skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Baltimore I see a lot of elderly people in mobility scooters traveling in the bike lanes as well.
Google it. It's a racket. Teacher's unions have negotiated automatic pay raises for certain educational attainments. Those attainments are certified by the Ed Schools. It's basically the certification program scam.
I wrote a console-based modal email-client, which was written in 50% C++ and 50% Lua for the user-interface and all scripting.

My advice to anybody considering writing an email client would be .. don't. The amount of broken MIME things you'll have to deal with, strong opinions on UI, and similar things will make you go crazy.

I used to use mutt, then my own client. These days there are a few console-based clients that are new such as aerc, but even so writing the basics is easy, but coping with real mail is way harder than you'd expect
I don't want to be dismissive but how much of this success belongs to the team of rock solid senior engineers with enough experience under their belt rather than rewrite in Rust?
How many of those stars are from people who use Rust and don't use Svelte?
Exactly this. It will just become tool used by those who can afford it in secret. No matter what copyright it breaks.
> unfortunately the particular group all vote a certain way so...

Please stop viewing everything through the political hammer of one ideology over another
Color me skeptical. Demand for a pint isn't about to disappear just because energy costs are rising. Surely the more likely outcome is that pubs will pass along rising costs to consumers, who will absorb increased prices because: *A)* pubs are a centuries-old English social institution with no readily available alternative and *B)* alchohol is habit-forming.
Is There a Limit to the Number of Layers in 3D-NAND?
Hashcash does not require money, it only requires you to burn CPU cycles. But it's tough to implement fairly. A feature phone might take 60 seconds to do the same proof of work that a PC can do in 0.1 seconds. (And spammers would eventually just build ASICs anyway.) So those without powerful hardware are back to trusting some centralized entity to burn CPU for them and relay their message.
Windows 8’s missing startup sound has been hiding in plain sight
https://twitter.com/mstyczen/status/1561856668450754562:

> Biking linked to impotence

IMHO, that one's probably true:

https://www.webmd.com/men/features/biking-and-erectile-dysfu...:

> ...too many hours on a bicycle saddle can compress the artery and vital nerves leading to the penis.

> The result? A risk of numbness, pain, and erectile dysfunction.

> Male cyclists can place a significant percentage of their weight on their perineum, an area between the scrotum and the anus where the nerves and arteries to the penis pass. This pressure -- and a narrow saddle seat -- can injure the arteries and nerves.

> "The earliest warning sign is numbness or tingling," says Irwin Goldstein, MD, director of San Diego Sexual Medicine.

> Even a young man may lose the ability to achieve an erection, says Goldstein, who pioneered an operation that restores blood flow and sexual potency in 65%-75% of cases.
i’ve found i can tell i’m sad based solely on the number of hours i’ve been gsming
Maybe, but the social graph still fills an important function, and that is missing. I want to know what my friends are doing. If I want to see a cute cat tiktok is better, but in general I'm bored with such things now (which tiktok can probably figure out - I don't actually use tiktok so I don't know), but one in a while one of the cats that live with someone I actually know does something cute and I want to see this. This is about the social connection, not about the cat. I go to facebook to keep track of people. It is more important to me to find out if my actual real life friends have done something than to see something engaging.

I might well spend more time on TikTok which looks for content I'd enjoy, but FaceBook's social network still takes priority to check regularly even when I don't have time.
Nvidia’s stuff is good but it’s pretty high margin. They don’t give access to it for cheap,& in the last five years, the cost per unit performance has been nearly flat. They’re also more generalized than Tesla needs. Performance advantages from process shrinks have also stagnated. A good time for a custom approach.
> Linux only? I think that'll cap adoption regardless of any perf advantages

For web applications, Linux is usually the eventual development target, and running Linux development environments on Windows and MacOS is a solved problem. So no, not really going to be much of a problem.
> My understanding of neural networks is that there are no remnants of the original inside it.

