skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longer term, by analogy, it will then of course turn into a "what color is your neural net" topic.

Which runs into some very interesting historical precedents.

((I wonder if there's a split between people who think AI emancipation might happen this century versus people who think that such a thing is silly to contemplate))
Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link
OpenBSD it's the best case of doing thinks right. Stuff is too crappy and insecure to run, such as BT or Linux_compat(4)? Out. Laptop Fn keys for brightness? OOTB. Even with fvwm.
Hyperbola GNU /Linux tries to do the same as a Parabola forked distro.
This hits home for me. Two cases leap to mind.

Infosec team ran regular vulnerability scans and flagged our Go code as having a violation of some .net specific bug. They requested we fix it. Literally nothing to fix and no teams ran .net anything.

Another time, the security team discovered a bug in some open source MTA (mail transfer agent; email sending) and multiple times insisted we implement a fix. We didn't use that software. Worse than that, our company only existed because we wrote our own MTA, it was our core service and reason for existing.

At one point, a knowledgeable security expert was worth something. Now it seems to be checkbox driven.
I have. They're not the same and i dont find meth profound or at all enlighting. Amphetamine based drugs have a very different effect. That's why ecstacy is usually a mixture of amphetamine and MDMA. MDMA for the emotion, speed so you can engage without just being a soft wobbly lovegasm.

I don't know of, first had or by proxy, another drug as gentle and wonderful as mdma.

It is my drug of choice, maybe once or twice a year because I feel it is unique in the ones I've tried. The risks are worth the reward.
I'm with computers since ZX80, now run my own IT company, knocking wood. I was heavily into DJ'ing for about 6 years of my life about 20 years ago. I'm talking MDMA, meth, all sorts of stimulants - multi-day partying, LSD, ketamine, whatever... Things I wish someone would tell me earlier:

- All this stimulation never, never goes without payment. MDMA is a stimulant. You always pay later with something. Think destroyed sinuses, which I can still feel 20 years later, ED, weight issues, bad teeth.

- Stimulants are not as addictive as what we call "heavy drugs," but they can easily become the way of life - there is a strong psychological addiction which leads to difficulties of moderation. If you are into pattern where they are available on a regular basis, it will be difficult to break out from all that stuff - meeting friends, having great time, hanging out, and so on...

- Some of my friends have really damaged themselves along the way, and I'm talking psychological/psychiatric issues that they still experience today. What is good for one could be poisonous for the other. It's difficult to have a frame of reference if everyone around is high.

- I eventually ended up with this: Don't put anything in your body that isn't grown naturally. Shrooms and weed are so much better... Almost if the nature is guiding us. There are subtle nuances. (Of course there are myriads of natural poisons that will kill or damage you.)

- Having a respectful approach to all mind-altering substances helps to stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, with our era of "playground Internet" it's so much difficult. (Where's entheogen.org?) All those substances are teachers.
Interesting, but it doesn't really sounds like worse is better. More like "worse can work ok if you test it to death".
CS: App website has now become RHEL test page
I find it strangely mesmerizing to watch sorting algorithms do their thing. Thanks for having fun!
I'm never really sure about Komoot either. In the UK it struggles with the difference between a really big town and a city.

It seems to obsessed with what things are called and takes no notice of how big, in population density, they actually are. That's a pain when planning touring routes in unfamiliar areas because it will exaggerate the importance of tiny cities and completely hide the presence of massive towns.
I'd like to ask what GI-MAP provider you used. Based on what you said it seems like you were able to get tested without needing a provider to order the test. I've had gut issues for a while and I'm surprised this has never come up.
I always wondered why interfaces are terrible, so so terrible and why frontend designers are underpaid. And somehow good innovations like this falls to the bottom every time.
Do you simply mean regression testing?
Because secure code means simple code. Most developers are interested in producing complex code because it's easier to write (requires less thinking/planning) and it makes them harder to replace within the organization.
I'm not sure I agree completely. Certainly over the pandemic I saw conspiracies appear right from the start, and then the goalposts shifted on most of them to fit around the current situation and messaging. I think a handful of people took huge advantage of a difficult situation to further their own agenda.

That said, I absolutely agree 'normal' people were pushed to the limit in a way that made them look for anything that made sense of what was happening around them.
Not OP but yes, literally. A friend of mine has long covid, used to run marathons. For a time he was unable to go up the stairs without crashing hard.
Yes: baserow and Taiga.
Was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350749
Yep.

Good security: no one notices (unless you do activism for it in your company!)

Bad security: someone notices, but it's never an individual dev's fault
This isn't about being in a conservation area but rather the road being unadopted and therefore not maintained by the council. Beckenham is full of them.

https://www.barkergotelee.co.uk/who-is-responsible-for-maint....
You use the naive implementation as a test oracle, limit `n` to something small (through the property tester), and use the test oracle on your efficient implementation.

