skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think of this as an impedance matching[1] (in the EE sense) problem. The best frameworks match the way we think about problems once we've gotten used to them. There has to be some give on the part of the programmer, because of Godel's incompleteness theorems.[2]

I whole heartedly agree that we have to minimize extra steps when reviewing code, but you can only push so much of that burden back through space-time to the green field programmer.

For instance, in Pascal, you have to declare everything first. I'm used to that, so it matches my expectations. However, it also sucks because if you're looking in the middle of code the declarations aren't proximal to the first time they're used. There's an expectation that all the code will be read, which was fine in the academic world which gave birth to Pascal, but not in the world of million line systems.

There are tradeoffs that will take decades to get right, simply because we need to have time to gain enough perspective to adjust things collectively, as a profession.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error
Your comments in this discussion are filled with desperate denial of the horrible situation your leaders have gotten yourselves into, and all you can say in response to video of Trump warning about this four years ago is "Seriously?".

Had Heiko Maas gone home four years ago and advised Merkel to listen to Trump and start weaning the country off Russian gas (and, yes, buy US gas instead), Germany would not face this existential crisis today. Instead, he laughed at the US president on camera, and is now enjoying a quiet retirement in Saarland (and, no doubt has no worries about whether he will be able to get gas to heat his home this winter). *The German crisis is 100% self-inflicted*.
"IMO the biggest waste of life is wishing that you're elsewhere. You end up wishing for a different present and future, then find that all your present is now the past."

Sounds like me. Although the answer might be to just be happy with what you have. For me, I need to just accept that I'll never make more money or get promoted, or do even half the stuff I'd like to do in my "free" time.
This is a metaphor for poorly designed software. Don't worry we'll optimize it at the end!
It’s trivial to emulate cookies with other Web APIs (storage + service worker, for one). You’re focusing on the label of the toggle and not user intent. If a website can send information about my visit 2 days ago to an upstream server, clearly my expectation of “Disable cookies” is broken.
> This will force you to log into every single web site that has commenting.

which website doesn't? I can only imagine the high quality discussions that such a site encourages.
There are tons of healthy options in the USA, it's just more difficult when the sweet, calorie dense food is available.
> appended to the default lists

Yep. Been in the FAQ probably since the 1990s. Still too easy to get wrong.
reading the bill it seems fairly pro-privacy and generally contains things I'd imagine most folks want like limitations on collection childrens data, notifications if you're use is being monitored and controls over how childrens information is stored
On the one hand, you have oddball blogs playing percentage games and arguing about semantics with "absolute" and "relative" in opposition with the history of how we've measured the value of vaccines for decades based on vaccine trials from 2021. This is not what I would consider the real world.

On the other hand we have the collection of facts from the real world I mentioned, as in this example of worldwide excess death counts by country. In this real world, the vaccines saved many lives, despite your anecdotes which definitely really happened.
The technocrat champions of wrapping the Internet up in the nanny state and its regulatory requirements, will inevitably be the ones lamenting the burden in 10-15 years as the Internet (as we used to know it) is fully choked off. To be clear, the Internet barely exists as it is, the Western Europeans (along with China and Russia) are way out in front when it comes to destroying it - however the US, starting primarily from California, will mimic their authoritarian spirit as always.

But but but, we gotta protect the children.

But but but, we gotta stop people from saying bad things that could hurt the feelings. Free speech bad. Must regulate speech.

Cycle forward a decade: the government is going too far! This is outrageous! Too much surveillance! Muh privacy. Who gave them all of this power?!?

Yeah, gee, who indeed.
You're being hyperbolic.

I said "This is why I'm generally in support over codified + regulated child protection acts, especially the online ones." This is clearly not advocating for a "nanny-state." I'll rephrase in case I was misunderstood: I am generally in support of online child protection acts.

> Am I correct to say

I think it's clear you've already made your mind up by pushing what I said to such extreme examples: "nanny-state," and claiming I'm advocating for the government to fully take care of children/adults.
The article makes a decent point: Websites will have an incentive to prove their visitors are not children.

> It is virtually impossible to identify and segment your user base and apply the bill's protections to only those you can 100% confirm are under 18.

Doing this might be(come) possible by completely destroying anonymous web browsing.

How? Idk and it wasn't mentioned, but you could imagine Credit card checking, Electronic IDs, post-ident maybe backed into the browser for a one-click identification.

