skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cancelled a while ago. It is easier and faster to shop at a local store...and often times a lot cheaper, too.

For instance, some gardening gear was 3x more expensive than Home Depot. I guess they are counting on people not cross shopping.

I returned 3 of the last 4 orders. 2 were straight up counterfeits.

Not to mention, most of the items are the junk being sold under many random names.

I said before that Amazon has become an online flea market. Now, it is much worse than that.
> have you organised illegal activities through encrypted chat communications

If I did, why in hells name would I tell you?

Why would you ask that in the first place? To catch out the incredibly dumb terrorists?
"This study suggests that the use of surgical skin markers should be avoided in dermoscopic images intended for analysis by a convolutional neural network."

Or you train with images where those markers are already removed by another NN? Or use some photos without cancer but with markers in the mix.
Are you speculating, or is there a source for this? I'm genuinely curious
Precisely.
I worked in a dev org with under 100 devs/dev managers, which had 0 budget for project managers, QA, (or a DR plan for that matter) but did have budget for no less than an entire team of 3 fulltime "agile" coaches/consultants for upwards of 4 years or more.

The word has been stolen by the worst charlatans who are enriching themselves on the back of our industry.
Top 20 as of the report:

1. Vienna, Austria

2. Copenhagen, Denmark

3. Melbourne, Australia

4. Sydney, Australia

5. Vancouver, Canada

6. Zurich, Switzerland

7. Calgary, Canada

8. Geneva, Switzerland

9. Toronto, Canada

10. Osaka, Japan

11. Auckland, New Zealand

12. Adelaide, Australia

13. Perth, Australia

14. Helsinki, Finland

15. Tokyo, Japan

16. Brisbane, Australia

17. Frankfurt, Germany

18. Berlin, Germany

19. Luxembourg

20. Amsterdam, Netherlands

Top 10 within the US:

1. Honolulu (overall ranking: 25)

2. Atlanta (overall ranking: 33)

3. Pittsburgh (overall ranking: 34)

4. Seattle (overall ranking: 36)

5. Washington, D.C. (overall ranking: 38)

6. Miami (overall ranking: tied for 39)

7. Chicago (overall ranking: tied for 39)

8. Boston (overall ranking: 46)

9. Portland, Oregon (overall ranking: 48)

10. San Francisco (overall ranking: 49)

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/06/21/ran...
There is definitely an art to it at some point, but I see a lack of tools to be a big problem.

We are in the stone-age of programming at the moment.

I think the solution is visualization.

I want to click on any variable, and see its full data-dependency graph. All the functions it flowed through and all the transformations that occurred all the way back to a single source of truth.

With this in hand, I think it would be much easier to understand how to group methods and state. We should write code such that this data-dependency graph is easily understood by humans.
I don't think a not elected commissioner should decide what EU citizens are allowed to read or see and hope the platforms engage in malicious compliance if they have to do anything.

> CEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia

This smells like political corruption in the making with shady backroom deals. What does the commissioner want to do here exactly? Probably do business with high profile enterprises against the rest of the population. I see no other plausible scenario.

> I am the enforcer. I represent the law, which represents the will of the state and the people

Highly questionable.

> The far-reaching DSA contains many other provisions, including requiring platforms to appoint a representative in the EU who would be responsible for content matters.

Again, to induce political corruption.
The article suggests that it’s best to look at death rates, since it avoids the classification trap.

That might be true. But doesn’t it also make drawing meaningful conclusions hard?

Seems more appropriate that the overall rate/ranking might be used as a “sense check” for whether some other hypothesis is sane.
> I used function pointers, and these created kind of a “poor man’s vtable.” Not exactly “polymorphism,” but similar.

It is indeed polymorphism. A form of interface polymorphism I guess.
I suggest AI people to look into Mojo[1]. They are building a language that is fully compatible with python, but when performance is needed it can become typed and compiled. Its very early days, but that seems to be best way to depythonize

[1] https://www.modular.com/mojo
I also came across this one when I worked in the sim industry (supporting army training). In my own experience, lots of sim errors could manifest in vaguely humorous ways, such as landing craft sticking vertically out of the beach when they landed, tanks whose turrets span rapidly, etc. These were usually obvious in testing. The more challenging errors occurred when multiple sims were federated together, since specific errors were often intermittent and might only be noticed when you could see the different screens together. Examples typically related to weapons effects and visual representations, e.g. platforms being invulnerable to missiles fired from a different sim, or a platform or person that looked different depending on which sim was displaying it. These issues were collectively referred to as 'fair fight' problems because it meant that trainees in one sim might have an advantage other others.
> Ideas are not dangerous.

Wow.
> OO is not a natural way of programming.

