skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes Termux is great. It can even do SSH key authentication on a Yubikey with OKCagent, with key forwarding which other options e.g. Termbot can't do.

Unfortunately the restrictions in later Android versions make it more and more difficult for Fredrick to continue supporting it. I'm currently using the F-Droid version which targets an older Android version but eventually that will become impossible too because newer android versions will eventually drop the older APIs altogether.

In particular in later Android API versions it's no longer allowed for an APK to load binaries from other sources and execute them there. Which makes the apt repository impossible. So what should it do? Include all binaries in the APK? Or distributute each app inside termux as a separate APK? Neither option sounds very appealing.
Safer than everything else mentioned here for sure
No, filters really were the biggest step towards a "safer cigarette", despite the official stance that no such thing can ever exist.

Non-filter cigarette smokers are 40% more likely to develop lung cancer and almost twice as likey to die from cancer than filtered cigarette smokers.

*https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/5789/presentation/230...
ON MAY 2, a draft opinion of the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade—thus permitting states to outlaw abortion—was leaked. Social media immediately filled with posts about the impact of this new reality. These concerns included the safety of our digital data.
Users who had downloaded period-tracking apps on their phones were urged to delete them. The most popular of these apps—Flo, based in the UK, and Clue, created in Berlin—are free to download and track not only your next period but also your most fertile days of the month. In fact, depending on the information entered, the apps can predict the intensity of your menstrual flow, even your specific PMS symptoms. The fear is that such apps can also reveal when you’ve missed a period—effectively pointing to a possible pregnancy. In a post-Roe world, app users were worried their personal cycle information could be used to prosecute them. This fear is based in fact. Even before Roe was overturned, browser history was vulnerable to investigation. When, in 2017, a Mississippi woman experienced an almost-full-term stillbirth at home, prosecutors used the search history on her phone as part of their pregnancy termination case against her—and a grand jury indicted her for second-degree murder. (The case was dropped three years later.)
Yeah I was similarly unimpressed with their methodology. Like...a single pie chart listing the results of top sorted by physical memory would have provided meaningful insight both as to why Alpine supposedly uses less memory as well as how valid the results are.
I was actually questioning the "Sum is multiplication, Product is addition" part, although now that you mention it, the lack of a line break is also a (less significant) problem.
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> SC2 just released a huge patch that revamped a lot of balance issues

I feel like tossing in a patch from SC2 as an indicator that it's actively being supported is a little misleading. SC2 had the opportunity to compete with LoL and Dota2 for viewership but Blizzard made a LOT of mistakes with the first expansion that alienated players and sent them to LoL, Dota2, or CSGO.

Their game design philosophy and slow patch rhythm sabotaged the momentum that the pro scene had been building (warp gate tech, infinite value units like Brood Lords and Swarm Hosts, frontloading all Terran power into Stim units, etc). They also catered the ladder experience solely for competitive players, they didn't introduce many (if any) casual-friendly modes until far too late.
As I said in my other comment, I agree that's the main use case for low-code. But I think it's largely going to be programmers or really techy business analysts doing the job, at least in the shorter term (next ~10 years).

Also, a thing people not considering with AI-assisted coding is that if it really makes programmers more productive, there'll be more chances to tend to more projects.
I mean, there is definitely a connection between "area is insanely inhospitable to educated youth, who then leave, and as a result those who remain have diminished opportunities," but this formulation feels like blaming those who leave instead of those who created the environment that ran the escapees off.

I grew up in a shitty place. I knew from early childhood I would leave, and I knew this even though I was living a very privileged existence in that place. My parents were upper-middle class; we had new cars and a country club membership and all that shit. And I knew this despite being low-key discouraged from wanting to leave because Family.

It was (and remains) a racist, sexist, homophobic state, and nothing is likely to change that.
Can you explain exactly how it’s moral to prevent an otherwise healthy person from mixing with the elderly (who are free to be vaccinated and wear PPE if they feel at risk) in public settings, unless they will accept a medical intervention with a 1/3000 risk of a serious adverse event to themselves?
I thought we’d gotten over this thing where people thing they appear smart because they copy & paste instead of using curl?
The issue is it’s reliance on the somewhat centralized internet access which is controllable by governments.

Mesh and satellites might reduce this. Maybe even ham radio. You don’t need to send much data to send a crypto transaction so sending it using an audio modem on a low frequency is probably fine.

There are also crypto notes being developed which is an interesting development.
Answering from the cloud perspective.

While I have seen some cloud infrastructures running on life support with minimal supervision for years, AWS tends to shut down, deprecate or migrate backing services every now and then.

ASGs stop autoscaling. RDS forces version upgrades. EBS volumes go poof. Kube APIs vanish. Upstream AMIs, docker images or apt packages get moved to different repo URLs.
Sooner or later some auto upgrade or scaling group would go awry and take out a persistent data store or cause services to fail.

