skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seymour Hersh has a very credible background and reputation. Assuming he is still lucid in his age, hasn't become a senile puppet of a ghost writer, then it would be foolish to write off his claims just because he isn't telling you who his source is.
People tend to complain about the safety of airplane even though it is in the top echelon of safe modes of transit. There's no reason to try to reach the highest-hanging fruit trying to make it even safer when people are dying in droves on the road just getting to the airport. Much better to do something about that low-hanging fruit.
"I just want to have fun programming again"

You can... just not as a professional. Work kills the joy. As only a hobby it could be fun again.
I'm using both Google Search and ChatGPT in parallel. ChatGPT cannot substitute at this point. It is better as a co-writer than as an answering system. It can answer open ended questions, but anything requiring specific information is questionable.

And the whole programming thing? It gives wrong results that are not correct and at times don't even compile. Ask it to fix something, it does half the work. It hallucinates functions which do not exist. That being said, if you ask software problems that are not answered with code, it does a better job.

People will say they would switch until they try the current iteration. We certainly want something better, a real virtual assistant, but what we have is not there yet
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! :)

I suppose it's a matter of weighing "a set of many small utilities which make life a bit easier for N people" against "two big dangerous social networks which make life a lot harder for M people". Because the money from the former helps the latter as well.

How you decide to judge this is up to you :)
actually i think it was "serious constricting path"

anyway, it is from "galactic pot healer" where people put words through something like google translate and then back again as a game. this was of course way, way back before the web or pcs. the book is both very funny and very sad.
For archival purposes, as the name implies. I don’t understand why you try to stir something up.
Roundup hasn't been shown to be carcinogen in any animal model testing and only one observational study has shown an up lift in a cancer. Hence the designation of potential.

Hot beverages significantly increases risk of Esophageal cancer in multiple observational studies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9035825/
Mayday – The Calendar Assistant
> Decreasing dynamic range, increasing the contrast, is trivial.

How would I do this on MacOS or Windows?

Most people have one adjustment easily available--the screen brightness setting. This setting can decrease the contrast of pure black/white text, but it cannot increase the contrast of off-black/white text. Same with the Night Light setting on Windows 11.
It is not "floating point math" but "floating point math where the exponent is expressed as a power of 2" that is the problem.

That is, if the exponent is a power of 2 you can write 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 exactly but you can't write 1/3, 1/5, 1/10, etc.

If the exponent is base 10 then you can write 1/5, 1/10, 1/1000 and such exactly.

Note the mantissa and the exponent are both integers and so far as this problem is concerned it does not matter if these are written in binary or BCD or some other representation. There is some controversy about what is better, if you use a binary mantissa the math is a little faster and more accurate, if you use a decimal mantissa conversions to and from ASCII are quicker and ASCII conversions are a major part of real life math workloads.

I've long thought that this problem is one of a list of problems that many people encounter on the path to bending computers to their will and that some people decide that computer programming isn't for them because of this kind of problem. I think the kind of person who learns Python to put their outside-of-computing skills on wheels is particularly affected.

It is a "disruptive technology" problem because the person who is using IEEE floats heavily has accommodated to this problem and would not give up the slightest amount of performance. Decimal FP can be implemented in software but is slow in software. IBM has had hardware Decimal FP in their mainframes for a very long time and there is even an IEEE standard. (A company that has been using mainframes for a long time cut a check for the wrong amount because the abused the number system back in 1963 and thus learned their lesson a long time ago.)

The best hope I have is that the "social justice" people can be led to believe that unintuitive numerics keep underrepresented people out of the field and that they threaten Intel that they'll tear down their headquarters unless they catch up to where mainframes were 50 years ago. It could be a huge win for the industry and for the DEI office because employers would have to buy everyone a new computer and even white guys might think the DEI office was doing good work if it meant they got to replace their 5 year old corporate craptop. I mean, how is it that a few people with two fingers get to oppress all the rest of us with ten?
Why do you write this on a throw away?
>> Meanwhile the company was focusing on DEI vs skill, and thoughtfulness over delivery

> That has nothing to do with any of this.

I wouldn't say it's central, but it's definitely not nothing. When a lot of your recognition comes from DEI efforts, "me too" and other such efforts, you can't expect proper focus. There are plenty of irrelevant internal drives where just aligning with them benefits you greatly, instead of aiming to quickly deliver an excellent, user-focused product and then making it even better over time.
It's not a direct image, which is the specific question, and I don't know if you're including NASA in "most" but NASA disagrees as well, per their article. So do Wikipedia editors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
Time to work on an AI based scraper
I was taught Rule 1 as well, as a beginning writer, in 11th grade (age 16). It was worded as "don't use cliches."
> [...] defaulted to decimal for the literals, [...]

