skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of cases where police routinely violate constitutional rights (like search, etc) in big cities like NYC, LA, etc is staggering.

It's a country wide issue. To try to say, "oh it's only in small towns," is to completely bury your head in the sand in regards to one's local jurisdiction.

Youtube is filled with videos of said violations and it's enough to have many channels covering it with plenty of content.

There really needs to be some jail time for this. As the old saying goes, "we need to send a message to all the other law breakers, that such behavior will not be tolerated."
It’s more than just populism though - our political and media classes are deeply intermeshed and overlapping. The previous prime minister was a newspaper columnist and returned to being one. His sister is also a journalist in a prominent paper. A previous chancellor was a newspaper editor.

There is a very big class/power thing in journalism in the UK, so when an article like this turns up gesturing at Orwell (educated at Eton) with a vaguely anti-intellectual slant, I don’t think it means what it appears to at face-value
You're right that all countries switched from the gold standard to fiat money so they could inflate it, and inflate it they did.

What Biden did recently, however, was a truly massive spike in deficit spending, thus spiking inflation a few months later.
Hah, speaking of web devs not testing on Firefox... guess what?

I tried it again and some images had trouble loading, but a refresh got them on. Now I've reached a point where the image doesn't load even after refreshing, going back to the front by pressing the timeguessr logo and pressing play.

Firefox of course. Some privacy plugins including ublock origin. No, not taking them off.
Seconding this. OP, by letting your pet to roam around and have fun you are contributing to the local fauna's extinction. I hate to see how Australia[1] is responding to this issue but something needs to be done

[1] https://theconversation.com/australian-shelters-and-pounds-k...
I doubt (heh) this, unless you're referring to old and middle English.

Johnson did the best he could but a word was pronounced radically different in different areas of England. There are still jokes about not being able to understand anyone from the rural areas.

Still, he and Webster have a lot to answer for!
I have questions about where you live if 150 MB of data is an even remotely significant amount of data... Are you on a cellphone in rural Canada or something?
Are you reading the same article? Literally all the questions you ask are answered, clearly, in the article, with perhaps an exception to some of the "why it matters" questions. If you see the "about" page for this company you can see that their colorants are for things like bath bombs, soaps, makeup, etc., and so you'd want different things depending on what you're trying to color (e.g. if you're coloring an oil/fat vs. water in a bath).
Typically part of the sentence is to require an ignition interlock for multiple years. Driving a car without an ignition interlock is a lifetime driving ban, plus up to two additional years in prison. The details vary by state

The plate is there to shame the driver primarily and dissuade them from DUI, secondarily so the police pay more attention to them.
While I suppose breakpoints might still have some use cases, I believe an overwhelming amount of the stuff we currently use them for can be better and more fluidly accomplished with container queries.

The example you give of a sidebar collapse with a menu button replacement can easily be accomplished with a container query on the wrapping box, no?

I'm honestly curious about a use case that a media query breakpoint can handle, but which a container query can't.
Great argument calling out similar histories with then-new technologies, posted 4 minutes ago, already turning grey on HN.

Please change, HN.
Also rent seeking by namecheap. But agreed. It’s parasitic.
There are problems beyond just supply and demand. The reason in my experience that someone might use the term transactional is that at any given appointment, most doctors will only choose to focus on one or two topics or concerns. And generally, to get any sort of treatment option for those they'll need some sort of code for insurance to reimburse for the visit. This is especially true for specialists, whom if you visit enough doctors you'll realize push procedures or specialized tests very heavily because that's what makes money. In the current system every single aspect of medical care must have a price tag attached, must be composed of transactions and codes, or the doctors won't get paid. When the concept of "what is the diagnosis" implicitly morphs into "what is the billing code", medical care becomes a fractured and transactional experience rather than a holistic assessment. (And for any doctors reading this, I know that "holistic" is one of those quack trigger words, but those quacks are responding to an unmet need even if their treatments and diagnoses are pure bunkum.)
Yes, and if that was done, there'd be no inflation. Of course, then people would be aware of those huge costly tax increases, and the government would be unable to shift the blame.
I'd be happy to bet that the tech will continue to improve. But "producing a specific image with generative AI is sometimes almost impossible" seems very likely to still be true in February 2024.
I think firing your illustrator to replace them with Midjourney is like firing your developers and replacing them with Copilot. You still need someone to do the job, but now you got rid of the person who knew whether the result is actually good. We might as well get rid of photographers and illustrate our news with cell phone pictures while we're at it.

