skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dell XPS laptop series (and older Latitudes) seem to be a solid hardware platform for running various Linux distros. I'm running Mint and Arch on some XPSes and Latitudes and they have been very stable. I think part of the reason Linux works so well with Dell machines OOTB was because they used to sell a line of dev-oriented computers to the public, and one of their options was to have Ubuntu pre-installed.

Running Mint on an old MSFT Surface Pro 4 has also worked out very well for me. I was pleasantly surprised when the touchscreen just worked after installation.

If I was looking for a new Intel-based laptop today, I would probably be looking at Framework or System 76. That said, I'm hoping to see more high-performance ARM platforms hit the market in the next 2-3 years, so I'm holding off for now.
Naive question: Are there any such cities in the US that have all that and all the other perks you'd want from a city (active dating scene; diversity of food, people, culture, museums, restaurants; good public transit; good schools; etc)?

I've been trapped in the concrete-jungle part of SF for a while, and — while I do really want to escape to a better, greener city — it's oddly difficult to find an alternative. I wonder if NYC may be the only viable candidate.
Java has incredible tooling, far more advanced than whatever exists in C++ world. If you're looking specifically for "fairly new" language then Kotlin is your bet. Tooling is almost on par with Java. Can utilize ALL of Java ecosystem on JVM. Multiplatform (JVM, JS, native).

C#, TS if you're looking outside of JVM.
author of the post here - was inspired to write this post after working with OTEL for a few months - realized that OTEL had a ridiculously large surface area that most people (at least myself) might not be aware of

I see a lot of comments about how overly complex OTEL is. I don't disagree with this. in some sense, OTEL is very much the k8 for observability (good and bad)

The good is that it is a standard that can support every conceivable use case and has wide industry adoption
The bad is that there is inherent complexity in needing to support the wide array of use cases
The 4% GP quoted was in reference to individual cancers (since there is no "cancer" screening, each screening is specific to a type of cancer).

I'm having trouble finding numbers, but the comment by Vinay was basically saying that each screening is testing for something that has 1-4% chance of killing you. Not that 4% of all cause mortality is cancer, which is incorrect. In the context of individual screenings per cancer, the numbers roughly make sense based on what I could find, but I am by no means an expert.

The specific video/content they are rehashing is the one by Vinay here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hQO7X1bmU

I'd highly recommend listening to the Econtalk conversation as there is a lot of nuance behind why screenings (at least as they are done today) could potentially be a net negative at the individual level and don't seem to have improved all-cause mortality in a significant way (according to Vinay).
Can you expand upon why you chose those particular things to focus on? I’m genuinely interested and don’t have a traditional CS background so I’d like to know what I’m missing.

(Serious question. I’m not being snarky)
> Why?

Not understanding the need to be dismissive of someone else's plans. Part of the fun of programming is checking things out, if we maintain an open-mind.

> this language has literally no unique attributes that would make it different than D or Go, so you won’t improve as a developer from it at all...

Such a statement can be perceived as highly inflammatory. V clearly has different features from D and Go. Additionally, V is among the most popular programming languages on GitHub[1], based on stars. And has been so for some years now. Other people clearly use and experiment with it. What you and I like, doesn't mean that others don't or can't have different preferences.

[1] https://ossinsight.io/collections/programming-language/
Why not just use podman quadlet and systemd?
Was wondering the same thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_of_Charles_Darwin
Temperature without humidity is like voltage without current, or per-capita GDP without the Gini coefficient. Many measures alone are of little practical value.

Stay _comfortable_ there!
I would strongly suspect that you are misusing Numpy in some way.

Python is horrifically slow, everyone knows that, but if used correctly numpy can even the playing field a great deal. I've seen lots of python/numpy written using nested loops, and this is always going to be really really slow.
Author in so much suffering yet producing such lucid descriptions. Really puts the stoicism philosophy to a test
> The reason people don't tell you their database password on Hacker News is because of countries that don't have that law, I assume.

That's silly, the reason people protect themselves is so that they are protected. Legal protection is another different kind of protection, but I think it's a deep stretch to argue that one can remove all the technical protections and still keep access to the CFAA and obtain meaningful protection from the law.

> protected computer

If you're suggesting that the CFAA itself protects the computer by definition, then you've excluded the possibility of a such thing as an "unprotected computer" which renders the extra word unnecessary. I don't think that's the intention, that all computers gain the implicit protection, I think there actually needs to be a policy or standard enforced, or ownership made clear.

In the tradition of US property law, I think you need to do the bare minimum of posting "NO TRESPASSING" signs at the border so anyone that walks by them can be said to have observed the difference between your space and the public spaces surrounding it (which they are permitted to be in, just like your private property so long as it's unprotected and they haven't been asked to leave before...)
I guess a play on Jonathan Swift's 1729 A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
> what specific issues have you had with Copilot?

