skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to be attempting to use a technique known as DARVO ("deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender") to smear the Apollo dev. This happens sometimes when people who know they've done something wrong are held accountable.
It can’t really code, that’s overblown hype / PR.
Doesn't make a difference for light sensitivity issues.
So tasty. And useful, to remind us what “smart” “sober” commentary looks like in tech — mostly negative, mostly missing the mark.

> What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.
Humans produce code with subtle problems, and they always will, even with expert skills.

Sure, but humans could be testing the wrong thing too.

They should, but let's not pretend that experts or any human for that matter are infallible.

I wouldn't refer to people as code monkeys, it's rude. I can see on the site listed in your profile you're having issues aligning your navigation <div> (left or center?). Like you I too make mistakes. In this case ChatGPT recommend using a <container>, while I'm not sure if it's the right path forward, it seems to fix the issue on your page keeping the <nav> left aligned.
Personally, I would find that helpful.

When my comments get downvoted, sometimes I can figure out why. It's frivolous, off-topic, just plain wrong, etc.

But quite often, I have no idea whatsoever, and I'm always curious about what the issue was. I think potentially valuable information and personal learning is lost.
According to their creator, the Tau are basically Tony Blair in space [1]:

> As a bit of an analog for late 20th century / early 21st century western interventionist culture I've always assumed that the Greater Good is ultimately for the benefit of the T'au and if others get something out of that's just a bonus. The fact that they are even willing to work with other species is pretty unique and progressive among the factions of 40K, rather than rampant genodical, xenophobic armies. The thing about the Great Good is that it is, in the long term, as inflexible and authoritarian as the Imperial Creed or the all-consuming Tyranids. It still comes down to the Greater Good or Death (tm). I've tried not to make it too sinister being within the T'au sphere, though in the original Apocalypse book I introduced a variety of NATO-style innocuous three-letter-acronym formations, like Mobilised Hunter cadre, Dispersed Retaliation Cadre and Forward Commitment Contingent. None of them say 'battle' or 'war'... I cazn imagine the news back home is quite a sanitised version of the reality - like when we watched videos of 'smart' bombs and gun cameras blowing up stuff in Iraq but were totally unaware of what was really happening on the ground.

You're right about the Orks, of course. They're just out there living their best life! #GreenBoySummer

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/b3pc01/qa_with_gav...
Macs have worked like that since forever. Now you can do it both ways. Did you try?
To be clear on this study, it's a longitudinal study of 300k people who were given the shingles vaccine based on a very basic criteria: if you were born before September 2 1933 you could not get the shingles vaccine, and if you were born after that date you got to have the vaccine.

The explicit date removes the vast amount of confounding factors the usually occur in large studies. They are to compare the outcomes for people born in the same place in the week preceding Sep 2 '33, and the week after, and see an 8.5% difference in rates of dementia.
I should mention that I also always, always ask for a pat-down rather than walk through the body scanner. And it's usually received by the TSA agents with a shrug and grin and something like "I hate having to stand next to that thing".
Content-addressing together with P2P and extra paid relays for those who really need it. In terms of "superstars" sharing content, if they share their image which is content-addressed and can be fetched from anyone, it's enough that one peer shares it with three others for it to be reliable enough in practice. Content like that is also usually just relevant because of recency, so large swaths of people try to access it within 24h, after that the news cycle already moved on so won't be fetched much after that.
Comparing the misc acrylamide and other byproducts of seasoning a cast iron skillet to the PFAS and other byproducts of teflon production is nonsense.

Yes, complex hydrocarbons are not good for you, but PFOAs and their ilk are really really really bad for you and the environment. It's like comparing spent nuclear rods with brazil nuts. Yes, both are radioactive, but there is zero equivalence.
> You can sell your token in this case right, but you can not sell the airline miles, not in the rule/tos of the miles program, at least that is my understanding.

There may notionally be a rule against it, but you certainly can - my airline will let you transfer them (for a fee in miles) and they certainly know or should know that buying and selling happens.

> This does not seem the structure or details of ownership, it is flat out whether you own the miles or not.

You're the beneficiary of them and have contractual rights to them, whether they're notionally held by some other party or not. If anything the idea that you don't own them makes the argument for it being a security stronger.
Any restaurant that finds itself in financial trouble can point to delivery apps and say, well, if they charged me less money I'd have more money. What's not obvious to me that this is any different from saying that they'd have more money if their landlord charged less money or their suppliers charged less money.

