skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say hello to a long list of smallish commits full of random, unrelated changes and with commit messages "fixed various small issues", "continued implementing <feature>", etc
The browsers constantly wield this argument, but I don't like it. It necessarily leads to centralisation of CAs and going back to old days of VeriSign.

I don't think we should be going towards LE/ISRG being the only organisation allowed to issue certificates for "cost vs benefits analysis" of allowing other entities to issue certs. It would be a single point of failure and a massive target for various non-state and state actors.
Artists have used all sorts of weird stuff to get their desired effect. Tangentially related fun fact: the word mummy actually comes from a substance made from ground up corpses used in paints and medicine.

Mummy brown: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

When you look at a lot of the paintings from the Pre-Raphaelites, there are people in there.
I wish everyone was just named James. I had a good friend named James and it’s much easier to call everyone that than to learn a bunch of individual names.
> It's flat-out gross that the Twitterific developer isn't pro-actively giving pro-rated refunds to their customers, and is instead asking for charity.

Please explain the mechanism by which an App Store app developer can provide pro-rated refunds. You seem so confident about your claim that the company could be and should be doing this, that I’m sure this is something you’ve already checked and verified.
1. If automating writing commit messages significantly improves your experience as a developer, you're doing something wrong.

2. If GPT-3 can write commit messages even close to as clear as you can, you're doing something wrong.
Not if the safe language requires to test for nullabillity before use.
India’s Space Earth Observation Denied: Intentions and Process
I've noticed that polished concrete counter tops can get stained really easily by citrus. Any idea what the answer is there?
I meant based on definition of a bit as "a yes or no answer to a single unambiguous question".

"Umm..." definitely carries some kind of information, but it doesn't actually help answer the question.

Based on the information theoretic definition of entropy we'd need to go from 50:50 to 89% certainty to get half a bit of information, and I'd probably qualify 89% certainty as "probably"
Warning on franchise fitness gyms: the document you sign for payment is usually with
a 3rd party bank not the gym. The gym gets paid by the bank and you owe the bank
not the gym. The gym has no incentive to let you cancel. If you complain - it's
between you and the bank.
Fun fact: you can probably turn this around too: Write a fictional commit history and have ChatGPT generate the actual commits for you.
The "better way" for me has been managed identities in Azure. These are Azure Active Directory service principals, which are similar to Group-Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) in Active Directory. They're essentially a platform-managed identity with automatically rotating secrets that the developers never need to know, and sysops don't have to deal with. They can be assigned to VMs or various PaaS services, and then service-to-service access is via standard Azure RBAC, with auditing and everything.

There is nothing to rotate, nothing to put into a "key vault", nothing to worry about leaking out, nothing that could accidentally get pasted into Git, and nothing on that developers' laptop that he left at the airport. You literally say: "I want service A to have read access to service B", and you're done.

Visual Studio automatically injects the developer's personal identity into processes, so that they can access cloud resources during local development, so that's covered too. (For Linux developers, the Azure Identity SDK can pick up the user credentials via the "az" cli.)

"Making fire with stones to avoid a proprietary lighter." -- /user?id=pjmlp
Did the OP use the tool to write his own commit messages?

A lot of the commit messages were typical and sort of redundant but this one stood out to me
https://github.com/zurawiki/gptcommit/commit/82294555e7269e6...

"Add github token to address GH Workflow rate limits"

This is a good commit message, it describes a problem and a solution. I'd be very impressed if the GPTCommit tool wrote this and knew why the github token was being added.
Yahoo does have this “Adjusted Close” column available in their historical data downloads, but they do not use it for charts.

Their charts are price-only. Same with Google Finance and Apple Stocks.
The individual human in your comparison is arguably cheating, as they are probably vocalising (or otherwise expressing, for people without inner monologue) several thoughts inside of their head before actually deciding to say anything. Conversely, if you allow a transformer to have an "inner monologue" (token stream it can build up without it counting as an output) too, I don't see why it shouldn't be able to solve these types of problem.

A human connected to one of those EEG devices that can predict your rock-paper-scissors hand before you consciously know it and subjected to the constraint that they must not output (as detected by the device) anything but some result would appear rather limited, too.
Uhhh... I mean, the events that came before are what led to where we are today, so it's pretty worthwhile to understand the history of software, tech, and humanity for that matter. This colossal breadth of tech we're using every day has been a development of centuries, and Twitter and its development is a piece of that. Dismissing that history is a disservice to our community and to our future. Yeah, where a feature came from is not of news-headline importance, but it's relevant to us and our understanding of how software and services evolve over time, with involvement from their community of users and fellow industry members.
Every ad these days is 'spyware', despite the ineffectiveness of "personalized adverts".

