skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This always makes me chuckle. It is an objective fact[0] that the Dems have moved dramatically leftward while Republicans have generally held the same position for the last 20 years. Anyone who tells you that republicans are 'extremists' is trying to scare you to the polls.

[0] https://archive.is/MtAJv
The serpentza YouTube channel has an interesting perspective from a South African native on how the country has become a failed state and why he left. I've never been there myself so I don't know whether his claims are accurate.

https://youtu.be/jHxh_sQHH0E
Union Pacific (the acquiring railroad) has UP1996 in its heritage livery fleet to commemorate this: https://www.up.com/heritage/fleet/commemorative/sp-1996/inde...
Java started out with handles. It seemed to be useful for getting the compacting collector working right. Later on, around Java 5, those went away, improving branch prediction. Then sometime around Java 9 they came back with a twist. As part of concurrent GC work, they needed to be able to move an object while the app was still running. An object may have a handle living at the old location, forwarding access to the new one while the pointers are being updated.

That was about when I stopped paying attention to Java. I know there have been two major new collectors since so I don’t know if this is still true. I was also never clear how they clone the object atomically, since you would have to block all updates in order to move it. I think write barriers are involved for more recent GC’s but I’m fuzzy on whether it goes back that far or they used a different trick for the handles.
This Quarkus is like a virus. It's still keeping the port 8081 open even if i don't use it anymore (i didn't remember when i closed it though). And i have no clue how to close that port, even if i killed the PID, it autorestarted again.

Hopeless.

My regret. Java is not worth my time anymore.
To be honest, you sound more like a Red Hat fanboi than someone who is making persuasive arguments.

For one, you're implying that Red Hat can fix bugs and can upstream them more quickly than Rocky. Have you seen the amount of time it takes Red Hat to move fixes in to sources? That alone is silly to even mention. I don't know how long Rocky would take, but in the entire world, hardly any companies take as long as Red Hat.

Two, do you think Red Hat "truly fulfill(s) 24/7 support"? Sure, you can get someone on the phone, but how many hours will it take before you can get someone who knows anything? All that navigation and escalation is time consuming. I'd rather wait for an expert who knows the area of my problem intimately to be woken up to contact me after an hour than be appeased by being on the phone for three hours explaining a problem to person after person who won't directly escalate and wants to hear the problem explained.

"maybe the thing you're doing isn't important enough to warrant paying for support anyway." Huh? That's just ridiculous.
I've worked at a lot of places that posted us only jobs while also employing many overseas independent contractors.

Typically when I've seen job postings US only they're looking for some type of coverage during US business hours; on-call, supporting juniors, meetings with c-suite, etc.
No, I think it launched right before the pandemic and that likely killed any momentum it could have gained.
Convenient, inexpensive, delicious.

You might personally disagree on any of those points but for enough people it’s true.
It's not, but that's the dirty secret of researchers, the most passionate ones always have some conviction inside. They just don't voice it.
I've seen people on /r/singularity argue how LLMs are a better friend than actual friends or therapists because they are always available, non-judgemental and "listen better".

EDIT: Here, for example: https://i.redd.it/7qxb1ohvhada1.png
I cut out Amazon recently and there's something to be said about specialized online retailers. I used to think the idea of having a different retailer for each category was a bygone relic of the past after Amazon, but I'm starting to enjoy the better selection and customer support I get from companies like Chewy, Sweetwater, Costco, etc. A one-stop retailer is a convenience, but they suffer from the classic "jack of all trades" problem with their selection and only end up being a logistics company for delivering mass mediocrity.
...you can use your 'local' AZ account for other countries, which i was used to, so i assumed Prime would work like that too - nope, that is bound to only the specific store you subscribed at. And they couldn't (wouldn't) transfer it.

Just used the free trial to get something in time before i left another country, and nicely wasted some $$ because i wasn't aware they will refund you for every remaining month.
The details about the single window on the craft is also pretty damning:

>Further, the craft was designed to reach depths of 4,000 meters (13,123ft), where the Titanic rested. But, according to Lochridge, the passenger viewport was only certified for depths of up to 1,300 metres (4,265ft), and OceanGate would not pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport certified for 4,000 metres.
I really think we are already there. Just look at how media is divided and how other side is treated by the other...

And then some fraction of middle hate it all...
Or Comcast can ensure their infrastructure can handle the load they advertise to their customers and keep upgrading and improving it using the subsidies provided by the US government to do just that.

Comcast is ripping off customers twice. Don't defend it.
The Unspoken Imminent Risk of ChatGPT
The first thing that they must do is an accurate analysis of the isotopic ratios of all chemical elements present in the spherules.

Only this can confirm that the objects are of extraterrestrial origin (if the isotopic ratios do not match the terrestrial ratios).