Though it's all a hypothetical on unwanted side-effects. I don't think it too concerning as people value random websites less than their personal data and I'd expect websites using the "everyone is a child" approach to have the advantage.
When my daughter watches stuff online. I watch with her so we can discuss and interact with each other, aka quality time. That’s not helicopter parenting
We’ve kind of started a start a story daddy, the he continues and then I do. I think your ideas will fit well with that. Taking turns on the narrative and with elements he loves. Cats as characters and trains of vehicles for fantasy. Thank you.
Considering the threat from DALL-E going offline, it seems quite acceptable. These aren't precious photos since it's all made up anyway, you can download any pictures you make, and you probably already did for the ones you care about.

I'd worry more about, say, keeping your photos on Google and losing your account somehow.
Japan Declares 'War' on the Humble Floppy Disk in New Digitization Push
It was also a business for which the writing was very clearly on the wall. How many companies are left that still sell a SaaS/PaaS that requires you to install bespoke on-prem server hardware? I'm guessing its a much smaller list than it was 2002. For crawling/indexing, I can't even imagine convincing IT we need a dedicated appliance today! For the problem GSA solved, its just not needed anymore and subsumed by other google products/services that don't need me to install a rack-device like:

https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/

As someone else has pointed out, GSuite has seen success in the enterprise space, so their enterprise efforts aren't a total write-off. With so many students now on GSuite at their school or colleges and a generation effectively raised on Google Docs... I certainly wouldn't bet against it today.
With a short TTL I imagine it's quite workable.
Google to bans apps containing “misleading health claims
https://swel.eu/
The higher end of anything is always the last to get disrupted. There are still buggy whip makers [1] and those are the classic example of an industry killed by disruption.

In this case, it's not that there won't be any demand for art, but that the lower end of art jobs may become more like working at McDonalds.

[1] https://uswhip.com/our-products/buggy-whip/
Considering they sell that investment to the other big companies that put their cameras in their phones… probably good. Do you know otherwise about their financials?
Image formats are open to all platforms, so what makes this a tool for macOS users only? If it uses proprietary Apple frameworks, for example, how can we verify that your claims are true?
Whose law? US law? KF operates outside the US. Are you ok with the US government deciding what's allowed on the internet and what isn't? What if the US government believes it's totally ok to murder trans people? Do we have to keep waiting for a law in that case too?
The poorer countries of the world have taken a "Well... we have nothing to say" stance about the invasion because that's the issue: they're poor. What if they pick the losing side and get punished to hunger and economic freezing-out by the winner(s)? Geopolitically, they were probably not sure if China was going to throw its weight behind Putin - imagine what China would be doing/saying if Putin successfully occupied Ukraine and controlled its food output - sure today we can say "That was never going to happen", but at the end of February, many governments of the world didn't know that.

In any case, do you think if Pakistan said "We join the EU/US in sanctioning Russia", they'd be getting extra help from the EU/US at the moment? I like the EU but they seem to have been running around in internal panic themselves, they're not going to give a crap about Pakistan...
That's my point, if Signal were a CIA front with some kind of secret backdoor, it would probably not reveal that in response to a request from a Central District of California grand jury.
My gut reaction is that this should be up to each country to enforce in its borders. If someone in CountryA wants to send a request to my web server in CountryB, in some sense that’s similar to someone buying something in CountryB and bringing it into CountryA. That’s obviously up to CountryA’s customs authority to enforce, not whatever shop in CountryB the item was purchased from.

But at the same time I’m very much not into great firewalls.
I think I’d really enjoy competing with those who force logging in for viewing a website.
Another theory: we spend most of our lives interacting with people and trading care and attention.

Maybe some people don’t have a natural instinct to pore over text looking for a case study that sort of might fit their troubled experience.

Automatic funneling through FAQ’s and documentation may be the only way for a company to service it’s 100M users, but necessity doesn’t mean it’s a good fit for the users or that there’s something wrong with the users who don’t take to it well.
> 'hyperpigmentation', lol. WTF is that?

Large dark patches, typically on the face. It’s seen almost exclusively in women because it’s hormonal and is believed to be predominantly a side-effect of birth-control medication. It often appears after pregnancy.
I do this to my own body - bits of electrical tape - I am virtually un-kidnap-able now.
I would say "I covered a bike in concrete" would be the most accurate title.
Most of HN is information free. Water cooler banter with 1:20 posts offering anything insightful.
You don't need to have cookies on your website unless you need to reconnect the browser to a session where you're keeping their authorization etc.
Unfortunately most people just want to run a website to do something and the easiest thing is to use WordPress or whatever the popular framework is, which has this cookie behavior built in because it "might" be needed.

I browse with all cookies blocked, except on sites which I need to login with. This sometimes gives me a "enable cookies to use this website" message but I just move onto the next website in my search.

