skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so weirded out that almost nobody seems to acknowledge that calorie numbers have no actual meaning with the way digestion processes food in a human body. Relying on food consumption advice that's based on calorie numbers and math is invariably wrong, the only way it might happen to have any meaningful impact is because low numbers mean lower overall quantities.

Also the way calories are "counted" in exercise is absolutely bogus for individuals because it rarely takes into account their physiology and basically uses made up numbers of various exercise types.
Every big, lasting company has a product portfolio: Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft... A single product will leave you vulnerable to disruption, and the aforementioned problem.
I see some real trash-tier posts from lemmy.world that show up on kbin but not, thankfully, beehaw. I think they were right to defederate.
It doesn't mean absolutely anything.
Reminds me of Tom Scott's similar project[1].

1. https://youtu.be/ALy6e7GbDRQ
>Why does the caller have to figure out how to dispose?

Rather than how the caller have to figure out when to dispose.

Defer\using will wait till we out of scope or till we return. While it may be much better to close\dispose as soon as possible or after some event.
Yep, this merges countless of way to dispose a resource into a single interface.
Like what promise did to callback functions. (And promise almost take over plain callback these days)

Even you don't use the 'using' sugar. You may still be benefited from it if you need to implement some sort of resource management someday.

Instead of write a tear down function for every single type of resource in your code. Probably everyone will just agree upon that `Object[Symbol.dispose]()` will free this resource. And you only need to do it once and for all.
Upfront payment figuring out Nix is amortized, and is less than a lifetime of payments of dealing with flakey machines, assuming you have a decent amount of lifespan left.
> I would love to see a service appear that allows us to publish discord forums on the net.

Check out https://linen.dev. See https://www.linen.dev/d/tfos for an example (that's my own Discord community). Before discovering Linen I also made a proof-of-concept for something similar (https://discord.tfos.co); I might try to make some updates to that at some point so I can change the design.
Right, but consider that this is a group of people that is vulnerable and desperate. They are ripe for being taken advantage of.
A Zero-Day Flaw in Hacked MOVEit Software Was Exposed on Twitter
Idea would be great for product recommendations, as long as the spam issue can be solved. Most people can make a reliable comparison between two products but maybe not among many.
The quest for novelty finds itself in the "but what if the bad guy were right" thing very often. I can tell you that I enjoy stories where I'm the bad guy - either accidentally or through some discovery of harm (video games do this in a fun way). But in the end, it's just fantasy. This guy couldn't separate real life from a poor model of the world. In the end, intelligence is a composite measure and he lacked it in sufficient form. Pity.
I wanna know what's that tablet on the noisy image.

Are you running a terminal or do you export as PNG or HTML?

Do you leave it running 24/7? Won't that burn the monitor?

Nice project.
Or invading another country and killing somewhere on the order of 100K-1M innocent civilians.

If we're going to make a rank order list of genocidal maniacs, Ted Kaczynski isn't anywhere near the top.
So if chip-making could be maintained we'd be okay with China taking over Taiwan?

Because the sanctions part makes it seem like "it'll be a problem because we'd make it so".
It does seem like limiting new training material to only good quality information would be prudent rather than slurping up entire GPT-produced spam sites. Sure, LLMs will have been used to refine and assist much of it from here on out, but I'd like to think theses, newspapers, etc won't just be produced entirely by unsupervised robots and not even fact-checked. If that's the case we'll have bigger problems.
In this case I don't think he cares. He can just walk away from $44 billion without noticing.

I think it's more the blow to his ego.
Japan pushes for Apple and Google to allow sideloading
Are there any examples of federated platforms with mass appeal? The architecture details seem to dominate the UX.
> As someone who uses other Google products for my business, I am afraid to chargeback since it can trigger some random process at google killing my business and no way to resolve.

This is indeed very wise. You are quite likely correct in how that would go, and it would be your business accounts and any personal accounts linked with them in even a small way, and maybe some of your employee(s) accounts (if applicable).

I generally think Google is one of the least evil of big tech, but this issue is massive and terrible, and they really need to do something about this because they're heading down the road to evil with these kind of practices.
I think you'll end up using a lot of storage space; in my totally uninformed understanding, you would end up storing the full contents of any community/sub that you follow.
Better than some "we just want to make the world a better place" true believer.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been more of a push for not-for-profit health insurance. A for-profit health insurance company has (IMO) unaligned motives with respect to well-being of the patient.
Since the 1930s and yes they own the fiber

They do a good job explaining here:

https://www.novec.com/About_NOVEC/index.cfm
> I've since played around with hopper, binary ninja and radare2. Fun!

