skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it depends whether you’re writing documentation that you want people to read or not.

I often have to write documentation for non-technical people, and if they don’t understand it or they find it too discouraging to follow, it makes my job harder.

I can yell and shout all day about how they should just get a thicker skin and study my words more thoroughly, but it won’t change human nature. Eventually you need to stop wishing humanity was different, and accept humanity as it is.
There are a lot of people in this thread eager to brag about their C++ bona fides without giving fair consideration to the problem the article is really discussing. The video is interesting for several reasons but it doesn't go towards the main question.

(Thanks, btw, to gpderetta for being the only one to take a real shot.)
I wonder if your keyboard latency dominates?

In older games like CS 1.6 I believe I could feel the difference between say 10 and 40 ms ping. Maybe PS/2 keyboards were faster. I got the feeling older computers were way faster to respond ... but I might remember wrong.
Hmm, I remember a little strip that would sit in a bottom corner collapsed. You would push it and it would expand like a toolbar, showing app buttons similar to a dock.

Think it was around System 8 time, as it had purple/blue and gray bevels. Ring any bells?

Edit: Yup, thanks, guess it wasn't apps after all. Though it probably could have included them.
My interpretation of what the GP is saying is that a politician might give away free money, causing the Fed to react by setting interest rates at 12% to prevent inflation. Suppressing interest rates would be a different form of free money.
Discord is making all users pick a new username
> xterm does direct rendering via Xlib, which is the primary reason it can be so fast in responding to user input. This is also the reason why its throughput is, on the other hand, rather poor.

What's throughput in this case?
If you expect to be able to develop with the file protocol you're going to be disappointed. Essentially all modern features don't work with it; not just ESM. You can't use Service Workers with the file protocol either.
> That's sort of like condemning all of the U.S. because one state does something you don't agree with.

It's more like condemning all of the US because it has implemented a national policy that only one state really wanted.

It doesn't matter that only one state wanted it. It's still national policy and thus fair game to criticize the entire nation for.
The same guy who made MAX also made pure data. A visual programming language for audio. It is open source.
“Confidently presented bullshit” is probably much more accurate. Added benefit no new vocabulary terms :-)
It depends on where you live really, its still going on in a lot of countries.
Not sure what the parent meant but I always think of https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/08/26/vector-inc.htm...
Government employees and contractors
Ruby and Perl in HPC? I mean this in the nicest way possible if you’re being sincere, but I can’t tell if you are trolling or not
Is it possible that example com is redirecting you
Why is an inflammatory story from a foreign rightwing disinformation outlet being posted here?
What does thermoquantum-mechanics even mean?
Google literally forced MS to fork Chrome by degrading the experience.
that means a smaller team on UE5.x... but still...

Well, I can say I do not sincerely understand those numbers.

Is this the bll sht jobs syndrom of our modern societies?
I think it is far from a foregone conclusion that Perl and Ruby are better than Python, or were ten years ago.
It doesn't appear to have much to do with TikTok at all, from what I saw. It looks more like a regular old power grab by the federal government over tech generally, moving us towards censorship and overt surveillance and punishing circumvention.
CIA operatives in Langley inflating the numbers, clearly.
This is also a perfect case for "voting with your feet". If it doesn't work to claim you have no way of viewing the QR code menu, turn around and walk out the door. (Obviously, this is more difficult to do with large groups but it's something which could be decided on beforehand, especially with smaller groups.)
Refusing cash was never about COVID or the environment, it's about keeping homeless people out.
Code Stars provides notifications about GitHub repositories that are gaining a significant number of stars in a short period of time. Join the channel and be the first to find out about trending repositories that everybody will be talking about soon.
As another point of reference, Hangfire also uses expressions for a similar use-case and it seems to work quite well.

E.g. https://docs.hangfire.io/en/latest/background-methods/passin...

BackgroundJob.Enqueue<EmailSender>(x => x.Send(13, "Hello!"));
Did that article seriously never once link or present the primary source they are reporting on? I feel as though I know less now than I did before I started it, and not in a 'the world is so much larger than I knew' way.
> We can thus imagine a technologically highly advanced society, containing many sorts of complex structures, some of which are much smarter and more intricate than anything that exists today, in which there would nevertheless be a complete absence of any type of being whose welfare has moral significance. In a sense, this would be an uninhabited society. All the kinds of being that we care even remotely about would have vanished.

https://nickbostrom.com/fut/evolution
One weakness with passkeys is that a person can't login to an account with just information that they know. I.e. they need a authorised device. Given that devices can be lost, it seems that folks that only own one device should not use Passkeys. Most passkey users should probably have a minimum of three biometric enabled - authorized personal devices if they want to use passkeys. This might be the biggest roadblock to adoption as few have this many personal devices.
> it provides for banning government-choosen foreign sites entirely, with heavy penalties for assisting in circumventing blocks

I recently heard the argument that TikTok is a media control issue. Rupert Murdoch famously had to become an American to buy Fox. Applying that precedent seems cleaner than the RESTRICT Act.
My guess is the rate at which stdout from a process shows up in the terminal?

