skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this might be about the SLAC technical notes that date back a long time. You can find a repository of them at: https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slactns/

All sorts of interesting topics from early computing (I found them when looking into IBM Channel I/O), practical material research, and of course building a linear accelerator. Even a few recent ones I've seen are interesting, like when to use rsync, or notes on PCIe NVME SSD use.
This is funny. It's "my son if it has my DNA" is the copyright equivalent of "it's my song if it has my chords." I can't resist:

- "You got a copy of my DNA files. Then you had a child, and they look similar to one of ours. I don't care if you modified it by removing all my faulty genes, or if you wrote the DNA from scratch after looking at mine. I sue you for copyright deft, you ought to pay reparations and the kid should be terminated." ~~ SCO-genomics.

- "I don't care if you breastfed it, it's not a real person if their DNA was generated by an AI." ~~ Twitter mob.

Seriously though, I don't think that parenthood has anything to do with genes.
>I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration.

My understanding is that Australia is unusual for (as Jedd said) not having regional accents despite the country's (geographic) size. Am I mistaken?
Ive found that the “my way or highway” attitrude is often a defense mechanism and they will meet you halfway if you simply ackowledge their point of view.
Accepting and acknowledging are not the same thing though so I dont mean to cave in if you disagree.

I speak as a toxic person myself. Years of systemaric abuse and I was pretty much a marcissistic asshole.

100% a defense mechanism to avoid abuse. I had never learned what validation was. Also I isually assumed everyone was out to get me.

Took me years of living without a relationship to learn to learn what an absolute dunderhead I could be.

Sometimes other peoples actions are simply a reflection of your own attitide.

I look at it this way, if everyone around me is an ahole, the only thing they have in common is me.
Maybe, just maybe, I myself may need to learn to communicate and validate those around me.
And I need to do that without selling myself short.
I ran into the same problem while building https://learnawesome.org/ . Forget the broad class of "learning resources", even the "books" category doesn't have a usable unique ID. Not everything gets an ISBN for example. There's also the ambiguity between a "work" and an "edition" of a work.

This is probably why OpenLibrary supports mapping of books with 40+ identifiers: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/o...
My only takeaway from this is that Dolphin lied to paint themselves as David-the-victim against Nintendo-the-Goliath. Getting hit with a DMCA takedown and simply getting told by Valve to sod off are two astronomically different things.
There's a fantastic film called The Day Shall Come, which is a very dark comic take on this theme. Thoroughly recommended.
Please. I've been through medical systems in several European countries, and the GP system is frustratingly bad. GPs will at best prescribe you some medication, but will otherwise act as entitled gatekeepers to the rest of the system. Unless you're bleeding on their table, they'll do their best to avoid sending you to a specialist. They'll engage in the same charlatanism that GP is talking about.

Healthcare in Europe is not free. You're taxed for it quite highly.

Calling this system "healthcare" is too generous. It only exists to keep people from complaining, and healthy enough so they can be productive enough to be taxed. There is no care.
Are they, though? The legal minimum in most EU states is just 20 work days which isn’t even a full month.
Your deductible should be for the largest amount of cash you can reasonably part with. Statistically you will make it out better with a higher deductible but lower monthly premiums.

I had a flood in my house with a 5k deductible and when we told the restoration company we were going private on the services they magically reduced the price by 50% and we only paid 3k out of pocket. You also have to take into account that trades will jack the prices on insurance claims which is going to be baked into your monthly rate, so if you can go private when possible you can also save money in the long run.
Can we please, for the love of all that is holy, stop saying ChatGPT LIED? Lying means intentionally making false statements. A chatbot does not have intentions...
You can lockdown your children and not expose them to the ones who choose risking being exposed. Can’t you?
Got an opportunity to give this a proper listen - really good. As a non-native Italian speaker, I'm impressed: and now I can have something that can accompany me to work. Thanks, great work.
> The same doctor has a private office from 16:00 to 20:00, where the queue is almost zero.

If there is a queue, the price is too low. Surely a good business optimises price such that there is no queue and maximum revenue?
The opposite is not true. Most software does have a short lifespan.

But there are a few exceptions.
Great read, I spent years thinking requirements should live somewhere like Jira, and I feel for many teams this is the case.

But as the author mentions, Jira contains tasks related to bugs, text changes, colour changes etc.. These are not product requirements per se.

Like the author, I came to the conclusion requirements are best kept in a requirements management system, that integrates with your project management tools - a source of truth and living documentation about what the product does. (Not conversations back-and-fourth about bugs and UI minutia).

And like the author, I have also created a requirements management system https://userdoc.fyi (currently we are specifically focused on user stories, personas, and journeys).
Definitely varies by country. In Czechia, they give antibiotics only after three days of fever or symptoms that strongly hint at bacterial infection. And they usually do at least a CRP test, often a cultivation.

