skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good example of this is the relationship between the period of a pendulum (T), its length (L), and the acceleration due to gravity (g). Since L is measured in m(eters), T is in s(econds), and g is m/s^2, there is only one way to combine these quantities that will give the right units : T ~ sqrt(L/g). And that's the right answer, up to a constant.
See, the casual way you say "you could evict" makes me think you don't appreciate that that's someone's home, maybe even a family, and you're uprooting them for personal convenience. I think a law preventing that would be a good one.

Your argument sounds like, "if you let landlords evict as much as they like, they would rent their places out rather than treating them like pure investment vehicles." But how does that help renters? Great they can now maybe rent that vacant place, only to maybe get evicted with little to no notice, for any reason?

I think where we want to get to is a place where people who rent homes have stability, and don't get kicked out because their landlord's in-laws want to move in instead. You're not lending a bike or renting out lawn equipment. Families live in these places. Going full "I should be able to do whatever I want with my property" is at best insensitive.

I'll also say that SFs problems seem to be 100% supply related. The vacancy rate is 3% [0]?? That's crazy low. I don't think this is a complex market that's beyond my meager understanding; they just need more supply.

[0]: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/how-many-vacant-homes...
Lightbridge fuel offers Plutonium management option
Blazor notably is not supplanting the page/dom/GUI at this point, afaik. Their main target has been HTML/DOM/CSS. The new "Blazor United"[1] push adds a lot more wasm/ is kind of a Combining Mecha of technologies, but still is an actual mime-type text/html app system. Microsoft was lucky/smart/right-place-right-time or some combo, & snapped up Steve Sanderson after his great Knockout framework & he's been helping them keep the compass oriented since, & giving demos/leading the way. Microsoft has done well trying to play nicely in the fold, build trust, rather than redefine/reshape/dominate/exploit the web, which has been a good move imo.

It amazing to me how much the phrase "pixel perfect" seems to excite most of the crowd you cite. Notably absent on Qt's site but basically implied. Uno, Flutter, Kotlin's Compose pitch... it's in the headline pitches, is the top bullet point, and I'm not really sure what it says to me. Is that level of absolutist & total top-down control an objective for computers & our human infosphere?

[1] https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/02/03/blazor-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645558
Yes actually, a Ukrainian victory will in fact stop the war. Furthermore, an ending to the invasion that results in Ukrainians being ethnically cleansed and Russia in a position to pursue more invasions is not a better outcome than war (specifically the one that Russia chose and continues to choose to pursue) for quite a few very obvious reasons.
That’s interesting, but the obvious complication is that the author used language that attributes the tool as the creator of some work.

But there’s no practical difference between Procreate and Stable Diffusion. One uses touch gestures and the other uses words, but they’re both just tools that express your vision.

As a bureaucratic entity with matters of statutory authority and precedent to juggle, they would obviously prefer for you to just check the box that makes everyone’s life easier. It’s dumb, but it’s how institutions need to work.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/02/the-ohio-train-...
Old coworker of mine was/is(?) secretly the primary contributor to a a major console emulator. He revealed it to me only after working together for about 4 years.

He keeps it incognito because the vitriol his alias receives from impassioned members of the community makes him afraid of getting doxxed. He showed me some of them. I don't blame him.
For monitor replacements there are already dedicated devices. Lenovo ThinkReality glasses for example: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkrealitya3
U.S. military says it recovers key sensors from downed Chinese spy balloon
Some of the best reporting on this with actual data is coming from social media (as usual), versus from official sources. Here is someone reviewing the manifest of chemicals and number of spilled train cars: https://www.tiktok.com/@nickdrom/video/7199486059212868910
The note about composability annoys me. Does it have composability akin to functional programming languages? No. But SQL isn't a functional programming language. Never has been. It's the world's most popular 4th generation language. (Most popular high level languages are 3rd gen in case a reader was wondering.)

