skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accounts on reddit aren't really attached to an identity like they are on other social media platforms though, so getting an account perma-banned doesn't have all that much impact.
I'm sure there are, but one issue the F16 pilots noted in radio transcripts from one of the recent shoot downs is that the difference in airspeed between a stationary or slow moving arial object and the speeds the F16 need to maintain to stay in the air make it surprisingly hard for pilots themselves to accurately describe the objects.

These objects are small, to get a good view requires flying a very fast jet very close to a small relatively stationary object of which you may only get a split second glance.

In the transcript I saw, the two F16 pilots can't really agree if the object they are dealing with is a balloon or not (this wasn't from the first shootdown of the Chinese balloon which was much larger and easier to identify), eventually one pilot just assumes it is as a best guess.
Exactly. Google has no future. but for the moment it generates loads of cash to shareholders. Sundar's only task is to keep it as long as possible. And shareholders on their own will allocate this cash to next Google.
Sounds like the approach that Gitlab advocates.
> The idea that software wasn't bloated and slow 20,30+ years ago is just myth. Everything was bloated and slow. MS Word in the 90s and 00s would regularly crash and take your file with you, and it often took minutes to start up. Yes, there were some brilliant counterexamples, just as there are today. But most software today is far more enjoyable and rapid to use than that from previous eras.

Install Windows 2000 and Office 97 in a VM. Word will be blazingly fast compared to the latest version. What features do you ever use in the latest version of Word that weren't present back then?
> This is a huge catastrophe that will have long term repercussions across a wide area.

No it’s not, and no it won’t.
"Unlike Google, Microsoft’s Bing demo was more polished and free of blemishes."

Um, not a fan of either system, but pretty sure this has been shown to be patently false...

There was a c-acm post on here just the other day about this. This is some click-bait.
> which aren't to be trusted

Its always funny when people say that.

Musk has been the longest serving CEO in both the Space and the Automotive industry. With both companies having an almost absurdly good track record of execution.

And yet somehow it isn't trust worthy? Based on what? Comments on twitter?
Modern embedded is not the same as it was in our youth. Embedded platforms then were 8-bit, 1-4 MHz and 64K of RAM would be a luxury. Often that address space would be shared with ROM.

Now we take multi-core, 64-bits, gigabyte address spaces, memory protection and multi-tasking Unix-like OSs for granted most of the time. Except for the most stringent requirements (such as hard real time or very constrained power budgets) that we find small bare metal platforms.

And those are real fun to do ( but not as much fun to debug).
Regardless of which attack-of-the-robots story is your favorite, it is always a long, drawn-out struggle with immense loss of human life. Apparently "move fast and break things" now includes people's bodies and entire nations.
Totally agree. I used to listen to music and podcasts on Spotify, but now use Apple Podcasts to listen to podcasts and Spotify to listen to music.
Aren't those only in color photocopiers/printers (relying on the lesser visibility of yellow ink)?
I think these are just growing pains. The migration from 6 to 7 to 8 is going to be more fully representative of how .NET is going to work. There was a lot of stuff with Core 2/3 that wasn't fully fleshed out and is generally why we avoided building anything in it. And yes, 4.8 is still getting security updates, but .NET 4.x is effectively dead and almost no new projects should be built in it (yes Winforms people I hear your screams)
I think population density misses a lot of important detail.

The general absence of people in Alaska or Lapland isn't as important as the willingness to take a 5 hour journey (car or train) to get to e.g. some nice mountain climbing for a weekend.

But the mediterranean coast is seen as a desirable holiday destination, not sure what the comparable destination is in the USA despite it resembling California central valley and coast.

Can people make the journey they want to those places in a low-carbon way? Sure, so long as it's Barcelona or northern Italy. Athens, not so much.
I tried C# recently again, after having migrated to use JS/TS and Node.Js as my main stack for years.

What put me off was how cumbersome it seemed to be. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by JS/TS, but where are the following features (which I believe to be quite basic)?
- Union types
- Object literals
- Functions as first class citizens

I get that C# is supposed to be a purely OO language, but in this day, the most useful languages are multi-paradigm.

People like to dish on JS/TS but IMHO one reason why they became so popular is overlooked. There’s just something so direct and unceremonious about programming in JS, and with TS you get strong expressiveness as well.

Until and unless the .NET languages have that it will be hard to pull me away.
Same here. There was a Spotify dev on twitter who was saying that Spotify only hires the best and that's why they are so successful. Very arrogant.

But like okay, if you are so great why can I only watch at 1x playback speed for video?

I'm just not willing to watch at that rate. The other thing was clips of Rogan on YouTube showed me if I wanted to watch the full thing. Spotify doesn't really offer that in the same way at least.

