skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote enough basic HTML tags back in 1995 to say that writing _this way_ is way more ergonomic than <i>this way</i>.

The thing is that HTML (and SGML) was invented, but Markdown was discovered as a set of best practices through decades of text-only mailing lists. This is something that many people found natural enough.
Anyone as clueless as I seeing SDF littered throughout the comments :

Signed Distance Functions

Nice explanation (with some code) : https://www.alanzucconi.com/2016/07/01/signed-distance-funct...
She opines on a lot of things she has very little knowledge about and her writing style is terrible. But it’s crack for HN readers who mistake skepticisms and snark for insight.
I think it depends on the test. If you are checking that e.g. context.currentUser() returns current user name, email, id and roles I would probably wrote just 2 tests. One for the user attributes and one for checking roles.

jUnit provides a helpful assertAll(...) method that allows us to check multiple assertions without stopping and the first failed one.

I my tests I often use "thick" asserts like assertEqualsWithDiff(dtoA, dtoB), that compare 2 objects as a whole and prints property names with values that do not match. Not everyone likes this approach, but for me it is the best balance between time spend on the test and the benefit that I get from it.
Meaningless nm-based names is by now a well established fact of life in the semi industry.

First order things that really matter are:
- power dissipation
- switching speed

These rarely get mentioned in marketing materials.
That's totally different. HN isn't owned by an unaccountable billionaire
What's the reason you're amazed by that? Is there something else you'd expect them to use?
They disagree on a lot of things, but they also disagree on a lot of things with moderate people, so that observation alone doesn't refute "far-left and far-right are closer to each other than they are to the center".

Of course the horseshoe effect is not some objective truth that's true in every country, that would be silly. I think the interesting part of it is that extreme ends of any political spectrum experience a similar environment: they are often shunned, distrust the mainstream media, attract social outcasts, etc. Just the shared experience of being on the edge of the spectrum often leads to similarities between them.
IMO these are because of moron designers who picked the wrong size tap for those kinds of sink.

In a different universe I'd sell stickers for people to buy and stick near any sink like this that's been misdesigned, something like "Warning, the interior designer designing this bathroom was a moron, and choose an inappropriately-sized tap for this sink".
> What? Would you rather have JSON as a string or as something like Map<string, JsonValue>?

This question can't be answered without additional context. What are the requirements?

But as a heads up, Map<string, JsonValue> couldn't be representation of all valid JSON documents. Lists are valid Json as well AFAIK. So I think this is making a point.
I'd be surprised if any modern board didn't use something like a MAX232 or something similar though
I agree with your specific comment. And in the more general sense (as I've repeated elsewhere) that user ergonomics of much software sucks big-time.

In the case of red-green (or any) color blindness the simple solution is to provide either a choice of predefined colors and or ways of manually overriding the defaults—and in relative terms the extra programming effort needed to provide this useful functionality is a trivial matter.

Sotware manufacturers really do have a damned hide when they omit such important features especially when the need for them is so obvious.

BTW, I'm not color blind but I've witnessed situations as you've mentioned, so too would have the program's software developers. That they've not attended to the matter makes it all the more annoying.
I remember 15 years ago reading about EUV litography and a lot of people were saying that it looks like a pipe dream because they don't know of any way to produce a EUV light source strong enough, outside nuclear explosions and the like.
Eastern Seabord Fission Authority ;)

Gibson got some stuff wrong, but it’s borderline scary how much he got right. Book is like 43 years old or something.
The software is open source under Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel). No open core or similar, we run the same version on our Cloud Service and for Enterprises. Thanks for the feedback, we need to make that more obvious then.
India buys a lot of its arms from former Soviet countries.
well frankly, the obvious flaming on those landowners here, more than just being obvious, is causing me to reflect on my own bias while posting on this real meeting I attended, instead of fighting personal demons in some outrage internet comment. First and foremost -- why did the people in that meeting bother to show up? maybe because the ones in the room (mostly) DO care about the wildlands. So my comment about "there is the door" was my own projection.. no one in that meeting said that, I did while thinking about it.. Those people did meet and probably some of them are now part of this proposed corridor action
How have I not seen Grug before, wonderful! Thank you!
Overseas Bank Account Fines Questioned at US Supreme Court
>Counter example: broken ciphers in WW2 mostly kept secret until the mid 1970s.

