skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They don’t take assets.

They don't take assets but to get money, they make you sell your assets to the western conglomerates of the western governments they're associated with. Got rich oil & gas fields? Great, because BP, Chevron, Halliburton, Total, Shell and Exxon are waiting in line to buy them below market value. You don't know how deep the corruption rabbit hole goes here.

>Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka was already too broke to be worth it. They have no natural resources for the international loan-sharks to profit off of. China can profit, not monetarily, but they can set up military bases around the Asia-Pacific to challenge the US's position in the region.

>China loans are debt traps. Plain and simple.

IMF & World Bank loans aren't that much different, unless you drank their cool aid. They're still debt traps for the population of those countries no matter how you try to spin it. I know this because I've lived through it and my relative living there are still paying the price. Have you?
What surprised me is how ordinary much of the construction is - lots of it looks similar to things I’ve seen in the Midwest. The collection of doors struck me the most - some of those doors were just normal doors, others looked like a walk in freezer.

Part of that may be a complex construction may work better, but a simple one can be repaired on site by those who are there.
> Is it just a top-level glance at the numbers because there isn't enough time/money to scrutinize everything?

This seems to be the case for our EY IT audits anyway. Just send them the right screenshots and all the boxes will be ticked.
Agreed, but the point here is that there are diminishing returns. Absolutely keep an eye on it, but now lets move on to the next thing that we can move the needle on.
> Posthumously

Good catch. This is how we'll be able to spot AI in the future. It won't make nearly as many dumb typos as humans do. (=
No, this is an Icons / "Creator Expert" set. The Central Perk set was an Ideas set (and I did see that in stores here), but nobody called that "the Friends set" because it's confusing.
> held meetings with staff members to discuss the risks of unionization and provide a planned update on bargaining between the company and the first unionized store

Re: the risks of unionization especially in retail - are they ever greater than the risk of not unionizing? And are there examples of workers at companies that benefited from not unionizing?
There's enormous turnover is teaching due to too large class sizes and general bullshit; I imagine some combination of removing bullshit and raising pay will make it easy for many people with credentials to come back.

One can also take a longer view and give better incentives to get the teaching credentials in the first place. It's not at all impossible to grow the number of teachers ethically.
SushiSwap Exploit Drains $3.3M
Their point is that Ada Lovelace is still a salient example of a woman who made significant discoveries in computer science, even though she was also privileged in other ways. Indeed, in general, it's often otherwise-privileged members of disadvantaged groups who are the first to make advances.
The Undercover Organizers Behind America’s Union Wins
Version two of this fraud is you do supply something, but it's either a) something the company doesn't actually use, so you can provide a stand-in, knowing it will be stocked and later destroyed, b) something worthwhile that you've bought and marked up with help, etc.
Russia killed its tech industry
https://archive.ph/ifl0W
I was literally a protocol software developer and screwed up the “what happens when I type <URL> in browser”

I was sooo deep in specific wireless network protocols I had to take a step back and really try not to go too deep too fast. I got way too deep into the specifics of wireless networking and everything that can go wrong. They seemed disinterested, and that killed my confidence. I mumbled over my words quite a bit and struggled to keep at the right level of abstraction. I felt rather intimidated. I had a strong vibe this person interviewing me didn’t want to be there anyway and they weren’t helping me along.
You know, I think I'm confusing "cursive" with "calligraphic". My handwriting is "cursive" in the sense that letters are connected. But it's still very hard to read, both for me and everyone else who's ever tried.

What I was trying to say was that if I write by hand as fast and freely as I write on a keyboard, my handwriting is illegible. If I try to control it and make it more legible, it slows me down very much, and my hand hurts. And btw, it's still not pretty.

So basically I confused "cursive" with "neat, tidy, calligraphic handwriting" when even my sloppy, ugly, unreadable handwriting is at least somewhat cursive. Apologies- I'm not a native speaker of English.
We used ThinkPad X131e Chromebooks with this firmware as our launch fleet for our on-premises app. (We needed basic user-facing kiosks that could take a beating.)
> Still, companies also seem to recognize that they’re more vulnerable to organizing tactics like salting than they thought. While the practice is legal, business groups are urging leaders in the House of Representatives, where Republicans regained control in January, to pass a law that would make it easier to reject or fire workers who are found to be salts. “There is a basic duty of loyalty that employees have to their employer,” says Roger King, a senior counsel for the HR Policy Association, a trade group.
This is hilarious, great work! I guess we can add satire to the list of industries being disrupted by AI.
Whenever I see articles like this -it's reason.com.
Saying the stuff autogpt is going to create are going to be world changing... Ok...
"Weed" is an "herb". The "drugs" in weed are THC and the cannabinols/oids.

