skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should look into BEAM/Elixir for self healing systems, not into LLMs.
this is all very confusing
With all due respect, I'm going to nitpick a portion of your comment there... While the 163k users might accurately describe pixelfed...that is, pixelfed users, that doesn't even begin to describe "the network"... which is composed of millions of fediverse users. Your comment was like saying that email is not that big of a network because there are only X numbers of thunderbird users. Again, all due respect. But pixelfed is only one of many ways to be present on, and interact with millions of people on the fediverse. ;-)
Low quality article. The only takeaway is that NSS does not result in long term weight loss by itself. That's it. NSS does not spike insulin response in humans. Stop reading studies involving rats when the same studies involving humans exist.

There is a correlation between NSS consumption and negative health outcomes, this is true. However, read how this article states this:

>WHO also noted that “potential undesirable effects from long-term use” of NSS, such as an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The results of the review also suggest that there may be other dangerous consequences such as the increased risk of premature death among adults.

A layman will obviously read this as a statement that NSS is a direct cause of harm, not as the correlation that it actually is.

The correlation is simply explained: NSS is heavily consumed by people who have diabetes and/or who are obese. These people are naturally going to have far more health issues than non-diabetics, and non-obese people. They even acknowledge this in the article:

>the connection between consuming NSS and disease outcomes might be subjectively determined due to “baseline characteristics” of those taking part in the study

If you have a choice of drinking regular soda and diet, the diet is without a doubt leagues better for you. I think the most convincing evidence that NSS is safe is this: It's obvious that diabetics and obese people consume NSS significantly more than the general population. Diabetics and obese people are naturally prone to high levels of health issues. Yet why is it that they never just filter these people out to get a good baseline? What are the chances that these university educated people can't filter out obese/diabetics, or that they did not anticipate needing to do this and thus did not collect sufficient data? That they didn't read decades of prior studies who failed to do this, including the studies that specifically mentioned the dirty baseline issue? Is our higher education system this bad? Are researchers just this stupid? Not likely.

The more likely explanations are these:
1 The study was funded by corn growers that are threatened by NSS (a huge number of the studies I read through fall into this category).
2 The researchers have a bias for "natural" products.
3 The researchers dislike the taste of NSS and are afraid that NSS proliferation will reduce the supply of the flavors that they enjoy.

They've tried to prove NSS is harmful for way too long. Sure, that's not proof that NSS is completely safe, but if it is harmful, it must be so minimally harmful that 4+ decades of intense research can't definitively prove it.
I think the simple answer is that the Quest 3 will not deliver a roughly similar experience, quality-wise.
21st-century publishers should stop trying to endlessly flog 20th-century books that have severe dissonance with current values, then. There is a point where you just can't serve the old stuff up without a huge "hey it was sixty years ago and this author was a horrible product of Britain's racist, colonialist upper class" disclaimer in the front, or a major re-working.

I find it kind of fascinating that this article is fine with the changes made to Ursula K. LeGuin's work, but is up in arms over Dahl and Fleming and Christie getting a de-upper-class-twitification. Why is this particular shit so sacred to the Post's "editorial board"?
For sure - striking the right design balance is tough. If it were me, I'd try to keep content in the user's face as much as possible, and maybe inform the user about the unique value-add with non-intrusive sidebars, header/footers or system generated PMs.

It's not easy, and the value of an expert UX designer really shines when walking the tight-rope between informing and annoying your users.

Also, consider investing in reliable A/B testing infrastructure if you haven't already. One of the biggest mistakes I've seen is trying to grow a product while driving half-blind based on napkin sql queries as metrics. Understand who is using the site, how often, when they are experiencing errors, and which types of changes actually encourage growth KPIs - but be careful, loading up the site with 3rd party trackers and intrusive js will introduce bugs and kill site performance - another balancing act hehe.
By default, yeah it's just running chrome on what sometimes seems like hardware that is overkill for it, but then you have:

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

It runs a VM that runs LXC on it, and by default installs a debian container you get root to. They also created a X11/wayland bridge so that graphical apps work, even 3d acceleration to some degree, as well as volume mounts from the host, and USB passthrough.

I was able to use OpenSCAD on it.

You can even install containers of your choice, e.g.: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chrome_OS_devices/Crostini

You get a full linux container inside your secure Chrome OS, the main limitation being that you have to use whatever kernel their presumably signed VM uses. All this without needing to disable secure boot or booting into a "developer" mode or whatever.
> I'm finding their examples hilarious, especially considering one of them is Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which the Oompa Loompas were originally African pygmies.

IIRC, that was done by the original author himself. That's far different than an anonymous committee quietly revising past works to conform to the current political line. I mean that's such a blatant parallel to a famous work of dystopian fiction that they should know better not to do it.

