skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The “correct” way to build reproducible RPMS is to use the ‘mock’ system, which addresses the concerns about inconsistent build environments.
Interesting article.

We call them split-toe socks in India.

Only read a few of the HN comments here so far, and then the first two paragraphs of the article, but immediately thought of a point, so putting it here, although I'll surely read the rest of the article and more comments here a bit later:

>They're plain better for your toes. Toes want to spread out and be free. Having your toes cramped together by a sleeve all day will fundamentally change the way the foot is shaped and how you walk.

Spot on, IMO, and this is why I never buy shoes that become narrower towards the front, and pinch your toes together. Sometimes I have to search more, because that kind seems to be a bit of a fashion in India, where I am, from quite a while, but the idea seems really dumb to me. Whenever I buy shoes, I still search until I can find and buy the right kind for me, which don't narrow towards the front.

The kind that don't narrow used to be called naughty-boy shoes in India, when I was in primary school, for some reason :) Probably people can guess why ...

If that is the case, I wanna be a naughty boy all my life ;-)
Let’s recap:
- not something related to the Moon
- a battery that’s only available in US
- no pricing and details at all but a form for email nurturing
cooking too, it would be really neat if you can incorporate other sensors. like a little avatar telling you the pan is too hot/cold. I can def. see things like a floating recipe while you do messy prep so you don't have to wash/dry your phone to scroll to the next step.
https://archive.ph/a8ko9
Trucks are great. Unparalleled utility when you need it and comfortable to drive. Comes in handy often as a homeowner. Its not surprising people in a dense city wouldn’t want one but obviously they have lots of utility.
Getting interrupted mid-trip must be very annoying, or so I have heard.
> It's self-evident that acquisitions can happen and that data will be transferred as a result.

Correct, which is one of the big reasons why I do my best to avoid all data collection I can, even if I fundamentally trust the company doing the collecting.
I do. It's company policy where i work. It's very uncommon in my country though (France) to take off shoes at work, even though it's very common at home.
Dude, check out the 1995 film "Strange Days".
@cpncrunch - for some reason it's not letting me respond directly to your comment.

The link you have provided seems to show a decrease in total fires but some increase in actual area burned.

It's natural for media to exaggerate somewhat.

There's been many reports of an increase of the wildfire season in California, though it's not necessarily all driven by global warming.
Abstractions hide details, and you'll likely need to interact with something the abstraction hides eventually. So then you end up doing one of two things:

1. Learning every detail of the abstraction and the thing it's abstracting, fighting it until you persevere and get it to do what you want

2. Write something from scratch that does exactly what you need

Going the #2 route from the start isn't such a bad idea, and has a lot of advantages IMO.

The hard thing about all this is that abstractions are beautiful at first. It's not until you're far into a project, or doing something unusual that it all falls apart.
Oh, musical instruments. Nevermind.
It is fiction. Relax and enjoy the show.
John Calvin would wholeheartedly agree with you.
That would explain frontend, yes. But that would not explain NodeJS, JavaScript for embedded microcontrollers, and so many more.

Some might say it's Stockholm syndrome, but then there's the Python developers doing the same thing everywhere. And the LISP enthusiasts. So unless there's a lot of Stockholm syndrome (although it's not out of the question when it comes to LISP), a lot of it is easily explained by "me like language here, me go put language elsewhere to keep language"
Thank you! Not only I 100% agree with you, you've also managed to provide a few terms and phrases I've been missing, which could've cut my previous comment down to 1/4 of its size, without loss of meaning. Specifically:

- "chocolate covered broccoli"

- "catalyst for learning"

- "inspiration to learn"

> I learned and practiced most of my English from playing video games, and they were the catalyst to make me WANT to learn English, but they didn't exactly teach* me English.*

English is my second language, and I've also learned most of it from video games. Mostly from exposure, but initially through focused effort - I still vividly remember that time when I was maybe 10 or 12 years old, when I made screenshots from loading screens in Star Trek: Generations, and printed them out on paper, one by one, directly from MS Paint, to take back into my room and meticulously translate the story text on those screens, looking up every single word in an English->Polish dictionary. I also remember keeping that dictionary around when playing Fallout 1. The need to understand the stories and dialogues in games is what bootstrapped my English.

> I bet if you sample today's scientists and engineers at places like NASA, you'd probably find that a lot of them loved watching Star Trek/Star Wars as kids. So while sci-fi hasn't taught them how to work with Schrodinger's equation, it probably had a major part of what sparked their motivation to get started.