> would you not consider modern ayahuasca consumption as a drug

From the context of what I wrote, obviously not. In colloquial usage, I would call it a drug, but I was obviously making a distinction here.

> Plus what's the point of making the distinction?

The context and particularities of what I was saying is the point!!!!!!!!!!

Herbs do not naturally standardize their active compounds. These compounds are subject to variable expression based on the genetics, environmental conditions in which they are grown, and time of harvest. Purified drugs, and even some herb-based supplements, are standardized. Even when they're being debased on the street, they're being debased in the batch in a standard manner (assuming they were well mixed, of course).

> and that's false, there's native tribes that would make powder out of seeds and snort them.

Thanks for letting me know. I don't see that this fact detracts from the larger point I'm making. Please stop nitpicking and try to see the larger point I was trying to make. I'm not trying to have an argument here, I'm trying to have a discussion.
Huh Instagram was trying to get into the business of selling magic beans, but turns out that magic beans aren't selling these days.

That's a shame.
That’s so cool. Plywood furniture in the UK is uber premium as plywood is super expensive here.
It is the exception, rather than the rule, but there are two Nahuatl words that have been borrowed widely to other languages.

They can be found in a recognizable form even as far away as Finnish, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese and Emoji.

Chocolate from Xocolatl

Tomato from Tomatl
RISC-V Bytes: Exploring a Custom ESP32 Bootloader
Which in turn creates the issue of how to keep this trust truly independent. There have been successful long term campaigns to wrest control of supposedly independent bodies and align them with special interest groups.
pl/rust is its own target platform, so they provide their own standard library*. The IO stuff all panics, for example. (In Rust a panic should be used to indicate invariant failure. pl/rust catches panics and converts them to postgres errors).

In Rust you'd normally be able to link c code, but calling c requires unsafe because you have to manually ensure the c code upholds any relevant Rust invariants.

> But it does make me curious how comprehensive a sandbox PL/Rust is providing, beyond just forbidding unsafe.

They also hook the compiler and try and detect shenanigans. It's not perfect, but it's pretty thought out.

*Technically the Rust standard library builds on top of a lower-level io module, which is all you have to replace.
Sine and cosine can take as their input any real number including negatives and including very large positive numbers. Their outputs can also be negative numbers between negative 1 and 1 if they have real inputs. None of this necessarily makes any sense if you're considering a purely geometric naive interpretation in terms only of ratios of lengths. You have to introduce concepts like modulo the angle in a circle and analytic coordinate system for it all to square with normal naive intuition.

In fact the sign and cosine can take as their inputs any and produce as their output any complex number. You have to come up with some very interesting triangles to make this makes sense. I'm sure it might be doable but they would potentially be four dimensional triangles and I haven't explored that concept very deeply.
Another construction toy that I loved as a kid but disappeared https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx
> People choose the most competitive product so if a machine is the better performer then payment is made towards purchasing and maintaining a machine instead of paying a worker.

how do you explain the significant market for hand made products?

regardless, this wasn't my point

my point was the electorate aren't going to support e.g. Microsoft replacing every single worker in the US with a piece of code

regardless of Microsoft's opinion as to what it thinks is fair
I should try that. When next I can find a good place to write. One more advantage of writing on a computer keyboard, you don't need a proper desk. Mine's always on my lap, even at work where I have a desk :)
Precisely. LLMs are the Perl of the future
Barely 5% of their furniture is real wood though? It’s mostly sawdust and glue and veneer.

IMO a lot of their “out of stock” is fake scarcity.
I have been using R almost daily for years now and its no hyperbole when I say that if ggplot2/dplyr wasn't a thing I would have never bothered with R.
And I'm like 80% sure the police has a SWAT team that's better equipped than most countries militaries.

And when you have a SWAT unit, you're just itching to use it too.
This. Investigating the 5 yo's environment would be prudent here. The 5 yo himself may be at risk at home and some help may be needed here (even if as the comment said - with a firm conversation).
Clearly it's a reference to seminal Two Cities character Jarvis Lorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Lorry
Yes, but the lawsuit does not restrict itself to the NEL. The ruling against IA spends most of it's time establishing why Controlled Digital Lending itself is illegal, and then mentions "oh and they also didn't strictly enforce the owned-to-loaned ratio anyway."

