skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a weird direction to take it, total non-sequitur. It's like responding to concern about risks of nuclear war or bio-engineered pathogens with "pft, you can understand that tech, it's all in textbooks, it's just physics and engineering". Like... OK? So? That has nothing to do with it.
But the other cost of pressure tests is stress to the hull of the pressure hull; To know its failure point, you have to see it fail, in which case you have to build a second one.
Been great. The functions LLM's write always need some tweaks and optimizations, but they're still pretty great because they show me the libraries I'll need and remove a lot of the initial friction of designing and writing.
Cyber Command expands 'canary in the coal mine' unit working with private sector
Frank Oppenheimer
Interesting, i've never expected Spotify to put the access token in plain text in a script tag and they also set the id to "session".
It's true, that this is not really important, since it's an anonymous token which is generated probably based on a session cookie, but they could have encrypted the json
In fairness, the core of VS Code is really well-crafted highly performant code. It was designed to be fast and to work for a web integrated code editor from the start. After trying Atom and Brackets, I almost didn't touch VS Code when it came out, I'm glad I did decide to try it as I really do like it.

Of course most Electron apps don't have near the same level of effort or foresight when it comes to performance. Discord probably the second most common electron app, and Teams being third. Both of which, at the very least, have issues. Some could be overcome, or at least be more consistent with WASM built controllers, but that whole space needs some maturing and improved tooling. I've played with Tauri and Yew and think it's pretty nifty, but there's a lot of work to getting parity with say React+MUI.

React+MUI itself is pretty good. But even then, on a relatively large team with some relatively inexperienced devs, you can wind up with dependency trees that are insane, huge and slow. Taking that and going through the extra hurdles that the likes of Electron, Tauri or others add is burdonsome to say the least. It can be very nice, but usually isn't.

And while I empathize with the teams using Electron, I can even support the ideas. In the end, it's the outcome that matters. I'm not one of the never-electron types. But I also recognize the issues. I use Tabby for my terminal, which is fast enough, but still takes 3-4 seconds to load. I use VS Code which is usually a couple seconds as well. It drops off dramatically from there.

There are massive advantages a browser renderer offers... it gets all taken away by importing whatever library comes up in your npm search for any given thing.
I find /r/cosmotology a hairy subject hard to swallow...

I think they push string theory too much, and try too hard to braid it into the fabric of our societies, with their little shops and what not... It gets everywhere, and tomorrow is their favorite day "Friday"!
A healing society? This is the only society who embraced the melting pot and got greatly rewarded for this. There are no wounds, compared to the old world stratified layers and Asia's invisible caste systems&racism.
there are working class grievances becoming racism but even that is pretty universal. No wounds but those inflicted by the divide and conquer on all sides.
Son of Anton determined that the easiest way to minimize the impact of all the bugs in these codebases, was to keep anyone from trying to use them.
This is exactly what I mean when I say that merit lotteries will get exactly the same reaction where people just say "this is racist, you want to oppress Asian Americans."
However, the text of the opinion only invokes the 14th Amendment, not this Act or any other federal law. So I share this confusion.
Well you can encode any logic you want in dependent types, so yeah probably!
Differences in racial health outcomes are absolutely concerning and the medical training issues you call out are unacceptable.

However, examples like OBGYN diversity might outline a slightly different aspect of race and racial issues in the USA.

OBGYN is one of the most diverse specialties and, even with more diversity, it's still going to be unlikely for an African-American woman to end up with an African-American female doctor (assuming emergency intake and ignoring sorting done at the time of physician selection).

In the 2022 NRMP Match data[0], OBGYN residency applicants were 86% female and 11% Black/African American(B/AA). Quick and possibly unreliable skimming of recent paper abstracts returned ~62% female and 11% B/AA for the current overall OBGYN pool.

11% of OBGYN is lower than the overall population demographics in the USA but the B/AA population is still only 13%.

The answer might be better education and training for all doctors, or it might involve matching patient and doctor demographics for the best patient experience, but we're never going to have enough minority group doctors to make a minority group patient likely to receive care from a minority group doctor in a randomized setting.

[0] https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Demographic-...
That's what the University of Michigan used to do, it was ruled unconstitutional in Gratz v. Bollinger in 2003.

It was never really clear (imho) how affirmative action (as actually practiced) could be implemented; discrimination based on race has been explicitly illegal since 1964 but somehow the courts ruled that some discrimination was legal (in Bakke v. California) but the courts can't actually provide a workable solution, they can just shoot down what people try.
Texas has built a lot of solar (more than California in recent years IIRC) because it's generally building-friendly. There has been some talk that they are going to start making it harder to do renewable projects due to politics.

