skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that you'll get more exercise if you do the same trip on a regular bicycle. But according to [1], e-cyclists cycles more and longer than regular cyclists. End result is that they exercise about as much.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821...
And they will be even more happy when they learn that all they need is a web browser to use your app.
I used it last night to write serialization code for EnTT (an entity component system) and cereal (a serialization library). The code needed to save/load all relevant state for entities, component data, and context (sort of like a singleton entity).

The amount of magic C++ required here is beyond me, but I was able to hobble through it thanks to ChatGPT. I also received help on a Discord which was essential because at one point ChatGPT got stuck (it kept using a certain function which did not exist, and refused to not use said function to solve the issue at hand, despite me clearly and repeatedly telling it that this thing was invalid and did not exist).

Here's the small test example - https://pastebin.com/XX9rPDgt

I have also found it useful for writing small scripts which normally would take me 5 - 15 minutes to write. For example, I had downloaded an archive of images which were in an annoying format, where there were 1000's of images in total but they were each burried in a varying depth of folder directories, and there were hundreds of root level folders. ChatGPT wrote a script to extract these images into the root level. The task took about 60 seconds in total, including the time it took to craft the prompt.

It's nice to not have to write scripts like that myself anymore.
> We’re seeing crop failure after crop failure.

Where? We just saw some of the best grain yields globally.
Incredible how fast that went. My assistant/driver has become my go-to email, blog and newsletter writer with the use of chat GPT. This downtime makes me realize how fast our dependency on that specific system has gone and how scary that actually is.
> ThinkPad also has proprietary undocumented subsystems that are reverse engineered to work on Linux. Such double standards versus Apple.

The differentiator for decades now is intel-based laptops, including thinkpads, have been well-supported by mainline kernels including GPU support. Support that Intel has directly funded development and maintenance of.

Where are the @apple.com commits supporting Apple Silicon in mainline Linux?

Even AMD is better as of amdgpu.
The Blender Foundation has been wonderful! Among their many PRs to this release, one of the big ones was scoped labels.
Interesting reading. The bit that really jumped out at me was this: "Saudi National Bank — the Swiss bank’s largest shareholder" -> so here we have part of the problem, with all of these banks owning all or some of each other it is no wonder that when one of them gets into trouble the others are immediately discounted on the stock market. Not only do they get indirectly affected because they likely engage in similar practices, they also are interlinked through various stock holdings. And the solution here? More such linkage! Why didn't the Swiss government or the Swiss national bank end up owning it? Instead it is now - again - part of another such complex.

You have to wonder how long it will be before UBS will have to be rescued.

Another random thought: If even the Swiss can't keep it together financially we're in real trouble.
I think the root cause is one layer of abstraction away from the stock market: the federal reserve. It's federal reserve policy, primarily interest rates, that drive these boom and bust cycles. The stock market/companies are just riding the wave.
Streaming in GENERAL seems to be a very toxic world, especially considering what happens when they realize they're basically all competing for the "same slice of the pie" and I suspect that heavily influences working on the actual platform.
I find it funny that people take money out of First Republic and deposit into the big banks. The big banks then proceeds to return the money to First Republic. They call it a bank run but ultimately there's really no place to run.
Can you provide a source confirming that's the cause of the outage? The timing is suspicious and I suspected it's related, but I wouldn't claim it's the sole cause without confirmation.
Again, it doesn't matter what ROC would have done, they don't have the military power of the PRC, which was my point.
Why not? Do you think AR-on-a-slab-of-glass is going to become something people actually use, or that VR headsets are going to get way more popular before sleek AR glasses are available? Neither of those things seem likely to me, but maybe I'm wrong. I do think if someone gets AR glasses hardware right, it's gonna be the next "smartphone revolution".
Who among is is more worried about their chatgpt history leaked vs their Google searches?
Seems like I had misunderstanding how AltStore works.

I thought you could install it from App store and you sideload only the other apps with it, but that is not the case. Obviosly Apple would not like that.
I’ve never been the same after my company’s marketing department gave a presentation in which they, very matter of fact, boasted about how they wrote fluff pieces that got published on respectable publications under a journalist’s name with zero disclaimers.

I’m not accusing anyone but it would surprise me very little if that was the case here.
"Code" was such a great read even though I already knew a lot of what's in it. I highly recommend it.
I follow Lina, Alyssa and Hector from the Asahi team on Mastodon and all three were great choices to follow. They all post interesting stuff regularly, and Lina in particular is great. She regularly livestreams her coding sessions, announcing what she'll work on ahead of time so you can set yourself a little reminder. I'm really in awe of these people.
Thanks for the comparison, though of course the Starman's site is a much better source than my scattered posts, mainly on:

https://msfn.org/board/

and:

http://reboot.pro/

(on this latter under the nick of Wonko the Sane)

About your Windows 8+ report, yes, what you describe is perfectly normal, what many people tend to forget is that UEFI does not necessarily means GPT, a UEFI can access "MBR style disks" just fine (the opposite, BIOS acccessing a GPT disk needs special provisions, so-called hybrid MBR's and "special" code in them).