It'd be one thing if delivery apps were "taking over" the demand channel in the sense that they're preventing customers from ordering directly. But that doesn't generally seem to be the case. As the article covers, it's not like delivery apps are even cheaper. (There was a story a while back where Grubhub was creating websites which looked like direct orders but weren't - I have no qualms about calling that parasitic.)
Jon Ive: The creative process is fabulously unpredictable
I have never argued to close existing plants as long as they are safe and economical? Nice strawman you are arguing.

Simply take Germany, replaced both nuclear and black coal with renewables. That is what quite small subsidies managed on a greenfield market. In my perfect world Germany would have kept their nuclear and phased out the rest of the coal first.

Today the renewable market is mature and in the exponential scaling phase.

New build nuclear had its chance in 2005, in 2023 it is a laughable prospect.

Or simply have a read:

https://www.energyintel.com/00000180-f7a8-d67b-a3cd-f7faad65...
I remember there was a MSR talk about compiling via C++, hence the reference.
When you say trades are you just talking about industrial robotics and the like? My family owns a construction business and the only tradespeople making anywhere close to $150k own their own business, and even then it's pretty rare to clear that kind of money. In my experience a tradesperson in the top 5-10% of the distribution might make around what a software engineer in the bottom 25% makes, and it's a pretty long hard road to get there.
“Anonymity is Part of the Magic” (1987) [pdf]
Oh I know the in-VR experience having built DIY headsets some 10 years ago for fun.

I am talking about what’s happening in the real world, where Zuck’s “vision” of immersive black boxes w/o passthrough locking you into the virtual is as asocial as it gets.
Also 25% seems pretty good! If I could cut out writing 25% of the code I write per day, I'd consider that a good value, even it cost me reviewing the 3/4 of other code snippets that were stinkers. Some of the latter might also help form in my head how the manually written code should be done anyway.

I haven't tried copilot yet, but chatgpt code generation is probably useful to me 1/3 of time as a stack-overflow/reference-doc replacement. "I need a thing foo to perform bar in context baz" which I then will right myself using the pattern. But the lookup was way faster than googling tons of results.
The main point is that those high end systems won’t look any better to you just because they calculate out a color curve based on your lat,long. It’d look just as good if you point a camera at the sky. Your high end systems also won’t capture changes in weather, so that’s less cool. But then you’d get bored of it looking rainy whenever it rains.
We have... a lot of terabytes in GDA. I'm well aware :) I'm trying to show the wide range of tiering options available to fit various needs. OP's article pretends that only Standard exists. You'd be a fool to raw dog 425TB of cold data on the Standard tier, and indeed Nix is not doing that.
And why don’t we just build stuff on top of email?
How do we know that any new product doesn't have long term health effects? As science advances, the ability to precisely measure health effects advances as well. In most cases, we simply don't know until it's too late. There's a realistic balance between caution and innovation.

That said, if 3M knew about and covered up known health effects, then take em for all they're worth.
You could probably find more uses, but here are some:

Generators allow one to easily transform code from non-buffered to buffered. Consider this example:

for y in x:
do(z)

Now, x may be a collection that was eagerly evaluated in previous steps, let's say a list, but then you've discovered that this list is too big to fit in memory, and you want to generate it in manageable fixed-size chunks, so you replace the code that created x to make x a generator. You don't have to touch the code above -- it will work the same way because generators have the same interface as collections.

Another use: generators are used to implement async / await. I personally find this idea ridiculously stupid, but a lot of people (and especially those who don't understand what it does) like it a lot. Yielding mechanism, which is a feature of generators, is the one that's used to communicate / switch between co-routines (tasks) of asyncio.

Another aspect, besides bufferization is that you might want to delegate control over how much looping you want to do to a separate chunk of code. I.e. you may want to separate the generation of elements (hence, generator) from eg. filtering them, or transforming them in some way, or reducing them etc. If you didn't have this ability, you'd have to generate the entire collection upfront, and if your computation takes multiple steps that you'd like to separate into different code chunks, you'd have to also generate intermediate collections, even though, potentially, you don't need some of the elements in those collections. Consider, for example:

def powers(start, end, power):
return (x ** power for x in range(start, end))

def flt(a, b, c):
return a + b == c

def disprove_flt(upto, upto_power):
for power in range(upto_power):
for a, b, c in zip(powers(1, upto - 2, power), powers(2, upto - 1, power), powers(3, upto, power)):
if flt(a, b, c):
return a, b, c
return None, None, None

Which is, of course not a correct way to search for the counterexample to Fermat's last theorem, but I tried to find a popular enough subject so that the example was easier to follow.

An exercise to the reader: rewrite the code above in such a way as to eliminate "upto" and "upto_power", i.e. to search until a counterexample is found (or indefinitely).
yeah until your scripts stop running someday because python...
I would expect counsel to discourage an apology in the context of potential liability, but they typically also encourage shutting one's yap.
Well, my posts have been moderated away as well. So maybe "moderated away" isn't a great filter.
Unironically Tyranids, while their creation was probably evil, in the end they are animals wanting to feed.

