guitar I know that 20, 40, 60 or even 100 years from now that guitar will play just as well, if not better, than it does today. OTOH if I were to spend $2500 on a laptop I know that 10 years from now, if not sooner, it will be a piece of junk.

Basically this is how I justify buying guitars to my wife! :)

Some things have lasting value. Art, crystal, good furniture, those are better items on which to spend money. Technology? It goes obsolete so fast you're essentially renting the item. Which is why, BTW, I've never bought an Apple Watch. It doesn't do anything my phone can't do and I've never spent more than $40 on a Timex. If I were to start slinging around serious money into a watch it would be a Rolex or something of that ilk. I guarantee it'll work just as well 100 years from now as it does today - decades after the Apple Watch was useless.

I prefer spending my money on things that last and tech just doesn't last. If you don't mind perpetually renting items and it tickles your fancy and fits your budget, then by all means, indulge.
> Implementations are required to have every call consume some abstract resource towards exhausting some abstract finite limit

If an implementation really wanted to, they could get around this by incrementing a "function call counter" that traps at, say, 2^64, rendering it effectively moot.

I feel like these kinds of situations are where being practical might make more sense than being mathematically precise. Something like "each function call must consume at least N bits of memory" or something concrete like that. Or heck, "implementations may not perform tail-call optimization" or even "implementations must be able to reconstruct the full logical call stack at any point".
hahaha thanks for the laugh
Medium also tried to be a clutter free version of Medi, eh I mean LiveJournal. At one point, Substack, unless radically different than Medium, will go the same way.
Instead of demanding my time and attention, which traditionally are not exchanged for goods and services, they should accept money.
Fascist Medusa in the Mirror
You're both right. The Home Secretary's statement that no action will be taken can form the basis of a 'legitimate expectation' which is enforceable by judicial review if a future government changes its mind.

Would I risk that, given current government threats against both refugees and the continued availability of effective judicial review? I'm not sure. Probably not.