skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the docs for iommi we've tried both the documentation-centric and the code-centric approaches.

We started with the documentation-centric approach because we had a lot of documentation and wanted to check if the code examples in them worked. So I wrote a bad parser that extracted the code from rST and put them into python files that we then ran. This worked... ok-ish.

Then we switched to the code-centric approach that we use today where we write tests that we generate the documentation from. There are specially marked documentation strings plus some tags for parts of the tests that shouldn't be included in the generated documentation, and some other cool little features like saving down the output of test requests to their own html files and then embedding them with iframes instead of using screenshots.

I am a programmer so I like the code-centric approach more, but they are pretty similar. The big thing is that you need to control the file format/parser yourself.
Although it would probably have paid off between 2010 and 2020, taking additional money out of a house with a HELOC in order to invest or spend it probably isn't a great strategy under a lot of circumstances.
Thanks, I was just using the parent's vocabulary to make my point.
Ah yes, another tit for tat. This particular scam artist happened to fall on the left side of the line. Over the past decade, we have seen other dickhead scammers fall on the right and left at various times. Today, the right gets to party and point out how the left sucks, but maybe tomorrow we'll find a right-leaning person who the left can eviscerate. It doesn't matter who he supported. What matters is that we fight against every scammer, liar, and dishonest fuck that we can. The tribe mentality in America is what's going to cause it to fall, not abortions, drugs, terrorists, Muslims, KKK members, or whomever you want to point the blame at. It's going to fall because Americans are fighting each other instead of the real enemy: the wealthy oligarchs who just want to extract as much as possible from us before they fuck off to some island they own somewhere.
Happened to me. I did absolutely nothing nefarious; I'm the most boring person you can imagine. It was clearly some internal logistics they screwed up. When I called them they said "they couldnt tell me the reason why" and that was that.
> subsidized

Subsidizes are fine, requirements are not.
I will never understand why some people are so quick to dismiss everything because they spot a grammar mistake.

Nothing is perfect. Get over it.
Node.js gets a Permission Model
I have deleted my account with them based on previous shady stuff they were pulling. Had to create a new account in order to get paid from other websites (turbsquid, cgtrader, thingyverse...)

Most of these websites only uses PayPal as a method of payment, kinda forcing the user to do the same.
> Electrons are relatively speaking more like the nice little billiards ball thwacking away at the SI that we like to imagine.

They are as long as you keep a close eye on them…
No you would have to overheat it deliberately for a long period of time.
If PFAS caused people to die of cancer at 60 in general, wouldn't life expectancy be somewhere below the 77 it's at?
Even if I did know you by any other name, as a public name that you've chosen, It's reasonable for me to call you p0pcult, on the same degree that it's for anyone to call him Zuck

Everyone is to some degree, even if what he did was nothing special, he was the one that did it.
Let's put Neil Armstrong as an example, he just happened to be on the right moment at the right time to be the first human to walk on the moon, it could have been any other astronaut.

I'm not saying he isn't slimy or even a con artist, I'm saying his merit still stands

Regarding my mistake, would you care to tell me how it's supposed to be written?
It serves me right for using words that I've only heard
No. Even in Indian English, this is not correct.
Teens by the millions are addicted to the scroll... They could just put it on autopilot at this point and their revenue streams wouldn't budge.
had a polysomnograph (aka sleep study) done which allowed them to recognize that I was having these movements during my sleep. My wife had always assumed I was just tossing and turning constantly while awake and I obviously had no clue what was going on without that PSG
CCL is not "abandoned". I recently brushed the dust off an application that I last released in 2014. It uses CCL on Windows. I was pleased to see there is a recent new version from 2021. I upgraded to that and did some new work, making new releases.
I think many of us played that game a little too much when we were young. I remember always going back to it.
Your criticism is difficult to follow. There's a big difference between refusing an intervention and making use of one. I can licitly refuse treatment for a disease (the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary care), but I cannot licitly make use of immoral means to treat a disease.

> If we allow parents to destroy embryos, why is it so controversial to allow them to modify them?

Genetic modification as such, in the abstract, when therapeutic (fixing some genetic defect that causes a disease) may be licit in principle, but in practice,

1. our ignorance of genetics and non-trivial hereditary effects suggests we should be cautious, not only for the sake of the person whose genes are being edited, but because the change is not localized; that modification may not be transmitted to descendants

2. that embryos are subjects of modification introduces the standard moral problems of IVF (such as the objectification of human beings).

If modification is not therapeutic, then the usual moral problems surrounding designer babies apply in addition to those that apply to IVF. Killing embryonic human beings is intrinsically worse, though the secondary genetic risks are obviously absent.
> They aren’t going to explain that to hackers.

