skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> exactly zero of this applies to me

You do not use a tool for managing the build of your program? You do not use a revision control system? You keep everything in your head? Really?
if you really wanted this to work you would wear the strobes all over so they don't pick up arm movements or leg gait, i'd even go as far as all of your knees, feet, elbows, shoulders, and wrists/fingers

if you can eliminate your movements and shape then you're ahead of the game, otherwise you're identifiable
The A1111 webUI and extension ecosystem is a beautiful example of what FOSS can be.

- User can install with a few clicks, no thinking about command line

- webUI has hover tooltips on everything, so user can most figure out what's going on without ever needing to touch documentation

- A1111 has a tab which can load a list of extensions from a github page

- Click to install, then refresh UI and extension just works

- Users are getting new incredibly powerful extensions every week or two - deforum lets you sequentially generate as many frames as you want and stitch them into a video, controlnet lets you copypaste features from a source image to your target image(s). Controlnet was added to A1111 ~2 weeks ago and is already integrated into the deforum tab so you can use both together.

Truly beautiful. I'd love to see more FOSS projects that felt so user friendly, generous with features, and rapid. Really fun to play with new cutting edge tech every couple weeks.
This can get very difficult. Especially with pages that are more than just text and images. Lines, interactive content, optional layers, annotations, embedded content, blend mode transparencies. All of this and more make things complex.

The real problem is that reading a pdf is vastly more complex than writing a pdf.

The spec (1000+ pages) is open to interpretation and different readers interpret it differently. A page that might render perfectly in adobe may look different when viewed in firefox or chrome or ghostscript.
Makes sense... else people will just start communicating in emoji to absolve themselves of legal liability. If you were to send a question to your advisor, and they respond with a thumbs up, we all know what was being communicated.
They could just sell the more expensive versions in stores?
Flan-Palm is 75 with five-shot. text-davinci-003 is it 56.9 with five-shot or zero-shot?
“Everyone doing Python is aware…” No. Neither me, nor anyone I’ve been helping with Python has been aware of type hints.

You can do a lot of productive work with a language without knowing everything about it. It might be safe to say everyone working with Python is aware of indentation, though.

Sometimes the disconnect between what people in the field are doing and what bloggers say is really striking.
When I find edge cases that are low-stakes and unlikely to occur, I usually just ignore them completely. If they do occur, and someone thinks I shouldn't have allowed that edge case to go unhandled then I have plausible deniability of "I didn't think of that edge case".

I guess I'm fortunate enough not to have the high "urge to fix them".
If all you care about is maintaining a simple blog or personal site I recommend just writing your own static site generator. Seriously, it takes probably an hour of work and ~100 lines of code or less and you can customize it however you want.

Here's the static site generator I wrote for my site (https://bryanpg.com): https://gist.github.com/RPGillespie6/b133854b8ebf5a983cf32c2...

I might tweak it to auto-generate the RSS xml as well at some point, that'll be another 10-20 lines tops.
Any chance we could donate to another reincarnation of 70 million jobs?
If their domain controllers are shut, many orgs also use them for dns just not exyernal dns.
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Fair, I guess I was just thinking "West".
Seems like Dutch man learned a valuable life lesson about calling YT before EMS, and should be thanking and praising YT for it.
Honestly, using this same technique in a baseball cap would probably work wonders.
git-genie does this with the —explain flag! https://github.com/danthelion/git-genie

Also GPT-based
Tests can waste time because developers treat the test suite as its own application that needs to be managed.

Stop. Doing. This.

With some exceptions, tests should NOT be DRY. They should be dumb, explicit, repetitive, conventional, and as independent as possible. This allows tests to be more quickly understood by any given developer and changed without breaking other tests for stupid reasons unrelated to the actual application.

So much of my time has been wasted at every job I've had because developers believed that the tests should be really clever and use a bunch of magic and shared logic to "save time", which in reality becomes difficult to manage and understand. Most tests are crap for that reason alone.
Because the best sex toys for men are prostate vibrators.
Hospitals work extra long shifts because every time there is a shift change there is, statistically speaking, a chance for errors. Those errors in hand-offs kill people, and they found that 12 hour shifts and fewer hand-offs save peoples lives.

The rest of the hospital just kinda follows that mantra. And that makes sense -- everyone works that way in the hospital and no one dies.

That ain't how software dev works, and no one is going to die or go into insulin shock because Twitter didn't push a UI update to Prod on schedule.
I've already addressed this comment, see above regarding the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Don't know about the comparison with dryers, but teabags leak billions of particles

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49845940
Very well explained, thank you.
> Hi, no need to be so abrasive about it.