Can you prove that? I can prove the opposite.
> The value prop is not algorithmic content, it's friends and family.

Friends and family posts don't keep you on the site for very long, reducing the number of ad impressions each user sees. The value prop is indeed in algorithmic content, but using "friends and family" as the hook.
Incidentally, Apple just launched Apple Maps Look Around in Germany this summer. It has very good coverage, but you need an Apple device to access it (ugh).

Interestingly, I haven't seen any public discussion on it.

Apple also allows you to demand blurring of your house, but they do this globally.
Reactions so far pretty much miss the point.

The option for an account that is not a faceboof one goes beyond your believes about privacy or what you feel about Meta as a company in general.

For instance the Meta account doesn't have a real ID policy, you won't get banned because your name doesn't look authentic.

You also won't be subject to the whole legacy of restrictions and issues that were bound to facebook accounts. People who linked their real facebook to the quest of fear of getting flagged can also now isolate their accounts (even if behind the scene there is still a link, they won't be appearing in Horizon with their main account at least.

And I'm just scratching the surface. Yes this move matters, even if it's not what everyone dreamed of.
It's not a zero-day vulnerability and the title of the bug doesn't even suggest that.
Lmao, you can't tell someone to "stfu" on HN. In fact I'm pretty sure it's against the rules.

There's nothing wrong with porn, just as there is nothing wrong with gambling. Some small percentage of the population might end up with an addiction to it, but that doesn't mean that the overall thing should be banned. Otherwise...sex would be banned, because, well, _some_ people get sex addiction.

You say that people are getting into "taboo" stuff that's outside of normal/health. Let me taking a wild guess, that's anything outside of a "missionary with a man and a woman while married for the purposes of procreation", right?

In reality it's that's newer generations are less prude than previous ones, the lgbtq+ community especially, and we're now able to enjoy such diverseness of sexual identity and expression.

Stop being such a prude, lmao.
I can definitely relate to a lot of these bulletpoints. Thanks for sharing with so much honesty, I think that will help a lot of fellow founders!
This is what happened to lawyers when everyone learned how to read. Then commenced a long evolution of the profession where practitioners did their best to make the law more obscure and to invent as many dirty tricks as possible in order to pull the ladder up and sustain law as a profession through other means of exclusivity than the old education moat.
Hashcash doesn't involve taking money from anybody.

Here, I've googled it for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
Well said. But let us go deeper:

“Property must be destroyed before imagination can be developed any further.” (Berger)

“No matter how much it proclaims its pseudotolerance, the capitalist system in all its forms (family, school, factories, army, codes, discourse…) continues to subjugate all desires, sexuality, and affects to the dictatorship of its totalitarian organization, founded on exploitation, property, male power, profit, productivity… Tirelessly it continues its dirty work of castrating, suppressing, torturing, and dividing up our bodies in order to inscribe its laws on our flesh, in order to rivet to our subconscious its mechanisms for reproducing this system of enslavement. With its throttling, its stasis, its lesions, its neuroses, the capitalist state imposes its norms, establishes its models, imprints its features, assigns its roles, propagates its programs… Using every available access route into our organisms, it insinuates into the depths of our insides its roots of death. It usurps our organs, disrupts our vital functions, mutilates our pleasures, subjugates all lived experience to the control of its condemning judgments.” (Guattari)
At first, you can experiment with "extreme" input that can cause overwriting like: a photo of Marylin Monroe, etc. To search using reverse image search I use yandex, and I downsample the image.
Not op, but current gas prices in european country: 1,8€/L

43 EUR would buy me 24L at most. And with my car I could travel 184km

70L full tank costs 126€

An economic car would go 430km for 43 EUR
Xamarin is now called MAUI. You'll find better search results using the MAUI term.
The world is dependent upon LNG at the margins. The UK is a net importer and therefore the marginal price rules.

China decided to go net zero and in their usual fashion decided to do it all at once. That shoved the price up last year.

