skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also pirate things. Often. I don't want to, but I'm always forced to by shitty policy.

Apple TV requires credit card verification to stream in certain circumstances. That verification is broken for me... So despite the fact I pay for Apple TV, I pirate when I'm away from home.

I'm not entitled to the rights of the Ebooks I bought. I guess publishers can just change them[0], and god forbid I put my book on my own EReader. What I tend to do is buy the book and strip DRM. I'm privileged to even have the ability to buy the book, I guess.

And buying ebooks? Terrible experience as well. At the book store, you can just page through the book to see if it's what you actually want. I wanted to buy a book on a development topic I'm interested, and the ebook costs 70$. No problem if it's the book I want, but the preview is just not enough, so I pirated it, then decided to buy it.

It really bothers me how consistently the best option is just not to pay.

[0] https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/ronald-dahl-ebooks-being...

Sidenote: I think there's a potential market for a service that allows local bookstores to sell ebooks. It sounds stupid, but I absolutely love browsing the book store... Just when it comes down to it I buy the ebook because it's a much nicer reading experience. I'd love if I could go to a bookstore, take the book to the counter, "buy it", and then the clerk takes the book and credits the ebook my account.

Lately I've been playing around with connecting the digital and physical worlds. I've been toying with smart windchimes for notifications, christmas lights that tell me the weather, and all sorts of little connections. It's beautiful.
> it's even native on Win32 and macOS

It uses the native theming APIs to draw the widgets in a mostly native-looking style, but (unlike e.g. wxWidgets) it doesn't use native widgets, so it doesn't behave quite like native applications.

But I agree that it's pretty neat. And the default theme on Linux has been updated and now looks more like some old-school GTK themes (which I like) than Motif.
Yes, but why? The original question wasn't whether it was possible it was why it hasn't been done, and the obvious answer is that there are barriers that make it impractical (not impossible).
Trust in media is low because authoritarians and their apologists know how important it is to undermine anyone who can hold them to account for their crimes against the public good. They have learned to aggressively demonise journalists who come from a tradition of fact checking and responsible reporting, in favour of sycophantic hacks who will happily spew the authoritarian position in exchange for a few ducats or an invitation to the annual Despots' Gala.
How do you extract the last (largest) entry for each normalized key from the sorted list? What is the command line function?
I was hired in Aug 2022, laid off yesterday.

Looking at it from their perspective, I would have made the choice to lay me off (or fire me). The reality is that I just did not get enough meaningful project work. I talked to my manager frequently and it was always something "just around the corner". My manager went on parental leave 3 months after I started. Pretty much everybody took most of December off. Our division did a re-org which shook everything up, wasted more time. I didn't get any meaningful projects until the start of February, my 6th month of employment at Shopify. I was doing really well there, felt good about my work and my contribution, whereas I'd been floundering for 6 months with impostor syndrome and existential crisis.

But it was just too late. I got the axe. I don't feel too personally bad about it, although I hate interviewing and have performance anxiety when it comes to technical interviewing stuff. I want to take time off to rest but I'm afraid I'll use all my savings up and still not have a job.

I wasn't there long enough to really know for certain, but I feel like part of the problem is the monolithic nature of the codebase. Getting projects greenlit required a bunch of political wrangling and convincing of the senior leadership team by the product folks. Things just moved really slowly. The "Get Shit Done" (I kid you not, that's what they call it) process of shipping projects seemed interesting but nobody really followed the documented process. I got the feeling it was a lot of back channel conversations, gate keeping by higher up folks, with people every step of the chain asking themselves, "Will this decision make me look more impactful in my upcoming review?". Kinda feels like the way I imagine the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union operated.

I don't know. I have a lot of feelings about all of it, I'm personally really sad because I feel like I really had something to offer, something to contribute, but I spent most of my time just fucking around. Scale that up to a company the size of Shopify and it's just a tragic waste of human potential. But they will just pat themselves on the back, congratulating themselves on "making difficult decisions".

The 16 weeks severance is nice though. Takes the edge off.
> The minimum requirement for a language to take off: first class Windows support.

Swift is doing quite well, and it didn’t need Windows support to drive adoption.
That’s absolutely not true. C only needs a huge array, and you can do anything you want with that in any language. That’s pretty much what WASM does as well.

