skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're being just a bit disingenuous, but I somewhat agree with the message, if not the spirit, of what you're saying.

What we should be banning is behavior, not authorship. Does the application retrieve user data? What data? Is that retrieval bad and user hostile? Ban that behavior. Does the application do something else bad? Ban that behavior. Banning something simply because it's controlled by a government we don't like is a bad precedent. We should do the work to describe what specifically the application is doing that we don't like and address that, because it would also have the effect of applying consumer-friendly laws to all the others apps doing that as well with the goal of making ad revenue and not just collecting information for a hostile government.
I read that. tl;dr: CCP bad.

It didn't make a lot of sense. It was a weak argument. Until I got to this part:

In other words, even if the TikTok issue seems largely symbolic right now, the app’s dominance of American media gives China’s government a considerable amount of option value in the event of a crisis. TikTok could become really important, really fast.

In other words, it could be bad at some future time. But the US is overwhelmingly supportive of Ukraine (and there is a lot of pro-Ukraine content on TikTok) and Taiwan. Americans broadly understand these are democracies under threat and deserve support. TikTok is not in a position to change those perceptions.
I have `,fv` running `nvim $(fzf)` and it's actually a little annoying because afterwards I can't find the filename that I had open. I wish there were some way to expand it into my history.
It was an actuality different model from the incumbents at the time. TikTok is the same thing as YouTube, just with different tuning for profitability.
Var is nice. But I generally prefer to not require people to jump out of the current code to figure out the type of a variable. And yeah, I've worked in those other languages, and navigating unfamiliar code with var everywhere can be confusing, so I try to avoid that kinda thing.

Records are nearly useless to me. Immutability is great, but I need a way to derive new sets of information based upon an set of information. And the only way to do that is bug prone.

Text blocks are nice for writing SQL queries and other multi-line things. But I'm not sure how often I actually use it.

Switch expressions are nice because it gets me compile time checking for things I would previously use a runtime check for. Other than that, as they currently exist, they're meh.

Sealed classes are something I've not had a use for. Maybe libraries will eventually make good use of them.

So I would say there's some nice QOL things in here. But I think "incredibly useful" is overselling it.

The thing is, lots of these things are built to support a longer term roadmap towards better support for data oriented programming. I think that is a worthwhile goal to drive for - and the sum of the parts (many of which are still in preview) will be less than the whole together - but we don't have the whole, yet. That, to me, would pass the "incredibly useful" bar.
The amount of spite and hatred in the comments here are a little bit surprising... But here's a question: Do you believe this man wants the wrong things? Do you believe his desire for freedom, and his willingness to sacrifice everything for it is all foolishness and lies? I am hoping not. I already know how much you hate the USA and other western governments, but I'm just wondering whether you despise the principles that they are meant to represent, especially to the article's author.
Similarly, their reporting sucks and is years behind Meta and Google. No APIs, and can't give really any geo delivery data.
We gain more from diverse points of view embodied in the ideal of free speech than we do from the safety of censorship. If individuals want to choose which media they consume, more power to them, but as soon as the government steps in and starts picking winners and losers, we all end up worse off.

Letting the people of the US decide which media to consume by voting with their feet is the only free and fair way to go about this.
I was thinking about information extracting the GameFAQs for certain Hyperdimension Neptunia games to make a knowledge graph so I could figure out the dependency graph of what dungeons I would have to go to to get the items to craft the items that I need to craft an item I want. But then again, I’m a weeaboo.
JPMorgan Had Some Fake Nickel
Using Stable Diffusion in Landscape Design Process
I am aware after reading the whole thread but still, I think I've done it countless times over the years.
> Are they supposed to have individual meetings

Yes?

Surely they have managers proportional to their employees - I certainly don't expect the CEO to have the meetings but having their direct or skip level manager meet with them is the right way to do it.
Over 100 prehistoric engravings found in a cave in northeastern Spain
Can I use google in China?
Part of it is China can ban US internet companies, but US can't retaliate?
To be fair, OpenAI did the same thing with ChatGPT. It wasn't available in Canada at launch. Fortunately, it was not significantly delayed however (2 weeks perhaps).
Ok, here's my problem: if I go get the US currency volume rates from 2001 to 2023, I get an expected increase in currency of ~7.2%/annum (there are some 5% years; mostly 6.5%s; and, one 15% year). This means the total volume of US currency has grown by a factor of 3.57x from 2001 to 2023. However, over the same time, the CPI has only increased by a factor of ~1.78x. I feel like if "printing money = inflation" then inflation should be more like ... 3.5x?

Maybe ... currency-printing equates to 1/2 its value in inflation. I think that makes for a really complicated story where "printing money" creates values out of thin air? In that sense, doesn't that mean "printing money is good"?
They don't claim to have video of him engaging in the conversation, but they do claim to have a pretty damning picture of him.