Why not rational numbers?
Would a "fixed-point binary-coded decimal" type be a solution here? With 64 bit values that gives you 16 digits to play with, which for "everyday numbers" seems like plenty.
.. but not financially penalized into poverty. Both Germany and Japan had help to rebuild civilian manufacturing and employment. Very much a "rehabilitation" approach.
In terms of speed: int > float > decimal. Depends on the hardware type. On GPUs, float > int. However the performance difference is negligible for many, many use cases so I generally use decimal as the default and only use float if absolutely necessary.
I once inherited the development and maintenance responsibilities on a financial forecasting/business development app. There were lots of expected value computations in the form of adding up potential revenues multiplied by their probability of win with costs subtracted (i.e. currency values). The previous developer had used floats everywhere resulting in runoff values as seen here.

I started using decimal in all of the new features in an effort to mitigate this but it resulted in even more headache as I now had a bunch of casts floating around on top of the truncation band-aids that I had to implement for existing lengthier calculations. My plan was to refactor the whole app and SQL schema but if memory serves I got pulled onto something more pressing before I had the chance.

This was especially disappointing to me because this was all implemented in C# and T-SQL which are languages with first-class support for decimal numbers. It wouldn't surprise me if the app is still in use today with some hapless dev halfway across the country whacking these bugs as they pop up.
The wiki mentions the CIA, but their investigations found links to groups helped by both the mossad and the CIA, i'll try to find the link for the investigation, i'll edit the post once i find it
The Deck seems pretty great, but I’m probably going to wait until rev 2 or 3 which will likely use newer hardware to achieve the same performance as the original, which should make it cooler, quieter, and potentially less chunky. Valve has also expressed that they intend to swap out it screen panel to something nicer which to me is also worth waiting for.
When I see built in Rust I know the software is well built, easy to further extend if it is open source, and probably won't crash or bug out on me.
'New Bing' refused to write cover letter for job, saying it would be 'unethical'
I figured your criticism was just a “look at me, I hate pg” with no substance, but it’s always disappointing to see it confirmed. Having substance would require having reasons, which always seem to be in short supply whenever people argue against pg’s style.

I’m not personally a fan of smooth jazz, but at least Kenny G is well-known. That’s a pretty good metric to aim for when writing, isn’t it?
The choice of decimal vs float depends on domain. For financial calculations you want to be able to represent amounts exactly. Decimal can represent $1.01 exactly, but float cannot (it picks a value very close to that, and as you do calculations eventually these small inaccuracies amount to real money).

But if you are storing the weight of a product a float might be fine - you don't really care if the system thinks you have 50.000001 pounds of product when you have 50 pounds (because your scale isn't that accurate anyway).

Floats will generally give you better performance than decimal types as well.
Just to elaborate a bit further.

The current mayor of Istanbul is the politician who could win the next presidential election and he's been sentenced to a few years in prison and banned him from politics because he "insulted some elected officials". His crime was actually calling a few people clowns when they recalled for a runoff of the elections he won. He then won the runoff with a wider margin and now has to be taken down somehow.
Maybe the banks don't tell competing banks how much you have, but since the Patriot Act, I wouldn't count on the government not knowing if they want to know.
How many YouTubers, as a percentage of total users, actually get paid a living wage by doing work on YouTube? I'd assume that it's not many.

The ones that do aren't surviving on YouTube ad revenue alone since the adpocalypse. They're doing so based on ad reads and crowdfunding, both of which work on Peertube just fine.

The only thing keeping them on YouTube is audience reach.
This price point is crazy.
The MSFT event yesterday was impressive. To see them bring GPT to scale, real-time, with citations and other new features is very cool. The new products look genuinely very helpful - they solve real jobs to be done.

Surely Google will catch up, but this was a blunder worse than I would have expected. The race is truly on

Edit: one more thought. After listening to talks from Kevin Scott and others at MSFT, it seems like their vision is copilot for everything. Kevin made it sound like they have dozens of these experiments happening right now. I think this is a winning formula and we’ll be seeing all kinds of other new launches this year.
The US have been overtly against those pipelines and the close relations between Germany and Russia, including and especially energy dependency. In fact, a major win of the US so far in the Ukraine war has been the Europeans' and especially Germany's shift in gas supplies from Russia to themselves.

Russia destroying their own pipelines (both NS 1 and the new NS 2 were sabotaged) looks like them shooting themselves in both feet at once. Like doing 'capacity demonstration' by nuking the Kremlin... They could, but would that be a likely scenario?

Many, if not most, expert observers strongly suspect the US for a reason.
This is a blog post by Ben Kuhn about why he's leaving Wave (where he was CTO) and joining the AI startup Anthropic.

Anthropic just raised $300MM from Google and - perhaps more interestingly - was founded by and employs many of the authors of the paper that underpins modern machine learinng models, [Attention is all you need](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762).

