skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than just carping about the new thing being bad it’d probably be more interesting to engage with the reasoning and talk about other possible solutions. My understanding is the ribbon was introduced because Microsoft got to the point where most feature requests in Word were for features that already existed. The discoverability with the old UI was poor. The ribbon helped. Also, aesthetics are subjective but I think it looks nice and, more importantly, less dexterity is required to click the intended icon.
> Vale-specific pre-optimizer, similar to Rust's Cranelift

I think this might instead be MIR, mid-level IR, there’s a good blog post here: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/04/19/MIR.html

Cranelift is a compiler backend, mainly focused on JIT, but theoretically could replace LLVM, there’s an alternative backend being worked on but has limitations: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift
Was that an opinion based upon design trends or actual research and studies? And I wonder if any such research ruled out bias that "old" was hard to use and "modern" is easy to use.
How I move URLs between browsers in my Unix desktop environment
One big competitor less to worry about
Reciprocity is the term in play
A bit of a loaded question, but how do you feel about xbox f-in up major titles like Halo Infinite and Phil Spencer just saying "yep, we are sorry, that's on me". When a) there doesn't seem to be any change in quality assurance (see Redfall) and b) the devs still take the hit (see 343).

To me it's incomprehensible how they managed to f-up Halo Infinite, then just stand there in silence and then say, yeah we are sorry for not having a lot of interesting titles on Xbox, but here's what's coming next year.

If I were a game dev at Microsoft, I'd be furious!
were all heavy hitters
Thanks for letting everybody know.
it will remember it if you ask it to, like in this example from https://www.typescriptlang.org/play#example/nominal-typing :

type ValidatedInputString = string & { __brand: "User Input Post Validation" };

const validateUserInput = (input: string) => {
const simpleValidatedInput = input.replace(/\</g, "≤");
return simpleValidatedInput as ValidatedInputString;
};

at runtime, simpleValidatedInput is still a string—it has not been parsed into a more specific type. The code just asserts (falsely) that it's a ValidatedInputString, and defines the latter in a way that prevents passing string-strings as ValidatedInputStrings.
Pretty much yeah. The US is quite strong at throwing its weight around its areas of influence to enforce laws favorable to their corporations, otherwise they put you on the naughty list (US Special 301 report) and you could start seeing trade restrictions come your way. It's how they managed to get RARBG taken down all they way in Bulgaria.
I have a 40" ultrawide, and it honestly feels small at times. It's crazy how much space, both vertical and horizontal is wasted in UIs.
Welcome to the dark side, enjoy your not-cookies.
Because they want to sell their games without paying a 30% cut to someone (Sony/Nintendo/Valve/Apple/Google/etc) if possible. Also getting the 30% cut from someone else selling on their platform is really nice.
I wouldn't trust anyone on the Material UI team to know what they are talking about.

They had to do a user research with 600 people to realize that text input fields have to look like text input fields: https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...

In their latest iteration they don't even understand the concept of aligning things visually: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1643607965935476737.html

etc. etc.
I knew what the story was about, directly from the title (I'm sicilian).

When I first read about the story when I was a teen, I believed without question that it made a huge difference.

Now, I'm not so sure. It's enough to look at a map to see that invading sardinia doesn't really give you much in terms of invading italy. Perhaps just a closer airbase. But they had north africa, malta, and not spain…
They are only spiky in one direction.
MSCHF gives off major script kiddie vibes, plus a dash of collectivist cringe.
What do you think the real questions are?
I love Xbox game pass streaming, for many of the reasons I like streaming music, tv, and movies. It’s cheap to try things- I can fire up a new game without waiting to download 40+ GB. If the play engages me I’ll keep playing, if not I’ll move on.

I’m not a very good with high speed games anyways, so the increased latency isn’t generally noticeable in the games I play.
> they are saying things like %67 off 1tb micro SD cards for $97, which is their normal price.

this is called "double pricing" and japan used to be notorious for this but now it's basically outlawed thanks to new regulations a few years ago*

is this kind of trick legal in the u.s?

* here is a good link in english

https://www.cliffordchance.com/content/dam/cliffordchance/br...
> You don't, there's a paste option in the very first row when there's something in the clipboard that can be pasted.

Haha. This is in the spirit of "you haven't created any files on this computer so all file operations are disabled for you".
> Advertising is inherently immoral

Why?
In principle, advertising is a way to propagate information in a market, trying to match offer with demand. Without any such mechanism, markets would be hugely inefficient (i.e., it would be annoying to find a shop selling what you are looking for, since you would need to visit many before finding one that sells that thing).