To support the idea that it was he who engaged in these messages, they claim that you can only be logged in to kik on one device at a time and have evidence that he was using the device for other purposes around the same time and in the same location as kik for at least one of these conversations.

That's my reading, anyways. Not a lawyer and have trouble with the stilted language in these kinds of things.
Isn't that the default on Android phones if you screenshot then crop. As opposed to screenshot, then open it and crop.

I tend to use the rectangular option in the snipping tool as a way to be certain that I won't forget to crop important info. Both of these make me think I need to check my process and see if it is relevant.
Walmart stands out as one of the few retailers that are as bad as AMZN.
>In copenhagen collapse is nonlocal and happens instantaneously across the universe, so FTL actually happens.

I don't know if this is a mathematical deduction or something empirically verified. Technically when you measure one particle the wave function of both collapses, because now you know what the properties of the other particle are.

But it could be like a pair of dice that always land on opposite faces. When the first die lands, the fate of the second die is sealed and it's no longer in a "superpostion" despite the second die still tumbling around in the air. I strongly suspect this is the case, because otherwise, like you said, you could transmit information faster than light, breaking relativity.
Once you return a $2600 computer, you realize you have $2600 in your pocket. And now you're going to actually do some bang for your buck math to make sure you're wasting money _again_
Shoggoth
>They lied.
There are several 'theys' in the story. Which 'they'?
https://archive.ph/8inNn
> because they have to be contracted out to private developers

The problem is not the people completing the work; it's not like Aldi's has their own paving machine in the back.

It's that the government doesn't have employees who know how to specify the project and nobody has an incentive to finish in a timely manner.
I also had a rather noticeable delay when launching atuin. As it turns out, this was because it checked for an update every time it launched! You can disable that update check: add a ` update_check = false` to your `~/.config/atuin/config.toml` [1]. That made the delay pretty much disappear for me.

[1]: https://atuin.sh/docs/config/#update_check
RIP DPReview. Great place to consume in-depth camera and lens reviews and get input from real users through the forums.

I can proudly say I had an image selected as a winner in one of their annual "best photos of the year" contests.
This is an auxiliary tool, it does not affect uBO's efficiency when not using the auxiliary tools (logger, viewers, etc.) You won't find a leaner content blocker than uBO CPU- and memory-wise, by quite a good margin, and this new auxiliary tool changes nothing about this.

Being a volunteer filter list maintainer is a thankless and time-consuming task, and when I myself investigate filter issues, I repeatedly have to go through the same steps which is looking at the source code of pages and JS resources, which most often are minified, and it's also difficult to navigate between the different resources back and forth. If you want to understand the benefits, I suggest you regularly try to contribute to filter lists.[1]

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[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues
I won't argue with you that they have gotten more colorful, but I feel like they've also lost a lot of originality as well. Advertising in the 60s and 80s seemed more fun and witty, and you had commercial artists like Andy Warhol giving ads a wholly unique style, despite the limitations of the craft back then.

Nowadays, we have Corporate Memphis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis).

Funny really. Despite creative tooling opening up new possibilities, I see the end result as a net loss in quality. Cheap generally wins out over great.

Ever the optimist, I like remind myself that in a world where good loses out to mediocre every single time, it's easier to stand out for being great.
Regarding Ctrl+R: Forget fzf for a moment and ask if you ever use it or some similar history command. If you do, then fzf is automatically a better interface than the default one.

If you don't, then yes, I use it all the time to find the exact command I typed in a few weeks ago. I'm not going to memorize all the options I passed in, etc.

For Alt+C: Useful even if you organize things very well. I'm in my home directory. I have /home/me/media/video/youtube/channel_name. I want to go in there. That's a lot of typing (even with Tab autocompletion). When I can just press Alt+C and type perhaps 4 characters of the channel name and I'm instantly in that directory. Do this 100 times over for different directories and the benefits become obvious. In the past I would put convenient symlinks to get to deeper directories quickly, and I now realize that approach is just a hack due to a poor navigation interface.
Not as far as I know. There needs to be one, and internet-scrapers need to be able to be sued for ludicrous amounts of money if they violate it, IMHO. Training AI models feels way outside the scope of what I think "fair use" should cover.
paid support. I’m not convinced that most of those companies that use older versions even know where their JDK comes from.
This basically never happens if you're using default config uBlock origin
I haven't used tiktok in a month, but right before I left lots of creators were complaining that their videos weren't getting as much views anymore, specially some that mentioned political stuff and the obvious thirst traps.

That essentially becomes their demonetization strategy, if you say things tiktok/ad sellers don't like, you stop being recommended. Youtube on the other hand at least separates their monetization from their recommendation system.
The creator posted this elsewhere in the comments:

> it seemed like it was mostly intro stuff, or straight to DBA level

This would have been perfect for someone like me a few years ago. I went into my first job knowing how to make simple queries and simple joins. I changed jobs into a legacy system where there was an overwhelming amount of data sharded across few databases and several hundred schemas.

I didn't need to learn how to do simple joins or basic keywords like union and intersect that every tutorial talked about. I also didn't need a bunch of DBA knowledge like distribution strategies, replication, and HA techniques. I needed to learn how to leverage what was in the database to pull the exact data I needed more efficiently than what I was doing - windows, cursors, and good subqueries. I was the type of person being addressed.
This is a consistent complaint I have about that whole series. Banks clearly enjoys writing action sequences, and is very good at it, and they are a poor fit for the stories of the series. They're tonally out of place with the setting, throw off the pacing, and require extravagant plot contortions to allow for them.
Google's problem is not the technology, it's the business model. If they integrate something like ChatGPT in search it could kill their entire AdWords business. How many ads can you stuff in an answer? And how do you decide which ad goes to a subjective question? Until they figure out how to monetize an embedded AI in a big way there's no chance they'll produce something useful.
This works on Windows, plenty of devices or iOS versions are without a jailbreak, and plenty of users don’t want to jailbreak. It’s not exactly an alternative to Cydia either.
If you live in an agricultural area and can't get sufficient water for irrigation anymore, the distinction between climate change, wealth and war is pretty immaterial.

Do you seriously think that if, in say 30 years, substantial chunks of the tropics-to-tropics range of latitude have become too hot/dry for mass agriculture, that people will not be trying to migrate?

I haven't seen anyone claiming that there is currently mass migration due to climate change. But I haven't seen anyone claiming that previous climate change events (anthropogenic or not) were not accompanied by mass migration (even if the absolute numbers of people were smaller due to total population)
Well it’s a honeypot, and most likely they didn’t “bust” the “main guy” but they’re trying to do a final info gathering cycle.

It’s somewhat astonishing how much money US taxpayers waste on paying agents to catch themselves or make up stories.
DNS-based ad blockers only block connections to domains known to serve ads.

A browser-based blocker is able to block ads served by the same domain as the content you actually want, without blocking said content. They are also able to apply fixes to pages that break or have bad layouts when ads fail to load in.
I think that's fair. Yes, there is an escape hatch currently available. But what is hard is knowing if your application is relying on any internal/private behavior that it shouldn't. Since the dependency hierarchy of most Java projects is very deep, it's hard to know if any dependencies of A -> B -> C -> D are going to call into restricted areas. You might not even know you have a problem until runtime, because you've --add-exports everything and now you have a stacktrace to try and deal with in production.

But yes, maybe not a good reason to completely block an upgrade. It's just postponing the pain, though.
Hey there! Looks like the TablePlus question was answered below. I don't cover connecting to a database and coding along, but that's a good idea. I'll see if I can get the sample data up somewhere for y'all to download.

> Also you mention this is for devs and not DBA's. Do you go over strategies for creating and "maintaining" a new db for a basic app?

We do spend a lot of time talking about schema up front actually! What it takes to design good tables, what data types to use, and so on. I talk at the end of the schema section about migrations and how you can use those to keep your tables up to date as business requirements change over time.

I think if you use a hosted provider like PlanetScale, they (we) take care of a lot of the stuff that was traditionally the realm of the DBA, although maybe not all of it. I don't know exactly where to draw the DBA line to be honest.

Let me know if you have any other questions! Happy to help however I can.
with rg I rarely need fzf in practice, I would say for every 10,000 rg usage I need fzf once
Where did the code example for Fibonacci go in the typeset output?
That's true across a broad set of economically more significant domains than social media. But there is no moral panic over (shoddy) Chinese trains on the Orange Line.
Oh, not at all. Some of the criticism I don't personally agree with, but some of it is well deserved.

(And no, I don't work on Bard.)
The interesting thing about the question is that there really aren't any right or wrong answers.

People pointing out that maths is full of advancements that had no immediately identifiable use at the time, but that came to be useful later, is correct. Yet it doesn't even begin to answer the OP's question.

I doubt very much that many people choose to pour their lives into endeavours that they don't particularly enjoy just because some hypothetical person at some hypothetical future point in time might hypothetically find a hypothetical use (hypothetically ;P).

The answer is that "value" presupposes the question "valuable to who and why?"

Newton invented Calculus because he had an immediate use for it. Other mathematicians pour themselves into solving problems because they enjoy it and find a lot of reward in the prospect of solving a previous unsolved problem. Both are "valuable", just to different people for different reasons.
Hmm idk about this. You should always be suspicious when something has overwhelming bipartisan support and the US Security State also wants to ban it. See this video: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1637483021120024579

Because they can’t control it like they can control Google, Microsoft etc. inserting whatever back doors they want. Video outlines it well.
A 32 GB GPU costs > $5000, for that you get a whole Mac Mini M2 Pro (not as fast as NVidia, but sufficient for memory hungry LLMs)
Github uses Linguist for syntax highlighting and has a section in their CONTRIBUTING document for fixing bad syntax highlighting [0].

Admittedly I couldn't figure out exactly what repo is being used for Java's syntax highlighting since vendor/README.md says Java is using tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java and grammar.js in that repo appeears to already include references to record.

languages.yml [1] shows ace_mode java, and ace editor's java_highlight_rules.js doesn't mention record anywhere. I'm not clear if github is using ace editor or code mirror, since both are mentioned there.

Hopefully this helps get started on improving the poor syntax highlighting experience.

[0] https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....

[1] https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/c34f887f48d81e2ed42b...

[2] https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/a2e89b94b4dcdff28bf3c8f4...
i think that is grounds for divorce
I did say mammals...

Sure, if you count insects and plants it would be way more
Liquid propellant could be useful in varying the amount used per shot. In some large guns (ship guns mainly) you put bags of propellant in the gun and you're limited to whole bags. If you need a half bag you have to vary your aim to get the desired target. It sounds very difficult but might be worth it for space savings and for not having explosive ammo laying around.

As for making guns stop working in certain places, why wouldn't crime just target those places? My walk home passes malls, a school, government buildings, and two stadiums. Why would I accept a defensive tool that didn't work most of the time?

If we make gun ownership too onerous we risk people ignoring the law altogether - after all the risk of being injured is more serious than being caught defending yourself - which would increase the black market and aid criminals.
> TikTok could become really important, really fast. We shouldn’t let things get to that point.

Twitter was and is still very, very popularly used to get immediate news in the event of domestic and international emergencies and it still is at this point considering it is used as a platform which agencies can use to convey information quickly and have it retweeted.

Anyone who has been on Twitter recognizes this. You can still find first-person POV from users in some really interesting situations that would otherwise not be shown on mass-media networks due to regulatory controls on what can and can't be shown.

Does that validate the use-case in Twitter being banned? Let's say the new owner doesn't want to show reporting from what is happening in Eastern Europe - does that further solidify an argument that it should be banned because it has been 'weaponized'?

The author at no point references Twitter in their article and just continues on a narrow lens on the subject matter.

What is the value in banning an app in a shroud of hypotheticals?
Just like regulation stopped piracy and 3d printed weaponry and prostitution and the war on drugs and prohibition stopped the drug and alcohol trade in America.
The feature everyone is excited about is Virtual Threads. Something where .NET is still playing catch-up https://twitter.com/davidfowl/status/1532880744732758018.
Category error.

China has state capitalism, and "communist" is name only, and not relevant to the topic.
I'm using the screen protector that I bought from Google with my phone.

But yeah, after rebooting, works fine. I cannot believe a bug like that is still on a device that has been out so long.
Both the 4080 and the 4090 are very expensive, but the 4080 is pretty universally considered to be much worse value for money.
I use xonsh on Windows, and set up the keybindings there. It, frankly, is messy to do so in xonsh.
> I really would like an explanation of what audit means. I am open to the idea of being surprised by a satisfying answer, but I am also asking because I don't think the answer will be satisfying.

Every electronic vote has a physical record, and is checked against each other. Fraud/mistakes occur, but never at the scale to shift any election.

More: https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/election-audits-acros...
Wow, I had to take this chance to let you know how much your book impacted me as well. What I loved so much about "The Cuckoo's Egg" is that it blends a great story, technical details, and personal growth. I've never read anything else like it.

From all the other comments, it seems many people got as much out of it as I did. I especially liked your description of the Emacs bug that allowed outside access to Berkeley's computers. It brought out my great fascination with finding and fixing security holes. Thank you so much for this!

Cliff, if you read this comment, are there any books that impacted you as much as your book impacted all of us? Since reading The Cuckoo's Egg, I've searched for similar books but have yet to find any that feel just as enjoyable. I'm open to recommendations from everyone else as well. :)
We've had none whatsoever here. All of our engineers who've received new Mx Macs love them, me included.
Viewing self-harm images online and in social media usually causes harm
Really enjoyed this spot although we could only stay for an hour or so. The Asheville Pinball Museum (East Coast) is mentioned in the comments but I personally prefer the one in nearby Hendersonville NC (owned by the same folks from what I understand)