skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one study. There have been endless studies showing the negative effects of people near the Trinity test site. In fact, the government still pays out money to victims. This is a nonsense study that was never reproduced. Moreover, Japan provided extraordinary health care to victims that survived the bombings.

I'm as pro-nuclear energy as you can get, but trying to hand wave away the dangers of radiation exposure is actively detrimental to the cause.

https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca
I'm not on VS Code but I use micro as $EDITOR for the exact same reasons and it's great. I don't have to remember special shortcuts just to amend a git message or do an interactive rebase.
Government money is regularly used to build access to new / remote places.

Should I provide examples or would that be considered cherry picked evidence?
for every 1 dreamy utopian hacker crypto bro you have 99 running a get rich quick scheme, if they can pump and dump the worldcoin, they will, even if it would include ripping the eyeballs off the customers
They obviously have reasons. Without looking at the book, we can't say if it should be in schools or shouldn't. When explaining Racism to Grade 2 students great care must be taken. Imagine being the only black kid in all white classroom. You know you look different. Everyone does, but no one thinks anything of it. And then they tell you that you are systematically oppressed, and that your race, not your character, is the characteristic that will define your life experience. Good Luck kid!

Also, we don't see the list of other civil right books that may be in classrooms.

But the fact that "The Berenstain Bears and the Big Question", a book about God, was rejected suggests that this isn't some conservative conspiracy.

In fact, it sounds like a moral panic from the left.
Wikipedia is very untrustworthy on controversial topics. They often ignore the controversy and just state one side's opinions as facts, i am not talking about vaccination or global warming something that is obviously fact based, i'm talking about social controversies things that cite entirely opinion pieces.
Training people to always login makes the susceptible to phishing attacks with fake logins. It becomes second nature to put in your email and password. Whats even worst is that banks won't send messages over email instead they make you sign into their "Secure" message center. Some how email is insecure but sending the same info in a physical mailing is safer. Any time you select electronic statements instead of physical mailings, they send you an email and force you back to their site to login.
Related:

Meaningful Exits for Founders (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486303 - July 2018 (23 comments)
> because that way I can make sure that I'm using the officially supported version

No, they (the developers) can’t guarantee that, nor is their job.

You would trust them to develop a reliable software and you would trust the maintainer to guarantee the it will be properly compiled for specific OS version, has the proper permission set and has all dependencies it requires to run.

To ask the software developer to pack and make sure it works for all distribution would be huge amount of work that is beyond their knowledge (which it is not a issue). Also it seems one is not aware how to properly do it when they comes up with a not so bright ideas like the “curl | bash”.

It is not you don’t trust the developer, it is that there are people who know how to better distribute it.

obs.: this is in the context of micro and general FOSS that is easily available and distributable.
Ask HN: What is your productivity tools stack or lack thereof?
They did! But did he?
God. I wish my team did this. So much sunk cost.
by 'overflow' do you mean 'set the high bit'
I wasn't clear, I was talking about expertise exhibited by one of the protagonists.
What the context adds is that the quote comes from a political attack against the intelligence services, rather than attempts to legislate restrictions (the context in which the quote was submitted in this thread), requirements, regulations, of regulatory actions through the executive, or court decisions through the judiciary. Of which there is ample history of each.
Of course the earth wants to keep warming; the current climate is rare. It doesn't fall to the personification of the earth enacting a conspiracy, but things can and will return to [planetary] normal at some point.

"A 'greenhouse Earth' is a period during which no continental glaciers exist anywhere on the planet... Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history... Earth is now in an icehouse state, and ice sheets are present in both poles simultaneously."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
This is so depressingly right-on. And bringing it up just gets you motte-and-baileyed. "How could you possibly be against a repository of human knowledge? Gasp!"

It's a great grift, though.
Not necessarily, but if it gets xrayed going through security then when they heat it up so that it luminesces, it'll be so bright that it messes up their carefully calibrated detector. This is expensive to fix and the dosimetry people get really mad at you.

Source: wore one of these daily for years and would get regular reminders not to bring them on flights or anywhere else they would have to go through an xray machine (eg some federal buildings)
If your interviewer is asking for solution and you keep insisting that "I have you a solution"... without actual code... Also saying my ego is off the charts. Good luck passing interviews with that attitude.
took me a while to realize the red lines on top of the pictures, were not artifacts but red cranes!
very well, but what percentage of the population do you think would consider that rude.

