skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the key point of this news story:

’But unbeknownst to many, Ohio is home to some of the world’s deadliest mushrooms -- and they can look a whole lot like their edible cousins.

A recent rash of nearly lethal poisonings have experts worried that mobile naturalist apps may be lulling otherwise cautious citizens into a false sense of security
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Implement Thread Pool in C
This one is easier of the eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1IbRujko-A
>99% of people aren't capable of reading the legalese in a TOS agreement, those are all by their very nature inherently deceptive.

And Google's Privacy Policy linked to off of there is one of the subjects of the lawsuit and that it is deceptive.
This question extends to the likes of GPT-3/SD etc which generate text and images based on statistics and probability of things they have learned with no 'understanding'. We can explain how and why they generate a particular piece.

You already agree and the point I was making is that we might be able to call GPT-15 conscious or at least won't be able to say that it's not.
I don't know about being "in the right" or not, but I do think this comment is correct in showing why it can be difficult, if not impossible, for some people to change their minds. I experienced this in my own family in regards to covid, which made for some very stressful discussions around masking and behavior when we gathered for the holidays during the pandemic. I live in one part of the country, where certain behaviors and beliefs around that were baseline assumptions, some of my siblings in a different part of the country, with the opposite baselines. To change minds would mean going against what all your friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc believed. It would mean pretty significant social distancing, unrelated to the pandemic.

We all were able to work out some measure of compromise for the duration of the visit, but, well, there's reasons we live where we live and not in the same place.
No idea in general, but it looks like the largest(?) one, Brookdale Senior Living, is majority owned by Fortress Investment Group, which was founded by 2 billionaires, Randal Nardone and Wesley Edens, so there's certainly at least some billionaires in that industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookdale_Senior_Living

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group

https://www.forbes.com/profile/randal-nardone/

https://www.forbes.com/profile/wesley-edens/
Eh, are you sure we're really comparing apples to apples here?, at least when it comes to server based applications. I've overloaded windows multiple times and yes I could move the mouse around and Mayne open notepad if it already cached in memory, but you could get stuck waiting for IOPS trying to do anything else for insanely long periods of time.

I've not done much in this realm since NVMe SSD has been common so not sure how this behaves these days.
On the other hand using an expressive language you have to force your employees to use a subset of the language, which usually doesn’t go well
Some feature requests:

* Show number of users connected

* Incorporate real weather, easy to get an API key for free like I did at https://weather.baby/

* Not sure if the Camera Roll is automatically scrolling for me, most of the roads look the same in Kansas or something

* I'm sure this has been suggested but: Mute the radio when talking

* Show other users on the map

* Light/Dark mode during day/night

Love it!
Yeah, "free" my ass. You can bet that the Pentagon or CIA has been paying him for some time now as that's the business model and partnership between BigTech and BigBrother. Imagine the valuable Intel and insight they must be collecting as the Ukranian military uses Starlink to coordinate their war. It could even be providing real time Intel on how the Ukranian generals are strategising.

No smart government would have allowed Musk to back out, but it was also a smart play by him to remind the Ukranians of how he has supported them in the past and get the Ukranians to end the negative online campaign against him (and perhaps even get the Ukranian diplomat who cursed him to apologise to him).
> I read that it took 16,000 88 flak shells to bring down one bomber. I infer the success of the flak was due simply to quantity.

I am not trying to be pedantic, just wondering out loud. 16,000 shells per bomber sounds like a lot, but I am sure you are familiar with the statistic that 250,000 small-arms rounds were fired for every insurgent killed in Afghanistan, and 25,000 rounds fired per kill in WWII. I can't find an actual hard source on the ratio of bullets per kill though. Bombers obviously cant hide behind cover, but I wonder if that 16,000 number isn't as unreasonable as it seems.

> I well know the death rate for B-17 crews - my father flew 32 missions in 1944 in one.

He sounds like an amazing man. I get queasy in light turbulence. I can't imagine the stress and horror of even a single bombing run. That's more than anyone should ever have to go through.
Thanks for that, the Ars Technica article completely glossed over the concern of false-identifications from mobile naturalist apps.
I've seen some companies try to get around these by using the phrase "To change your email preferences..." rather than "unsubscribe".

I think "email preferences" / "notification preferences" / "communication preferences" are good additions to this short list
What is the modern equivalent when drawing on a PC or tablet?
Ram is not hot swappable. Never has been.
> It's kind of amazing that something as basic as character encodings - at least the basics like UTF-16 ↔ UTF-8 ↔ stdio-encoding! - is something that's still not in the C++ standard library.

how would that work if you're on a microcontroller ? if $GOV_AGENCY says "product XXX is made according to international standards, including ISO/IEC 14882:2026" and international standard ISO/IEC 14882:2026 now says that a complete Unicode implementation has to be provided otherwise you're not compliant, any device with less than the 20-30-ish megabytes of memory needed for the unicode database won't be able to pass certification even if they don't handle text at any point, e.g. it's some dsp filter somewhere in a camera lense
> When the app matched his photos of the backyard mushrooms with an edible species, [...] it almost killed him.