The daycare rules here vary place by place, though. Some of them just check for fever, some don't like running noses.
"Your honour, I am not a cat"
Let's change the professions a little bit.

Imagine getting fired and barred from writing code ever again over a bug you introduced because you used copilot and didn't spot the issue.

Pretty sure that would be considered an unacceptable infringement of basic human rights here.

You can assert your ideals all you want but the fact is that professions that govern themselves invariably end up with "what's fair to the bad lawyer".
Comparing anything but the total cost for employer (salary + taxes they pay + benefits) doesn’t make that much sense.
Had a chance to try this - really good, with just minor odd pronunciations, but everything else is top quality and, more importantly, very enjoyable. Thanks.
OT: Funny, I start to see here more and more Heise expats. Welcome @ReleaseCandidat! :-D
> If the params for the search are so many or so big that they don't fit in a single url, how could you use that as a cache key?

I think the horse has bolted here. With HTTP/2 (and often without), URLs can be _very_ long.
The numerous similar books, now about Linux, that have been published in the first quarter of the 21st century indicates that your humble opinion is out of step with reality. (-:
No, open source is just like this now.

I think it's a confluence of factors:

1) Open source is more about interpersonal collaboration than it ever has been. The lone hacker throwing tarballs -- or patches -- over the fence is dead. Open source projects now more closely resemble "real world" software projects: a team of engineers using collaborative tools, working toward a defined shared vision with management and oversight. Major projects no longer follow the BDFL model, instead using incorporated entities like the Linux Foundation to direct development replete with boards and committees, leading to more "office politics" in how major decisions get made. A tradeoff for the greater continuity and community input a foundation provides.

2) Open source is more diverse than ever before, and becoming more so. More diversity means more perspectives coming to the table.

3) Fully 25% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ. Among hackers that number is higher; it's likely a majority of late Gen Y or Gen Z hackers are queer. And a significant fraction -- again, perhaps even larger than previous generations -- are neurodiverse. With these identities comes greater awareness of intersectional issues, and greater awareness of oneself as a member of certain classes. Pretending that this is irrelevant to software work -- hsistorically, predominantly a white male dominated pursuit -- is a fool's game. There are going to be struggles and clashes as members of different classes assert their grievances and call each other out.

In short, this kind of "drama" is a growing pain of open source becoming a real movement that invites and incorporates diverse voices. We'll muddle through it and move on.
Let me get this straight, you're saying if AI can be a good lawyer AI can do anything humans can do?

So you're trying to say that lawyering is the hardest job in the world and only the smartest people can do it...?
I got worried seeing how she profiled 14/15 year olds in the same frame as adults. That’s problematic. Children have a right to make mistakes — I’m sure we’ve all benefited from a second chance, although my rationale must change to consider the possibility for massive damage over a computer terminal.

The thing is that these crimes are hard to stop by anyone else considering how complex they can be for the public, let alone for parents to understand what it is their kid is doing in their bedroom late at night.
Discovery of 2000-year-old 'computer' leaves scientists baffled
I'm not sure if it's unique to my place of work but most requirements are made up. If something is or isn't implemented in the final solution has no real bearing on happiness. The thing that everyone seems to be after is a well thought out solution with empathy for the users. Strict requirements get in the way of that in my experience.
> The reason to use $$(some-command) instead of the built-in function $(shell some-command) is that the expression will be evaluated every time it is called. [...] When using $(shell ...) the expression gets evaluated only once and reused across all the recipes.

I don't think the last sentence is true. As long as you define py using = and not := it will be evaluated every time it's used.
This is hilarious and people modding you down have missed the joke.
> Saying “it’s not fair!”

What the hell?

I'm saying that Ukraine deserves Starlink access in Crimea. And you go off on tangents about irrelevant details. The only person who matters in this discussion is Elon Musk, who is refusing to enable Starlink access in Crimea.

But as I said in other posts: even if Mr. Musk enabled Starlink in Crimea, I don't know if the Ukrainian Commandos could trust it. We need to simply choose an entirely different satellite system to provide them... because Mr. Musk is seemingly compromised here. (And if Mr. Musk turns it off at a bad time, it could be even worse than his current inaction)
As someone who has been thinking about a system to organize my improvisation band's rehearsal recordings I have made many of the same realizations.

Only with us some of the points are even wilder, because for us "a song" is the abstract concept or idea for an improvisation rather than a fixed set of notes played in a fixed way in a fixed order. Sometimes that idea can be a word, sometimes it can be very precise sound settings, high-level structural ideas, a set of lyrics, rhythmic patterns, melodic themes etc.

So any given recording can contain within itself any number of songs (including zero). Those songs can exist or not. And my conclusion for our case was that there is no automated way of deciding which is which, as at times it could be hard even for us ourselves.
Isn't that just IoT with more steps?
Welcome to the 21st century!

