skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Use explicit names, erring on the side of overly-verbose (e.g. ensureUserIsLoggedIn() instead of euil())

I don't care that much if I sound pretentious or too harsh, but how is this not common sense? Maybe the general standards in the industry are way lower than they used to be. This looks like when one of the consultants hired by our company and paid 10k+ per month for a ISO 27001 certification said: you need to make sure your password fields show a * instead of the actual character.

After using copilot for 2 months, I found it somehow useful for very generic repetitive cases, but for complex specific stuff it was very bad. I'd rather spend an hour writing code and understanding the problem I'm trying to solve than spending an hour understanding and adapting some generic code that partially does what it needs to do. And if there are people out there that fully trust it and then deploy code that they don't understand and can't explain themselves, then we're in for a lot of fun in the future.
Airport accident: Woman's leg amputated after becoming trapped in moving walkway
Glad you thought it was interesting, that makes me really happy to hear. Re. "not really affirmative action", I'm not like an AA expert, but my university went all the way to the Supreme Court to defend that very admission policy, in a lawsuit that attempted to repeal affirmative action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas_...

I think in general the population is mostly against affirmative action because it seems racist, and they just substitute their own ideas of how those policies are implemented. It's the same thing where if you asked people if murderers should be let go over some kind of procedural technicality, then they'd probably say no because murder is bad. However, in practice those technicalities are stuff like how evidence is collected, which can lead to potentially innocent people being convicted, etc...
Live isnt very painful for me.

Still enjoy a beer a bit too much. When I'm super happy and then have a beer it just adds to it.

It also can help me relax if I'm working to much. One can argue it's not needed, but at times nice.
Twitter has either disabled (or broken) the ability to view accounts and tweets without having an account. Which is... interesting.
You mean papers like https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.09.23290893v... , which show being "up to date" with covid vaccinations actually increases one's chance of getting covid, are not the right sources?
The denominator.

That’s less than 5 years to clear 5 million. Maybe 6 after taxes.
Wikipedia is actual more clear about this technique

>The two-handed approach should not be confused with the two-handed delivery. Just prior to the release of the ball, a bowler using a two-handed approach removes their supporting hand, effectively delivering the ball with only one hand. They are considered a one-handed bowler by governing bodies …

>An actual two-handed delivery involves using both hands simultaneously to give force to the ball and is extremely rare in adult competition; it is mostly seen with young children first learning the game.
Fastmail Experiencing Degraded Performance
Web app and IMAP/POP mail access affected. I've been with them for years and this is the first outage I've experienced. Feeling for the people tripping over themselves on a Friday afternoon to fix this!
Violating copyright is the whole point. The contention of this archive seems to be that Project Gutenberg is in fact not "open," because it's constrained by its adherence to copyright laws.
> He hasn’t alienated anyone. The vast majority of users [...]

you were not entitled by anyone to speak on behalf of everyone, Mr. Account with twelve days of live

> My only qualm

while you are worried about the video player, the moderators (who have been working for free for years to at least make the place where you watch your funny videos decent) have been waiting for decades for the tools to be able to moderate, and they have been promised dozens of times (all lies)

if you had problems with some power tripping powermods (no one denies they exist) that doesn't mean everyone is like that: have better judgement and measure your words
Investing in technology has an advantage of producing reusable tech down the line.

It is very difficult to predict which parts are going to be successful.

And if they manage to create a product definitively better that competitors (like the current gen ARM macbooks), they are going to sell a lot more than 50,000 per year. There are single companies which can afford to buy 50,000 units.
The Military Recruiting Crisis: Even Veterans Don’t Want Their Children to Join
Python on the mac is no bother. Like most Linux distros, you simply ignore the existence of any system python and install what you need yourself. You manage your python versions with pyenv and use virtual envs for everything. Problem solved.
I developed a Windows phone app before using UWP and it was decent during that time. I could deploy on Windows Phone, Windows and Xbox in one codebase. But then Windows phone became obsolete in the blink of an eye.
The Fed is stress testing the US economy against nightmare scenarios
It's traditional medieval cannon grapeshot - random bits of metal, hard rocks, etc.

You fight with what you have which isn't always a stockpile of cannon balls.
Nice, now we just need to integrate AR headset and we can have proper Tony Stark style dictated 'research laboratory'.

edit: I spoke too soon, it actually has a module to publish AR model object of the design you created. so this could potentially be directly usable with AR glasses.
Databricks Agrees to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform
I get that gitlab needs more features to continue to sell.

But honestly for me it reduces the attractiveness of gitlab. Just adding half working features does not increase the value for me.