My guess is that the publishers would have sued with or without the NEL; they were just waiting to accrue as many infringements as they could in order to force a quick settlement. If you sue immediately there's less damage than if you wait so you can sue for multiple infringements over the whole statute of limitations (3 years AFAIK).
Right. The citizens have 0% accountability on the government since aliens raised outside galaxy comes and rule the country.
I keep hearing about these ai bros. Can you give me a specific example of one?
My point with Picasso was to illustrate how artists like to take things considered low value by society (prostitutes, soup cans, comic book art, etc) and turn it into something if high value.

The Supreme Court is actually ruling on this soon. The argument is that the artwork creates something meaningfully different and is fair use. So far the lower courts agree.
> different hallucinogenic compounds, mainly nicotine…

Wait what? Nicotine is hallucinogenic? What sort of ungodly dose do you need for that.
> They are fast because of canvas

Are they? It is a small miracle it runs as well as it does on the browser, but if you compare it to Sketch it’s molasses.
> It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented).

I think that documentation which describes each part of a codebase in isolation, without explaining the project's architecture and high-level information and control flow, is a common failure mode of fine-grained "doc comment" based documentation (Doxygen, to an extent Rustdoc, possibly Javadoc but I don't write much Java). I'm looking forward to more projects adopting https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html or similar, particularly to help code contributors who don't already have a maintainer's birds-eye picture of the codebase.

> The codebase becomes more modular. Individual parts can be extracted into different crates or projects if necessary, and strong abstraction boundaries make the code easier to understand in small pieces.

I'd argue that a codebase with too many interacting parts, abstractions or indirections, and possibly excessive modularity, can sometimes result in a system more intimidating to learn than a more straight-line approach (http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...).

Otherwise I'd largely agree with this post. Another reason to not define the errors returned by a function separately from the function itself, is because of DRY and "every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system". In this case, allowing a function to return a new error should not require adding that error in a global enum, and separately adding that error return in the actual function located far away from that enum. And finding which function an error value comes from should not require searching the whole codebase for 1 or more occurrences of that value's type.
Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?
We should just go back to this...

http://jaar2014.middendelfland.net/middendelfland/metdetreks...

or even better!

https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/pin-op-history-color--119486196...
It’s getting there. Look up react-native-web, tamagui, and solito. Almost all the code is shared between web, iOS, and Android and the web experience feels like a native app[0].

0. https://tamagui.dev
What is your approach to API design?
Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change
It does actually seem like the 5yo needs some professional help.

It's not normal to be that interested in other kids private parts at that age.
Yeah in a lot of cases you definitely could. But well written mobile apps are still better than well written mobile web sites. Sometimes much better depending on the application.

E.g. I would not like to give up the Gmail app and use the web interface.
Someone was already devastated when their chat got erased with their gpt therapist....
I mostly agree with you, especially the Matt Taibbi thing, which gives me nostalgia for the weekly firings and excommunications Trump did to his loyal grovelers.

However, I resist letting this turn into merely a spectacle. I don't think it's a good idea to stop criticizing bad practices (in this case, making unwitting members of the public skeptical of links posted by independent journalists) just because it's fairly mundane in the scope of social media company practices. It's important to hold leadership accountable, but you're right that we shouldn't let Elon become the pariah for bad leadership/practices in way that lets others off the hook.
How do you prevent GPT from hallucinating and giving credulous but manipulative or misleading information? I could see some small percentage of your users being seriously harmed by the AI believing what they say or by gaslighting them. I’ve seen examples of GPT gaslighting people outside of this context. Do you have any deterministic way of proving this won’t happen or are you entirely at the mercy of the guardrails in the black box?
It might be baby agi but as it stands I would argue it is not.
From what I’ve read regulating the light is extremely important - which necessitates going far indoors at set times where you can have non-blue light to simulate sunset. Endless day can wear on you like endless night, but the night can fought with proper lighting.
Could the American plan be described as "use military force to suppress the terrorist group, and then give money to the legitimate government in exchange for minerals", and the Chinese plan as "give money to the terrorist group in exchange for minerals"?
I have genuine interest in both. I build things because it's awesome to make someone's day better. It's a demotivator for me to put out software that doesn't work well. Technology is a means to that goal.

Because I'm wired that way, it's a lot easier to find people who are also wired that way. But I can say that there are absolutely places for people who are wired to be passionate for technology for its own sake. (Some of Fintech and adtech is a good place, for example.)

And if you feel you need to lie to work in a place with a product driven culture, then great. But don't be disappointed when the job is listening to calls with users and your conversations are around "which of these approaches will make the user's life better?" and there are technology radars that are justified by users' needs.
This isn't about investors, it's about creditors.
R needs to modernize. S7 is in the right direction if it displaces all previous failures. I love tidyverse though.
Worth considering that sometimes when someone is trying to take over[0] some of your accounts they will employ tactics like this to bury the signal in noise.