The problem with ads, like you are saying, is that being scummy and dishonest is by far the most effective way of attracting demand.
There are laws and case law that set standards of varying degrees of precedent that both parties and the judge need to form their arguments around. The losing side can appeal to other courts and, in this case, the FTC can continue their own internal trial that has been scheduled for over a year and a half (surely, purely coincidentally scheduled for a month after the deal would contractually fall through). The same FTC that was extensively prepped and assisted in this trial by Sony and Google. The same Sony that has European Playstation headquarters in the UK, where it employs a lot of locals and where it announced a new modern office build shortly before the UK’s CMA announced it would block the Microsoft deal. All of the above whom own plenty of index funds that include copious amounts of Microsoft stock.

Go searching for connections and you’ll find them every which way. I suppose we should declare everything illegitimate and corrupt, go back to atomized subsistence farming.
So I decided to dig into this a little further…

I looked up some relevant regulations for California. So the following arguments are probably only relevant in the state of California. I would be surprised if they are not subject to change in the near future. Also, I am not a lawyer, so not only is the following not legal advice, it might also be totally incorrect. But it’s interesting to think about.

I found there are at least three relevant sections of the California Vehicle Code, namely Section 227, Section 228, and Section 38750.

Section 38750(a)(4) states:

An “operator” of an autonomous vehicle is the person who is seated in the driver’s seat, or, if there is no person in the driver’s seat, causes the autonomous technology to engage.

How is this operator relevant? Well, the presence of a remote operator is mandatory for both testing (Section 227) and deployment (Section 228) of autonomous vehicles on public streets in the state of California. Section 228.06(c)(3) states that a manufacturer applying to deploy autonomous vehicles must provide:

A copy of a law enforcement interaction plan that meets all of the requirements specified in Section 227.38(e) of Article 3.7.

Section 227.38(e)(1)(A) states that the law enforcement interaction plan shall include:

How to communicate with a remote operator of the vehicle who is available at all times that the vehicle is in operation, including providing a contact telephone number for the manufacturer;

Further, Section 227.02(n) does define the remote operator as a natural person.

So, there is a remote operator available at all times, in both testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles. This remote operator can operate the vehicle remotely, and presumably one remote operator can be responsible for many autonomous vehicles, because otherwise the business plan breaks.

I would be interested to see if in the future there is a mandated ratio of vehicles per remote operator. My guess is the ratio will approach one.
It’s interesting to me that your top comment today when I made this same statement years ago and got downvoted. yet nothing has changed. oh well.
I don't think this is a very good take. People tend to see one big company buy another and instantly think it's harmful for the consumer. I think that this is beneficial. Activision feels like a stagnant company that just rehashes old titles and squeezes as much cash out of them as they can. Microsoft buying them provides an opportunity for better management and Microsoft can add their IP to gamepass, which I think could end up a very good product that allows consumers to play a wide selection of games without having to purchase each. This business model is needed in the gaming industry.
Sorry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/29/watchdog-...

The FTC will never ask for a recursal. I know I would not. You cannot blatantly call a judge corrupt especially when you are a participant in that case.

If you are in the judiciary, your standards must be higher.

From the article:-
“Nothing antagonizes a judge with whom you might have litigation in the future like calling them recklessly biased,” he said. “What are the odds that Judge Corley would recuse if she was already choosing to brazen her way through this apparent conflict of interest?”
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Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company “Unstable”
He's a VP. They have nothing for him. He's telling them the price if they want him back.
I obviously need specific hardware for this first. The rest is not a problem. Or at least it's a smaller problem.
A god awful analysis at that.

Since this rubbish was published a lot of people, like Jeff Geerling who spread a lot of misinformation, have come out and said they were wrong and RH isn’t violating the GPL per conversations with actual lawyers.

Not people writing a hit piece who refuse to provide hard facts and instead fills it with opinions and calls it facts.
LandSpace claims win in the methane race to orbit via second ZhuQue-2 launch
> deeply understanding logic and binary/hex

So . . . logic and number bases? Do tell!
> Flask is an IO app. It's inherently not testable via unit tests because it's a server. You'd have to build integration tests around an entire server which is huge overkill for this project.

