skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the meaningful purpose of "Windows Update" for versions no longer recieving active patches. (I imagine there's some bigcorp or biggov that will pay whatever price is necessary to get a patch for XP, but anything earlier?)

Couldn't they collect and systematically 'slipstream' every patch and fix that would exist on Windows Update into a "Final Edition" ISO?

Or is the scope broader than a naive reading of the headline, and non-OS packages (drivers, third party software) were also relayed through WU?
They did the same with Apple Watch. This isn’t new.
People running startups shouldn't be so proud of raising capital; it's silly child's play. Instead, you should focus on your craft and your product.

The entire concept of corporations and shareholder capitalism is what is wrong with human civilization. It destroys the environment and reduces harmony in society.

And mindlessly taking in capital, whether VC-funded or not, creates overhead and bloat, along with so-called "bullshit jobs." You still have the same number of productive developers, for example, as you had in the early garage startup phase. Only now, a bureaucratic machine is created around them, making things even slower and less effective than before.

Every product that transitions from a startup to a bloated corporation produces a less useful product now. Look at Slack, Figma, Notion— they are all stagnating.
Contrarians are so funny, everything is a hammer.

A bunch of very smart bankers have spent an enormous amount of time doing due diligence on the company you work for and they think that the risk is low and repay-ability is high … but the contrarian always knows better. To them this is a sign that the end is nigh, and they rejoice in the feeling of their beautiful superiority.
Sounds like ACH
@OP: Have you send an emails to the mods? Sometimes they greenlight a story in spite the site has many bad stories. An alternative is to find another source that reports the same event.
Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue?
You can be as anti-war as you like until your neighbor invades your country. Then you have a choice: capitulate or fight. For allies of Ukraine and proponents of future peace, you can’t allow a precedent of invasion without meaningful consequence. The cost needs to be high for the aggressor so that future would-be aggressors think twice.
Netflix acquired one high-end VFX studio recently - Scanline. A lot of the compositing work is edge integration, so this could in theory translates in cost savings on their pipeline.

Also, this research is under the supervision of Paul Debevec, who spearheaded more than 20 years ago the image-based lighting and high dynamic range workflow used in virtually every single production now. If we see chrome balls in film sets, it is because of him!

That said, I don't think this will find its way on sets, mostly because DOPs/directors are very precious about the way they capture their images. The alternative they offer in the paper, using a reduced shutter speed and adding synthetic motion blur, is also a big ask - with the added problem of syncing the cameras to the lights, which would slow production.

In my experience, extracting the alpha is not an issue - compositors can get close to the GT using old tools/algorithms. However, getting the original colour around the semitransparent areas is the biggest hurdle - and each artist uses a bunch of approximations and local fixes, which are very time-consuming. Recoloring the edges would be enough to revolutionize this workflow. Given their virtual stage + deep learning technology, they are in a good position to make this happen.
The thing is, for people who want a small phone, the 13 mini still has a pretty hefty feel. Compared to the 5s/orig SE body it's massive and it's only a tiny bit shorter and narrower than the 8/new SE, while feeling thicker.
This law appears to define fairness using "demographic parity", aka a model is assumed to be fair if equal fractions of each candidate group is selected.

So if 20 women and 100 men apply, it would be considered unfair to accept 10 women and 20 men (as 10/20 != 20/100).
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This article could have come straight from a fiction book. There is no evidence for anything that is being presented. It might be true, it might not be.

I'm not arguing they are lying or not, I'm just saying that we shouldn't blindly believe it.

But watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUMZS-ZegM made me a little bit skeptical about those defector stories. It's a very good watch, and I guess it doesn't hurt to hear a different perspective.
Being a good mentor – guide for developers
Yeah, except for the fact that regular people will actually be able to use it to buy potatoes using a real currency, not a "currency" that's more volatile than tulip bulbs were in the 1600s.
Oh, no, someone has opened a hole in the space time continuum to 2021! (Based on the Adidas thing, anyway)
this Vision Pro saga has Google Glass vibes in. Let's see what happens.
Yep! It was ekidd's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36397747
This is an important problem but is well known and this blog post has very little new to say. Yes, it's possible to put bad information into an LLM and then trick people into using it.
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Learn Racket. It's an amazing introduction to computer science / programming. My partner has been picking it up lately having a lot of fun and learning a lot at the same time.
Do you not remember it’s 2023 and online retail is at very different place?
Use Firefox containers plugin. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...)