If a company needs to generate illustrations at a big enough pace to require an employee they'd only be replacing their illustrator with a worse one. We all know what happens to GUIs when programmers develop them, so why would this case be any different?
$15.88 per .com is pretty steep, damn. Dynadot shows $10.99 per renewal.

How legitimate is the Namecheap claim about "its out of our control" part? I have a number of domains with Namecheap, enough to be an annoyance to transfer them all but that number seems excessively high.
Agreed, and research agrees also, that the largest determining factor in skills is the time and effective work put into developing that skill. Unknown factors are a much smaller component and can give someone an edge at the highest performance levels.

But for some reason people don’t want think that the largest component is lots of work.
One can start with the ones that aren't decomposing, before they do decompose.
.xyz was a terrible TLD. I used it a few years ago and giving people my email address was so annoying. Even some logins didn't accept it. No benefits whatsoever.

"yourname@domainxyz.com??"
you might also find it interesting to read about the US air force's experiments with nuclear reactor powered bases dug out of the ice sheet in northern greenland (to service radar stations defending against missiles over the arctic from the soviet union). iirc the ruins are still out there somewhere

I believe it was called "Project Iceworm"

There is a really nice explanation out there somewhere I read about all the construction techniques they learned and what they very much learned not to do
Not including charset="utf-8" doesn't mean that the website is not UTF-8. Do you have a source on a significant percentage of website being Latin-1 while omitting charset encoding? I don't believe that's the case.

> Browsers don't use utf-8 unless you tell them to

This is wrong. You can prove this very easily by creating a HTML file with UTF-8 text while omitting the charset. It will render correctly.
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Delphi was what I had to use in my first apprenticeship/job, over 7 years ago now.

Came home after the first day and my dad told me that's what he made his first Windows programs with, too - but 25+ years ago!

After learning other languages, I still have to say it's great for quickly putting together GUIs and filling them with life. The community is rather thin these days though.

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I know he's talking about Delphi here, but FreePascal+Lazarus is still one of my secret weapons. It has some sort of supernatural force field which causes people to ignore it and unfairly denigrate it; meanwhile I whip up desktop applications in hours that would normally take days.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I'd prefer the federal government to take the lead here. There's a clear conflict of interest.

> The KBI said it was asked by Marion police and Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey to join an investigation into accusations of “illegal access and dissemination of confidential criminal justice information.” Ensey will decide whether to file criminal charges after the KBI forwards the findings of its investigation.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
> I have worked on multiple 500K+ line Python projects.

There were already several 1M+ Perl LoC code bases by the end of the 1990s, as Perl use exploded at places like Amazon.

One key driver of Raku's design was making it easy to write large, clean, readable code bases, and easy to enforce coding policies if and when a dev team leader chose to.

(Of course, as with any PL, you can write messy unreadable code -- and you can even write articles and record videos that make it seem like a given PL is only for Gremlins. But it's so easy to write clean readable code, why wouldn't you do that instead?)

> type hint ... is never enough if it isn't guaranteed by a compiler or at runtime

Indeed. Type hints are a band aid.

Raku doesn't do hints. Raku does static first gradual typing.[1]

The "static first" means static typing is the foundation.

The "gradual typing" means you don't have to explicitly specify types, but if you do types, they're always enforced.

Enforcement is at compile time if the compiler's static analysis is good enough, and otherwise at run time at the latest.

For example, in the Gremlins article only one example uses a static type (`Int`). But user code can and routinely does include types, and they are enforced. For example:

sub double(Int $x) { $x * 2 }
double '42'

results in a compile time error:

SORRY! Error while compiling ...

Calling double(Str) will never work with declared signature (Int $x)
(Int $x)

> total mess due to weak typing

I know what you mean, but to be usefully pedantic, the CS meaning of "weak typing" can be fully consistent with excellent typing discipline. Let me demonstrate with Raku:

sub date-range(Date $from, Date $to) { $from..$to }

The subroutine (function) declaration is strongly typed. So this code...

say date-range '2000-01-01', '2023-08-21';

...fails at compile time.

But it passes and works at run time if the function declaration is changed to:

sub date-range(Date() $from, Date() $to) { $from..$to }

(I've changed the type constraints from `Date` to `Date()`.)

The changed declaration works because I've changed the function to be weakly typed, and the `Date` type happens to declare an ISO 8601 date string format coercion.

But what if you wanted to insist that the argument is of a particular type, not one that just so happens to have a `Date` coercion? You can tighten things up...

sub date-range(Date(Str) $from, Date(Str) $to) { $from..$to }

...and now the argument has to already be a `Date` (or sub-class thereof), or, if not, a `Str` (Raku's standard boxed string type), or sub-class thereof, that successfully coerces according to `Date`'s ISO 8601 coercion for `Str`s.
> Using language i.e. a scene graph representaiton to manipulate ideas and thoughts is far more efficient and faster.

