skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Scala choices were directly dictated by JVM

Initially, yes. But Scala has evolved beyond the JVM, with Scala.js [1] being rock-solid, and Scala Native [2] under development. Neither are truly hampered by the initial JVM roots of Scala.

> Scala gives you a better horse

Weird analogy ;)

[1] https://www.scala-js.org/
[2] https://scala-native.org/en/stable/
It is easier than sending a DMCA notice.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/faq
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-28406-5
It really whips…
Could you leverage it to make money?
After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More
Telus investigating leak of stolen source code, employee data
There's still room for a pandemic to be at least 10 times worse virulence than COVID while still managing to be highly transmissible since that is what happened with 1918. And instead of predominantly killing the elderly it went after 30 year olds and babies as well.
Venice's Canals Run Dry
The fact that you'd lump Crypto and AI together is simply pathetic. Crypto still hasn't actually solved any real problems or delivered meaningful value. AI has solved real problems and delivers astronomical value.

I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. I'm willing to enter into a $$$ wager and assert that AI, specifically LLMs or similar systems, will only become more important and more in demand in 5 years.
I agree that namespacing doesn't solve all the problems, but I do think it significantly reduces the attack surface. It is sort of like a checksum for a package, combining the publisher name with the package name instead of having just bare package names.
How was your experience with ESP-IDF? I've only used Arduino so far (I've basically had exactly the same experience as you), and haven't needed anything more, but I've been thinking of using the IDF for my next project, since I can't use Rust yet.
Sequoia Pares Back China Tech Investments as US National-Security Concerns Grow
> Our research closely mirrors the 2021 Washington Post investigation into the accuracy of the Apple App Store’s new data privacy labels for apps. The investigation found that not only were many of the labels confusing and incomplete - they were also false

Apple came up with this "nutrition label" idea for app usages of data that is self reported by developers. Everyone assumed "increase in privacy". Google copied the practice and it's full of "loopholes" now.

This whole data privacy, unlike cryptography, has become more of a marketing tactic and media loves to create super villains and super-heros out of it. There's no substance here.
Housing as a for-profit business kinda makes sense, but I think the main takeaway of the article is this:

> The thing is, "the algorithm" should have very little to do with that sick feeling. The coldness of the interface and robotic voice certainly make for a stark contrast with the thing you are doing, but they aren't the cause. The moment you start thinking about someone's longtime home as something that can "align with strategy," and about pricing someone out of their longtime home as "an adjustment that would be more beneficial," you have morally lost. It doesn't really matter how you go about making that adjustment.

The tool and the training for the tool definitely matters, but the truth is, making business decisions about housing will necessarily hurt people in ways that are disproportionate to the amount of additional income a landlord gets.

This sucks for everyone, but especially for less mobile or financially-secure tenants. I don't think there's a great solution for the American rental system yet other than less profit-maximizing owners or schemes like HDB flats in Singapore.
That’s a nifty and cheap idea. Now I am wondering if I should make the standard juicy targets (eg ~/Documents, .config, .ssh) complete decoys and put all of my real data just off to the side. Could still be hit by a generic attack, but targeted data extraction attempts would initially fail.
> IMAP is the better alternative.

So the definition of the word "alternative" in this instance is "something other than IMAP" - the argument for JMAP is not competing with IMAP, there's a pre-determined assumption that we're already unhappy with IMAP, hence the search for an "alternative".

It sounds like you disagree fundamentally with moving on from IMAP in the first place, which is fair enough. That's not a debate I'm getting into here: all I'm saying is IFF we are moving on from IMAP, JMAP looks like the best alternative.
Fond memories of playing this map with surround sound headphones and knowing the exact location of each player. Could even get some kills with my eyes closed.
The number of graphemes an emoji displays as depends on the platform and font. How many "characters" does Safari think Ninja Cat[1] is? It displays as a single grapheme on Windows 10.

1. https://emojipedia.org/ninja-cat/
There are many who avoid exchanges altogether which was the original purpose of crypto: DeFi
Companies are going to regret this in the next 5 years as baby boomers continue to retire and there's far fewer gen Z to replace them.
This HN comment says the same, it's not used anymore:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142526
It's a funny example you highlight. Traditional, you would think of Stanford or Harvard as specifically being a place where someone could read Mein Kampf out in the open and everyone would assume that they are just learning about Hitler and Nazism because these are the institutions of some of the most curious and learned people. It's now the last place you would want to be caught reading such material.
Companies can't shut you up using severance pay, rules NLRB
Ignoring the actual question you pose, I think it's really unlikely some aliens come here to eat us. We eat for energy and raw materials.