Please finish and polish the existing Features before adding hype feature 93939. Maybe add a policy that your open feature and big count should be less than 20K or something.

Examples:
Security scanning has a god awful UI and UX.

The whole project management stuff is barely usable

Pipelines have loads of weird half features and missing QOL. E
G. Adding saeif support instead of just your own warnings format.
The State of Mac PDF Software
The easiest way to get people to turn their brains off is "think of the children".

My rights will not be infringed because of people that won't parent their kids. When that kind of thinking becomes reasonable then anything can be done for any reason just because children might have access because of poor parenting.
The point at which the data is pushed off-page is much lower than page size, only relatively small [N]VARCHAR(MAX) values are kept directly in-page.

This makes sense as a design choice: for a lot of data & well designed queries, except where a single long data value is the main point of each row in the table or you are otherwise almost always needing to read the long text values, you are often much better off having many rows per page (with the extra lookups into LOB space) rather than allowing large text columns to drop that to one or two rows per page.

This can be detrimental to the benefits of compression if you use that compromise to save space in exchange for a CPU cost, because the off-page data is not compressed.
Cool, but there are people who like to look at data, like Wh/km and efficiencies at different temperatures etc.

Funny thing I wanted to point out though, you sound like one of those people who say "I will buy a car that runs on gas, I've never wanted a vehicle that runs on electricity and my next one won't either... Not if I have anything to say about it".

I feel like I've seen so many of those comments lately... I want to ask why?

It's like me saying something like "my phone doesn't have a screen. I've always had an analog connection and I've never felt the need to have a digital screen and any smart apps on my phone... Etc etc not if I have anything to say about it."

Or perhaps even something like not wanting an automatic transmission because a manual transmission is the only way to go lol..
> In zig you _can_ actually start with a c codebase and rewrite it file by file in zig and you _can_ include c headers in your zig files verbatim. Both of these are not possible in rust.

well, you can: i have done this, with Rust. but yes, it’s more the type of thing that well-resourced companies do rather than solo devs, because even with Bindgen and the like Rust really wants the atomic codegen unit to be the “library”, not C’s notion of a “compilation unit”. still, C FFI compatibility is exactly why porting from C to rust incrementally is feasible while C to, say Java, is probably a bigger leap.
I would expect a nasty letter delivered by an owl, followed by a visit by a stern gandalf looking mf flanked by two furries guards each seven feet tall and armed with a different medieval polearm
Man arrested near Obama's home with weapons, explosives materials
Even better, they can detect services being down by the number of users opening the page to see if it's just them
yeah they clock ran out the slavers are dead, do you want to dig up their corpses hold a trail and inprison the dead? move on.
Mutual dislike and occasional violence was already there under the Ottomans, once substantial Jewish immigration to Palestine began in late 19th century.
Amazon also has dark patterns. I have accidentally signed up for Amazon Prime twice in the last year due to the way they practically force it under your cursor while you are checking out.

I do not want Amazon Prime because in my area (in southeastern Australia), it fails to meet its delivery promises about 95+% of the time, and when that happens, Amazon cancels the order on you half the time and sends it off to some distant pick-up point the other half. Regular Amazon just sends things by post, which is so much more reliable and convenient.

I strongly prefer using smaller online retailers. I have not found it very difficult to find ones that offer better and more honest service (not to mention lower prices) than Amazon. As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is for Kindle books, and occasionally the odd item I can't find anywhere else.
There is a slow motion view from the side at 4:13.

https://youtu.be/11da-YAOXBI?t=253
> Not sure on how it will do long term.

Haven't they been around long enough now to answer that?
This has been posted multiple times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519256 [flagged] [11 comments]
zlib is back, singlelogin.re.
I followed the "blog" link in the footer and found some interesting posts, like this one [0] about the technical and operational details of running the archive.

[0] https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
Give me a break.

I have been in the "GPL arena" for almost 30 years (1996). When I started using free software I didn't even have Internet access at home and had to visit relatives one hour away to download it and send emails. I used SRPMs from a Red Hat Linux CD to study source code because it was not very handy to download it with a 33.6k modem.
A damn is a battery. In solar threads, when they write about more batteries, they don't give a damn, but they mean it.

This discussion was about failing damns or spillways and how to repair them. Solar can fall to strong wether events too and damns provide base grid power.

Its could also be added after construction. A set of pipes of coolant lines and warmed woodslushie that become a temporary solution to a catastrophic development.