The idea of security through obscurity needs to die. I wish companies shared their logic behind these decisions. Sure bad people will take advantage of it in short-term. But, in long-term, most of the loopholes should be discovered and fixed.
I'm sure their EULA has an arbitration clause
I don't think any books really teach you that.
Housing prices were jacked up because more people moved in than there were houses to live in. The rich tech yuppies are gonna move where they want regardless, so either build enough housing to accommodate them or they will take over the existing housing. If you build, they won't have to kick anyone out
Maybe, I dunno, but it only took a couple fucked-up dishes before she was like "why the hell am I doing this when there's a teflon pan right there?"
Which suggests the wrapper is the blocker. (I have no horse in the emacs vim holy war; this argument could apply to macOS just as easily.)
I was laid off in December and this has been by far the hardest search of the now four times (yes, really) I’ve been laid off in my career.

The few times I’ve received anything resembling feedback in this cycle has been along the lines of “we have a large number of highly qualified candidates for this role” and with a lot of LinkedIn postings citing 200+ applicants, I believe it.
Modern data troves basically circumvent anything ever being thrown out unless the police are utterly incompetent, which they often are, or purposely violating rules.
The layoffs are rather sizeable. Even if only a small fraction go the start-up route, that could end up being a significant number of new start-ups.
The first thing any responsible bird owner will do is get rid of all teflon pans. Even a self cleaning oven will kill them. This has been well known in the bird community for years. It's the very first thing we'll tell a new/prospective bird owner. It's really as bad as "Cook a meal, all the birds in the house die."
Rwanda is no stranger to bad times. 1994, being well known.
What is our defense relative to GDP?
Tried it. Didn't feel the natural conversation that ChatGPT has, felt more like a regular old 'how can I help you' chatbot. Asked a few questions, picked out some keywords and pasted a very generic bit of advice that wasn't really conversational and didn't seem to take into account information already provided.
A Physicist's View of DNA
It sounds like you had an interesting observation but it’s not clear to me. Can you state it more plainly? What kind of organization?

I have also noticed FBers have a certain kind of personality. Vaguely utopian but removed from reality with a heavy emphasis on hedonism.
Great and succinct analogy, that was helpful
?? The Google Maps I use offers to download the maps if I ask for directions on a long journey. It doesn't seem to have download limits and I never need to think about it again.
Look at all the things that Plan9 and Fuchsia do differently.
At one point - TikTok was rumored to be worth $400B.

That's about 40% of GOOG - which prints $60B per year. TikTok makes nothing.

It's only growing revenues at 53%, and they're massively decelerating.

It's going to be hard to IPO for anything near that without ZIRP when they don't have profits and their growth rates are declining...

Easiest way to make the numbers look better for IPO is fire half the employees and make the other half work 3x as much.
X: yes, minix has X11R7 binaries: https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=usersguide:introductiont...

I don't think I've run an X server on it ever, but I can verify you can at least get it to pop up xterm's on a remote machine.

gcc: I don't think any recent gcc's work, but the latest minix (3.4.0rc6) does have clang-3.6 as /usr/bin/cc
Nah, I think the good and bad aspects should be judged separately, we shouldn't be giving these companies a free pass for the infrastructure contributions they made -- you know which bad regime was also good at building motorways -- I'm grateful for google search and for maps, Facebook and some of the other stuff not so much.
But it’s how politicians get elected.
Efficiency and the Decline of American Freight Railroads
Some observations missing from the piece:

Good writing requires refining and editing as much as developing an outline and a first draft. Reading the piece aloud will trigger a natural editing and refinement process and is useful for important content.

I find Grammarly helpful for spotting problems in writing, I agree with about half of the suggestions but the review is still helpful. I have paid copy editors for books and important articles I have written.

Start with the audience you are writing for and what you hope they will learn or the actions you will encourage / enable.

Getting a first draft via dictation can be a better way to start than typing. Try it once or twice.

For important pieces ask for feedback from folks who are a good proxy for your target audience or are familiar with their needs.
Have you considered a startup studio? Assuming your handle indicates location, Pioneer Square Labs[1] and the Allen Institute[2] both have incubators to connect skilled people with promising ideas for startups.

[1]: https://www.psl.com/jobs/job?gh_jid=4418268002

[2]: https://jobs.ai2incubator.com/jobs
I'm pretty sure 50Hz is electricity, not gas.
Back in the nineties, it was a prank.
More startups, more creative ideas, more free stuffs please.

Heroku is good example for such time.
The only data cited is the increase in YCombinator applications. But they only have data for the last year, because YCombinator didn't publish how many applications they received in previous years.

