skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of rigid adherence to user story format, but when they're used well one tends to prefer personas or kinds-of-users over "as a user". "As a job seeker, I...", "As an employer, I...", "As a moderator, I..."

At their best, they help ensure that when people are adding tasks they have a laser-focus on providing value to people using the system—they force you to think about who it's for and why they might want it (what problem it's solving). This isn't always reasonable, so you sometimes get really stupid user stories at places that insist that all tasks be worded that way.
Have been enjoying Lenovo's rolling out of 16:10 displays, it isn't 4:3 but it is still better than 16:9
I feel it suffers from the same weak point of traditional stenagraphy when applied to the real world of trying to hide communications.

Like all human endeavors, the weak point is the out of band communications among any group of humans actually trying to use this.

For instance:

- How does the group share the initial information about the app/plugin, etc. when setting up the communication channel when additional people join the messaging group?

- What happens if one of the member becomes compromised/becomes a mole for the CIA/FBI, etc. or is asked to unlock their phone when interrogated by border patrol.

- What happens if a member misses the message to upgrade to the new app/plugin, because the old one got compromised...

Traditional stenagraphy itself is likely easy to hide in plain sight today in the sea of trillions of hours of useless minutes of TikTok's, trillions of Instagram photos, Tinder profile pictures, Twitter text, etc.
Silly question but is it possible that the army would not care about birds triggering false positives if the weapon can do the work fast enough?
I figured out you can limit the living area of Daphnia using glass and sand, and then feed the fishes with only grass.
This reminds me a lot of what Lexus used to do in their cars. Their Remote Touch interface was literally a mouse with a pointer and the mouse would latch onto buttons as you moved the pointer around the screen. Very odd infotainment interface haha
(neon CEO)

This is true. Neon however offers bottomless storage and D1 is 100Mb currently going to 1Gb.
This article is for anyone who doesn't know that the viral ChatGPT variant was GPT-3.5 and a newer GPT-4 has been made with better capabilities.
Golang, too: https://go.dev/doc/install/source
It tries to put you into the context of thinking as that (type of) user (whether or not you prefer roles, titles, or "personas" in the "as" clause). If you aren't building a feature with some specific type of user in mind, who are you building it for?

I think that relates to why I find the "so that" clause far more useful than the "I would like to" clause and almost find them backwards in the formula, but unfortunately, I think they need to be in the order they are in to help reasonably write them (in English). It's too easy to take user requests at face value feature requests and just keep bolting endless features own and maybe not ever properly meet the WHY behind the feature requests and what the user's actual goals are.

With all the "so that" clauses filled out in user stories on a board, an Engineer has a much better chance to see the big picture and find ways to solve multiple problems at once, sometimes in elegant ways. Rather than just build a laundry list of features, that may or may not meet user needs, it can help you build a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to building the software.

The article points out that engineers often aren't great at knowing the WHY behind a user's request and that's often correct, but that puts cause-and-effect backwards: an Engineer generally shouldn't be writing the "so that" clause, they need that clause for better understanding. Good "so that" clauses come from actual users or at least user advocates (product owners, BAs, support staff, etc). They shouldn't be "optional", the WHY is important to an engineer. The format was designed so that all of it likely should be written by user advocates rather than Engineers. It was designed to be quickly parsed by Engineers, not built by Engineers.
‘Big step’: US joins major effort to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s, other jets
Hah. 16 syllables; I thought haikus were supposed to be 17, but I know nothing.
You also mention, I did speak fir myself and then state there are "millions" that agree and then assume utter malice that "unless they are decieved". I'll point out the contradiction there followed by bad faith.

I'm a bit curious what actual "X" people have actually come for and taken from you. Clean water, the right to not breathe in toxic fumes, seafood free of contaminant, your guns?

Last mention, you say onslaught. From many perspectives that onslaught has been the guarantee of 1/3 of city land dedicated to freeparking, road subsidies payed by federal money and property taxes. Building codes that require space for cars, etc. Perhaps this mode of living does not scale, is unsustainable and does not entirely work for everyone. That is not to say the desire is to change things for everyone, but perhaps allow a grocery store to be built on the bottom floor of an apartment building for those that do want it (currently illegal in many places due to zoning laws). Your arguments at some point seem selfish, that car culture that you have no problem with must be imposed on others in every context.
Martin Shkreli Was Too Honest
You certainly wouldn't want to inject 80K UUIDs. I'm not sure I understand the structure you're using but if you want to send me some details (email is in my profile) I'd like to dig into it

As an aside, this is a good read on the topic: https://cazzer.medium.com/designing-the-most-performant-row-...
I'm the ex(1) troglodyte in question. I don't use custom aliases, because I have had all editing tasks hardwired into my brain for decades, ever since I dropped Teco for ed and then ex. (Ed is the standard editor, but I'm willing to trade off a little standardosity for added convenience.) If the te command had been widely available, I might have stayed with it and not used ex, but that day has passed.