Of course, the nut of the question is whether its ever possible to be rude with a question. If it's possible to be rude with a statement, I don't really see the difference between questions and statements, at the higest level, though
I feel like the people who complain about Uber/Lyft from a service perspective never used taxis extensively. Living in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me absolutely hate taxis. When scheduling, they would no-show at 5 in the morning causing missed flights. Rides from the airport would require standing in line many times over an hour, especially on a Thursday night. They all absolutely reeked of body odor. The drivers would consistently scam “card machine broken, cash only” or “I forgot to turn on the meter” and unless you threatened to report them, they would take advantage of passengers. Drivers were sketchy and rarely matched the credentials on the taxi medallion.

I’ve also lived in areas where taxi service was essentially nonexistent. I wonder how many DUIs and related accidents have been prevented by ride share apps.

Traveling abroad in Europe the apps work simply regardless of my command of the local language to explain my destination and keeps the drivers honest so they aren’t taking “the long way”.

How is anyone supporting taxis as superior to this? There was absolutely no accountability.

From an business model perspective, I would wager that eventually you could get this to a point of sustainability that doesn’t require armies of engineers and various support staff, a la Twitter.

Just don’t try to say taxis were better.
Nonsense. The standard literally doesn't bind us in any way whatsoever. UB means there are no rules, anything goes. If the compiler is free to make demons fly out of my nose, it's equally free to produce a nice error message to the effect of "Don't do that".

I'd much prefer if the standards people started defining every possible instance of UB as a fatal error or as an implementation defined behavior, but that's not strictly required.
Wikipedia the company does this? or are you complaining about the contributors?
arrgh - swordfish really got to me
Yes, Relay does a good job at many of these problems.

Graphql SHOULD have been Relay.

Graphql without Relay is almost just a syntax.
The Unhook extension for Chrome [0] and Firefox [1] is a great way to keep yourself from falling into the YouTube blackhole.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
Bad tech realism in scifi doesn't bother me, because a lot of it is showing the way tech could be, with a few liberties taken.

Generally they show extreme capabilities, similar to what machine learning can do now(Except it's implied that a lone genius coded it, rather that it being a trained model), in a world of highly flexible IoT type devices that can be repurposed to do anything via a pretty easy GUI.

I take it as a challenge. Using an app I wrote should feel like being on SeaQuest DSV. If there's a broken connector, can I make a software workaround? If I'm buying a product, what's the state of the art for that area?

Except hacking. Hacking scenes are just comedy.
Got your point, still a bit intrigued by OP's.

I often have similar thoughts: if you expand the scope a bit and don't limit yourself to the metrics that are the topic du jour - this is not meant to diminish the severity of heatwaves, to the contrary -

it seems like a natural law that the people who do the most damage to common goods (such as humane shelter and food, clean water, clean air, healthy environment, bearable noise pollution, bearable working conditions if you want to go there) - they are the people who profit and stand exactly on the other side, experiencing the absolute minimum of the damage they cause.

This is a prisoners's dilemma or market failure that has infested all of our global society, to a point that we can't even start to imagine.
It's hard to find optimistic places on the Internet these days. I'm not sure why, but there's definitely a switch in the pattern of how people interact with technology. I thought perhaps it was because they don't interact with its creation, but on HN I've had fellow people who write software rail against easter eggs as unprofessional.

Perhaps makerspaces are better. Traditional tech spaces are now dominated by oppressor/oppressed mindset and incessant indulgence in outrage/anger.

Still, I can't tell if this change is a change in me or a change in the world. It could well be that I just occupy different spaces against my better wishes. The other day I got some notification from ubuntuforums.org and found my posts from 2005. Haha, that was a riot! But very earnest attempts at stuff.

Perhaps the only solution to this is to start one.
If he think's CGI startup time is acceptable then I guess maybe PHP seems fast then?
I fine tune smaller LLMs with fanfic to generate stories in a genre. For instance, most models have no meaningful Minecraft content. By feeding lots of fanfic into a Lora and supplementing with RAG, I get pretty good results. RAG alone is garbage as there’s too much broad context on say Herobrine spanning many many stories, but the base models know almost nothing. Few shot doesn’t help because there’s not enough semantic support in the model weights. Etc.
How is that different from the status quo? It seems likely that more students will end up going to private schools because of this subsidy, and some public schools will have to shrink, but why is that bad?
Ah, I think I see what you might be driving at. Would it be fair to summarize the view as holding that, beyond valuable affordances for safety equivalent to handrails and warning signs, etc., it does no one any favors to attempt to conceal the essential complexity of the technology underpinning much of contemporary society?
If you look at the relative risk curve (the very last page of the supplementary data), most of the exposure levels contain 1 in the relative risk estimate (also please notice that for some reason the confidence interval is 90%, if choosing the customary 95% all relative risk confidence intervals would probably overlap relative risk of 1.0):

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/suppl/2023/08/16/bmj-2022-07...