Would you recommend any of those. I’ve only ever played with the limited free IDA and Ghidra.
Perhaps the patients should be allowed to use experimental treatments only under the condition that it is offered for free; the upside for the company is that if it works, they get the evidence of efficacy.
What? Didn’t he get an associate professorship, and at a pretty young age? That’s not productive? Not to mention the doctoral dissertation itself.
Well that's awesome.

"You’ll get a thrilling approx. 45-50 minutes jet ride including:

- A walk around the MiG-29 jet including detailed explanations

- Cruising at double Supersonic Speed (Mach 2)

- Manoeuvres such as rolls, steep diving and climbing and more, depending on what your worked out plan together with the pilot

- A fantastic view onto the earth from above

- You will see the curvature of the earth

- Possibility to control the jet"

"45-50 minutes MiG-29 flight costs EUR 17,500"

That's almost affordable. If my wife ever leaves me, I'm doing this.
> Being a nay-sayer and rejecting microservices in any circumstances is just as unreasonable as rejecting monoliths.

No. No no no no! Monoliths (modular or otherwise) are the default and if you have to ask, you don’t need microservices. Period. That’s not a lazy oversimplification, that’s hard earned experience.

In over 15 years I’ve seen microservices singlehandedly kill the engineering momentum at nearly half a dozen companies. They’ve got a worse track record than techbro management. Literally the only time I’ve seen the architecture work well was when I was working at Azure on cloud infrastructure with a dozen teams working on a single product. The vast majority of developers never work on a project of that size and yet try to cargo cult microservices into companies with less than a dozen devs, let alone teams.

Maybe your company is one of the few companies where microservices make sense (or you haven’t come to grips with the stockholm syndrome yet), but the hype around microservices have been a disaster for many more companies than they have helped in my career
I was touring a datacenter and they got the reverse call; California was experiencing some power issues so the local electric company would call them and say "switch to the back up gens, we need to cut you off".
It’s not, though the author and champion of the TC39 proposal is a Microsoft employee and has generally championed features that have a close analogue to those from C# (eg. cancellation tokens).
Reddit is dangerous. The admins are out of control. Humanity needs a alternative
Lists the problems & benefits of reddit, and argues for the need for viable alternatives.

It covers reddit retaliating against me (seemingly illegally) for being a long-time public critic of theirs. They did something similar to the /r/WatchRedditDie founder.

Is anyone familiar with US laws related to Reddit admins using their position to try to harm me in an act of revenge? Surely there are some limits on what they're legally allowed to do. I imagine it would vary from state to state. My state (CA) bar referral services haven't been very helpful in finding someone familiar with this situation. Recommendations for how to find a lawyer specialized in this would be appreciated.
One complexity is that patients might not be in a good place to evaluate whether a drug is truly viable or it's what they actually want, and they might face pressure from doctors or drug companies.

But I generally agree that it should be the patient's choice.
why not just flick your high-lights?
I guess that's a night's solution.
Part of the problem is mobile devices often grade their videos “too hot.” This Demuxed[1] talk has a pretty good overview of the problem in the industry and ideas for improving it (and to avoid confusion, the talk is given from the perspective of someone in the future looking back on HDR in the industry).

[1]: https://youtu.be/bYS-P2bF2TQ
Yes, specially if they finally come around to implement fat pointers as proposed by Dennis Ritchie in 1990.
…but this goes to 120%
Most of the article seems to be based on an interview with a certain Sean Fleming. He’s a research fellow at the University of Nottingham, who is writing the first book-length study of the Unabomber’s ideology.

From the article: «If Kaczynski did raise valid points, Fleming says, it is because he took them from others, including the French sociologist Jacques Ellul, whose 1954 text, The Technological Society, electrified the bomber as a young man.»
> if the hierarchy inside them is well organized

is this another way to say "in a 2000 member structure, only 10 have significant voting power"?
> the most powerful warship in the world.

Prime example of 'theory vs. practice'.
I think the parent was focusing on the first point about the install. That particular argument against creating users and writing to directories would be a barrier to install any software.
Yes, nothing to stop you from substituting Flutter for your frontend of choice including a web-based SPA, but then you would need the gRPC-web extension to call gRPC from a browser. The Rust Tonic crate has this available for the server side.
Since you can see the curvature of the earth you can also prove it’s round. Big bonus.
Yeah, there's a number of cases that use the Symbol pattern. They're all relatively new, but that's at least in part due to Symbols themselves being relatively new.

Symbol.iterator comes to mind as a decent example.
I watched a TV show about the Unabomber a while back that was really good. I remember one of the detectives investigating him became sympathetic after reading his manifesto. I don't think the Unabomber was as much anti-tech as he was against tech controlling our lives. A valid concern in the AI era.