Your ship has sailed.

Unfortunately, the idea that one can set "solarized" colours, where the palette for the 16 AIXTerm colours is nothing like the AIXTerm colour set, has long since taken root in many people's minds, including, ironically, the minds of people who use this to turn off colourization by setting the AIXTerm 16 colour palette to various shades of grey.
that's exactly what a fed would say, glowie
> clickbaiting.

Perhaps, but the reasoning seems to basically boil down to "Journalists should take everything as gospel unless explicitly proven otherwise"
I have a love-hate relationship with colors in technical environments. When used properly, they are awesome. For example, I have custom syntax rules for assembly that highlight each register in different colors as well as highlighting instructions based on type. This allows me to visually see dependency chains in disassembler output without having to type a single key.

On the other hand, every single editor from Vim to full blown IDEs has an absolutely braindead idea of what syntax highlighting should be.

Some keywords are useless noise (public, final, const, struct) while other keywords are more important - but usually they are all behind a single syntax rule called "keyword". I want to configure each one individually so I can visually scan code faster. IntelliJ has the right idea with semantic highlighting and I think every editor these days has a rainbow parentheses plugin that helps deciphering long expressions.

Personally, I've fixed this with a few Vim keybinds allowing me to dynamically highlight things that are important at the moment.

For non-interactive use I either use Vim as a pager or pipe to a small script which highlights what I want to see.
Why would the celebrity care?
Serious question: How would that work?
Is anyone else wondering when Loll's CDT, Wolfram's hypergraphs, and Sean Carroll's Mad Dog Everettianism are going to merge into an actual Quantum Gravity theory?
"When her literary agent, Douglas Stewart, sent out the manuscript in January 2021, he felt in some ways as if he were introducing her for the first time. “Despite the fact that Gabrielle had several big successes before, there are people who had never heard of her before this,” he said.
A frenzied bidding war with 10 publishers broke out, and Knopf won, paying a seven-figure advance. Shortly after, an auction for screen rights drew 25 bidders, and Paramount Pictures bought them for $2 million."

How does this work? An unknown author suddenly gets bid on for loads of money before anyone bought the book?

"Knopf, which initially printed 60,000 copies, has reprinted the book 21 times to keep up with runaway sales. "

Company paid more than a million and prints only 60000 copies? How do they intend to make the money back?

This makes no sense to me.

Also, nowadays I don't believe in grass roots anything, what I believe in is clever marketing on social media.
Same in Sweden
America is accentist, ageist, sexist, racist, imperialist. God bless Amerika.
Ah, thank you! A place for me to start digging, namely, how do I make c.Disable true. I suspect there's an easy flag for it, but still :/
I would recommend something like Outseta. I used this for a year or so before building my own complete site with Ruby on Rails. https://www.outseta.com/
If you’re on hospice, you can die at home while still making use of the US medical system.
A BackwardsGPT would be interesting
I think it would philosophically be extremely interesting to play around with a backwards GPT. That is, a model that is trained to predict the previous token.

Decoder only transformers very much have an orientation, the order of things can be crucial for their ability to compute things. The classic example is that generating a (random) word and then it's hash is (difficult but) computationally feasible. But generating the hash of a word and then the original word is computationally infeasible for a transformer, because to generate the hash it has to internally come up with a random word and then has it, but when it is time to print the original word the decoder only transformer does not remember it (no hidden state). It has to invert the hash.

I claim that it is similarly computationally extremely difficult to generate reverse text for a transformer.

Both if these issues can be resolved with prompt engineering: The transformer can be told to use it's output as memory, so it can generate a random word / forward text first and then hash / reverse it.

Because of this forward orientation all LLMs right now have I am very curious to see how a BackwardsGPT would behave. Many aspects of LLM behaviour were quite unpredictable and I think what we have learned from experimenting with them is philosophically very valuable. Who knows what surprising emergent effects a BackwardsGPT would have. It would certainly be much worse at it's task than a GPT, because I believe previous token generation to generally be computationally more difficult than forward generation (most problems in our lives have an easier forward problem than it's inverse problem).

But as the SGD does its holy work I am sure it will find weights create some interesting behaviour.
It's the one I intended to respond to. React isn't declarative in a new way. Backbone.js popularized declarative event bindings long before it. It is a bit of a unique DSL though.
It also says "East Suffolk Council told Eastern Daily Press: "While we are naturally disappointed by the reported removal of the Banksy seagull from the side of a building in Lowestoft, it is ultimately the right of the owner to make decisions about their own property."

As I read it, I don't think anyone from the city council forced them to do anything, "could put a preservation order on the piece" doesn't mean they did.

