skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks good. Does adopting the numpy API standard while maintaining backwards compatibility mean that they'll have to duplicate a lot of functionality?
A mental trick that helped me understand the concept of “an observer” in particle physics is to imagine it like playing billiards in a pitch black room.

In normal human-scale billiards, there are immense numbers of photons flying around bouncing off everything. The photon interactions are far too small to affect the path of a moving billiard ball, but we can detect them easily with our eyes. So we can use photons to passively observe the balls rolling around.

But when you’re trying to observe a photon itself… there are no tiny photon-equivalents flying around. It’s like playing billiards in pitch black: the only way to know which direction a ball is rolling is to touch it. And you can’t touch a rolling billiard ball without changing its path somehow. Likewise, you can’t “observe” a single photon without interacting with it in some way.
When I interview front-end devs, I still focus on core fundamentals and I want to see if they can build simple interactions and layouts in HTML, CSS, and simple JS via jsfiddle. My assumption is that if they can do vanilla well enough, having them do React is easy enough. The reverse is often not the case.
> Why fix bugs or optimize payloads when you can ship features?

and

> websites will continue to bloat until they break

There's a reason that small startups can shake up an industry and become sudden leaders. Some of them dare to take the unconventional (or uncommon) approach, instead aiming to provide a better service to customers.

So many popular websites today would be infinitely better if they were stripped down to very minimal html and images. Users would probably be more likely to visit them more often. For example, have you ever tried to view cnn.com on a phone? On my relatively high performance iPhone 12 Pro, that website is laggy and full of absolute garbage stuff scattered all around the "content". It's so bad that I rarely go there. The same is true for many other media sites.

TheVerge has just done the same thing, turning what was once a fairly decent site into a clusterf*ck which I no longer visit.

Of course the real problem with many of these sites is that if you strip out the crap, leaving the focus on content, you may find that there really is no content. What's there may be so underwhelming that you leave and never come back. I suspect they know this, so that's why they stuff more and more teaser items on the page. Curiosity is hard to overcome, so viewers will probably stay longer, even if they ultimately leave unsatisfied.
The problem is that Airbnb is the scammer here. They've intentionally misleading customers thinking they will be protected against scams of this type while in reality they are not.
Learn the new default ones.

First, not all veterans stay with the old ones. Second, going forward all learning material and documentation will use the new ones. Third, even those veterans who stay with the old shortcuts for convenience mostly don't see it as a war and will tell you to just go with the "new" flow.

And last, but very much not least: it's a numbers' game. There are quite few veterans (Blender was and still is relatively niche), but a boatload of new Blenderers learning it right now (or having started within the last three years when the UI revamp was released). And many many more than even that boatload of new people will start learning in the next few years.
I’ve written quite a few old-school web apps in Rails and ASP.Net. Unless you stuck to really basic stuff, they were much harder for me to reason about than the React codebases I’ve been on. jQuery consists of trying to reason about accidentally over aggressive global event handlers and effects, etc.

I prefer the modern mess.

It’s still a mess, though.
A couple days ago I watched this video where Smash Bros. community members discuss their thoughts and emotions around discovering a lot of sexual predatory behavior in their community [1]. Pretty fascinating and worth a watch. But what really struck me is how little most people (including) know about predatorial behavior or victimization and what the warning signs are; the description of what grooming actually is I found particularly enlightening. I think we would gain far greater benefit from simply improving our understanding of our own psychology and sociology and from their trying to prevent humans from becoming predators in the first place.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSR3P9jayPo
I'm reminded of learning about the grandfather paradox as a kid. I recall hearing shit about scientists saying if you were to travel back in time, you would be compelled by a universal force to do things that don't alter the future and create a paradox. Even as a kid, that sounded so idiotic. In retrospect it was almost certainly the reporting that was wrong.
Yes that is right. There’s also a message saying I need one when trying to enable HKSV, but scrypted documentation doesn’t call out the need for one.
Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days?
I don't understand your comment. How is it related to this post?
Mildly different wobbled electrons.
A cloud service like Google drive/photos is another option. Not the most logically efficient, but it works. I think Dropbox has a feature to share the files locally instead of via the cloud.
I see Hyrum's Law as the highlighting a problem with the robustness principle.

You start with:

We followed the robustness principle, which is be conservative in what you do and be liberal in what you accept from others

But then, the 'things you accept' become part of your api:

The problem with the robustness principle is a flaw can become entrenched as the defacto standard. Any implementation of a protocol is required to replicate the apparent behavior. This is both a consequence of applying the robustness principle and a product of a natural reluctance to avoid fatal error conditions.