I'll never forget the one scene where the detective was driving an empty road late at night and came up to a red light at an intersection where there was no other cars in sight. We have all had this experience. You can see that the detective was slowly realizing the Unabomber's point as he waited a long time for the piece of technology, that had complete control over him at that moment, to allow him to proceed.
We appointed gatekeepers and gave them a gate. Now they keep the gate, though our salvation is on the other side. It is the nature of gatekeepers to keep gates. So we perish, our gates well-kept.
YouTube restored the 'sort by oldest' option
How are you practicing your controlled slips?
>Attribution to Slint

Mmmm no thanks, I'll pass.

While I'm looking for a Flutter alternative, this seems like a trap.
Sockets are an OS feature (initially on BSD) to make it simple to program with IP on Unix-like systems. They're not crucial to the Network, they're happenstance. Indeed in the early 1990s you'd have found pockets of people who weren't convinced sockets were even the Right Thing™ they wanted some other API to the same network. Same IP addresses, same services, same protocols, different API.

So there's no reason the very cheap device would care about sockets. But it does talk to the network, and for that it needs to know about addresses.
> Then, add some nice ui transitions

KDE allows for flexibility and choice about such animations. I dislike that sort of thing and disable them all, so I don't know how well the various options work, but I do know they're there.
On this topic here is an excellent examination of it

https://timharford.com/2020/06/cautionary-tales-the-spreadsh...
Neat, but in the time I spent playing, Hitler surpassed curiosity and bread, to hit number one.
Any way to use Dart with React in a .jsx way? It looks like Dart has exclusive support for Flutter, and that's it.
I'm picturing a man and his wife arguing over their son, "oh, he's only YOUR son when he does something wrong!"

So these are drivers wearing Amazon vests, driving Amazon liveried vehicles, working in Amazon warehouses, but they're not Amazon employees, because they might turn uppity and unionize, or ask not to pee into a soda bottle. Got it.
I was going to make this point. People at EOL by default often have estates, investments, retirement accounts. In other words huge chunks of money/wealth that unscrupulous people may wish to get their hands on. Combine that with the desperation of a dying person and you have the perfect condition to create a very profitable scammer market for worthless treatments.

This also harms eveyone because all the money pouring into a treatment that was a scam from day one is oppertunitu y lost.
> For example, in the EU I believe you need to register your business and collect VAT. There's also inquiries from Taiwan, Canada, and Australia

If it's a SaaS this applies. For mere licensing of software I don't believe it is clear cut, and maybe if it's not "mandatory" they might want it for tax streamlining.

For EU you certainly don't have to register it on every country, an invoice from one country is accepted in all countries.

Easiest way? Sell it through a 'store' like Windows Store, Mac Store etc. Not sure there's something like Steam for 'serious software'.
This would break many sites on the web, if they roll this out as a native feature of JS. Importantly, JS generally cannot break backwards compatibility.
Distances grows as dimensionality grows is the curse of dimensionality. Imagine you have a circle with unit radius inscribed in a square whose sides are 2. The circle's area is pi, so pi/2^2 = 79% of all points in the space [-1,-1]-[1,1] are less than unit distance away from origin. For a sphere inside a cube the fraction is (4*pi/3)/2^3 = 52%, for a hypersphere it is (pi^2/2)/2^4 = 31%, and so on. As the number of dimensions grows the fraction approaches zero. E.g. only 0.25% of all points are inside the 10-dimensional sphere. So the distance between two random points in a high-dimensional space is likely large. Thus, modelling documents as high-dimensional vectors breaks down because they will be distant from each other and therefore dissimilar even though they may be "similar" to a human.

One way to get around this is to take the cosine of the angle between the documents' respective vectors. While this often works better than the Euclidean distance, it is also affected by the curse of dimensionality. Afaik, there is no good way to work around the curse of dimensionality and similarity metrics not using vector representations often work better in practice. For example, one can model documents as bag-of-words and divide the size of the intersection with the size of the union.
Instead of discharging into the ocean, could it be used for drinking water?
Does GIL stand for Global Interpreter Lock?
Yep, I agree that the tone was bad.

It is unfortunate that some in the nix community come off that way, because I would say that in general Nix goes to great lengths to adapt to the world as it is. Especially compared to, say, Bazel.

I myself have been using nix in an org that is blissfully unaware of nix for about 2 years, if that's any indication of how adaptable it can be.
Hmm, I’m not sure I buy your contention. You can point to an individual instance of applying a specific technology and say “it is an extension of a particular human intention”, sure. But this is not commutative; Person A’s application of Technology X to Situation 1 is “extension of human intention”, but to Person B who is also in Situation 1, Technology X is “counter force in opposition to (Person B’s) humanity”. See for instance social media recommendation algorithms. I know a girl who can’t use TikTok because she loves pets and can’t look away from families grieving their pets - even starting from a blank slate, the algorithm quickly detects that grief videos engage her, and so inevitably fills up her feed with dead dogs. She absolutely experiences this particular technology as a distinct, and distinctly anti-human, counter force.