Its basically installing a industrial sized ac and a wood slushie sprinkler system.
Yes, and anybody who buys RedHat product, even for a few minutes on a shared cloud provider, is entitled to the source code, and is also entitled to redistribute the source code as they see fit. Which is what Rocky is doing.
You might have to update the Bluetooth article; you do not stop bluetooth with 'enable' ;-)
If you don't want root, then don't root it; that's separate from replacing the ROM.

> there's no way to take full backups on Android phone, rooted or not

Er, no? On the contrary, root is exactly how you get full backups on Android - with, I grant, the exception of whatever Android calls their secure element / TPM, which I've only ever seen affect 2FA apps.
Login wall for me. I'll give it a day and then delete the dozen or so remaining twitter accounts I had bookmarked and checked in occasionally. I did delete my account a few months before Elon took over, guess we are watching its final days.
I thought there was already common terminology for probability of side effects [0]

Very common = greater than 1 in 10

Common = 1 in 100 to 1 in 10

Uncommon [formerly 'less commonly' in BNF publications] = 1 in 1000 to 1 in 100

Rare = 1 in 10 000 to 1 in 1000

Very rare = less than 1 in 10 000

Frequency not known = frequency is not defined by product literature or the side-effect has been reported from post-marketing surveillance data

[0] https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicines-guidance/adverse-reactions...
I don't think they do. You might disagree but I think Altman's stance is that this will happen no matter what, so it's better for "good guys" (for some definition of that word) to take the lead to minimize the threat.
You're apparently fixated on ships sinking or rising into the air when you discuss "altitude".

You've apparently not thought much on geoids, ellipsoids, the meaning of "sea level", geodesy, etc.

You might want to reflect upon what "altitude" means and upon why it's been commonplace for centuries to measure the 'altitude' of things that float.

Should you do so you'll see your comments above in a different light.
I've been on both sides of this fence. As a maintainer, you have all the time in the world to understand the system, as it is, and improve it. You have the benefits of hindsight.

As a producer of the mvp, a lot of times there is 'exploratory code' where you're not actually sure how it will work yet; or scale. So you bang out a few approaches and pick the best one for the constraints you have. And basically never touch it again.

In one case, I was working on the mvp and the team who would be maintaining it where the one's doing code review. The code turned out way better than either of us would have come up alone. It ended up being one of the coolest projects in the company and some internal secret-sauce for making money. For example, I remember one code review where they asked to add a configurable callback in. I was like 'why?' and they answered, "we're already being asked if it can do X, if you add a callback here, here and here, we can already start building that feature so you can focus on the core."
Actually for both systems I was among the core maintainers for 3 years after the initial build. System a) was more maintainable.
This is impressive! I didn’t realize Pornhub even had a paramilitary wing, let alone one this effective. Hopefully the national guard will be able to handle the situation!
Why use artificial sweeteners in the first place? Honey is a great sweetener.
As someone who drives around that area a lot, I can confirm that things do flatten out a lot. Everything West and East of I-5 is orchards, as well as North and South of I-80.

Quite a bit of that area is already water (the Delta), and we've seen during the heavy rains during 2017 (the period the article refers to) how the land around it can take a lot of flooding.

I've driven down the road from the dam to Winters, and the chutes I think would act like a giant water cannon. I wouldn't have high hopes for Winters. Driving down that road, I kept thinking "why would anyone buy real estate here?" - yet people do.
no significant other in my life, until I started drinking

I have heard this from other men. I don't know what to make of it. Please do not read that as me judging you. Thank you to share. That is a tough thing to "say out loud" (on the InnerWebs).

My best friend from uni did not start drinking until his 30s. He never had a girlfriend before he drank. Something bothers me so much when I think about it. He is married now and a very decent husband -- really cares about his wife. What if he never started drinking and never met anyone? Sheesh.

Assuming hetero-normative for a moment, what do women think about this?
It's also the cultural norm in Hollywood.

Doesn't make it a good idea.
It's not valves job to police game assets. If it were then they should be removing plenty of other games. They don't, because they don't look and don't care. This is yet again more AIphobia.

Under u.s. law you don't need to prove rights for content used in this way. It's transformative and does not replicate the heart of the originals work, therefore it's protected under fair use. AI generated content cannot be copyrighted, so they cannot claim ownership regardless.
I feel like it's a shadow of what it was 20 years ago. So many electronics stores replaced with creepy otaku stores.

The electronics market was kind of an alibaba cavern.

Well I guess it was bound to happen since now with Internet it's much easier to shop online for weird parts, but it's still sad.
Investing in education has a very high ROI. Investing in better education in poor neighbourhoods will actually save you money in the long run. The fact that that is not happening is what's really hurting people.
Think the reference is to the claims and counterclaims to Palestinian lands which go back thousands of years.
Diet drink consumption gone up, but doesnt seem to have made a dent in the obesity crisis.