Russia is just the icing on the cake.

The hedgers who backed the wrong horse are already bust. That took out half the gas retail sector. Now everybody's one year fixed prices are expiring and the chickens are fighting for scarce roosting space.

Never a good idea to back efficiency over resilience. We're about to learn why energy and food security can't be left solely to market forces.
> numb to visual novelty

I wonder if this isn't already the case.

If I look at what people are sharing on various platforms, people share images all the time, but it's rare that an image will pop up merely for its aesthetic qualities, (except for self-promo stuff).

I can only guess, but I don't believe the AI-generated images you linked to would be shared widely, if they didn't have the story "Look what AI can do," behind them.

And maybe that's always been the case. I'm reminded of the working poor going to the Louvre in Zola's "Assommoire". They mostly come away not understanding what the big deal is. It's the "cultivated" person – who knows the stories behind the paintings - who comes away moved by them.
Keepass has a big ol' development ceased message on its homepage, and referring visitors too KeepassXC (Qt based).
> ..complex runtime issues which were almost impossible to reproduce or isolate

> That’s when internal murmurs about a complete rewrite started brewing…

> We decided to move our entire codebase to Rust

> there was still one minor problem - no one on the team knew Rust

"We have runtime issues so we will fix them by a complete rewrite in a language that no one on the team knows."

I would not call that a "hard decision", rather "rolling the dice".
It awesome that they managed to make it work.
I'm speaking slightly casually. Access to AEDs has expanded in public areas of the region of the world where AHA guidelines for CPR pertain so much that it is reasonable to expect prompt availability to one in the case of sudden cardiac arrest in public, and this has driven updates to CPR guidelines.

Better?
But at least a 6 seat Tesla Model X would probably hurt pedestrians less compared to a “van”?
Why do you feel the interaction was cruel? A brief "no" seems like all you'd get from most companies too.

My understanding is the policy is intended to avoid pointless debates and inadvertent legal liability (e.g. "when you told the candidate 'good luck with the new baby' at the end of the rejection convo, it created the impression they were not selected because they have kids.")

Why did he owe more feedback than "this isn't up to par?"

Based on past threads on HN I'm in the minority in preferring take-home projects and not feeling I'm owed compensation for the time it takes to complete them.

I like them because you have more of an opportunity to demonstrate your craft versus a standard leetcode whiteboard session where the 45 minute time constraint means you need to focus on pumping code out as quickly as possible. Also a good one can be an entertaining diversion in it's own right. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
And much faster SSD performance and a computer that doesn’t sound like a 747 when you open more than 3 Chrome tabs.

But the battery life itself is worth it.
I'm not sure modern phones are 600x as slow as an average PC in single threaded performance.

These days the performance difference is about less than 10x on the cheapest of phones. A hashcash that takes 100ms on my PC and 1s on my phone to send an email would be prohibitively expensive for any spammer.
I would let the same team of "rock solid senior engineers" be the judge of that. They seem to think it mattered significantly enough.
I have the "If you have a SystemD everything is a nail" feeling from this comment.
Hunting Down System Interrupts
> Simultaneous fetches of thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of objects started becoming inefficient, especially when fetching from collections of tens of millions of objects

Why not try leveldb. We're doing random reads of 170,000 vectors (/130M) a second. No startup needed.
I live in the American suburban/rural spillover, riding a bike is a fever dream, I wish I could but then again it's a tradeoff of not living in any big city of my state (I live in Alabama so I obviously don't have good choices)
Not a troll account. Proof: Mark posted a surfing video to Workplace on Aug 15 5:31.
When articles like this talk about SUVs, in includes autos like the RAV4. Those smaller SUVs are one of the biggest growth areas for manufacturers
Yes, I feel the buzz they got when just randomly announcing they'd do something about the account situation gave them way too much leeway to take their sweet sweet time to actually deliver. It's been like 6 months since the first mention.
Assuming you own a house or at least a private parking spot and can install a charger there, then yes, I do see the convenience.
> I have co-workers who spent years on tracing request ids through each layer. It got scrapped after a couple of months because no one used it.