Tau would be pretty fascist too
Dynamic allocations work fine in a memory constrained environment. Successful handling can mean just postponing a task. [1] You just have to build your app in a way where there is a core that can continue running with no further allocations.

Chrome is a decent example. Some of its processes might crash in an out-of-memory situation, but that only causes some tabs to lose their display state. The browser as a whole keeps running just fine. A similar solution can be done within a single process too.

--

[1] By task I mean some app specific unit of work that makes sense, not some Rust std lib string allocation.
Well, it the hypothetical reality of the thermonuclear Olympic torch, it would be easier to secure the tickets for live viewing and witness the blast, than it would be to go high enough to see Earth in its real shape.
Data storage would be a big question and a design goal for something new and decentralized.

Back then it was mostly text and files were much smaller.

Now average image floating around is the size of a cheap USB stick.
Interesting. Linux desktop really suffers from not having something slick as RDP on Windows. VNC isn't performant enough, I've found the open source RDP servers to be buggy and reattaching to a session sometimes doesn't work and can cause crashes (at least on my Fedora install). VNC can do the same sometimes attaching to an existing session.

At the moment I use Windows as a jump box to do remote sessions to my Linux development VM, which is on the same local network.

Something that works well over a decent internet connection and can reliably re-connect to an existing session would be great.
Yeah, that's pretty light even for the UK.

That's about my weight before I started working out, and I was thin. Like, really thin.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11534042 gives 84kg for men and 70kg for women which to me seems to be on the high side, but then we do have a lot of obese folk.
It all just blows my mind, because realistically none of these details even matter. It's reddit's ball, they can take it and go home any time they want. They don't have anything to prove, they don't owe anything to anybody, not even an explanation. Ultimately they need to make a profit and they think this is the way towards that.

I just can't understand why they feel the need to keep publicly stating things that are either outright untrue or at least misleading. Just make an announcement to the effect of "this is the pricing, we have determined this is the best way to meet our financial goals" and shut the hell up. It's not hard!

The BS / gaslighting about precise numbers and the misrepresentation of what they've heard from developers is completely pointless.
I wonder if there’s a more cost effective storage option besides S3.
Depending on how bad & frequent you want outages to be and whether you want the whole thing to go down for scheduled maintenance, it can get quite a bit more complicated. A pair of servers with some level of RAID is probably the minimum to achieve any amount of availability better than a server in someone's closet. Then you need a cold backup, on top of that, no matter how many live servers you have.

I've also had much better luck with connectivity, transfer speeds, and latency, for clients in some regions, with AWS than with some other hosts (e.g. Digital Ocean). It seems peering agreement quality really matters. Not sure how the big physical server hosts fare on that front vs. AWS (which is basically the gold standard, as far as I can tell) and it's hard to find such info without trying and seeing what happens. This matters if you're trying to serve a large audience over much of the Earth. The easy single-server solution might well see some clients lost 95% of their transfer speed from your service, or not be able to connect at all, compared with AWS.
Well, I'm afraid I can't help you with that

If you're enthusiastic about the project, maybe consider DMing the author on Twitter to discuss it with him
For context, Sweden has no language, income, employment, or skills requirement <https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...> for obtaining citizenship.

In completely unrelated news, Arabic is now the second most spoken language in Sweden <https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_po...>.
Right, but that applies to OpenAI too.

You're liable for what you do with your tools. If your tool (construction crane/GPUs) cause harm (dropped an AC unit on the neighbor's house/slandered an individual's reputation), you're going to get sued for the damage. It may involve the injured party suing their neighbor, who then sues the construction contractor, who may then have to face higher business insurance premiums or even license revocation if the harm is severe or part of a recurring pattern.
John C. Dvorak is famous for bad takes. But if you’re alluding to Apple Vision being successful because he was an iPhone naysayer, you’re wrong. Reality doesn’t work that way. The jury is still out on VR and it changes little when Apple enters the market at that price point and there’s not a killer problem for it.
Having been there when it was first announced, I think his "claim" has substance. Mathematica clearly defined the "notebooks" UI as it is known today.
Very off putting. I hate to admit that I stopped reading afterward. I don't like to be that way, but there's a lot to read out here.
I'm happy to see it, but it's a little surprising (and even frustrating) that this ended up being the straw that broke the camel's back. Reddit has deserved this for a very, very long time for more serious abominations than trying to monetize the site.
Not surprising at all. Reddit's culture is vehemently against original creation and deftly afraid of any hint of self-promotion. The users claim to be tired of all the same reposts but shun 99% of attempts for people to share originality.