Now there's an app that'd have to be designed very conscientiously.
This[1] is one of the few results that comes up when you search for the keywords, fbi + justice + india + scam

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/owner-and-operator-india-base...
Audacity is a lot simpler from what I can tell. It is meant to record and edit audio without doing anything fancy. Ardour on the other hand has lots of additional functionality, such as a fully featured mixer with plug in support and the recently added clip launcher. There is probably a lot more to say, but if you are serious about making music, definitely choose Ardour. If you just want to record something quick, or something simple like a voice recording, Audacity can get the job done.
> From a philosophical point of view, what difference does it make if life on earth ends?

Technically speaking, the end of life on Earth would be philosophically devastating, as all knowledge and subjective existence would vanish. Granted it may make no difference to you, but it would be catastrophic for philosophy.
When I lived in Northern California, I used to volunteer for beach cleanup every few weekends. Over a couple of hours, I would personally pick up 5-20 pounds of trash along the beach. The most numerous types of trash were: hundreds of candy wrappers, dozens of cigarette butts, and dozens and dozens of plastic straws. Most of the straws were from fast food restaurants, but a lot were from people eating food at the beach then throwing away the straws. It's kinda disgusting.

The next time you visit a beach in Northern California and gaze at the powerful waves of the Pacific crashing into the clean, sandy beach, realize that it's an illusion. The beach is basically a garage dump. It only looks pristine because dozens of volunteers pick up hundreds of plastic straws from the beach, every weekend.
Ex-cons became YouTube famous sharing their brutal accounts of prison life
Working on it still! :)
Porting a 600k line codebase to a different GUI is a fool's game (the vast majority of Ardour's code and complexity is in the GUI, not the backend).

We did it once before, from GTK1 to GTK2, which should have been easy. And indeed, the actual GUI toolkit switchover was relatively easy. The problem is that along the way, you keep running into other issues and ideas. We likely could have done GTK1 to GTK2 in a month, but it took nearly a year.

We have no need of traditional desktop GUI toolkits (or SDL) except for the 4 widget classes I mentioned. We have our own internal canvas-based "toolkit" that is Cairo-based, and thus only requires a window+rgba-buffer+event abstraction.
“No idea if this is accurate but it seems reasonable” has probably been the last words of a non-zero number of people.
Wow. Who would take the liability of an app such as this? Regardless of how many disclaimers you'd have to agree to I could easily see a jury holding the creator of the app liable for a horrible death like that.
Got laid off at Brex. Is it ok to join another startup at this point of time?
With the current macro economic situation and the uncertainty over the next couple of months/years. Is it still ok to join a startup which says they have runway for 2 more years or saying they recently raised x million dollars?
It was functional for me; there was someone reading some rather bad (in the best way) jokes, "What kind of car do dogs hate? A cor-VET". It really felt connecting, since the people replying and cooperating on the channel are all going through the same experience. I saw a comment above about having a radius visible for the talkie (if there is a radius?)

Oh, and +100 points for the thing being anonymous.
They’re just misinformed. I have seen lots of these “urban myths” from people trying to guess how the model works. In this instance, not realizing that there’s no explicit text-only filter; rather a vision-classifier based method that doesn’t explicitly encode any celebrities, but rather features relating to pornography, bigotry, etc.
Interesting, but I guess I'd have to learn APL or J to compare. Without understanding what those symbols mean, it seems much less like "math" than the numpy version.

1 + np.min(np.argwhere(running_sum[1:] == 0), axis=0)
Wouldn't it be simpler to send them to the nearest courthouse to get their names legally changed to Jared?
Ardour does not require JACK and has not for many years. Unfortunately the internet is riddled with out-of-date and inaccurate information which makes many people believe that it does.
I just wish I could find a morel, chanterelle, and porcini dealer.
I would be surprised because it isn't true.
Well done! The code is very clean and easy to read. I'll definitely recommend your library to people who want to learn how backprop works.
No it isn't, at least not for mushrooms. To be safe, you need to use a reliable mushroom guide and identify anything you pick down to the species. It's best to learn how to identify a few species that you like and to stick to them.
But you'll never be able to come up with all of the possible scenarios to simulate. What Tesla has demonstrated is creating virtual scenarios where they can dynamic adjust all factors (light, weather, traffic, etc) and base them off real world situations they've encountered where their Model failed.
https://archive.ph/ekUh9
If you buy a car where the salesman literally says "Does not come with wheels" and expect it to have wheels, that's on you.
If it's true it's a real failure of mentorship. They should have trained native talent by now.