I agree. And Star Trek is, in fact, what got me interested in STEM. I owe my entire career and most of who I am as a person, to early exposure to captain Picard and the adventures of Enterprise-D.

(A lot of my early STEM self-education was driven by trying to understand the so-called "technobabble", which - at least in TNG - actually made sense. Probably because, in those days, they had proper scientific advisors.)

> Games probably do that too, and then some, thanks to interactivity.

Yup. I mentioned KSP for a reason - not only have I read the accounts of parents impressed by how much advanced math and physics their 8-12 years old kids can pick up, just for the sake of getting better at the game, but myself I also learned these things for the same reason. While Star Trek is what got me interested in space in the first place, KSP is what got me to finally grok how orbital mechanics and rocketry work in reality. It also made me no longer able to fully enjoy any space travel fiction, except for diamond-hard sci-fi.
> Here is the fact: People are suffering. We should do what we can to help end suffering. This includes helping people to end their lives if they wish to.

> It’s not a “cop out”. It’s widening the set of tools to help people who are suffering.

Come on, dude. It's not "helping" someone to kill them, except perhaps if there's literally no other option possible.

Killing people is cheap an easy, so if it's an option, it's easily the economically rational "solution" that will drive out other solutions. Why spend $1 million to make some group's lives livable, when few $1 cyanide capsules will "end their suffering"? Save the money for yourself and promote the capsules instead. Some "help."
I am honestly surprised nobody mentioned the intention of Go team to make multipath TCP the default in later releases
I thought that was one of the few built-in features that was advertised as shipping with Vision Pro?
Disinformation is the narrative constructed by crumbling authorities of mainstream media desperately trying to preserve their power.

You might think like their narrative is "think critically, and consider everything critically".

But the actual message is, your fellow humans are stupid, they fall for misinformation and fake sources. Ignore all alternative sources of information and most importantly, do not trust your friends and people you know, instead assume they are stupid and when they contradict the authority, be sure to put up a firewall and stop the propagation of dangerous thoughts.

Truth is always more powerful than lies. Don't underestimate your own reasoning capabilities, and if you do underestimate them, the most important thing to do is to train them. I'm not saying to argue against an anonymous bot, but if you meet in person, if your friends have non standard ideas, don't assume they are stupid and fell for misinformation. Not everyone on the other side is stupid, or heartless, or bad.

They are trying to inject faults into various alternative information sources just to turn around and catch them and say "see? This podcaster is a conspiracy theorist and unreliable!".

It's mainstream media which benefits the most from efficient fault and spam injection into alternative information sources, because it makes them relatively more trustworthy. And it is actually against the interests of alternative news sources to be caught in a lie because it is likely to erode their reputation.

If you're confused by the whole disinformation phenomenon, ask the simple question, who benefits.

And remember that the media's willingness to intentionally lie and deceive their readers is directly proportional to the cost to your reputation, and the likeliness of your readers to discover the truth.
> No myth, no logic, no grammar is universal to the psyche;

Logic is universal; it holds true for all regardless of language and environment. "AND" doesn't have different meanings by changing language or social environment. Children use "AND" easily, fluently and universally. What is that but "universal to the psyche"?
Dunno - most science studies seem to suggest culture rather than genetics.
> I think the true tragedy of public education in the US is the sentiment of the public itself.

Are there any other countries that don't rely heavily on public education? Europe seems to lean on schools even more for shaping society, especially Swiss schools, which aggressively integrate immigrants into a common Swissness model. China, well, not 6 hours, maybe 8 hours, and boarding schools are common, see mom and dad on the weekend. They probably weathered COVID better than we did, however, just given that they went to back school much earlier or never left.

Families with more resources/education did OK during COVID, the real negative effects were felt in lesser resourced families, who depended on the schools more and weren't able to provide alternatives because they had to work their non-WFH friendly jobs.

Of course the teachers weren't the perpetrators here, I'm not sure the unions were either (I don't equate teachers with teacher unions, its not like they have so much choice in union representation).
What’s the air quality like, inside of these things?
I think you are a bit detached from reality if you think controlling for experience and education would massively change the picture for python, which evidently enjoys above average popularity with anyone from junior devs to elite programmers (such as Google's Director of Research, geohot etc.).
Synthesia [0]

[0] https://synthesiagame.com/
> I would also have a hardtime processing/registering something if I'm not able to derive it analytically from first principles.

I still find it easier to understand something if I understand it from the ground up instead of in an ad-hoc way. For example, I found it easier to reason about probability once I had seen a rigorous definition for what a probability distribution is. I guess the reason is that it gives me a way to sanity check my intuition.