To answer your question however, website owners need some analytics to know if their site is getting attention, what people click on, where they go. It really helps to improve the UX and reinforce the 3-click rule (your visitor should get to the page they want in 3 clicks). Perhaps if an analytics package was part of every framework, less efforts would be placed into using external companies which must monetize people. Just a thought.
I meant market and mind share wise.
Don't forget actually putting the work in to understand an issue, and then becoming the go to person for all problems related to X as there's no chance support will solve it in any reasonable timeframe.
Wonderful. I'm pleased to see this (mostly) supported in the comments. I am also warming up to the usefulness of racial and gender discrimination.
that is very wrong though. Governments or other monopolies don't enforce free markets. People are free by default and act as such, unless someone forces them otherwise (a big government).
So you'd be fine with a shop set up next to your kids' school specifically to sell alcohol to them? Because that's essentially how social media works right now.
California is following the WEF Agenda on Digital Identity:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/digital-identity/

The goal is to de-anonymize all dissent, and unperson anyone who dares criticize the regime. See: Canadian truckers, Australian anti-lockdowns moms, etc.

If you want to protect children from adult content, just require ISPs to block a list of explicit websites unless the service owner opts-in.
Someone else will come along that doesn't have the same arbitrary limitations, it's a battle you're bound to lose.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wlhubp/sta...

You need to find the right prompts. Which is something you can buy, if you can’t figure it out:

https://promptbase.com/prompt/dnd-dwarf-cleric-portrait

And then use to make as many variations as you need.
But that's what makes this so tough. Whether you consider the ways in which these AI models repurpose existing artistic works to be mere technical details or central to decide on the ethics of the matter depends largely on the analogies you reason by, as michaelt noted.
Only ex-bodybuilders turned bike thiefs would think of stealing that!
The Clinton admin tried an "ID everyone to access the site" law federally back in the 90s as part of Clinton/Gore's attempt to censor the internet and it got knocked down for constitutionality concerns.

Is CA just relying on the crunchy state politics plus the right-biased SCOTUS to pass this with no challenge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act
Dead in the water without EUV just like OG Intel 10nm. The number of masks required to etch these chips without EUV makes it a non-starter for anything with a larger area than the BTC mining chip that they produce.

I am very curious the yield and number of masks required.

This article outlines struggles Intel had with multipatterning and 10nm on DUV.

https://www.eetimes.com/intels-10nm-node-past-present-and-fu...

E: Furthermore, I don't think SMIC has any packaging technology that would allow them to leverage chiplets.
The rise of the technopopulists. Populists embraced the language of science
You're working on golang support but don't even have C# listed on your roadmap?

Looking at the TIOBE index, the market for C# language products is more than 5x bigger than the market for golang products.

Golang might be more popular here on hacker news, but if you're running a business, C# is a disproportionately important language compared to what you'd think if you only read posts on HN.
> It's a violation of the principles of federalism and should be smacked down

I see your point, but smacking down a state for having different principles is a violation of the principles of federalism. If federalism means anything, it includes the freedom for a state to make its own experiments in democracy as long as they don't cross enumerated federal powers.

If this bill treats people from different states differently then it is vulnerable to the commerce clause, but that isn't clearly the case.
I like the idea of making it more toy like and guided by the path to fun. Thank you.
Like all animals, we eat, fuck, and die, but humanity's ability to alter the landscape far exceeds that of alligators and beavers. Our combined and fantastically developed use of reason, tools, and written language have elevated humanity to a fundamentally different level. We're each of us now demigods and the world is our golden goose.

Only humanity and celestial bodies can kill nearly all life on Earth. Only humanity can so dramatically raise atmospheric carbon dioxide PPM as we've done. Only humanity engineers earth and waterworks on hundred-km scales.

Sure, it's our home planet, too and we have a right to be here and alter our environment to support our existence like every other animal does. But no other animal can fuck up the planet more than humans can and do. No other animal even comes close.
I worked on an old but perfectly functioning device that scanned medical samples. The only way to get its data out was by way of floppy. Upgrading the device would cost far more than the time savings of cutting out the floppy transfer.
It could be done by requiring client side certificates and creating issuing authorities for them.
You could simply choose a short TTL, or your tool could check for e.g. "some-name._sshkeys.whatever.tld" as well as "_revoked.some-name._sshkeys.whatever.tld" to handle revocation instantly
Not to be pedantic, but it still needs to be rubber stamped by Newsom. I am sorry did I say rubber stampted? I meant signed with a significant amount of internal deliberation of the effect of this bill on wellbeing of California as a state.
The level of maker youtube projects has been going off the charts.

Some examples from less well-known creators:

Drunk Mel Gibson arrest diorama
https://youtu.be/2UoHb0ziMDA

Knife throwing machine
https://youtu.be/-BKEZbYOMpI

3d printed harmonic drive
https://youtu.be/Emvo3bLT-Z4
The answer to any question posed in a title is no.