(Also, if you're looking for it: archive.is slash WE4WH)
Bazel Day 2023
Hire more cops[0], build sane public transit, invest in acoustic insulation and adjust your notions of what 'blight' is, to focus on blight-by-design of cookie-cutter suburbia.

[0] https://thecrimereport.org/2022/09/14/the-u-s-is-under-polic...
Thank you for posting these links and for sharing your experience. Another autistic person here and just wanted to leave this comment here for anyone that might find it helpful (and don’t want to imply this is for you specifically either!).

Masking was incredibly detrimental for me. In fact I didn’t even realize I was doing it. Once I realized I was autistic (at the tender age of 31) I decided to stop doing so whatever the cost may be.

To my surprise, embracing my autistic qualities and understanding them has changed my life completely. I’m far more social now, and I realized that trying to be social like neurotypical folks is basically impossible if you’re autistic. However, being social like an autistic person is incredibly rewarding. Many people tell me they don’t even realize I’m any different, even though I’ve gotten there not by trying to be the same but by being more authentically myself.

It has been a long road (I’m 36 now), and while it has been difficult I can say that has been beyond worthwhile. We have beautiful things to share with our fellow humans, even though I think those things scare some folks.

If you’re like me from a few years back, don’t give up. We are our own greatest critics which is a double edged sword. You’re better than you know, and before you know it things will change in ways that are difficult to imagine.

Quick PS edit: apologies for grammar or words that are out of place. I’m on my phone and my fingers are seriously fat
If you have to give PayPal banking information make sure it's a separate bank from your "main" one - it should be easy enough to get a free online bank account you can use as an intermediary.
Can you be more specific about how POSIX is more advanced than Windows (NT kernel)? Or a primitive it offers that NT doesn’t? Examples?

Windows provides most (all?) of the same mechanisms, and a number that POSIX does not.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/interpro...

Example Windows concepts that Unix doesn’t have (AFAIK):

Transactions on named pipes (request/response): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/transact...

Parents can control which handles child processes inherit: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/pipe-han...

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) IPC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/interpro...

ACL-based permissions on objects that kernel APIs operate on, including pipes. (ACLs are a much more sensible way of specifying permissions on resources than owner/group). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/SecAuthZ/a...

Since windowing is built into the NT kernel, it also has support for powerful clipboard operations as one crucial type of IPC in a graphical environment (see 1st link).

Windows I/O Completion Ports (IOCP) also provide a high-performance way to implement kernel-managed asynchronous I/O operations which has no parallel in POSIX: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/i-o-c...

I’ve been developing professionally on Linux for >15 years, and while I do like its simple aesthetic, the consistency and power of NT kernel APIs are something I miss.
That's exactly what's being proposed. The document specifically says that the word milk should be proceeded by the plant used to make it.
Yea, but I think 10 days in a row of 12 hours a day meditation might fall on the "excessive" side, right? I mean, I live in a place where Buddhists are pretty common, and none that I know do anything like that. They might go to a retreat in the mountains, but they aren't just sitting there for hours trying to feel their body parts mentally, they do other things, like copy religious texts by hand or take nature walks to appreciate life.
Grid scale buffering with molten salt batteries that run at 500 Celsius
Honestly, none of the language you're quoting is reassuring. There are qualifiers like "most likely" and "relatively safe", and the not-at-all-reassuring "Ingestion of PTFE is not reported to be toxic". This is very different from "known to be non-toxic". So many industries (in the US at least) operate in a way similar to "shoot first, ask questions later". When it comes to health, it should be the reverse.

Clearly they sold the original formulation as safe, until it wasn't, so why trust the new formulation? To me, it's not worth the gamble when we're discussing a new chemical that's being transferred into all of my food. There are plenty of alternatives with a slight decrease in comfort but the benefit of having been tested for hundreds (or thousands) of years.
I am able to buy, but not able to sell.

eBay say I am connected to a dodgy account that was last active years ago. I am not connected to it - but must be some IP match or fingerprint from shared office or the like.

Zero ability to feedback or get anywhere from eBay.

The logic is rubbish as well, I am dodgy so stop me from selling... but fine to buy?! How?!

eBay - sort your shit out.
being in similar situations of hunting down the source of a hum, i hope you rot in hell ;-)
So ambient uses WebGPU, which on rust usually means the wgpu library, which has a vulkan backend for platforms that support vulkan. It's possible that's what you're thinking of.

The issue is that vulkan is really low level. So while it's possible to do whatever you want, you need tooling to make it worth the effort to do in rust. For example, let's say this morph thing is a click and drag difficulty level operation in Unreal engine, but in ambient there's no specific tool for it so you have to write 10K lines of code to do the same thing. In this case, the issue isn't what's possible through the gpu, but rather how much work a developer has to do.