There’s also the possibility for an unpatched vulnerability to get exploited.

I give it about 3-6 months, depending on the architecture pattern.
Related: "ChatGPT chooses Democrats over Republicans" (reddit)[1]. The comments speculate that it's a result of the average sentiment posted online.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/zfrqhx/chatgpt_cho...
It's frankly pretty insane to me that heros are gated behind a paywall in a competitive game mode. Is this the first pay to win competitive game?
I really like option types in languages that were designed around them, but given Dart's history as an imperative C-ish language with millions and millions of lines of code out there, I think nullable types are a better fit for the way users think about and work with the language.

It's really hard to do both approaches. (The fact that Java has an Option<T> type, but all references to it are also nullable, is sometimes a source of chagrin and sometimes hilarity to me.) If you want a nice user experience, consistency across the ecosystem is huge.

So when we decided what to do about statically checking for null reference errors, we went with nullable types (the same as Kotlin, TypeScript, and C# do) instead of option types (Swift, Rust, etc.). I wrote a long thing about my thinking on it here if you're curious:

https://medium.com/dartlang/why-nullable-types-7dd93c28c87a

It's a real trade-off. There aren't perfect solutions. Option types have some nice composability properties, but they tend to be more verbose and don't play as nice with the imperative control-flow heavy code that's idiomatic in C-derived languages.
Not being horribly racist is woke now?
I would add to that question: If every datacenter was power-cycled at the same time and employees were not allowed to log in, how long until customers could use your site? i.e. The Ultimate Chaos Monkey Test
more detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
> It's used for other things like screen sharing

Intersting!

Starting a few weeks ago, I was screen sharing from a Monterey macbook to a Ventura Beta MacBook, using drag & drop to copy an app over for testing. Both macs were on WiFi. Worked great (~100MB/second).

But about every 5th time, the file transfer rate would drop from 100MB/S to under 100KB/S and stay there. No idea why.

I finally bought a USBC ethernet dongle and put both machines on Ethernet and the problem went away.

I'm now wondering if this is what I was seeing?

Edit to add: The WiFi is Peplink AP One Mini, in case vendor is relevant.
Not sure I understand your question, why wouldn't someone want to use Zig (or Rust, or Nim) instead of C or C++?
The legal standard for blindness in the US is 20/200 vision, i.e. someone with "ideal" 20/20 vision sees with the same acuity from 200 feet away as a legally blind person can from 20 feet away. It's really a misconception that most blind people can't see anything, they just aren't able to operate a car safely, have trouble reading signs, etc., and crucially that this is not something that can be fixed with glasses, contacts, surgery, et cetera. (I am not allowed to drive my car without my glasses, but because the glasses work, I am not legally blind).

The glasses are really quite an apt analogy to the transmission rate with a COVID vaccine. It's not that you can't transmit, but your risk of doing so is several times lower. Nor is it the case that I couldn't drive my car without my glasses, but it's a lot safer if I wear them, so it's required by law.

Personally I like that requirement. Yes, it's theoretically a restriction on my rights, but I like the idea that other people on the road are also subject to that restriction; it makes me safer. Same goes for the vaccine.
> If they intended to maintain it as a separate app, why did the leader of it leave?

You don't have much experience with corporate acquisitions, do you?

The Acquiree CEO always leaves after a year or three, unless Acquirer is a company like Cisco that's really good at it. Why?

Because Acquirer has middle manager drones, who continually complain about the how Acquiree is not "aligning with our strategy." Eventually, Acquiree's CEO gets sick of it and quits.

But you're right - they won't maintain it as a separate app. Because those drones can wear anyone out.
Does it mean all the time it was being built, they avoided having it outside during the daytime

Aren't airplanes built entirely in a hangar? Especially secret ones?
How to Write in Japanese (1965 Turnbull Mishima Interview)
I don't know if that's true from a business perspective. I suspect that twice as many people (ie customers) use Minecraft across all the platform ports now than did before the acquisition, despite what the oldtimers have to say about Bedrock Edition.
It is proven it was only ever a five-year project to offer scope for graft.

It is the same for US public-works projects, most especially urban tunnels and nuke plants. And, of course, military procurements. All perfectly legal!
We're actually at over _5 billion_ people vaccinated against COVID now.

If you believe some of the people on Hacker News though, there should be millions of people injured or killed by the vaccine by now.

My question, where are they?

Where are these millions of people injured or killed by the vaccine?
I'm the main designer of the patterns stuff we're working on in Dart. Yes, SML is absolutely one of the primary inspirations. The design also takes a lot of inspiration to how Swift and C# approach pattern matching and destructuring. There are so many good languages out there to learn from.
See also

https://www.nytimes.com/1965/09/18/archives/how-to-write-in-...
The proper resolution to this is the realization that fun != good. Fun is a property of context, and anything can be made fun with the right context. Multiplayer is the greatest cheatcode to generating fun -- with friends, poking a bloating corpse and playing the ol' hoop n' stick is fun.