That's just projection.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I'll get right on that as soon as you extend the same courtesy, which you have refused to do at every opportunity.
> they did certain illegal or quasi-legal substances, and the insurance company wants to see if they can avoid paying, wouldn't they perform a cursory Internet search to see if they can make a case that you "obtained your policy through fraud"?

I posted in another reply that my earliest postings on the internet that you can still find are from my Usenet postings in 1994 - when I was 20.

I’ve always been mindful of what got put in permanent form.

Today it’s harder because everyone has a video camera in their pocket and can disseminate the video worldwide. I’m very aware of that.

The life insurance company could already go through your health care records and it would be much more definitive.
Nothing like putting giant flashing sign on yourself that says "I'm purposely trying to avoid surveillance"...
The Terrible State of HTML
Fastdle – 5 minute 3 round Wordle
Seems like a way to make your CMS even more terrifying.

Like, oops not add I meant push, wait remove that! or was it rebase?
I'll just reflog to get back to umm... wait what?

I guess the saving grace is that it'll do the most common things people usually want to do, but for some things english language just not specific enough (like law).
You are welcome. Learning C is pretty straightforward when you know what it is doing: mysterious bugs are no longer mysterious. I think this notion of "information hiding" being helpful to people is ridiculous. Learn what the machine is doing at the bottom and then build up your understanding in layers.
Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/handbook.
> realistically if your DB is compromised, your encryption key probably is too, because they probably got in through your application which holds the key in memory.

Not necessarily. It can reside in memory that isn’t readable by your web application (e.g. in a different process, in the OS kernel, in Apple’s Secure Enclave or ARMs TrustZone))

If your hardware supports something like that, you should seriously consider using it.
Completely agree. If they start charging for what I am using it for I would switch back to resharper. If I'm going to pay I may as well may it as convenient as possible and integrate it into VS.
Great point - let's just get people rabid over what we don't know for sure, that doesn't likely have repercussions that are at least as negative at all.
During the process of buying our house, one of the disclosures was that the house has a huge inground swimming pool, but some aspect of the plumbing was broken, and nobody knew how much it might cost to repair. So, as-is.

Nobody in our house swims, and the costs of repairing and running the pool would be excessive. At first I thought about having it drained and either removed or converted to some kind of outbuilding space. Then it occurred to me, I shouldn't just dispose of a water-bearing structure! The thing is engineered to safely contain thousands of gallons! We kept it. The pool hadn't been used in several years prior to the sale of the house, which was perfect because the chlorination had long since evaporated. Thus a readymade freshwater pond.

I started adding native plants and sheltering areas to the shallow end. Frogs were already in residence for mating season but now several species live there full time. Tons of insects: backswimmers, water skimmers, caddisfly, mayfly, damselfly and dragonfly larvae, bladder snails, giant water beetles. Ducks and herons visit. Purple martins and flycatchers hang out at dusk.

People often ask about mosquito control, and so far it hasn't been an issue. I believe this is due to a combination of the water depth (mosquitos prefer very shallow and still water like puddles), circulation speed, and predation of the mosquito larvae by everyone else. Because there are marginal plants, predatory insects can transition from their aquatic larval stage to adulthood (they need stalks to climb up out of the water).

The pond has become one of the great joys of my life--seeing the seasons change through the lifecycles of the species, watching bees forage on pickerel rush flowers, hearing frogs sing at night.
Niteo: https://github.com/teamniteo/handbook
That's not Hugo's problem, that's a problem with Hugo's docs. Something that pretty much all projects, and most big companies, struggle with.

There's very few documentation experts out there. Those who write the docs are either devs who write broken English, or English majors who don't understand a lot of the tech stack. In either case, they usually miss the target persona, and what are the reader's needs.

Writing docs is hard :/.
Testing is important, because there are many ways things can go wrong.

Automated testing is critically important, because "manual testing" is often another phrase for "testing we plan to do but won't do often if ever".

Unit testing may or may not be the best approach. Unit tests are fast, and make it easy to answer very specific answers, but they're tied to the specific software design. Since computers have become much faster, I generally recommend that people use more integration testing, because they reveal when the components fail to work together (for whatever reason), and their added CPU effort is typically no big deal.

That said, I agree that testing is only useful if it's plausible it would detect a problem. But developers are really good at asserting something "can't happen" and then does :-).
I have - and the numbers show that much of the big cloud growth is in AI services. The "we need to throw in AI somewhere" concurrent trend is heavily bolstering what would other wise be much more drastic retractions in growth.

I would argue as the AI trend (eventually) wanes and many AI startups and projects within existing companies inevitably eventually fail to materialize the much longer and more general trend of migration out of $BIGCLOUD will be more drastic and obvious.