"Hey bob, it seems the money we sent through the system disappeared. Can we trace it?"

"Sorry no, we got rid of the reconciliation id we use across our systems."
Proper noun?
We built Rec Room (https://recroom.com/) using Unity across several platforms:

* iOS

* Android

* PC

* PlayStation

* Xbox

* VR

Rec Room is a "game for building games". I'd say Unity has worked pretty well. Given that the product is a game this success with single-lang cross platform may be more common than other industries. Still, though, I'm surprised that there isn't a similar "engine" for non-game cross platform development like Unity or Unreal that folks are generally happy with.

(Shameless plug, we are hiring if folks are interested https://recroom.com/careers)
I believe Chrome uses a dark pattern where signing into a Google account also signs you into the Google account in Chrome. One of many reasons not to use it.
Yet the default Godot download is a 'standard edition' without Mono support?

What's the reasoning behind the two separate builds? Is it just about build/download size, or are there potential licensing issues with Mono or something?
> I have stopped learning new things, and working on personal projects because of Dota2.

The reality is that some people at some times are capable of spending a significant portion of their personal time pursuing new skills and technologies, but not everyone can and that's fine. I think that either way, relying on your own personal time and projects as the only forum for developing new skills is not a great way forward. Sure, you might have interests and want to learn things that exceed what you're doing at your job, but you absolutely should feel that the job you are spending much of your day at is challenging and helping you progress as a software engineer. As soon as you feel that it isn't because either you have learned all you can in your current role or because you're interested in other things that aren't really on offer in your job, that's the right time to explore other opportunities.

> Should I work on solving LeetCode questions, and aim to get into FAANG companies.

For better or worse, sharpening up the LeetCode-type skills does seem to be helpful when you start the interview circuit, but not necessarily and it's a secondary concern IMO. From what you've said, it sounds like you need to get a better of sense of a) where you see yourself going medium-to-long-term (senior software engineer, tech lead...more?) and b) what technologies are you interested in?

To me, it sounds like you are just not really working on features and your job has become very prescriptive and limiting. From that standpoint, the fix seems a lot simpler and may not require a huge self/existential review — instead, simply finding a company that wants to hire a proper software engineer who works on real features. Up to you what kind of product you're interested in working on and with what tech.

So I would start there: is your near-term goal to become the best software engineer you can be? Then find a company with people smarter than you that is looking for a software engineer to work on core features with tech that interests you.

I have been in exactly the position you are in many times in my career and it's a completely normal progression. You start somewhere and level up and eventually you have learned all you can or you're interested in a greater challenge. As soon as you start to feel comfortable, that's the time to pursue other opportunities (of which there are many). The people who stick around forever in spite of feeling completely unchallenged tend to do so because it's comfortable and familiar — and there's nothing wrong with that — but it is not the way to grow and progress. All of this is to say that you may not be as lost as you think you are. You're simply experiencing a normal phase of "time to look for other things."
I don't think so - they'll probably ensure enhance it. An AI draws something, people describe what they actually see, the AI is now refined in what it should produce for a given prompt (and moves away from the original prompt).
I like that they're up front about this. Solved the problem in a couple of minutes.

I use a password manager with a very long randomly generated password for everything, so a hashed password leaking is essentially meaningless to me. Notifying me immediately so that I can change it ASAP is what matters.

The burner e-mail I use for stuff like this is listed in 25 other data breeches, too. I don't really care. Plex is amazing software.

I don't really understand the freak outs here.
so is this a fuzzer for generating GUI elements to see what works or not? or one to generate input states that crash a GUI?
Doubling the mass of the car assuming everything else (crumple zones etc.) stays the same - doubles the acceleration experienced by the pedestrian.