Your point is only valid if it actually lowers sugar and other carbs intake. Which isn't the case for most people.

Next to that. With diet drinks people drink more since they feel like they can get a way with, some do with sugar variants as well, but seems like more people binge drink diet versions which could lead to higher exposure relatively.

The has been processing sugar for millennia, these chemicals are pretty new.
Turns out that dynamic NTK-Aware scaling further improves on that, with perplexity performance equal to or better than non-scaled at all context lengths: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/14mrgpr/dynamic...
I have an addition to this story:

Me: here's a bug in Google Play Services.

Google: Not a bug, working as expected, closing issue.

Me: posted the bug on my blog, and it's get extensive media coverage.

Google: It seems we were wrong! It is indeed a bug. We will return to you in a few weeks.
I always preferred Qt over GTK just from quality POV, if you are not a C++ hater then Qt is perfect for cross platform professional looking apps.

And about this designers forcing their shit on users, I hit lately a issue with GTK apps where the windows of the app and popups are hard coded and you can't resize them. Because of my bad eyes I use a giant font size and this apps are unusable (I need to research if is possible to trick this windows at runtiem that they are allowed to resize)
That's remarkably specific, have you secretly invented time travel?
Aifont–an experimental AI-generated typeface
Aifont is an experimental AI-generated typeface, generated using a custom DCGAN trained on a large amount of images that contain text. The generated font files represent the training process with output oscillating between wildly different styles and kinds of typefaces.
All techniques for prompting in Stable Diffusion work with regular LLMs. I have complained bitterly about this lack of tooling in NLP and wrote a github gist with sample implementations to prove this.

NLP folks don't know shit about prompt engineering, which is ironic.

https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...

I still can't emphasize certain tokens in ChatGPT, or mathamatically average them. Not sure why NLP folks don't bother implementing these things, even in the oogabooga frontend (which is supposed to be the automatic1111 of LLMs)
Eating fruit and honey alone for anything “sweet” has worked great for me. Never get any cravings for anything else. It seems to me like these things truly are the carb sources we are “meant” to eat.
On Backup Access Rights a.k.a. How Succession made me paranoid
Thanks, for some reason I though credit derivative.
YouTube without recommendations is absolute pure cancer. On chrome desktop there is an option to delete cookie everytime you close browser. That resets your recommendation history.
National Geographic's audience might not tend toward the lowest denominator.

There's a good chance that people who read that magazine have a higher average reading level.
It isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(
Man it seems like you’re having a rough week. I hope you can enjoy your weekend! Cheers.
Fake reviews are a real mess in the amazon ecosystem.

I was trying to find an airfryer cookbook for one specific model, and they all seem to be auto-generated (chatgpt?) with nothing that is model-specifc.

And all the reviews appear to be auto-genereated as well. sigh.
If you look at page 15 of the S1 annex of the study

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003950.s002

Figure C: Cancer risk associated with the combined exposure to artificial sweetener and sugar intakes, NutriNet -Santé cohort, France, 2009-2021 (n=102,865)

For me the two interesting cases are:

"Sugar above nutritional guidelines" and "no artificial sweetener" => 1.09 (0.97 - 1.22) P=0.158

"Sugar below nutritional guidelines" and "high artificial sweetener" => 1.12 (1.00-1.25) P=0.046

nutritional guidelines are 10% max energy intake from sugar, about 50 gram of sugar per day for a 2000 kCal diet (62 gram for 2500 kCal for adult male).

A 330ml coke can has 35g of sugar, so we're talking one or two max per day to keep below the guideline.

If I read this correctly if one makes the switch from sugary beverage to artificial sweetened ones and it lowers your total sugar intake below the dieteray guidelines then your relative risk factor doesn't change (at about +10% vs low sugar and no articial sweetener).
False positives are not that important, false negatives are more annoying, for the users at least...
You can jailbreak Kindle.
It is not just about thinking that corporations/billionaires are doing something wrong, it is also about them getting away with it, governments doing nothing about it and being powerless yourself to do something about it. If this world rewards the rich cheating for example by using tax havens, why not cheat themselves out of some dollars a month by using a 'cheap haven' yourself? Seems fair to me.
2/3 of Canadians living in a home their family owns is still far from a situation where a critical mass of voters are demanding pro-renter housing policies.

Even those living at home with parents will be benefiting from the status quo when they eventually inherit their parent's property.