skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me. One time on vacation during winter break back in college, I was in a second-hand bookstore in the heart of Vermont. I was bored to death waiting for my bus back to school and aimlessly navigating the aisles and came across this faded hardcover, an old historical account of amateur explorers from the midwest in the late 1800s, and it turned out to be by a local who had an obsession with the arctic.

The first few pages were filled with meticulous notes about preparations, sketches of sleds and diagrams detailing his intended route. there were lists of provisions, calculations of distances, and references to navigation techniques. The calculus that goes into these sorts of expeditions is really interesting and something I'd like to learn more about. But anyway I am rememmbering this because this local had a fierce rivalry with another aspiring explorer from a neighboring town. Their rivalry was spread out over letters and town meetings was documented in this book

I loved a particular account where one of the explorers crashed a party the other explorer had thrown to gather funds for his expedition. I guess fueled by a mix of jealousy and alcohol he confessed to drinking, the former ended up challenging his rival to a duel right then and there and getting beaten and left for dead. I think he never made it to the pole and ended up dying in an accident before it even happened.

But the spirit of their rivalry and the lengths they went to one-up each other is so much like this Cook-Peary saga.

The passion, the pride, the need for validation – it was all there. And while cook and peary's story was magnified by the global media and shaped historical records, it looks like similar dramas have played out on a smaller scale, in small towns, documented in these tomes that languish mostly forgotten on the lower shelves of used bookstores. Kinda gives Ozymandias vibes
I regret completely missing the boat on Delphi.

I used Turbo Pascal 3 thru 6, but after college migrated towards C/C++ and never had reason to use Delphi professionally or personally.
> If for some reason they get burned out or some life changes force them to limit their time and attention to these projects they can fall behind very very quickly.

These projects are all one bus away from becoming the next TempleOS.
Well... I remember some press and discussion about "InterBase" (now FireBase) - and it's storage/self-healing recovery model being critical for some scenarios "back in the day", some quotes:

"AFATDS includes 935,000 lines of Ada code, running on an HP RISC
Workstation and the Army's Light Weight Computer Units," according to
John Williams, spokesman for Magnavox Electronic Systems Company, the
prime contractor on the project. "We needed to work with a single
database that could scale and operate across Unix and PC platforms. The
product also had to install quickly and provide high availability
without monopolizing our systems resources."

"Decision support of this nature requires a modular and flexible
architecture that would support both distributed processing and
distributed databases. That's why we chose InterBase. It out performed
the competition and convinced us that it would be reliable in life and
death situations."

The exact nature of the discussion was that in some situations, the firing of the main weapon in certain tanks would generate an internal EMP event, so systems would reboot - they had to have extremely fast reboots and recovery-times... so they could fire again...
>Anthony couldn’t think of anything that might have gotten his account flagged. Regardless, Hinge didn’t offer an explanation for his experience.

It's been a while since I've been on Hinge, but Hinge is not like Tinder in terms of edgy/risque conversation, and I played every conversation with a match safe. I woke up one morning and was banned. They say you can appeal, but this seems like mostly something to make you feel like there's a possible recourse.

What I gathered from Reddit is that it's actually rather easy to get banned by simply not talking to people. There were a few times where I wouldn't message someone right away from not having a good ice breaker, I was busy, or the conversation just went nowhere and people would unmatch. When you unmatch with someone it asks if you'd like to report them as well. Since Hinge is meant to be a more serious dating platform, not talking to people can be seen as not taking the platform seriously and trying to hook up or something and if this happens enough times it seems Hinge will flag your account.
I hadn't seen it before this. Stood out to me.
They do write: "We are on a mission to end loneliness"

I don't know, it's a noble goal, but I don't really see it being something to build an income on. Not everything has to have a commercial angle, but you need to pay for hosting and you need to pay yourself a salary. If the last few months have thought us anything is that you need to have a plan for monetization (whatever that means to you).
> I tell you I have two children and that (at least) one of them is a boy, and ask you what you think is the probability that I have two boys. Many people, when they hear this puzzle for the first time, give the answer 1/2, reasoning that there is an equal likelihood that my other child is a boy or a girl. But this is not correct. Based on what you know, you should conclude that I am actually twice as likely to have a boy and a girl as I am to have two boys. So your right answer to my question is not 1/2 but 1/3.

Actually, neither is correct – leaving aside whether the math is correct given the unstated assumptions – because the unstated assumptions are wrong: birth probabilities by sex are not equal and, within the same family, are not independent.
Perhaps Charlie Munger's enthusiasm for this sort of inverse reasoning explains his (now cancelled) plan for the windowless dorm building he designed for UC-Santa Barbara -- he was creating the worst possible dorm building in order to get insights into what a good dorm building would be.
A bit stronger: Think about all the ways you could fail, then make sure those things don't happen (to the extent you can).