Unit testing elegant functions has no value.

(fib is often used as an example. But you asked how to test it.)
Yeah the iPhone kb is just plain terrible. And typing accented characters are even worse. Especially because there are several accented characters you don't even use, ever. Wonder why?
Bind Memory Management Explained
One of the projects at a place where I have worked was set up so that when you ran the tests it automatically and silently updated the values that were expected. Completely bonkers because the first time I was contributing to the project I prepared the tests first and then started the implementation, and then while I was working on it I ran the tests which at this point should fail because I hadn’t finished writing the code but instead all tests passed. Because helpfully the test setup overwrote the expected values that I had prepared in my new tests, with the bad data. Yeah great, very helpful >:(

Oh yeah and the whole test setup was also way too tied to the implementation rather than verifying behaviour. Complete trash the whole thing.
Whether we like it or not, technology will always make it worse for some people.

And it's not a new phenomenon. The printing press made scribes nearly obsolete, cars led to a mass slaughter of horses (and all related professions), and so on wherever you look. Invention of photography nearly killed whole genres of art (and gave rise to impressionism, abstractionism etc.)

Unfortunately, we can only judge the outcome of these changes only decades (or even centuries) after they happen.
Ironically, I've had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck'ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even DOS on FAT, despite experiencing more hard resets and routine hangs in my use of the latter.

I suspect the relatively more aggressive write caching of Linux and Unix-likes, combined with their more complex filesystem data structures, leads to a design in which unexpected resets easily cause lots of filesystem corruption. Contrast that with FAT's simplicity, minimal (effectively none) write caching, and the tradition of cutting power as soon as you returned to a DOS prompt. Maybe that's actually the true "worse is better".
I agree with your linked assessment of MDMA-driven experience. However, her plan to retire with other singletons seems sensible. Why does it further convince you of your assessment of MDMA experiences?
I have a diagnosis. Their teachers suspected a diagnosis and the child was tested. The child would benefit from treatment. The parents were asking for my opinion. As a tutor, I would be one of the first people that would know if a student is struggling and needs testing for a learning disorder.

These situations I am talking about are specifically when the parent is clearly choosing to disregard information because they don't trust it or want it to be wrong for one reason or another. I don't understand why it's still such a divisive thing when the idea of parents being wrong is brought up. Parents, like all humans, have the capacity to do bad/wrong things with good intentions.

Pediatricians face the same situation every day when dealing with this type of parent.

EDIT: The child was tested by a healthcare profesional and was diagosed and medication was recommended. And I went through the same school system. They came to me for advice.
Yeah in their Fibonacci example if it printed out 510 instead of 610 you'd still have a bug and think you had tested it. Especially confusing for future people who will assume it works because there are passing tests!
Yeah you can disable all animations system wide but not selectively just the dumb autocorrect animations.
Ask HN: Affordable online university for a 32 year old wanting to go back?
Hi, I'm 32 and after studying programming on and off for the past 3 months I realized I love this and feel excitement again in learning and building things. The problem? All the cool stuff are really technical (looking at you Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion), with lots of prerequisites that I do not have. So I decided after discussing with my fiancée that I will be going back to university to study either Computer Science or Mathematics (which I always wanted to be more knowledgeable about but never really had time to invest in). The goal is to get into machine learning before I turn 40. I'm now looking for an online university, hence the question. It would be really helpful and if anyone has attempted something like this please speak up and share your experience. I found The Open University (https://www.open.ac.uk/) that seems good but want some reviews. Also it has to be online and in English so I can study from Madagascar to keep my COL as low as possible. Bonus point if it can be accelerated.
> There must be some deeper biological reason for it to be favored so heavily.

Or perhaps the fact that it's legal and readily available in every grocery store, restaurant and entertainment venue? Unlike any other mind altering substance we use.
No, it's the weeds that sprawl when education is constantly underfunded, demonized and people's access to good education is constantly hindered. All while idiocies are given the same amount of platform as rigorous methods out of "need for a debate" when there was going to be none to begin with.

It's not "dogma" to "sterilize" some fringe idiocies, just implying that is often pretty much helping that sewer just fester under our noses.
> You were dropped into some stand alone shell after fsck threw up its

> hands and it was up to you to fix it.

I can't remember how many of my early Linux systems I couldn't recover after a power outage (or crash) because / was corrupt
Why in 2023 people still believe that C19 mRNA prevents infecting others? This myth has long been classified as wrong (unlike advertised in the beginning of its rollout)
> And then a slash in some cases means "end of" (end of no passing zone) but in other cases it means "no" (no left turn). So it essentially means both "allowed" and "not allowed", but I guess it's based on the color or orientation or something of the slash, or multiple thin slashes vs one big thick one?