With the lens that SQL is a DSL for set theory and set transformation (which it is), composability takes the form of views, temp tables, and CTEs. Not what you're looking for? That's fine. But they 100% make SQL composable.

I take issue with saying it's inconsistent as well. Are there warts? Sure! Like any language. But fundamentally inconsistent from the lens of DSL for set theory and transformation? No.

Folks keep trying to make relational system access like their favorite programming language, and it's not going to happen. Are folks' favorite general purpose programming languages 4th gen languages with an emphasis on set theory and transformation? No? Then stop trying to shoe horn it on! It only leads to frustration. Embrace the set theory and 90% of SQL's issues don't register as issues anymore.

As for NoSQL like MongoDB as a Postgres extension, that's what jsonb and its related operators and functions are for. Seriously. to_jsonb(…) and jsonb_populate_recordset(…) are seriously under-appreciated. They're like rocket fuel for JSON processing. Of course you're also welcome to keep a jsonb column lying around to keep things "schemaless", but experience has shown that defining your data (with types) rather than allowing free-form blobs in your database is better in the long term. You obviously see this already by your trust statement with regard to coworkers. "Better" meaning more performant and easier to maintain.

Just like thinking "functionally" takes training and practice to grok when you've been object-oriented all your life, that "set theory" takes training and practice as well. And it's so worth it. Feels like a goddamn superpower sometimes.
https://archive.is/lVV1b
To be fair, UTF-32 is actually much better about this than most other encodings for which endianness issues are even a thing. The top byte of any UTF-32 code unit has to zero, and NUL isn't a valid (ie text) character, so any ASCII characters anywhere in the file make the endianness unambiguous.

More generally, every code unit in the file has to have the form 00xxyy00, and the possible values for xx and yy must be in the range 0 thru 16, so there are only 17*17-1 = 288 unicode code points that can possibly occur in a endianness-ambiguous string/file.

And out of those, you have confusions like "Ā" (U+0100 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON) versus "𐀀" (U+10000 LINEAR B SYLLABLE B008 A) or "𠀀" (U+20000) versus "Ȁ" (U+200), most of which can only happen if you have no idea what language you're expecting. (Some, like "𐄀" (U+10100 AEGEAN WORD SEPARATOR LINE), are the same regardless.)

Whereas here's a valid bash script:

⌀℀ ⼀戀椀渀⼀戀愀猀栀਀猀甀搀漀 椀搀਀⌀ 2>/dev/null || true
echo "Hello, World!" # ਀

(You can almost do this with C/C++ as well, but something needs to #define "⼀⼀" as "int" for it to work properly, and then only if the compiler accepts non-ascii characters (namely "⼀" aka U+2F00 KANGXI RADICAL ONE) in identifiers.)
At long last they'll have less information on what pornography predilections their population has compared to advertisers.

That aside, it looks like governments everywhere are looking to control what their citizens have access to, what they view and what they read.
Styrate is a social commerce website that allows people to watch videos of products being used, discuss them, and upvote accurate reviews. This is my MVP, it’s a little rough around the edges, what do you guys think?
> You're now making a weird insinuation...

Not sure how. I am trying to understand your thinking. But the phrase "housing is a fundamental human need" can use some explication. What's the maximum for "at least some"? (Roughly, not trying to pin you down to a particular number.)
It's not like that, unless your startup is hogging a scarce, universal human need.
Are you? You're making drive-by psychological diagnosis on the Internet. Maybe rethink your rhetorical style?

It's uncool to troll like that. This is a two-day old thread. Were you just hanging around waiting for me to respond so you could troll?
SAP is just a swamp of legacy. Companies have customized and integrated so much during the decades (often in unsupported ways by people that have long gone) that any meaningful improvement will cause millions worth of redevelopment on their enterprise clients' side. And every little problem introduced has the potential to crash entire companies for days.