But I am reminded of a "Chinese" chip company whose R&D was mostly done in Austin by ex-IBMers.
Why do people like eating mushrooms from the woods? How much of it is the potential risk? There are plenty of options at the grocery store.
That paper sounds like total techno-babble. Electrons, really?
The last time this happened it went very badly. I can’t imagine white identity as a political issue leading to anything good.
There would be such a solution if users were able to adjust the weight of downvotes or if the vote mechanism was changed to include a mandatory category or reason, i.e. '-1 spam' or '-1 disagree' or '-1 flamebait'. This, in combination with a way to adjust the weight of those categories - i.e. I would give 'disagree' votes a weight of 0 since I don't care whether someone else agrees as I like to make up my own mind about things - would make it possible for those who like to downvote from the hip to continue doing so without ruining the discourse for others.

Such a system would quickly be gamed by the downvoters who would start marking things they disagree with as 'spam' so another layer would need to be added in which certain types of downvotes - spam, flamebait and other such categories - are checked and undone if needed. Downvoters who abuse their voting privilege too often would loose it for a day, then a week, then a month, etc.

In other words, something like the Slashdot moderation/meta-moderation system of old.
For a real world example of this, GitHub uses server-side rendered fragments. Working with low latency and fast internet in the office, the experience is excellent. Trying to do the same outside with mobile internet, and even with a 5G connection, the increased latency makes the application frustrating to use. Every click is delayed, even for simple actions like opening menus on comments, filtering files or expanding collapsed code sections.

I'm actually worried about developers in developing countries where mobile internet is the dominant way to access the Internet and GitHub is now the de facto way to participate in open source, that this is creating an invisible barrier to access.
What security issues does server rendering solve? I resent that every website needs to be an SPA, but from a security perspective I’ve concluded that the clearer line in the sand that SPA application architectures creates is better than the security challenges that can result from server side rendering.

Navigating the risks around the NPM supply chain is another story, but I suspect it will be solved by large / popular frameworks gradually pruning their own dependency trees resulting from downstream pressure in the form of pull requests.
Hype up, Dude!

Very glad to see so many afford to make javascript a better language there! I played it around, and I found Hegel seems not to support dynamic features like modifications of objects or prototypes. And this is the real difficulty of implementing a sound and complete type system to a dynamic script language like javascript.

Can you share if they have any plans for that?

https://hegel.js.org/try#GYVwdgxgLglg9mABFApgZygCgIYEpEDeAUI...

https://hegel.js.org/try#MYewdgzgLgBCMF4YG8CGAuFAjTBGAvvgNwB...
Any good guides that go i to detail about building docker from scratch? How would one even begin to do something like this?
this repo keeps track of various benchmarks on a data grid type app https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark eventually you may need to create "virtualized scrolling" (e.g. only rendering a subset of the total table to the screen at a time) which can hard to make seemless. possibly the benchmark is "too much info" to make a good choice, but it is an interesting resource.
This is technically true.
> if you think there should be less crime and a better police force, you don’t go and fight crime on the streets, do you?

Because I don't feel like beating up minorities like Batman does.

But hey, a comic book understanding of the world is precisely what's required to think that we could solve environmental problems by recycling. Which is why industry invented it in the first place.
Audacity is primarily an audo file editor: you load (or record) a file into it, carry out destructive edits (i.e. the data on disk is modified), and then save the result.

Ardour is a digital audio workstation, which mostly implies that it is a non-destructive, non-linear system. Edits in Ardour do not change any of the media data on disk (everything is done with meta-data). Ardour is designed to handle track counts that Audacity could not dream of (100+), does realtime FX processing (coming to Audacity in the next version) rather than having to process the data and write a new file on disk, and is generally much more capable for handling multi-track audio.

Each one has its place. If you are really just editing an audio file, Audacity is likely to have less of a learning curve. If you involved in music creation or composition or recording, Ardour is much more likely to be the appropriate tool.
You'd have to make an exception for APL, of course.
Ars link is better from the privacy persepctive as clevland.com integrates directly with accounts.google.com.
Minds Change by David McRaney
One last bit, to address the fear factor:

Two things about Earth are quite amazing: our atmosphere and Earth's magnetic field.

Earth has a solid iron and nickel inner core, surrounded by fluid iron nickel outer core. The motion of the fluid sets up a magnetic field that tends to deflect charged particles from outer space.

In particular, a great part of the Solar wind, solid matter thrown out by the Sun, is prevented from getting to the lower levels of our atmosphere.

Without the deflector shields, Earth might not be able to hold on to its atmosphere over billions of years: it would slowly be blasted away...