I worked for an SSP, and always loved the data we got back from DMPs categorising the same user into "segments".

Sometimes they were a man, until five impressions later they weren't, the guesses at age varied significantly also.

That said, none of those DMPs were Google. I believe that they'd actually be able to correctly segment you, because, well, it's Google, one of the companies putting the brightest minds of our generation to work on the problem of optimising CTR.
I think it was something super simple. Like temperature above X, no percipitation at the moment, no percipitation predicted during the next hour.

(I also remember I was willing to skip running in case of anything “exciting” being reported. Like tornados, or sandstorms or vulcanic ash. Not that any of that was a real possibility.)
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There is a third type of coder: one doing commits with single, obvious, minimal purpose, that still sometimes end up being +8,298, -1,943 - but with a sensible, detailed message explaining what's being done and why.

This happens in environments where it takes hours for CI to let your change pass, making small commits prohibitively expensive in terms of time and infrastructure.

(And yes, I know the answer is: make it so CI that's part of review takes minutes, not hours.)
In most of NY city, there are Copepods in the water.

Since Jewish law prohibits drinking insects that are large enough to be seen without a microscope, there has been quite a discussion if that makes the water undrinkable.

As a result, many religious Jewish New Yorkers will only drink filtered water. So, no copepod protein, but maybe cleaner water?
CSV you say? Let's hope Bobby Droptable's cousin Bobby Double Quote Comma-Semicolon don't get in it...
> If I'm understanding this correctly, with your Lisp IDE you could have an image sub-editor which may expose functions for image modification (eg. cropping), which could be called from the parent-editor. Is this accurate?

Yep, and, presumably, you could then interact with it with your mouse, like draw something in it.

(One correction though: it doesn't have to be a Lisp IDE, but just any Runic document.)

There are a few facts at play:
1. Lenses are cells, which means they are just graphical objects responsible for their own graphical output and input handling (among many other things).
2. An image editor would be a cell as well.
3. A lens could, at runtime, dynamically, inherit from the image editor via an :is-a relationship, and, thus, become an image editor too.

Of course this would require some UI programming to get right, but that's the idea.

> Also, what is it about Lisp specifically that makes it suitable for this undertaking?

Please, see: https://project-mage.org/why-common-lisp

TLDR: It's an image-based language, and interactivity is a top-priority for power use. For instance, if something goes wrong, you don't want the application to crash. Incremental development for GUIs in general is pretty crucial. So, the only other candidate could be Smalltalk, but I like Lisp better.
Any source on that slave labor claim? Or low wages? As far as I know, Amazon warehouses pay well. I'm not sure how well drivers are paid though.
The irony isn't lost on me that the one conceivable hotpath is this exploit technique...
For a case study in how specifically to do this, see this post about how Cal Newport studied discrete mathematics in college: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-...
The comments here are acting as if the messages can't be changed. As someone else mentioned, this should be used as a starting point to summarize the change, but the reason for the change obviously can, and should, be added by a human.

This is far from horrible.
Same here. Variety is the spice of life.

One day I noticed I have some Thought Problems, and after thinking about it I realized that most of my daily interactions take place with the same two devices.

Doing work on the same computer you game on, deal with family drama, communicate with co-workers and family, etc. takes its toll-- there's never any new stimulus, just living in the same 10'x10' cube playing with the same two toys for years on end. When you have a particularly stressful interaction with either, you're still forced to continue using it. (No wonder the kids are miserable. We replaced toys with smartphones.)

Things improved when I broke away to console gaming, set up a dedicated work computer, and did personal stuff on another. DSLR for pictures instead of phone. Moved away from taking notes on the computer and do data/object modeling with physical objects (anything from index cards to Legos). Etc. The only thing I use my phone for these days is reading news on the toilet, which is apt because it's all the same shit to flush either way.

I would actually kill myself if I had to spend any more of my time interacting with the world through a singular device. It's not a life worth living.
Orwell was English.
You don't think Roe itself was at least as bad on all the grounds you name?
Who do you suppose could teach us? China? Cuba? Venezuela? North Korea? Maybe you should move to one of those countries.

the midriff of Mexico and Canada

Keep hating.
It makes sense to me that individuals should have names. Pronouns tend to be much less information dense, and are used as shorthand. It doesn't make sense to me that pronouns should capture gender, as opposed to hair color, height, or age.
This is not new. mediaanalysisd and photoanalysisd have been running on your machine forever doing exactly what it says analyzing media and photos for organizing and creating your fun little montages. mediaanalysisd does things like perform visual searches when you search for a contact. It's the thing that made your macbook BSOD while it was idling or sleeping.

You can unload the plist of both of them to disable them.