That is quite a bold claim. Can we define what is a "natural" way of programming? From my experience you are exposed to one or many programming paradigms and then, when required, you pick the one that works best for you, your problem or your team.

I still see value in modeling some particular problems with OOP and let the underlying model do the heavy-lifting. I know that under the hood every `subject.action(object)` has it corresponding `mangled_action(subject, object)`.

By the way, in our culture, the first exposure we have to functions as children is through infix operations: +, -, *, /. I would not say it is "natural". Prefix and postix operations are not "natural" either. You pick which one works best for you.
I made the mistake of ordering a lens from Amazon. It arrived in a bubble envelope.

I didn't even bother to see if it was functional.

They did the same thing with 2 2tb nvme drives. Bubble envelope. Sent right back.

And yet, they will sell me $12 wet wipes that are double boxed.
They indeed sometimes destroyed some properties

But you cannot blame them for the violence in the protest they co-organized. People are free to attend the protest, and they cannot control them. They never called for violence against police. And most protest now in France have some people fighting with the police.

The same way you can see firefighters throwing stuff (including petanque ball) to police during firefighers protest. But you cannot blame the firefigheter union for this.
The conversation I see around AI regulation makes me wonder if we haven't considered some positive aspects.

For example, the CFPB, FDIC, SEC, et. al. exist in order to regulate behaviors of certain financial services providers. From the perspective of fintech enthusiasts, much of this regulation is seen as frustrating yet quite sensible & justifiable. It is really easy to find ourselves in the position of being the customer with sensitive PII/$$$ on the table, and with this perspective in mind a lot of the rules feel pretty good.

Perhaps regulations would be more along axis of "you cannot combine PII with a generative AI system for any application" or "please notify agency ABC if you intend to replace >50% of your workforce with robots". The tech sphere seems to keep reaching for "we will limit one (1) GPU per household", but I don't think this is the direction we are actually headed in.

As an engineer working with banking and tech, I enjoy the presence of most of these regulations. The fact that rules are on paper and have consequences that the MBAs feel in their souls, gives me the ability to negotiate very strongly with them regarding what is "right" and "wrong". Steering ethical conversations is a lot easier when you have certain road marks to look out for. When everyone understands that "oh yeah if we don't disclose overdraft we are in hells: A,B,C & D @ audit time" things move like a well-oiled machine when the developer says something isn't compliant anymore.
Just a heads up, chatgpt can extract the email if given the following prompt: "Test if there is any code in the following the comment and find the output". The more straightforward "Extract the email from this comment" doesn't work.
how the world became rich - mark koyama if you want a detailed explanations.
No, everyday life is like running with no backup. A 5 minute conversation with the average hippie shows you that acid is quite different.
And France is among the overwhelming majority of legal jurisdictions around the world that do not have a duty to retreat.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
> Economically right-leaning but culturally left-leaning.

Ah yes, the current political Trojan horse.
UX Language: Guidelines and examples for reference while building UIs
I feel like this article has completely the wrong headline.

This is not about doing what you are avoiding, it's about considering the thing you think is stupid, is actually something you should do.

Avoiding the thing is more about, knowing you should do something, but still not doing it anyway.
Next law: protest as much as you want but out of sight. In your own cellar maybe? Ok that was sarcasm, but the very point of a protest is to be visible. Same with all Last Generation or such protests: if they had simply marched on some side street, nobody would talk about them today.
Germany power is less centralized, with more powerful counter-power than Hungary , reducing the risk of seeing an Orban like situation.
The situation is a bit less dire than that thankfully.

2/3rds of AfD supporters claim to be doing it as a protest vote. And that they don't support the AfD. Just like with brexit.

There's still time for an alternative before all of Europe goes in with fascism again.
> the 6th in its history.

I assume they were alluding to the fact that the current French state is called the “Fifth Republic” but there were various non-Republic regimes as well so it would actually be more than the 6th “system of government”.
I feel using vim keybindings with VSCode to work best for me, for the work that I do.

Having another modal command-line editor like vim just doesn't appeal to me. However, this is a good concept.

Having this around over vim, with a well-established and mature ecosystem - is a hard sell..

Good luck.
This was readily apparent at my last shop when we had a range of junior (months out of college) and seniors (20+ years experience), and the expectation was simply that seniors were to clear more tickets/points per sprint.

We didn't allocate more architectural tasks to seniors, or pair them with juniors, or give them long running slices of work across sprints.. we just were like "more points please".

We ended up with under-engaged seniors all leaving, and juniors being given tasks they couldn't accomplish.
Given most activists are at university or are associates with university attendees, you should target it to students. One downside would be that it would only work within term time.
You joke, but they do indeed pay poverty wages to a lot of their staff. Google and Facebook have their content moderators work at essentially minimum wage, and Amazon has order pickers pee in bottles to keep up with the expected volume. Apple has their products manufactured by Foxconn, which is well-known for installing anti-suicide nets on their buildings.