So: so far all talk, but there is now some more specific talk.
Is that a rhetorical question? I think you know the answer.
> People are free to not use airplanes if a designed for maneuver gives them PTSD.

You know, that's insensitive in terms of minimizing the suffering endured by people with bona fide PTSD, as well as dismissive. Because what do you suggest as an alternative? Drive an automobile, with higher accident rates than air travel? Walk across the street in traffic? Life is dangerous, choose your poison.

I personally appreciate aviators and all air crews for really going all-in to make flying safe and tolerable, if not enjoyable. When I think of some of the crazy train or bus rides I've had, air travel is pretty amazing in comparison, especially at a bargain price.

And I do suffer from (complex) PTSD, but thankfully such an incident as in TFA would not particularly trigger an episode. Thanks for caring.
A Case for ClojureScript 2.0: The Google Closure Compiler
Forget about the physical effects. Even if we don’t have nuclear winter, even if fallout is not a concern in your area, you wouldn’t want to survive anywhere in the world the catastrophic destruction of the economy if you live in the cities.
> Whenever the Attorney General receives a complaint in writing signed by an individual to the effect that he is being deprived of or threatened with the loss of his right to the equal protection of the laws, on account of his race, color, religion, or national origin, by being denied equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision thereof, other than a public school or public college as defined in section 401 of title IV hereof, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly progress of desegregation in public facilities, the Attorney General is authorized to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section. The Attorney General may implead as defendants such additional parties as are or become necessary to the grant of effective relief hereunder.

Did you know that private schools can discriminate based on race today (In fact, this SC opinion reaffirms that)? The civil rights act explicitly only applied to public schools, not private ones.

What prevents the civil rights act from applying to a (private) university? The text of the bill. Could it? Yeah, if we amended it. Should it? Yup, we should push for that.

What gives the civil rights act its power? 9th amendment, 14th amendment, and article 1 of the constitution.
When Sandra Day O'Connor cast the deciding vote in favor of keeping AA back in 2003 even though she was against it, she suggested it might be done away with after another 25 years. We have had affirmative action in college admissions for 50 plus years now. Seems we would have some data to judge its effectiveness by now. More than 20 years ago I recall some top Harvard people lamenting that at Harvard it was mostly helping people who were black but not descended from American slaves. Also, from what I read it is much heavier than a thumb on the scale
“This is the only time I’ve ever said this is like the internet. If you go back through all my historical statements, one could imagine that with my experience I could have said this like 48 times. I’ve never made the comparison before. I’ve never said it about any other kind of technology. I never said it about anything else between the original internet and then the emergence of crypto, because I just wanted people to know like I don’t take the comparison lightly.” - Marc Andreesen on blockchain in 2022

So, yeah, Marc Andreesen says lots of things.
In my experience you can always count on a team to do in just an year what a single developer takes an entire week to finish.

What absolutely does not mean that teams are useless. But that choosing the correct size and composition for them is one of the most important decisions for a project (right there with "are we solving the correct problem?"). And "more is better" is a completely wrong way to decide on it.

Also, this doesn't make that one developer a "rockstar" or whatever else you call it.
Depends on what you want. If you want uptime, then sure. If you want to be able to blame someone then no.

If you are down for 1 hour a year on self hosting, but Office 364 is down 3 days a year, your CEO is going to be more understanding of the Office outage as all his golf buddies have the same problem, and he reads about it in the NYT.

But in any case zero downtime is difficult, that's why you need two independent systems. I had a a 500 microsecond outage at the weekend when a circuit failed which caused an business affecting incident, not a big one fortunately, as it was only some singers, but it was still one that was unacceptable -- had it happened at a couple of other events in the last 12 months it would have been far more problematic. Work has started to ensure it doesn't happen next year.
The real answer is you have to get anything you want ASAP before people stop caring or it becomes more difficult to achieve. This is why certain groups have received reparations and others haven't.

Saying how can we or what can we do is an honest answer at best and a stalling tactic at worst.
yeah i dont get why they complaint about orm, maybe its because the only orm that I use is activerecord
What you point out is maybe partially true. There was an episode on the Hidden Brain podcast recently about the famous marshmallow test that speaks to what you're stating. On this show they point out that the discipline to eat or not eat the marshmallow is also a function of if you believe that the person will actually give you the second marshmallow when they return. The predictability.

