skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... I've been reading their comprehensive reviews and news for over 15 years. DPR got me into DSLR videography as a hobby which I've spent well over $10k on – much of it at Amazon. This really sucks as I don't know of another source I consider as authoritative for objective, thorough reviews and analysis of not only product but technologies and trends.

Super disappointed in Amazon for not at least keeping the 25 years of content online. If nothing else, recent reviews will be valuable for another 1 to 2 years and instructional content for at least 5 years. A bigger loss is that the overall site content documents much of the first 25 years of serious digital photography – an important and unique historical record due to the consistency of the editorial focus and review format. And Internet Archive is unlikely to capture it well due to so much CMS-based chart and hi-res RAW content in test reviews.

(BTW, I don't agree with those saying mobile photography/videography has (or will soon) make DSLR/mirrorless irrelevant. As useful & impressive as mobile imaging is, larger formats and interchangeable lenses still enable important capabilities for pros, semi-pros and serious hobbyists that mobile can't.)
It's still gonna waste a whole CPU (at least)
NIST Finds a Sweet New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces (2022)
Yes, on further investigation it is at least as willing as GPT-3.5 to spout confident bullshit, if not more so.
Ah, Los Alamos, exactly what I though. What this really is, is an external manifestation of the eternal struggle between the military, which wants the weapons to detonate on time every time, and the safety-minded engineers and politicos who would rather eat an occasional fail than start a nuclear war. The safety people being the engineers tend to keep finding new ways to be safe and applying them without necessarily securing the DoD’s permission, but they don’t always work out the way the engineers intended. For a period of time, there was a piece of cobalt tape on Trident missile warheads that would ensure they fizzle unless removed. Except the adhesive dried up and then the release force exceeded the torque of the motor intended to remove the tape, so something like 75% of the Trident missiles were duds for years.

Read Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control. Absolutely fascinating.
like this 1900s dude https://nextshark.com/19th-century-photo-eating-rice
I'd actually really recommend against the Penguin clothbound classics. Unless they changed something recently, the designs on the cover wear off very easily from the sweat/oil on your hands and you end up with an ugly book after one reading.

If you want less expensive high-quality classic books I'd recommend Library of America (for American authors), Modern Library, or Everyman's Library.
There is a long history of humans changing their diet in response to economic forces.
It makes it very easy to deal with nested data structures. Imagine creating a nested map/struct literal, and then extract the values out using a very similar syntax on a single line.

It's one of those things that when you get used to, you wonder why other languages don't implement it.
All the JavaZone videos are amazing. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZnj4eNHXE
The article says 150 fewer deaths. So about 1150 deaths a year down to 1000 deaths per year. But I too would be interested to see the other causes of death during that time, especially what controls were put in place given most of this study would have taken place during the pandemic.
You can barely get a framed in tiny home (no sheetrock, insulation, electrical, plumbing) for that price. And that doesn't even include land.
> In fact they have very good audio properties as monitors given their specifications

They're "good" for mixing engineers because they enable them to make better decisions about their mixes. That does not mean they are "good" for listening to music.

> They're used because they're actually revealing and good monitors.

I'll point out that if you're actually trying to enjoy your music, "revealing" isn't a good quality. You want flattering speakers, or at the very least flat ones.

There's also different models of the NS-10. The original NS-10m was a much worse speaker than any other iteration after it. That's the one that earned notoriety. The other models aren't nearly as offputting.
I was curious to compare this with GPT-4.

How many cities in the UK have a population over 1 million?

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, there is only one city in the UK with a population over 1 million, which is London. However, population figures change over time, so it is always a good idea to check the latest statistics for the most accurate information.

What is the population of Birmingham?

As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, the population of Birmingham, UK was around 1.1 million people. However, this information may be outdated, so it's best to check the latest population statistics from a reliable source such as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) or the city's official website.

So how many cities in the UK have a population of 1 million?

I apologize for the confusion in my previous response. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, London is the only city in the UK with a population of over 1 million. While Birmingham has a large population, it is below the 1 million mark. Please note that these population figures may have changed since then, so it is a good idea to check the most recent data for accuracy.
> They had been debating on whether to tell him because he was surely going to the jail in Kabul where he would likely be hanged

What a sad ending.

> This will be how I forever remember the Taliban and sister groups like Al Queda.

Something that amazed me was to see how fast the ANA capitulated.

Billions of dollars were spent on education and training for the Afghan army so that they could stand against the Taliban. I was expecting the population to be very happy to get rid of them for good, seeing how they were treated under their regime. And yet it only took them a few weeks to completely undo decades of work. This reeked of double allegiance. In some regions, the village elders accompanied by ANA soldiers were welcoming the Taliban and cheering for their return. No fights. Worse, ANA soldiers were seen giving military supplies to the Taliban.