(Or use Thunderbird; and don't rely on email formatting, regardless)
I don’t think the parents of the kids sent off to prison and daycare would be all to happy with that outcome. Usually schools that do that do it in a way that doesn’t draw too much attention. It doesn’t take many pissed off parents to tilt the scales in a local election.
> I normally run unit tests after changing comments

Thirded. Tests get run before I commit, period. The grandparent's apparent argument that semver has failed because you have to run tests when upgrading patch versions is utterly alien to me. Has any semver proponent ever claimed such a thing?
It’s fine if that’s your expectation. It’s fine if you’re bootstrapping and comfortable with your level of success. It’s hard if you thought you were building a rocket ship, raised money selling the vision of the rocket ship, and benchmark your success versus others who built rocket ships.
My problem with the "just grind leetcode" advice is that I'm not getting interviews in the first place.

But if you're able to get interviews, yes.
With the numbers I pulled out of my hat earlier, within 1 km there would be 5 towers which would mean ca. > 5-10 small shops for everyday stuff like bread, coffee, toilet paper, yoghurt and whatever.

I don't know what people think are a biking/walking distance, but a distance of 1 km is walkable in ca. 15 minutes. Bicyclable in some minutes during summer.

More density than suburbs is really OK for a city core, but too much density is bad... Everyone should reject that. All the building projects I see are just concrete upon concrete, too dense, no green, just awful.

I would love to see more integrated greenspace instead of "hey, there's already a smallish park 2 km from you, go there to weep you hippie". Hence the original idea.

I guess some who are actual planners/architects are shooting it down, which is great, I can then imagine something better :)
Good point. I think also it would find the optimal (in the worst case time) if it continued to search for shorter solutions over the entire space once it found one. If it happened to find a solution of length 14, for instance, it could stop considering those of 15 or more, so you would still avoid the 2 month waiting time (same can be done with DFS). Though come to think of it you probably mean to do this with iterative deepening by not throwing away the intermediate structure (like BFS).

What I really appreciate about this article though is the solid presentation of math connected with computer science and the author throwing around multiple programming languages. They don't even see the code anymore...
Really? What crypto exactly and how?
> The ideas that are censored are deemed by the censors to be likely to prevail in a free marketplace of ideas and thus threatening

You're right. Except that you seem to be implying that the "marketplace of ideas" optimizes for worthwhile ideas, rather than ideas that simply make people feel good - despite being terrible in practice, overly simplistic, fallacious, logically incoherent, etc.

These two qualities used to be in much closer alignment when the Internet was dominated by logical types who would at least try to get to the truth of things, modulo that everpresent lure of feeling superior by knowing something that bucks the common narrative.

But at this point we've devolved to full on Gresham's law as applied to ideas. Anything that carries the slightest bit of nuance or reservation demands analysis (slow path) rather than simple team allegiance (fast path). This is multiplied by the dynamic of sharing things verbatim - either quoted or by reference (URL) - which allows one to effortlessly propagate memes while disclaiming attachment to their own reputation.
So do my headphones, but I can't charge them in use either.
Actually commented on in the article for people reading it.
We just launched Poozle (https://github.com/poozlehq/engine) which manages Oauth for different integrations and also provide unified data model.

Would love to get your feedback on the same.
It's not a conversation about COVID. It's one about contact tracing. And yes I think that evidence should always be required when talking about potential tools for such mass surveillance. "It makes sense" isn't really proof for anything, as the last pandemic has proven times and times again. For example here in Quebec, contact tracing apps and tracking location of everyone with covid has had pretty much no measurable effect. Even fundamental questions like "what is a contact" are hard to answer, so actual studies might be helpful for this conversation.

And again, even tracing infectious contacts was much easier with mass tracking of every single citizens location, that still doesn't mean it is actually useful to stop a pandemic. It might be! Which is why I was asking for good evidence.
There's a non-trivial portion of population that is familiar with the concept of having products fit to them personally: made-to-order uniforms, glasses, other sorts of assistive products.