It's a natural consequence.
> But in a world where most invasions are – or at least ought to be – self-deterring, for countries that do not have revanchist neighbors who might launch a stupid war of conquest out of pique

Seems a bit dismissive about the degree of revanchism in many former empires (or among people who imagine themselves the descendants of those empires).

Turkey, Iran, China, and Russia at the very least are all waiting for or working towards a world where territorial acquisition by conquest is the norm.
Sounds like the world average rather than the regional average. UK looks to be around 77 kg/170 lbs average.
>"The guy apologized and said he thought it was a search engine."

I am also having a thought: stop bullshitting. Or stop being a lawyer as a result of gross incompetence (I wish the same applies to politicians).
Around half of developers write below average code, by definition. So it isn't surprising that raising the quality to average _for them_, and doing it faster, would be a productivity boon.

I'm a crappy marketing copy writer. A professional writer could do much better. But with chatGPT I too can write hack-quality marketing-copy that roughly conveys the a message and give it others to put in various marketing outlets.
Google and search in general is definitely worse than 10 years ago. It seems like I can’t find anything useful now. Years ago a few searches could turn up very arcane and niche data. Nowadays it’s like it never even existed.
Efficient new catalyst converts mixed plastic waste into propane(2022)
Yeah, should.

But what if there are no alternatives?

What if the alternatives are worse?

What if the alternatives are the kind of thing that could possibly be worse but we don’t have enough experience with them yet to know that they are worse?

Often the known bad thing is better than the thing you don’t know to be bad yet.
Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
My first thought before I clicked this was "I bet Dvorak wrote this" and whaddaya know...
I'm not sure why you are leaving out the fact that they also used Serratia marcescens, which is considered pathogenic[1].

As for the other bacteria, what they used was not the "common soil bacteria" Bacillus subtilis, but Bacillus atrophaeus[2] which was known as Bacillus globigii at the time. I think this is the only clear factual mistake I can find in the article.

The article also claimed that Bacillus globigii is now considered a pathogen, but I can't find much information about it outside of the referenced book. I'll leave it to someone else to weigh in on this one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratia_marcescens#Pathogenic...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_atrophaeus
Relatedly, some old quote from the Romans or Greeks is often brought up where someone laments youth behavior as lazy and immoral, and it’s referenced as proof that old(er) people always say that so it doesn’t mean anything.

However, isn’t it possible that they were on a downward trajectory, and we are too? And that at other points in time, not referenced, old(er) people may have felt differently?
I could be wrong, but doesn't vlang and nim do this?
> Glass breaks faster than plastic containers (usually). I still use glass containers, but I am always aware that they break relatively easily.

I have maybe 60-70 or so glass food containers that get very regular use from being used for leftovers, to being put in the deep freezer for 6mo and then warmed up.

We handle at least half a dozen of these a day on average from filling/cleaning/removing portions and putting back into the fridge.

I've broken dozens of the plastic lids for them. I can't remember a single case (although I'm sure it's happened) of breaking a glass container in the past decade. They have survived more than a few rather large drops. These are the Pyrex brand glassware with the new glass that is more drop but less heat shock resistant.

Luckily Snapware also sells lids, since the glass containers far outlast the plastic lids and we end up replacing 3-4 of those a year as wear items. That doesn't bother me much since very little food gets in contact with them.

I expect my Snapware/Pyrex food storage sets to largely outlast my lifetime, but without lids to match once they stop manufacturing them.
The business commands the resources to decide if their strategy is long or short term. An employee selling stock grants has no such decision authority, and selling the stock is diversifying their risk in the long term.
I have an account that's older than some current reddit users have lived, I've pretty much never deleted anything from it but I plan to replace all comments and threads I've created on that account with something like the following text: "Removed in protest of reddits idiotic 2023-06-30 API rule changes."

Shreddit looks like a good tool for this, just have to tweak it so it doesn't actually remove the data, just replace and leave it.

Would be fun to also build a tool for restoring the content should reddit reverse its idiotic API decision. But why bother doing that when they wont...
I agree with the first half. Having a plan is not really what matters, you can have a bad plan (and arguably, if the competition is for funding, there will be a lot of polished, bad plans). We're finding out who actually has a good idea/insight.
It's possible that they had equity in the company after they left.
> Its no different then ads, which we've mostly accepted.

I don't know which "we" you're talking about; at the very most some users tolerate ads as a thing they can skim over while looking for the actual content they want to read. having self promotion where the actual content should be defeats the entire purpose of the site.
If you have X000 MRR, you're not bootstrapping, you're growing.