skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't solve a real problem, it solves an academic problem.

I believe this is why a lot of people fall for the blockchain trap, it's interesting on an academic level, so they come to the conclusion that there must be value in there in there somewhere.
It's 2023 and people still believe that swearing on whatever book means anything... humans are so damn depressing.
Sadly it's very hard to generate much energy from small differences in temperature.
There's been a lot of progress on unrolling with a combination of X-ray scanning and 3d modelling. Nowadays AI is being added to the mix.
I’ve thought the same. But quite anti-social for apartment dwellers
As a remote software developer, if this became a product that could be used daily I'd probably buy it. It would be the key link between programming and body exercise.
Libra Creator David Marcus Launches Lightspark
The second part of what you quoted disagrees, they don't agree the gap is closing. They make it explicit near the bottom:

> The effect itself is strong and consistent, but we found no differential gender or race FE, nor was there much of a differential urbanization status identified. The positive finding of a differential FE in relation to maternal education (and at a smaller level, household income) at the older ages is suggestive of some of the dynamics of the process leading to the Flynn Effect. However, we do not consider our findings to be confirmatory in any sense.
Collection of LLM resources that can be used to build products you can “own”
You genuinely believe a CPU from 2023 to be no better than one from 2012?
It's crazy how many people in this thread just accept this as normal and fine. Is the rule of law completely dead?
> Both are full of reflection. That's how it keeps being very generic at its core.

Reflection is not a feature, but a kludge - to conceal how non-expressive the core language is. Add annotations to that, and you might start asking yourself, what value does exactly Java's static type system add here, compared to a dynamic language (say Javascript)? Most of your errors will remain undiscovered until runtime, so why bother?

Things are changing for the better with Java, of course, with the speed of a glacier, but I don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of Spring proxies, or annotations or reflection.
Ah right, forgot the stack overflow post is about PHP.
Every recursion can be converted to code that uses only a single stack. Tail calls can be easily eliminated at compile time automatically as well, that’s why it only needs compile-time support — I don’t specifically know what Scala/etc do, but the mentioned trampoline is basically just a function pointer one can jump to, accumulating results in some non-stack data structure if needed.
It's pretty common and the Engineer's I've worked with take it pretty seriously.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/july-2009/called-....

There's also a code of ethics:

https://www.nspe.org/resources/ethics/code-ethics/engineers-...

Sadly, most software engineers aren't licensed professional engineers.
Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=migRN4P1wGI. Tape on a thing that gets activated by dumb washing machine LEDs and notifies your phone without any third-party server. Really cool stuff!

I thought this article would be along those lines except more sophisticated (OCR to read remaining time? sure why not!) and was slightly disappointed
That's some pretty hefty pricing - $1500 / year, on subscription ... so I don't actually "own" the vacuum.

> Matic must be returned to us if you cancel your membership.

In comparison, the robot vac my family have been using for the past 3 years works great, and is currently £200 on Amazon.
A mechanical controlled washing machine with a mechanical timer on the plug would, reliably, achieve the same thing. no need for networks and external servers.
A timed controlled smart plug, with current monitoring, would be able to achieve the IOT aspect of the problem.
> I suspect that business climate divides sharply between the north and south, with Germany and France being honorary southerners.

The Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Germany 13th in its global business environment index, the UK 15th. In the local index, it's 7th vs. 9th.

https://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=222209005&Cou...

https://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=402870423&Cou...
Sensitive Data Warning in ChatGPT
Hey Hacker News folks! I'm an indie developer, and I've just built a nifty little plugin to help keep your personal data safe while using ChatGPT. With ChatGPT becoming increasingly popular, it's easy to accidentally share sensitive info like phone numbers or email addresses. My plugin displays a warning when it detects you're about to enter personal details into the message window.

This can be a lifesaver in professional environments, too. IT managers can enforce it on office machines to ensure employees don't unintentionally leak confidential data through ChatGPT. I'm excited to share this with you all and hope it'll make your ChatGPT experience more secure and privacy-conscious. Give it a try and let me know your thoughts!
These terminal word processors always looked attractive to me, but what is the path from this, or WordGrinder, to some mainstream document formats - that are accepted in publishing and academic settings?