I’m sure there are some other ways as well, but a supported one is through the Graal project, which can run LLVM bitcode (and thus any of C, C++, Rust, etc) natively. Hell, it can interop with regular Java code, or that of other Truffle languages, and even optimize across language barriers!
Return of the Monolith: Amazon Dumps Microservices for Video Monitoring
The joke here is that people criticising capitalism (good) are forced, due to the issues with the current system, to support it. I did my best to make the site not seem too serious, I even call the extension half-assed and I really do mean it. I don't care if people download the extension. It's about the discussion surrounding it and people taking a step back to realise how stupid the situation is.

I suppose my comment is an elaborate way of saying: thank you for reading this and engaging. I mean it in a sincere way.
In a book release event for Stefan Fatsis's book on tournament Scrabble players, Word Freak, the host posed the "megachiropteran" anagram as a trivia question for a book giveaway.

One of the top players in my club _instantly_ replied "cinematographer," and added, "but megachiropteran isn't in the OSPD [Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary], so it doesn't really count."
The how matters. Apple was at one point able to mess with perceptions of music industry. So was Netflix. Publishing industry has a history to draw from and is unlikely to give one a sweetheart deal without a lot of tracking and god knows what other terms they can come up with.

I agree that it looks like it could be, but I honestly don't know how to do it legally without forcing some market participants into submission. Sadly, that requires backing of a bigger company.
How do you do wear-leveling? The socks may start as 20 identical pairs, but in a few weeks to few months, they will be all shades of grey.
It might be, but that doesnt explain why it's #1 usage is towards guys being lame in hopes of getting women. If it was just simpleton, it makes no sense.
For the common folk, there's no downside. For the people in power, more transparency means fewer avenues to exercise control, fewer places to hide activity.
GPT-4 vs. Human Tests [pdf]
natural language processing (not the pick-up artist pseudoscience). I studied linguistics and psychology and work for mental health oriented orgs.
Yes, but I read that as suggesting they could use their own tld OR use subdomains. If you open a new domain on that tld, you don't need subdomains to protect Google account cookies.
Covered in lots of details in Lex Fridman's podcast #279 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxIazwNP_0
Unfortunately, transcript isn't available.

Potentially has big practical applications as it allows for construction of chemical computers that compute through chemical reactions.
Another good news for a python wanna-be newbie like me, another reason to choose Python, then later/future I can choose Mojo for performance related, ease to upgrade since its Python superset.
That or someone wrote them just for this blog post...
It may not have come from an acronym, but that seems to be the common usage and inferred meaning these days. If not, what is it?
You can use any other client, right?
The good news is that the Constitution already provides the mechanisms to fix what's broken. I think we should repeal the 17th, so that States have a voice in what the feds are doing, and to help "check and balance" them. I also think we need an Amendment limiting government's ability to encroach on the basic human right of privacy.

The big problem is the so-called deep state. It should be clear to everyone now that the military-industrial complex and the three-letter bureaus are running the entire show now. How do we fix that? The only answer would be campaign finance reform and an Amendment overturning the Citizens United ruling.

And, yeah, if Fortune 100 CEO's can make millions per year running their companies, and if this supposed to be about recruiting and retaining the best people for those jobs, we should pay Congress and the President like a Fortune 100 CEO, and for the same reason. Let's get sharp people like, say, Tim Cook, into the government, while getting lobbyists out.

Just for the record, Robert Kennedy Jr. is saying all the right things about these kinds of issues. The DNC is going to work very hard to keep him away from the primary.
https://twitter.com/robertkennedyjr/status/16544755360332800...
Distributed Tracing Is Failing. How Can We Save It?
lol, not true. Even for huge vectors (1000 page docs), today you can do this with enough disk storage with something like leveldb on a single node, and in memory with something like ScaNN for nearest neighbor.
I can't figure out what you mean by "coherent" in this context.

ETA: Oh, if you mean like rust trait coherence, then no. That would map to instances being unique, which is not the case. In addition to being able to pass arbitrary values as instance parameters, there is a priority system. But some effort is put into making sure that alternate implementations end up defeq, which is kind of like uniqueness in a way.
You're right, forcing people everyone shoulder the financial burden of maintaining a motor vehicle, forcing them to engage in one of the most dangerous activities humans can engage in and forcing every possible place they might want to visit to have a spare 158sqft is much better.
Why Apache Kafka doesn't need fsync to be safe
> researchers analysed the relationship between mobile phone usage and new-onset hypertension after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, race, deprivation, family history of hypertension, education, smoking status, blood pressure, blood lipids, inflammation, blood glucose, kidney function and use of medications to lower cholesterol or blood glucose levels

Seriously? No control for non-mobile phone use, or even using a headset (i.e. not raising your arm)?
India doesn't want it to happen peacefully either - the choice of venue was a deliberate provocation.
I might have misunderstood you, but brute force what exactly?