That is, failure isn't always caused by me doing something. Sometimes it's caused by something external. My wonderful new box might not ship if we can't get the chips to make it? I should probably look at lining up a second source. (Yeah, a couple of years ago we saw that that may not work. You can't always prevent everything bad that can happen. You can prevent some of them, though, and it makes enough difference to be worth trying.)
Apple Vision Pro and the Era of Humane Computing
I agree that any social media has the potential be manipulated for sexual solicitation.
I think we have an innate defense mechanism for that right now which is people need to leave an open voice message with their voice, share their location, and there isn't an ability to share links for people to easily click on.
Plus, we do have a reporting function so that we can collect the 'yellow cards' and address the reported users appropriately.

Going forward, we are considering adding several features to mitigate it.
- NSFW label to protect the experience of users who do not want it
- AI to distinguish content like this.

If you have a good suggestion, I am all ears!
I have a very excellent SSD which I removed from that system because I am certain that the Windows installer would fuck it up, and I did not want the hassle of trying to fix it. So I pulled it out of the box to keep it from harm, and the only media I had at hand at that moment was a WD SATA HDD. I thought it would be slow, not kill-me-now slow.

I do not "use an HDD" of course. It was improvisational.
TWLO has left the chat. (it was down about 90% from peak to trough)

(as have many other names, not to pick on twlo specifically). I actually think (and so far am right) that it was massively undervalued at $45 a share.
I was just stating the improvement on SD we've seen since DELL-E 2 and Midjourney came out wasn't just about "quality of image", but also about "have something specific and moderately complex in mind". Thus I mentioned textual inversion vs LoRA/ControlNet.
You realize, I hope, that all plastics are also petroleum products.
Also when, for example, someone suggests a strategy that is useful in scenario X, but because it can be problematic in scenario Y, they get a bunch of replies warning them about that - even though they had no intention of advocating applying it in scenario Y. That’s also a kind of XYing - “oh don’t do that, it’s bad if you re trying to Y…” when we’re not, we are trying to X.

For example, when someone says they think the XY problem model is a useful framing when evaluating customer feature requests in product design, they are talking about using it in scenario X.

But inevitably they will attract a bunch of replies telling them how bad it is to apply the XY problem approach when answering questions in a technical Q&A forum. That would be scenario Y.
Mostly a matter of software not being written to make use of the SSD capabilities. You need parallelism or prefetching to keep the IO queues non-empty. If you have a single-threaded workload which interleaves blocking IO with CPU work and the IO patterns are not amenable to readaheads the SSD will be mostly idle.
Similarly anything calling fsync or performing other file system operations that trigger synchronous writes on the critical path will stall the entire boot process. Due to caching writes are fast no matter the medium as long as you don't demand instant durability.
> The sandboxing allow a bit of isolation but this it ranks quite poorly in term of actual security benefits for the typical end users use cases.

Ranked poorly in what checklist?

> Well, not the authors of flatpak, but yes some did. On medias that many people watch such as youtube videos.

Let's try to stay on topic. The point I made was that, the author's example about Flatpak GIMP doing something unauthorized on your system applies to any package format. The differentiating factor here is that Flatpak/Flatseal allows you to sandbox the application easily and quite effectively if I may add.
To me "tech" means heavy industry, manufacturing stuff like cars, ships, planes - also making computer parts, phones, TVs, cameras etc.

But the biggest American so-called "tech" companies seem to be all about surveillance, privacy violations, selling data of their users and "adtech", unfortunately. And also bypassing laws and regulations while abusing their workers - airbnb, uber and other "innovative" companies like that.

If Europe is lagging behind, because we don't have those "adtech" companies then - good - I don't want us to be ahead. You are free to compete with China to see who will invade their citizens' privacy harder.

And what about actual high-tech stuff like bullet trains, maglevs, etc? How many of those has the USA built lately?
Is this using webrtc for the calls? If so, How are you finding it to work with that in flutter/dart?
according to the numbers reported by provincial wildfire management agencies, the difference is entirely in the lightning-caused fires.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/susy.domenicano/viz/3...
China’s Electric Car Graveyards a Spooky Symbol of EV Industry’s Boom and Bust
US politics always seems a bit hyperbolic, with either side accusing the other of some form of chicanery. It's interesting to note there is a process for removing a serving member of congress, but it's relatively difficult. You have to get both parties to sign off on the action as the bill to remove a member has to pass committees and the full body (house or senate.)

I mention it here to counter people (some of whom I have met) who may claim there is no way to remove someone from congress.
I absolutely agree that an arbitrary line can be drawn; I don't see that that line can be clear and bright enough that forms the kind of precedence that can be relied upon by folks who don't have the money to fight an uncertain battle in court.