I think Terminal.app on macOS is likely the inverse of this… it likely has a fair amount of input lag, but holy moly can it handle a lot of output being dumped at once without breaking a sweat.
Why is it any different to "bank python" used by e.g. JPMorgan or BAML? Or Google writing Dart?
This is such an HN comment.
Democratically elected politicians enact laws that reflect the conservative views of their voters and that is totalitarian because they are controlling every aspect of government centrally with all decisions made my unelected leaders? No, because you disagree with it, that's it.

You know, I dislike both liberalism and conservatism but in the US specifically, I feel like there is a particular misunderstanding with liberally minded people about what the US is supposed to be. If your fundamental human rights or other protected rights are violated I get it, but watching porn is not a right if any kind, states can restrict any aspect of your life that isn't protected as a right. There is already a restriction on adult material that involved minors or unwilling participants, this simply expands it to all people, and there is plenty of research and reasoning that indicates porn is harmful to everyone, period! Personally, I find it more reasonable if you argued cigarettes are healthy compared to what porn does to your mind and therefore life. The whole point of a federal union is you move to other states when you don't like the laws, and everybody gets to exist with the most ideal liberty vs restriction ratio.

For the "land doesn't vote" people who think the electoral college should be abolished? this is exactly why it exists, so crazy states line utah or missisipi don't have to leave the union. I am far from a secessionist but the electoral college was literally a critical component of the contract that states agreed to when joining the union. You need to understand that short of a global nuclear war, there are few things that are worse for humanity as a whole (even more so for americans) than a civil conflict between american states.

The whole point of post here is that so long as these crazy state laws reflect the views of those who live there and existing (not future) rights of protected individuals are not violated, drop the exaggeration and tolerate them as you vehemently disagree with them.
Looks like we’re going to have a lot of accidental “pepperoni hug spot” coming to screens near you
All things are "the same" at some level of abstraction. But if you have to reach to a high level of abstraction to illustrate that the things are the same, I don't see that as a particularly insightful comparison. Sameness is a mundane observation at a high level of abstraction.

Sort of like just tossing your hands up and saying "life sucks" regardless of what "system" you are living under and then concluding all "systems" are "two sides of the same coin".
Don't you just have to move the VPN offshore? China could even spin up their own VPN companies.
> CIA operatives in Langley inflating the numbers, clearly

This was my first thought, too. But these aren't data for VPN usage. Just searches. Why would Langley have a bunch of people Googling VPNs in March?
Every time I see a mention of numerology I get a chuckle thinking back to Umberto Eco's book "Foucault's Pendulum" and the measuring of shop kiosks.
For what it's worth, the lab classes I attended at the public university in Texas I attended after one quarter at MIT was essentially... "here's the key to the lab, knock yourself out. come find me if you have questions." The only reason we didn't make an initiator in the lab that year is we couldn't find the polonium.
I used to use detectportal.firefox.com but now it downloads some bin file for whatever reason
Malicious/non-informed cryptocurrency mining in a background tab also comes to mind.

Would it make sense for GPU access to be a permission that users have to explicitly grant?
Yeah I tried the demo, it wrote some wrong code with comments in Chinese. I think I'll pass.

It's a pretty well accepted fact now that bigger LLM = moar better without exceptions. I'm not sure why there's a race to the bottom of who'll make the most useless model that can run everywhere.
I saw various comments about how FPGAs are not ready for consumer hardware, apple is using them in the airpod max already (probably for filtering audio)

Check the link below
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+Max+Teardown/139369

They really excel for high throughput & low latency - which noise canceling sounds like a good example of! In addition to this, they are already being used in communication systems & data centers to speed up latency sensitive computations. Edge AI seems like a big market that they will be used for soon, probably more likely b/c they can be flashed unlike ASICs and new NN architectures drop every couple of years.
The fastest online version of the famous encryption technique.
gcc uses gas (from binutils) as its assembler, unlike clang.
Yeah, I beg to differ about including Azure in that list.
Couldn't Google easily achieve the same by just moving their ads to doubleclick.google.com?
> Specifically the Mac Plus (January 1986)

More specifically, that's the oldest model which System 7 ran on. (The only unsupported models were the Macintosh 128K, 512K, and 512Ke.) It certainly wasn't the only supported system with a monochrome display; that also included the Mac Classic, SE, SE/30, and a bunch of the early Powerbook models.
I'm 100% sure that no one who works for the government knows how to acquire and operate a separate smartphone either /s
Is there an age limit to be able lean and pass its rituals?
It will certainly be interesting to see. Utah is an interesting case because generally speaking high percentages of the population will praise and promote "freedom" and "liberty." Of course with humans often stated/conscious beliefs and actions are often disjointed, but there's still an interesting angle there where the state is a lot more limited on what it can do in the enforcement arena before people start pushing back.