I doubt humans will eat for much longer. In 1000 years we'll have solved the problems with these meat contraptions housing our compute. We'll probably work on sunlight by then.

Maybe we'll borrow the genetics from plants. Fun times.
I don't know, google maps seems to find the phone numbers for places pretty easily. Why is search any different?
Why would they have to “back out” revenue”? Revenue for one department has to be an expense for another if they are buying and selling from each other, and that would cancel out in the company wide financials.

Disney+ buying from or selling to Marvel would not show up as profit or loss for Disney.
Welcome to the 5% World, Where Yield Chases You
I'm sorry but I want history to be safe and unproblematic. The 1860s and slavery are very upsetting to me, it is best not to discuss such things even in allegory or as something to learn from - We must erase the things I find upsetting from the history books and only reference them in the manner which I can cope with.
Has anyone noticed emails in the Promotions tab of Gmail with a "carousel of images"?

The emails resemble Email Annotations rolled out from Google ~five years ago, but looking under the hood they don't appear to have annotations code.

Currently, there is documentation for a Deal Annotation and a Product Carousel. There is not a mention for the carousel.

It appears to be something Google is applying to some emails, but it's unclear what senders, what emails and why.

We deep dived on the topic if you want to read more, but curious if anyone else has noticed this?
One of the extensions to IMAP is the UID extension, which gives every email something akin to a UUID. It's technically not mandatory, but virtually every email client is going to try to use it if possible, and likely some email clients don't even attempt to use message sequence numbers.

So you don't need to maintain message sequence numbers, except for the few places in the protocol where only the message sequence number is reported (e.g., the unsolicited message deleted alerts). In practice, I would actually expect that trying to use message sequence numbers would be buggier than not using them. But servers still have to support them!
>We all started off enthused about cryptocurrency

That's hilariously false.
Going down as in, the number of people is going down/getting smaller. When the percentage is referring to people who DON’T understand something, 99% to 99.99% is going down (in number of people who DO understand it). At least, that’s what I think they meant.

Example:

6% of urban adults don’t use the internet regularly. When we expand that to urban AND rural adults, that drops down to 10% who don’t use it.
Actual study link
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
If everyone who used that word, in that time is racist, then why on earth is Karl Marx so widely celebrated?
Writer Twitter/Blogosphere/Youtube (including publishers) where this trend's been much-remarked-upon for years, know some writers and what publishers/agents are saying to them, know some English teachers and what they say about juvi-fic and YA trends and kids' reactions.

If you want another sad-making observation, the teachers say teens are increasingly finding late-20th-century kids' books hard to read, because the language is too complex for them to follow—they're used to first-person with very simple sentences with redundancy for anything important (so it's harder to miss), and publishers are chasing simplicity/clarity-at-all-costs hard for fear of alienating any of their shrinking reader-base, which of course re-enforces that decline in ability to handle sentence- and paragraph-level complexity—even goes for "advanced" readers, I'm told. This part's been heading that way for a while, but I guess has gotten much worse fast over the last 5ish years.

Basically, the genres that people still read (YA and romance) are trending hard toward first-person and very simple language. If you write in third publishers and agents will either tell you to switch outright, or you'll get a lot of "seems too distant and impersonal" and such, which is just them asking for first person without saying it. Some get through anyway, especially from authors who got their start 10+ years ago and have more sway, but first is strongly preferred.
Ok why aren’t there Hitler statues in Germany then? Are they going to forget Hitler was bad and have another Holocaust?

P.S. Leopold II came to power because he was the heir in a hereditary monarchy, we don’t need a statue of a genocidal aristocrat to know hereditary monarchy with actual governing power is bad.
I've looked at Toit (and love MicroPython), but the reason why I don't use either for my hobby projects is that the ecosystem is so large with C++, that it doesn't make sense to use anything else.

Do I write MicroPython, a language I know well, but that has a few libraries, or do I stumble my way around C++ in an ecosystem that has basically everything? The choice has been very easy so far.
But the reverse is also true. Professors have the power to ruin a students career before it even starts.

I am a product of public schools and two state colleges. I saw tons of professors that used their personal feelings of a student to determine their grade. Sometimes this would work in the students favor, sometimes it would work against the student. Until no professors are doing that (I would say from my experience over half are) there absolutely needs to be anonymous reporting on faculty.

What you are advocating for it a system where professors can do anything they want and them simply blackball the student who makes a legitimate complaint and have all their professor friends do the same.
From the article

>For Twitter employees, Slack is more than a way to message colleagues: it’s also a store of institutional memory, preserved in documents that workers have had to rely on more and more since Musk purged thousands of employees since taking over.