A black and white sign with a slash means "end of prohibition", a red sign with or without a slash means "probition" or "restriction". The issue is that a slash is already used to mean "prohibition" so there needs to be a different kind of slash to indicate the end.

> I find myself very much preferring the help of "wordiness" in this case. The top priority while driving is clarity in messaging, not economy of space. What the US does, which is actually to combine symbols in many cases with text, gives both quick recognition and unambiguous information.

I have to ask "What if you didn't understand the language of the state?", it seems the wordiness only works if you understand the language, and if you don't then you're kinda fucked. I wouldn't understand any signs in say Slovenia were they written in Slovenia, but with the current system it's not an issue as the signs look like what I have at home.

I wouldn't deny not all the signs are intuitive, but it's a language with a grammar, and once you get it down, it becomes easy.
I believe the way to test it is to have a property like `n in integer | fib(n+2) == fib(n+1) + fib(n)`. This is close to the naive (but obviously correct?) implementation of fib and can be used to test the optimized version of the function.

You can also test that the sequence is increasing like `fib(n+2) > fib(n+1) > fib(n)`.
Let's make the exceptionally charitable assumption that you are asking this question in good faith...

Nobody that listened to public health experts ever "hated" masks. But initially, they didn't rush out to buy masks because the advice was to prioritise isolating the infected, social distancing for everyone else and clean hands to avoid [overestimated risk of] contact transmission, and not to rely on masks to protect you from infected people because there was no evidence they would offer that protection (the only masks they had reasonable confidence might work were far too limited in supply to stop it on a population level)

The recommendation changed (pretty quickly, based on stronger evidence of aerosol transmission and asymptomatic transmission and COVID being sufficiently widespread to make altogether avoiding contagious people unrealistic) to suggesting that although social distancing was recommended because cloth masks alone were insufficiently effective at preventing infection, masks were better than nothing and so on a population scale wearing them in public places would slow infection rates. At this point - even though I'd already had the infection - I started wearing a mask to the supermarket because apart from it being logical, it was also required to enter. It wasn't much of an imposition, and subsequent evidence largely supports the reduced transmission risk.

I think the question works better in reverse. When was it you switched from being angry at the CDC for telling you not to bother with the masks because they couldn't altogether prevent infection so you were better off avoiding people with COVID altogether to being angry at the CDC for recommending masks in public places to somewhat reduce risk of infection? What was the scientific evidence that lead you to change your mind?
So “lived experience” matters until it is against the dogma.

Sharing personal story likes this is the reason the internet being a wonderful place. It should always be recommended as long as it is truthful, and doesn’t involve explicit agenda of spamming out other experience or information.
A broken clock is right twice a day, some of these "predictions" are a coin toss to get right. This doesn't ever make the rest of those talking points more valid.
You don’t get much sympathy or circulation talking about your bad experience unless it is part of a “drugs are bad” sermon.
This is pretty much the consensus and it's my understanding it's based off of studies.
Your security team is either incompetent or made powerless themselves by unthinking compliance tick box people. And frankly I'd go with incompetent as they should be able to make a risk argument that there is no risk!

I have heard similar stories from other people I know.

There is unfortunately for business an acute shortage of good security people. This works well for me of course, as I find myself in demand :)
You mean put an entire MINIX system into ME. It’s not just the network stack.
FreeBSD usage is mostly hidden behind very large storage environments. Think PB scale HPC and NetApp (the glorified FreeBSD with some sellable added complexity), all running FreeBSD at it's core.
It feels like "used to train NN" is not well covered by copyright. It assumes people will either just look at a piece of art, or copy it verbatim (or near enough).

Do artists mind a human browsing their work, or buying it? Not at all. Probably even learning from it is fine.

But "thanks for your hard work, my AI has it from here" seems justifiably objectionable for an artist, who would reasonably expect to charge money for this.

I feel for the creators. I'm glad AI is making progress. Not sure how the lawsuit will go.
Also, the dominant input method for phones used in Japan uses this concept with the old-school numpad layout (substituting repeated presses with flicks)
> I think the lawsuits have a case if they can prove copyrighted images were taken and used directly in the commercial product.

This is what I think would be the easiest thing to prove.

Other people's work was used to create a product that is sold for a quite a bit of profit. No attribution, no compensation. To me it sounds like a pretty clear copyright violation, even if you don't consider what the product does.

DeviantArt probably violated their own TOS.