Currently, that's the explanation for Mars -- it used to have water and more of an atmosphere, but that's not what we see today.

Gamma rays don't go very far into our atmosphere before getting scattered or absorbed.

Radiation from the Sun is far brighter than any gamma ray burst from light years away. So far.
Yes, and the sky is blue. You keep bringing up straw men and then pivoting. I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve.
I'm not affiliated with Hegel so I wouldn't know, maybe try contacting them directly via HN or their website.
Almost as if it's a bad idea to try reducing people to irrelevant traits
Most plant ID apps have a disclaimer saying that you should never eat anything that you use the app to identify. Seek reminds you every time you open the camera.

They're mostly intended as entertainment, but some of them use the data to analyze where species are growing in realtime.
You might be forgetting about the existence of your forehead. Your eyes will look up to a person who is the same size as you.

I am 6’7” and I rarely see people my height, but when I do I have aa strange feeling because I am typically the tallest person in a room. When we are the same height, they feel taller to me because I am not familiar with looking up to the top of someone’s head.
Depending on how they were taken, it may not need to be that complicated. Most phones for instance embed GPS coordinates in photos metadata, which can be accessed by some photo organisation software.

I'd be interested if anyone does know of anything that can do what you ask though, I know lightroom can recognise faces, but more organisation is always good.
Only if your still running http without the s, right?
Yeah, one of my big shifts politically as an adult was debunking more naive libertarian views I held when younger.

I think an honest reading of post ww2 history shows you need both a healthy private and public sector. There's arguments about exactly where to draw the line, but evidence is countries prosper with 1/4 to 1/2 of their economy being redistributed through the public sector. Where to draw the line within that window is more a matter of what society you want than a pure economic question.

A key detail is that you need functional institutions, and those take generations to build.
I was just picking technology for my new landing page and was looking into Preact first.

I wanted basic SSR and things like that. Preact has a library called preact-cli for this. The last commit is from Aug 17.

I ended up with SvelteKit. It just felt much more alive. I don't love learning a new technology just for a landing page, but that was kinda fun.
That advice wouldn't seem to have helped for the mushroom described in the article, whose symptoms only surface 8 to 12 hours after eating it.
Not personally really good at reading things like this... Is their overall analysis good?
It's a question of moral responsibility. If you cause someone to make a major change in their life, surely you'd agree that you bear at least part of the responsibility for the outcome. It's the same with changing govt. Doesn't necessarily mean the only choice is doing nothing. But that you must weigh outcomes realistically, not idealistically.
According to the article we're commenting on, the programming model is not the sole reason for switching from React to Htmx. Look at the executive summary's bullet points. Four of them are related to performance (build time, time to interactive, data set size, and memory usage). Performance might not be the reason you personally use Htmx, but it's certainly put forward as an advantage in the article which we're commenting on (which is from the htmx team by the way).

I've often seen this meme repeated in debates that js frameworks require you to duplicate logic between the server and client, but most of the logic isn't being duplicated between the client and server, it's being moved from the server to the client. It's relocation, not duplication. Instead of your rails/django controllers deciding what html to render, that decision happens on the client. In this model your server is mostly just an authorization layer, and an interface between the user and the database. Hasura, Firebase, Firestore, Mongodb Realm, and several other products have been successfully built around this premise. You might not like the thick-client thin-server model, which is completely fine, but it's a somewhat subjective preference. The only objective criteria you might use to decide which approach to use is performance.
Well, the short answer is probably that the West, in particular the Biden administration, asked them not to. They _have_ done it a few times, but rumor is that they get western approval first.

Why do they care what we think? Well, because we're supplying them with weapons. Since everyone knows this is now a proxy war, similar to when the Soviet Union was supporting North Vietnam or Chinese "volunteers" came across the border to support North Korea, not striking at Russia (too often) is a way to attempt to avoid escalation.

Also, the primary objective is to eject the Russian troops from Ukrainian soil, so there's not much reason to attack Russian territory most of the time.

Lastly, another reason why Ukraine is currently beating a much larger opponent is that the Russian troops are said to be not especially motivated, in most cases. If Ukraine attacked Russian playgrounds and apartment buildings, as a tit-for-tat, it might even motivate their (currently not especially motivated) opponent.

Ukraine is actually concentrating on things that advance their military objectives, and attacking Russian territory targets usually is not the best way of doing that.
Really cool. Curious - where are the photos pulled from? The 'Talkie' feature is great, was chatting to a couple of people before about the experience. Well done!
If you're lost in the woods, it's a bad idea to eat wild mushrooms. They're mostly water, and the small amount of calories they might provide are unlikely to be worth the risk, no matter how confident you are in identification. I'd go as far as to say that any foraging of wild food is a dangerous distraction from your more important task of escape.