I disagree. You could argue that the type of tests outlined here https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.3.x/testing/ are integration tests, in the sense that you're actually testing a full endpoint, but it doesn't require the kind of full integration testing setup that you're describing. I'm not suggesting this is a reason you "failed" the take-home — as others have mentioned, there's myriad reasons why you could have failed, none of which have anything to do with your code, but I did feel the need to correct what I see as a wrong understanding of the type of testing setup that is required here and what's possible.
> It does have a lot of developers saying good words for it whenever there is a chance in recent few years, but the reality is that, it's hard for most developers to learn, because of that it might remain to be a niche language for system programming.

On what basis is this "reality" based? Recent survey of 1000 developers by Google denotes "[the] ramp-up numbers are in line with the time we’ve seen for developers to adopt other languages"[1]

> in fact if you use rule-of-zero, RAII, smart pointers etc correctly your code can be very much memory-safe already.

That's not what memory safe means. Memory safe means that even if you make a mistake, you cannot get a memory error, something that is true of Rust minus the `unsafe` superset. Even with what you describe, you can trivially get UB on C++ if you: keep a reference to an object, use a smart pointer after move (something that the compiler will not warn against), call .front on an empty vector, dereference an iterator that got invalidated by pushing in your vector, use a non thread-safe object in a multithreaded context. Rust will statically prevent a memory error from occurring in any of these situations.

If you're cautious, you may not get memory errors in a C++, but that's not "memory safe".

Also, as a C++ developer turned Rust developer, C++20 does nothing to capture my interest back. The module system is atrocious (orthogonality between modules and namespace, way too complex for what it wants to achieve, module partitions seriously?, poor tool support 3 years after the standard was published), there are no ergonomic sum types and pattern matching, no standard package manager (and the legacy compilation model based on textual inclusion makes build system more complex than they could be), no improvements on thread safety in sight (to be fair, you pretty much need your language to feature a borrow checker and be built around thread safety, it cannot be bolted on). I have little hope C++ is in capacity of addressing these issues in the next 6 years.

[1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/06/rust-fact-vs-ficti...
Ah no, I never said it was affordable, that’s putting words in my mouth and you’re now bowing out because you found out you weren’t poor. Education isn’t affordable but I still think people should pay their loans, especially if their parents made $95k/yr

Maybe start with what city you lived in yea?
Software is plenty tangible, if you understand software, which you do if you create it. The disconnect comes from building and building and building and never launching, or getting cancelled.
The valuable part of calculus to me was understanding the concepts of limits, differentiation, integration, and a tiny bit of differential equations.

Learning how to actually solve integrals or differential equations was useless other than it teaching me more about calculus and how it is useful. For calculations in practice I will turn to wolfram alpha, but it has some value to understand what wolfram alpha is doing under the hood.

I think a calculus course whose tests defocusses calculations might be very valuable for practically minded people. Knowing to think about derivatives is much more useful in practice than actually being able to calculate a derivative.
Libav.js – FFmpeg libraries compiled for JavaScript
i find it doubly interesting that edward bernays's uncle was sigmund freud, and his nephew a founder and ceo of netflix.
I've got a static IP (v4) too. Used to be Sonic would offer your four IPs for free. Now it's down to one, and only if you're in an area not served by their fiber service. They've backed away almost immediately from the idea of offering static IPs to their fiber customers and I'm pretty sure they don't do IPv6 with fiber either. And Sonic supposed to one of the better web providers out there.

I've also got 10G fiber with them, and at least this time the IP didn't change after they updated the firmware on their garbage ONT. XG(S?)-PON stuff is still real immature.
Yes. I think the Italian developers will be good enough to maintain it.
Yeah I’ve gone up and down that same curve.
I mean some would. Usually the jobs where people care about having a degree would. Like research. The rest of us, sure. But then again, that means you waisted money.
That was a very funny read! Thanks!
AMC Says More Than 20k Have Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features
very efficient but also brittle. that must be vast amounts of relatively clean data. you have to magically set the number of top n words to in- and exclude. for most user generated content one would need to heavily normalize the text, e.g. by stemming (to keep in line with the computational austerity). 16384 is very little even if it is neatly seperated concepts. applied to that volume of data it should amount to keyword matching.. that only works if users are basically self-tagging their texts via constrained language use.

edit: short version: not semantics and not a fingerprint :)
Im sorry. Lets not generalize the problem, lets be specific to this case.

Your son is working for Microsoft, it is a billion dollar case, the question is What would you do? What are your standards?
I believe the comment is more about the practical reality of it - I can say that I have a story that takes place across the whole universe, but if the scenes only take place in a handful of planetary systems, even if I say they're in different galaxies, it could all fit in a tiny fraction of a single galaxy.
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing.
> I could immediately background the app, and even turn off my screen while still listening.