From what I remember RTF is the easiest to implement from common filetypes, and openable in office suites like MS or LibreOffice. Then, in theory (unless it breaks a bunch of stuff inside), you can save it as DOCX or something. Anyone has experience with this?
Yeah, Facebook is just the company that everyone loves to hate, and the NYT often joins in the chorus. This one seems especially agenda-laden, however:

> absentee leadership,

> Mr. Zuckerberg, 38, is on parental leave after the birth of his third child

> The company’s stock price has dropped 43 percent from its peak 19 months ago

This is pretty disingenuous, considering nearly all tech stocks fell off, and Meta stock has more than doubled since bottoming out at around 90/share several months ago.

The metaverse is stupid and nobody wants it!

> While the company has sold 20 million virtual reality headsets — more than any other company producing similar tech —
Huh? How is claiming that Meta hasn't cut any Engineering roles yet bias against Meta? If anything it's painting Meta in a more positive light.
Shop near me is $275 for an overhaul:

> We’ll take apart your bike piece by piece, overhaul the bearing systems and put it together again. Then we’ll perform a full-tune up, install new brake and shifting cables if needed, and give it a thorough cleaning. It’ll ride like new.

http://gladysbikes.com/mechanical-service

I always tell them to just replace anything you’d replace if it was your bike. Generally after 3 years there’s something they replace like rebuilding a wheel or something. I’ve always been very happy with the service and value because other than light cleaning and oiling I don’t put any effort into maintaining my bike.

The mechanic (same guy I’ve seen for the past decade) told me (in a backhanded compliment sort of way), “This is really a testament to how well a bike can hold up with no maintenance other than an overhaul every few years.”
Python doesn’t do any automatic type conversion for strings
> My point was that the standard of plug-in hybrids is 40 miles or less without using the engine.

That’s not a point because it has nothing to do with the moniker “plug-in”. And is also not really true (because what “the standard”?)
Rust doesn’t have them, though.
> Crypto is promising a financial system that has so far appeared to be much more resilient than the traditional system and bitcoin is currently at $30k.

What is bitcoin resilient to? Not falling to $0?

> We might finally have a technology that can resist financial authoritarianism; there is no body that can stop bitcoin transactions and it is proving itself to be resilient enough for medium-term use. That is a change on the same magnitude as the internet.

I don't think that our current financial system fails that often because some transactions were stopped.
Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files
The Important Difference Between Mastery and Achievement
What made BD special was that they allowed people all over the world to buy books not available on their country and/or at a fair price
Yeah, poor performance and memory usage. In the Java world, thread locals are java.lang.ThreadLocal, basically a hashmap from thread to variable.

Using a ThreadLocal is (usually) a code smell. It's optimized / supposed to be used with just a few threads, not millions.
Can’t wait for the social credit score determining people’s career prospects!
Interesting! How do you know this?
By allowing for a list of read books to be entered.
Hi, I am a co-founder at Matician. Understand your POV. We've all been there.

I can tell you that privacy was a priority for us, so we've designed it from Day 1 to do all processing on the device. The map data from robot is communicated to app via local wifi.

We don't need an internet connection. We have designed it so that it can work like old applianced. However, we need local wifi to transfer map data to the app. Bluetooth isn't good for that.
But then your phone will have been with every port your battery pack has been with!

An alternative is also a power only USB cable, just because I feel like I'm less likely to lose a whole cable than a "condom".
I've been receiving issues for my lifetime subscription to 2600 Magazine for well over 25 years.
What you're expressing a desire for is pluralism. Not necessarily democracy.

Athens was a democracy, but I'm guessing you likely would not have approved of it because it was anything but pluralistic.

You're talking about an ideological ideal, where the grassroots is as heard as the clergy. A laudable goal, but democracy is a mechanism. You use democracy to get to that ideal. But you may need more than simple democracy. You may need a rule separating church from state to stop what happened in the Commonwealth. Completely non-democratic, because you're precluding people from voting for certain people, but it's protecting pluralism, and pluralist thoughts and ideas. Of course that rule does you no good if people just ignore said rules, but that's another discussion.
That “lifeline” is apparently the same the internet is on.
New build has been approved and the extension is now in France.
I’ve never owned a car or even driven one. So I don’t have a good sense of the costs there. I guess I don’t even see the bike as having costs, it’s an investment in moving myself around and feeling good.
My understanding is that he pushes hard in hardware department to pivot into company like Apple because without owning hardware and OS he knows that FB days are numbered. Especially when privacy will take some steam in US
1. Platform threads place a heavier burden on the GC. It's true that virtual threads are allocated on the heap, but platform threads are GC roots, which is worse. The GC easily deals with a gazillion heap objects; it's rather unhappy with lots of roots. The number of heap objects that virtual threads occupy is roughly the same as the number of heap objects that async code allocates anyway.