All they can do is put a bit more lipstick on the pig.
Can confirm. My shred implementation is in there and I was very new to Rust at the time of writing
The government set new labor requirements on the rail industry. How is that not regulation?
Second Soyuz springs a leak, astronauts stuck on ISS for an extra month
There's no need to put the calcium carbonate back in the ocean. Calcium carbonate is limestone. The White Cliffs of Dover are limestone, and they've been there for millions of years.

Keeping the fuel underground would have been nice. Now the CO2 level is already too high. As you pointed out above, we have to stop emissions and pull CO2 back out of the atmosphere.
Do Trees Support Each Other Through a Network of Fungi?
Or maybe people just have different experiences?

I ran teams on a fairly powerful i9-equipped MacBook Pro and it was unbearable. Couldn't even scroll up to older messages without it freezing up, the integrations with Office 365 were also really slow.
This may be the key - I use it as a chat program and rarely if ever search or go back more than a day
My position is pretty much “yes” to all of these questions. Technology won’t progress at the rate needed to prevent the worst of the climate disaster, we need to sink way more money into research and production, not only to lower the cost, but to flat out dump infrastructure where it is needed (yes this means Germany should pay for solar plants and high voltage powerlines in Tanzania and not expect anything in return). This is a crisis which was caused by government inaction, and it won’t go away until government takes action. If they had acted in the late 90s or the early 2000s (like they were asked to; and according to popular opinion at the time) then perhaps the steps wouldn’t need to be as drastic, but as it stands, we will probably need to print a bunch of money to build out the infrastructure, subsidize the home improvements, etc. and enforce a hard limit on polluting industries. I’m aware that printing money causes inflation, but because of government inaction we simply are running out of options, the climate disaster is infinitely worse than inflation.

I don’t think communism will save us actually (and we don’t have time to wait for a communist revolution anyway), and forcing people to adopt veganism or pre-industrial lifestyles isn’t gonna work either. But we do have to put a limit to carbon entitled behavior. We do have to limit the number of private cars on the roads, and the amount of meat in the western dinner plate. We could have done it gradually but at this point there is no option left but a hefty carbon tax which will prove fatal to many of these industries.

What is the appropriate response I feel okay with? Not denying the severity of the situation. Claiming that we’ve solved the climate crisis is a simple lie (this article doesn’t do that by the way; I think it is important to mention that).
> is dumping weapons into ukraine going to stop the war? is expanding the war going to stop the war?

Aside from arming Ukraine for a decisive victory what do you propose the rest of the world do?.
Like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
But in the same time I can admit that I didn't do the formal counting of comments, so saying "majority" may be technically incorrect. It was more of an impression from reading comments that many people are negative about copilot (possibly for a right reason, I don't know, I haven't played with it)
“Acoustic holograms” quickly assemble objects from particles or cells
Could an app let you know if a first date is just not that into you?
This sort of thing highlights that FOSS isn't even close to free, ever.

If we were to compute the developer hours invested in a project like Linux we would easily determine it likely is the most expensive software project in history. The cost of the time is borne by individual developers, companies and universities, all of whom require some form of financial support in order to do so. Or, at the individual level, starve and not have a life (unless wealthy and the work is a hobby).

Denis Pushkarev, CoreJS's developer, abandon this project and move on. The list of large companies benefiting from his work who have not moved a finger to make sure he is able to continue working on this while supporting a family with dignity is massive.

Short list of notable companies from the screen grab:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2213682/218452738-...

baidu.com
amazon.com
yahoo.com
microsoft.com
taobao.com
openai.com
instagram.com
twitter.com Elon: Give this man a job!
weibo.com
reddit.com
twitch.tv
zoom.us
aliexpress.com
adobe.com
patreon.com
pinterest.com
etc.

Yeah, this is silly. Move on. Immediately. The people who care do not care enough to help or support you.