It's all a bit unclear though what the exact situation is though and why they chose to spend £200,000 instead of £200 on some paint.
Your arguments and feelings on the topic don't really matter, discrimination against older employees is illegal.
I'll give you an argument: it's difficult to read colored output, at least for me. Perhaps it is because I'm colorblind, idk, but the output of e.g. "ls" makes it hard to find certain files. The directory names get all fuzzy, and 'tgz' files scream. It takes much more effort to parse than uncolored output. And terminal colors are just garish, but that's a matter of taste.

> accessibility best practices suggest to convey semantically relevant markup and content in multiple sensory means

Yeah, we might not agree on that. That practice might be a tad overrated or overused. In some contexts it might make sense, but that doesn't mean any semantic difference should be expressed. E.g., why should "ls" assign different file types different colors? Did I ask for it? Are they not all file names? Why not color by file size? Or by age? How am I going to remember those colors? Plus, it's unusable in a script, because then "ls" suppresses the color.

But why argue (pretty harshly) against a proposal that won't affect the way you see the output? And why give such a weird, unfriendly option to remove color?
Forgive me for saying this, but you don’t seem to know how programming works. Requiring that a program doesn’t have bugs, or that the bugs are found immediately, is like asking the wind not to blow.
No it isn't. The 256 colour system is based upon a palette, too. Indeed, in almost all terminal emulators it is the same palette as the AIXTerm 16 colour system, which just uses its first 16 entries. (They could be theoretically two different palettes. I know of no terminal emulator author who has implemented it this way. I thought of doing so, but even I didn't.)
isnt that the sane option just keep the steam price higher than your own price and people would mostly prefer to buy directly to save money, then you get the exposure from steam but you can convert them to your platform.
You can easily create requirements in Jira.
Great article that I would have loved to have read 5 years ago. I work in med tech and have to develop software according to the IEC 62304 standard. I was responsible for designing our software development process and when reading the standard I had no idea what these concepts (requirements, traceability, etc) meant in practice. Initially I thought these were outdated concepts (the standard was written in 2006 and now everyone is cool and agile). However, after dozens of releases and team composition changing all the timeI definitely see the value in theory. In practice many companies have bad requirements and no proper requirements management systems, so for them the standard is probably more of a burden.

Anyway, would have loved to read this much more positive view of requirements systems before, so I would have tried to build something beautiful instead of shoehorning the IEC standard into our existing process.
It's so mondbogglibg what we still use it. With every phone becoming a camera phone, it's unusual NOT to have hungreds or even thousands of 2-3MB photos on your phone. But try to copy your Camera folder on a PC, - and Win Explorer acts like it has a heart attack! And it hasn't improved in entire freaking decade!
> I don't think that parenthood has anything to do with genes.

Genetic mirroring is a powerful force and the role of nature plays a far greater part than most are willing to admit.
There seems to be a profound lack of scientific rigour and methodology amongst the engineers who build this stuff. The engineer's reply is always, "but the output works".

But that's not what engineers always say, esp. when they're on company boards. They often make extraordinary claims about how it works -- and then get annoyed when people do actual experiments.

This is a paper about what the properties of the system are, not the properties of its output. To determine these properties you need a ruthless, scientific focus, on the null (/failure) cases.

Many of the hypotheses given by hyping engineers are just that, and often trivial to disprove with papers such as this.
Reminds me of the bedroom wall shown at the Charles Schulz museum.

https://schulzmuseum.org/timeline/8497/

(Charles Schulz was the artist who created the Peanuts cartoon with Charlie Brown, Snoopy and others...)
Noted, I'll do all of these today - but it may require a breaking version update to 0.3.0.

It chooses the character by converting the RGB to grayscale and mapping the 0-255 range to the given charsets length:

let as_grayscale = (pixel[0] as f64 * 0.299) + (pixel[1] as f64 * 0.587) + (pixel[2] as f64 * 0.114);

// TODO: Use alpha channel to determine if pixel is transparent?
let char_index =
((as_grayscale / 255.0) * (self.options.charset.len() as f64 - 1.0)) as usize;

if self.options.invert {
self.options.charset[self.options.charset.len() - 1 - char_index]
} else {
self.options.charset[char_index]
}
Unrelated to the specific tweet, but interesting to see the community notes feature being used to re-inforce rather than refute conspiracy theories boosted by Elon himself.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1662291539635126272
Strong opinions here
You are often also charged fees at the doctors office or even emergency care.
And places like Sweden have private health insurance so you domt have to stay in the “free” broken system with years of waiting before getting to a specialist.
I always cringe when nordics make fun of the US healthcare system.
Ours is just as expensive and horribly broken.
You may not get a 20k dollar bill for immediate care.
You are instead set on a 5-14 year (not a typo ) waiting list.

Sweden is a capitalist country with socialist taxes.