I find it surprising that this is less common than it was in the past, and that people are more willing to put up with something that’s a subpar fit for them. One tech example that would benefit from custom fit are in-ear headphones. It would make sure that product is a perfect fit for every customer every time, rather than roughly every single customer having to put up with a suboptimal fit and poor comfort.
That’s about one apple store for every twenty Walmarts.
I don’t think people who pack Apple stores are target audience. From my experience they’re either not a target audience (older, non tech savvy) or lack funds (teenagers).
Yes you’re right. If only Apple knew how to generate buzz and convince people to pay more for its products than competitors…
Tunisian here. The local ecosystem isn’t that strong relative to other players in the MENA region.. for now. If you dig under the covers, the most successful examples and exits started out in Europe or NA by Tunisian founders with a secondary presence in Tunisia.

I think it comes down to two main reasons:

1) Insane levels of regulation and bureaucracy, with a sprinkle of corruption.

2) A banking system that seems diversified and modern on the surface, but is actually an oligopoly and extremely behind technologically.

That being said, I think there is a lot of talent in the country. Also, at least among the younger generation, there has been a shift towards learning English (instead of French) to better work with the US market.

Side note: I’ve always wanted to work on a fintech startup for the Tunisian market to help with point (2) above, but as soon as I think about dealing with the banking system and government regulations, I reconsider.. One interesting player in this space is Flouci.
Which crypto? Where can I pay with it? What if I don't want to have a hardware wallet everywhere with me? Can I cancel transactions and get my money back? Does it use more energy per year than Argentina?
I can tell a human what they’re doing and they can be aware of their bias and guard against it. This is part of the point of “unconscious bias” training. AI can’t do this.

If you’re saying humans are consciously hiring people named Jared, they shouldn’t be allowed to provide hiring feedback.
>He'll probably get 6 months probation

That's the standard for most first time, non-violent offenses.
> Please stop talking to me

If you don't want people to talk to you in a public forum, don't post in a public forum.
Just for the regular Joe.
Jump with both feet.
In my personal opinion there is no big issue other than human health. I will repeat - for anything else human life requires.
Only around 36% of plastic is used for packaging. My comment was a direct response to the grandparent comment. If “for packaging” were included, I would have agreed. Replacing only plastic used for packaging will leave us dependent on oil.
It's not about having ads or not. As I explained elsewhere it is the ad to content ratio.

There are so many ads and they sometimes blend with the content that it's hard to find information. That was my experience. YMMV
That's not the point. Yes, there are many legit startups, exploring the very real value add that AI has to offer.

But the people that previously sold scammy web3 stuff did move on to peddle scammy ai stuff.
The union is supposed to represent the interest of the workers, and should not forget that those workers breathe air and live on planet earth.

They should support rules that force auto manufacturers to help everyone stay alive.
I think there’s some nuance. Do all wires need to be removed right away? Probably not. Could doing so be combined with dig once or other burial work when utilities are put underground? Probably. Should some investigation and prioritization take place to confirm there is no immediate hazard to vulnerable populations (with lead contamination near where children could be exposed or groundwater contaminated remediated first). Probably.
Sure, most initiatives fail. But successful ones are not so rare that you don't expect to see one.

If you go all the way until you realistically start a company, you are more likely to succeed than to fail.
Dropbox is the classic example, where a commenter on this very website wrote:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

and then went on to say

> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

Today, Dropbox is a public company. Its net income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2023 was $540M, a 47% increase year-over-year. I think that should count as successful.
Probably, if that app uses WPF, which is "self-drawn" GUI library. However, if .Net app uses WinForms, that API is just a wrapper over standard Win32 controls and it looks like any other old school Win app.
I mean, here's a couple from only the last few days:
Louis Vuitton - https://ca.louisvuitton.com/eng-ca/stories/louis-vuitton-via
Nike X EA Sports - https://twitter.com/dotSWOOSH/status/1677088133559508993
Mercedes Benz - https://twitter.com/MercedesBenzNXT/status/16635857206892052...