How's this a counterexample? We know about about lots of conspiracies from the 1970s that weren't known at the time, but we're not finding out about any conspiracies to rig UK election counts – because there weren't any that succeeded to a meaningful extent. Your example shows that even top secret government conspiracies tend to come to light eventually.
The meaning is quite similar to when people used to call others "sheep." Someone who doesn't think for themselves, is naive and swallows everything they're told. Has a set of preprogrammed replies which mimic that of the majority.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=NPC
Google Cloud Now Running Solana Nodes and Validators Brining Data to BigQuery
Willful ignorance explains methane with climate change, the opiod epidemic and even inferior calories and the correlation to obesity (high fructose corn syrup in beverages or where it does not belong for example).

Many 21st century innovations replace/supersede/override/make moribund and verify why hypothesis, theory and fact was agreed to, just as they have done in centuries past.

Working with incorrect data has all kinds of random effects. The lead in fuels could have lowered IQ enough for the brain to not even be in the present :p

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/20-of-the-grea...

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1031429212/the-world-has-fina...

I kinda laughed at the fiction genre comments. Its a very simple analogy....

Doo doo comes out of my butt. Aliens have the same mouth and same ass :)
One of the core ideas of anarchism is that everyone is an equal. In other words, anarchism presupposes lack of significant prejudice.
> Yes, the issues the blog mentioned were real human rights issues, but selective coverage of human rights is propaganda.

This is not a good argument, it's just an appeal to nihilism.

That's not even remotely what propaganda is, and if you accept that that's what propaganda is then literally all human rights discussion is propaganda because it is nearly impossible to enumerate all of it.
Economists broadly agree that taxing corporate profits is inefficient. From an NPR show surveying five economists across the political spectrum about what are consensus ideas in the field: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-... (“Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people.”).

The problem in the US isn’t that we don’t tax Google, Amazon, etc. Look at the corporate taxes in France or Sweden. They’re about the same. The problem is that we don’t sufficiently tax the billions in payroll at those companies.
What Generative AI Means for Lawyers
So in summary, it's a damned lie, but since all the insiders participating in the cabal know it, it doesn't matter?

Nice.

And very consumer-friendly too, congrats.
The difficulty of adding qubits increases super-linearly with the number of qubits (especially because of communication delay vs time to decoherence) , so "only" a few thousand is already very optimistic. Worse, the idea of "error-free qubits" is essentially like cold fusion - you can say the words and we understand what you mean by them, but they don't describe anything that can exist in practice.
Indeed, NP-hard is wrong! NP-complete is the interesting class where quantum computers theoretically could help.
> I think the people involved have consumed so much American state-affiliated media that they simply don’t ask themselves these questions.

Influence is one of these “how’s the water” problems. We don’t have any evidence that Rust’s release team is getting their viewpoints from state-affiliated media any more than they’re getting them from Iranian dissidents on Twitter.

To put it another way: interests align all the time, and evidence of their alignment is not evidence of influence (much less collusion).
If every bit of plastic was burned in Europe, then we'd still only be talking about 10% of the problem. The US for example is high effective at burying their plastic problem in sanitary landfills, something tiny, like less than 1% of plastic waste escapes this flow.

Once you get out of US and EU these numbers can vary wildly up and to the point of everything getting thrown in the nearest ditch and flowing down the river to the closest ocean. Dealing with worldwide problem with a EU/US mindset is a great way to propagate a worldwide disaster.
>Americans shouldn't be so fast to discount the idea of each other just because they are from the other end of their political spectrum. US politics would improve if both sides avoided that.

Nah, it just devolves into bad faith ad hominem towards the end. This is no National Review.

It's not much more than a rant really.
As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight
Unfortunately being a reddit on r/science doesn't require a black belt in science.
The context being that a MAX232 only needs +5vcc, right?

Edit: Apparently called 'Integrated charge pumps'
You don't actually need to separate window envelopes (or paperclips or staples) when recycling paper. Same for the tape they use for cardboard boxes, they use the right kind of plastic for those. (Though I wonder how the average consumer is supposed to know all about recycling processes...)
Depends on software, was messing around with SimulaVR. It's cool though needs work. I was using the Index it could be better on resolution/text focusing.

I would not use it for productivity because it's a new environment/more distracting than useful. Also turning your head a lot to look at things.

I like my curved ultra wide monitor.

When the physical SimulaOne comes out I'll try it out again that one is not tethered/better quality eye display.
Why doesn't the industry want to create a new metric?

Like 2 bil transistors/square cm, let's call it 2 btsc or something. Surely they use something like that internally, why not publicly? Maybe there are different kinds of "transistors", some (CPU) bigger than others (RAM)?
I always find the same problem with all Mathematica clones (Mathics, Sage, wxMaxima).

Do they offer a .exe that I can install, then click on a button and start a program without any tinkering. Mathics and Sage no. wxMaxima yes. Although I always had the feeling that wxMaxima is more an alternative to Derive than Mathematica at this point.