I don't buy individual stocks but I would happily bet a dinner on big cloud growth showing substantial reductions/losses in coming years as the overall situation stabilizes.
Did she get 0 severance?
I've been waiting for someone to build this. My hope is it will simplify recovering from the myriad forms of "I just did something I didn't want" that occasionally happen with git (and that I've historically used [0] to resolve)

[0]https://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
i do find it a little strange that he mentioned 4 hour workweek as hucksterism and then 2/3 of his points are some of the main tenets of the book (outsourcing and automation)
Conventional Wisdom is just Convenient Assumption in experience. We need to regularly check our assumptions, lest we find ourselves operating at right angles to reality.
Is it of any good?
Mewtwo?
There's an undercurrent of victim blaming here.

A lot of companies hire data scientists simply because it's "the thing to do" and they want to appear modern in the marketplace. But then these data scientists are typically left to work alone and put under pressure to "produce results" with no tangible understanding of their mission.

Sure, you could say that it's up to them to advance their own case, but if you have no support system (which is something that most people need) then it's very demoralizing. Unless part of your job is to figure out how and whether a data driven approach is even applicable, then this is can be a very depressing situation to be in.
Wirecard wasn't trying to pay short sellers to close their position, but trying to pay FT journalists to stop reporting. The short sellers were just intermediaries.
It seems the cat's out of the bag now. There's also another interesting way of getting around paywalls: a simple race condition. While loading the page hit stop as soon as you load enough of the content you're interested in et voilà. It does not work 100% of the time and I'm not using Chrome, however. ;)
I’m Chinese myself, does it make software I build developed in China ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
It's not about Gnome.

Other desktops exist that use GTK. Such as Mate, which is still a very decent desktop and show just how far Gnome has fallen in the past decade. Some of us are very happy to have an application which will work for us that doesn't require pulling in Gnome's junk or KDE's junk.
Isn’t testing the physical generation of a pdf more aligned with “integration” test not unit testing? Testing the api that makes the pdf is ok, but testing like this post suggests, with bitwise comparison is integration testing, no?
Just wanted to share a cheap suggestion that has helped me with poor breathing due to narrow breathing passages. This was temporary due to bad respiratory virus, but was effective. Nyquil and breath right strips. Probably using NyQuil every night is not a good idea, but could perhaps use on occasion, or some other nasal dilator drug such as asthma medications/ steroids. But the breath right strip can be used all the time, and it really does open up your nasal passages noticably in my experience. Maybe worth a try.

Edit:
More ideas: sleep on your side, when sleep on your back stack multiple pillows to lift your head higher up (seems to help IME).
I understand there is some sort of insinuation here, but without understanding the terms, it's hard to say whether it's actually true.
own index: the wiby.me DIY writeup is fantastic. Each person will do this differently based on knowledge and experience, but the step by step guide was educational.

marginalia put out the news yesterday getting a NLnet grant with one of the sub-goals "to produce and offer portable data in order to bolster adjacent efforts in the search and discovery space", maybe talk?

As an end user I profit from the many licensees to the bing index, different interfaces and ideas can compete with less effort required.
That's probably good practice, though I feel that the updater which pops up in your tray to let you know updates are ready should "just work".
Your comment was dead when I saw it so I vouched for it.

> But there's some cases where literal manual testing is the best business decision

I will agree, manual testing can be the best business decision. Especially if it's someone else's money and time you're spending on it rather than your own. Or if your system is trivial or short-lived.

I don't work on short-lived systems, and manual testing has repeatedly been a major hurdle to improvement overall when dealing with non-trivial, long-lived systems in my experience. Manual testing either misses too much, or takes too much time if it's comprehensive. And even if it is comprehensive, or perhaps especially if it's comprehensive, manual testing gives you many false positives and negatives because it is error prone.
It seems short sighted? Sure soil is abundant and water plentiful at the moment. Isn't part of the allure of perfecting indoor farming to be resilient to a future world hostile to agriculture. I would think of any big discoveries or inventions being worth it as a long term risk investment.

This movement will resprout when society is relegated to caves and submarines. Maybe fiber optic light instead of solar panels, or maybe a panel that captures the full spectrum of light and converting it to a subspectrum, thereby multiplying the available energy.

These kinds of trials would imho be better suited as large scale research projects ala Manhattan/Nasa type stuff than pure venture capital, 'recoup your investment in a decade' funded.
> The leds are placed on the chest -- seems like a miss to not place them also around the hoodie near the face.

Based on the documentation, all that would probably do is allow the effect to work at slightly closer distances.
I did say "universally consider".
Presumably that would only be sustainable if the slaves felt it was an arrangement that suited them.
Correct. This is objective.
Classy and direct, I like it. Serifed fonts always bring me back to the days where I would sit in the old mahogany chairs of my university library and just read whatever came to mind.