But most Black students face this level of unpredictability moreso every day leading up to college admissions. Another, unrelated study, asked teachers to watch for misbehaving kids -- with a mixed race group of kids. The thing was that none of the kids were misbehaving -- but the teachers still pointed to the Black kids. Black kids live with this level of predictability all throughout schooling where they'll be called out for doing the same thing as white students who aren't called out. Eventually you learn to just eat the marshmallow, because the second one isn't coming even if you have the discipline to not eat the first.

So then this ties back to the lottery. It turns out that little in life has 100% predictability. There's no guarantee that my startup will make me billions, even if I seemingly do everything that Steve Jobs did. But I increase my chances and the lottery works the same way. But it also does something else -- it also provides a marshmallow for the kids who know that in their current environment they face steep odds to ever take 16 AP classes or work with their dad's research lab to win the Westinghouse/Intel Science Fair.

It turns out that fairness isn't so easy to determine.
Don't you mean landscape?
> GenAI clearly meets the "transformative" standard.

IANAL, but the problem is that fair use is an affirmative defense and is decided for each case separately. One GenAI may be transformative, while others may not, depending on how much of the original training data they throw back at you.
> Harvard is NOT a public school! It is a private institution which receives public funds. Huge difference but I guess that's not something you want to consider.

That’s okay, because CJ Roberts did consider it.

> Title VI provides that "[n]o person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." 12 U.S. C.§2000d. "We have explained that discrimination that violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment committed by an institution that accepts federal funds also constitutes a violation of Title VI." Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U. S. 244, 276, n. 23 (2003). Although JUSTICE GORSUCH questions that proposition, no party asks us to reconsider it. We accordingly evaluate Harvard's admissions program under the standards of the Equal Protection Clause itself.
With maybe the exception of Quebec City and St Johns which I'd like to visit, not to disparage those cities, but they are... small, extremely isolated, and yes cold but I think that's the least of the issue, and I say that being from Winnipeg.

The cold is a real issue, but it's an extreme issue if you have the other two qualities, all 3 present in Winnipeg too because it's like 9 hours from any other city over 300k. I remember bussing to school every day, and walking one block would make my face feel like it was on fire, then I'd get home later and it would be dark, nobody really wants to do much except drink because there isn't much else. Sprawl and the same terrible zoning as anywhere else made it so only copy/pasted franchises would go up in the commercial areas, always along a major roadway with giant parking lots. I revisit once or twice a year, and it's deeply upsetting.

I pass through many towns like North Bay on road trips, and I have nothing against them inherently, but I think they're only suitable for the same people who just have no interest in being around many other people and bailed from Toronto as soon as their work went remote (I don't personally care for TO as much as Van). That, or people who just literally need any place to set up shop and support a family, but it's crazy to me that the major cities are essentially saying to a majority of young people who are renting their basement suites and have been for a decade, "It's cute that you want to stay where you've already built your community, but we own this and you get to pay my mortgage"
I think it is probably unwise to pre-suppose an extreme here (that society will never "progress").

The default action today is "do nothing and don't acknowledge the problem." Suggesting any action be taken against that status quo does not in any way suggest that it is a permanent inviolable law that society must continuously optimize for nor does it suggest that it can't be done in tandem with other "progress" society may achieve.
>No, we've been inundated with low-quality content for decades now. This is nothing new.

Trends matter too. If it gets to be an order of magnitude cheaper to shill your products on social media and forums, set up seo crap articles to phish users from search results, or churn out good old fashioned email scams, then expect an order of magnitude worse signal to noise ratio on the internet as a result. There could be a point reached where the internet is functionally broken, with the signal to noise ratio too low to make it useful for anything, save for navigating directly to known good hosts that themselves will become increasingly more lucrative targets for enshittification.
On the other hand, insurance companies may have no interest underwriting unusual risks when the business opportunity is small. "Deep-sea submarine tourism" is a tiny market.
10_000 is easily in the ballpark of constant factors k which really happen in software.

Suppose my O(n) algorithm is a random access walk of nums. So I'm causing ~10_000 memory fetches, maybe they each take k=100 cycles, so it takes 1 million cycles total.

But the O(n*log(n)) algorithm happens to be linear, it does access some nearby objects more than once, but every damn access is in cache. That's only 100_000 cycles, it's ten times faster despite you not thinking 10000 is a small N.