If you have to choose between writing big portions of code to do what other engines nice you for free vs. spending that time on your game, many developers will opt for the more mature engine.

(I say this as someone who is not a game developer, I've never used Unreal engine, and I have no idea what this morph operation is, but this is the shape of the issue at play here)
I wish you could provide a "reverse" challenge. In Carroll County, GA Spectrum/Charter provide or are rolling out underground rural fiber. CarrollEMC/Crossbeam are rolling out "on the power pole" fiber in the same rural area. Neither show up on the map to the extent they are provided. It would significantly help my neighbors to know these are options.
Is this a solution I can use when Gmail challenges a login and asks for a phone number? We often use a "user-company-name@our-company-name.com" convention, with a GSuite setup, that they share access to their Google Search Console and Analytics with so our team can access. But because we have team members across regions, they often get login challenges. How does this work with that?
The fact that most of human history has been abjectly totalitarian is not a defense for the US being actively totalitarian.
> the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, one out of four people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer.

But why would people be exposed to it? It's not like there are no smokestack filtering systems out there, or like there is no law (like the Clean Air Act) that regulates the industrial emissions.
We already know the limitation of physical authentication, which is why digital is so convenient but with advancements in Ai and considering the potential of quantum computing I wonder where we’ll turn to next… maybe there will actually be a use for the blockchain
I was going to make a funny comment about Make, but then I decided I can just link the Make documentation's page "The Two Flavors of Variables" [1] which links to definitions of the four different flavors of variables.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Flavors.h...
See also from today: "I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34912314
Working on R&D for anticipated features. The number of employees that work purely on KTLO is going to be under half at least. The rest are justifying the large revenue multipliers tech stocks get - from their rather high growth rates, which are from expansion and moonshots that pan out.

Now that interest rates are high, the calculus for expansion projects is very different. You may very well be spending more money than you anticipated returning from your moonshots.
We let people with known genetic defects breed. This is unlikely to be worse than that.
I think xv6 is a much more palatable intro to operating systems than minux. It's a tiny codebase, with an annotated guide, and a book explaining its core ideas and implementation in a very direct way.
While it is true that the Copyright Office found that her edits were not sufficient to warrant a copyright, it's important to note that this decision was not based on the fact that the work was created using AI. The decision was based on the fact that her edits were not considered to be original enough to warrant a copyright.

"The fact that Midjourney’s specific output cannot be predicted by users makes Midjourney different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists."

They also say that the changes are "too minor and imperceptible to supply the necessary creativity for copyright protection."

I want to highlight this part of the article:

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Kashtanova’s lawyer Lindberg disagrees, saying, “There are a number of errors with the Office’s arguments, some legal and some factual. However, they all seem to stem from a core factual misunderstanding of the role that randomness plays in Midjourney’s image generation.”

The errors he lists include the interpretation of whether Kashtanova contributed a “modicum” of input or not. Did her prompt engineering qualify as a mere suggestion, or, as he argues, did her instructions cause Midjourney to “do exactly as it is programmed to do and pull from an artist-chosen place in its massive table of probabilities to drive the generation of an image”?

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I personally agree with this perspective because it underscores the importance of understanding the specific nature of the AI tool being used and how it differs from other tools used by artists.

In the end, all I said is that I find it curious. I am not taking a strong position here.
A lot of people even at Google just do run-of-the-mill stuff. Not everyone is making deep learning artificial big table or some such.

A rule of thumb is at any organization roughly square root of employees are critical. So at Google that number would be < 500 people. So even when I consider that layoffs are totally random (unlikely), there would be 40 or so people laid off which could be considered important loss. This is bad but not going to hamper Google significantly where they are going.
> a scant drop in the bucket compared to real-world concerns

Objectifying human beings in such a radical way and arrogantly putting the human germline at risk isn't a real-world concern? You have a very strange grasp of real-world concerns.
You can change the color scheme in the classic PowerShell terminal as well: https://beebom.com/how-change-powershell-color-scheme-window...
> I had access to the account information, including balances and a list of recent transactions and transfers.

But could you make a transaction?

The title is a little sensationalist.
We used to have a little key ring fob that would display a number that would change from time to time. That +password was all we needed.

If my phone breaks, I can’t get onto my work network now…
Well, there's always the possibility that you don't want to spend an unlimited amount of money. Hence the illegal donations by SBF.
You don't debase fiat currency, since there isn't a limited supply. Markets are distorted because of a poor distribution of money (too much where demand is low, too little where demand is high), because the Fed handed out money to the wealthy (who hoard it in the form of assets) and Congress refuses to tax it back and redistribute it to the working class who can't currently pay their rent.