I still struggle with the fact that in software development, you get hundreds of technologies thrown at you and you barely have any time to understand them all fully. It makes me sometimes feel not very confident in what I do. I feel that I could understand e.g. Kubernetes better, if I had real in-depth (not just superficial) knowledge about networking. A lot of the time I'm just missing crucial information like "what problem are we trying to solve?", "why does this technology work the way it works?", etc. Something like Kafka is another example.
Google accuses Microsoft of unfair practices in Azure cloud unit
> There are notorious stories of people punching through walls

Bahaha, reminds me of the time when I first got the PSVR and my friend comes over. We're playing an FPS demo that came with it (PS Worlds? I think). It's this scene where you're in the passenger seat of the car, shooting up people on motorcycles that are shooting at you. Anyway, I'm standing off to the side watching the TV when out of nowhere, my friend punches me in the face.

I happened to be standing exactly where the NPC driver was sitting in the VR world and my friend wanted to try punching the character.
A little honesty is a good thing
Thanks! I hadn't thought about the impact of school in particular, but that makes sense to me.
Squarespace is giving Google money, and in exchange they're getting my personal information so they can bill me. That seems extremely clear-cut. Not sure if you're talking about some obscure legality interpretation but in plain speech, that is what they're doing.
Nothing says that these models will be part of AI systems that are incapable of learning once trained.

For a simple example take GPT-4 powering a chat bot that uses GPT-4 as a component of the whole system. The text from the user, along with the context window, is used first to bring up "memories" based on semantic similarity to items stored in a vector database. GPT-4 then synthesizes the memories and the prompt into some kind of derivative prompt - putting into context the things it already knows and with the things the user is saying to it. GPT-4 then proposes a response to the user and also produces some predictions about the user's subsequent reply. When the subsequent reply comes in GPT-4 compares predicted to actual and produces insights based on the interaction that are subsequently stored in the vector database.

This system is completely capable of learning - not by adjusting model weights, but by using the model as a component of a system that can learn. And, of course, nothing stops the model from actually adjusting its weights either - reinforcement learning and fine tuning - perhaps with the benefit of other expert systems that can evaluate exchanges after they've happened.
Sad to say, but even if by some miracle the sub is intact and the people are alive, there's no way rescue can get to them before the air runs out. For their sake I hope there was an implosion and these sounds are something else; I can't imagine much worse than days in cold and darkness, waiting to asphyxiate.
I was referring exactly to Ubuntu Pro. They can support more packages for cheaper exactly because Red Hat won't ever have the same YOLO approach to support that Canonical has.
Yeah, should have said the conscious, abstract thinking part.

We also have coprocessors for intuitive physics, face detection, inverse kinematics for muscle movement, etc. And even some virtualization so we can simulate other people minds.
There is no billing / login / ecosystem convenience advantage to using google for any service, because once that service is killed off it is no longer convenient.

They decided not to end service and allow you to migrate to your provider of choice, but to sell your account to another provider. Meaning your account was not valuable enough to continue service, but was valuable enough to sell to a third party.

They started this whole process by aggressively buying the .dev TLD domains and forcing TLS, breaking tooling that used that domain for development (even if that wasn't a great idea).

All for what? Too much ad money and no vision.
“Of the Gods we believe, and of man we know, that by a law of their nature, wherever they can rule they shall. This law was not made by us, and we are not the first to have acted on it. We did but inherit it, and shall bequeath it to all time. And we know that you and all mankind, if you were as strong as we are, would do as we do.”
> I was giving you an opportunity to lay out some evidence

While the is very generous of you, typically I find in these matters it's customary to place the burden of evidence on the person making the initial claim (in this case that being the the bill is a repeat of / resembles Ireland's old blasphemy laws)
In 1981, I received a computer as a birthday gift at the young age of 13. Likely the first micro-computer in my small California town. When I took it to my Junior High science fair people were like stunned by a kid with a computer.
When you turned on the computer, all you got was a flashing cursor wait for you to program in BASIC.
The next year, a successful local business person asked me, if I thought in the future most people would have computers. I said yes.
They replied they didn’t think that would ever happen. And they didn’t see, the need for it in their business, even after seeing VisiCalc.
In less than 5 years, they had computers in thier business for Lotus123. And not long after, they had computers in their home.
I have seen this pattern repeat many times. I have also seen many branches of computer tech die (amiga, os/2, palm….)
But from my point of view “figure out what it’s for” is the ultimate computer hackers playground.
And perhaps Vision Pro will be the first headset “worth criticizing” regardless of its success.
Here in Norway, anything that has an allowed total weight above 3500 kg is classified as a light truck and not a car, is limited to 80 km/h max speed and you need a different license to drive it (C1 instead of B).