Even if every instance of technology has its origins as an extension of human intention, it is still valid to look at the unintended consequences that are anti-humanity, and it is valid to filter for just these negative experiences and say “technology is a counter force”.

That’s not disagreeing with your contention that it is an extension, by the way - it’s saying “also”.

It’s been a long time since I read Kaczynski’s manifesto and I only skimmed it at the time, so I can’t recall whether he makes this claim, or whether I had this thought myself as an obvious patch to his claims. But I think he did say this.
> What do you mean by not using "you're the best"? an exaggerated compliment

Exactly that. Exaggerated compliments come across (to me, anyway) as condescending. Honest feedback is all fine and good, but meaningless pseudo-praise like "you're the best!" sounds to me exactly like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I'm giving up on Google phones. I kept believing in Google phones but they got me very frustrated. I am moving on to iPhones which have proven to be very reliable. I've been using Google Pixel phones since the first gen, and now with a 6A with many problems (drop calls, no signal, can't receive calls, unresponsive screen sometimes, messages don't send/receive, ...). If someone wants to use Android, Samsung phones have better value, quality, and software support nowadays.
Again, isn’t UE5’s foliage generator 1) using masks instead of geometry by default and 2) using quixel/megascan imagery? Doesn’t seem like a useful comparison.

I honestly don’t know what you’re reacting to, what strong claims? “Infinite” is a given for procedural assets, and is highlighted in comparison to the existing partially asset-based generators (they go over existing software on page three), and the output certainly qualifies as photorealistic. There are no claims in the paper about being the first to do anything.
Those first draft decorators never made it past Stage 1. That's also why Typescript required a compile-time flag that began with `--experimental` before you could use them. It's amazing how many projects put an `--experimental` flag into Production code. (Thanks, Angular.)
Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
Same here. I was immediately turned off from Mastodon and even more from Lemmy by my initial interaction with them. As soon as I tried to get involved, I was required to pick from a list of instances with weird-looking descriptions and make myself a member of one of them. That's a lot more commitment than Reddit or Twitter asks me for, and it was enough to stop me from proceeding.
Only Radare2 which is FOSS and also can use the Ghidra decompiler.

It's also cool as hell to use if you use the command line UI (nurses?)
Your code is destructuring two properties and discarding one of them. It doesn't work with a single property: https://sharplab.io/#v2:C4LgTgrgdgNAJiA1AHwAICYAMBYAUBgRj2Nw...

I think that records don't generate a deconstruct method when they only have one property, but even if you manually define one you'll get an error on `var (varName) = ...`
There's nothing on this site using calc as part of scrolling the content. It looks like the background image is fixed in place with some JS, which is probably the source of the performance issues.

The questionable stuff is definitely that everything is a table and that the links on the bottom of the page are divs with onclick handlers... and that selection is turned off?
> Because the sanctions part makes it seem like "it'll be a problem because we'd make it so".

If we do anything for helping Taiwan, China will probably sanction us, before the US sanctions them. Imagine if stores like Walmart can't have a single thing that says "Made in China," or contains any component made in China, or "Made in Taiwan," or components from Taiwan.

A war of just 1 year in length would have an estimated economic impact of up to 10% of US GDP. That's a recession times five. And that's assuming everything recovers that quickly. We could very easily enter depression. Especially tech like on Hacker News, because every time somebody damages their iPhone or just wears out a battery, there's not a new one available, and there's not even parts for a fix. Or a business computer. Or a business fleet of computers.

The optimistic side would say, "well, more domestic manufacturing," but with how entrenched China is, I don't even know if you could get the tools built to even start manufacturing.
Might have the same effect?
Once it can read, has a broad vocabulary and can reason enough to synthesize information from what is given then you don’t need to train it any further. We’re at that point now. Everything going forward is just engineering, even just finding ways to increase the context length will allow these models to work with any data available. OpenAI is very publicly working on that and so is Anthropic. You can also apply some finesse and combine the model with external tools like search and databases or custom built APIs, practically everyone and their dog is experimenting with this approach. So even if no better models are made, which seems unlikely to be the case, we’ll be utilizing the current generation in all kinds of ways from here on out.
Because their non-hdr displays don't have enough peak brightness for good looking HDR.
Sounds interesting. Is rpm-ostree config declarative? Can it install multiple versions of packages and libs simultaneously? Are adding custom packages to your setup a matter of a few lines of additional config, or must you learn RPM? Can you manage home directory config as well?
David Pogue went down with the same vessel last year for CBS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29co_Hksk6o

"I couldn't help noticing how many pieces of the sub seemed... improvised."