It's a big downgrade from YT over some UX and features that aren't that hard to create
It's a similar to Apple's app store model. 70% gets passed on to whomever owns the rights and it is often a record company, but not always. As I understand it, some artists (like Paul Simon) own the rights to their music.

Sony Music owns 2.5% of Spotify and Universal Music owns 3.5%. I sometimes wonder if those publishers have made more money on the stock or on royalty payments? It also creates a bit of a conflict of interest for the companies in that they benefit in more than one way when by getting their artists on Spotify.
I genuinely can't understand how they haven't fixed this already. If you listen to a podcast and then half way through switch over to music, there is no easy way to resume that podcast you were on, and good luck finding that one episode among the list of hundreds of episodes. It makes me think Spotify employees don't even use the app themselves.
Also the fact that Apple pretty much bought the entire space by providing free infrastructure and discovery but didn't do anything with it and so it flourished.
yep! pretty much, but selling the supply chain and specs themselves is almost as bad. It took PK almost 30 years with PRC information transfer to build the Islamic bomb, but 10 for NK thanks to Khan Labs.
> Are you saying Supreme court of India is in bed with Modi?

Ummm.... Yes
I think this is more evidence of the effectiveness of our safeguards and procedures than anything else.
What is the reason for not jumping ship to one of their competitors?
Where is the top talent going to go? Seems like a vast majority of FAANG* ended up laying folks off.
That's moving the goalposts. In a world with 'existential threat' (your words, not mine) weapons, making war inconvenient and take longer isn't enough, because one war ends everything. Sanctions and politics has to stop every war with 100% efficacy because the weapons in question cannot be matched. The fact that an invasion happened at all proves you wrong.
When the code your testing is a client for some remote API, and the sandbox/development/Testing version of that API doesn't have the same resources and uptime guarantee as production, then what are your options? as far as I can tell they are:

Don't test it.

Only do unit tests with the connection mocked out.

Test against production.

Try it a few times with a delay, and if it works then you know your code is good and you can move on with your deployment. Which is what flaky and pytest-retry do.

Maybe I'm missing something, but out of those 4 options retrying the test seems like the best one, with the big caveat that it is only viable if the test does indeed work after trying a few times. I really don't see any downside.

edit:

Maybe another option is to put the retry functionality directly in the client code, which would make your code more robust overall. but that is definitely more complex than using one of these libraries just for testing.
I mean factual independence likely works for math and repeatable science, but this starts to break down because a lot of interesting things are historical and determining actual independence is very difficult.

For example the openAI model and people working for openAI submitting are not what I consider independent. This goes the same for any human involved processes. For example if you're talking about a religion the most vocal, and most likely for input are most likely to be very for or very against it, and no rational middle ground may even exist.
> It’s harmless

not really sure about that.

it opens up a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories to get lost in, while we really need a grounded and educated electorate.
> The dose never leaves the muscle tissue.

Yes it does, quite rapidly in fact.
> Covid is here to stay and that means adapting to that.

Thanks for the response.

Respectfully, it sounds like you'll never return to public life with this perspective. (Big assumption: assuming you don't have any major commodities), the reason most people aren't taking Covid as seriously anymore is that they are comfortable with their current risk assessment. It seems this is paying off for many, at least in my anecdotal experience.

Again, I'm kind of just musing here, absolutely not telling you how to live your life. I'm just interested because I don't know anyone in my personal network who takes this perspective of yours.
Yup, squash and merge is THE way to go. I've tasted the good life. I always tie a commit back to a ticket and go to the ticket/issue for context with squash and merge. There is so much rich discussion in it that commit messages don't compare.
Not sure if you misread it but I said it was inorganic.
Not really.

Our experience is that Clojure is a very good language for newcomers to programming as a profession.

In fact, we almost exclusively hire new computer science graduates. None of them had heard of Clojure before joining, and the vast majority of them became useful in 2 weeks, and become productive in a few months. What you described as barriers are the things that got sorted out in the first day when they join.

We do not hire veterans unless they already know Clojure. These people need to unlearn stuff, some of them are resistant to changes, so we don't bother with them.
small price to pay for isolation (puts tongue directly into cheek)
Unless they find an actual exploit, tag communication is encrypted. They would have to be using the same key. If not, one would have to swipe one of the keys, reverse engineer like this, and extract the key.
> If I'm doing Windows stuff, yeah, it's great.

I develop on a Mac (JetBrains Rider) and deploy to Ubuntu. .NET is truly cross-platform at this point.
Grandparent post explicitly said control behavior and speech through fear, not through speech:
> I would assume our government has the ability to get detailed photos of these objects

For any territory that a camera can get detailed photos of something, there is much greater area (volume) which over which it can get poor photos. So the more cameras you have getting better photos, the (many times) more bad photos you'll have.
I would wager this current PR blitz was initiated by MS, not Google. First we had a burst of narratives about "Google search sucks". Then ChatGPT appears with much fanfare. Then Bing AI appears. We get a very overblown narrative about Bard getting 1 fact slightly wrong (like literally every other LLM) and falsely being linked to a 8% drop in GOOG (the real cause was simply Bing AI announcement).