And you arrive at:

With a sufficient number of users of an API, it doesn’t matter what you promise. Any observable behavior of your system will be dependent upon by somebody

I have a long rant about this, and how web browser standards fell victim to this. It's why user agent string look like they do and why 'chucknorris' is an HTML color.

https://corecursive.com/internet-is-duct-tape/
Sometimes it's lime deposits.
@john-doe Thank you, especially for the links. These remind me of the 'before times' when most sites had a special "mobile" version.

The web browsers at work have increasingly moved away from allowing users to control extensions and plug-ins (natch), and ad-mitigating bookmarklets are only so effective.
There is no need to reveal this today. Long ago most daemons would advertise what they were and their version in the event clients might need to negotiate around specific behaviors, quirks or bugs.

In NGinx one can get rid of this without recompiling by adding the "nginx-mod-http-headers-more" module and adding to nginx.conf:

more_set_headers 'Server: IIS/4.0'; # or whatever

HAProxy and most load balancer daemons can filter out or replace the Server header. Apache requires a recompile to drop the Server header unless one puts HAProxy in front of it due to the order in how headers are processed. In HAProxy:

http-response set-header Server Silly

or

http-response del-header Server

After making changes one can scan their headers in SecurityHeaders [1] to see what has changed, or use curl:

curl --head https://some.tld/

As to why they still display this? Showing off in crawler stats who is dominate on the internet.

[1] - https://securityheaders.com/
Is there an easy way to toggle back to normal editing of markdown files?
> Typically, the company hires experts to do the same thing over and over again.

To me, the biggest mystery is why IT keeps tasking programmers with mundane and repetitive tasks when, unlike in other professions, the beauty of programming lies in the fact that you can abstract and automate the repetition.

Why we need million programmers building CRUD apps, why they don't have a standard already?
> “Unique consciousness” is a quasi-religious mechanism we use at a societal level to not run around all the time terrified of death.

It also helps us justify eating other lifeforms, mammals included.
Amazing accuracy in this simulation, this represents the news story your family shares as "proof" that doesn't actually say what they think it says, and they never read beyond the headline for a hit of anger anyway.

He certainly looks from the neck down like the kind of person that would brazenly wear a hat, and if he isn't in this specific photo, that doesn't prove anything, even though there's a whole news story about this unsubstantiated claim.
they absolutely treat the dog for finding contraband. that’s how you train them to alert on the smell. the problem is that this means they might alert for nothing at all, just because they want a treat
It feels like too much of this is blaming developers. Most places I've been, you have to fight for the privilege to do things right. There's always some non-technical-manager-imposed deadline, formulated from wishes, which is a difficult target to hit.

Devs probably aren't choosing to skip doing the right things; they're forced to.
The fed raise interest rates, so the rich just buy bonds and lend money.. they get that sweet sweet interest.
Because most people are OK with getting a generous paycheck every two weeks for work they don't find too stressful. They can have fun outside of the 9-5.
I think people are already aware that the CCP are crooks causing considerable suffering, especially in non-Han regions like Tibet and Xinjiang?
Can we stop using the PR term "host"? That is only valid if it is a space you live in and are hosting someone, like a guest.

So I don't have statistics behind this next sentence, but my anecdotal data has shown that most Airbnb rentals are not where people live. They are specific spaces purchased and maintained for renting out short term via services like Airbnb. These are renters. They are renting the space. Language is important.
Stable Diffusion 1.0 cost only $600k to train
This is spot on and the comparison to WhatsApp is striking.

The people defending twitter’s insane headcount strike me as people who have never run a business or a large team.

They don’t understand what “dead weight” means, why a massive bloated bureaucracy forms, or how administrative bloat it defends itself.

If anything, 75% is probably too low.
*2014, yes it was a typo
Nice, I wonder how it compares to hoppscotch.io
I'd encourage you to write it once in vanilla and once in React in jsfiddle and compare the implementations.

Then consider the render model and how it would affect page time to interactive for a large content oriented page.
SMTP Relay or Web API – which one to choose to send your email? Learn about the difference of using Sendgrid SMTP vs API and compare with other ESP providers to find the best fit for your needs.
http://www.americantable.org/2012/07/how-bacon-and-eggs-beca...

Basically it is a sales technique. You want to sell X that does Y which fixes Z. Well turns out Z does something that can be used to emotionally manipulate people. If it does not directly emotionally manipulate them you can craft a story so it does. So you start putting out puff pieces about the dangers of Z. How it is killing you, your children will be worse off etc. Even better if you can get news stations to pick it up (easier than you would think). Then you start a second round showing you doing Y fixes Z. Then you introduce X the fix all that does Y and cures Z.

Do not think this method is effective? We eat bacon for breakfast and an entire generation of women took up smoking because they thought it empowered them. This 3 step sales method is used every day in many goods and political narratives. It is not 100% effective but when it works it is stunning in its effectiveness.