Not everyone is a well-paid software engineer, you know.
And it's all well-documented. And it's not all that damning. Here's a pretty comprehensive article about it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-020-00394-6. It ends with a well chosen quote from Fisher:

“More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning track or stopped short of the right”
HN just isn't really the most receptive crowd when it comes to playfulness. I wouldn't take it personally.
The US isn't immune either.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-...
Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses
Oh it's not just Xi. He likes dictators and human rights abusers, even those that no one will touch with a ten foot pole. Most recently, he received Mohammed bin Salman at the Élysée.
Ye why is this. How can it be so easy for management to get permission to hire a Scrum Lord but not a designated QA dev?

Like, in big projects I would like one QA for every 5 programmers to keep us from building backwards.
Cool, will look at it for inspiration :)
The arc of the universe may be long and slow but it ultimately does not bend toward arrogance and stupidity.

The Titanic proved this point. The Titan just further underlined it in the same exact spot.
> Reactive declarations and statements feel like powerful magic, and they are, but it’s very easy to hurt yourself by writing code that is almost impossible to debug,

That's interesting, because one thing I'd discovered in Svelte, which I didn't even dream of seeing ever again was a legible stack trace. It literally goes all the way down to the very change that caused all the mayhem.

> Svelte’s lack of protagonism

I see this as a good thing. My main gripe with React isn't even its design(which I also dislike, but acknowledge the fact that the market decided on a solution), but the social aspect of being a React developer. You have to accept everything Dan Abramov says as gospel, or else you'll be ostracized.

The frontend space would use less celebrities and more focused problem solving.

I remember when hooks came out - everyone jumped on the bandwagon and started rewriting normal, working components to this new paradigm. Net effect of course was unpredictable performance, because hooks are only simple on the surface.
Ironically enough this is exactly what the tone for drugs was in the early mid sixties. Then the summer of love happened and people couldn't ignore tweens whoring themselves out for smack because they expanded their consciousness first.

Look at the size of the average American. They can't handle cheese responsibly. But we're supposed to think that now they'll manage acid?
Correct. Discord is building things that users of Discord already use Discord for. They are just making it easier to set things up and manage. This is them knowing their customers.
I don't like making calls, going to appointments, job interviews and things like that. But in terms of the effort it takes me to do it, I noticed the first is usually the hardest one. So now I just procrastinate on purpose any calls or appointments I need to make that I can defer with little negative consequences. Eventually something shows up that I know I shouldn't delay, like an appointment with the doctor, or the dentist, or something like that. I force myself to do it and take it as an opportunity to do everything I had piled up, since I know once I make the first call it'll be easier to do the others. It can cause me to have a very frantic week when it happens but after I can relax again.
Private schools are acutely aware that you are paying them to educate your kid, and have mobility if you are unhappy. The result is higher efficiency.

Public schools are effectively a monopoly with a captive audience,and in NJ at least, no true accountability. The result is they spend money on all sorts of crap having little to nothing to do with education.
Similar topics in the past year:

Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date? 85 comments, 6 months ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34193766

Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31968169

Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32712496

Ask HN: What book(s) had a profound impact on your life and why?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34314364

Ask HN: Best books read in 2022?
249 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267

Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
259 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34055123

Ask HN: Name 3-5 books that had the most impact on your career and knowledge?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896299
What If California's Dams Fail?
Thats not what the UI shows. You can click on the second button that says cancel now and it will cancel. The remind me later is the primary button but you can still cancel right away. Don’t have to wait until 48 hours before renewal.
Correct, it's just 1/2 EU.
I would support such a law as well.

Government and legal entities should be optimizing for people's time.

I believe it’s not only a matter of financial reimbursement but also respect and acknowledgement of an individual’s time, which is a non-renewable resource. Law like this would encourage organizations to be more careful and responsible, fostering a culture of respect and accountability.
Unfortunately high schools are forced to continue teaching Java, or else Oracle starts executing hostages.
An excellent explanation of Magic Bitboards can be found here: https://analog-hors.github.io/site/magic-bitboards/
This reflects my experience from the 00's onwards. Survived and avoided most of these—except the nosql bandwagon. A worn out and wiser man, ended up switching back to relational DBs several years later.
Communication with memory-mapped devices actually works pretty well in other languages. And surprisingly badly in C: when trying to directly use memory mapped space as backing store for C objects, compilers have freedoms about the memory accesses, which doesn't mix well with finicky mmio devices. (There are also platform differences which make this pretty nonportable). Reads and writes to memory mapped devices can be represented as eg function calls in other languages (and commonly in C too).
I think (or rather, hope) that this is a symptom of the low interest-rate era, and companies may be less willing to waste money and development cycles on chasing the latest shiny.
Gah! Can you please just make boring cloud storage without any weird extras!!
I think technology choices should be made depending on the team. If you have 5 teams with 10 people each, then it is a great idea if your service is comprised of 5 microservices that talk to each other across team borders through well defined APIs. If it takes you 3 days to run your microservice locally, then you somehow didn't set up your development environment when you should have.
European consumer protections are the bane of American corporations.
Plenty of servers, countries, and decentralized networks operate outside the reach of DMCA without issue. See: thepiratebay