But would be overjoyed to be proven wrong.
that doesnt make sense, there would always be a new generation entering the dating age. Otherwise the marriage industry would be optimizing for divorces too.
Voter fraud can be difficult to prove. Voting in most parts of the country is optimized for anonymity and voter convenience at the expense of security.

I care about evidence, I believe it is absolutely possible to commit voter fraud and not leave any evidence of it, and I also do not believe that Trump lost due to voter fraud. All of these things can simultaneously be true.

I fail to see the harm in making our elections more secure, so long as we do not disenfranchise any legal voters.
I think everything is working as intended in this case: some states have decided on having very high taxation rates, and other states have decided they will shift that burden to alternative taxation schemes (sales/property taxes). And these companies have decided to vote with their feet by moving to what they perceive are better tax environments for them. More might follow in the future, others will never move.

It’s not cultural war, it’s just market dynamics.
Movie Review: One more chance
This reminds me of the maths questions the Soviet universities gave to Jewish applicants, except the questions in this one are total gibberish:

>>> Draw a line around..

Lines don't go around things

>>> Draw 3 circles, one inside the other

That only accounts for 2 of them

>>> Print the word vote upside down but in the correct order

One word can't have an order

>>> Draw a line through the two letters that come last in the alphabet

???

It goes on like this.
> the proper syntax

of course! I forgot to quote those quotes! (facepalm)

that works. and uses a single byte too.

TIL.
> Try living under or near a flight path

«Cars», the original poster spoke of ___cars___, not planes...

I wrote «Those combustion and pistons engines», ___those___...
> So let me get this straight: the newspaper was investigating a liquor license request and using public records found the applicant had DUI arrests.

They used the public records system to verify information they'd already received from an informant.
Once, I had an interview where the hiring manager seemed uninterested in my questions about team dynamics and growth opportunities. It made me wonder if they valued open communication.

I believe interviews are a two-way street, and if a company isn't willing to engage in meaningful dialogue, it might signal potential issues down the road.

For those interested, we have open positions! https://www.ratherlabs.com/open-positions
Maybe he didn't like whatever subject you and your friend were discussing. :P
Great point.
We are working to optimize the load time as we have built this quickly to get it out into the world
That's a nice way to put it!
I kinda want to switch. Namecheap started playing into politics which is a very bad move for an internet infrastructure company.
Seems like there’s a bunch of spam because I see the same exact message from multiple locations but maybe I’m missing something.
That certainly sounds about right. I definitely lost more time to the fact that a Quadra would freeze with high probability during a scan than I ever lost to intentional reboots.
> Something my therapist pointed out to me is that obesity is directly linked to childhood and intergenerational trauma; calling it self-inflicted is not accurate. Even if we're focused on healthy eating, food deserts exist. No man is an island, &c.

The idea that obesity is self inflicted runs contrary to our current understanding not just of psychology but of physiology. Most people don't have a constant struggle to maintain a healthy weight generally people with obesity even if they lose weight have to work extremely hard to not regain that weight and most fail.
That's very straightforward. Obviously the user agent is reported by the browser/device as mobile or not (it either includes that keyword or not). In nearly all cases mobile means smartphone or tablet, whether Android or iOS, Chrome or Safari. iPad commonly includes the mobile keyword in its user agent string, unless desktop is enabled by default and then they'll just get the desktop version (you could trivially detect for the iPad keyword and force mobile; given the userbase size of iPad it would probably be worth it, it'd take seconds to do). This approach covers such a comprehensive percentage of users that it's only going to be an issue if you absolutely need to cover every single possible variation, and then you have to do it another way to go from 99% to 100%.

Your desktop browser doesn't include the keyword "mobile" in the agent string. Your Safari browser on iOS does, ditto for Chrome on Android.

So here's the iPhone 13 Max user agent string:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone14,3; U; CPU iPhone OS 15_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/19A346 Safari/602.1"

The "mobile" keyword gets you what you want.

Here's iPhone 8:

"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.1.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15A5341f Safari/604.1"

The "mobile" keyword gets you what you want.

ChromeOS desktop (Chrome browser), Mac desktop (Safari), Windows desktop (eg Chrome or Firefox). They don't include the "mobile" keyword.

It's not flawless, getting to 100% requires a lot more effort. This approach is far beyond good enough however, particularly for an average site. If you're building a giant enterprise app and want to appeal to every possible user and you have a team, maybe you'll throw a lot more resources at getting the small number of problematic edge cases.

And if you're using Nginx, which I commonly do, you can map the agent key in your http segment, eg:

map $http_user_agent $mobilekey {"~*Mobile" mobile; default desktop;} (or vise versa)

and then you can utilize that for caching related tasks (attach it to your proxy_cache_key to differentiate a mobile vs desktop cache).