Though, I honestly look forward to a revised version of that famous work, revised to conform to modern sensitivities. IIRC, there's some out-of-fashion racial descriptions and the whole disapproving take on doctoring older works has to go.
amazing advances this year. Remember the guy who created the 2d platformer thats based on time, what was it called again? He spent around $100k+ just for the art, which I am pretty sure was a huge expenditure for him, with this software he could have done it virtually for free without much artistic talent at all.
By the way, your username is controversial and bannable in many environments. The irony of the censorious authortiarian not resisting the minimal scrutiny.
Freckle is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to focus on our Haskell backend. If you are interested, please take a look at the link (https://smrtr.io/fhBV_).
true, i think the new design saves them money (more efficient data model); and drives people into BigQuery which will eventually be paid. But i have to say that GA4+BigQuery gives a powerful combination.
Yeap, everything can do nefarious things.

But, somehow I trust a random dev that refuses to accept donations, even though my cheap ass would definitely donate to him, more than Microsoft, apple and (insert BigTech here)
This is probably the right answer … for ex. why does css need trig? Well, if you want to transform and animate things, math is very useful.
I'd hate if the software that processes payroll got cancer or an autoimmune disease though.
How does one specify what the ideal state of the code is? That is to say, what do you self-heal to?

Surely that will be expressed in some formal language, and surely that formal language can also be riddled with bugs.
It's never been easier to build web pages. Never been easier to build a browser.

Where problems arise is when people expect to challenge behemoths right from launch. Like demanding your burgers be adopted by all mcdonalds consumers when you haven't done anything to actually compete with them.
> every online resource was SEO crap without any info on fixing it

Man, searching anything related to Microsoft software is an instant trip down scam lane. It's not their fault even. Part of me is glad the majority aren't using Macs and bringing that over here.
It will only work if poorly behaved riders are banned for life. This is the reason I avoid public transport - drugged up homeless stabby grifters are on the bus, not in my private vehicle.
How is it in terms of heat & condensation build-up? Is there a certain amount of time after which it starts getting uncomfortable?

Also, is passthrough good enough for things like typing, so you don't get an uncanny valley sense of the keys being just slightly off visually compared to your proprioception & touch?
> (I used to work as a backend developer at Reddit - I left 6 years ago but I doubt the way things work has changed much)

> I think it's extremely unlikely that this is deliberate. The way that Reddit builds "mixed" subreddit listings (where you see posts from multiple subreddits, like users' front pages) is inefficient and strange, and relies heavily on multiple layers of caches. Having so many subreddits private with their posts inaccessible has never happened before, and is probably causing a bunch of issues with this process.

https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...
Ok, 36 relative units does feel excessive. Reading each of the names, I can understand why many were added. Still, that is a lot and I can't imagine there are more than a handful of folks that can correctly use most of them. I'd also wager that the odd interactions that you are certain to get with them has to be a nightmare on large teams.
Is there a general assumption/consensus that Google doesn’t do stuff like this? My assumption is that any closed-source software can collect any data they want about their users.

“If they can, they will.” The past 20 years has been a steady march towards desensitizing users towards making users give up their privacy.
>Put yourself in the position of your own child, born today. Can you offer them a better start than your parents did you?

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy better. My parents entered the work force at the tail end of stagflation. They got to pay 18% on their first mortgage in an economy with twice the unemployment of today.

That and since we (for the most part) don't count cohabitating women as whores or birth control a sin means I was much more experienced in relationships than my parents were when they had me. My kid is getting a far more stable environment than I did. And I in turn had a more stable childhood than they did because I wasn't raised by WWII vets that coped with PTSD by drinking.

And all that doesn't touch on things like if my kid were Gay, transexual, black/brown, had a mental illness, had a disability, or any number of other things society has become much more enlightened on. Or the cleanliness of the air they're breathing, the lack of lead in our paint, and so on.
Dude these are huge annoyances and you must not get out of the house much if you think otherwise. Or you're just old; which is fine I guess.
Good points! Thanks for bringing them up!
This seems like a great idea, I'd consider popping in and registering but I would have to wonder how you would handle things like NSFW content?

I don't know what payment processor you're using but I have to assume it'd fall prey to the same issues that onlyfans and others had.

What about keeping objectively terrible content off the platform? I won't name it but we all know what I'm talking about.

I think spelling out API usage from the get-go would be a good idea.
Not exactly sure at all, I wouldn't have been able to predict this large of a leap before finding out about it myself.

I do think a bunch of incremental improvements will eventually allow different use cases though. E.g. you'd never take it on a run or a bike ride in its current state but with enough weight and battery improvements you could have a HUD for exercise stats + navigation when biking with stuff like a videogame-esque ghost of your PR to race against. Just a random idea, there's a lot of stuff you can dream up.
> they never seem to weigh any of the challenges against humanity's staggering ability to adapt and overcome.