This sounds like language thinker bias, or your definition of language is more abstract (like in Computer Science) than human languages. I can "construct a scene graph" just fine, and while I have to use words to describe the scenes to you, no words played a part in coming up with these examples or thinking about them:

- imagine a rope running through several wooden blocks on a table and pick up various blocks, how do the rest of them behave?

- imagine wooden discs of various sizes with holes, stack them on a pole, does it happen to be a valid solution for Tower of Hanoi?

- imagine a toy car, start lifting one end, at what point does it tip over?

I for sure am not using a human language for that.

> Different languages based on primitives might construct different scene graphs.

This is probably very much true in the same style as your native language biases your perception of color boundaries.

For example: Finnish has just one word for "leg", not separate words for "leg" and "foot", so I view the abstract concept of the whole limb as one thing, not separated into two parts at the ankle. In using language, I may accidentally say in English "I hurt my leg" after kicking my foot into something; they're the same.

For the reverse, Finnish has separate words for the front and back parts of the neck -- and I don't mean just throat, which is just the trachea area, I mean the whole frontal part of it. So, the thought of e.g. dirt on the back of my neck is separate from the though of dirt on the front of my neck. (No, I don't use the words in the thought.)
> I don't think I've ever been to conference where all the speakers were announced more than a couple of day before the conference, and certainly way after last registration.

Not every conference, especially for small/new ones, are able to sell out purely on blind bird tickets.
The test I always use for this is Prince Edward Island -- 100% of their provincial electricity generation is wind, but it only makes up 3% of their usage, the rest being imported from New Brunswick.

From that perspective the map must be at least trying to reflect imports, as PEI isn't listed as 100% green energy.
Here's an attempt at summarizing the abstract in normal language:

It was observed that men with severe cases of COVID-19 were more likely to have lower testosterone levels. The researchers here discovered a mechanism that explains these lower levels of testosterone by showing that it is caused by higher levels of CYP19A1/"aromatase" [0] that converts testosterone to estradiol. They also find that these higher levels seem to be caused by a genetic mutation.

Treating hamsters with a clinically approved drug that inhibits CYP19A1 improved lung condition in male hamsters and the researches suggest that this might point to a new therapeutic strategy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatase
Why SF’s Drug Policies Fail vs. European Medication Assisted Treatment Programs
Raising the question: why do you have the Youtube app installed at all? Modern phones can play Youtube in the browser just fine, and browsers like Vivaldi come with adblock built in.
> XL

Extra Large? 40 times?
Yes, yes he is. https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
A wild cat would have parasites, a few still healing wounds, one eye and one of it's legs has bones did not heal quite straight. This is a cat that "naturally" hunts mice and birds. Compare that to a suburbian cat which is healthy, well fed and it's biggest health risk is obesity
HN users are so strange with their AI denialism.

You have total doomers aware of the AI potential. Horrified at the long term consequences of these LLMs. Then on the other side you have users saying "Its just another crypto bubble", and when pressed, they admit that they never used it.

There is just such a vocal population here that says 'Well its not always 100% perfect, so its useless", and they are burying their head in the sand that companies are already using the OpenAI API to reduce the cost of business.

I genuinely don't understand these people. They don't use the technology and they deny how useful it is. There is news and real world examples of its usefulness. I can only imagine these people manage (money) terribly.
Poll: Which distro do you use? (2023)
You can upvote several distros if you use them all regularly. The list of distros mostly comes from a recent HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838712
Fedora Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)
GalliumOS
Universal Blue
Mobian
postmarketOS
Well put.
Big fan of the "Commercial illustrators will keep their jobs, but will mostly need to learn to use AI as a part of their workflow to maintain a higher pace of work" part.

I'm a sometimes-illustrator (but my style is pretty far from what Generative AI is doing), and I recently published a 1.1 of a game manual which uses Midjourney images. I'm currently investing in a "proper" illustrator because the MDJ images lack character, but it's also true that in a few months from now this might change: I'll stick with the illustrator to have more consistency in the images, but probably the AI could do a fancier job there.

Besides, the "things will change in 2 months" point is a good one, but it's been used since a year and a half and things haven't changed yet. Sure, the quality of the produced images improved, but not in a qualitative scale.