I do pipe stuff through various commands more or less constantly. I most often pipeline through awk, sed, sort, uniq, cat -n, etc. I have a back-burner project to write a meta-editor that works by pipelining and maintains a whole persistent undo-redo history.
I hate it, I love the smell but the raw hop flavor… ugh. I just can’t stand it. I also don’t love a lot of the dry hopped with high hop weight per barrel IPAs, there is this hop burn skunk flavor under the taste that I can’t ignore.

For example Galaxy I usually avoid if I see it on a label because many people leave it on too long and it gets that hop burn. I’ve talked to people who brew with it well and they leave it in contact for 24 hours or less. Not sure what that process actually looks like since it’s added during primary fermentation.
Yes, pretty much all knowledge management in biology is built upon technologies that came from the semantic web community, and biology is certainly not just academia.

There's not much application for knowledge graphs in e.g. a CRUD app of customer names and addresses, but turns out there are an unlimited number of things you can describe about e.g. a protein, and you can't just design one schema because you don't know how it's going to be queried.

See: https://bioregistry.io for countless examples of public datasets used everywhere from academia to "big pharma".
This is kind of the issue here. NASA doesn't really have a long term strategy. The want to achieve X and then make everybody bid on X. Then Y and so on.

They don't say 'in 30 years we want to be able to do X, what are the steps we need to take'.

SpaceX has that approach luckily they can get some money from NASA to further that program.
SF rooms for the homeless sit empty / Failure of referral process
The whole benefit of ChatGPT is that instructions and data are mingled in a natural way. Users generally do not want to prompt ChatGPT with:

"Please summarize this for me. Then create an email from the template below with the summary included.

<start_article_to_summarize>

...

</start_article_to_summarize>

<start_email_template>

Hi Bob,

I read the article you pointed me to. It is an interesting view, but it falls short at ... . Here is what the authors propose.

<insert_summary_here />

Thanks,

Alice

</end_email_template>"

Plus ChatGPT cannot really trust that the separators are added appropriately, so injection of some sort is still possible.
blocked by malwarebytes wonder why
I've come to a realization, largely care of Test Driven Development:

Some of the things we do are good exercises, some are good practices. Confusing the two hurts, and avoiding exercises that make dubious practices also hurts, but takes a lot longer to show up.

If I go a year without doing TDD, I start to feel it negatively in my code quality. But if I do TDD every day for more than a few months, I also start to feel it negatively in my code quality. So when I get a story I decide whether I am going to do it or not, and I try to alternate between easy stories and difficult ones.
Missing the point, which is to shave off cold start times for things like Lambdas, where shorter start times means you can more aggressively shut them down when idle, which means you can pack more onto the same machine.
Not the oldest--we had Win NT 3.x (3.1 I think, maybe 3.5) for the DEC Alpha where I worked.
I think to live for a reasonable price in SF, a lot of people would give up the natural light. I likely would. I'd just use it as a place to sleep and spend my time somewhere else.
10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We’re Still Fighting For
The part where women have to register their periods and have them tracked and might get arrested if they miss a cycle, or put in jail for buying contraceptives, or for googling the wrong things, or are forced to carry a dead fetus to term - which actually happened because in some states the ban on abortion is absolute, with fifteen states not even having exceptions for rape or incest - is not good. The part where doctors are afraid to perform procedures on pregnant women for fear of committing a felony? Not good. The part where Americans don't seem to care about the actual human cost of rights being taken away as long as it weakens the federal government is not good.

Looking at how Southern states seem to be competing to out-fascist each other right now, devolving everything to states' rights seems like a bad idea. If it were entirely left up to the states, half of them would be hunting gays for sport. Having common standards as a culture enshrined in law and a central government strong enough to protect and enforce those standards also seems good. It's weird that this isn't even up for debate where gun rights are concerned but bodily autonomy, rights to privacy and free speech are all up in the air.
- Connective tissue

- Living, breathing document

- Lean

- Cloud native

- DEI
Same with Chrome 113.0.5672.92 (arm64) on Ventura 13.2.

Safari 16.3 has 4 failures: "webgpu is supported", "tensor is webgpu", "xlogy([0], [0]) gradient", "xlogy([0], [0.30000001192092896]) gradient"
You express it provocatively, but IP is indeed a social contract and there are alternative realities outside the culture war's scope
Yeah but if they'd been bred they would be much more useful. Compare wild carrots to domesticated carrots:

https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/wild-carro...
Plenty of children come up with bubble sort as a sorting algorithm. It’s intuitive to go down the list swapping any pairs that happen to be in the wrong order.
The Lunar contract was never meant to pay the whole development. Starship is not a dedicated lunar architecture for NASA. NASA does not finance most of Starship development, but rather a variant of the upper stage for lunar landing.