You are seeing this method in action. Once pointed out it is totally obvious it is happening. But most of these sorts of campaigns are not obvious unless you are well versed in the particular field they are selling into.
Drive out into the country for a few hours. There will be plenty of bugs on your windshield. Such an odd article…
The last one I went to we walked in and contacted support as they didn’t have the accommodations they promised, and it took AirBnB support four days to get back to us. We waited several hours for a response before just booking a hotel.

I was shocked how bad their support was.
I imagine the sha256sum program would use the best available technique.

Reasonable assumption?
Quantum computing is a means to avoid checking wrong solutions en route to solving certain types of problems. Seems very unlikely for this kind of decision to ever depend on a quantum computer.
> remove the unsafe part from C/C++ bit by bit.

You cannot do that without breaking backward compatibility. If you maintain compatibility, what results is a sprawling meta-language with a large learning burden that has the theoretical ability to emulate a safe language, and which in practice will be used to mix both safe and unsafe idioms depending on the experience and discipline of the programmer, in an unholy mess that no static analyzer can prove as correct and no programmer can say they really fully understand.

Maybe I'm mistaken, I've last programmed in C++ a good number of years ago, but I have not encountered a (C++ programming paradigm, static linter) doublet that can prove data integrity and thread safety to an extent even close to the Rust compiler. And it would be useless for existing codebases anyhow.
I haven't read the book but when I think about pragmatic programmers I think about someone who takes the easy and simple route to some challengs. Not to be confused with naive solutions, or maybe intentionally naive in the moment and have a look at it later when other things are more clear.

Given the definition you wrote, what's the difference between a pragmatic programmers and an experienced one?
That’s, in my experience, rare.
Both of your sources make the point that the output of such models is separate from the ingestion mentioned in your (carefully selected) quote, and that the legal definition of fair use might well change to preclude such "AI washed" (my term) copying. That's almost the opposite of how you portray the state of legal thought on the matter.
Reasons the i3 window manager makes Linux better
I'm not sure how serious to take this article. It's the author's only post and while they complain about the use of a fake profile picture, they literally use another person from the same stock photo they claim the landlord used.
On that hand, if the computer is running MacOS it's easy, just use Airdrop.

Vendor lock-in has its upsides!
Why should I use this over https://hoppscotch.io ?
> App Store app reviews, restaurant review apps and food delivery apps. Fortunately it's not a big deal if these are scams. It's just a few dollars.

Tourists traps excel on this niche of scam. They serve bad food at high prices, but quite often not so bad or expensive as to be illegal. The only reason this business exist is because most people would visit them just once, customers are replaced each day with new arriving tourists.

Everybody is a clueless tourist in the sea of Amazon products, applications in the App store or literally on Airbnb. They only need to sell once to a very small percentage of Amazon customers to be very successful, even if they never come back for obvious reasons.
People Staring at Computers (2021)
wouldn't you assume by spreading out it costs less to build since more land can be used for building.
the increase is actually exponentially more land...
pie r squared.
> If they were still marketing only to very young people willing to sleep on an airbed and not risk-averse to bedbugs, there would be a lot less disappointment.

This would be fine if you were paying consummate prices. I’ve used AirBnB years back and for $20 a night you got about what you can expect.

$3000 for that hovel is extortionate!
I think I've basically realized that I should simply not rent AirBnB, too many horror stories, including from people I know personally. It's hard to resist though, it's just nicer to have an apartment than a hotel room.

I guess I'll probably keep using it for times when it if it fails it doesn't ruin my life (not a month overseas).
Thank you! It’s easy to fall into this habit especially with chained methods where it looks so nice.

I have to remind myself of this concept often as it’s just so easy to do things quick and dirty
Amos' writing style is just so incredibly good. I don't know anyone else doing these very long-form, conversational style articles.

Plus, you know, just an awesome dev who knows his stuff. Huge fan.
It would be nice if they made it easier to build at all.
mordae already spoiled it, but it's still worth playing. It's very short (5 minutes) with a really good execution and message. I say as soon as you find a better computer, go play it.
I will second Ecowitt. I switched to them from an Aroya system by Meter Group that costed thousands of dollars and had a yearly subscription in the thousands for my commercial weed operation. Ecowitt is excellent and amazing. No annual subscription at all! Customer service is great as well.
Expanding into different niches like that is difficult. It's like Booking.com expanding into the camping market. They end up trying to shoehorn camping into the same database tables as hotel stays and it just becomes an abomination which misses many of the subtleties in the market.
For reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33286238

> Standard rentals are too inflexible for long term (month long) travellers and the hotel industry is either too expensive or not designed for long term stays.