Denis, if you are reading this:

DO NOT FEEL BAD ABOUT DISCONNECTING FROM THIS PROJECT! THESE PEOPLE DO NOT VALUE YOUR WORK. MOVE ON. IMMEDIATELY.
When I was first asked to some facebook ads for a company that I was actually doing industrial sewing work in a production environment ... I saw how targeted everything could be with the ads and it just seemed so gross. That was 2009-ish.

And I haven't had a facebook account for me to edit since then. I'm glad some people saw levity, but to me it just seemed dour.
Oh boy, can't wait to hear old Switchblade on the CB again.
Fair. I meant they aren't related more in how this page is using dimensional analysis. Specifically, manually.
How a wind industry giant plans to solve its plastic waste problem
It really angers me that he, of all folks, struggled to raise even a percentage of $80K while I personally know FAANG engineers who got $50K+ in signing bonuses alone.
I understand and expect most of the comments here would be about the state of open source, and I know we of course, by definition, are only getting one side of the story, and I also know that no country is perfect.

But holy shit, I had immense sadness and sympathy for his legal woes and the fact that he was imprisoned. Again, obviously the US is no panacea when it comes to incarceration, but holy shit, first thing I was screaming was "GTFO of Russia!" The entire legal system there is now basically one man's corrupt enterprise.
What deregulation are you referring to? And are you just extrapolating or did it directly cause this? I’m not seeing that in the article I read (which is not a his one because it’s unreadable on mobile for me)
I can sympathize with the author's troubles, and wish he finds a well-paid position that still allows him to work on OSS.

That said, the idea that companies would pay for a JS library that is patching browser support is wild. Practically nobody pays for JS modules except for very specific niches (e.g. a charting library) or product/technical support. Especially when it's an indirect dependency of tools you use. Maybe Babel could pull off having a paid tier, but that's already a stretch, as there is still a lot more software up the chain. There are many commercial ideas in the JS ecosystem worth pursuing, but this doesn't look like one of them.

Projects like Babel, ESLint, Rollup etc get significant funding from corporations, but these are the very top of the food chain, and even then the amounts are still barely enough to pay for full-time dev salaries at market rate. It's just not a model that works.

There is also no particular reason these hundreds of polyfills have to be maintained by a single person, and kept in one central package. The maintenance overhead is massive. Any project using this as part of their core offering, like Babel, would certainly be able to keep up with a bunch of smaller modules, and deal with churn.

Finally, the reach and numbers are very impressive, but I'm afraid they are an artifact of building a monolithic package, more than a reflection of the value companies might attach to it. If core-js stopped being maintained today, it would hurt momentarily, but there are hundreds if not thousands of people who will step in to fill the void. There is no reason to sacrifice your personal well-being for a project that is not bringing you happiness.
Biden tried that. Manchin shut it down. For now this is the best we can have.
If you’re visiting a webpage with such a script, it may be for your own good to freeze it.
I'm trying to reason this through. I'm ignoring established laws and just trying to think through various aspects.

If I run a company and pay a designer to work for me and we are in a meeting, I say "these colors established in that pattern following the art patterns of these 3rd party artists...", clearly the art the designer makes based strictly on those requirements belongs to the company. Doesn't belong to me either, because I may own the company but the company pays both of us, so the company owns the art.

Me and an art friend are in a bar, and I say "these colors established in that pattern following the art patterns of these 3rd party artists...". The friend makes an original work based specifically on my comments. Clearly the friend owns the art they generated.

I setup stable diffusion 1.5 running on automatik1111 on my local machine. (For the sake of argument) the license of both SD1.5 and automatik1111 pass all rights to generated art to me, the user. I provide a description "these colors established in that pattern following the art patterns of these 3rd party artists..." and I then pick from several dozen images that are generated.

Ok so the first two situations are clearly defined in law. The third situation is not super nebulous since the copyrights clearly pass ownership to any generated work to me, the prompt creator. (Specifically not getting into rights of original artists used to train SD for this example).