It'll be interesting to see how the courts view this.
The Aurelia 2 Beta Is Out
I've been using this framework since Rob first announced it on Hacker News in 2015 and now the new version Aurelia 2 is out in beta. I've built something with it already because it's so easy to use. It's pretty much backwards compatible with Aurelia 1, except for a few differences.
but otherwise NASA could put more money into climate research and researchers have a more open enviroment. One liner explaination most of time arent very good and therefore my question.
Why is it crazy? Some of us don't want to lose a factor of two on linear algebra (and also care about correctness). I remember testing for correctness against Kahan's tests after FMA became available in RS/6000.
> or some other psychedelic

MDMA, sure, would have severe consequences if consumed so much.

Psychedelics, such as mushrooms or LSD, would cause hardly any harm and simply would stop working due to tolerance build up, unless the user keeps doubling the dose every time.
Decades counts as lately. Are there any other programming religions?
Unless you're debugging something so simple that it can only flash a led, you can have a serial console onto it

You can print debug on an Arduino for example

So, yes, it works on pretty much any system.
I've had the idea for this exact project for years and years, never had the real need nor time to do it. Glad to see it actually exist! Cool stuff :)
That’s just as true of Java nowadays, though. Plenty of languages have REPLs.
I can confirm this isn't true.

They're totally different. My experience of them was totally different.

I found mdma more personal, soul-engaging, pleasurable and enlightning.

Meth was just overwhelming, rushy, detached feeling euphoria with a air of anxiety.
Indeed, it's as if some truck drivers are guilty of the same bad behaviour as regular car drivers.
Originally to push any HGV trailers back onto the road if they cut the corner [0].
They also work really well at beaching drivers looking at their phones who would have otherwise mounted the pavement.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FiV023ktLM
https://assets.ctfassets.net/vval1fkv4s9j/L8XTFNyvaSewQWSMOw...

> Some 19th century street furniture also remains, enabling the road to present an excellent understanding of the appearance of many residential areas in the era of horse transport. The council will promote the retention of the original street surfacing and furniture in the conservation area.
Some of the critics are biologists who have been right more than the “experts” on TV.

So your comment applies to the establishment voices who straight up lied to the public and some people like yourself seemed to believe the liars. Lol!
None of the companies I have worked for encouraged secure coding. At most places you won't get any recognition for going the extra mile to write secure code, and in fact you will usually be encouraged to cut corners at the expense of security to deliver stuff faster.
Yeah it’s the flick that made it work (and fast), so I’m not surprised others have found similar solutions.

I wish this keyboard existed on modern phones today. TouchPal does but it’s just some emoji keyboard now as far as I can tell.

A modern dictionary/autocorrect with the “T+” style key level swipe would be amazing.

I kind of want to try and build it now!
Thanks for this. I have observed the same thing. I wonder if anyone on HN has insights into how to find companies that focus on customer value.
This.

It's like saying the pleasure you feel when you eat a food you like isn't real.

Or the feelings you feel when someone kisses you aren't real.

Drawing arbitrary lines around what is real feeling based on the stimuli is very strange and usually driven by ignorance or fear.
More like "worse" selected with survivorship bias is "better."

The fact that block journaling happened to paper over a design flaw in PC hardware, was a complete luckball.
In other words, Niklaus Wirth is under appreciated.
Did anybody else play Mage Knights as a kid? This reminds me of it. The mechanism was pretty ingenious, in my opinion. Each figure has a dial on the base giving it stats for defense, attack, attack range, effects such as poison, etc. The figures move around and attack on the battlefield in units of inches (this may lead to some arguments, so its good to have a moderator who's good at measuring).
I assumed your post was a veiled way to say that people that didn't experience it shouldn't have a say on it.
While I agree with the points you are making and think they are important, they could have been made just as effectively without resorting to an Ad hominem format. Though the quality of civil discourse on HN has degraded over the years, HN is still the one of the places I expect to live upto a higher standard.

(I'm sorry to any readers that this comment is not adding anything materially useful to the wider discussion)
Compliance with what? What do you mean by security?
Jetoptera Claims Propulsion Breakthroughs in Hsvtol Work
The title mentions writing tests as if they are repl sessions because you're supposed to iterate until you have the correct result.
People always cite the Veterans affair study to support the claim that reinfections are more severe, without citing this paragraph that makes it clear that this study can not support that claim:

Our analyses should not be interpreted as an assessment of severity of a second infection versus that of a first infection, nor should they be interpreted as an examination of the risks of adverse health outcomes after a second infection compared to risks incurred after a first infection.

I am not aware of any study that supports the claim that reinfections are worse.
If you don't become infected, you can't infect others. The vaccine reduces the chances of you become sick with covid.
you are thinking of integrase, which is not present

and there is no primer site on the mRNA for RT to operate

if it was that easy for random bits of floating mRNA to integrate itself into your DNA then we'd never make it to the point of being born