Fun cannot be discussed, or argued, because you cannot properly share that context with others, and you cannot deny the reality of their context.

But good is a property of the game itself -- it's essentially the answer to the question "how well does the game achieve the goals it chases, and how well does it choose its goals?". This is still somehow subjective, but dramatically less so -- we can actually discuss it in a manner that's sensible. To a degree, the discussion has to factor in that we have different beliefs of what those goals are, and whether those are good goals to have, but this is true of any judgement.

And when talking about whether a movie, book, game, etc is any good, no one gives a shit whether you had "fun" playing it, because that tells us nothing about whether its good. It just tells us "your" experience -- your specific relationship to the work -- more about you than it... but we're not talking about you.
> …with the possible exception of dictionary sort order.

Which is an implementation detail that is not guaranteed by the language standard.

Porting code from 2 to 3 made me have to use a sorted dict because the code relied on the insertion order (metaclass magic operating on the class dict) but when they revamped the dictionary implementation I could do away with that fix. Until they come up with a more efficient dict and break everyone’s code again.

Does make me want to dust off the old spark parser and see what this can do with it.
What were the Midjourney comments?

Edit: Nm, missed it in the top level reply
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Your example elides the fact that the vaccine situation was about risk-benefit analysis in many people's minds.

A more appropriate example might be a situation where someone ran their car off the road because they perceived (possibly incorrectly) some danger that they were attempting to avoid.
Excellent tldr
I’m currently on Ubuntu and have considered Debian. I like the concept of containerisation (snap, flatpack, etc) but the overly pushy snap integration has broken my workflows in multiple situations without much redemption so maybe I will give it a try.
Flu vaccines do not cause miscarriages , myocarditis
TBH, Googles plethora of chat apps shows TCI is not wrong. Yet another chat app is bored people looking for something to do.
They won't. I was in Google Maps. They bought Zagat -- remember them? They had the best restaurant reviews in the U.S. pre-Internet. How much have you heard of them lately
Yeah I've felt the same way at times, especially when the armor/weapon types make it very rock paper scissors. It wasn't as blatant in the original StarCraft, but WarCraft 3 and StarCraft 2 seemed to go hard into counters against certain types of units, so someone who either scouts a bit better than you do or picks an army composition that happens to perfectly counter yours will mop the floor with you.

My partner and I had way more fun in those early games when we could stretch it out to 30-60 minutes sometimes. Once you're playing against ranked people who are there to win it's just a mad rush to the first or second tech tier.
Have you heard of the Hedonic adaptation? Your story fits it very well.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_adaptation

Rejecting their offer wasn't the one true path for you to feel happiness and love. It was actually one of many outcomes that you are able to adapt to for feeling happy and loved.
I have no data, but the communities I have found in Houston are also very, very heavily comprised of out of state transplants.

Rural Texans who left home to seek their fortune are said to favor Dallas/Fort Worth more than here, and that feels fairly true, but again: no data. I know more people from out of state (or other countries) than I do from elsewhere in Texas.
why are froblowopps more expensive than klajdhs?

> Froblowopps are more expensive than Klajdhs because of the cost of ingredients, size of the company, and manual preparation process. The ingredients used in froblowopps are more expensive than those used in Klajdhs, such as roast beef which is more expensive than ground beef.

It's hard to trust the answers...

Do AI search engines make stuff up?

> AI search engines do not make stuff up. They use complex algorithms to determine how content gets ranked, and they use natural language processing to understand human language in order to find users the information they're looking for.
No, two of the relationships I’ve been in have involved women who absolutely loathed if the lid was down, or if the seat was up. It had to be lid-up, seat-down at all times.
I think a distinction needs to be made between rationalizing tragedy through a sense of cosmic justice and hiding cruelty behind a personal sense of righteousness.

That 18 year old in your example may very well have 'gotten what they deserved', but I would still lament that their life was cut short. I certainly wouldn't feel a smug sense of satisfaction that I'm still alive because I drive the speed limit. I wouldn't share the experience or seek validation on social media.

I would be okay with 'making an example of him' but only in a matter of fact way meant to educate others. Those driver's ed videos that show real life crash footage do not mock the victims when they seek to educate people.
Yes. It impacts iOS / iPadOS as well.
They're careerist, not bored. The promotion process at Google is how you advance your career, and shipping new applications and features is how you get promoted.
I found this section interesting (of the TCI letter referenced in posts above) and I wonder how much this is factoring into Google exec thinking?

