skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all, but php is great. Using curl to talk to external APIs is so easy and then use json_decode and setcookie - all easy to toss objects and data around, readable, immediate.

Yes JS has caught up mostly, but jquery... the way it looks when scanning my code is more symmetrical. Jquery paints a better "shape" representing the output. Speed reading the same code over and over trying to squeeze that new feature in, I need to snap-see what things are doing and jquery makes that "snap" faster for me.
The movie "The Green Knight" came into Germany's Netflix recently. An English movie about an Arthurian legend and you can only watch it in German without any subtitles. Ludicrous.

Can someone shed some light on the regulations in practice regarding subtitles? As an expat living in Germany, there's plenty of times that the offerings have no subtitles in English and are dubbed. Do they have to pay more license fees to include English subtitles?
so I’m on the same journey of trying to teach myself ML and I do find most of the resources go over things very quickly and leave a lot you to figure out yourself.

Having had a quick look at this one, it looks very beginner, friendly, and also very careful to explain things slowly, so I will definitely added to my reading list.

Thanks to the author for this!
Article was entirely produced by ChatGPT-4
I think walking out in the rain and having your jacket grow potentially edible mushrooms would be a feature not a bug. Emphasis on edible.
Regardless, it certainly "feels" unfair.

I did try using a UK-based IP too, but that didn't work (it was a data centre IP, so I guess they block them all).
Lol, I stopped using Edge a couple of weeks ago as after an update, it took 30+s to just switching to another tab, note that the CPU usage was below 10% and 48+GB RAM available.
I feel the same. Netflix (and other streaming sites) provide insane value for a measly subscription price. In comparison, I think books, DVDs, CDs are way overpriced. Youtube Premium is the other thing. They make their own advertisements go away for $5/mo in Hungary, which is half of a cheap meal at a restaurant, and people act like it's pulling teeth.
Because it's not always so simple to structure your solution in a way that's amenable to having multiple processors work on the data without cache conflicts. Locks are extremely common, they are not a "workaround" rather just another of many tools to control concurrency.

Also, few or no CPUs can perform atomic operations on 64 bytes of memory without using transactional memory (which has its own drawbacks), and in any case atomic operations and cacheline alignment don't save you from cache misses and invalidations if CPUs operate on the same data.
It might not been great, but they didn't set out to produce a cheap and fast show.
Many years ago, probably about 40 years or so, I remember my dad pointing out plasterboard in the building supplies store that was marked as 1200mm x 8'6", because standard UK ceilings are 8'6" but everything else (kitchen units and appliances for example) are in multiples of 600mm...
Rewilding the Planet
Looks like all the comments this user has posted for the past month have been killed
Much of this also applies to VC.
Sakura is my drop-in "I need a page" CSS file for some years now. Thank you for making it.
This was a thought provoking short post without much advice on how to approach this. I'm dealing with this personally quite a bit now - just starting my college, but alongside I already have a (compared to my peers) well-paid SWE job. I would love to go traveling this summer and take some of my closest friends with me, but just offering to pay for majority of the expenses felt... weird? Just as described in the article. Also, with traveling you can't really apply the point about owning/renting - one doesn't simply own a train.
And here they have all the sale campaigns going on almost year round. Dropping price 40-50% or more. And they likely still make hefty profit...
I read on reddit that only reliable way is those house-heating companies.
WOW, a keyboard claims to be privacy-conscious, wasn't that dodgy enough?
I believe the AI stole that text from PR agencies with all the contradictions usually included in the lastest state of the art social media bullshit requirements generator.

You either have "meaningful" (aka mass appeal) interactions or diverse ones. Also contradicts the echo chamber point.

You either have quality content, or content that can be qualified by "quality signals" (aka reiterations of proven content).

It is no secret that social media tries to maximize engagement and that rage is more successful than harmony. There are plainly conflicting economic and social goals.

The misinformation and fact-checking part is of course ridiculous as well.

The content is worthless, it contains nothing. It doesn't even work as guidelines, because the content is wrong or just badly thought out. The article has fresher ideas.
Nice. Is there a similar UI that allows to go back in chat history and branch from there? Re-entering initial prompts is quite inconvenient
Yes. Thank you. I just missed that part.

It's been a long while since doing basic linux administration. I am getting rusty.
The first season could have been better, but it has great production values and as far as I can tell they see it as an investment and they are not going to cancel it soon. So for now I'm optimistic about a second season.
Tech jobs remain a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley
You can't build anything useful or fun with slate in the arctic.

But you can set up low/zero g manufacturing on/near the moon, military installations, incredible observatories, and unique tourist facilities.

You can also set up space habs / moon bases for people to live in in the far future which would spread our bets as a species in a way that living in the arctic doesn't.
Here's a take on this with pictures

https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
Why firewall it when you can straight up turn it off?