If I put a single swear word in my code it refuses to complete anymore
This isn't complicated. You can be convicted of breaking & entering through an open door. At trial, your defense will have to convince a jury that a reasonable person would believe they were entitled to go through the door. If the door was to, say, a Starbucks, that defense will be compelling indeed. If it is to a private home owned by strangers, you'll be convicted.

I think that's roughly how it will play out in a CFAA case too: the case will turn on why it was you thought you were authorized to tinker with the things you tinkered with. If, as is so often encouraged on HN, your defense turns on the meanings of HTTP response codes, you'll likely be convicted. On the other hand, if you can tell a convincing story about how anybody who understands a little about how a browser works would think that they were just taking a shortcut to something the site owner wanted them to do anyways, you're much more likely to be OK.

If you create an admin account in the database, it won't much matter what position the door was in, so to speak.

The concept we're dancing around here is mens rea.

(Again: DOJ has issued a policy statement saying they're not going after cases like this Fizz thing, so this is all moot anyways.)
> Free forever for individual devs on public and private code, with a generous rate limit.

What's the catch?
Also in Italy there is a region where a lot of "companies" are cooperatives, (Emilia-Romagna), I'd say it's one of the wealthiest regions in Italy, I've lived there and was one of my happiest time in my life. I'd say a restaurant owned by workers can work, but as everything depends who do you work with, more than class, is personalities that make the difference, that's why I don't like these kind of articles, I think they are most useful to push a narrative and please a segment of the people, some "newspapers" would find a restaurant going bankrupt due to being owned by people, some other one would find a restaurant working being owned by people, they're just cases, people are diverse. In the end regardless of what happens to businesses funded by workers or by rich daddyskids we need better wealth redistribution, more taxes and better worker protections
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That's exactly right, and depending upon which outlet you choose there are different industry bros directing shit flinging at different boogeymen. It's tiresome.
The copyright ruling that you are referencing is being significantly misunderstood.

The only think that the ruling said is basically that the most low effort version of AI does not have copyright protection.

IE, if you just go into midjourney and type in "super cool anime girl!" and thats it, the results are not protected.

But there is so much more you can do. For example, you can generate an image, and then change it. The resulting images would be protected due to you adding the human input to it.
That just does not work unless you have bubble around your whole body and I bet even then it’s sufficiently loud.

Unless you find the perfect windscreen, most have lots of buffeting and it’s actually quite hard to dial it in perfectly.

Helmets do absolutely zero to block noises.

Edit: just to add. I think it stands. The helmet does not block any sound. It may be aero dynamic enough that it helps prevent additional wind noise but it’s not blocking sound. Ear pro all the time.
So can we have a JVM written in Rust, running on WASM, running some Java, running MineCraft?
No idea what on his timeline you mean, but can you point to a specific post?
Yes, absolutely, super interesting. Would it ALSO be a good idea to standardize battery specs? If so, which?
> Plaintiffs allege Defendants failed to warn or instruct of the following risks and dangers of using the CAEv2 as intended:
(1) that the CAEv2 loosens
imperceptibly in a user’s ears, thereby allowing damaging sounds to bypass the
earplug and enter the ear;
(2) that Aearo’s testing subjects did not follow standard
fitting instructions, but rather used a reconfigured method of folding back the
opposing flanges before inserting the device into their ears;
(3) that following Defendants’ standard instructions for insertion of the CAEv2 would not achieve the 22 Noise Reduction Rating and would thereby pose a serious risk to users; and
(4) that Defendants did not adequately or properly test the CAEv2.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flnd-3_19-md-02...
Incentives usually have unintended consequences.

The laws that would apply to unsolicited pentesting make it undesirable to perform it.

Thus, society as a whole is less secure because someone wants to protect companies from hacking.
Neo 360: Neural Fields for Sparse View Synthesis of Outdoor Scenes
Ollama is very neat. Given how compressible the models are is there any work being done on using them in some kind of compressed format other than reducing the word size?
We changed the URL from https://www.thefactsite.com/charles-darwin-eating-habits/ to something hopefully less spammy.

Related and possibly of interest:

https://beagleproject.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/having-dinner...
I (naively) think a restaurant would have an easier time detecting people who are doing the bare minimum. The issue becomes how to "punish" freeloaders who are also owners? Imagine the nightmare scenario of a restaurant where every employee is a part of the LLC that owns it. "Firing" someone becomes an onerous legal process.
Understandably the magnitude amount matters more for the environment, but per capita China is half of what US is, no? The trend line is worrying of course, but in per capita terms US is still much worse.
I try to avoid statistical programming, preferring determinism, driven by intent. ;)

So, I use "is" since "is" is not a context dependent concept, like equals is. I've seen this once in the wild, and it made sense for its use:

def __eq__(self, other):
return bool(self) == bool(other)
You mean “There is lots of reasons why this would be interesting to game developers”, goes on not mentioning a single one ?
It seems they have no automated optical inspection (AOI) system. Why? Theories. (1) Manufacturing site footprint availability. AOI on large assemblies with high throughput requirements may be extremely spatially and temporally inefficient as the need to control lighting means a substantial facility footprint may be required. (2) manufacturing operation build time pressures (3) assessments and claims by the casting equipment provider (4) the potential unavailability of an off the shelf solution suitable for parts of this scale.