The fact that ~10mGy seems to not have 1.0 in the confidence interval is kind of bothering to me. Normal annual background radiation should be about ~3.5mGy (so 10mGy is about 3 years normal background radiation) and getting an increased solid tumor mortality risk from normal radiation levels, does suggest that something else has not quite been controlled for.

Also the same group did the same paper on the same cohort before: https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5359?ijkey=9f35e31bf918...

This just seems to be updated with a slightly older population.
> sargassum seaweed is washed onto shores anyway, why not use it to make bricks?

I mean the obvious question is whether that is a safe construction practice
LLM's potential to help ALS patients is just being unlocked, this will be a game changer for many other people.
I appreciate you calling this out! In my community we started talking about it as "Ask" vs "Attune" culture. On the one hand do you assume everyone will be explicit with their wants, needs, and boundaries? On the other, do you pay attention to who you're engaging with, their general disposition, their communication style preferences, etc?

I personally like to keep a balance between the two extremes and try to adapt my behavior to who I'm engaging with (you can tell I'm comfortable in an "Attune" culture environment, but I appreciate when people are up front and communicative about their needs, wants, and boundaries). Considering the power differentials at play and the ability for someone to enforce their true boundaries is really important to me, and also having meta conversations to encourage folks to speak up about their needs and boundaries.

In a work context, I will have a meta conversation with someone about their preferred communication style, how they want to receive feedback, how they want to be checked in with, etc. to avoid mismatched communication expectations.
Yes, looking backwards PL/SQL code looks and acts like an API to the data. At Oracle conferences they will tell you that keeping your business logic in stored procedures means you don't have to duplicate it if a second application wants access to your data.

It all seems quaint now but the last time I built a web app with Entity framework and Oracle the EF part worked fine for simple CRUD operations but for complicated reporting and analysis stored procedures and views worked extremely well.

It is all about where you want your business logic. You can put it in the front end or the database or anywhere inbetween but the real test is whether it is documented, commented and easy to understand.
At this point, why do we even bother pretending to be dismayed that techbros and their vanity projects have no respect for anything? If you just assume that they're doing something harmful that enriches themselves (and I mean literally enriches) and we just haven't had a news cycle about it yet, we could save so much time giving them the benefit of the doubt and just go straight to handing out fines in the nine-digit range to make them cut their shit out.
Wait, I thought that it was socialism or something to complain about income multiples at public corporations? Did they suddenly get ostracized and marginalized from the body politic, after years of being a core part of the US political system? Jeessh, you blink and you miss it.
surely $1m is a small fraction of their donations, which also means the vast majority of your donation does go to maintaining wikipedia.
if your data's sequential, creating an iterator in C++ is as simple as returning a begin and end pointer, and will be optimized away by any level other than O0

https://godbolt.org/z/WEjzEr5j4
Pretty fascinating stuff. I wasn't aware of the push to do some static annotations in Lua and that seems like a great idea.

I've used at least three bespoke configuration languages where I eventually had to ask "Why isn't this just Lua?" I highly recommend embedding Lua as the first option over writing one's own config language and parser any time someone suggests it.
GCC's Analyzer gains ability to print text-art visualizations of out-of-bounds
Elon Musk's Latest Big Idea for X Is Removing the Block Button
This is a lot like the fantastic line by Scaramucci: 'Where I grew up, we're front stabbers'

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40748918
Perhaps not in the current legal climate, but those can be changed. Since DNA is the source code to your body, I think we're in for some interesting times. It can be argued that your DNA is a part of you, since it made you, and it can be made illegal to gather or even sequence our DNA unless certain thresholds are crossed.

Like it or not, politics is not a singular immutable thing. We can reframe things, just as governments do to justify their garbage. Society is but putty, and we can mold it to our liking, or sit quietly like livestock and await government to decide what we're allowed to think and feel.
The typical approach to this in Python is to define a callable class instead. If you define the __call__() method on a class, instances of the class will be callable.

class IntAdder:

def __init__(self, x: int) -> None:
self.x = x

def __call__(self, y: int) -> int:
return self.x + y

def __str__(self) -> str:
return f"({self.x} + ??)"

add1 = IntAdder(1)
assert add1(3) == 4
print(add1)
# (1 + ??)

As mentioned in the sibling comment, you can define a Protocol which is analogous to an interface, so if you had a protocol like this:

from typing import Protocol, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")

class ValueUpdater(Protocol[T]):
def __call__(self, y: T) -> T: ...

Then IntAdder would be considered a subclass of ValueUpdater[int] by the type checker. Demo: https://mypy-play.net/?mypy=1.5.1&python=3.11&flags=strict&g...
The reality, though, is that you have no idea what your next next job is.