And as I've noted, this is widely despised by the HN crowd despite the fact that it works so well and so easily.
You're only looking at one aspect - housing. What's missing in this analysis is that fuel costs had risen 400% in a very short time frame, and in an economy that was much more fuel-dependent than it is today. Imagine if gasoline were to rapidly rise to over $12 per gallon? Natural gas was even worse, we had actual shortages, so you can imagine what that did to the market. I still remember the president of the United States addressing the nation from the Oval Office wearing a cardigan to set an example that it was okay to turn the thermostat down and bundle up. The speed limit on the interstate had been dropped to 55 MPH to encourage people to driver slower and conserve fuel.

Housing was just yet another problem at the time.

The problem with housing today is an amazing lack of foresight from our so-called leaders then. Everyone accommodated the Boomers (I'm Gen X). They didn't have enough houses for the Boomers - let alone the kids the Boomers would have (the Millennials) who would be living as adults at the same time as their parents. There was a rash of home-building in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and then it slowed way down, never to reach those levels again. Meanwhile, advances in healthcare increased people's lifetimes, exacerbating a housing shortage that all the experts were warning about even back in the 70's and yet nothing was being done about.

I say all this to say I see the same thing happening with the climate "debate" today. We know what's coming. What know what the economic impacts are going to be. But we sit and equivocate and do nothing. If you think today's housing crises is bad, wait until you see what hits us in 30-40 years!

Funny too how the ever-vaunted market failed to solve the housing issue...but that's a story for another time.
They mean that the Supreme Court is a fascist institution that will always side with the police.

I passed 3 bar exams -- my default rule of thumb for the multiple-choice questions was that the Supreme Court would always side against the little guy when law enforcement was involved.
They literally say it's an example, and 'along with many others'. Doesn't sound like actual conflation on their side, perhaps misreading or misinterpreting from your side?
Go Taxachusetts!
I believe you to be high.
What's you plan for the app long term? I mean do you plan to found the platform out your own pocket forever?
The No-Return Dispatch
While coding skills are transferable, cybersecurity has its nuances. Dive into online courses like CompTIA Security+ and explore ethical hacking to bridge the gap. Networking helps too – attend cybersecurity meetups or webinars to connect with experts.

Your game dev problem-solving mindset will be a huge asset in tackling security challenges creatively.
Microsoft Research says GPT-4 is good enough for medical tasks
Our product is the exception here (desktop only web app).

We basically just account for 800-1300px width range and call it a day. On the low-side, we show a "desktop only" overlay. On the high side, we block the content from expanding.
1. Yes. Always has been, within the ambiguous limits of fair use.

2. Discovery. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resource...

Some variants of “theft of style” are recognized by some courts already, please see the legal literature on music copyright and the recent 7-2 SCOTUS decision on Warhol’s Prince series.
> The problem is the people who are richer than the ones who are eligible, but aren't actually rich. There are a lot more of them, and the money to give them all free things may just not exist.

But it does though, because those are the people the existing system is screwing the most.

If you're all the way at the bottom, whatever the government provides is what you get because you have nothing else.

If you're all the way at the top, you have the resources to buy whatever the best of the best is.

But if you're in the middle, you can't afford to pay the taxes to fund public schools you don't use and pay for private schools, so you get stuck with public schools. And then we end up with this catastrophic districting system where you buy into a better public school system by spending more money on housing -- and making sure that there is more political support for keeping housing unaffordable because it's the way the middle class gets their kids into a better school district.

If you just give everyone the same amount of money, someone at the 40th percentile income doesn't have to massively overpay for a house, they can just add 20% more of their own money to send their kids to a better school. And someone at the 25th percentile income who is willing to sacrifice more for their kids can do the same thing, instead of having no path to do it at all because it would require them to get mortgage approval for a single family house in a suburban school district which is forbidden at their income level.
Looking at the prices here, tells you how programming is a cheap and a non-rewarding profession, changing your car oil will cost you ~$50 for less than 30min labor, and it doesn’t even require any mental focus or anything, exploitation at its finest. I’m glad the bounties I do are strictly cybersec related, at least it pays well.
They're actually creating a generation of hackers by forcing teenagers to find creative ways around the time limit.
Well, it's probably not yet monetized but they almost certainly have the data. Dimensions like gait, gaze, stance, and a hundred other more subtle measurements are being collected via their VR headsets at various levels of anonymity and granularity.
Unless socialism holds it at gunpoint.
Computer Graphics Milestones Reel for Siggraph 50th Anniversary – Nvidia Keynote
The app loaded nearly instantly for me on mobile brave browser.

Seemingly flutter has gotten a lot better for flutter web. It's nice to see more adoptation of flutter
Yeah, it's weird how out of date it is, but it also doesn't matter a lot. I think my laptop still has a version of git from 2018.