Mathematica works because it is easy to deal with, no installing packages, libraries, libraries incompatible with others. You have Mathematica 9, you got all that Mathematica 9 supports. You send a notebook to someone else, they can execute the notebook if their mathematica version is equal or larger.

It is like saying that Latex is an alternative to word. No, they both make documents, but one is not an alternative to the other one.
> I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature.

I once laid down outside on my way home in a drunk state at winter.

It wasn’t that I didn’t notice the cold, or that I didn’t know of the danger. It was me in my drunk state thinking “I’ll just lay down for a little while to rest and then I’ll get up and walk the rest of the way home.”

Thankfully, almost as soon as I laid down someone who was driving past me saw me laying down, stopped, and insisted that they drive me home.

Probably the same kind of thinking which I experienced is what happens to some of the people that freeze to death while drunk.
That's definitely cool, but for everyday programming I'd consider this a waste of time.
Goal posts have now crossed state lines.

And to actually the thread, drones ARE being worked on that can go do search and rescue, bringing back the victim. Safer for crew, better coverage and can get into places a traditional rotor craft can't.
You can comfortably work in VR, but the trick is that you can't use any of the headsets as is.

There are upgrades that you really need: A better head strap, ideally one with an adjustment knob at the back to easily loosen and tighten the headset. Also one with an extra battery that both gives you longer unplugged time but more importantly balances the headset front to back.

And a better headset/face interface. You can get one that is much softer and thicker, which puts less pressure on the face and moves the screens a few extra mm away. They also have vented interfaces, which help cut down on the problem of getting hot face.

And lastly, you know how all the experts advise that when you're working you stop and take a break to look away from your screens every 20 minutes or so? It's more important in VR to heed that advice. All you have to do is slip off the headset (you got the easy to adjust one that just slides right off, right?), take ten seconds to look at something far away our out the window, and then put it back on and keep working.

If you do all that, there are a lot of great products out that that will give you great virtual monitors and keyboards.
Russian helicopters have had a rough time because of Stingers in Afghanistan and they do not seem to be fairing a lot better in Ukraine.
Yes they did - and have published on this, for example: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243894
This is such a fine initiative. If I was President this sort of thing would be a priority (connecting all the national parks in the US). Vote for me 2024!
I add a little soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil to it, and dip dumplings in it.
Are you bragging about self imposed ignorance of advanced programming topics?

I guess there’s plenty of space in the world for PHP programmers and their predecessors, the VB programmers. So… congrats?
As said elsewhere in this thread, Automatic1111 gives a local web frontend integration to a lot of the Stable Diffusion variants.

There is a pull request to integrate Dreambooth into Stable Diffusion, which I am already a heavy user of - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull... . This makes it all push-button simple, and integrated with all the other Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion scripts.

While with the release of Stable Diffusion there has been a lot of innovation in text to image AI in the past two months, there are problem sets other than that, and Python libraries like scikit-learn ( https://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_ma... ) use machine learning in other domains as well.
> Watts consumed per MIPS is pretty hard to fudge for the layperson.

Hear hear.
I don’t believe GP’s assertion. High more likely the the husband is 40-50 years old and at the point where he had vision changes or the focus muscles in the eyes aren’t working as well and he would need reading glasses… with or without VR use.
Great discussion, would love to see more information about the topic. It's definitely a good time for these three activitypub federated platforms to start getting more users.
From a DNS privacy perspective, ODOH (Oblivious DNS over HTTPS) seems to achieve this at protocol level, with interoperability between providers. While there are tunnelled VPN (separate entry and exit), they always seem to be with the same provider. The iCloud private relay design appears to avoid this.

It would be interesting to see where SPN goes, and more on how it works, as you say.
I don't understand. What should you get instead?
Your users are people who compile software with your package. That software could be run on their server (in which case your political message appears harmlessly in their logs), or it could be distributed to other parties.

Those other parties would then read in their logs, "I distribute software that has an insecure supply chain and relies on people who are not mature enough to avoid grandstanding at every opportunity."
I really want to like Mastodon but there are two things that really bug me about it. First, searching for anything is very slow. Second, searching for people who are not on the same instance with me seems to return a lot of false negatives.

The first may be a Ruby on Rails problem (although I am not sure), possibly exacerbated by the decentralized layout of Mastodon instances. The second seems to be a fundamental design problem.