> Reduce losses in Other Bets

> Over the last five years, Other Bets has generated only $3 billion of cumulative revenues but incurred a massive $20 billion of cumulative operating losses.
Alphabet's investments in Other Bets have been unsuccessful. Alphabet should reduce annual operating losses in Other Bets (which we expect to amount to $6 billion this year) by at least 50%.

> The biggest component of Other Bets is Waymo. Unfortunately, enthusiasm for self-driving cars has collapsed and competitors have exited the market. Ford and Volkswagen recently decided to shut down their self-driving car venture, saying: "We have looked at this every way you can and we just see the profitability a long way out." Waymo has not justified its excessive investment and its losses should be reduced dramatically.

And is this kind of thinking just bandwagon, and not potentially accounting for some distinctive performance that Waymo may be on the verge of? (of course, seems like every AV company promises they're on the verge of something breakthrough)
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You still have to prompt this code and you still have to verify the code works and fix it when it doesn't. People who use more basic autocomplete probably have it "writing" a double digit percentage of code, I don't think that makes it fair to say autocomplete is doing a double digit percentage of the work.
Good to see that it's on the apple side and not on the side of my router configuration. It's really frustrating, and I have it several times a day.

Though, I wouldn't use their solution with the script.
A step in the right direction, it sounds like.
This is super interesting given that Erlang is known to not be performant on numerical tasks.
No, Exif is an image format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif
You also have the issue of people who move to high cost locales, raise kids and then their kids who especially can't afford it move away (or wait to inherit the house from you).
There's a way simpler answer than this Type I Type II thinking stuff. Most LLMs like GPT are not trained on the level of individual characters – they process input and outputs on the level of subword units that compose multiple characters to support long context windows (i.e. "door" instead of "d", "o", "o", "r"). As a result, they do poorly on character manipulation tasks. You can get some insight here: https://beta.openai.com/tokenizer

This is a solved problem with models trained on byte-level objectives without tokenization like ByT5 (if you tried this task on one of those, it would probably work perfectly with a few samples). In GPT’s case, there’s a trade off between having a long context window vs being good at character level tasks, and OpenAI picked the former.
Apple posts annual lists of all their suppliers and where the manufacturing is done on their page here. https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

When I worked there I got to see a few presentations on the iPhone supply chain and they do indeed source and ship single components from countries and companies. Remember though that even a single component for iPhone will end up being huge volumes of parts.
Hmmm... in their three theses, they include:

"We stay underweight DM equities " in #1
and
"We are strategically overweight DM equities." in #3?

DM Equities = Developed Market Stocks

How do they both underweight and overweight? Is this like having "tea" and "no tea" at the same time to demonstrate superior intelligence?
No one is going to die if I take their phone away from them once a day and monitor everybody who calls and texts them. I don’t think that’s really a good bar.
At that point, have everyone get together for an offsite/onsite.
Death rate from Covid among the vaccinated definitely does paint a picture that the vaccine does help prevent Covid deaths, you are right. What troubles me is the VAERS data.
I also grew up as a military kid and continued to jump from place to place in adulthood.

A few years ago I started thinking of myself as a "third culture" person. Characteristics like having an expanded worldview and ability to quickly read new cultures are some of the upsides. Unfortunately, I also find myself very misunderstood and I have a lot of trouble with relationships of all kinds. It's heartbreaking to leave people behind, and it's exhausting to spend the years fitting in with new groups of people. Most cultures are protective and cautious of outsiders, and friendships rarely stick. The Curse of the Traveler means that my favorite people and things are never where I am right now, but I'm none the poorer for having known them.

As I've grown older, I've come to appreciate the benefits more and more. I have favorite places to shop, eat, entertain myself all over the world. I'm confident that I see and use much more of cities than most people. Where you live, work, socialize, entertain yourself, seek education, and so on can all be totally different places. My worldview cherry-picks from anything anywhere. I browse the internet of many countries, and read news from all over.

I'm always thinking "wherever you go, there you are" with people around me. My mom visited me while I was living in Tokyo, and she just wanted to go to Disneyland and see fireworks, and mostly wanted to eat American food she found familiar. She found the unfamiliar things intriguing, but didn't know how to ask good questions and put the unfamiliar things to use in her life. People are largely blind to details of new people and places and it takes some real effort to penetrate layers of language and social access.

I wish individuals would reflect on their cultures more. Americans should be outraged over their broken healthcare system and work cultures (even though the pay can be good). Some places might benefit from forgetting a lot of their religious and political history in exchange for some happiness and freedom. Many cultures have surprisingly high tolerances for pollution, poverty, and civil rights restrictions.
Popcorn in 13 versions (chronological evolution)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUM8gFyLqo
Next they should do a pie chart of devops time wasted with busybox and libc triggered issues.

Alpine is cancer.