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
Doesn't this just mean handing over authentication keys to proprietary systems?

I couldn't find a single open source hardware FIDO L2 implementation.

Looking at the specification, is it even possible for an open source implementation to gain L3+ certification?
There is so much bloat in the web dev world it's ridiculous. Almost all tools out there meant to make things easier just complicate things further. The other day I was looking for a basic html template and all had tens if not hundreds of dependencies and setting them all up took longer than actually just implementing a basic template myself.
Mayan Apocalypse deniers were right, though...
I think their status page briefly showed more regions affected, but I have not noticed any problems in europe-north1 or europe-west1 where I have systems running.
I recall there are ways to trick image recognition in ways undetectable to humans, but maybe too much effort for a pirate
It's like one of those woodworking shows on PBS...

"Today we are building a picture frame. You need a square, wood, wood glue, and a $15,000 biscuit cutter that you will only use twice in your lifetime."
Not really. Germany's bureaucracy stems from the Prussians, and they perfected it to an art form in the 19th century when SW companies and consultancies were practically unheard of.

Seriously though, as long as you try to navigate the process (and maybe even ask for help and advice) and not try to outsmart the bureaucrats (which seems to be a favorite pastime all over the world), it can be a really smooth experience where you encounter helpful public workers where you wouldn't expect them.
One isn't a death ray; but if you only have one, then you need a global power grid anyway.

If you have enough satellites to not need the distribution grid, and they're all in geostationary orbit, then many are over the horizon at the same time and they can (in principle) be combined on the same place.

If they're in a low enough orbit that you only get a few over the horizon at any given moment, you get a substantial penalty from Earth's shadow.

On Mars this would be a great thing for colonies; get past the global dust storms, and it won't matter if you have only a handful of sites; on Earth… pick which failure mode you prefer.
On-Device Acceleration of Large Diffusion Models via GPU-Aware Optimizations
I can’t find anything on Google anymore so I’m not sure this proves much except open ai has better search.
It is a good point. In many cases, like solo or small teams the conflicts are not a big problem, but I see what you are saying. I have also been in teams that used feature flags more heavily, and it is a possible solution, too.
Randall Munroe (xkcd) in Conversation with Conan O'Brien at Live Talks LA
This is good software, I used their stack to provision software "onto the cell tower" using Kubernetes (spectrum licenses required to be used on a phone): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.03883.pdf - maybe this helps someone to understand the stack!
Now that you mentioned it, I went and checked and it became much weirder.
From a customers perspective, does the multiple stores approach on Android benefit me in any way?

I now get bombarded with conflicting updates for apps from multiple stores. They all try to get in each others way and it's much harder to figure out what to install and from where.

I greatly prefer the Apple app store, where i can be reasonably sure that i'm not downloading a bunch of malware every time i look for an app.

The absolute king of this mess is the windows store.
There is basically 50 malwares for every possible keyword in that absolute garbage patch of a store.
I'm not sure if that's the case necessarily. I'm sharing my account but people aren't sending me money every month to cover expenses.

Instead, we pool accounts. If I wanted to, I can get Disney+ and regular TV, while I provide Netflix and Amazon Prime in return. If all else fails, there's a Jellyfin server that gets regular use.

Everyone pays full price, but everyone only pays for one service, maybe two. The fragmentation of services is the real killer here. This wasn't a problem back when Netflix first came here and basically offered everything there was to offer until then Disney clawed back a whole bunch of its properties. €18 for Netflix would be fine if you weren't also expected to pay €17 for Amazon Prime and €19 for Disney+ and €14 for Paramount Plus and €15 for HBO Max (only available on some ISPs).

I'd pay full price for a streaming service that had everything and I think many people I know would too. I'd even be able to look past the stupid 720p limit (I run Linux so I cannot be trusted with the noisy 1080p encodes). Instead, my workflow now comes down to "check Netflix, if not found, download torrent".

These companies could've had the Spotify of video streaming services, which basically ended traditional music piracy, but instead wound up burning their version of Spotify down for a short term profit.
I didn't miss OP's point. Go back to before there was a marketing industry, before there were corporations even. People liked shiny things. Greed, gluttony, envy, these are all part of the human condition. We had these things inside us before we came down from the trees.
Poster above me is spreading FUD without any evidence. I'm showing what their behavior comes across like: whiny and entitled, pointing that out is not toxic.
I was terrified when my company was bought by PE in a very hostile way (founding CEO forced out, immediate layoffs, etc).

But honestly things got better, and the employee experience was at least as good as it had been during the “oh shoot we’re not growing anymore” crisis which attracted PE attention in the first place. They also returned us to growth and gave us a nice payout on the magical mystery tokens which had replaced our equity.