Sure, you could use your GPU to generate hashes for 500m email addresses / phones (if they weren't already pre-generated) but then what?

You'd need to then run a DNS check against a target domain – this would introduce 15-300ms DNS check overhead, per hash and you'd get blocked in seconds by your ISP / DNS resolver.

Even if you managed it, it would only reveal an association between a domain and email address, it wouldn't brute force anything. You'd still need to prove control over that email/phone.

You can even remove the chance of an association being revealed through salting but that introduces a dependency, more info on the website.
100% genuine. I don't like that this will happen, but I believe it will.
Good analogy. Right down to, that there even are cars which work on water! [0]

0: https://pypi.org/project/brackets/
I feel like my whole point has whooshed over your head.

You're clearly intelligent and sincere, which is why I bothered trying to reach you, so it's disappointing that this turned out to be a waste of time, even though I feel it was worth the attempt. As I said, I believe education is pretty much the most important human activity, so even though I have no children of my own. I feel it behooves me to do what little I can for the children of the rest of humanity.

I am discussing this in good faith, and I am not trying to insult you. However, I do sincerely believe that you are deeply confused about the nature of education, and I'd very much like to help you clear that up, especially since you teach kids. But I can't help you until you give up this crazy idea that "research" has provided "evidence" that your Mister Bloom's weird ideas about education (et. al.) are, uh, not poppycock.

(I mean, I did say, right off "...by what metrics? Anyway, who cares?" I feel I've been very clear this whole time that I'm not interested in Bloom's work because to me he's obviously a crank. You keep trying to defend him when I'm not even willing to engage. Your "evidence" means nothing to me because I don't believe it's actually scientific. IF you wanted to convince me to take it seriously you would first have to convince me that it has any meaning at all. And you're not going to be able to do that until you can show me that you understand the nature of my objection, which you haven't done yet.)
I hear a lot of people saying "buy all identical socks" to simplify pairing, but I use the opposite strategy.

Buy colourful, distinctively patterned socks like [1] and pairing them up is trivial.

[1] https://www.johnlewis.com/happy-socks-classic-pattern-print-...
The researchers analysed the relationship between mobile phone usage and new-onset hypertension after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, race, deprivation, family history of hypertension, education, smoking status, blood pressure, blood lipids, inflammation, blood glucose, kidney function and use of medications to lower cholesterol or blood glucose levels.

But not having a job or a family member that calls you with stressful crap?
Ask HN: Can you use GPT word in product name or domain name?
Does anyone know what is the legal status of word GPT? Can it be used in domain and product names?

I just read this thread and I don't get it. https://twitter.com/pbteja1998/status/1654095756200931328
The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categorie
Linux 6.4 Closes the Door on Intel Thunder Bay
The Beatles never broke up, they changed their name to The Vinyl Kings in 2002 and released two amazing records.
Huh? No one said anything about communism.
this is diabolical.

I feel bad for the poor sods who have to debug the aftermath of this, especially the "only on sundays" one
An embedding is a a way to map words into a high-dimensional "concept space", so they can be processed by ML algorithms. The most popular one is word2vec

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-word2vec/
If there is liquid water, it means it's not colder than the antarctic sea, which holds a lot of life. Unless there is some weird pressure + salt shenanigans I don't know about.
I think windows is the main thing holding crystal back. I make little games for jams and I'm always trying out new languages. I submitted a bug related to running processes on windows last november, it was just recently closed as completed. Although I spend almost all of my at-home time on linux, I know that I have to provided windows executables for jams. I plan to come back to crystal when I can write once and can compile the same code everywhere.
I disagree that because something is generic and oft-repeated, that it is shallow or cannot teach.

> You could in fact replace "cannabis" and "schizoprehnia" with "foo" and "bar" and you'd have a template for a shallow dismissal of published studies.