[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/412316/how-email-bombing-uses-spam...
I had the same feeling as a C# developer. I took some weekends to write an algorithm (Monte Carlo financial simulation) in Rust, Go, JavaScript, and C#. You should do something like that.

What I learned is that Rust has by far the best runtime and memory performance, but .NET Native AOT was second best (even better than Go!) and JavaScript was 30x slower than Rust.

But Rust took me probably over 40hrs (hard to say because I worked on it little by little), the learning curve was steep. Its standard library is spare, and selecting the "best" community crate leads to decision fatigue. I banged out the same algorithm in my most proficient language (C#) in an afternoon.

In business, speed to deliver almost always trumps speed of code runtime. Some algorithm hot spots deserve the Rust treatment, but in general, just ship the code to your customers.

That's a long way to say, put some energy into learning Rust sure, but don't beat yourself up about it. It's not a general purpose language like Go or C#. It's a dream for performance critical algorithms.
My bigget blocker in web development is fact retrieval. As someone who only dabbles, I don't struggle with how to logically design my project, but I'm constantly forgetting CSS and JS details like how to accomplish a specific task with CSS flexbox or how to sort an array in JS vs in Python. On old personal projects, I forget the names of my own functions and whether they return a list or a dict. Hell, I'll forget function signatures for functions I just wrote. I forget external library and API details. If I had perfect recall, I would 100x my web dev productivity.
Yeah sure I'll use that spare £5k and unused room I have lying around.
Based on the description of what the kid actually did... This is not the overreaction that Reason thinks it is.

This boy committed multiple acts of sexual assault. This behavior is common in children suffering from abuse, but the relavant issue for the trial is that the workers were aware of this boys behavior and let it continue.
Yup, lived in Japan before moving here and definitely matches my experience :) The one other store besides Nitori and Ikea was Muji. I bought a few furniture from them which was decent. Definitely more adapted to the Japanese market in term of dimensions.
The 5 day time lapse photo is awesome. How did it get taken such that it followed the sun perfectly and without freezing?
The mistake is seeing this as a constructed thing. Math is already there, we only uncover it. If they revealed a previously unseen chamber in the Great Pyramid or something, you wouldn't say "aw nuts, that overcomplicates our existing knowledge of the structure".
That's an interesting question that I find difficult to answer. To me, it's as if you are asking "why provide any detail about what happened?". The nonsense end result of that line of logic is that you return a single boolean that corresponds to failure/success, so I assume that's not what you mean.

Contrast the two error messages:

> one end of range is not a valid hexadecimal integer

> the beginning of the range ("0xZZ") is not a valid hexadecimal integer

The latter has more information and points the user to the general area of the problem, and probably allows them to fix the problem themselves. It could be even more improved by providing line/column information.

By splitting out more and more error types (and cases), and artificially limiting yourself to using each error once, you push yourself away from "range is bad" style errors and more specific (and ideally descriptive) errors.
Wasn’t there an Asimov story with a similar twist? The scientists discovered that there was a rare point where all three stars would set and drive everyone mad.
Empirically, home schooled kids are more socially awkward. I have nothing against home schooling, but the kids are definitely more limited in their exposure to different people and situations.
Why do you believe this? It doesn't make any physical sense. Tire and resuspended road dust are in the 1-10µm range and they can fly as high and as far and for as long as a same-sized particle from exhaust.
Supabase team member here.

We made the figma file 2 days ago - so we’re still figuring out the wider diagram system.

But we’re planning on publishing it in the figma community as it might be useful for others.

I’ll update on here once we do.
So Ubisoft is?
Just a data point but we hire some undergraduate graders every semester and I think the pay is around $14/hr.
I watched a video on how they made the mandalorian today and Hollywood is basically moving away from green screens towards gigantic curved lcd screens which have scenes created in a 3d games engine. It produces more natural lighting results and is better for actors and cinematographer to work with. It’s far cheaper than shooting on location but I wonder if there’s going to be a net loss in jobs when when you can just have a couple of prompt engineers and maybe one or two artists to make tweaks to get any shot you want.

Video for anyone interested:

https://youtu.be/Ufp8weYYDE8
I learned to turn rejection into redirection
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2023/how-a-volkskrant...
When should a decision be fast, or slow?
Figma is a very heavy user of WASM. Was already in 2017: https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
Recipes are not copyrightable, images are. Not the same thing at all.
"It can be hard, especially when you first start," Bousha explained. "A lot of them are not used to reading cursive and interpreting what they see. But after 70 hours a week it becomes like second nature."

70 hours a week just reading and typing addresses? Hopefully that's hyperbole.