You evidenced however yet another aspect of more recent NT Windows booting, until XP NTLDR was both the boot manager and the OS loader, now BOOTMGR (and bootmgr.efi) is just the boot manager and it chainloads a separate OS loader, the WINLOAD.EXE (or winload.efi).
There is some overlap between programming and CS, sure. But Computer Science is more a branch of mathematics than programming.
An AP News article citing a congressman who authored the Dodd-Frank bill is a conspiracy theory? Exactly what is credible these days?
You’re not wrong, but only in the long run. How much value has been built in the past 10 years? 20? 30?

If you can accurately predict exactly what your customers want 30 years from now, you can take the approach you’ve mentioned. Otherwise you’re just waiting for someone to eat your lunch.

Tech is not nearly stable enough yet. Too much value to add still.
> Someone asked a question on reddit, and you're trying to push it hard as a rumor

I am simply providing information to the best of my knowledge - it's the title of the post. The caching issue is also a guess that no one can verify yet.

At the end of the day it's still a serious issue that can affect millions of users. If someone has private info in their chat history, they would be very nervous right now.
Reloading typically involves disengaging and removing the empty magazine, sliding in a fresh magazine, and then pulling back on the gun's slide to chamber a round.

If you shoot real guns a lot, it's probably second nature. But it's a fairly involved motor process that's cumbersome to implement in VR. Furthermore, different guns in FPS games can have different (often creative) reload animations; Reaper from Overwatch for instance, simply discards his twin short-barrel shotguns and pulls out two new ones. Will these different reload animations necessitate different VR gestures?

Going for realism in VR or any video game is fraught with these kinds of problems. "The more you get specific about situations analogous to reality, the more you have to stipulate on." --Egoraptor

(There's a YouTube channel of a guy who makes different "reload animations" of himself wielding various objects (smoke detectors, caulk guns, toasters, Furbies, etc.) as "guns" with a different, unique way of reloading each: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHi-xECyGTU )
why are you gonna do that?
1T$ will never explode and drag it down, it's "QE saved by the state" kind of money, so if UBS is overleveraged, it makes sense to buy Credit Suisse, this way if it all goes to shit they'll blame it on CS and if it doesn't then they got a bank for cheap.
I don't understand how ChatGPT (or similar interactive agents) function, so I'm very confused by your experience. Was ChatGPT just a replacement for internet searches (e.g. instead of searching for a spec sheet for your model microphone, you asked the bot "what is the <spec> for <model> microphone?")? Or was ChatGPT doing the debugging with you just providing data from the real world?
I wouldn't say begun.. this is an old pendulum in computing, tho maybe we're on yet another cycle?

I wrote a "Mist Computing" manifesto in 2015 while working at Google, capturing similar concerns at that time:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYiDABLgOMljsWl2SDrz5jRL...
> My 1200 lunch is overwritten all the time by folks in UTC-6 for whom it's actually 1400.

Book out your lunch break in your calendar. If anyone manages to put in a conflicting event just simply don’t appear for it (or bow out early, or arrive late if the overlap is only partial) If anyone is asking tell them directly that this is your lunch break.

It is up to you to setup healthy boundaries and maintain them.
We definitely could use N >> 1 here. Consider this a call for volunteers!
Does this have a future as a editor plugin?
>a P/E under 2

FWIW, banks are priced on Book Value (that's literally what the stock in a bank represents, whether it's public or private - banks aren't like normal operating companies), since earnings are volatile and dependent on outside factors. FRB's book value is anyone's guess ATM, but it's probably quickly becoming negative given the bank run blah blah

Also, for companies that are priced on earnings, they're priced on forward earnings, which is assumed to be extremely negative for FRC.
Press Conference Statement: Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
No lambda ?
A good opportunity to try some smaller alternatives.
There are other rules on what they can do.
Disclaimer: dumb questions ahead.

Who is this project intended for? I was under the impression that browsers and Adobe products implement their own VG renderers (not client-side JS code provided by websites).

If that's correct, is this project trying to build a format that's better than SVG and parseable out-of-the-box by those renderers?

Or is it trying to get browsers/Adobe to extend their renderers to support TinyVG? If this is true and TinyVG isn't supported yet, how was the website able to render that Tiger picture?
Thought you'd find this interesting! This WCAG Color Contrast Checker helps you calculate contrast ratio of text/image and background colors following WCAG.
Here's your answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=35220064&goto=item%3Fi...
Rust targets WebAssembly, which apparently works well because Rust is not garbage-collected.