If it is true that they are extraterrestrial, then they must have a complex chemical history. Such a chemical composition cannot form from condensation in cooling gases of average stellar system composition, like in most meteorites that have never been parts of a planet, but could have been formed only from some initially oxidized rock (which would have lacked the nickel, cobalt and germanium that are present in primordial metallic iron, but which could have included magnesium oxide and titanium-iron oxide) and which would have been reduced to metal at some time later, by a reducing agent like hydrogen.

This could have easily happened naturally, but of course an artificial metallic object is made in the same way, by reducing metallic oxides.
I went to CSUDH many many years ago (early 90's). I had a few interactions with Larry Rosen, mentioned in the article.

I started off working in the CS labs and eventually moved onto running the systems for extended ed. He was kind of anti-tech even back then and we butted heads a bit. I was just some punk kid with a big budget to buy all the latest Apple products and having tons of fun. He was kind of an old fart who struggled to make his Windows 3.1 winsock connect to 'the internet'.

"I get concerned about the fact that we just blindly believe the GPS."

Him coming out with the views like this are no surprise. Fear of GPS? Come on.

Wired is really digging to find some people who support their storyline.
I mean, has a bit of weight when a person who won a Nobel prize in meteorology says it. At least worth giving the sky a glance once in a while to make sure you're safe
Has anyone used this and compared to the types provided by Knex? I’m largely very happy with Knex but when you start dealing with subqueries and the like the types fall apart. Suspect this kind of thing is pushing TS types to their limit, though.
I searched for “rotation anisotropy universe” and got this as the first result:

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/s103

And the second:

https://www.scirp.org/html/12-7501435_36098.htm

And the fourth:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/new-anomaly-universe...

This one is about the preferred rotation of galaxies:

https://news.umich.edu/the-universe-may-have-been-born-spinn...
Apple maps has been good for a long time now. Anecdotally, I find the navigation to be more clear and the UX more intuitive.

I only use Google Maps for discovery and reviews. The navigation experience is not very good.
Hate to say it, but considering they still haven't found the sub, and they aren't even sure whether they can get it up to the surface if they find it... this doesn't seem like a rescue effort that will succeed. But I will say, if they DO manage to find and save these guys, holy shit is this going to be an epic fucking movie.
Are you joking or do you know for a fact that your credentials are in the leak? Is there a place to check?
Show HN: I made a ‘no bullshit’ platform for professional communities
"On my way to this job interview, I was right on time when this homeless guy asked for my help.
The job interview was for this company I had dreamt of joining for years. But I had to help, so I did, and I was late to the job interview.
You won't believe what comes next: when I arrived at the job interview, the homeless guy was actually the manager interviewing me.
And I got the job. Stay true to yourself. Peace."

This is what LinkedIn has become. It looks like if you want to stand out and passively get opportunities, you need to regularly post that kind of bullsh*t content.

What if there was a simple alternative? That's what we tried to do with Profile.studio: a place where anyone can create a private professional network, gather people in it, and search for the right person when there is a need.

Test it out and tell me what you think!
The proposed acquisition is not for "1 studio" but for the entire Activision-Blizzard-King holding company which owns some of the biggest IPs in both the traditional and mobile gaming space, coming just after Microsoft acquired another huge publisher (Zenimax/Bethesda).
Microsoft is just too big. I hope they are blocked from buying Activision. We don't need any more centralization!
People certainly talked about it, but nobody decried the exclusivity of Persona 5 as an anticompetitive move by Atlus or Sony. It's just how they do business - Sony licenses and funds exclusive titles for their platform, and nobody really bats an eye.

Microsoft has decided turnabout is fair play, and people are acting like it's a Console War-crime. Why? Nintendo has spurned AAA devs since the Wii era and they're doing just fine. I take no side in the console war, but Sony can't be a fair-weather friend to platform exclusivity.
You're missing out on the speed trap alerts, though. That's the primary reason I use Waze over anything else.
Correct; the actual “cookie law” (ePrivacy 2002/58/CE) talks about “the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user”. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

So local storage is also covered by this law. For other fingerprinting techniques, if you can identify a user, GDPR applies. And for ad purposes, the only realistic legal basis is consent.
Some people keep saying this, but I can hear a very clear difference.

It's like people who say that Arturia's VSTs are exactly like the real thing - to which I can only say "Huh???"
How to GPT – Part 1: Better Emails
MMS: Scaling Speech Technology to 1000 languages demo
Aren’t most of those cases Sony funding the development of a game? I.E. If it does well, great, Sony has a new IP. If it bombs, then it’s Sony’s money down the drain.

I can only see it benefiting the market since certain games might not have gotten made otherwise - e.g. Demon Souls; which spawn quite a number of spin offs, together they practically form their own genre.
> But when the plantiff is using circumstantial evidence to deduce what the email must have contained

That's not what's happening. It's sealed to the public, not the lawyers.