Side note: the link civitai to leads to https://sambleckley.com/writing/civitai.com/images which is a dead link.
Cross attention is not really a way to "combine multiple AI models" but there are many ways to do that, and actually diffusion models are really good at being combined with stuff. Especially thanks to tricks like score distillation (see dreamfusion3d.github.io). But it isn't anything like AGI because the AI is not inventing the combinations itself, and even if you could, there is no clear way to make it self-directed. These are still processes that require lots of programmers being very clever.

Edit: typo
Where's the thread? I see the first post then... nothing.
You're right! I've stumbled upon the prompt engineering part and rolled my eyes, which was clearly too soon.
I find people are much more likely to over key on their first-hand accounts than to rightly consider how small their sample-size is.

So in terms of common "mistakes" I see, I think yours is the larger. "First hand accounts" are never unbiased, and are rarely well-collected data. I'm not saying I don't believe OP here, I think this is probably the exception to the rule, but I think you're just wrong.

The plural of anecdote isn't data, because it hasn't been collected in any meaningfully standardizable way.

Edit: If you need evidence this is clearly an anecdote:

> every single passenger who had never been on a Tesla before always uses the manual release handle instead of the right button, and I get a warning message on the screen and the risk of breaking the window glass.

OP is probably assuming that everyone who gets it correct has been in a Tesla before. But given the 2 options and how close they are together, I'd be pretty surprised if no one had gotten this correct on their first try. One of the buttons is much more visible than the other. So either OP's sample size is small enough to be uninteresting, or hyperbole. Either way, it's not data, and it's wrong to treat it as such.

What it does tell us, is that this probably isn't a problem for everyone but that hardly matters to the people who can't figure out how to get out of a Model 3 right now.
Here’s one source, there are several other places Ole has talked about it: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/doc/cita...

I think the confusing issue here is that the notice is not a license requirement, it does not add additional licensing restrictions. It’s an honor-system agreement between the user and Ole, and does not involve the GPL. It does seem to be walking a very fine line, and it’s easy for users to not understand the distinction, but I believe the notice does adhere to the GPL’s rules, even if it doesn’t initially appear to for us non-lawyers.
I also don't signs of bureaucracy, lack of flexibility or emotional manipulation generally.

If a company cannot negotiate salary because of some corporate rules, I'm not interested. If a company will not give me any flexibility in working hours I'm not interested. If a company tries to make me feel bad about not immediately accepting their offer I'm very likely to not accept their offer at all.

Rigid companies which have no regard for your emotional wellbeing are not pleasant places to work and I struggle to give my best when I feel I'm not respected.
This also applies to code. I come across the situation A LOT in OOP codebases that they have completely superfluous interfaces and/or abstract classes, that are made pointless by the fact that every single implementation extends some example implementation. The most egregious example I ever found was a Minecraft mod which had an interface, implemented by an abstract class, which had another abstract class that extended it, which was implemented by a an example class.

Every single mod I could find (sample size of ~1000) just extended the example.
This is my own personal thread - happy to answer any questions about my experiences with Switzerland’s and Estonia’s MAT programmes, as well as policy questions about why these policies have failed in the US and the UK
So if it's GPL, I can remove the citation bits, release it under the GPL as free-parallel, and everything's OK?
Oh but if you don't like .com name prices you can always buy a .biz name! /s
Hunchly Team Releases 6 Years of Tor Crawls
Hey folks! Our team just released 6 years of crawl data from our Tor dark web crawler. Free and Creative Commons ASA licensed, have fun!
I made a comment a few levels up to a sibling where I point out the parts of the C89 spec that are relevant.

Alignment requirements for integers are implementation defined, not undefined behavior. On x86, the implementation used to define the alignment requirement to be one byte.

In fact, if you've do enought hardware register and bus-level (e.g., PCIe) programming, you'll quickly realize that there are all sorts of other exotic implementation-defined alignment constraints on modern systems.
Not only that, but there was trade and migrations across the Bering straight before Columbus too, as evidenced by the spread of the Yupik people/Paleo-Eskimos.

Indonesia (Makassar) also traded with aboriginal Australians but this started in earnest in the 1700s. Still, it’s reasonable to conclude the entire earth was tenuously connected (technologically and historically if not actively) already even in the 1400s aside from some very isolated islands.
First K239 Chunmoo MLRS Rckts/Missile Launcher Arrive in Poland from South Korea
> While the quality of images has improved a lot, if you have something specific and moderately complex in mind it's still very hard to get there just from a textual prompt.

I think this gets to an important point. If whoever is paying the bills has something very specific in mind, they won't be happy with AI (or frankly many artists) at this point. But as a creative interpretation of something more general, it's actually really good, and I think with many low-importance works like the author describes as "furniture" - we really don't need to be that exact.
I'm guessing you have to be logged in to Twitter, first.