As someone who tries to be intellectually honest: I was wrong, and across the 100s of such deals each year there is variation between in employee outcomes.
What you describe doesn't sound like a free market, which assumes the product is freely available.
Try Factor.
Not sure if you're taking the piss there or not, but assuming not, they explicitly said on their webcast that it was an eclipse.
Arguably that $39 offers a lot more value by giving you access to valuable statistics than the $20 that gives you the opportunity to waste some time staring at the tele. And I'm not saying there's no value to entertainment, but there's plenty of more fulfilling things to do when it comes to entertainment.
Anecdotal, though about half of services that I have used only support Yubikeys with OTP mode. PingID does and I think Lastpass does too.

I don't use either of them through choice though...
I sometimes completely forget Amazon even exists.

When they officially launched in the Netherlands a few years ago the prediction of some retail experts was that they would take over the market but their local competitor Bol.com has weathered the storm perfectly.
Brand power, convenience and speed- Amazon is not unbeatable.
Not for a single device with a fixed wavelength and size; unless someone figures out a way to cheat quantum mechanics and the diffraction limit, how well you can aim light is directly related to the size of your aperture (/antenna) in wavelengths.

Convincing governments you've not cheated with a gigawatt optical laser on your satellites (optical wavelengths being smaller than microwaves makes them easier to focus with smaller parts), that's a separate question. I assume an Iranian one of these would get destroyed by Israel for the same reason they attack their neighbour's nuclear reactors.
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> But first, the team will need to make the leather stronger and determine how to control the chlamydospores’ growth. Otherwise, he says, someone could “walk out in the rain, and then all of a sudden find that [their] jacket is growing, or perhaps [has] mushrooms popping out of it

Well that's not where I expected the zombie apocalypse to come from, but I'll take it!
It's so weird that they still haven't learned to provide multiple audio tracks and subtitles. I don't know how sizable the portion of the market is that they lose this way, but people like you and me won't ever consider one of Google's services to rent films. Presumably, US-centric decision-making is to blame.
Are you using Overseerr too? I wonder how discovery would work in your case, if people believe they are already on Netflix.
Streamlining Software Dependency Management with Dependabot
It’s every time I open Firefox, which seems to be every few days.

We’re in the paradox that it is possible to claim there is no ad on a browser because you don’t look at them when they appear. Similarly, people who are satisfied with a government stance will see no problem in violently repressing opposition. Defects only appear when you are on the other side.

But they do appear, and they educate the users such as my parents into creating a Firefox account or assuming that Firefox equals privacy, which is clearly not the case.
Yeah well I’ve got bad news for you too: design documents are not computer programs, and even as they exist today, they are prone to misinterpretation and somewhere in the world there’s always a programmer who’s misunderstanding the meaning of a requirement. Plus, the fact that “prompt engineering” is an emerging topic in HN discourse suggests that you need to structure your prompts in a more rigid way so that LLMs can parse them better and potentially faster, which, again, is what programming languages are: constrained and structured means of communicating logic from human to machine.
> It's often of poor quality and not in 4k.

This really depends on how good of a pirate you are. If you put in some effort, you'll be watching 4k blu-ray movies in a higher bitrate than streaming services offer.
How to teach me physics: Tradition is not always a virtue (2017)
Thanks for the thoughtful post. I am a bit late, but I meant coming up with a Hypothesis and validating it through empirical evidence. Connecting these two explicitly needs logic (when I do x y happens) and, IMHO, logic needs language (or at least seems to have a relationship with language).

I guess if animals can do this, we have to options: either animals have language (even if basic) or the scientific method does not require language. I see merit in both arguments.
Now Atlassian only needs to fix the absolutely awful search bar that never finds what you want and the dreadful performance that makes even a developer's machine lag when navigating.
What's the alternative? Do you really envisage a blockade on books crossing state lines? What's next, Smokey and the Librarian?

To put it less confrontationally - the books are banned from schools and public libraries. They're not banned from private purchase or private ownership. You can give these books, you can gift them, you can sell them, you can loan them. Just not anywhere that's publicly funded.

So there's really no difference between them being available from Brooklyn Library and being available from Amazon. As long as Texas isn't funding the BPL, there's no issue here.
Yeah.. at least we start supporting "online formulars" - in form of boxes where you can put them in (Really, there are multiple places now I had seen that approach :D).

Another anecdote.. we missed to update our address for the car registration (we did properly at the Burgeramt for passport).
At some point we got a grumpy letter, to that new address, about that they had to look up our current address and now need us to get to the Amt, in person with appointment no way around it, to update also car's address to the new address they just had sent the letter to... oh well.
Same. Although I've migrated all of my projects to a single SvelteKit monorepo. This is a really disparate mix of things: creative coding sketches, webview GUIs, personal sites.

I find the problem isn't necessarily the opinionated layout of Kit - I respect that they are trying to establish a sane pattern for frontenders to use. The problem is that this is locked down and enforced in the config and adaptors. Perhaps too much influence via way of the zeroconf web hosting services contributors work at.