This kind of alarmist nonsense makes it hard for people to believe when big companies are actually doing something wrong :[
Without centralized access to content, a distributed full search would seem unbearable slow at Twitter scale.
Good question. My elementary school/middle school had Macs. Even as a young child, I thought the appropriation of funds for that seemed wrong. I can’t think of a legitimate reason a school district needs luxury computers for children that are likely to spill stuff or otherwise ruin them.
Wow... I searched "ethereal progressive house to code to" and this playlist is amazing.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c384nZMHmWHJg5f9LjOD4?go=...
I was a co-CTO for a small technology company. Having separate distinct roles is what made it work for us. Downstream, the roles are treated with equal authority and responsibility. Upstream (to the CEO in our case, to the board in Netflix's case), the roles have distinct areas of accountability and weight.

And similar to Netflix, our company had co-CTOs because we were mixing two different technology strategies for our software portfolio. The only awkward part was when leadership lost any confidence in one of the pair.
AFAIK they never tell you why you fail. It's quite possible/likely that your friend failed for another reason.
Ask any teenager: cars are freedom.

At least that’s my interpretation.
Cars are means and symbols of individual independence and freedom. As such, they wouldn’t be allowed in a 1984 world. Beware those trying to eliminate cars.
As Cities Get Tough on Homelessness, Legal Battles Follow
I agree, insofar that "handouts" are primarily, in monetary volume:

1) favorable loan terms for financial entities (loans in both directions, but ultimately favoring the bottom line of private capital);

2) favorable taxation terms for the wealthiest earners and owners (e.g., low capital gains and inheritance taxes, when compared to income taxes);

and 3) federal and state benefits that often face large and unnecessary administrative costs (in order to reduce fraud (which is only possible because they're means-tested or otherwise restricted));

in that order. And the first two rob the treasury of far, far more than the last. By orders of magnitude, particularly in the past few years.
It goes beyond indignation; there's long-standing bad blood between two camps. Soviets specifically actively persecuted democratic socialists (Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries) during the 1917 revolution. In late USSR, some political dissidents also self-identified as some kind of demsoc or demcom, such as e.g. Aleksandr Skobov.
I've been thinking about this since yesterday.

>Though the goalposts shifted from "cannot build bike lanes without destroying thousands of homes and businesses" to "there is no visible impediment for pedestrians,"

Not really, just having a wide ranging discussion.

>Just like widening a road draws more traffic, creating pedestrian-friendly and cyclist-friendly spaces draw more pedestrians and cyclists, so a lack of perceived demand given current infrastructure doesn't mean much.

Not necessarily. I've seen many bike paths and pedestrian streets that have little to no bike/pedestrian traffic. I was listening to a radio show once and they were talking about a light rail project on the east coast. It cost way more than originally planned - instead of $200 million it cost $1 billion. This is because design changes all the time. They started building it and then the bike brigade, along with other special interest groups, came along and wanted a bike path. Well, the guy they talked to said that for all that extra expense, nobody uses that bike path. Maybe the bike path cost $100 million, and so it comes out to $10 million per person who rides their bike on it. The whole segment was about why civil structure undertakings cost more than planned.

I think there is a massive misunderstanding of the whole "build it and they will come" thing. That's not how it works.

I do think all of these types of capital outlays for bike paths and pedestrian streets are for the Gucci crowd. Nobody is going to spend $50 million creating a pedestrian street in Compton or wherever the gangs are in Los Angeles, or in the Tenderloin of San Francisco or the south side of Chicago in the baddest part of town.

Maybe spending that $100 million or whatever it costs would be better spent on getting more police in the bad parts of town, or something that can benefit the poorest of us all, instead of the bike riders who are riding $15,000 bikes. But I guess the $15,000 bike crowd has more clout than a bunch of riff raff gang members or working poor or homeless.

And yes, it is a zero sum game.

I don't have anything against what you're saying, I just think money could be spent better elsewhere.

But, I guess it is good that people can shop at Gucci or Prada without worrying about stopping for stoplights - they can just walk where they want. And the people who can't afford the shops and buy $2,400 pair of shoes can sit at the coffee shops and buy a cup of coffee for $9.87 and pretend that they can, instead of going to their local greasy spoon diner and buying a cup of Folger's coffee for $1.25.

I'm not trying to be a dick, it's just what I think about it all.

It's all good.
>and frankly the skeleton crew at Twitter today likely couldn't do well anyway

You can just use attestation to make sure that people are using the official twitter client and not a third party one. There is no cat and mouse game no that mobile platforms offer security against malicious third party clients.
If TFA (may not be accessible right now) is to be believed, “the” server is a very generous understatement of the size of the exposed infrastructure, and customer information was very much accessible if not accessed per maia’s words. So seeing a statement like this from the CommuteAir PR people actually makes me feel less reassured, not more. (The attacking side looks better so far—maia itself is not a “watch the world burn” type, judging from its breach history, even if its writing makes you wonder whether the absurdist parody is deliberate or the author is in fact slightly manic. Kind of like Justine Tunney.)
> It's the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of length one.