2. The Jetty experiment measured the wrong thing as they misunderstood the origin of the "million thread" scenario. What happens in a real application is that you have some number of threads with deep stacks servicing incoming requests -- say 50K concurrent sessions -- and then each of those fans out to, say, 19 micro services in parallel, each of those outgoing requests is done on a virtual thread with a very small stack, and that's how you get to 1M threads. I.e. when you have a high number of threads, only a small minority of them (5% in this example) have a deep stack.

3. I don't think anyone would claim anything is a silver bullet. All virtual threads do is let a server service the same throughput as asynchronous code does, but the code is much simpler and it is observable, i.e. easily debuggable and profitable, something that async code can't do.
What I mean is Xonsh isn’t a core part of Python. If it was, I’d be very tempted to make it a daily driver as Python is a very nice language.
Works just fine on Mastodon for me - I've got the people who I follow and I see all their posts in chronolgical order. There's also the federated which flows past swiftly and is quite fun to dip a net into when something interesting drifts past.
Yeah, some C-style would be so preferred: e_nvtpte() /s
... no? Python's == never does implicit type conversions unless one of the types overrides it to do so (neither str nor int does)
The point of central banks is to control their monetary policy. Like, that's why they exist.

Plus while a bank may devalue its currency, the point of it is to keep it stable -- something we haven't seen from crypto in any meaningful sense. Even the so-called "stable coins" are anything but.
Well I regularly do juggle millions of objects in Java. I'd estimate most Java application code is probably running at about a fifth the speed it could be. Modern computers are incredibly fast, but most of that speed is wasted copying data between representations and garbage collecting Stream API debris and boxed integers. Moreover, most Java applications using a database for storage do so in a dumb way that doesn't make good use of either the database or Java.
This might be a big advantage for wireless charging. Although it can be slower than a USB charger, there is no risk that it will be doing something other than charging.
Can I pay to get extra years of software updates on Android yet? The 2-year support thing is awful.
There really are different prison systems. A lot of white collar crime is under Federal jurisdiction. Most violent crimes are state crimes.
The really high voltage fast chargers as far as I understand them connect directly to the battery bypassing the cars battery charger to directly charge the battery not sure how much communication there is on those channels though.
It's not a waste on Mac, it will dynamically switch between GPU and NPU whenever CoreML is called. There are a decent amount of applications that use CoreML.

But I do agree it should be improved!
I guess we should also avoid plugging our phone into the USB ports on airplane seats?
BrainFM (or Brain.FM) (which I really like for focus work time, and sleeping), did this. In 2016 I spent a lot for a one time purchase lifetime unlimited and years later they moved to monthly subscription and continue to honor the lifetime purchase I made. Very happy about this and still use it regularly.
: help case

To turn one line into title caps, make every first letter of a word
uppercase:

:s/\v<(.)(\w*)/\u\1\L\2/g
Two kids in the middle of all of this? Yikes.
Sounds like you've independently observed the Gell-Mann amnesia effect[1]

Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Why_Speculate?
badUSB is what, nearly 20 years old now?

i distinctly remember making usb condoms a long time ago, anyway, and have never trusted public usb slots anyway.
"This rarely is beneficial work the company should/must do, instead it is promotion driven development."

Unfortunately resume and promotion driven development are a very rational approach in most companies. If yo do what needs to be done in an efficient way, you will rarely get recognized and others who do shiny stuff will pass you by.
Intelligence is a tool of the human self, not the self.
This is the FOR macro he's talking about: http://ml.cddddr.org/cl-iteration/msg00008.html
Rituals can still have meaning even in 2023.
I mean as far as apps go - happy scale has been top-notch, in terms of value delivered AND business practices. Been a happy subscriber for years.
I'm also in favor of simplicity, but I think there is an increase in reliability from a microcontroller-based system over one built from discrete logic gates, a mechanical timer, or electromechanical relays. I get that you might not want updatable firmware or might not want communications off the board, but you probably do want a microcontroller-based (with the associated firmware) machine.
The other strategy might be going WeChat but that’s still more risky and there is Twitter that will probably compete with that.
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Banking is doing just fine with cell phones in places like Africa.
I feel complete sympathy. I have a "perpetual" license for Minitab 15. Can I install it in a VM? Yes. Can I activate it? Nope? Can it be used without activation? Nope! So it's useless and has been now for years.