Stalls are huge. A modern CPU can do a crazy amount of arithmetic in the time it takes to fetch from even an L3 shared cache, never mind main memory. If you need to go out, to the network or to "disk" it starts to look faster to do a whole bunch of difficult work again instead. Oh the 2417th digit of Pi is on the hard disk? Thanks but I'll just calculate it again instead 'cos I don't got all day.
I struggle with that all the time. We have a lot of offshore people and I am pretty sure that 3 experienced people could take on a project that requires 50 offshore people and get it done in less time at higher quality.
There is another reason, less talked about, that higher education started considering factors like socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and national origin in admissions.

It became clear that immersing predominantly white, privileged students in a predominantly white, privileged campus during 4 years of college was poorly preparing them as leaders for a future world in which they will encounter a greater diversity of backgrounds than their parents did. (Because of both changing U.S. demographics AND growing global trade.)

And it became clear that sourcing students primarily from white, privileged backgrounds was poorly positioning the institutions themselves in an increasingly diversifying society.

As legal barriers to the financial and political participation of women and minorities fell, there were more opportunities for people of those backgrounds to succeed. And elite higher education institutions want to remain the schools of choice for the most successful members of society (regardless of background). They can’t do that if everyone thinks they only care about rich white people.

Adjusting admissions to increase the diversity of backgrounds of new students was a way to short-cut solutions to these challenges.

In short, a thumb on the scale to bring the student body more in line with global diversity was also done with an eye toward remaining competitive as a top choice among options for higher education.
It's not uncommon for rich guys to do things that are dangerous for others. They usually don't do dangerous things to themselves. In that sense, Rush was a true believer in his design.
or 2/3 of men didn't have real childhood trauma, and picked a partner similar to the strongest feminine relationship they had
Please somebody let every recruiter on LinkedIn know.
He's got egg on his face now that blockchain failed to pan out as the next big thing. AI is the new hype/grift cycle.
A Vickrey auction is what effectively happens when bidders “snipe” on eBay.
Yes, multiple teams are working on it, private and public.

>It is such a ridiculously bad idea I'm dumbfounded that anyone smart would be trying to do it.

Agree with you there.
FYI: you can use https://file.pizza/ for sending the file outside the network.
Sugar is pretty bad. Glucose spikes cause a huge amount of stress in the body.

But yeah, Ireland's drinks are like that because of a 'sugar tax', and now it's quite hard to find fizzy drinks without gross sweeteners. Even brands that were quite high quality before are kinda rancid now.
> they're asking for money because the country was built with their ancestors' uncompensated labor, it was entirely legal,

If anything, this is an argument against reparations. Slavery has been around and accepted since before the Bible was written; we just keep finding ways to redefine it. An entire war was waged in which people died fighting to restore slaves' freedom. The debt has been paid.

What reparations should be paid out for is the systemic effect of abusing the justice system to keep blacks in cages long after slavery ended. The war on drugs, the war on crime, the wrongful convictions from both, BLM...that much is extrajudicial and occurred in our lifetimes. They really get/got fucked by the system in a not-so-legal way, which merits correction.
yep, same
Yep. There is a cohort of #noaiart amateur-but-wants-to-be-professional artists on twitter who believe their mediocre talents would be paying their expenses if it only wasnt for that pesky ai imggen. (Ignoring that a vanishingly small proportion of imggen art is replacing commissioned art - most is art that would simply never have been made). Like a horde of locusts, they will randomly pile onto AI artwork with hate comments for a brief period of time before moving onto the next one.

People are 'offering their services' where you can DM them a link to an image and they'll eyeball it and tell you if its made by AI. Laughable hubris, if it wasn't for the inevitable ramifications of false positives.
This should be a weekly ASK HN; seems to happy pretty frequently at this point
Unsurprising. There is at least one outage with GitHub every single month. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967921
And CC-NC isn't considered an open source license by the FSF or OSI anyway. And IMO the NC clause is pretty much impossible to define for non-trivial use and Creative Commons basically came up. Not sure non-derivatives is a lot better especially given remixing was one of the original drivers behind CC but it's at least less controversial.
I think ADOS stands for “American Descendants of Slavery” [0] as it is used in terms of US populations and, by definition, Americans aren’t African.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Descendants_of_Slaver...
Sorry to be 'that guy', but it's "jibe."
Timescale storage is now usage-based
> Probably unparalleled.

I believe the Aluminaut had a larger internal volume; at least it could carry more people. Up to 7 vs 5 in the Titan. It had a deeper test depth too, and like the Titan, didn't need syntactic foam for bouyancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminaut

I only learned about this DSV a few days ago but it was really neat. It seems like the design OceanGate should have used.
When you treat availability as a boolean value, we're gonna have a bad time.

Everyone wants a green/red status, but the world is all shades of yellow.