I'm not sure who the "they" you're referring to is, but the fast majority of authors/researchers I've read on these topics are quite well aware.

The problem is the vast majority of this "adapt and overcome" has been based on two major things:

- Historically: a geologically remarkable period of climate stability

- More recent: abundant fossil fuels

Malthus was wrong because he failed to predict the Haber process. But currently the Haber process relies heavily on fossil fuels. We didn't produce astoundingly more food per acre then ever before in history because we are incredibly smart, but because we had ready access to hydrocarbons. The same logic follows for nearly all great inventions of recent eras

> Betting against humanity isn't a historically wise move.

I see this comment all the time but it's a very odd one. As far as species go humans are very, very young and survived very little, just about 300,000 years. Additionally, like I said, we've only existed as a species during one of the most stable climates in the history of the planet.

One final point on the "people always think the world is ending!" rhetoric. We've only really started seeing strong apocalyptic thinking in the last several hundred years. Let's say, for argument, that humans were wiped out in the next 100 years. Alien scientists visiting would see people thinking about the end times in the last 1/300,000 of the species' existence to be fairly prescient, even if they were off by several of their own species lifetimes.

On top of that the writing on this topic is not without merit historically. Revelations was written during the Siege of Jerusalem, when things were collapsing for the world of the author. Most medieval apocalyptic literature was written or based on the black death which wiped out between 30-50 percent of Europe. Hardly irrational beliefs that the world is ending based solely on existential anxiety.

There's also an obvious logical fallacy in all this thinking. Most of the time when people look up webMD they think they have cancer, and they don't most of the time. But it doesn't logically follow that they can't have cancer no matter how strong the evidence.
I am now imagining endless rows of North Korean inmates posting cat pictures.
well you should be able to place more "sub" conversions into parameters of the same event name
It can't be that everything is broken, because broken things are selected out by evolution. We tend to see things as broken, always, because they are not ideal
Carbon taxes are unpopular because you are literally pulling future damage done to the economy, which cannot be observed, only predicted, and making people pay for it today, when the harm hasn't arrived yet. People think that this is pointless or even harmful because they don't like paying for things and expect others to bear the costs.

I have no idea how to fix it. Even when you tell people about it, they will disagree with the concept of a carbon tax plus dividend.
We use growthbook and love it. In what ways do you differ?
It’s a static variable in our case. Hence when the code runs once, it runs forever.
Just curious, which popular app uses that?
Exactly. Nintendo spent many years developing a sequel to Breath of the Wild, when they certainly could've gone for a cheap cash grab, and instead released an extremely high quality followup to a beloved game.

Not only that, but they delayed release for a year to fix bugs and polish TotK [1]. They deliberately missed the holiday '22 window for this! No one else seems to care about their games as much as Nintendo in terms of product quality.

[1] https://www.gamingbible.com/news/tears-of-kingdom-delayed-fo...
Name one class of software, or more pertinently, one class of AI, where that is not true.
If meta-moderation powers were assigned randomly and uniformly, this could be gamed by just spam-creating tons of accounts. Any system that accepts user input needs to have a robust answer to the question "What if a significant percentage of my users are actually bots under control of a single person?"
On the contrary, "Progress" is a poor justification for complexity. To justify change, especially change that adds complexity and cost, there needs to be a problem that needs solving or an opportunity to make things better, where better means "cheaper" or "easier" or "simpler" or "fails less." Progress that doesn't make things better for somebody isn't progress, it's Juicero.

If there isn't any notarization fraud out there causing expensive problems, then spending a bunch of effort to make notarizations better isn't solving any problems but is adding complexity and cost.
To run a cgi-bin you need a host server that will execute the bin. That needs to run on a full fledged OS. When you've got an update to the script you've got to deploy it to that server. Every one of those things takes a little bit of time to manage.

The utility of "serverless" is it rolls up all the deployment and execution in automation. All of the infrastructure is managed externally and automatically for you. You also get auto scaling for free.

With a VPS you've got some minimal cost to leave it running. With "serverless" you're only paying for invocations. If you've got a handful of hits a day it costs so little you might not be charged for months. If you get a spike of traffic with thousands of hits you don't need to scramble to scale up your "simple" CGI server to handle the load.
Creative licence: how to stimulate innovation and generate new ideas
You could see another comment I made on this story. :) WebP lossy has poor enough visual quality and poor enough file size gains over JPEG (especially after MozJPEG has really squeezed the most they could out of the 1993 format), that it's wholly unappealing to anyone that would possibly care about lossy formats. Google never really advertised that WebP lossless is a thing, so in the minds of many, WebP is a failed JPEG replacement and PNG stands unopposed (even though that's untrue for a subset of images PNG supports).
How do they determine the age of a person depicted in a drawing?
In the unfortunate scenarios, where you need to use a Windows Install and or a VM never start without running through something like this:

https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater

WARNING: Use at your own risk, no guarantees.
Personally never broke anything for me.
I think it’s very clear this is not positioned for gamers.