That said though, porn access in Utah would be a hard one for the average person to stand up for because the social pressure there is immense (speaking from experience here). The dominant religion teaches that "free agency" is an important and indeed essential aspect of our lives. We are here on Earth to grow and develop and learn to make good (i.e. obedient to God) choices. They even believe that a War in Heaven happened that split the masses because Satan (aka the Devil) wanted to force people to be righteous, but Jesus' plan was to give them choice. You would think they'd be a bunch of libertarians then, but no they clearly believe that God shouldn't force you to be righteous, but the state should. Furthermore God has told their prophets that things like alcohol, marijuana, porn, are wicked and sinful. Reducing or eliminating your access to them is for your own good (and the good of "society") and is therefore justified. I've tried pointing out that when it comes to enforcing your morals on others it can literally be taken to China-level authoritarianism with the same justication of "good for society," but that never seems to get anywhere.
For example, the results are absurdly sensitive to the choice of estimating your uncertainty as a defined deviation, or a defined low percentile within it, or a defined high percentile within it. They are also absurdly sensitive to the choice of estimating a mode or a mean value.

On more erratic than log-normal, well, I mean it. There are projects that can't be fit to a log-normal, they have fatter tails. I have no idea why. A log-normal is something tractable, many projects aren't even that.
Back in 2011
I bet that with your eyes closed, the difference between "black out blind dark" and "no light" isn't much. I bought black out blind about 5 years ago and they're amazing. If I'm in my parents house or staying in a hotel during summer, I get crappy sleep and I'm wide awake at 5am.
> I could absolutely see them push an age verification requirement for "personal" VPNs that allow you to get an out-of-state IP address

The VPN provider knows the user is in Utah and connecting to Pornhub, so there might be an argument for knowingly facilitating circumvention. No clue if that's something that they can prosecute, though. I'd be de-nexussing Utah were I running a VPN company.
You really think trying to argue about safety data for a different vaccine, while pretending you are talking about the submission topic (the article is about approval for GSKs, the comment links to stuff about Modernas candidate while saying "presentation on the vaccine") is an important substantive post and not horribly derailing the discussion? Or what substantive flagged post do you mean?
I'm thinking, treating astronauts as brain-carriers is maybe misplaced? Sure it saves on mission cost, except when something involving strength happens on Mars. We'd have to model possibilities to come up with an optimal astronaut, instead of just assuming smallest, lightest is best.

Anyway I'm good with women dominating spaceflight. If it makes sense.
No one said there should never be men on Mars missions. The reports say the first Mars mission. That mission would probably be equipped to set up a rudimentary supply infrastructure on Mars, thereby doubling the number of available supply depots.
> with a user-controlled local browser setting and a new type of permission request popup.

Settings and pop ups mean that users have to understand them - which can be a huge user education challenge. I'm pretty skeptical of the argument that it's simple to add in a new user facing pop up and have the majority of users use it correctly.
Ok, taking this story at face value _despite_ it being from the Daily Mail...if your phone can "instantly download malware onto your device, stealing your location and personal information" without any prompting or further user action by simply visiting a URL, that seems like something the FBI should be warning device manufacturers about instead of the average person.

"QR codes scary and bad!" isn't a very productive line of discussion.
I've been to some houses where the shutters had no gaps and they fit the window frame so well that virtually no light made it in, even during the day. It was surreal waking up in the morning, thinking it was still night time, then checking the clock only to see it was 8AM. A great feature to add to a house if you ask me.
Lolololololololololol

> Their bodies are typically smaller and lighter

Have you even seen a horse race?

> Their reproductive systems were thought to be more insulated from radiation

Yes, the first reason I thought for 100% women was "for reproduction."

> They are less prone to heart attacks than men.

That's pretty specific.

---

"Astronauts going to Mars should be only men. They are more goal oriented, physically stronger, and less susceptible to depression.

"It's basic science."

Blegh
That was the Control Strip, but the objects in it represented system features (like screen brightness, battery life, or audio volume), not running applications.

It was a fairly weird feature, IMO. It was initially added for laptops, but somehow ended up on desktop systems as well, and had a couple of bizarre features added to it later on, like the ability to enable/disable file sharing or control iTunes.
No I am saying that there was no protection and the follow ups provided none either.