Losing vital documentation makes work unnecessary hard.
Early testers reported problems with Microsoft’s rogue chatbot ‘Sydney’
The most interesting snippet in the paper I think is this:

> For instance, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 on most bench- marks, despite being 10× smaller. We believe that this model will help democratize the access and study of LLMs, since it can be run on a single GPU.
95% of what I watch on YouTube is from YouTubers I actively subscribe to. I rarely use YouTube's recommendations (in no small part because YouTube is bad at recommendations for me).

I'm very happy to support the ones I follow who are doing it for a living. For most, I consider their cut of my Premium fee to be sufficient. For some, I go beyond by giving them money through Patreon and the like, or buying their swag.
The line between "best practices" and "cartel" is very thin.
You run a site which is patently relevant to the discussion. Save your comment readers a click! https://contractrates.fyi
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I think there is a disconnect between what I'm talking about regarding CSS and what everyone else is. Yes, BEM and global styling is unmaintainable, I agree with you there. However these days even with Tailwind their approach is to componentize. In the same way, I can just use CSS modules with no global styles and get the same benefits of scoped styling like Tailwind provides without having something else break as a result of what I use in the current component. However, if you're using HTML without a JS framework, Tailwind can be superior to BEM and global styles, but still not as much as CSS modules, CSS-in-TS, and the like, due to maintainability concerns.
Just a layman, but the reasoning given by the NLRB kind of makes sense to me. FTA:

> Public statements by employees about the workplace are central to the exercise of employee rights under the Act.… [T]he comprehensive ban would encompass employee conduct regarding any labor issue, dispute, or term and condition of employment of the Respondent.… [E]mployee critique of employer policy pursuant to the clear right under the Act to publicize labor disputes is subject only to the requirement that employees' communications not be so "disloyal, reckless or maliciously untrue as to lose the Act's protection.

In other words, I think it's because these discussions could be said to be part of collective bargaining: the text of these sorts of agreements is something that, at the very least, your union (or coworkers who're interested in forming one) would want to know about, right?

My (uninformed) guess is that the Court of Appeals would rule along the lines of "the NLRB can regulate away banning these clauses from applying to discussions with coworkers and union representatives, but not the general public," since banning them in general could be considered as acting outside their regulatory mandate.
Shhh, let people enjoy things.
the rum index extension we use for text search of +TB sized document databases.
Glad to see you still on HN! You've done amazing work in this domain!

I'd argue that this goes further back to the word2vec/glove days too. I was working for a company in 2018 who leveraged my skills for fine-tuning word2vec/fasttext even before BERT/attention is all you need paper.
Hah that's right, I remember every start usually involved a big volley of grenades tossed out to randomly destroy parts of the floor and wreak havoc on strategy.
U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline, study finds
Agreed, I've also somehow stuck with arduino's setup despite its occasional shortcomings since it's just so simple to configure different devices and whip up something quickly. No messing around with anything but the very core essentials.

The only thing that is sometimes faster from idea to deployment is micropython, since it's possible to just copy paste regular python with minor changes and it just works.
That’s the kind of horse blinder vision of narrow yet obsessive concerns and that I fully expect from someone that has followed Musk this far.
Inhalable mucus acts as “invisible mask” shields lungs from infection
There's nothing about it being "known" that makes it that much better.

Might make it worse since the "it is just the flu" people will literally be able to point to the fact that it is an influenza strain that was already known as for the reason why they don't need to worry about it.
What kind of population control did Japan engage in in the 60s?
Monospaced fonts are not hard to read, if you like what you're reading, after a couple of minutes you won't even notice the font anymore. Besides, coders are used to read long texts in monospace, and people used to do that before GUIs without issues.
It's not selling you back your code. It's different code, adapted to a different task; your own code is forever free for you, you don't need anyone to give it to you.

Given the cost of running these models, and the utmost dedication needed to train them, I think it is worth it. GPUs cost money, electricity costs money. They can't serve the world for free and offer good latency.
> I have a neighbor who is not very bright.

Even a dumb person is vastly smarter than an ant. So when I am saying ChatGPT is dumb I mean compared to having a conversation with a person which seems like the only reasonable scale to use with a chat bot.

ChatGPT’s model requires quite a of of processing power and sophistication to form its responses. It just doesn’t comprehend what it’s saying.
I think the suspicion of foreign suppliers is probably to Ericsson’s benefit in the west.

It’s more anti-non-NATO rather than anti-foreign.

