skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time and time again they say this. Steak can be sold by the sizzle. But we already ate the same steak. Truly it is as brown now as it was from the start. Unless of course some kind of frank admission is made about the fact an absolutely gigantic facility is needed to shoot out a beam less powerful than a small howitzer if there ever was one.

Perhaps there should be more stories about amazing discoveries about growing wheat with florescent bulbs.
Your example is more concise but the error message "{term} invalid" is less descriptive than the author's.

What would be the idiomatic way for the function `eval` to provide good error messages in Rust?
This kind of work is so prone to migration across borders now. My prediction is that as unions force wages up, the size of the labor force will decrease. And if unions force production houses to use the union shops through law, then the production shops will shut down and set up abroad too. And if finally the unions try to get Congress to block productions made abroad from coming onto US TV, then people will just watch the productions on streaming platforms through VPN.

The fact of the matter is, consumers don't care if VFX is made by a union shop. VFX is getting commoditized. Most shows don't need the very best VFX ... just good enough VFX (and thats commoditized).

This is a losing battle and I don't think its worth it to have this fight. If you are interested in VFX as an American, I think you should work on your own content for YouTube etc., and tap consumer dollars directly. You aren't going to get paid very well by the system as labor for hire.
So you assume.
I wonder if what we'll actually get is just worse stuff at the same prices.

At least with anything technological (I don't have much of any experience with household goods or clothing aside from ultracheap, which these days are usually pretty good), the luxury built to last stuff is sometimes worse.

The ultracheap companies will sell an empty box with a tiny circuit board, and the same mechanical parts in the high end one because it's all made in the same factory and figured out long ago. For a consumer it can be crazy durable because there's.... not really much to break unless it has a battery you can't replace.

The biggest risk isn't things wearing out, it's perfectly good stuff being thrown away.

Even IKEA furniture can last decades in a house with no kids at least. Literally cardboard can last. And it's every bit as repairable as old stuff. Epoxy exists. I think half the reason stuff supposedly doesn't last is because people don't value things that don't have... value.

If we didn't have a strong attraction to symbols of real wealth, and we took care of IKEA crap the way we treat fine woodworking, it might not last centuries, but it would last decade

Are we going to get a bunch of handmade boutique stuff with 15 unique parts, some chip they chose because they wanted to avoid proprietary blobs, a part that has to be manually calibrated and gets messed up if you drop it, a real glass back panel that can break, a piece of real wood that isn't waterproof....

If the "Made in the USA to last!" companies understood the high tech mindset better, maybe people would already be choosing them!
> Did we read the same article?

Isn't that the point: Different people read/ hear the same thing but interpret it differently based upon their biases.

"Mainstream media outlets reported that Sanders’s base was made up of white male cyberbullies. Negative tweets had been amplified, and the words and behaviors of a few Sanders supporters all of a sudden were being portrayed as representative of an entire movement."

Why was their skin color and sex relevant?

If the issue was that they were "cyberbullies", then why does she follow up with this defense:

"Post-election analysis would show that the Bernie Bro trope was entirely constructed; there was no evidence to show that young white men made up a majority of Sanders’s supporters."

That is only important if "young white men" are, by definition, A Problem.
I shouldn't be surprised that you post here. Your channel is amazing and inspiring, and I love that you dive into your failures and dead-ends, and hide little background gags on the monitors. And the pranks and roasts between you and your wife are so much fun to watch - you're a lucky man.
agreed, it’s a signal, and in isolation it doesn’t signal much more than the passing of time.

there are any number of things that might cause one to make such a transition, many of which having nothing to do with the company being departed. and, yes, many that do.

it could be because he’s going to be 40 not all that long from now, perhaps a midlife crisis, or an attempt to avert one. or maybe he discovered his true passion in life, basket weaving. (mid-life crisis? mid-life catharsis!)

maybe musk didn’t like his dinner choice. maybe zach laughed when musk said he’d beat zuck in that fight. maybe he failed to laugh at the right time.

right now? who knows.

but a cfo departure with a few months of wind down isn’t conclusive of much more than the cfo leaving and providing a few months of transition time to their successor and the company.
In some cases, you're still good even when rewriting shared branches.