The article even mentions this:

> The passage appears to be from Exhibit K, a sealed document that the gamers’ lawyers and Microsoft’s attorneys have been arguing over.

> In legal documents, Microsoft characterized the email as an “internal exchange” that should remain sealed; a Microsoft rep declined to comment further.
I covered this in my comment with QR login codes.

Plus, if you really want to, you could also have a one-time use 6 digit code for login also sent in the email and it would be better for the majority of people that do not use a password manager.

Or if you really, really, really must have your passwords then please invert the default to where login via link is the primary mechanism and passwords are optional on a per-account basis.
Compared to how original looked that's fucking improvement, original have indecipherable panel if you don't already know how it works.

But yeah, I wish that they at least tried to improve upon original instead of blatant copy
Miami Beach tide gauge readings haven't changed since the year that study was published.

https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/rlr.monthly.plots/1858.png

Also, do you really find that study credible? "tide-induced events increased by more than 400%" in one single year? Sea level rise is a slow and steady process, but these guys are claiming it tripled in the span of a single year. That hasn't been reported anywhere else.
This is a terrible idea they could be solved by hiring more staff. Putting people's lives on the line with this tech is insane considering it's penchant for hallucinations and lies
Wait! Someone is in jail for a decade for just spitting on a cop? We need to protest this case. Who is it?
That's... what I'm saying?
Jokes on you (us), there's not a way to reset your password, across all three of openai's applications.
Not sure a quote from Gensler prior to his SEC appointment (or even after, in a non-official capacity) holds much regulatory weight.
Or going back even before that. When media drove a invasion of different country on entirely lies. And no one involved has been prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
This is a reasonable reaction! :) There are a lot of ways to make the visual interface scale - examples from things like Blender, Figma, etc. We believe we can use them to make it scale semantically as the complexity climbs.
TIL! Apparently they do it with an ultrasound instrument:

https://www.olympus-ims.com/en/insight/ruckus-composites-ins...
I hate caps because they don't reflect the underlying reality of the way the backbone works. I run backups in the middle of the night when the lines are otherwise idle. This is also true of data plans for cell phones which have X GB of 5G data then unlimited 3G data.

Caps discourage people from using too much and making the network slow for everyone and/or very expensive to run. It'd be great if, instead, bandwidth was prioritized based on usage each month. So the really heavy users that cause problems for everyone else will run slowly during the day but still can be fast at night.

Ideally there would be a way to mark streams as low-priority in a way that didn't count against your quota, that could be used automatically by backup software and other cases.

Another possible system which seems fair to me would be to give each user a guaranteed 1/N of the bandwidth. If there's any unused, then split it equally among those that are using it. In practice an ISP needs to have enough capacity to support streaming during the peak hours, so that'd keep the 1/N value reasonable. For example, if a local ISP offers 1 gbps connections to 200 customers and has them sharing a 10 gbps upstream connection to the wider internet, each would have a guaranteed 50 mbps, with ability to burst to all 1 gbps most of the time. That's plenty fast for streaming from several devices per household. If someone needs faster guaranteed speed, they can pay extra for more bandwidth shares.
Handles are great, and I agree that their use can help solve or mitigate many memory management issues.

The thing is that Handles themselves can be implemented in very different fashions.

I extensively use handles in my own framework, and I plan to describe my implementation at some point, but so far I have seen 3-4 different systems based on different ideas around handles.

We might need a more precise naming to differentiate the flavors.
It also can't be cash or cash-equivalent, such as a gift card. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cov...
The I.R.S. and every other federal agency down to the Bureau of Labor Statistics disagree with you.
https://archive.md/vLlEM
> Competition can be a bad thing in this field, because it decreases the quality of the games

Where did you get that from? Some of the best games I have ever played were Xbox or PlayStation exclusive and probably wouldn't have happened the way they did without funding from Microsoft/Sony for the exclusivity deal. The value for Sony selling an exclusive game is not just the box price, but the price of the console itself too, so they are willing to accept projects that won't be full of microtransactions, shitty overpriced DLCs, or buggy botched releases since a successful release of a long awaited game could be the difference between someone going for PC/Xbox or getting the new Sony console.
Thanks! I'll definitely reach out as I'm getting closer to the 2nd bank alternative for sure. I'm on Woocommerce as well. Is this Paymentech? You have a business bank account with Navy Federal? Lots of questions ;)
Some other universities with really interesting/useful approaches are (both accredited):

WGU: fully online, you can go faster and thus reduce total tuition costs, targeted to those whose work experience can justify college credit (competency-based, you can test out of things quickly, and tuition is by semester, for as many classes as you can take or test out of, I believe). Around 130k students, accredited by 4 different regional bodies, and affiliates in a number of US states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wgu

BYU Pathway Worldwide: also fully online (I think), and very religious (though membership not required, just an "affiliation" or such, last I knew), but tuition is far cheaper, especially as it is adjusted based on the student's country of residence to be very affordable, and even has a program to learn English before joining the main curriculum (which is all in English), with ~ 61k students worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYU%E2%80%93Pathway_Worldwide
Every "AI chat" service either leans into or fights the "alignment problem" of whether it wants to be an AI sex chat bot service. See controversy over Replika.
Smartphones have dramatically changed the way humans relate to each other, with incredibly profound impact on mental health and social interactions. The negative impact hasn't gone away just because part of the population hasn't seen a different world and can't imagine anything different.