Apparently, families frequently sent their sons to fight on both sides of the conflict.
Upwork introducing new “contract initiation fee”
Alright, you convinced me. Damn great article!
Tom Nicholas, an HBS professor, wrote a book about the history of VC (1) which spends the first chapter of the book talking about the whaling industry and how it created the venture structure we know today. Many whaling voyages failed to find whales, and some outright sank or disappeared, but some came home full of whale oil. He found the parallels in the data striking. It is a great book and a good companion to Mallaby's Power Law.

Fun fact: his source for whaling data was a book by Alexander Starbuck.

1. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42449471
The feature that everyone is excited above - switch statement with pattern matching - has been available in C# for 6 years now.
I don't think I've said anything that suggests I disbelieve what the study said about decreased alcohol related deaths. So sure, I believe that positive result.

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect . Yes nothing else is a perfect substitute for alcohol (some benzos are close though), but other substances are imperfect substitutes to become intoxicated. Substances substitution is a prevalent theme in drug abuse.
Assuming you are the project lead, I would implore you to change the name.
There are noble precedents in our industry E.g. Firebird -> Firefox.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history#...
If you want another view on the study: https://snowdon.substack.com/p/the-minimum-pricing-salvage-j...
There was an HN thread the other day where people were arguing ChatGPT would be nowhere without Google's AI research. That might be true, but clearly there is a significant gap in productization ability...
Why? Only the encapsulation difference was a slightly bigger breaking change since 8, after you are done with that it really is smooth sailing.

Or if you mean addition of new features, then Java is very conservative on that front and it is still a very small language compared to most other mainstream ones.
This is not entirely accurate. If you want to forego the ability to support cross shard transactions then sure you can run consensus independently on each shard. But I don't think that is what Spanner/CockRoachDB do. In addition, even if you want to limit transactions to a a single shard, the shard replicas need to be in different datacenters/AZs if you want to remain available when a DC/AZ goes down.
Stack sats.
Interesting. I just did a quick Google and ended up here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-...

I just tried installing your way on Fedora and it worked a treat. Very nice! Thanks for the info. I haven't really kept up since the Mono days.
I have seen commission based sales and construction organizations work. I have seen several standard software companies work. I predict you could combine the two and get rid of a lot of low performers.
Tax the poor.
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

all recent google product launches — are disappointment. Google is slowly dying.

It needs to change its virgin management for new chad one
This would make a good game. Predict the halfway word!
You know what does though? Irrigation. You know what allows you to optimally irrigate so you don't waste money that you could be spending either on growing more crops or your family? Maths.

Only a fool pretends the ground floor of a house is worthless because they live on the second floor.
Unfortunately, uMatrix (the other gorhill project) has bad bugs on Firefox.

When you navigate to another page, it will sometimes get the host for a web request wrong, causing it to apply the wrong rules for that request. This can cause you to lose your login cookies. And since uMatrix has been discontinued, so there's no more central repository to collect bug fixes.

A fork is available called nuTensor which does resolve the cookie clearing problem, but I often see hosts that are not part of the current page (they were from the page I was previously viewing) appearing on the grid.
Never for anything adult-related before.
This is not correct. How a woofer stops depends on its damping factor. The damping factor depends on the design of the driver and enclosure. You can find sealed speakers with poor damping and ported speakers with excellent damping.
Rephrased:

Reducing people's ability to buy alcohol linked to less alcohol consumption.

Is that even remotely surprising?
Blob Opera, an Experiment Created for Google Arts and Culture
What is going on with Microsoft's recent hilariously bad localization? The website[0] in ja-JP says "Create Image Starting date / Words AI was used on:". And the tool is erroneously translated as "Image created by" at the top, while kept in the original "Image Creator" as proper noun at the bottom, which is inconsistent to say the least.

This is how "You SIR winned a LOTTERY!!! Clame prise NOW!!!" pages look like, not how a Microsoft webpage looks like.

Could you please just altogether stop trying to translate partial languages[2], and to validate translation by machine-back-translating to English, and perhaps stop assigning non-native speakers to translation tasks? Or is Microsoft that much unfocused in this market?