Wave, Ben's previous company, is a big deal in Africa. In Ben's own words, "When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, (Suri and Jack 2016) found that it lifted 2% of all Kenyan households—almost a million people—out of extreme poverty. I think Wave has a strong chance of doing the same for the rest of sub-Saharan Africa!

Point being, Ben is someone who I'm always impressed thinks so deeply about his work and I'm more optimistic about Anthropic knowing that he's involved.
> I wouldn't say it's central, but it's definitely not nothing. When a lot of your recognition comes from DEI efforts

I suspect that those efforts were a tiny drop in the ocean of the expense that Google was spending on product investments. If they were anything significant that could affect profits, they wouldnt do anything about it but some PR shows...
It will become a non-issue once all keyboards have a "ü" button. :)

Which might not actually be that long.
Mandatory link to the original "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg over on https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
you wont pay it to any state
Blunt. But feels accurate.
Interesting game, very good minimalist design. I'll try to play. Self-documenting. No description needed.
I couldnt watch all of it what was it about? it seemed lame and apparently some demo did not work.

Google maps immersive sounded pretty much like street view. You can apparently use your phone to find nearby cafes. These are nice features to have in 2013
> If you're looking to history - this event mirrors Kosovo, just with roles reversed.

With the "minor" difference that Serbia was committing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, while no such thing happened in Crimea.

> The big difference is that the one remained relatively peaceful with no further largescale escalation. Ukraine, by contrast, was determined to retake Crimea and clearly had the full backing of the West.

That's completely false. Crimean border has been more peaceful than Kosovo-Serbia border.
> CRISPE Prompt Framework:

But what is the R??
It's essentially an end user service that benefits the creators by reducing the noise and finding actually compelling creators. When a creator signs up, I'm able to filter their store info and automatically scrape all the info I'd need.

From there it's just a manual vetting process (although quickly filtering out the stuff I don't want is kind of hidden in the sign up).
Usually I do a search, looking for specific facts, like what is the pricing for X? On Google you get to click through links and read a lot of filter, ads, promotions, etc. Why not just get the answer?

A huge percentage of searches are for existing websites, like "facebook." This might not be a big challenge if you just wanted to go to facebook.

This morning I saw a retweet from a Google/former Deepmind engineer, of someone who said they completely switched from Google to using perplexity.ai. I checked it out again (I've used perplexity before.)

I did a test search for interest rates, and perplexity returned the correct interest rate for the day along with the trading range. I think Google is really in trouble. I'd say the golden goose is in the process of being slaughtered.

None of this is a surprise. Google's voice assistant has been really good for years. Nothing came close to it. Siri is close to useless. Maybe Google can pivot and they'll be fine. I don't know what the economics look like.
What the heck is OAuth? [slides]
Drip-feeding? How about BOILING THE FROG. A.I. isn't our friend here. With all the censorship Google and other bigtech companies have been repeatedly caught doing, it's just another way of taking out the censorship middle-man, now without human accountability or oversight.
Schedule a huge announcement after a disruptive technology from a competing company right after mass layoffs when morale is probably at an all time low and everyone is one foot out the door. Clearly good decisions here.
Anyway to mount with a forced UID/GID of all files?

Useful in container scenarios.
Understandable. Turkey ruling elites protecting country from possible chaos and hysteria amplified by social media. Twitter is still US based company and if asked would not turn back on US national security interests. As history shows, US tactic is to destabilize countries and make them weak, there is no better tool than social media platform like Twitter. To use Twitter right now and to take advantage of this horrible natural disaster and try to destabilize the country, is probably the easiest and best intelligence serviceman from Washington can do. This is just theory.
Ruby/Rails Performance Comparison of Intel, M1 Max, M2 Max
Agreement with you about games I was speaking mostly of the linux desktop environment - I find it useful for work.
Sorry, I don't know any important C codebase that omits necessary bounds checks casually. Often times it would not even make any sense. (If you want to iterate over an array, you don't just iterate until infinity, lol.) String manipulation is often wrapped in functions that handle length/storage size/reallocation/etc in the background.
Ask HN: Tabnine blatantly lying about Eclipse Support?
So unfortunately I'm currently still bound to Eclipse as an IDE since I'm bound to some plugins our Software Vendor made (A custom visual editor).

After looking for a Github Copilot / AI code completion solution for Eclipse I came across tabnine hoping it would help me.

The thing is though; It's all smoke and mirrors. Its everywhere on their site, but even their install guide is fake: https://www.tabnine.com/install/eclipse

Contacted Support but they stated it isn't supported and they aren't working on it..

Are there any people on HN that know when this will be released?
As the head of the government, he had a great interest in not having unions in government service.
A quick question, are there any limits around number of separate indexes we can have with meilisearch? I'm thinking atleast say 20-30K separate indexes to start with.