The same may be true of LLMs and all the hallucinated information they share. I would respect and listen to what experts in psychology have to say here by default.
I think that may be over-generalising a point into irrelevance.

All editors have commands of some kind, yes. Otherwise, it's not an editor.

But holding down a modifier key is not a mode in the software. You could sort of argue it's a mode of the keyboard,. or of the key, but I think it's over reaching.

I've seen editors with no menus, no visible UI at all, just hotkeys that do stuff. It is still a UI even if it is not visible. There are apps for blind Windows users with no visible presence on the screen at all, such as the Qwitter Twitter client.

If pressing the Ctrl key suddenly made the app switch into a different type of operation until you pressed it again, that might count, but it doesn't. The app doesn't even need to know. It just knows "keycodes #F to #Z enter letters, but #A to #E are commands". There are no modes here.
Yes, that is the same with javascript.
Good. UX and 'product management' has moved from beauty and clarity to darkpatterns and psychological exploits.

If you have a valuable product, it should stand on its own as valuable. If you have to engage in deceptive practices, you're just accelerating your journey towards enshittification and destroying your brand equity. I guess that's fine for short-term gain/pump-and-dump, but it's unethical.

I'd rather die poor and honest, than rich and full of regret.
Switching away from proprietary editors to Vim is the best decision I took in my life.
We are working on that at the moment! We currently have a Python SDK that can be imported into a Jupyter notebook for more advanced scenarios (https://github.com/lastmile-ai/lastmileai-python).

We are working on updating the SDK for more advanced scenarios (e.g. running bulk evaluations, comparing different workbooks programmatically, etc.). Are there any specific workflows you'd like to see enabled in self-hosted Jupyter notebooks?
I had a similar experience with the Samsung keyboard. It's seemingly sending data to Facebook/Instagram, and also it had Grammarly embedded in it. I never knowingly consented to having my conversations sent to Grammarly and I was furious about it.
A few years before COVID I bought a dresser on Amazon. The box had a Walmart receipt in it. The guy had made his own UPC code, copied images of the dresser, and just bought the Walmart dresser shipping it to me and pocketing 30 bucks.

I cancelled Amazon years ago and have enjoyed not wading through the desperate side hustles and scams that Amazon essentially farms for data they can use to enter markets that they can then dominate.

How Doordash/Uber/etc exploit their drivers' lack of sense for depreciation costs / maintenance etc is just how Amazon exploits small business hustlers' lack of understanding of the power of omniscient market data.
The UEFI spec leverages handles throughout its APIs. The implementations from the sample in 1998 to today’s EDKII at tianocore.org use the address of the interface, or protocol, as the handle value. Easy for a single address space environment like UEFI boot firmware.
This is very exciting. Has anyone heard of this being affordably commercially available? (Asking from the EU, but a Yes answer for anywhere in the world would be huge progress.)
> Schenck, who was once an anti-abortion activist but broke with the religious right in the last decade over its aggressive tactics and support for gun rights, said the couples were instructed before the dinners to use certain phrases to influence the justices while steering clear of the specifics of cases pending before the court — for example, to “talk about the importance of a child having a father and a mother,” rather than engage in the particulars of a gay-rights case.

> “We would rehearse lines like, ‘We believe you are here for a time like this,’” which is a reference to the Old Testament Book ...

> Schenck said the goal was to create an ecosystem of support for conservative justices, as a way of making them more forthright in their views.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/08/religious-right-sup...

(this is a different org, not fedsoc)
The chilling effect may actually be a good thing, given that discourse these days is overheated.

There's a weird magic trick that social media companies have played on people to convince them that the text and images consumed on their websites are socially/culturally/politically relevant. Once it becomes clear how easy it is to fake that text people will come to understand how cheap and irrelevant "opinion" has become and this magic trick will become weakened.
There's nothing wrong with that. VSCode will certainly have a lot more development that a fork would ever see. So the best thing to do here is simply build VSCode with all proprietary stuff removed.
>Rayko

I got into film photography too late to ever visit Rayko. How I wish it had survived, somehow. Having a whole darkroom for rent in town would be incredible.