Yes, we can construct such a line segment; but line segments are not numbers.

We don't actually need "legs of length one" (which pre-supposes some system of units); all we need is the ratio of the lengths of the sides. However, finding lengths requires the ability to take square roots, which would either make this a circular definition (e.g. that √2 = √2 / 1), or requires the limit of an infinite process (like Newton's method, or equivalent).

Instead, it's much easier to count the areas of the squares on each leg (1 and 1), and add them together to get the area of the square on the hypotenuse (1 + 1 = 2). No need for lengths, so no need for square roots, so no need for √2.

Wildberger abbreviates 'area of the square on a segment/vector' as the 'quadrance' of that segment/vector (defined as the dot-product with itself). Likewise we can avoid angles by taking ratios of quadrances (e.g. 'spread' is defined via a right-triangle as the quadrance of the opposite side / quadrance of the hypotenuse); together this gives rise to a whole theory of Rational Trigonometry, which gives efficiently computable, exact answers; works in arbitrary fields (except for characteristic two), and with arbitrary dot-products/bilinear-forms (e.g. euclidean, relativistic, spherical, etc.). Here's Wildberger's textbook on the subject http://www.ms.lt/derlius/WildbergerDivineProportions.pdf
This is an important lesson I think. Much of the assumed professionalism we have now is built on the lessons these people learned from serious introspection of their own actions.
Agreed. But I don't think it would take a herculean effort to do better than GDP.
I guess I didn't notice that passage so much. It is still interesting, as trucks seem to be used only for the Party's needs
George Will would tell you because trains are "collectivism", and cars represent Freedom(tm).

https://www.newsweek.com/will-why-liberals-love-trains-68597
Copepod females do not need to mate to reproduce.

So one of the most abundant life forms on the planet has a trick to keep their edge. One wonders why they need it.
I use Fritter and love it, thank you for your efforts! It's a great way to open Twitter links when necessary, since I've deleted the official app from my phone and I'm trying not to log in to my account for now.

Could you say a little about how Fritter works without an API key? Is it just because it isn't designed for posting or interacting with Twitter, just reading/viewing it? Why/how does Fritter still work when Twitterrific etc. are dead? Are you just, like, scraping the website? Isn't Twitter making it harder to read tweets from the open web when you're not logged in?
Can Intermittent Fasting Help Combat Childhood Obesity?
That's kinda what epinephrine does..
read the article before speculating? it answers that question
This parenthetical seems unnecessary:

> Some basic customer information (nearly all of which is the type widely available in marketing databases or directories) was obtained, including name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, account number, and information such as the number of lines on the account and service plan features.

I wonder if "service plan features" includes whether a customer has enabled the Account Takeover Protection feature that's supposed to guard against SIM-swapping.

[1]: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/customer-information
Yes exactly. The issues only arise if one doesn't allow the transformer the freedom to use the output for chain of thought.
Furthermore we can promot engineer a desired chain of thought behavior but I am afraid that it would be difficult to have the transformer prompt engineer itself.
Well just found out most of the people I follow on Twitter are on Mastodon, I'm out.
Now extend this by thinking about how HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 implementations in all major browsers (and the libs they use) don't allow you to establish a connection without a CA based TLS cert.

It's going to make the already rocky CA/Browser/User triad even more fraught with dangers.
Right. But, with this approach to a proof, to be strict, for "prime factorization" need that it is unique, and that is the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic -- need that.
The results exist in bloodied form for the effects of high pressure high explosive blast waves from the air and subsurface bombs of WWI and WWII.

Straight trenches kill people - zig zag trenches with sharp turns save lives.
Farmer dies, town learns he paid strangers’ pharmacy bills
Smart idea, being able to retrofit existing cisterns. I don't think it'd prevent having to wipe the seat down both sides plus whatever else. Blows my mind that we don't have radially symmetric bowls and S-bend equivalents that can clean automatically, plus the outside. I have no idea how my kids get piss around the outside of the bowl, but somehow they do.
Admittedly when I was writing this I was thinking about the rather narrow case of answering questions on IRC or forums or what have you. Volunteer stuff. It does get substantially more complicated when your job depends on them getting to the answer.
Your speculation comes off as disgusting cope. Wage labour was well established in Rome, and we have receipts recording wages paid the labourers to build the pyramids. But given the life expectancy for some of the sugar islands was measured in just months/years before dying of horrible diseases, there could be no functioning wage market. So the powers-that-be resorted to mass kidnapping and slaving, like any other bandits and kings when they run out of gold.