It may be powerful. It may work very well in some ways (there may be limitations without hand held controllers like an Oculus or PSVR2).

But that’s not what Apple is trying to sell. And they clearly don’t want to be pigeonholed as another fancy gamer device.
I’ve simply installed Windows XP in a guest virtual machine (VMWare, Hyper-V) and that’s been that. Hyper-V will require a Professional version of Windows, but the VMWare Player (you don’t need Workstation) is free and will work just fine.

I play even Windows 3.1 games that require 16-bit libraries just fine. Nothing special. Install and go. Maybe a bit of ye olde config for really old DOS games where you had to set up a sound card in a separate config tool from the game :). Some games may require you to right-click on the executable, go to Properties, and set the Compatibility Mode to an older version of Windows. This is built into XP itself. Honestly, I think I only have 1 or 2 total games that have ever required it.

Been doing this forever (15 years?) on both Intel Macs and x86 desktops for as long as I can remember. Moreover, this isn’t just my old memories — literally played a Windows 3.1/95 game (came out in 1994) this weekend while watching Le Mans.
AdES is mostly an technical standard that specifies how to use existing PKCS and IETF standards to produce eIDAS conforming signature, timestamp or “seal” (ie. timestamped signature) and how that should be mapped onto CMS (CAdES), XML-Signature (XAdES) and PDF (PAdES). How legally binding the result of that process is then depends on things like QSCTs, their LoA used in that and such things. And then there are various carveouts, for example in CZ, you can just generate CSR with ‘openssl req’ get that signed by right CA and produce QESs with that (and assume all the risks inherent in doing that)
It would be difficult for a new user to find a non-political instance, since join-lemmy.org is heavily curated to the developers, literal, Marxist worldview.
I've been sticking to sugar version all along on a admittedly simplistic "devil you know" rationale
The other two I've seen mentioned frequently are:

- https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

- https://redact.dev/services/reddit
A dev log or journal can be very helpful, here are 2 ways in particular that really help me:

- context switching - if you have a backburner or side project, it's easy to get pulled away from it for days or weeks (or more) at a time, and when you do make time for it, it could be just a few minutes here or there. The very last thing I do during each dev session is list the 2-3 things I hope to tackle in the next session. When I eventually make it back to the project, I can just jump right in on one of those items and not waste any time trying to get my bearings again. I slightly disagree with the author that the journal isn't a good place to track your todos - it's a great place if you are a solo dev and/or if the work is in its early stages - you want to capture quickly important ideas of things you might do later, and sometimes just writing them down helps you not work on them right now.

- "impossible" bugs, or ones that are difficult to reproduce consistently - the journal becomes the little notebook just like the detective in a TV show. You pour into it every single clue, every bit of data. That process leads to you asking yourself certain questions or thinking of things to try to flush out the bug. This journaling is especially helpful during a crisis situation where it's easy to spin your wheels, panic, waste time, etc. - that methodical act of writing things down is calming and organizing.
The answer here is: Yes. People are being weird pedants about J1772 vs. CCS to try to confuse this answer, but if you have a home J1772 adapter that plugs into your CCS car, and you get an NACS car in the future, you'll need to use an adapter.

There is no current V2H/V2L functionality on any NACS car, and nobody is sure how/if it would work. How Ford will handle that functionality on a hypothetical CCS-based F150 Lightning remains to be seen.
Seems like this is a great way to monetize content theft, since almost every single post in high traffic subs is currently a repost of a recycled meme or Tiktok.
Thanks for Melange! I fully believe in the mission, backing, and philosophy of Melange over ReScript.

To add a counterpoint, though I'm in the minority, I think ReasonML is really really important to keep OCaml accessible to a larger amount of people. I work in a very cross-platform context and program in 5/6 different languages a month, and despite having a lot of experience with different syntaxes, OCaml is just weirdly unique enough that it's hard to immediately transfer my skills. I haven't written OCaml seriously in a while, and even looking back on my own code, for example the PPX I wrote https://github.com/AriaFallah/ppx_str 5 years ago, I can't really read it without zoning in and thinking quite hard vs. just flowing.
The wild fires represent a massive positive feedback loop. The fires are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, that I believe effectively doubled Canada’s emissions for this year.
New exoplanet found orbiting twin suns