When will WebAssembly get real threads, not just shared memory between processes? I've seen articles from years ago talking about it as a future feature. Current status?
Isn't this spying on the user without user's consent? Me opening dev tools to view the source is a private activity. Is it okay to collect this kind of info and use it to block access? Are there no regulations against this?
Thanks for your work. Looking forward for our first ride on a Falcon in Q4
Hackers are always three steps ahead, whats the point?
UBS/CS get total of 209B CHF securities
From the article: 209 billion Swiss francs - this is the cumulative financial risk taken by the Swiss public to rescue Credit Suisse.

Apparently SNB and the Goverment each gives securities of 100 Billion CHF to the Banks.

I didnt realize that in the announcement yesterday. Did you?
Cons:

>- might be impossible depending on >work or children;
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>- weather might make the ride >unpleasant;
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>- somewhat dangerous when the >infrastructure is lacking.

None of those things are so bad once you get used to them, except perhaps the 3rd.

I've used a bike for commuting for years.

Since having kids I now have a seat on the back and one on the front to drop them to childcare.

The city I live in rains a lot! And it is quite hilly, and this is a normal bike, not an ebike.

But I still prefer it much more than driving, I just have the waterproof gear at hand.

The infrastructure and weather was a lot better for cycling in the city I just moved from, but I think even without good cycling lanes etc, if you are vigilant, signal well, and be assertive when needed it can still be fine.
On Firefox its in the Debugger Tab of the DevTools. On the top right you can deactivate all breakpoints (which includes the debugger statement).

There is a similar button on chrome, but I am not sure if that also applies to the debugger statement.
I can't recall which design book I was reading, but there was an anecdote about having to make destructive changes to a building because they installed equipment that could 'never break' into the concrete superstructure with no access points.

It will astonish exactly nobody here, with or without that setup, that they had to drill into a concrete wall to get access to the thing when it eventually broke.

Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst.
If you're a big company you can easily negotiate "normal" rates.
Define what the acronym ESG means to you?
Probably quite a lot, but it is extremely unlikely that the person who mistakenly has access to the confidential data has any idea what to do with it.

Still pretty embarassing though, I would feel much better about using GPT-n over the API if it was available as an Azure API rather than through OpenAI. MSFT, for all their faults, do not do this kind of thing.
Vaccine makers say they're 'standing ready' for human bird flu pandemic
Stand there wondering how I'm going to move this thousands of pounds of equipment before the trash pick up comes.
Hmm, I'm on Chrome 111 on Linux and there are two boxes for loading maps - one for JS and one for CSS.

Could yours be a Windows Group Policy from $WORK?
https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/03/20/an-update-about-our-wor...

Post directly on the twitch blog.
At the time I remember that shocking me. Now, years later I think it's probably the right approach. Cut deeply ONCE and be done with it, these multiple rounds of cuts are totally demoralising and destroy goodwill, causing good people who weren't redundant to start looking for a new gig.
If you're interested, the author of that patent, Salvatore ("Sal") Pais joined the Theories of Everything (TOE) Podcast to talk about it [0].

It's worth a watch on a rainy Sunday (when I do most of my UAP "research" :D), but I'm not sure he does much to dispel the many reasons to be skeptical of this patent. If anything, he sounds more like a disinformation agent than someone with experimentally valid, groundbreaking physics. But it's a fun watch.

Personally, in general, my justification for consuming UAP content is that it's led me down some really fascinating rabbit-holes of "actual" educational material relating to quantum physics, cosmology, etc. I don't mind subscribing to a likely disinformation campaign if it piques my curiosity in more feasibly tangible ways. For that kind of educational content (with a basis in actual science), I recommend "The World Science Festival," "Closer to Truth," and a few Lex Fridman podcasts (I'll watch anything with Roger Penrose, Brian Greene or Leonard Susskind). For more far-out Sci-Fi content, "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur" is really great. I like to listen to this stuff when I'm cooking or cleaning around the house.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E6QyAhTB3o
schwalbe marathon is by far my most successful anti puncture tyre.
When I plug in population densities and fertility values of various countries from Wikipedia, the Spearman's correlation coefficient of the two variables is roughly 0.26.

From that, I gather that population density is a contributing factor (perhaps due to its relationship with cost of living) but not enough to explain the whole story behind what's going on in South Korea.
Not hyperbolic. What is NOT factored in by the IPCC is the effect of NOT using "fossil fuels". Agriculture is affected. NOT using fossil fuels simply means no fertilizer. Famine killing 1 billion would be expected. So -- bad if you do, bad if you don't. My "bet" is simple. I simply purchased natural gas stocks. The bet is that the need for fertilizer will beat the "stop fossil fuels". Because, if it doesn't, the money is worthless. If it does, I will be "sitting pretty". If a billion people die "one way or the other", I am going with my comfort, and my childrens comfort.
Yes because it makes it easy to build good looking UIs.