So yes, SpaceX will 'lose' money but they will have a very versatile rocket that can use for everything.
I don’t necessarily mean dangerous in the health aspect, although long term affects of these drugs are not know yet…I mean the dependency on needed the drug to keep a certain lifestyle, and then having an “oh shit” moment when you’re in a place that you can’t access it, whether that be traveling or the supply of it becomes scarce, or it gets banned, etc
Thie reminds me Chinatown, which is inspired by California water wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars
You don't need a centralized database. You have 3 companies 3 different hashes. They catch bob stealing, on 3 different cameras. Each footage can be independently verified as authentic and not doctored. This would prevent anonymous found footage suggesting someone committed a crime.

You definitely don't want one single leakable entity.
It’s not limited to California. It’s most of the western states.

The problem with trying to reform it is that the state courts have found that prior appropriation created a vested property right. Once declared by a state such a right is protected by the Fifth Amendment (as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment.) So it’s very difficult/expensive to unwind this mistake.
What do you mean “why”? Has anything good ever come to orcas from getting close to a boat?
Well, we're deep into semantics now, but I think the passkey is "something you know". That you've chosen to offload your memory onto a device doesn't really change that.

But, honestly, this is a point of little importance. Almost all of the "something you..." categories are only a rough guide, and most items can arguably fall into more than one of them.
There's something wrong in the comparison calculation.

To begin with, when n is exactly 2^k-1, I would expect all the functions to show k comparisons, including Skarupke's. In the plot, all the curves overlap at 64, 127 and 255 except Skarupke's which is off by 1.

When n is not 2^k-1, again Skarupke's curve is nearly always 1 above the green one (lower_bound_overlap). That can't be correct: analyzing lower_bound_skarupke() and lower_bound_overlap(), I expect the former to never perform more comparisons than the latter. In fact if, after the first compare, the target value lays in the left partition, they both perform other k compares, k being log2(bit_floor(n)). However if the target value lays in the right partition, then lower_bound_overlap() performs again k compares, while lower_bound_skarupke() recalculates k based on the size of the right partition. Since the right partition can never be bigger than n/2, the new k can't be larger than the previous one.

For this reason I expect the blue curve to copy the green one for all values of n right of the midpoint between two powers of 2, e.g. between 64+32 and 128, or between 128+64 and 255, and to perform better for the other values of n.
Okay, so lets discuss the "merit" of this phrase.

This is like Apple calling the removal of their headphone jacks "brave", because they were non-conforming. Its... a bullshit use of the term. Assigning virtue ("courage") to actions that really have nothing to do with courage, and more to do with saving a few bucks and millimeters on the design.

Its already a stretch IMO to call "courage" strictly a virtue, as it leads to pride and idiocy in many cases. In many cases, courage is needed though, so I think its a good heuristic to "try to be courageous" more often than not.

Stretching it even further on conformity vs non-conformity is just too far to me. Conforming is sometimes good, sometimes bad. Its grossly depends on a case-by-case basis.

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Its important to know the destructiveness of crowds, the tyranny of the majority, and other such situations where non-conformity is a virtue.

But there's also the issue of looking like a fool, a proud fool, for just going against the grain for no good reason. And then "courageously" doubling down on your position over and over again. I think this mistake is more common today. Think Westboro Baptist Church, if you need a real-world example. Or the "courage" of the Proud Boys. Etc. etc.

I don't know quite when Rollo May was born or the state of society was when he made this quote. But... in _today's_ society, there's a lot of special snowflakes who want to stand out. IMO, its more common for people to be non-conforming to a fault these days.
I would like to see the performance improvement wrt to something like FAISS tuned than using a vector db. Could poke a hole in a budding trend.
> It’s more complex than that. French courts are not subservient to the CJEU (as France is a sovereign country) and whilst precedents at the European level are important, they are not laws.

Well yes and no. The UK is a sovereign country. France, just as all the EU countries, have to translate EU rules and legislation into national laws in a timely manner and the EU is not exactly kidding with this.

The EUCJ's role is specifically to insure "that EU law is interpreted and applied the same in every EU country; ensuring countries and EU institutions abide by EU law".

That's quite the mission statement.

Basically: France can abide or can get the fuck out the EU, like the UK did.
I miss him every time I think of him, which is often. What a treasure.

I saw him in person several times, between UIUC (where he held a film festival every year), and Chicago but never talked to him. I regret never telling him how much his writing meant to me.

Now that I have a father who's dying of cancer, my admiration for Roger Ebert has grown higher. When _he_ was dying of cancer, rather than hide away from public sight, Roger Ebert let the world see him (which his lower jaw removed), helping to fight some of the shame and stigma that comes with being ill.
My company went with Rocky. We are almost finished migrating production hosts from CentOS.
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest
Its not that obvious.