Try it sometime. If you see a title question mentally just say “no”.

The reasons for this law of media are manifold but boil down to 1) if there was evidence that the thing would happen they would state it. I.e. this title would read California will eliminate..

2) there is no 2

What’s left is for you the reader to try and figure out why the author is trying to scare people by posing a question even they know can only be answered in the negative.
The big question is, how would anyone ever know if any piece was created by an AI? Art competitions will need to adapt or disappear.

The diamond market is going through a similar situation where synthetic diamonds are undistinguishable from natural diamonds. The market has been affected. Synthetic diamonds take effort but AI art takes very little. So is the art market and art as a whole going to be completely changed?

I don't think this was even a thought when AI started to gain traction a few years ago.
A collection of sites using stable diffusion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wzj8kk/a_c...
Asus Zenbook Fold OLED Review The Coolest Folding Screen Laptop You'll Never Buy
The Indycam, a proprietary color 640x480 10 fps video camera connected to the SGI Indy workstation, was available in late 1993 and video calls were possible on IRIX. The picture quality wasn't that great - but it's always fun to show students today that this newfangled video stuff was possible way before they were born (as well as OpenGL 3D graphics...) :).
Ask HN: Transitioning a team member to an engineer tips?
I have a team member that has been working on the side on getting a comp sci degree and wants to transition into backend engineering.

I know what it takes to ramp someone up when they're full time, but is there any tips from someone for someone who is completely new that already works on a team, and the transition process will likely take several months?
If you are collecting and storing personal identifying information about users (who may happen to be under 18) then yes.
Ah, this section?

> As both new and old brands jump on the now-trending bandwagon of skincare for colored skin, most are simply adding token brown models to their campaigns and “brownwashing” existing products— changing up an ingredient, putting “for dark skin” on the labels, and claiming to target problems like hyperpigmentation.

Right, like "problems like hyperpigmentation" does sound like that. Amusing, freckles are a form of hyperpigmentation and I don't think they're considered unattractive.

Still, if people want to take action on this aspect of their faces, then better they use safer tools.
I'm not really sure if he's owning it. This post has not made it to his Twitter feed, unlike most of the other recent stories. They're probably not automated, so I wouldn't expect it to be there immediately, but I kinda feel like he wants it to just quietly go away if he doesn't mention it there as well.

https://twitter.com/briankrebs
What are you using for code visibility?
"code visibility, we’re talking about having your code mapped in such a way that even the freshest of developers can reason about the code. With code visibility, developers should see why code is structured or written in a particular way. With code visibility, new developers can be productive sooner rather than later."
I'm the CEO of Life360, another early and now at scale location app - I'm sad to see Zenly being shut down. The team there truly pioneered making rich map interfaces.

If the rumors are true (I hope they aren't - I agree with the comment this seems myopic) we might be a good home for members of the team who still want to stay in the mobile location space.

My email is chris at life360.com
> It's a violation of the principles of federalism

Quite the opposite. This is exactly the definition of federalism.
AFAIK it didn't pass, it was still in the planning phase, and then because of the governmental mess they have, it still yet to pass.
Who will fund it (it would be *very* expensive) when they have no hope of recouping the expenses? Consider: We have a likely candidate for a male birth control pill. It's considered quite safe, infertility (while taking it) is a known side effect. All that needs testing is whether it's reliable enough to be used for birth control. Unfortunately, there's a big headache with that--it does *not* stop sperm production so you can't test by having men jack off in a test tube and do a sperm count. Thus testing will be expensive. It's been known about for quite a while and nobody has funded it.
and, do you have settings that limit such collection that you have enabled by default?
Looks like local storage has a max size of 5MB and cookies 180 * 4KB = 0.7MB, so a similar order of magnitude. AFAIK, cookies can be set to expire in hundreds of years by sites and local storage can be cleared the same way as cookies.
I think they're aware enough that they've definitely made the notice that one is voice-connected more prominent since I started using the client. No idea how often it happens, but it seems an issue for new users specifically. Once you spend some time focusing on the UI, it eventually makes sense.
Well, not quite. The great lakes are rather deeper.

That's not to say this isn't shocking or a sign of radical climate change.
there’s no serious suggestion that cf reform themselves away from their incentives. their negative behavior is a symptom of a wider structural problem
I thought it was odd that I hadn’t seen anyone else make that joke. Turns out they had, I just hadn’t seen it. Thanks!

Reference, for those who haven’t seen the original joke to which my joke was referring: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/d3zhx/how_to_draw_an_...

(See also: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl)