skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For fiction, I flip a book open to about 1/3 of the way through and read a paragraph or two, which generally tells me everything I need to know. That avoids the unrepresentative intro portion—I appreciate a punchy and/or gripping opening scene, but it's not very well correlated to how much I'll enjoy the rest of the text.

It's weird, there aren't that many ways of choosing a set of words to convey something, and yet an author's voice and style comes through roughly the same no matter where I sample from (except for the overworked parts, which usually includes the beginning.) And it usually comes through strong, which is great: sometimes I think my reading diet is mostly about sampling a variety of good-tasting styles of mental processing. (Sadly, that does mean that co-written books hardly ever work for me. The voice is muddled. It's rare that authors are able to meld their work truly synergistically.)
That's how the authors describe it, in general terms at least: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/07/27/keyword-ge...
One key element (though not the only one) is Dobbs v. Jackson, subsequent legislation encouraged by it, and the highly visible effects that this has had on reproductive healthcare even where no actual elective abortion is involved.

In terms of cultural expectations of progress and very visceral potential personal impact and perceived position in society, this is a radical reverse for that group (on the second point probably less than for non-whites, but the first and third points probably bite white liberals harder.)
iPhone 15 Pro Low-Energy Chip to Allow Buttons to Work When Device Is Off
Well as I had it explained to me.

Run the following thought experiment.

You are a lawyer. Your client is accused of robbing a bank. The bank has the serial numbers of the bills taken. Your client pays you in cash and the serial numbers match the stolen ones.

if you agree that you are being paid by the proceeds of a crime, then congrats you agree with the law and now all you are figuring out is where the line is.

Turns out its somewhere between a forensic audit of your client and 100% certainty that you're being paid with stolen funds.

The government or prosecution claiming the funds you're being paid with are from the proceeds of crime is well within the ethical and legal bounds that lawyers are held to.

Like many issues when it comes to professionals, there is often a burden on the professional to make sure they are acting ethically. Engineers can't build a building to a clients spec if it would be dangerous. Doctors have a duty of care to not harm a patient even if the patient wants to be harmed and lawyers have a duty of care to know the origins of the funds paying them.

That's one of the burdens of being a professional

Courts are more than happy to adjudicate if there is a gray area.

Also if that doesn't convince you then remember, people can be forced to hand back assets that were stolen even if the owner had no way of knowing ti was stolen. The lawyers don't want to spend all that time defending SBF and be paid with stolen funds, just to have the courts come and tell them to pay back the money as it never belonged to SBF at all.

It's in their own best interests to know and vet where the money came from.
I worked with Beej and Robot Stampede back when he helped port Aviary's image editor tools from Flash to HTML5. Beej, if you're reading this, I hope you're doing great!
NBD = network block device. Hope I saved somebody a google.
> Why do people keep mentioning Tailwind and CSS-in-JS in the same sentence?

Because one of the biggest arguments for each is scoping styles to a component instead of the default global cascade.

> And no, Tailwind would still have its place even if Svelte appeared first because instead of writing the same styles everywhere you'd still want to extract them into a file, and have sensible defaults for them.

Writing same styles everywhere? I'm not sure I understand what you mean, that isn't related to Tailwind or frameworks. Sensible defaults are just design system tokens, those are usable in way more styling approaches than just Tailwind.

I'm not saying Tailwind wouldn't exist, I'm saying it wouldn't be as wildly popular as it is now. React's lack of CSS features has encouraged a generation of frontend devs to simply not learn CSS fully. Sure you need to know some CSS to use Tailwind, but in many cases people just copy-paste Tailwind templates from elsewhere (another benefit of Tailwind) and don't actually understand the styling. I see Tailwind classes that do nothing in the wild all the time.
The Google Vortex (2011)
Exactly. There is an underlying narrative that goes almost unquestioned that Some Evil is necessary to prevent a Greater Evil. That's how we get things like the fucking Patriot Act and this new "TikTok Ban".
Im confused, every one is telling me I am wrong and downvoting me, but saying different things.

Am I wrong because even if you charge the batteries with power that comes from nonrenewable energy, its still more efficient, and in that becomes different from nonrenewable power?

Am I wrong because, in the U.S., its about 50/50 renewable/nonrenewable so the claim that your likely to charge your battery with nonrenewable energy is laughable?

Am I wrong because it depends where you are in the country?

I'm really just trying to understand, I didn't think I was making such a huge claim. I just thought it wasn't controversial to say most of our energy comes from nonrenewables still, bracketing whatever economic or political or logistical forces have made it that way.

Regardless, I will definitely think twice before talking about any of this on here. Lesson learned.
I am not a lawyer but from what I understand any individual who tries to circumvent a restricted app is subject to these penalties.

Also from my understanding this is a generic bill which would enable the government to ban any service they deem dangerous.
"How to deal with off-by-one errors"
openSUSE has natively packaged LXD in their official repo. Looks like Debian bookworm does as well.
Never heard of this person before but was pleasantly surprised by the content.

In my own life, I have spent decades plagued by the feeling that I wasn’t doing enough, and I had many varied areas of focus and felt like I didn’t really progress on anything. That in itself (the feeling of lack of progress) was I think kind of misleading, as I did progress on some things (though I clearly regressed on some things as well).

I don’t really know how it happened but I have made some significant shifts in my life. I started to become physically active again, I stopped smoking cigarettes and some other unhealthy habits, I started really developing and digging into some of my active and creative passions like writing, playing a musical instrument, and renewing my focus on coding to an end and with purpose and quality in mind.

Somehow I started finding that I had much more energy and time available for everything. And as opportunities arose I began to seize them. It was a very exciting period for me. Eventually, my plate really became too full, and things began to suffer (mostly me) and I started to say no to things, and continue to keep my focus on what I really think is important. I feel that it has taught me about the interconnected nature of my life, and about how to value my time, how to slow down and appreciate something, how to deal with my emotions head on instead of taking years or decades to process events in my life (I am sure there have and will be many exceptions to what I have said), how to actively take stock of my current situation and change my plans as needed, how to deal with the fact that my expectations for things very rarely match up with reality, how to stop being an intellectual purist and idealist while still deeply valuing a good idea and pursuing my ideals. I look back at how much I have accomplished the last year and I can’t help thinking everything came from stopping trying to do everything and accomplishing nothing (or so it felt), and by embracing what really mattered to me when it was in front of me. I learned to float down the river, I guess. Lazily most of the time. But when I feel it is necessary, I can exert more power in changing my trajectory than ever I could before.
On the contrary, I was not suggesting it is unlikely to affect the status quo, I think prompt engineering will become so default it's as expected as "can work on a team". Status quo will change, but not in the "direct replacement" theory people are so scared of.

I also don't believe that domain-specific expertise is the big exception here you believe it to be, as domain specific expertise is not gatekept in any efficient form. This will result in people being able to utilize such expertise just through AI - after all, you don't need to be an expert chef to know what a julienne technique is, just ask AI.
Don’t you think it’s too much of a compromise for those people to be abused by the corporations with the deepest pockets in exchange?
> I'm curious when the last time you accidentally sent money to the wrong destination though. Is that really a common use case?

With crypto it doesn't matter whether it's you sending the money to the wrong address, someone who has hacked your account sending the money to the wrong address (and if you have insurance to protect against this, you'll have to prove it wasn't you), or a smart contract that someone slipped you without your knowledge sending money to the wrong address. You're out the money regardless. The last case isn't possible in non-crypto, and in the middle case you're protected by depositor's insurance in the US.

And yeah, I'm not using Zelle or a wire transfer unless I know who it is and what it's for beforehand.
I suppose there are different pollutants all the time, but the areas I'm familiar with (SF Bay and LA) have gotten much less polluted in the last few decades, at least by how they look and smell. I suspect our air and water is safer now than 20 years ago, and much safer than 40 years ago.

Solitary entertainment has grown drastically more engaging in the last few decades, and it seems reasonable to think that it has contributed to increased isolation and sedentary behavior.

Even though it's not absolutely certainly the cause of all ills in the world, I think it's worthwhile to be cautious about digital entertainment.
I found most books are just garbage. Take Moby-Dick for example, interesting story that could be compressed to two pages, but it is 400 pages of boring stuff, that goes on and on. And it can not be criticized as it is "fundamental corner stone of American literature"!

Watching documentary about original story, and a few pieces about 19 century whale hunting, is much better use of time!
Dolphin comes to mind.
Black holes don't have a volume, they only have a surface area, and it depends strictly on their mass.
Silicon Carbide: A Power Electronics Revolution
The problem is that Meta did make a product like second life. It's called horizon worlds, and by all accounts it's a pretty awful experience.

They'd almost have been better off not bothering to make it.
I think in my mind it's loaded because of who the quote is coming from - I have a very clear idea of what "iCulture" means to me. It's not at all vanilla, though it does offer vanilla, but calls it "artisanal french vanilla".

How you're describing it, "culture" sounds more like "values", which might be a better understanding.
Yeah, these days, IDEs like JetBrains are powerful enough that you can pull off significant chunks of refactors with a few right clicks (any sort of renaming, moving of methods, or deletion of code)

Typing will get you places faster, but some of the most productive tools we have don’t rely on it at all.
I hope this doesn't sound negative, but I'm curious about the converging feature set of modeling software like blender and game engines like Unreal. From my total amateur point of view it seems game engines slowly get all those nice modeling features and visual fidelity, while also being able render all it in real time. How can modeling software compete with that? Vastly better tools for modelling?
An ad historically served the right message in the right place at the right time to provide the consumer a piece of information which would lead to the revenue-generating activity.

This concept extended well to online, where blogs and the like would sell ad space that matched their audience. Daring Fireball still uses this approach, often podcasters do too: they know and have a connection with their audience and they can charge a premium to advertise to them.

The idea of serving automated ads was also welcome and useful for the consumer. Searching was met with results and relevant advertising messages, a win-win situation.

Then we had the record scratch moment - and it's from this point that I view the majority of online advertising as an unimpactful waste of money.

In the hunt for more display opportunities Google et. al. have crammed ads into every possible space, a times square approach to advertising where most have zero impact.
These ads are completely disconnected from the content and are merely a stone in the user's path.
Then to make matters worse, to ascertain the widest spread of ad opportunities ad providers employ garbage preference matching algorithms that are so poor as to serve completely irrelevant advertising at high frequency: further conditioning users to ignore ads because they know they won't show relevant information.

How much money and energy is being wasted to serve advertising that has no value?
It's neat to think how these technologies could be the next step in soloing the internet further. Imagine google's AI preferentially directing you to websites that participate in Google advertising programs. You get a different internet depending on which AI you ask. Not that I think it's a sure thing but I definitely don't see it as unlikely either.
You thought in two days they would integrate a commercial plugin that uses a closed commercial API that just generates commands and then put in a major release?
That's way nicer than what I've been using (i.e. Keychain Access). I'll likely switch to Passwords. Thanks!
This is also false. Mine defaults to 1440p on Web if the video has it, if not, 1080p which most videos have. On mobile you can set a Quality vs Performance default in settings, or just leave it on Auto. For videos with 4k, it will sometimes try to play those as well without me asking (but I always turn it down to 1440p because my fans go crazy.)

If you have crappy internet, yes it will give you lower resolution as the resolution is dynamically adjusted unless you specify otherwise.

There's so much FUD out there now that it's cool to hate on Google.
I think a more honest take was it leveled the playing field by removing a loophole. I think it's hard to argue that the deduction was anything more than pandering to rich people in blue states...
GptHidra – A Ghidra Plugin
Pedantic: "flouting" not "flaunting", excepting that enough people use "flaunt" enough that it's gained that usage too.
> Dated to at least 12,200 years ago, it’s the earliest documented site of human activity in the southeastern U.S.

Kinda weird referring to these people in the southeast as being America's first inhabitants when there were already people living on the continent for thousands of years before that. I suspect that people may forget that there was not one single wave of migration by one single group of people who remained a coherent group for two hundred centuries or so.

cf. https://www.pnas.org/post/podcast/peopling-americas
Well, it also has been a tough decade - global financial crisis, wars and flood of refugees, political turmoil partially as a result of these, worries about climate change. Social media certainly amplifies these news and makes it hard to ever unplug, but we could also use better news. As for progressive teens, well their ideology is getting some serious pushback worldwide, so that's one reason to get depressed. Another is that their ideology is degenerating into self hatred and catastrophizing. To be fair Florida is going in much the same direction about different things these days, so I expect conservative teens to get depressed as well.
explain that analogy to me further
Why is human history so interesting?
"I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience. "
Hard to be nostalgic for VB when your day job includes a VB6 development rube goldberg machine of multiple VMs to continue to maintain/debug a "not broke" application in 2023. It certainly feels quite broken given the complexity of the rube goldberg machine, but the business priorities to lift/shift/rewrite are always behind the priorities to keep the current users happy.
> How do you propose to use RCTs to test the claim?

I'm not proposing to use RCTs to test the claim. I'm proposing that the conclusions be scrutinized to the same degree we scruitinize other claims made without RCTs. Nutrition studies are a great example that get routinely criticized here because they also rarely backed by RCTs. I'm proposing the same standard of critique.

> As an aside, do you think that the data, not the hypothesis, is accurate (i.e., that mental health has declined in teens)?

I haven't seen the data nor the data collection methodology. Even so, there are basic concerns that relate to health and specifically mental health that we can ask.

Did reporting standards remain consistent throughout the study period? If we assume they did, this assumption becomes "baked" into the conclusions. Assumptions don't merely vanish once we reach a conclusion.

Secondly, mental health(/illness) is both an umbrella term and one subject to operationalization errors more than say(extending the analogy) weight is. We would be suspicious if a nutritional study measuring health outcomes relied on self-reported bodyweight. We should be equally suspicious when mental health studies rely on self-reporting. I'm not arguing here that we should instead fMRI subjects, just that having an appropriate level of self-reporting suspicion is healthy, rational, skepticism.

Finally, unlike weight, measuring mental health has unique and different operationalization characteristics. The connection between weight and physical health, as far as we can both agree, has a different associative-conceptual connection than self-harm admittance and mental health. We should reasonably rule out basic alternative hypotheses. Were there factors (economic, social, institutional) that could explain(even partially) the change in admittance rates? Did admittance standards change during the timeframe? Even a beneficial change, like awareness-raising campaigns could result in increased admittence. See Logic's song “1-800-273-8255”[1] as a good reason hotline calls increased after it's release that is arguably a good thing rather than indicative of a negative effect.

At the end of the day, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit left to explore. Coupled with the previously mentioned skepticism, I wouldn't exactly put my faith in this. Let's be mature and say that's different from saying it's wrong. We're all invested in finding out the exact nature of this phenomenon.

1. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-healt...
The puzzle here is that astronomers have no clear picture of how these ultra massive black holes are formed so early in the evolution of the universe. if you wait long enough galactic black holes can eat stars, gas, and other black holes, but there was no time for that early on. It is conjectured there were huge ‘Population III’ stars that grew rapidly because radiation transport was different when there were tiny amounts of elements heavier than helium (‘metals’ in astronomer lingo.)

Pop III stars are a bit less mysterious than dark matter but they could have played important roles in the early universe.
In the article, the author makes a point to include objective metrics like rate of hospitalizations, and the data is quite conclusive in showing an actual increase. So these issues definitely did not exist before, at the same scale.
I was deep into effect languages (Koka) and did some effects on my own in Scala for some years.

After a year with trivial Go I just wonder why.
Pedantically, `yield` is already a keyword [1]. As the project's README states, generators [2] are an unstable part of Rust, and the `yield` keyword goes with them.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/keywords.html?highlight=...

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Generator.html
Have you read the H.264 spec? 30k seems light to me
In the time section it has:

.tm_sec=04, // seconds after the minute -- [0, 60]

Since a leading zero means octal I wouldn't suggest writing a number this way.
Of course, in this case octal 4 == decimal 4.
I suppose Stanford could buy it back for the agreed to price thus providing them cash. Seems they don't need it however.
Just Add Water: German Brewery Touts Its New Invention, “Powdered Beer”
No, I get what they're saying, especially with older dialects such as C64 BASIC. It may be approachable to beginners, but the thought of trying to maintain software written in it isn't incredibly pleasant.

On the C64, I find even 6510 / 6502 assembly to be easier to follow than C64 BASIC.
Not sure I understand you. Nor do I understand why I've been downvoted into oblivion.

Also - I have watched Hypernormalization. Found the facts that it presented to be highly interesting. Worth watching just for that. But the overall narrative I found to be pretty unconvincing.
You should try:
https://www.abstracloud.com/editor

It is VB, but for Python and for the web!
ChatDBG: A GDB plugin for LLM-assisted root cause analysis
Nothing dramatic has changed in terms of pollution in 2010 though, especially in developed western nations. If anything, it's been getting better as we've been transitioning to cleaner burning natural gas and renewables.
> The extreme end is nix, which actively requires you to have the upstream written with nix in mind because nix will basically demand you configure the source code in ways to accommodate for it.

I'm pretty sure this isn't true.

What does upstream emacs have to do for Nix to provide https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/pkgs/appli...

I will agree though that applications which have their own update mechanism or do other things that make reproducibility harder are much more difficult to create a Nix expression for.
The age of surconsumerism*
I recall seeing commentary recently from mental health specialists that noted that young people are increasingly facing a sense of existential dread over climate change - that there's nothing they can do to stop it, and will feel the impact more heavily than previous generations.

I wouldn't discount social media and related issues out of hand, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a contributing factor. I understand there was a similar sentiment in the 70s and 80s where there was a certainty that nuclear war was going to happen.
Also a reminder of how tenacious you gotta be in order to have "open source done right". Remember Blender is almost 30 years old.
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
Intel Linux Kernel Optimizations Show Benefit for High Core Count Servers
Which is generally not true anyway, same as lots of sayings.
Oh I get it.

[touches nose]
Interesting. My house came with one of those awful GE fridges that uses RFID tags to make you change your filter, or it will stop making ice and dispensing water. It also makes you buy "genuine" $60 filters rather than generic $15 filters.

I pulled the board, hoping to be able to hack into it, and it has what looks like a USB TTL header on the left side of this image:
https://postimg.cc/Yvv5XMS9/9837bd66

However, the pins are labeled GND, RST, TOOL, (blank) (blank) 5VDC. I haven't tried anything yet, since the prospect of my food spoiling while I fool around is not attractive to me..

Anybody gotten into one of these?