Yes, with 99% odds I am saying there was a conspiracy to end the randomized placebo control group early to bury any chance that someone could ever conclusively prove these vaccines were ineffective.

The claim was they decided it was unethical to withhold a "life-saving" vaccine from control participants and that's why they ended it. I would bet with 99% odds that if there was a funded investigation with subpoena power you would find strong evidence that the primary reason that control group was ended because of extreme financial incentive to end it. If the control group were allowed to continue and it were shown that the vaccines were ineffective (which is what ended up being the case), tens of billions would have been lost. I am counting on someone being sloppy and letting the truth spill somewhere internally.

Now if you are saying that I am showing bad judgement for speaking truth to power, for caring about honesty, I could see a valid argument there. But to me truth and honesty is more important than money.

There is zero scientific evidence that this thing saved a single life. The only randomized control group experiment showed zero lives saved.
I don’t have my phone number “registered” with Google. IE it does not appear in my account.

A few years back I was logging into a new machine from a known network. I provided the correct username, password, and TOTP on the first try. Google then forced me to authenticate further by providing my phone number _in the sign in flow_ to receive an SMS. This is pure theatre as I could have provided any number. No security was gained. Google does, however, now have my number. Even if it isn’t displayed on my account.
> Now that we've spent the last 10 years of corproate security awareness training pounding into our users' heads [..]

Just today I was trying to pay my car insurance online via a local payments gateway. After two 2FA sms authentication, one for the insurance one for the gateway, I am presented with yet another 2fa (?) screen on the gateways website to give my password for my online banking account.

They, the third party gateway, were kind enough to show me the last 3 digits of my banking username, just in case I forgot who I am during the process.

So I call my bank to let them know, "guys wtf is going on, they're asking for my password", to which they reply "oh don't worry, that's fine, that's how we do verification now, nobody will see your password". :0
How is this wrong?

You can be an effective worker remotely. How can help you immediate coworkers (ie people in your project team) remotely. You can do a job remotely.

But a career isn’t a job. A career requires networking with people outside your immediate team. How will you organically meet higher-ups if you can share an elevator? How will you share info about new job opportunities two teams over if there is no water cooler?

People require interaction, and offices are a core way people can organically and naturally share ideas. Mandating “15-minute lunch zooms” won’t do it.

I’m all for supporting remote work, but I strongly believe that office environment are positive for individual careers and corporate culture development.
Yet moving out of range of Person A with camera never seems to move them closer to Person B with camera. How's that work?
AutoPR: GPT-4 Powered GitHub Issue Resolver
Lots of bias from the journalist in this piece. Not that you ever get anything unbiased from “journalists” anymore. They want to believe twitter and substack are “floundering” given they’re competitive platforms. But in reality they are likely healthier than this journalists employer. VICE, Buzzfeed News and FiveThirtyEight all died in the last month. Twitter is still Twitter and has positive cashflow and all time high usage if Musk is to be believed. Substack is still growing fast. Clubhouse is definitely floundering though.
I think user agent strings were a terrible idea from the get-go, so I'm OK with Microsoft (and everyone else) fudging them this way. I think it'd be even better if everyone used the exact same UA string.
This should be thrown out legally because "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.".

It's religion as law disguised as "But think of the children!" as usual.
It doesn't quite answer this question but a good resource to learn what bats are like are the Batzilla and Megabattie youtube channels [0]. They are Australian bat rescuers and carers. Lovely ladies, short clips, no clickbait or other stupid youtube shenanigans. Just people who genuinely care for little people and try to spread the word. Educational as well. It feels like I know a whole lot about bats just from watching their videos every now and then.

Also, Flying Foxes are beautiful [1].

[0]

https://www.youtube.com/@BatzillatheBat

https://www.youtube.com/@Megabattie

[1]

https://www.weekendnotes.com/im/004/06/greyheaded-flying-fox...
My hypothesis: people who are already using VPN egress traffic in IAD (which has the largest AWS region), thus the results based on IP address is skewed by people who actually live in other countries or maybe even continents.
Maybe I've worked in big tech and finance too long but most good companies (excluding companies looking specifically for C++ expertise) assume you're able to pick up whatever languages you need.

Coding is the easy part of software engineering.

With that said, there's obviously a gap between folks that are mainly just programming vs. folks that are engineering systems. And both personas have been lumped in together. The fundamentals that a good CS, math, and stats education teach you are invaluable when you actually have to build things that scale or work on difficult problems.
As long as people understand this means perpetual motion which is incapable of doing work is possible, because there's no indication that you can somehow extract anything from this.