At work we're maintaining a downstream Linux tree with a few hundred patches on top of mainline. The tree gets frequently rebased on top of new upstream releases, and some changes are being progressively upstreamed. It's much easier to reason about the remaining downstream changes and deal with conflicts when rebasing than when merging upstream releases back into the downstream tree. Of course you can't expect to be able to carelessly `git pull` in such workflow, but if you're working with people who actually know how to use git it's not really a big deal.

Naturally, this particular project uses a special workflow that fits its needs. It doesn't usually make sense to rewrite shared branches in projects where you're the upstream.
A framework for building transdisciplinary expertise
>What expertise should everyone have in order to effectively play their role in tackling complex societal and environmental problems? Is there a framework that can help everyone develop rudimentary skills and provide a pathway to enhancing them as and when necessary?
I don't trust the car to drive itself. I wouldn't trust a Musk car in any capacity! The problem is when some Musk fanboy plows through people because FSD goes haywire. That's not social darwinism, that's manslaughter.
I suspect they'll start making their own, if they haven't already been.
> These folks are competitive with Vietnamese and Korean outlets willing to do 80% of the work for 20% of the price.

There used to be an answer to that: tariffs, and steep ones at that. Sadly, politicians 30-40 years ago started to embrace "free trade zones" in the hope of "cheaper prices" while ignoring the very real impact these would have on domestic employment.

These politicians and their younger followers sold out their populations.

> Whether it’s rent control, or unions, in the end people try to create arbitrary pins in the mobility to certain individuals benefit, which again is not inherently bad.

... but the large players, the monopolies, no matter if it's Big Mouse aka Disney who have bought almost everything in entertainment, large employers like Walmart or mega landlords/investment funds, they should be left to extort people in the never ending race to the bottom?! No.
If you are using Safari, the extensions

- Hush,

And

- Stop the Madness

Will solve about 90% of these annoyances
Well, considering Russian road habits...
I recently started working through 'An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python'.

It's free to download here: https://www.statlearning.com/

Read the first couple of chapters, and see if it works for you.

It even has a nice minimal intro to a Python, Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib.
I see it more like someone asked for a cabinet and hired you, the carpenter, to plane, route, chamfer, mitre, join, hammer, nail, screw and glue the wood into place.

You absolutely need to know the right tools and techniques, of which there are many. For instance, nails and screws are not interchangeable, and they're made with a variety of metals and coatings for specific applications.

Just about anyone can hammer a nail into a piece of wood. It is quite difficult to put together a high quality finished piece of woodwork. Same is true for software.
What did you do with that string, exactly?
Why President Harry Truman Didn’t Like J. Robert Oppenheimer
Musk did an offer of 42 billion for Twitter, Inc.

Musk also tried to back out from that one.
Who else read PYUSD as "pie-usd" intuiting something like "Python USD"... "pip install pyusd"
Ask HN: Do you have a digital end of life plan?
My dad died a few years back due to unexpected circumstances so wasn't able to talk to him beforehand which made digging through his digital stuff difficult until I stumbled upon a text file on his PC with all his U/Ns and PWs. Of course thats not the best way to do it but it sure was super helpful. Bunch of stuff I didn't even think about (airline miles, Dropbox's with pictures, interesting forum content, memberships, etc. 50+ accounts total).

What's the better more secure way to store this info along with any wishes regarding your digital (after)life if I want to make it easier for my kids or whomever digs through it later? Any additional info thats helpful to include? Who to entrust it with?
Yep, good catch :) It's been a while since I ran into it.
Everything is completely and totally under control, comrades, no need for panic!