If I had more free time I would love to build a similar website for Nicholas Rescher's approach to process philosophy, that's my particular hobby horse, Rescher and maybe a little Charles Hartshorne for flavor.
I’m happy to hear you say this, and happy that in general the grind culture of the 2010s is being left behind.

The combination of long hours, daily stimulants, and minimal planning can make for some very fast MVPs, and that’s about it. Any time I’ve been in a position where I’m burning the midnight oil to make a deadline, I’ve always looked back at the code with great regret. The “fuck it, ship it” mentality makes for some really crappy software, it’s nice that most people are coming around to this.
Is that a particulary studied concept or a hypothesis on your part?
Treat everything as a lie. Boom - defenses go waaay up, and this avoids acceptance of lies.
because writing HTML manually is fucking terrible compared to authoring markdown. We (i.e. everybody) are trying to improve things because they are bad.
The three letter agencies (and Walmart, and anyone who can pay for it) have gait analysis that IDs you by how you walk, no face needed
The course videos: "Missing Semester IAP 2020" https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzOVJj3bHQuloKGG59rS43e2...

Software Carpentry has some similar, OER lessons: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/
https://archive.is/ztXde
> The leds are placed on the chest -- seems like a miss to not place them also around the hoodie near the face.

Based on the documentation, all that would probably do is allow the effect to work at slightly closer distances:

> In addition, the LEDs need to be a minimum distance from the camera to be effective, as the cone of light from them needs to be wide enough to overlap with the cameras view of the wearers head. In practice, this is about 12ft (~3m).

Putting them on the chest would help with ergonomics. It would work even if you have the hood off and the LEDs would be more consistently positioned.
These are fun algorithms. I’ve found that some of my experiments in writing efficient linear algebra routines end up with exactly the same interfaces you’d want for implementing these algorithms
Wait, computer isn't English native?
I actually paid for resharper for many years. However when I switched over to VS22 I decided to give it a shot without it. As its definitely still lacking compared to resharper I have been using ChatGPT to fill in the gaps. If I get charged for ChatGPT I will most likely go back to resharper as you said its IDE integrated and ChatGPT is not atm.
Ask HN: What useful physical hobbies there are?
I find that I sleep much better when I exhaust myself with physical labor. Exercising is fine (and I do a lot of it), but I thought it would be nice if I actually got something productive out of my efforts - either a bit of extra income or something else.

Some suggestions I've come up with are carpentry (for which I don't have space), being a volunteer firefighter (requires a good amount of commitment) and forest maintenance (requires a forest). What others are there?
This is interesting. Pondering about this, the vulnerability seems rooted in the very nature of the LLMs and how they work. They conflate instruct and data in a messy way.

My first thought here was to somehow separate instruct and data in how the models are trained. But in many ways, there is no (??) way to do that in the current model construct. If I say "Write a poem about walking through the forest", everything, including the data part of the prompt "walking through the forest" is instruct.

So you couldn't create a safe model which only takes instruct from the model owner, and can otherwise take in arbitrary information from untrusted sources.

Ultimately, this may push AI applications towards information and retrieval-focused task, and not any sort of meaningful action.

For example, I can't create a AI bot that could send a customer monetary refunds as it could be gamed in any number of ways. But I can create an AI bot to answer questions about products and store policy.
Large eSports company Beyond the Summit is suddenly closing its doors
When? Why didn't they release them already?
And folks speaking any of the variations of Chinese speech, eg. Cantonese, can still read the ideographs. That's the tradeoff.

Whereas in English, a well-educated American can (and does) conceivably encounter words in written English that they neither know the meaning of, understand, or pronounce correctly without consulting a dictionary.

Hell, English pronounces the exact same written words in wildly different ways as well as multiple words spelled differently but spoken identically to the point that a non-trivial part of the written language is merely memorized rather than learned.

But we learned English when we were young, so I guess it seems "normal" that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...

Or how animal poops can have so many semantic meanings.

https://youtube.com/shorts/z_AGi2diHt8?feature=share
This would be huge for making Nix viable at certain organizations, as I'm sure you already understand! I would love to just be able to point people at an installer like this for usage with SELinux.
Also, without an IR filter those cameras could partially see through light clothing in bright conditions. This of course formed a creepy online community and enough backlash that the manufacturers decided to include IR filters for all future products.
StarRocks, it’s a Linux Foundation project now, but a lot of the initial team and community behind it came from China.

https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks

Funny that I hadn’t heard of them in the database space till they showed up at the top of ClickBench. Makes me wonder what other interesting projects I’m missing out on in China.
> Immediately in that period the retirement homes in the area and later the state, started experiencing 'mystery pnemonia cases' in which a lot of elderly have died.

So...

No source?
Because engineers usually work for someone.

And that someone rarely accepts 2 days a year worth of outages given its impact on revenue.