Most of the major hotel brands have chains intended for long term stays. My wife, son and I stayed at one for five months a few years ago when we moved out of our apartment and decided to get a house built at the last minute. We didn’t want to pay month to month rates.

I’ve already booked rooms from November 1st through the end of next October in about 30 different hotels - mostly Hyatt Places, Home2Suites and Homewood suites. We are staying in hotels for 265 days between that time and our own vacation property/investment property the rest of the year.

We are taking real “vacations” for a few days in more expensive places using points we accrue. I made it my goal to keep our lodging expenses for the year the same as the all in cost of our current mortgage+utilities.
Everyone knows that Manhattan and London's City are wretched hives of scum and villainy, of course.
FWIW I stayed with my wife and 2 teenagers in airbnbs this summer in Norway, Germany, Czechia and Italy and they were all great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I recently crammed a bunch on DNS for an interview, and I can recommend the cloudflare blogs on that topic as being quite good.
> But a new host might not get any guests if they don't have a review on this site, and if the guests avoid them, then no one will review them.

The new host needs to price their listing substantially below competitors, to the point where some poor bloke is willing to take a risk, in order to build up a review base.
> Note that in Portugal garbage is usually collected from nearby (unsaturated green colored) lidded trash cans and dumpsters owned by the city government or entities contracted to it

Is this uniform across all of portugal? In spain, it differs by neighbourhood. Where I live, you drop landfill rubbish beside front door between 20:00 & 22:00 and it gets picked up. 100m away in another neighbourhood they have underground depots that you drop it into. In the newer parts of the city they do have containers on the corner of each block.
One dollar to make the bends, 2799 for knowing where to make the bends.
Which is the case for all European hosting companies.

Basically the rest of the market is US companies flooded with money like aws and gcloud, that also sell 'added value' services on top of the bare machines.
They are sometimes too small if you go with young kids and want to spend a week or so.
I feel like we're not reading the same thread here. Cops going after minorities is a bad thing. But handcuffing the cops so badly that they have no interest in going after organized serial theft rings because they know that no charges will stick is just as much of a problem in the other direction. Unless you think it's fine to live in a place with 0 personal property protection there's obviously a middle ground that should be met here. But whatever, I don't live there, and would move if my local police got that disfunctional, so I'm happy for the people who enjoy living there. May your bikes stay in your possession for at least a year or two, I guess.
Tangential but it's not a good idea to turn a breaker back on until someone has figured out why it flipped and fixed the problem. (The problem is usually that you tried to run the vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, and an electric kettle all at once on the same circuit, but apparently that wasn't the issue in this case.) Circuir breakers are there to prevent fires, and they flip for a reason.
I've never really bought into the argument that DNS zone walking represented any kind of security problem. So what if people know the names I'm using for my computers?

For all the times I've heard people complain about it I have never encountered an actual security situation, or case study, that showed they were an issue. Does anyone know of a security incident that occurred because of publicly releasing internal DNS names? I would like to hear about it.
3?

Even no name companies are doing at least 4, sometimes 7-8 rounds.

I am sick of it, but what can you do when they all do the same thing.
This reminded me of this:

How to report mass murders - Charlie Brooker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o1V4lX_g4
I'm not sure how you can make this argument just based on the model synthezing a watermark that is has learned about in the original dataset. Don't forget, the model is only 4GB in size, and while it's not out of the question that it could regurgitate an image from its data set, considering the size of the training which is a few magnitudes larger it is highly unlikely.
Keep that in mind when you are renting a condo from her. Oh wait, she isn't offering anything to sell/lease on there? She just wants to report on this anonymously? Hmm
FTP is orthogonal to the issue of it being wired or unwired since you can connect the phone as an Ethernet device. Also popularly used for being a hotspot. FTPs pretty weird though. What is this, the 90's?
Microsoft Exchange Server Is a Security Liability
I think github could do a lot better job in cases like this of highlighting active forks, to make it possible for communities to coalesce around OSS forks of projects that have switched to commercial licenses or have gone maintainer-less.

For an example, jq has gone without maintenance for a long time now, but it's very challenging to gain critical mass around a maintained fork, so the un-maintained fork remains state of the art.
I can only learn colorful icons. B&W ones I cannot recognize even after a long time. E.g. right now I'm looking at my opera sidebar and cannot quickly decide which icon is history. Much easier to open O-menu and navigate from there, which is what I always do to erase that last hour. Same for downloads - I know where they are at the top-right corner and I click "Show more" there instead. Can't find it in sidebar without thinking twice.

Btw, I have no trouble using Paint.NET. I just made a screenshot of its UI and turned B&W. Icons instantly became less discernible, and that still with correct shades of grey. If they were this modern outline-abstract bullshit, I couldn't use it at all and would look for an alternative.
Received mine last week, fantastic book!