X_p0 = X of the pedestrian before collision
X_c0 = X of the car before collision
X_p1 = X of the pedestrian after the collision
X_c1 = X of the car after the collision
m_ = mass
v_ = velocity
a_ = acceleration
t = time

//conservation of momentum:
m_p * v_p0 + m_c * v_c0 = m_p * v_p1 + m_c * v_c1
m_p * (v_p0 - v_p1) = m_c * (v_c1 - v_c0)
v_p1 - v_p0 = m_c * (v_c0 - v_c1) / m_p

// a = delta v / t
a = (v_p1 - v_p0)/t = m_c * (v_c0 - v_c1) / (m_p * t)
Product of machine cannot be copyrighted. Only humans have the right to copyright something. Dall-e like kaleidoscope then. Anybody, even monkey, can generate similarly looking images using Dall-e with the same prompt. So there is two options:

a) Dall-e images are without copyright.

b) Original authors of work used by Dall-e can claim copyright over images generated.
> K8s is just too expensive, complicated, and time consuming to survive. As soon as Systemd can network as a cluster, the writing's on the wall. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is the Systemd developers are basically desktop-oriented Linux fogies rather than Cloud-focused modern devs.

So "all" we need to do is rewrite systemd as a distributed system, and make it "cloud-focused" and "modern"?

No thanks. Right tool for the right job.
You're missing the point. The 40x series highways around Toronto are some of the most gridlocked transportation networks in North America. I believe often ranking worse than LA or Atlanta etc etc. The 401 is pretty much bumper to bumper every single day all day except maybe at like 3am.

The 407 toll route the author is describing takes basically the same route as the gridlocked 401. The toll on the highway is insanely high, probably 10 x higher than anything you'll see in the US on any of the EZpass etc type routes. If you were to take it end to end (100ish km or 60 miles, maybe a 45 minute or 1 hour drive tops) you'd probably be paying at least $60 CAD or so.

Because it's so high, it's essentially vacant large parts of the day.

Yes planes can land on highways and do so all the time. The point is that the only highway they could do that on in the GTA is the 407. Because it's priced so insanely high.

And that money is going straight into private sector bank accounts, not into public coffers.
> modern C++ is great

Great in the way that Alexander the Great was great. Achieved big things and killed a lot of people.

Though in the case of C++ they're just dead inside.
This interesting era of AI will surely teach us the meaning of that old phrase "great artists steal", or more subtly rephrased, "everything is a derived work".
Acceleration, which is caused by a transfer of energy?
Indeed, Neal Stephenson in _Anathem_ (2008), in describing an alternate world (in which his "reticulum" is our "network") wrote "Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, sbsolete, or downright misleading information."

"So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. ... " Generating crap "didn't really take off until the military got interested" in a program called "Artificial Inanity".

The defenses that were developed back then now "work so well that, most of the time, the users of the Reticulum don't know it's there. Just as you are not aware of the millions of germs trying and failing to attack your body every moment of every day."

As I review this now, I'm sad to realize that our flood of "bogons" (bogus information) is not generated by opposing armies wanting to plant misinformation but by advertisers, influencers, and politicians. In effect, those who want to sell us things we don't need, didn't want, and often can't afford.
The source paper could be arguing two things:

What we experience as love is a physical process in the brain that includes a second-order phase transition.

Second-order phase transitions are appropriate to represent love on a metaphorical level, because our expressions of love have several things in common with them.

Can anyone confirm which it is?
One thing I've noticed that no AI tooling company is building is a good/easy to use feedback loop. A high quality model needs a lot of human feedback. No one is really building a strong platform to do that. But eventually someone will have to fill that gap
Is dotnet 6 support slated to release with godot 4 or will it be a post-initial release timeframe? Last I heard it wasn't ready yet but I have not been looking too closely. Having latest dotnet would get me interested in trying godot again over downloading Unity onto my new laptop when I get back to gamedev.