0: https://www.bing.com/images/create?FORM=GDPUP1

1: https://imgur.com/a/z4ghrsH

2: Including texts separated from UI; "design languages" is a recognized term, if so, aren't geometric relationships and visual cues part of the language too? Am I not right?
For reference, here's GPT-4's response:

1. The given Cron expression follows the Unix/Linux variant of Cron syntax.

2. This Cron string has six elements.

3. The elements and their meanings are as follows:
Element 1 (value: 0): This represents the seconds field and indicates the task will run at 0 seconds.
Element 2 (value: 30): This represents the minutes field, specifying the task will run at minute 30.
Element 3 (value: 5): This represents the hours field, indicating the task will run at 5 AM.
Element 4 (value: ): This represents the days of the month field, where the asterisk () signifies that the task can run on any day of the month.
Element 5 (value: ): This represents the months field, where the asterisk () signifies that the task can run in any month.
Element 6 (value: 3): This represents the days of the week field, specifying the task will run on the 3rd day of the week (where Sunday is considered the 0th day, making Tuesday the 3rd day).

4. The overall recurrence pattern described by this string is that the task will run every Tuesday at 5:30 AM.
We should not forget that illicit images are easily 'found' in convenient places to get people put behind bars.

I don't really blame this journalist for suspecting the illicit images claim may not be as true as it appears.
I used to shoot only medium and large format film. Maybe 3-4 years ago, I realized I can do everything I want with my phone camera.
Project managers often come in too late, in my experience. And they are, by and large, realistic. Specifically for construction, the low-balling stage is when the Estimators are putting together a tender to try to secure the work in the first place.

The PM arrives later, once the project has been awarded and now they have to make these estimator sourced budgets and schedules somehow jive with reality. It isn't an easy task.
It is very difficult to compare different (complex) projects (independently from whether they are public or private) because - Captain Obvious speaking now - they are different (not only the actual thing that is built, also the quality of the project and its engineering, the chosen contractor and a lot of other factors come into play, your new examples add two completely different countries and two completely different periods of construction).

Construction times are even trickier, as they may also be influenced by other factors (authorizations/approvals or changing norms as an example).

A (typical) appropriate construction time for a (large/complex) project is around 4-5-6 years, 3 years means they were fast (in Chicago , in the '70's) 10 years means they were slow (in Slovenia, in more recent years), but otherwise there is no way to make senceful comparisons.
As opposed to what, powering off your servers so they can never get vulnerable?
The default ctrl+r behavior doesn't allow me to scroll up through my history of matches, which is always disappointing. Often it's some random incantation I'm trying to search for that shares a prefix with other more common commands and the default ctrl+r requires me to type out far enough to be unique, which defeats the purpose of history search. Maybe I'm missing some essential behavior that I'm not familiar with.
See, that would be useful info to put on the FAQ page, instead it just says "After users reach a certain karma threshold".
Yep. Dragonfly compares a single-threaded Redis with a multi-threaded Dragonfly. It’s an extremely misleading benchmark.
Exactly. You have to go through legal review in every country, is this breaking an accessibility law in Australia or a copyright law in Argentina or a localization law in Canada or an antitrust law in the EU?

That's just how it works. That stuff takes months, so do you prefer to withhold it from the US until that's all completed? In a competitive environment that moves quickly, that's not an option.
C#, owned by the most ethical company in software.

Java is very different and much improved from when c# branched off, but many people haven’t been following along and still think it’s the same as in 2002.
License: https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/blob/main/LICENSE.m...

It is source available. Generally can't use it to create a competing product... but also means you cannot combine it with any of the popular open source licenses.

Decide for yourself what that means to you.
Do you actually have evidence that alcoholics are switching to paint huffing, or is this just speculation?

Alcoholism is unusual among addictions in that it's (1) largely invisible until its end state and (2) minimally taboo when it occurs in "high-functioning" individuals. Huffing chemicals is neither of those things, nor is swallowing mouthwash (which is more likely to make you sick than drunk at the quantities an average adult would need.)
Seems to have turned out fine I guess your faith was warranted.
Thanks swyx! Means a lot coming from you. We're lucky to have an incredible team at PlanetScale to help me pull off such a huge lift. We had maybe 5 or 6 people building out the website and 5 or 6 people that reviewed the content for technical accuracy. No way I could've done it solo.
For me the killer feature is fuzzy tab completion.

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Install this, get an instant improvement to anything you do on the terminal. It works with any existing program with tab completion.
> without any prior notice or any explanation whatsoever

If you do something according to the law then you can provide the reason and the article of law.
Google Bard sides with the Justice Department in the Google antitrust case
I’m super sceptical about price being a barrier to alcohol consumption. It’s simply too ubiquitous.
I never even disagreed to the conclusion about reduced alcohol related deaths, friend. Not only am I not skeptical of the study, I completely acknowledge the results. The study never tried to disprove substitutive effects of intoxicant use, which is what I am pointing out.
Via twitter https://twitter.com/daviddotli/status/1338894893792563200
The point is, no one cares, google.