I don't doubt that most of the "NFT Drop" things are worthless money grabs, but my point is that the tech is still darling to tons of corpo execs, and so lots of people in the industry are still getting $$$ to make cool things :)
Genuine question: what else does it do? I thought that was all it was for.
Bottlenecks vs. Bandpass
It's already in dictionaries and more memorable than "factually incorrect historical data".
Bottle, Burger, Beer, Hot Dog Viral Puzzle
I mean what I said. I don't care for power structures either way and would gladly see the CCP dissolved, but these apologetics of US war crimes and direct interference in democratic process of other nations is repulsive, and I'm not going to entertain the absurd idea that it is somehow justified or good.
This also means the device will be suboptimal for anyone other than the primary wearer.

While the personalized parts can probably be bought for a whole household and swapped by the user, when including lens correction for instance it's just not practical and it becomes a single owner device.
NLP Cloud (especially the Dolphin and Fine-tuned GPT-NeoX 20B models)
I think they are building all this on the hope that they can convince tech addicted kids to strap this stupid ass thing on for many hours per day. I think “on the person” computing devices are reaching their “peak tobacco” moment. Every day more and more people realize how bad it is for your mental and physical health and decide to unplug more and more.
The worldwide Web or the information super highway (at the names)
I’m not going to drive out of my way to pick up some Rustler jeans.

But I will to buy electronic gear or even to get my right AirPod replaced that I dropped in the water when I was on a boat in Cabos…
I never run code I haven't vetted — that's why when I build a web app, I start by developing a new CPU to run the servers on. /s
You are completely wrong. You are not thinking of the laws of thermodynamics. You are thinking of Carnot’s theorem. Which doesn’t apply because electrolyzers are not heat engines. They are electrochemical systems, just like li-ion batteries. What you’re writing is just pseudoscience.

The theoretical limit of both alkaline and PEM electrolysis efficiency is 100%. Real world is somewhat less, but you can get to something like 98% even in the real world: https://www.inceptivemind.com/hysatas-record-breaking-electr...

Fuel cells do not operate at 700 bars of pressure. There is definitely a possibility of extracting energy from compressed gases.

Sorry, but you are spouting total bullshit on all levels here. The only cult is whatever battery/electrification fanbase you’re a part of. You are just repeating BEV propaganda designed to shut down critical thinking and defame all alternative ideas. If anything, this type of tactic is a good sign that we are witnessing the end of the BEV, mainly because its advocates must resort to blatant lies to promote it.
Immediately after cold fusion :-D
This is my favourite page on this subject: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

Well actually, it’s the linked celeb page: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknottingcelebs.htm
In a many scientific news, it's better the coverage from a random weirdo in WordPress than the cut&paste job done by serious journalist. (But sometimes, the weirdo is just posting a ridiculous rewrite of the physics law. YMMV.)
Then you probably won't enjoy watching video footage of elevator failures.
See Clark's sci fi magazine.
Except it is (at least for the use-case of 16-bit apps that are unsupported by a 64-bit Windows)
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
although no updates since 2021, but maybe it was "good enough" for whatever they were targeting.
Multiple problems with this. The most obvious one is cost: schools don't have large classes because they want to but because of budgets. The second one is that "consumer" sounds like an insult in this case and might very well be: experience in other countries shows you that parents tend to optimize for grades , test scores and "connections"; so you get grade inflation, "teaching to the test", bribery and networks and over all worse quality (just think of prejudices you have heard about some private schools).
So how do you propose you make a good experience for people who need prescription glasses?
How would vouchers help? It's not like changing schools increases parental involvement. If that's your model the use of public money that makes sense is paying parents to be more involved.
To be honest, I pretty much enjoy problem solving so I don't really mind spending some time on LC.

It's true, however, that this preparation is mostly useless once you have landed the job. That is unfortunately but, as they say, you have to learn the rules and play well.
HTML, CSS and at least the basics of JS can be learned for free from codeacademy. Once you have those, code a website for yourself so you get how they work. Shouldn't take more than a week to finish this if you're dedicated.
To me they mean two different things. Fake news implies intent from the creator. Whereas the other may or may not. But that might just be my own definitions.
“It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/?amp=1