It seems to me that the original idea of Mastodon was that people would want to participate in communities that focus on specific themes. Many instances are aiming to serve people who are interested in one particular thing. Because of this, finding people and posts on other instances is harder. But reducing my interests to a single dimension is not how I used to use Twitter, so this is a major usability problem for me.
Indian society is hostile towards women's and LGBTQ freedoms. Why should an Indian woman or LGBTQ person (or both) who has emigrated to a freer society have to go back to that?
Surprisingly, Twitter UK Limited, a UK company, have decided to follow UK law regarding redundancies. In contrast to the parent company ignoring the CA WARN Act.
I question if any of these other commenters have actually tried the Quest Pro yet and specifically with 1) Horizon Workrooms and 2) a mac and 3) a supported tracked keyboard from apple or Logitech.

I was a complete Meta disbeliever and long time Quest owner, having put a few dozen hours into working in Immersed last year before putting it down and accepting it wasn’t good enough.

Fast forward to last weekend, give it a try with the setup described above instead. Proceeded to do a 9hr shift fully in VR. Went out, got the Pro, and now I am all in. We are there. Give it a shot, you can always return it right?

Also +1 to everything jedberg said in their comment, great advice.
I've been using this for about a month and it's been excellent. Actually dropped nextDNS for it, as my main need for nextDNS was one windows desktop.
The point is not about validation, it's about conveying semantic information through types. It's perfectly valid to have an email type that is just a wrapper around a string. The advantage is now you and all your functions unambiguously know that the type represents an email (whatever that means) and not a frobinator.
Not just that, but it also often does so efficiently and doesn't incur a runtime penalty (for new type and static predicates) and will reuse previous function definitions as well.

These are the sorts of cases with function parameters in various languages other language I've dealt with, in which this would have helped:

- "dt": delta time of what? Seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds, ticks? Usually, I'd expect seconds if it was a float, though I've seen counter-examples, and I usually have to trace back the flow to know for use if it's a 64-bit (u)int.

- "ip_addr" and "port": What's the type of port? If you guessed "int", you'd be right in part of the system. If you guessed "string" you'd be right in a different part of the system.

- "path": Does it matter if this is a relative or absolute path? It often isn't apparent this matters and then you find out this path is passed to a different system in which it does matter.
As the climate warms, we can expect more flooding in low-lying coastal areas.

What if someone created a mobile climate response team that dealt with floodwaters by injecting them into the air as aerosols? Kill 2 birds with one stone.

It's even possible that you could do it as a for-profit, by charging municipalities for the service. (For profit means more scaleable, easier to get capital)

I don't know what sort of approach might be feasible here. Could do something really imaginative like an inflatable tower with tubes running along it and pumps at the bottom. Or drones as described in the OP.
Well, Function.toString() should print the code of a lambda in JavaScript. So I think you could do it without a pre-processor: use Babel as a library to parse the body of the function; run each sub-expression separately and display the results.
> That you introduce more coupling is a tradeoff.

That’s not inherent in static types.
Even then, dictionary definitions are circular, which is where philosophers like to come in and confuse themselves while patting each other on the back.
Right, I can think my child is abstractly ‘equal’ to another person’s child but also not feel as much ownership for their well being.

I think what the commenter is saying is similar to a reductio ad absurdum of what it would be like if every child was of equal direct importance and priority to you. It, however, doesn’t address what would happen if everyone in a community voluntarily had this concern nominally and therefore could allocate responsibility across many.
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I don't understand that argument. If the government supports a war, doesn't that make any opposition parties more likely to agree with each other that the war is bad? Of course they can disagree with the war for different reason, but both parties being in opposition and dissenting still makes them more likely to have common ground.

Edit: unless we are talking about one or two party systems, there the dynamics are stranger
Not really. White keys are only "proper notes" in the scale of C major (or Am); in other scales, notes can fall on black keys, modulated by white keys; and also, the modulation is sometimes above and sometimes below the note, depending on the scale, something that the keyboard doesn't emphasize or make visible in any way.
I'd give all my belongings to anyone who can work full time for a year with a VR headset instead of screens and who wouldn't complain a single time about it

I've used VR headsets, nothing is comfortable after even an hour of use, we're just not designed for that
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Exactly!! If we were to ask 100 random grandmas if they are offended by the 'systemic sexism' i doubt they will be offended. Using your grandma as a reference point is a more specialised version of 'hallway testing', although im now probably offending construction workers and narrow passages everywhere.

The world probably is not ending in nuclear war but it ends with all this nonsenses.

For heaven's sake, we got the best job in the world, building and fiddle with computers, math, algorithms and problem solving! And yet some will rather stand on ceremony with this idiocy about we are offended grandmas ! How about you go build something instead of complaining or policing ppl about the correct way to use the word grandma in a sentence !! Are you 5 years old ? Yelling to the teacher that Johnny said a bad word ????