- you probably are behind OpenAI ChatGPT, and far behind GPT4 in the tool's quality

- people expect you to sunset the service soon either way, so no one starts to depend on it

- at this point you are a parasite that siphons from and killed the world wide web in the process

- your core value proposition (finding answers) is eaten up by the new chatbots that explain stuff instead of pointing to lists of ads and spam, most people don't care if its wrong sometimes
Almost. The Java module system (introduced in Java 9 and enforced in Java 11) still plagues companies and/or slow-to-update libraries. Particularly companies that have written a lot of their own in-house libraries and such.

Custom libraries have, unfortunately over the years, picked up the bad habits (by forking/following public libraries) relying on reflection and packages that shouldn't be directly used (sun.* packages, etc.). So companies are wedged in because they made the poor decision to rely on private packages. And now, Java 11+ enforces this by default.

There are open source Java libraries today that don't run unless you "add-exports" to basically everything. google-java-format comes to mind, because it's using an internal java code parser from the JDK, for example.
Wow; had no idea that Amazon purchased DPreview. End of an era.
In the age of technology, everyone is looking for the next big thing. From social media apps to smart home devices, people are constantly searching for the latest and greatest gadgets to make their lives easier. And for a brief moment, it seemed like AI chatbots were the answer to all our problems. But now, it's becoming clear that these chatty little robots might have just been a passing fad.

Sure, when chatbots first hit the scene, people were excited. Finally, we had a way to automate our customer service and provide 24/7 support without hiring a bunch of extra staff. And don't even get me started on the novelty of talking to a machine like it's your new best friend. But after a while, the excitement wore off and people began to realize that these bots weren't as helpful as they seemed.

For one thing, chatbots are notoriously bad at understanding context. Ask one a question that's even slightly outside its programmed parameters and it'll be completely stumped. And even if it does understand your query, chances are it'll give you a completely generic, unhelpful response. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that. Can you please repeat your question?" Yes, because that's exactly what I want to do - repeat myself to a machine.

But even more frustrating than the chatbot's lack of understanding is its lack of personality. Sure, it might try to crack a joke or two, but it's not fooling anyone. We all know that behind that robotic "LOL" is a cold, unfeeling machine. And let's not even get started on the voice. Is it just me or does every chatbot sound like a monotone Siri?

At the end of the day, it seems like the hype around AI chatbots was just that - hype. Sure, they might be useful in certain situations, but they're definitely not the revolutionary technology we were promised. So let's all raise a glass to the chatbots - a passing fad that we can all finally move on from.
Which is particularly egreggious if you consider that wages were going up because of a tightening labour market, ie people retiring early in the face of covid, an uptick in long-term illness and disability, as well as excess deaths to the tune of a million people (so far).

In that context, raising interest rates to combat "wage inflation" seems misguided.
> but the US and its allies are the ones who wanted to encircle Russia by expanding NATO eastwards, even after they promised not to.

Yeah, there's absolutely no desire from the local populations to join the EU and NATO at all...
Does anyone know if there is a way to sync settings/filters across multiple uBlock Origin installations? I use a ton of browsers and find the manual export/import to be a hassle.
Funny that the sentiment on HN around this is so toxic and hateful that you need to explicitly justify something that is obviously extremely cool.
I discovered it in the "Seven languages on seven weeks" book, and was amazed by the clean and simple design of IO.
First impressions of Bard are good, seems on par with Bing. Possibly less proficient producing code. It seems to be the only llm that can answer a question about Langchain, but it struggles to create a gpt-4-32k call to the chatcompletion endpoint.
Impose a supplemental property tax, increasing over time, on buildings out of compliance with current requirements, so that upgrade or replacement becomes comparatively more desirable vs. doing neither than it currently is.

Or, just have a fixed window to achieve compliance or the building is condemned.
For me (in a similar role to you) Ctrl+R is the main reason of having fzf. Quality of Life improvement is immense.
Not parent but on pop-os, using sudo apt install zfz I got the same behavior, had to add it myself to .bashrc
What? I’ve been asking insane prompts via Jailbreak for weeks and it’s all good here. I very much doubt you get “banned” over an adult novel, I went much farther than that.
News that cares this much about sensationalizing isn't news. While I'm entirely for unfettered protection of free speech, free speech doesn't include the right to lie, at least not in a professional capacity. Perhaps we need to start punishing intentionally deceptive reporting by not allowing these people to call themselves journalists and / or not allowing these sources of information to call themselves news.