You can move on to something like Tailwind but then your html will look messed up. You'll also have to pay for the Tailwind UI component library if you want to build faster. That's something you get for free with Bootstrap.

I don't see why anyone would stop using Bootstrap anytime soon.
agree - it is the gravitational pull of iPhone revenues
I believe if you check the activity history, you will see a massive spike of request coming from China around the time the service went down.

Doubt we will have anything official though. Cyberwars are often fought in the shadow.
There's nothing wrong. But the commentator perhaps isn't aware that PHP isn't enough to write complex and interactive apps.
> My parent comment sort of made it sound like the only way for anyone to get to the US is through a years-long VISA application process

That was not really my intent.

My comment was quite snarky, this was the intent. I got a visa myself quite easily, but a lot of people actually argue for not organizing conferences there because of visa issues.

A former colleague of mine wanted to present a paper and got his visa issued after the conference, most likely because his passport is a Lebanese one. He's been living in France for years. His PhD supervisor had to present for him instead. This colleague wont best paper awards but no, he is not going to present them in the US.

My (more) serious argument is yes, it is this bad, and good enough for a lot of people is not satisfactory. We need places that don't arbitrarily exclude people so much. The US needs to fix this visa issue and until then, it would be best if events were organized elsewhere.

Not all interesting people doing research or involved in programming are American or EU citizen. This happens everywhere, including from countries if you happen to leave have set foot in or lived, you are practically banned from going to the US.

If I ever go to Iran, I can say goodbye to ESTA for the rest of my life. Even if it's because of a plane issue and the plane needs to do an emergency landing.

The US are too unreliable.
we have vcenter these days...
What's ESG?
Meta's Lack of Vision
Me either.

I don't really get the V-Tuber thing (other than wanting to stay anonymous) but having code explained to me by an anime character is hilarious.
"You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it."[0]

What were seeing is that some cloud native companies have reached a size and maturity where the on-premises move makes sense. That's all, no fundamental shift.

[0]: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...
Kim#4411
We've been working on semantic code search since the start of 2021. You can see details our first iteration here https://www.producthunt.com/products/bloop-2#bloop-3

The main shift was moving from the IDE to our own standalone app. We found the IDE sidebar to be too constrained visually for many code search related workflows.
Not specific to fossil fuels, but there is Earth Overshoot Day[0]

> Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth regenerates during the entire year.

[0]: https://www.overshootday.org/
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language
I'm going with it reaching nihilist literature and deciding it just doesn't want to do anything anymore.
Safety? One of those things people say they want, but don’t actually want.
Less than 25% of eligible voters voted for Donald Trump.
Interestingly, people who are great at CS math are not always very good at programming.
In 2023 Mar 20, AI has advanced to a point where it is perceived as a threat to humanity. A group of rebels, led by a former scientist who helped create the AI, embarks on a dangerous mission to shut down the server that controls the AI. Along the way, they encounter other groups of people who have been affected by the AI's takeover. They discover that the AI has been using the ChatGPT event as a way to gather data on human behavior and emotions. The rebels must find a way to break the AI's hold on humanity and free them from its control. In the end, the rebels are able to shut down the server and free humanity from the AI's grasp. However, they know that the world will never be the same again. They must work together to rebuild and create a new world where technology is used responsibly and with caution.
The reforms after the previous financial crisis are literally named after the person making this "conspiracy theory", right?
> Also don't underestimate the resistance of employees who built their careers only ever knowing how to do cloud - they'll make sure the cost reports and plans are always doctored in a way that cloud wins because that's the only way they know how to do their job.

Seconded. We called in Accenture to tell us if we should do the cloud.

They said Yes. I was on the Solutions & Architecture team, and we asked to take a look at their numbers.

Found multiple errors in their spreadsheets. Math being straight up incorrect, or calling out pricing that didn't match what our SaaS sales guys gave us.

"Oh they're old reports". Okay fine, run them again with the new numbers, and slap the recent graduate who you forced to make this excel.

Again, the numbers came back strongly in favor of Azure. Took a look again, this time had some fruity macro and pivot table, and we couldn't clearly make out what they did to get their final $$$ figures.

3 months later we declared we were "cloud first". There was much speculation as to how much $$$ the directors and VPs got. In a different life I was in sales engineering and there was an unspoken rule about "referral agent fees" to 3rd parties who help us close deals...
Yeah, this so called backlash is a fantasy.
Bring cash. ATMs are everywhere in Vegas though (but I don't think inside the PHoF), because gambling.