Managed narratives all around.
There is a project called Stable Attribution which can tell you what training set sources were used for generating your image. The same tech applied to chatgpt results would let it operate like a traditional search engine (and make it easier to filter out hallucinated factoids or citations)
No, I mean please explain the way you would use FHE to do that.
It's faster to carry six glasses at once than having to carry them to some point one by one.
The biggest beneficiary of India's partition was China.

Without India's partition, assuming that the Muslim population that wanted a separate Islamic nation was willing to live peacefully, China may not have had the guts to gobble Tibet, there would have been no friend of China on the other side of India to contain it and population of India + Pakistan + Bangladesh would have surpassed China long time ago.

So, yes, India and the world would have looked a lot different.

But, that's not the reality today, so no reason to ponder over it I guess.
Your comment is racist and inappropriate for HN.
>As an American it is always jarring to me when I travel and I get my passport photocopied/details taken at a hotel.

To clarify, it is not like hotels outside the US have fun gathering the info, in many countries it is required by Law to transmit info about guests (including children) to the Police.
Legislation passed under President Obama required trains carrying hazardous flammable materials to have ECP brakes.

The law was rescinded in 2017 by the Trump administration.
Ah, I see. I figured there was a communication break somewhere.

every day of the week

I don't know of any school sport that is "every day of the week." Even football is usually 4 days of practice + 1 game per week, 3-4 months a year.

If that is your idea of "insane," fine, we can differ.

highly intensive

The vast majority of school sports are pretty casual, quite honestly. For example I used to help the local high school tennis coach. I'm not sure those kids broke a sweat on most days.

Football tends to be the most intense. But even then not every day is intense. Usually in the beginning of the week you might focus on strength and cardio. Thursday is more of a strategy day. Kind of a rest day physically because tomorrow, you play. Then Friday is your game.

There are surely exceptions to the rule. When I was in high school there was a nearby team that trained basically year round from what I heard. When their long time coach retired he did it on the last day of the season. He said he chose that timing because their off-season weight training routine started the next day so he was handing things off to the new coach then and there. That sounds pretty excessive to me, but also, if you went to that school and chose to be a part of that sport you knew what you were getting into. So if that's what somebody else wants I'm not going to say they were wrong as long as they enjoy it.

For context please note that even in that "fanatical" school we are talking about perhaps 40-50 kids from a class of maybe 500. This is not the norm for children even in that school. I would point to our childhood obesity epidemic as evidence that, in general, we are not exactly inundating our children with intensive exercise regimens.
> and buying up tons of real estate when so many people either WFH full time or are hybrid?

My pet conspiracy theory is that a significant motivating factor for why some of these big tech companies are so bullish on returning everyone to the office is that otherwise all of the real estate purchases and leases make the executives look like fools.
Pakistan was created for political reasons to keep India busy and to make sure USSR don't get such huge country as its ally.

It is now 75 years and Pakistan is still used by USA, Russia, China, UK and even smaller countries like Sri Lanka to keep India occupied.

Pakistan never should had existed.

It was created with a great human tragedy, it will go down with a great human tragedy.

Pakistan with 250 million population is out of money, power, oil, fertilizer and even food and water because they are spending 1/3rd of their money maintaining their army.
The only news media I consume in any form is the NBC Nightly News.

There has been a considerable amount of attention for the balloons. Ohio has been mentioned a few times. It doesn't seem like it's getting the attention it deserves, but maybe I only feel like that because my hometown is in NE Ohio and this situation is more important in my head than it actually is.
Vinyl chloride (VC) is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC), an inert plastic material used in all sorts of things, but is well known as the PVC in PVC pipes which are used everywhere.
Seems the same as always to me, the top left corner is fixed but you can click and drag to change the canvas size from the bottom right.

Alternate way is to select the area you want to keep and then click the crop button on the toolbar.
The one thing people are universally good at is shifting goal posts.
I'm not in an English-speaking country, but I work with an American company. What I do that improves my listening is consuming my media in English. I watched movies, videos, and pretty much everything in English. I also listen to audiobooks. But the biggest improvement is done by reading books. I read a ton of fictions, mostly fantasy and science fiction. These tend to have a wider range of vocabulary than even non-fiction.
I sometimes get smartphone photos of computer screens sent to me by friends. It makes me cringe every time, but now I'm thinking maybe they're onto something.
Playlists. I can migrate them to Apple Music but the order in which I added each of these songs is important to me and the last time I tried to export them, such an order was lost.