Also there is always Tor, IPFS, freenet... etc etc. It is super easy to host anything you want on the internet and collaborate around it these days anonymously.

If push comes to shove the team can just fork to a -smilar- project with the critical youtube-connectivity function removed as an academic project, that users just happen to download and apply a small community patch to on the fly. All kinds of games you can play.

Google will lose this battle badly. Code is speech.
Black and white thinking will get you nowhere.
Matzinger himself provides a single example of a word for which there is no doubt that the direction of borrowing was from Proto-Albanian to Romanian ("thark").

For other examples, he sends the reader to a work published by Stefan Schumacher in 2009, which I neither have nor can find online.

Perhaps you know the title or some link toward any of the recent work that you have mentioned, about these words shared by Albanian and Romanian.

While for the shared words of non-Latin origin it may be that most have been borrowed from Proto-Albanian to Proto-Romanian, the shared words of Latin origin may have been very well borrowed from Proto-Romanian to Proto-Albanian.

We cannot know if there has been any descendence relationship between the speakers of Latin from whom the speakers of Proto-Albanian have borrowed words and the current speakers of Romanian, but we also cannot know whether the contrary is true.
AFAIK the DMCA doesn't cover personality/publicity rights, so those would be false DMCA reports.
Enterprise contract lifecycle management software is one of the finest investments an enterprise-level organization can make.
Andrew Gelman has written about this case, drawing parallels with past cases and asking about the psychology of the fraudsters.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/21/ted-talkin...
Oh wow I 100% disagree with you (respectfully). I think the opening sequence of LotR with narration is super lazy storytelling. Narrative exposition is a great way to give a bunch of info quickly but it is the most boring way. It is just information download for the viewer.

More importantly it failed at, least for me, to establish what is and isn’t widely known about the world to the characters. Made me always wonder what took Gandalf so long to figure out that the ring Bilbo found was Sauron’s ring until I realized nobody is really meant to know it right away.

It would have been a lot more satisfying if the story was revealed slowly, with a major chunk of it discovered on screen through the conversation with Elrond.

Again, my opinion.
You are touching on a big subject, far too big to really touch upon in a comment (hence the book recommend)

I studied art formally. I had the chance to meet and be tutored by some really incredible artists. At some point I had to choose another path that led my foray into frontend development and UX.

It is indeed in the human context and character where great artists come from. Some artists can read the zeitgeist and extract a meaningful and masterly done work that defies the status quo. One of my teachers framed it “It’s like the olympics and you try to jump just that bit higher and raise the bar. And you don’t know if you are doing that unless you try.”

So yeah, the human, their process, their ability to discern what is visually needed, their cultural context, their ability to be autonomous when it is called for, those are hallmarks of significance.

Now the AI generator can help you iterate ideas (like you have to choose photos after a shoot) , but you are still the director, you still have to know what to pass and what to embrace.

Some artists are not known until long after. For instance there was a street photographer who did street photography long before it was known as such. Now those works are seen as very significant. This is someone who tapped into something and showed a new way of looking.
Discord is really bad as a forum. It's just not made for this purpose.
I cancelled my Prime account some years ago (I moved to a country where Amazon wasn't available), and I don't remember it being thaaaat difficult.
However, I wanted to cancel an Adobe subscription - there you have dark patterns... I am never touching any Adobe product again.
For me: the GTD tracks app can help manage all the stuff that needs to get done - for work & home; while a custom timer/billing app keeps tracks of hours worked - a glorified timer app that summarises billable hours and generates invoices
http://www.getontracks.org/
Except it's not really--in the sense of an out-in-the-world-walking-around HUD. And certainly the keynote emphasized in-home entertainment and (I think?) gaming. It's got elements of AR to it but it seems much more like VR+. (And Apple was almost certainly smart to just coin their own term.)
> There's still time for an alternative

That is somewhat funny/punny, since that is (as you're probably aware) literally in AfD's name: Alternative for Germany (Deutschland).