I would have NEVER predicted my job would be in AI two jobs ago.

This is the challenge with these frameworks - you really can't look beyond one corner in tech -- and especially software
We discussed this before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171356

FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) has received major funding from groups which primarily support conservative and libertarian causes, including the Bradley Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Charles Koch Institute.
In 2017, FIRE was listed as one of the sponsors of the conservative campus group Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, according to tax records.

FIRE president Gregory Lukianoff authored "The Coddling of the American Mind" for The Atlantic discussing whether or not trigger warnings are harming college health. Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt later released a book version of The Coddling of the American Mind.

Lukianoff appeared in the film Indoctrinate U, a 2007 American feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said that Maloney "may very well be America's most promising conservative documentary filmmaker."

And because some folks reminded me: the above information is sourced partly from Wikipedia.
"Could" is a joke. Not commuting vs commuting with respect to its impact on the climate? The resources not spent by staying home are collectively enormous.
I had to double-check that, I thought it was 512 MB. Yeah, that's not very much.

I also recall that the final iOS version for that device (iOS 5.x or 5.1.1) left less memory for apps and I regretted agreeing to that upgrade.

I really wish I could install a minimal Linux and the best minimal browser available. That would at least be an improvement over the doorstop that I have.
Think about it like that. If you allow an exception you essentially create many branches with all their negative consequences. With the sticky bit you combine them to one branch (that is still expensive[1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8766417
Cows are not optimal, not remotely. This is a horrible argument to make.

Cows produce a _ton_ of waste, are brittle and require a lot of care and energy. A lot of that energy is subsidized in some form or another, in places where cattle are produced in large quantities. They are very resource intensive.

Our ability to iterate and optimize with technology is comically faster than evolution. Cows are, more or less, unchanged in the modern era, and will likely stay as they are for the considerable future.

Conversely, if we produced convincing synthetic beef in a lab today, do you think that process would go unchanged for a decade, two decades, a century, without improvements in energy and other resource consumption?

If you produce beef in a lab, you don't require farmers, or farm hands, or truck drivers, or veterinarians, or butchers, and so on.

A tech and freezers and pipette tips and an industrial reactor sounds like a step up to me.

(Also arguably beef cattle likely require more refrigeration than artificial beef ever could.)
It's kind of immediately obvious if you know tech, to the point where I mostly forgot this wasn't the official canon.

Like, what else about a person is of any use to machines with that kind of power?
wow

another tool for spammers, in addition to the '25k bug' and gold/blue verification

twitter will become a spammer's paradise even more than it is now
This isn't a woke endeavour. It's a racist endeavour. It's the exacr opposite of woke.

This group can't stand black people working for other black people and they have to attack them and shut it down.

Don't be confused by your anti woke bias. This isn't it.
I've been using MJML for a few years now, I can't imagine even trying to build a responsive email without it. I don't even have to think about it.

You may still have to slice images, but it's grid/column support has worked great for me.
Dynamic 3D Gaussians: Tracking by Persistent Dynamic View Synthesis
Pico was based on MicroEmacs 3.6. Nano is an open source clone of Pico - there's definite DNA in that series. I'm assuming not in this new Micro, but it's faintly amusing that the name seems to be a play on something that was a play on a name which was a play on a historical namesake of the new thing.

Circles.
I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley in AI and currently serve as an external advisor to the FBI on AI and AI Policy. I've worked very closely with the teams that utilize FISA Part 702 and have seen the types of issues they are actively preventing with the use of the authority.
All the while Russia commits war crimes and atrocities against Ukraine.
But on the plus side, we'll gain absolutely nothing at all.
Solar-Powered Electric Motors for EVs That Never Plug In
Are the differences between the modes and their keybindings not documented in the manual?

Probably I'm just stupid and overlooked them, but I really don't see anything.
Without the 1st and 2nd, it’s pretty hard to stop attacks on the 4th or 6th.
Long running processes only need to load their imports, configuration, database connections, etc. once, and don't incur overhead for each request. On top of this, things like imports get to be cached, and there's less need for a database connection pooler to broker connections.

Particularly async runtimes have become more popular - where you can have a single process handling concurrent requests and awaiting/yielding in between their api/db calls. Instead of having many processes that don't share resources that might be waiting 10ms/100ms for api/db calls.

For applications that make large numbers of api/db calls - especially slower ones, may prefer async runtimes over individual processes per request.

I'm not at all saying CGI is a bad option, just that there are real benefits to reusing, pooling and caching resources.
Concert ticket prices in the US just blew my mind. Never noticed that one.