But if Ericsson drops all its US staff, I could see them getting lumped in with the likes of Huawei anyway.
Counterpoint: China just makes its own "Internet".
The old joke: Someone graduates knowing advanced math, then immediately gets plopped in front of Microsoft Excel and has to learn that instead!
Given the limited release of access under a license - is there any decision on whether a model like this would be protected by copyright if it leaked?

The output of an algorithm is not a human authored creative work, which given the recent decision in the book case would seem to weigh against it.
Yeah. I don't know my kombucha like you seem to, but I've just tried two flavors by two separate brands recently. One (I can't remember what it was) was barely drinkable, second one (hibiscus & rose hips by RISE kombucha) was delicious. It's weird to me to somehow being able to write off a whole family of drinks as undrinkable. I don't like purple Crush, doesn't mean I don't like all colas. I don't like Bombay Sapphire, but gin can be delicious. And so on...
> Please stop saying "cope". you're accusing GP of living in denial of something and trying to "cope" with it. Very dismissive.

Well, that is probably because I am being very dismissive. Please cope.
Enlightenment values place rejection of prejudice and discrimination far lower than the ability to express things freely even if these things contain prejudice and discrimination - e.g. "The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech." by Voltaire.
also on cnn[1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/china/china-position-politica...
Wendelstein 7-X milestone: Plasma with GJ energy turnover generated for 8 min
If you want to do some simple (or semi-complicated) stuff, there's no easier way than MicroPython. Just flash and run, done.
Perhaps it should, I don't know much about the statue or the way the community that hosts it perceives it. My point is only that harsh criticism of Leopold II doesn't rely on retroactive application of modern values. He was a fiend even when judged by the standard of popular contemporary European values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casement_Report
> So...what's the moat? Why can't anyone build a clone sight and come in with slightly cheaper shipping and undercut his business?

The dumbest dismissals of business ideas always start with this phrase. Moats aren't like some obvious thing where you pull up a ladder and no one can follow you. Usually just having a slightly better UX (or a UX that people are used to) is enough to be a moat. Users latch onto things they have good experiences with.

Of course, if you want to benefit from anticompetitive business practices (outprice competition, drive them out of business, hike prices), rather than value creation, you need a big pull-up-ladder-type moat, but not every company needs to be Uber/Lyft getting in winner-take-all funding wars.
There's three considerations

(a) is IMAP good / sufficient / fit for purpose

(b) if not, is there a better alternative available

(c) if there is, is it worth the development effort to support it.

If we assume the answers to (a) & (b) are NO & JMAP, then the benefits are included in those answers & only question remaining is (c). The person I was replying to seemed to be only arguing that the answer to (c) is NO.
> When I watched LotR, I was around 20 myself, and a then 20 year old movie (which would be an early 80s movie) would seem like a movie from a completely different era to me.

The first LotR movies was released in 2001. If you go back 20 years, that is 1981. Which is the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark

That still would have seemed fresh in 2001 (and still does now).

Plenty of other notable movies in 1981 as well:

* https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=1981&title_type=feat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1981

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_film
Let me to describe the strategy we implemented to modularize the Kubernetes Pod as a Jenkins slave in complex production pipelines, and present the new Groovy pipeline code I developed to make it a reality.
Decouple.ai helps teams automatically create marketing segments using their company's first-party data. You define the target segments, and we'll build them using your data and upload them to marketing partners for you on a regular cadence.
All beware the woke mind virus!
Solar panels are dirt cheap, so throwing them approximately everywhere makes good sense. We're not really limited in the number of panels we can produce right now. Rooftop solar is mostly expensive because installed costs are 10x the raw costs (around $3/W total compared to $0.30/W of panels). Installing them in a factory removes that bespoke assembly step. Everything that is manufactured, sits outside, and uses electricity might as well have solar attached
i wanna touch it
Woke's are completely morally incoherent and no better than the Catholic inquisitors. Just a godless and soulless version of it suited to the modern day as it's people that think they are an authority on morality and decency and have some special insight into it that legitimizes their coercive methods to assume a better perch, without merit, in the social hierarchy they claim to hate.

People like you have always existed, suited in different skins, based on whatever gullible plebs could fall for or cowards could be frightened into.
Agreed, i just copy pasted the official title
how does perl work in this regard?
I don't personally know of one. It's not that I particularly intended this to be obfuscated, either, I just wanted it to be short. OK, I did rearrange it to spell out a rick roll but the impact to readability on that point was probably minimal. I guess what I'm saying is that the obfuscation is a side effect of the minification (side effects, in Haskell??).

The best I know of are some tools people developed for the tiny game jam to help you minify your code, which you can find here https://github.com/haskell-game/tiny-games-hs#minifying.
Their website and branding looks so different, I had to double check that it's the Proton I was thinking about