Most problems I encounter, in particular of the SPA / making-a-quick-sketch kind, could be solved by more hackable control of the build system. Sometimes I'd like my routes in a single file, sometimes excluding some routes, sometimes a different pattern than +page.

If this breaks something, so what? You have the means to fix it or find a way. As it stands I find myself plugging away at an obtuse JSON object, or must make a my-weird-way-of-doing-things fork. Appeal to the maintainers and it reinforces a papa-knows-best attitude.

Just open it up, make the build system hackable - then see how people decide to use it.
I haven't encountered poor quality recently on usenet. Except for shows that are so old that it doesn't make sense to go higher than 720p. The tooling has also improved greatly and can be automated to the point that getting a whole series is a matter of 2-3 clicks.
That's awesome

It would be nice to add more messagease layouts, multitouch 2-pane mode, more symbols, and layout customization features.

Lack of question mark in the standard layout drives me mad.

Also it would be good to have an option to disable animations, they are extremely distracting.
What works for one person might not work for another. It's not one-size-fits all.
Insurance companies erecting arbitrary barriers between you and a claims payment? Color me unsurprised.

As for unregistering the car, I've heard of (US-based) DMV jokes (like "Flash" in Zootopia) but I didn't run into (Germany-based) "Kfz-Zulassungsstellenwitze" yet.
Global services impacted too :(
Cheap goods that break and need to be replaced not only end up costing more through replacement and repair but also harm the environment through greater pollution and energy use due to more items being manufactured
> Are you explicitly a radical behaviorist, or do you think animals have internal experience?

You will have to use smaller words with me, or explain your vocabulary, if we are to have a discussion.

> But I don't see what that has to do with my comment

You said these things in your original comment: "If we decide that it does" (here I presumed "does" mean AI let us understanding animals) "then conveniently there's no way for the animals to dispute it."

That is what I'm disagreeing with. There are many ways animals can dispute us understanding them.

Imagine a scenario that we have a gadget which is supposedly translating horse body language and vocalisations to human language. You step up to a big black mare and use the gizmo. It tells you that the horse wants scratches behind its ear. You reach out, but oh horror it was a complete mistranslation. The horse was in distress by you approaching and is completely spoked by you reaching for their ear. It reacts, bites your hand, kicks you and drags you through the mud. That is how you realise that the gizmo's understanding of horse communication is less than perfect. That is the feedback mechanism.

You said there is no way, and here is one way they can do it.

> Suppose that instead of a dog, we were talking about a human with dementia in a nursing home. Do you think that not being able to witness your own condition to a doctor would put you at a disadvantage?

Sure. But animals are not dementia patients and being at a doctor/vet is not the only scenario we can test our understanding of them.
I love good rant and this one sent me into paroxysms of delight!

About 9 out of 10 gradle build configurations that I have encountered fail to build something. That's surprising, and infuriating given that:

* Gradle is based on a portability layer, the JVM.

* Gradle competes against a portable and relatively reliable build system, Maven, and competes against make, which is non-portable due to its use of the system shell for arbitrary code. I would take Maven or make over Gradle any way of the week.

I have one other major beef with Gradle: every single Gradle-based project I have encountered on GitHub includes the Gradle JAR file. The author wants me to download and execute arbitrary Java code without even the option of inspecting it! To hell with that!

I had a breakthrough with Gradle recently: Gradle builds that fail on my Fedora laptop work just fine in an Ubuntu "toolbox" container. So much for portability!

Like the author of the article, I have devoted several (not as many) hours to understanding Gradle. It is largely incomprehensible, when encountered in the wild.
Yep. I actually prefer, ahem, sourced content because it looks better even on my iPhone. Apple TV+ is pretty good, but the other services are really stingy with bitrate.
Wish the Super Formula offering was comparable!
Faber-Castell launches "web3" project: “The lore is in our midst”
What's dodgy here? This keyboard doesn't even require network permission, unlike almost all others.
How does this unknown Delaware company support 12 employees working on a free mobile app? There's zero verifiable information available about its history, and the founder seems to be heavily involved in cryptocurrency.
I like the concept! But I believe to make it work better, the repetition should not just of the same puzzle but of the same theme/patter (last rank attack, fork, overloading etc…). Yes, the strict time constraint seems to work for me, but 15 seconds is too short for me to verify any idea, thus I could only react instinctively, which is quite bad in chess.

There are some bugs in the program, for example you said on loop 6, the time should be 30 s, but it was only 15 and the loop count was still 1. And it definitely needs a saving/synching feature because even now, one will lose his status just by refreshing the browser.
Was she excluded from that world of informal exchanges due to pride, personality, or sexism? I can guess myself. That blurb doesn't necessarily mean that she was bad at networking.
Google Researchers Unleash AI Performance Breakthrough for Mobile Devices