The C1 license training is much more extensive and costs a lot more. You also need to renew it every 5 years as it's really a "professional" license.

I see the base F1 weighs 2900 kg without the driver. That leaves about 500 kg for other passengers and cargo, about the same as an ID.4 if you want to register it with a normal B license. But I am looking at their sales brochure here in Norway now and it is sold as a C1 vehicle which means it is also limited to 80 km/h max speed. Max speed is conveniently left out of all marketing material too!

Kind of puts a limit to it.

The ID.Buzz is selling quite well here to people who use them for work instead of shopping, making one of the versions (the cargo) the 7th most sold vehicle so far in 2023 [1].

The cybertruck I don't think will be legal at all here due to the lack of crumple zones to protect pedestrians. It was pulled from pre ordering quite some time ago.

[1] https://elbilstatistikk.no/
I am afraid you may have misunderstood them. It's not that you can't add a centimeter to an inch, it's that you have to convert units first. The unit symbols are intended to help indicate when a unit conversion would be necessary. What many find confusing is the fact that Hz and rad/s are both (in terms of basic physical units) advertised as s^-1.

To resolve the issue, you could define 1Hz as 2pi/s on the grounds that the Taylor series for sin(t) is in "units" of rad/s. You could also define one rad/s as 1/(2pi s), arguing that since the becquerel is 1/s and means "the number of times something happens per second," it would be inconsistent for frequencies to be denominated other ways, and that Hz is applicable to functions other than sin(t), including square and triangle waves, which have no relationship to angles.
From the second link:

> students approached this “Year in School” question in a number of different ways. For example, a junior might have written “junior”, or “2016” or “class of 2016” or “3” (to signify that they are in their third year). All of these responses are reasonable.

> A less reasonable response is “Harvard” [...] Nevertheless, the data file indicates that 20 students did so. Moreover, and adding to the peculiarity, those students’ responses are all within 35 rows (450 through 484) of each other in the posted dataset

In addition, of these 20 very suspicious rows, most were strongly confirming the hypothesis of the authors.

Likewise the first link shows that, in a spreadsheet containing outcomes sorted by treatment group, someone had manually moved rows from the span of rows containing one kind of treatment to a span containing outcomes from a different treatment. These provably manually reordered rows also contained most of the strong evidence for the predicted effect...
As a developer, I don't "name" anything on Figma. The UX designer might. I have to work with what I get. I agree with OP that in general it promotes placing a lot of components side by side on a huge surface and you have to keep zooming out and in, scrolling, etc.
It's a terrible experience.
No, it's the fact, that microbes, that have been outside of our ecosystem for so long remind a lot of people on the fall of the Aztec Empire...
What drama with Wayland or flatpak?
Its what the community has decided, every distro except Ubuntu has adopted flatpak.
And Wayland is the default for both KDE and Gnome.
There's a lot of CentOS 7 in various USGOV and adjacent (suppliers/service providers) who are stuck facing purchase of RHEL8/9 licenses or migrating to other distros - as CentOS 7 going EOL on 2024-06-30 means you can't use it for federal systems without each federal client getting a waiver.

You have to either go with another distro or provide your own support (essentially your own fork).

Those who want to stay with RHEL-like but not deal with actual RHEL licensing are often going with Alma or Rocky.
Just FYI, you can just say Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk 2077 is based off of the long-running tabletop rpg Cyberpunk. Same universe, different stories/media.
If I remember correctly, that site was actually used to publish an early paper about fingerprinting. Their database is simply people who visit their site. You probably are unique among people who have visited! I doubt it sees much traffic anymore. This would explain the parent being unique also now that I think of it.

There are a few studies that used sites like that and got lots of traffic (by advertising on sites like HN) from non-normal users.

There was a landmark study done in France that measured fingerprints through a government website. The general population was much less unique.

Edit: found the AmIUnique paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=Proceeding...
Especially if you're first, or close to first, with a killer app with a high attach rate. I read that something like 50% of PC VR headset owners buy Beat Saber, contrast that with attach rates measured with scientific notation like 1e-3 for most mobile apps that aren't from huge megacorps. If you can make the Beat Saber equivalent for Apple's platform it could be lucrative indeed.
> I am convinced that the way to get a software developer to do anything is to just play on that need for joy.

Works outside software development too.
They will sell more than that. At least 500K. You’re underestimating Apple’s pull. Heck buy two. Save one completely wrapped. Sell it 20 years later.
Can you elaborate on why this is surprising for those who don’t fully understand the differences?