Minitab's solution was to offer me a 10% discount on a new pay by month license.

No thanks, I'm off to pandas and for quick investigations I'm using Wizard for OSX which is absolutely blow your socks off amazing the first time you slice and dice a record set and do comparative analysis with them looking over your shoulder. https://www.wizardmac.com
Pepper spray is not guaranteed to work. Or work in time. Unless you hit their eyes directly, it’s an annoyance in the moment.

Of course, guns have similar drawbacks. Adrenaline is fascinating stuff.
Certainly the risk is there in the PoC sense, but is it a risk in the day to day sense?

That said I carry my own cables with me most of the time anyway
Nice, thanks guys!
>This seems like a bit of 20/20 hindsight.

2nd Life, The Simms, various MMORPGS. We have loads of experience buildings virtual worlds with virtual belongings and conducting meetings virtually. I was part of a WOW guild that had meetings about raids and other small bits of admin stuff in game.

But a company known for being sketchy as heck slaps on 3D goggles and makes it less fun and I’m supposed to want to be in it?

I think you’ll find that a lot of people were skeptical.
that should go without saying: yes, you should avoid doing that.
Nearly a decade ago, transitapp.com had a premium app that costed $2.99 to buy. Most users opted for free options, but I saw the value in the app and bought it. The company later switched to a free model, and then more recently a subscription model. I tried getting customer service to honour the lifetime license, but they only offered 1 year of subscription for their Royal plan.

I've had other lifetime licenses that have been honoured even after those companies shifted to subscriptions. I always feel bad using the Transit app because of that experience. Wouldn't recommend.
>I guess I don’t even see the bike as having costs, it’s an investment

Well, sure, if you want to ignore the standard an unambiguous meanings of "cost" and "investment" for poetical reason.
This one is really amazing:
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Christine Heyes, learnt so much!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdM...
what I'm saying there is that CSS Transitions aren't integrated into the normal hypermedia flow of HTML, which is what htmx tries to address

we have never said that SPAs are a crutch, our (really, my, there isn't much of a team and I don't speak for anyone else) claim is that SPAs are as popular as they are for advantages that are not inherent to them when compared to hypermedia, and htmx tries to narrow that gap

i am sympathetic that people reading the various essays on the htmx website might get worn out by my repetitive beating on hypermedia, but consider that for every repeat reader, there are tens or hundreds of new readers who haven't heard much about or thought much about hypermedia. Repetition is a key to teaching, and I teach, so maybe that influences how I write as well.

regarding abstraction and modularization being key to large front ends, I sort of agree to an extent, but I think that at the system level that abstraction can be hypermedia and that the modularization can be done server side

of course it always depends on the app, htmx/hypermedia isn't right for everything, etc. etc. as we try to point out in an essay on our site:

https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

do I get a little punchy about SPAs at times? Sure, it's the internet after all. I've been fighting for the hypermedia-oriented approach for web development for a decade now, and I've been called "old", "irrelavent", "pointless" and "stupid" many times along the way by SPA fans. There is obviously some conflict between my views on web development and the larger front end world's perspective.

But I try to be reasonably balanced about the tradeoffs, even while I think that the SPA approach is dramatically overused today.
That's more of a manufacturer choice. The pixel and top-tier samsung lines both get 6 years of security updates
You realize the flee to Mexico story turned out to be fake news and the prosecutors backpedaled?
That's what Skyline does

https://skyline-emu.one/
"Sadly it's very hard to generate much energy from small differences in temperature."

Nighttime electric power generation at a density of 50 mW/m2 via radiative cooling of a photovoltaic cell

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0085205

Sure, but it does provide some interesting opportunities for embedded technology (LEDs, security cameras, Bluetooth, etc.).
There's always consequences for your action, regardless of anyone's watching you.
Superstitions are literally beliefs and practices about things supernatural.

Supernatural is a term attributed to non-physical entities, such as angels, demons, gods, and spirits. It also includes claimed abilities embodied in or provided by such beings, including magic, telekinesis, levitation, precognition, and extrasensory perception.

One persons superstition is frequently anothers religion.
I think there's another reason. It's a public line in the sand. If you're a doctor or a chartered engineer and management is pushing you to do something unethical you can point to the oath and say we don't do that. Other people will take it more seriously than an ethical stance that appears to be a mere personal preference. It's not just about the oath taker.