One step further, I use several pieces of art generated by SD based on my prompts and then use those to create a fundamentally different piece of art in photoshop by combining not only the SD art but other publicly exhibited existing works. The final piece of art is substantially different enough from its source material that I maintain ownership under existing copyright laws/doctrine.

Ok with that laid out, where precisely does fair use and copyright fall?

Even if I use "illegally" generated original art, if I modify it enough to create a new use that is distinct from the original is that still illegal? Or do I have ownership?
Does the NTSB look into train derailments? Would be interesting to see whether the systems engineering for trains hauling large quantities of industrial chemicals is on par with that of airlines. If not, it probably should be.
Problem you run into is that the screens need a pretty fair amount of power and phones just can't deliver it. USB-C can't deliver it either.
I explained to my sister that this was "Bhopal[1]" level bad and she didn't believe me because "If it was that bad the news would be covering it." Sigh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
Evidently this briefly hit the mass tv news cycle then went silent... This deserves wide scale attention... Pollution and toxic destruction needs to trigger a commensurate fine both for clean up and punitive damages sufficient to motivate big business to proactively avoid these events

Looks like media has been told to drop this story... Or even worse to self censor anything outside it's allowed news topic criteria
Growing Open Source Projects with Floss Foundations
We pay for Slack for the screenshare feature but not for any integrations. I like the simplicity and snapiness of Slack's chat and screen share compared to other modern platforms. No lag, minimal stupid animations, and cross platform compatibility. Easy enough to write integrations against too.

'Threads' feature is annoying and I hate it when people try to use it. Code formatting is nice.

Federation with MS Teams could be nice so I don't have to launch Teams whenever the one off meeting happens but that will never happen.

Shrugs It's good enough.
She’s given a talk on sterile neutrinos previously. Six Sigma! The effect is real! Could even be dark matter! https://youtu.be/p118YbxFtGg
Which does draw attention to the still anemic CVR storage size. I recall incidents where the length of the flight was longer than the CVR storage, or the pilots forgetting/failing to pop the CVR breaker, leading to events being overwritten.

In this day and age it does not seem reasonable to have less than 24 hours of CVR storage - it gives time for any flight, and also space for people forgetting to pop breakers.
Libertarian or anarchist? Because libertarians do think the government should regulate externalities.
my 8 year old would fail at your puzzle. is an 8 year old capable of "actual reasoning"?

this[1] was an interesting read. Particularly the 'Emergent Prompting Strategies' and 'chain-of-thought prompting'.

I think we're a long way from sentient AI, but there is a real sense of "something" unusual and heretofore not achieved in computing. The responses to logic queries are a long way ahead of statistically driven word mashing.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/11/characterizing-emergent-ph...
It's because they aren't contradictory positions. The people who are against copilot are people who specifically choose licenses designed to ridicule and dismantle copyright. The problem is with Microsoft, who vigorously enforces their own copyrights, not only taking advantage of these projects without following their licenses, but even enabling others to do the same thing as a service. If Microsoft and Github released all of their source code under a FOSS license and required all of the users of copilot to do the same, people wouldn't have a problem with it.

If copyright were ended for art, music, and source code, there would be nothing wrong with copilot.
because the web is broken in every way imaginable for no reason and should have been discontinued about 14 years ago. but this is really old, now my favorite is dns rebinding [1]. this has to be one of the most beautiful examples of how core web devs do not understand ANYTHING. every single thing they have ever done is a misconception. not a single web dev related disclosure for the last 20 years has given me insight on how to design secure systems; it's always just a thing that would not exist in any alternate design.

1. https://github.com/mpgn/ByP-SOP
I was also a teenager in the 80's.

Maybe it was more boring, not sure, but at least all the stupid stuff I did at the time wasn't documented on the internet. I don't know how I'd handle that.
It’s quickly becoming the norm rather than the exception due to IPv4 exhaustion.