These sort of statements by the Russian government truly invoke Chernobyl-like images in my mind ; deception piled upon lies piled upon misinformation with a cherry of whataboutism on top.
> The Rust and OCaml code from the article looked decent to me

> RefCell<u32>

I'm not sure.
> ..when something goes awry and they land outside those 5 or 6 commands..

Yes, this. I have no problem adding, rm-ing, branching, making and accepting PRs, etc. These are what the overwhelming majority of git for dummies tutorials cover. (I've even paid for a very well-known and well-reviewed course and completed it.) And, these photos upthread are fantastic for that initial git-101 progression.

Then, I eventually landed my first tech-sector job and still haven't picked up much more since. My solution to every ounce of apprehension is deleting and re-cloning out of paralysis and fear.

I find great difficulty in being able to glean a repository's "environment" in a sense analogous to gleaning the environment of an initially compromised machine (the foothold) when you've popped a fresh shell on a boot2root box. (I thank the digital gods for IppSec and his hands-on videos that teach you how to clear up the fog of war around you!)
Less jobs, mean same number of people fighting for same positions.
It's hard to have leverage when people will do your job for less.
I guess it was sufficient to not have that kind of accuracy in most of the application to deliver user value. There probably were parts of the application where we used transactions.
Could be a cool feature to build for this, though.
I’ve been building a mobile workshop which lets me bring all my tools anywhere in the country. Including welders, two metal lathes, 3D printers, woodworking tools, an electronics workbench, an anvil and forge, and a foundry setup to melt and cast aluminum and bronze. The whole shop runs entirely on electricity and I have deployable arrays of solar panels to power the whole thing and charge my electric car. I’m even adding a small living area at the front. I’ve been documenting my progress at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8n8vml-zgaCbXwYD_Q2jZzok...
> It’s why YouTubers have mental breakdowns, bloggers snap and wipe their blogs

Which was why people called the police. They thought he was potentially going to kill himself. Because this is the sort of thing people do before committing suicide.

Also this stuff was all in his own name and built up over years. Not a short-term alias he'd used for a few months.
Incrementing is only one possible use case. Any time you read data and then write back based on that data, you need to ensure that nobody wrote to the document in the interim. RDBMS do this with transactions.

Consider the case where a user is submitting an e-commerce order. You want to mark their order as processed and submit it for fulfillment. If you read the order to check if it's already submitted, two requests to submit it made at almost the same time (e.g., hitting the button twice) will both read that it's unfulfilled and try to each submit it.

By doing an atomic write you can be sure that at most one request submits the order.
It does have some annoying hardware requirements. It works on both modern Intel and AMD Ryzen CPUs, but if your CPU is too old it just can’t. And at any time the next generation of CPUs could break the whole thing, although that hasn’t been a problem yet.
I've blocked it by adding the following to my custom filter list in uBlock:

|https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select*
Emulating CRT Display with Shaders
> Why? People don’t owe people anything with the content they publish for free.

I don't understand the question. Do you think curiosity is based on entitlement?
A lot of furnitures for our home.
Like a lot of software engineers, I have a thing for woodworking. I started with a footstool, then I made a simple cabinet, a mirror frame, cabinet with drawers, 3 wardrobes, a kitchen island, another footstool, shelves, a workbench, a desk, and some experimental stuff.
> I would argue your name can live longer in SaaS, where those that come after you will continually `git blame` you and praise (or curse) your name.