Ads are a major nuisance but those features are also really important because YouTube deliberately crippled their free-as-in-beer mobile app, to push folks toward a paid app.
First we were excited for the virtual DOM which is good for batching updates, flexibility, efficiency, etc. But now the cool thing is to get rid of it?
Yea I don’t want to pay taxes for someone pursuing something worthless. You missed the point.
I always use F12, it skips all the useless save options.
not shocking when you appreciate the type of experience most job applicants have - duplication at form filling, resume blackhole, automated reject. Low effort input is a rational response to low value return
> NUCs are not some rapidly improving tech, they are just some minor market that is profitable but never that large.

Everything doesn't have to be
The weather (short term changes) is 'unpredictable' (albeit less and less so).

The climate (decadal long averages) is not - it's driven by energy in (sunlight, some geothermnal), energy absorbed, and energy reflected - these have been more or less constant for tens of thousands of years and have only recently "rapidly" changed in a century driven by changes to the insulation properties of the atmosphere caused by human released gases.

Short term unpredicable tumbling, long term predictable trajectory is understood in the study of dynamics.

An easy example is the Dzhanibekov effect | Tennis racket theorem where an object's orientation is chaotic but the long term path of its centre of gravity is smooth and predictable.

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

Australia in recent years has been mostly affected by the 'usual' El Niño and La Niña long term patterns that have been slowly becoming more off kilter with changing swing lengths and extremes (compared to past records).
Isn't the actual calculations of e.g. integrals the least useful part of calculus for non-stem students? Instead the basic concepts are where the easily accessible value lies.

Teaching tricks without teaching the concepts not only fails in the way you describe (it prevents building ideas further). It also fails to teach anything useful at all. Because barely anyone outside of STEM wil ever have to solve any kind of integral or derivative in their life.
I should’ve said that we were already using it for actual search where embeddings similarity is just one component of the overall score. For pure vector stuff a dedicated solution will be faster.
Peak Office was 2003. Get off my lawn!
Knowledge cut-off date doesn't prevent your model from getting tainted though - if you're doing any kind of RLHF, unless all your human reviewers were kept isolated from the world since ${knowledge-cutoff-date}, they will inadvertently give the model glimpses into the future.

It's not immediately apparent to people just how much leakage can happen this way. Up to a year ago, I'd probably give people this story[0] to ponder on, but now it's no longer a hypothetical - GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are clear, practical demonstrations of just how much knowledge is implicitly encoded in what we say or write, and how this knowledge can be teased out of the input data without any prior context, completely unsupervised, given sufficient time and effort (which in silico translates to "sufficient compute", which we already have).

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[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
blood is thicker after all..
It reminds me of climate predictions for Egypt - some claim it will completely dry out, while others that it will get more water than before.
can't upvote this enough.

unintended consequences

full disclosure, I think there are a lot of reasons that trucks are getting bigger, but this is a thing. A real thing.
Yes because I’m sure you know everything about every subject and anything you don’t know you’re spending time to learn.
Yeah I mean the whole thing could be done with an ffmpeg one-liner if that was the goal, but emergent web phenomena like this are rare and few between. Reminds me of the million dollar homepage.
Sorry, I always mix the two together. I meant zlibrary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

Most search results on google give fake clones. The current urls in wikipedia seem to be accurate. Also, use the Tor version because it has far more books.
They want a tax funded internet and shareholder companies gone after the worst bath in history. All it takes is one state to start and give it's citizens the chance to distribute the tax anonymously and the whole advertising industry dies.
That’s a silly analogy. All you need to play soccer is a ball. A game takes years and tens of thousands of man-hours to make. In your analogy the soccer ball manufacturers are the game companies.
Same here, I just wished there was another name for it.

Now we have Evan with Vale, and Adobe’s Software Technology Lab wit Val, it will be great searching for related stuff.

https://www.val-lang.dev
Interesting thoughts; I think on a fundamental level there is something you misunderstand about privacy though.

I genuinely do not engage in any criminal activities (that I am aware are criminal at least) - so I dont fully understand where the criminality angle comes from.

However, consider the toilet: everyone basically knows whats going on in the toilet, some people do criminal things in the toilet, yet we give toilets doors & special stalls. This is what privacy is, a little comfort that you are not being watched while doing intimate or personal things. With the understanding that, yes, sometimes this comfort can lead to some people abusing it.