I know I might be the minority but that's what happened to me the last time I wanted to try something different from Spotify.
Hell if I could get a Metroid Prime Remastered-type remake of every game from my childhood I'd never need another new property again. Better than playing a new game that takes up 120GB on my drive of which 80GB is microtransaction textures so some bro can have anime girls on his M-16.

I cannot damn wait until the Banjo-Kazooie decompilation project is complete and someone starts working on a Render96-esque version of it.
As a long time Java professional who hasn't experienced .NET what would you say are the biggest advantage points of .NET vs a typical modern Java setup with say, IntelliJ, SpringBoot, maven/gradle etc?
India also has nuclear weapons, unlike South Korea and Taiwan, so there is a strong deterrence effect.
Google Reader was shut down and lots of tech people were blinded by follower count self importance and early adopter bluechecks to claim Twitter was “just fine” to use instead of RSS.
Buy appropriately sized tractors. Typically farmers are upgrading these things all the time, should be pretty straightforward to swap out this single factor of production to the right sort of thing.

Our vehicles and machinery have this tendency to occupy prime mental real estate, as unchangeable monoliths around which everything must be planned. In reality, they are the most changable thing, and we must change our machinery to serve us, rather than the other way around.

There are also lots of crops that are not serviced by large tractors, but individual human hands. In fact most of the fruit and vegetables we eat are like that, and many of those crops do very well with a bit less than full Sun.
Always depressing how _any_ metric that is not regularly benchmarked will be ignored by manufacturers and noticeable degrade in a short timeframe. No matter what consumer's reasonable expectations of that metric are.
What worries me about interacting with any cloud LLM or other AI is that the provider will record/analyze/sell my inputs, as is done with search queries today. I bet models can be trained to elicit personal info from the users. Users will be happy to comply, as long as they think it will give them a better answer.
Call me when Excel doesn't randomly insist that things are dates.
The blowback about googles response is unreasonable. Everyone is making some wild assumptions about gpt-based search. We don’t even know yet if it’s fit to replace a search engine.

Why not wait for a moment and see what unfolds? ChatGPT has only been alive for a few months. Why does google need an answer immediately? They should take their time and be calculated instead of rushing out some half baked AI search solution.

How is GPT-search supposed to be profitable anyways? The traditional model of targeted advertising would be insufferable if injected into a chat bot.
Yup, squash and merge is THE way to go. I've tasted the good life. I always tie a commit back to a ticket and go to the ticket/issue for context with squash and merge. There is so much rich discussion in it that commit messages don't compare.

This approach when merging in the GH UI, puts the ticket number in the merged commit (not a merge commit though). And the biggest advantage of this approach is there is NEVER a "revert the revert" situation when dealing with reverting. So easy and clean to revert because you aren't reverting a merge commit.

I get that "we can't change issue tracking software" but that is just something you gotta live with, and the advantages of squash and merge far outweigh this "possibility".
Too often people forget to make this type of calculation. I get it - it sucks to have to make that type of choice! But in a world with limited resources - of which the cost is just an indirect indication of - we have to.

We need to better understand the downsides and alternatives of proposed, not just the upsides. We need to not call people who point them out "killers who hate the environment" and instead listen and work together toward the best solution possible, not the one that sounds the best without understand the details.
Also gcc #9 n-body program was converted to Rust #9 —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
My take...

> When Sundar doesn't react fast enough

They are like Xerox. Search-heads (reference to copy-heads)

> When Sundar reacts fast enough

This is exactly how a company with their thumb on the pulse of the internet should be reacting. The tech is already out there - at its infancy. This will not be Google+ 2.0...

> Satya in Redmond

Oh, no... let's rush this out now!! We can't lose momentum. This is our chance!!!

(In the last few days we've seen articles: Their demo was littered with errors, tons of factual errors surfacing, GPT-Bing getting "angry" with a user while making stuff up).

I think this was always going to play out this way. There was no other way it could go. We are beta-testing both (1) the products and (2) our ability to think critically when the results are spewed out.
Why... Are the names of everything so confusing? Why does the naming scheme hsve to change with whst looks like every release of the language or framework or whatever. To an outsider all the different .net (core|framework| whatever) names just look.. like the same thing.
"...but I got through it."

Are you saying you've none left?

;-)
You mean Apple Podcasts? The app that every podcast feels compelled to publish on and is by far the biggest review and discovery platform.
That's not how I read the original comment:

> This is anodyne phrasing that omits the lede, which is that this information was not previously disclosed. This expanded "list of toxic chemicals" was not public prior to Sunday.

The accident happened on February 3rd. And the chemicals started being released on the 6th. Sunday was the 12th. That's a long time to wait to disclose the types of chemicals you're releasing in a town.
While I doubt they are meaning it as such, it's not far off from the technique of physically redacting a printout and then scanning that as duotone so there was never, ever a digital path between the original and the resulting digital copy.