Nah. With the current expiration rate of JS frameworks, your code is lucky to live five years before someone decides a full rewrite. And unless you're working for a household brand like Twitter or Facebook, chances are high that no one outside your bubble knows what your product is, but everyone knows the MCU.
Smartphone Battery Recharge Time (2022)
> extremely rich people who give absolutely nothing back to their communities

+

> encourage rampant gentrification

Something tells me any attempt to give back to their community would be unwelcome, and labeled as "rampant gentrification". I certainly see it in the Mission, where any attempt at renovating old decrepit buildings is stopped in the name of gentrification. Now there's rats in the ceilings of public schools: https://missionlocal.org/2019/06/rat-droppings-crumbling-cei...
Sure, and I think all-party consent should be required if a call has any guests. My point was much shallower—just that OP/Zoom is using language that suggests “customer consent” is some separate thing they would ask for, when in fact using the software (accepting the TOS) is that consent.
> I imagine that making a profitable dating app is difficult

Only if you let it be. You have a market of people who want something they know is naturally difficult. So they'll struggle to recognize if you start making it more difficult to obtain (because they already expect dating to be hard).

So you can make things more difficult for users (reducing the number of "successful customers") then ask for more money to make it less difficult.

The only risk is that if a competitor makes it too easy, people will leave your platform... but that's why Match Group exists. They buy any large enough competing platform and ensure that the average difficulty across all their owned platforms is fairly consistent.
definitely not "national". but a civilization rises and then falls. it's a universal cycle, entropy at play.
This isn’t the own you think it is. C-level execs are often contractually obliged to serve out lengthy notice periods, a quarter and some change is nothing unusual.
I worked in games for years, but the people I have known that did VFX is like a whole other level. At one point my local breakfast place was run by someone that had done the opening sequence for a major film, and never saw a cent from the work. The few times I've contracted peripherally in that industry getting paid is like getting blood from a stone.

We're rapidly reaching a point where people in developed countries cannot afford the option of creative employment.
My point is that we don’t know the forces that the simulation is intending to model. There may be water flowing in/out along the z-axis, for example. Or there could be wind. Assuming that the author intended to simulate the same conditions in your pool, and then criticising them for not modelling it accurately enough, makes no sense to me.
> news consumers would then want to possibly discuss or share the news with people they know?

I don’t witness that happening though. When I see “news” posted by people on FB, I usually see a despairing one-line intro at most, and a link. Then the comments are a bunch of me-toos or, for those with unkempt friend lists of everyone they’ve ever met, a raucous flame war.

The other “news” is posted by the sites themselves or by large political Pages or Groups. Those are exclusively the “flame war” variety, 1000 strangers screaming into the void pointlessly.

So (imo) nothing of value would be lost by abolishing the whole concept of news on social media.

If you want a place where sane people can have a virtual water cooler discussion about the day’s news stories with friends they know, those friends should just set up a group text or a Discord.
Probably the pneumatic solenoid actuated golf ball cannon I built for my senior.... computer science degree.... project.

I was only able to get one photogate muzzle velocity measurement at the time, but 357 m/s* isn't too shabby for compressed air and a golf ball.

To scale drawing (I literally measured the thing and put the shapes into AutoCAD): https://i.imgur.com/kklUYLf.png - the green crosshairs are the balance point

Parts/schematic: https://i.imgur.com/rHo1IO8.png - the valve is just an OTS sprinkler valve

*357 m/s just cracks Mach I: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=357+m%2Fs
Per Musk admission, Tesla was indeed at the brink of bankruptcy at the time - so that many key people leaving was most probably not 'nothing'. Tesla was 'saved' in part thanks to Covid and the ensuing chips shortage, massively inflating car prices.

Things are coming back to earth now - and so do car prices, especially EVs as the competitions is catching up. Those absurd projections that Musk keep making, are quite hard to back up.
I don’t want to disagree with the research here, but what is not evident from the article is that this is not a magical solution that improves upon Kafka hands down, but rather a solution that addresses trade offs someone might be willing to entertain. I think on the query side things may be quite suboptimal in this setup if I understand it correctly. Correct me if I am wrong but if two agents write on a single topic, I would need to read two files to consume. Also I remember infamous stories about the cost of deleting data from S3, how do you tackle that if you have that many individual files? With these trade offs how does the solution compare to using Aurora?
It's hard to know how these things will play out, of course, but this 10-hour-old post has additional info about what the Incus team is planning.

https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/introducing-incus/1778...