My use case is that i want to start creating some indexes that are "per-user" and some "per-company" where a company(customer) might have many users. This is to do some sort of double tenant isolation. I will create different keys that have permission to specific indexes and deliver those to the user somehow. My current solution does hacky things with Elasticsearch like adding query filters by user/company-id attributes in the background automatically. But since meilisearch would be customer facing, i need stronger guarantees around permissions per index.

I tried this out a year ago on Meilsearch locally, but haven't stress tested it by creating thousands of them like production.

Or is there a better way to do this. This is also a reason where memory-only systems like Typesense didn't make sense to me. I'm fine with taking a performance hit by going to disk to pull the right index. Not every index will be used all the time. I might also look at sharding/partitioning features if present.
>If something different were true (e.g. conservative Christians were quite over-represented in the librarian profession), I'm absolutely sure you'd see political responses from liberal government authorities.

This is demonstrably not true by the fact that this is happening more against topics conservatives find distasteful or offensive (such as LGBT works), as per your own article. Look at that map and the subjects being banned.
How Developers Discover Products
100% agree, it's so refreshing to finally get a device that does it's best to be both a great out of the box experience but also respectful the user, reminds me of the olden days of computing, despite what gnome and apple proclaiming such a goal is impossible.

It's also kind of sad this only really exists because Valve are wholly independent and have "fuck you" levels of money.
The Limits of ‘Longtermism’
What some champions of ‘effective altruism’ get wrong

By Meghan Sullivan
So it's ChatGPT confidently making stuff up. Lovely.
> More important, the fuel economy of cars increased on average by about a third — or 6 miles a gallon — between 2004 and 2021,

Cars or vehicles? In the US the SUV is king and sidesteps fuel efficiency mandates. Cars and SUVs alike are getting better but SUVs will always guzzle, too much air friction etc.
I think you might be missing the actual great thing about HN. It's not that it doesn't restrict topics, it's that it pseudo restricts audience by both targeting a specific subset of the tech movement (the business minded folks who have a bent towards founding companies while still being highly technical) while not being heavy handed about it and while also appearing to pursue moderation in their moderation. This means I tend to actually be able to see and engage with reasonable leftie points I haven't thought of, not get downvoted into oblivion if I bring a well thought out center right position to the conversation (indeed sometimes I actually collect upvotes if I do that, which is unheard of on other platforms like most subreddits). It also means the obviously incorrect far left nonsense is kept to a dull roar here even though this place leans pretty heavily (if mostly moderately) left. This place honestly feels like political debate looked 60-70 years ago before all civility left politics and positions were dumbed down to soundbites, albeit with a center leftist party in charge.
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Exactly.

The tech bubble worships at the altar of sacred, almighty "scale," and then wonders why things like this happen.

Not everything scales. And almost every time tech tries to reinvent the wheel at scale, it fails, or makes things worse.
Sorry, but this question is the epitome of cringe. I'm sure it is not intended as such, but it is the exact opposite of the color-blind ideal. You get to color-blindness by ... err ... practicing color-blindness?
That’s not so different from the current state of the world in which many search results are full of cheap SEO content. Now instead of appending Reddit to my search I just go to chatGPT. Probably similar levels of accuracy between Reddit and GPT anyway while the SEO content is just garbage filler.
If your true goal is to have fun while programming, why not just play a Zachtronics game (TIS-100 or Shenzhen I/O)? Same difficulty as programming a piece of software (if not more difficult), but no dealing with all of the complex annoyances of programming languages.
Happy? Want to learn how to be?
The way to solve this, much like the way to solve R&D for open source, is to educate consumers to pay to creators and to eschew ad-funded business.
With the current state of international relations and supply chain disruptions continuing to ripple from the pandemic, if I needed to rely on being able to quickly access a large number of GPUs or other microprocessors, I'd be very nervous right now. Not sure Google is even wake enough to see any of this.
Web Game Dev Newsletter – Issue 008
Nestlé’s $6k Peanut Allergy Pill Has Been a Dud
> trusts you as a user

Better - it treats you like an owner (which you are).
I started out using the Haskell “Rational” type [1] (which is exactly what you mention) for https://cryptomarketdepth.com/ but I had to abandon it because it was horribly slow. I was multiplying numbers with roughly 8 decimal places, and once I had done this like 100 times my program spent almost all its time trying to simplify fractions with a 1000 digit numerator and denominator.

[1] https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-20.10/base-4.16.4.0/Pre...
Starlink satellites, unlike television satellites, perform active packet switching, not mere beam steering.
This is the start of them eventually making cash obsolete. Full control.
Why front-end developers need a block-based system
POSIX compatibility requirements are an antipattern.
What companies still get wrong about layoffs