It all depends on how you do the selection and how you value the selection.

SpaceX will have a huge payload capability that NASA didn't bid for. And therefore SpaceX gets no money for it.

This is just how NASA choose to do this. They could have instead award contracts sized based on the capability both long and short term a projects add to NASA plans.
and why trust the state to select/enact control policy?
Bottleneck Thinking and Exponential Technologies
Add a targeting computer on the catapult and it might be pretty effective!
Carmakers like VW are bringing back buttons because drivers loathe touch screens
Correct, but its part of a larger 'program' that NASA is conducting. And how and when how much of that money gets award to whom is very much to be questioned.
I had one of these! I bet it's still in a box somewhere. It worked quite well... but not in anything after WinXP, sadly, and never in Linux.

It worked quite well. It was handy to be able to feel the mouse "drop" into the trough of a scroll bar, and then bump back out again -- you could aim by feel, without looking.
But that's the whole point - yubikey with fingerprint, or any combination of things that exclude "something you know", opens you up to a whole set of vulnerabilities. Like "legal snooping"; that can't be done if you're protected with "something you know".
I guess what I wanted to say was that to me (given that the comment was presumably targeted at people who already know how all of FRP, stream transformers, and state transducers work, or can at least make a good guess) it was within the limits of acceptable sloppiness to mix up (State, Input) -> (State, Output), (State, Input) -> (State, Maybe Output), and (State, Input) -> (State, [Output]), or the equivalent on the stream transformation side. The point of the comment does not really depend on what you choose here.
If you want to pick on a company for strange naming, Sony is a great choice. WH-1000XM3, WF-1000XM3, Xperia 1 III, etc.
See explainshell [0], a great resource, for the full explanation of these flags.

(Another one of my favorites is cat -vet)

[0] https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=ps+awwfux
My worry about attestation isn't that it will lead to vendor lock-in, it's that some services may choose to reject authenticators that don't attest that they're storing the keys in TPM or similar.
As soon as you write something down it becomes something you have.
No, this is new. They finally had the vote and posted a new update today.

>> "Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). The vote results now await certification by the National Labor Relations Board, with a collective bargaining process to follow."

I didn't think to check the Bandcamp blog. The post is here: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-u...
> you have to define what the job is

Technically, you don't. Defining the work and then doing it is an overwhelmingly popular preference, but plenty of people do different and, AFAIK, it doesn't impact their success rate.

> That's what user stories are for

And yes, there are many other ways to do that besides user stories. "X was created to solve Y" is not by itself a good reason to use X when you need to solve Y. Whether X is any good is important too.

In fact, functionality description (the thing that user stories was created to fight against) seems to normally lead to much better systems than user-story based designs.

> There are lots of multi-billion dollar companies that use user stories.

And well, this stopped being relevant when user stories became a fad pushed by more than 99% of the managers.
Ok, unduped. Thanks!
Eh he has grandchildren and the private-DoD grift will support their futures, I for one support our new alien overlords.
This made me recall modern AI and the issue with quadratic complexity in its transformers. Ooof! A breakthrough here would be a true Breakthrough™ with remarkably larger context sizes. Like it would barely even be a limit anymore and be transformative (har har) to what they can be used for.
He didn’t say 2D is unused, that’s obviously wrong, yes. He said it’s not accelerated anymore, which also, yes
Right, and this is already exactly the pattern we see with Excel!
I don't think Finland has high confidence that the binding agreement will save them.

If you look at the polling for if Finland should join Nato there is a huge spike after 2022 [1]. Even Sweden which has a buffer between it and Russia also had a increase in polls [2]. Not that anybody does this poll, but you won't see a spike in if say Canada should join the EU. The point being, these countries do not trust that the EU will protect them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%E2%80%93NATO_relations...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden%E2%80%93NATO_relations#...
Recently grift and fraud have been uncovered between DoD and UAP community. Basically DoD leaks bs unfalsifiable info and private citizens profit by marketing using the excitement generated by the involvement of government agencies.

We are starting to look spectacularly goofy and corrupt.
I presented a couple of clear-cut cases in the beginning (Gates/Epstein is as open-and-shut as Hitler/vegetarian imho) and elaborated at length about what I consider to be more borderline cases afterwards. I feel like I did a pretty good job communicating what I think. I'm sorry you felt it was condescending.
> What percentage of lake water could we use prior to literal millennia of engineering effort was put into moving it where we need

All of it, people built settlements on lakes and rivers for this very reason

> It’s certainly not the case that we’re “locked in” to lakes, rather we are very capable of adapting to local conditions.

No, we are locked in to rivers and lakes because thats the only big source of renewable fresh water. The underground aquifiers under midwest and under much of middle east will be gone in 50 years and will never return

You should not incorrect people here without basic facts at your disposal
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