> In addition to Aleksa, the initial set of maintainers for Incus will include Christian Brauner, Serge Hallyn, Stéphane Graber and Tycho Andersen, effectively including the entire team that once created LXD.
There's never a need for React. Anything you can do in React can be done in plain JS.

The question is how fast you can do it and how easy it is to maintain. React simplifies the effects of state change, at a cost of doing more renders and diff. It's got nice properties for debugging, kinda like functional programming, especially as the thing gets bigger and more complex.

It's not magic. It just makes some things convenient. It seems to hit a sweet spot for ease of writing and maintaining. If you don't like it you don't have to use it.
Going back to moveit as an example, they used a zeroday and mass-ransomed people.

The cloud isn't an adequate defense, it is just better than the defense less resourced companies and people can put together. With APTs it is all a competition of resources. If you can self-host and spend more resources than say Microsoft or Google on securing it, go for it. There is nothing more or less secure about doing cloud or self-hosting, what matters is how much money you can put into it but more importantly, how much talent you can attract. Not only do MS and Google have hefty bounties for finding vulns, skilled people flock to them for the opportunity to work there, even at lower salaries! Likewise, intel agencies and gov/mil units are coveted by skilled people.

To use a real world analogy, a chinese specialops unit might invade your small town and the argument here is to buy guns and practice shooting using the locals (self-host) vs calling in the army (NSA -- i blame them!) or paying a mercenary group (because the army won't dedicate a unit to your small town only). It doesn't matter if everyone in your town is ex-military, even if you defeat the chinese specialops unit, their mission will remain,they will just keep sending more people and more firepower and better strategies until they win. And just because a mercenary group lost to a chinese specialops unit does not mean you should have been using civilians to begin with, that's a false equivalency.
>> “ Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum: The New Fascism”
> I mean it’s not wrong.

For real?

> Have you read Klaus’s books? He is pretty open about the new era he wants to usher via the WEF.

I'm no fan of either Schwab or the WEF but to lump them in with fascism is just plain nuts.
> tape over the SMBus pins as well

totally unfamiliar with this
You can frame 'getting helped less than the ideal' as 'getting screwed', but it doesn't change the fact that the baseline is 'not getting helped at all'. If you say 'you have to pay them American market wages or not at all', and they say 'okay, guess we won't hire them at all', who has this ultimatum helped?

https://laneless.substack.com/p/the-copenhagen-interpretatio...
it wasn't very good and wasn'tt useful. it was "fast" but "not accurate" compared to AlphaFold, which is "slow" but "accurate". It had the advantage of being trained only on structures, or only sequences, I can't remember which. But the news when it came out was wildly negative.
+1 for Jetbrains products.
they don't have proper specs, manufacturing equipment, materials, engineers, machinists, etc. they been trying to source parts from india, china, iran, etc.
You know a parrot isnt going to impart new knowledge to the world.
My Encounter with Philosophical Anarchist Paul Feyerabend
Ending affirmative action doen't end discrimination against Asian Americans
Raku’s new grammar syntax is much less awful and just as amazingly useful.
Thank you! Doing this project definitely gave me a huge appreciation for folks like foureyes on yt who are producing some truly magnificent things.

https://www.youtube.com/@Foureyes.Furniture
But if you click it a second time, it decrements.
Lessons on Fundraising from Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad
I doubt it.

Labor costs are the main differentiators for high quality textiles.

If you’re paying a skilled cordwainer 25 or more an hour, it doesn’t make sense to have them work with faux leather.
and just give me 1. minimal or necessary or 2. all cookies for whatever.
the inline tests / class documentation via classvars is a very neat idea! did you come up with that for fixit or is it a common pattern i just happen to not have encountered before?
In the commercial world the first release a new OS with GUI only takes about 4 years, depending. Hurd has exceeded that by a huge margin.