Indeed, replacing with foo and bar would be valid, and the fact that this is the case, i.e. that correlation is not evidence of causation in general, remains a deep and important statement about reality. It is particularly important to correct this when the headline is direct misinformation about what the study found. Do you think code snippets using foo/bar as placeholders are shallow or uninformative? There is a good reason they are often used in programming discussions: to demonstrate that whatever is being shown applies in general.
Here is a link as a link https://twitter.com/pbteja1998/status/1654095756200931328
(from the actual paper)

the cross-sectional and case-control designs limit conclusions about causation and directionality

Busy people spend more time on the phone?
100% agree with the latter part, 50% with the former. The tech itself is not that useful, but there's potential (the solution to the bigger issues is not technical, but societal).
Sure, let me define "shouldn't". For those authors who hope to see their language become mainstream and achieve widespread adoption, they may want to cut their losses. If they're working on it for intrinsic reward they should continue, by all means.
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the article author does seem overly gleeful about it
Yes, I agree. My personal favorite candidate for alien life is Europa, which is real cold, real barren, and not sunny on the outside, but probably has a nice warm salt water ocean inside with all kinds of hydrothermal vents and tidal heating.

There's probably twice as much water in Europa's ocean than there is on all of Earth.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/europa/in-d...

I think we'll find Cthulhu down there, if we ever get around to drilling through a few km of ice to look (or learn to scan from the surface somehow).
Do you not understand how much you weaken yourself when you allow yourself to believe this?

Legitimate criticism is the cornerstone of improvement. The only people who don't want criticism to be aired are those who are not genuinely interested in making things better, but rather benefit from them remaining bad.
not that i disagree, but could you elaborate on that please?

as one commenter suggested, the problem is that job locations are too concentrated. we have already proven that remote work is effective, so there is no need for that any more, and super high density is not necessary.

the environmental issue with low density is mostly cars, which can be solved with good public transport, which btw will also be needed in super high density areas because people will also want to go out of the city some times.
i also believe that environmental friendly construction affects the possible density a city can have. concrete is not exactly environmental friendly material. (for high density steel without concrete would be better, it's more lightweight too, so allows for higher buildings)

in short, there are a lot of factors that go into environmental friendly living. what are the factors that favor high density?
I hate studies like this. The researchers controlled for age, sex, body mass index, race, deprivation, family history of hypertension, education, smoking status, blood pressure, blood lipids, inflammation, blood glucose, kidney function and use of medications to lower cholesterol or blood glucose levels. But there are a million other potential causal factors that could be correlated with talking on the phone. For instance, stressors in your life can be a reason to talk on the phone, and stress is linked with hypertension. I think these types of studies can be fine if it's clear that this is just a correlation, but the researchers seem to be presenting this as if they've established a causal relationship.

> Professor Qin said: “Our findings suggest that talking on a mobile may not affect the risk of developing high blood pressure as long as weekly call time is kept below half an hour. More research is required to replicate the results, but until then it seems prudent to keep mobile phone calls to a minimum to preserve heart health.”

I really wish more work was done to establish a causal relationship before publishing something like this.
"Algora charges a 23% fee over your rewarded bounties (20% Algora fee + 3% Stripe fee). The fee is applied when you complete your bounty payments."

https://docs.algora.io/bounties/payments#compliance

If algora.io didn't charge %23 of the bounty I would have tried to contribute. It felt unfair to me.
They are an American business that does not deal with other countries outside North America. Why would they care about the world outside of "ol' Merica?"
For me these are linked.

The fact that I’m now expected to answer their stressful crap 24/7 definitely raises my blood pressure.
how often is an unscheduled call going to be good news?
AI-written content is already here
This was done over 12 years. It seems like that would be hard to control for over such a long period of time.
See also https://norvig.com/palindrome.html with code and a bit of Steele followup.
Then the other software mitigations listed in the article are not so useful either, because the implementation (and OS, in the case of ASLR) could choose not to use them, and the processor should execute such code too.
They manufacture EV’s, that is like 98% of the way to a grid storage company.

This kind of diversification makes a lot of sense for EV manufacturers because they can scale battery production without concern for how in demand their cars will be. Actually making significant money isn’t particularly important compared to simply minimizing risks.
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Did you do anything to handle the event where, say, you lose connectivity and the system needs a reboot? Just curious about what would be the best way to handle that scenario.
Yes, I’ve explored all this but I think Mastodon has won mainly because of its admin functionality, a huge fraction of dev effort is focused on tools to manage content moderation, spam policies and so on. Pleroma has a bad reputation because it was behind on that stuff at one time - maybe still - and a lot of instances had to be blocked because they couldn’t be managed effectively enough. I think it’s easy to underestimate how wide that moat is.
It lacks a legend/info and background.
> GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal)

According to https://docs.gl-inet.com/en/4/tutorials/tailscale/ the GL-SFT1200 (Opal) does not support Tailscale but different models from GL.iNet do.