Stable process control could eliminate the need, but AOI is relatively cheap insurance.
Full-face helmets are still very noisy at highway speeds
> We don't do that survival of the fittest mindset here.

Which is why the gap between US and Europe is widening - 20 years ago EU GDP was on par with US, now it is 2/3rds of it (and that's after adding UK, to make things comparable after Brexit).
Introduction to Operating Systems: Behind the Desktop
Because no one took the time to find a high quality secondary source and add this fact to the article yet.
There are injections available every 6-8 weeks that can stop progression and maybe heal the damage to some extent. The big question is will Medicare cover it. My mom has triple coverage so she might not be the typical case. https://www.verywellhealth.com/macular-degeneration-emerging...
Left Hand Brewery in CO is majority employee owned but not 100%.

https://www.brewbound.com/news/left-hand-brewing-now-majorit... (2015)
> especially the ones that protect you as the individual - will remain in force even if a sub section is invalidated

In a right-to-work state, what protections can an individual realistically expect to receive from a contract?
Idefics: An Open Reproduction of State-of-the-Art Visual Language Model
Meta HN: How much of a HN's typical front page do you understand?
I was rereading this article recently: "The world in which IPv6 was a good design" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324)

...and realized I could barely understand one line out of 10 (the reading was surpringly pleasant, though. Apenwarr is a very entertaining technical writer).

So I took all 30 articles on the front-page, one by one: 90% of them (and 96% of the technical ones) were way above my head. I have been a Web developer for 7 years. I have no formal education in CS, but I've been training on the job every workday, so this is a bit depressing.

Do you relate to that? How much of the average front-page do you understand, or enjoy?
Not sure if it's eye disease alone or something else.. but my friend has Keratoconus and after getting super strong contacts her vision is no longer blurry and nor is poised to lose per diagnoses she was given years back.
I agree with basically everything you said

> If people are only living in your suburb because it’s where they can afford a house in commuting distance, telework and transit improvements are going to encourage people to leave - they’re not sticking around for the nightlife at Applebees #7649.

I think that you will find people moving out even further to even more remote suburbs if they are no longer required to be in an office in the city.

Another thing that's lost in the conversation is the amount of commercial real estate in the suburbs. Since the 1970s, a huge chunk of commercial real estate has sprawled its way into the suburbs:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/office-sprawl-the-evolvin...

> Suburbs now contain the majority of office space in many of the country’s top metropolitan office markets, according to this survey. Before 1980, central cities dominated the office market, but over the last two decades, office space has become much more dispersed. A new urban form, an “edgeless city,” is emerging.

I take my home of Northern Virginia as an example: many people assume that those living way out in Loudoun County (where the DC metro has a station) are living there for the cost while working in DC. In fact, very few people I know there worked in DC. Rather, they worked in a nearby suburban town (Reston, Chantilly, Fair Oaks, Tysons Corner, Herndon, etc.) and lived in a suburban town. You get this huge amount of suburban sprawl which is only tangentially related to the main city which it is attached to. Once those offices crumble, I wonder how it will reshape the geography of suburbs
While only 5 of Canada's 9 provinces have bagged milk today (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia), in the late 1960's when it was introduced, all provinces had it. Four provinces dropped it between the 1970's and 1990's.

Of the 5 provinces that still have bagged milk, Ontario and Quebec constitute over half of the Canadian population, so I don't think it is correct to say it's "not very common in Canada" when 26 million of the 40 million Canadians have access to bagged milk.
As long as they provide free Enterprise access for all those whose data they already stole...
But then your dismal will be governed by common law which could mean years of back pay depending on where you live.
Services can negotiate the terms of their insurance contract or even choose whether or not to carry insurance. They agree to these terms and know the implications, and again, if the need for the investigation is legitimate then they should be conducting it regardless of how the vulnerability is uncovered.

> it's not the way the law works.

Which is problematic.
It depends on how you uncovered the URL and what's behind it: your intent, which is most of what matters here.
The smoking rates have halved since 2000 with no signs of slowing down. Subtle warnings do help.
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> Trolls are creating misinformation and using it for political gain. That's my point.

Yes, I understand that is your point. Just as I could make it my point that the sky is blue. But why would we want to make these points? These non-sequiturs add nothing of value.
Yes, I think your description is perfectly reasonable. You could make a convincing argument that the researchers poked their head in to an open door. The fact that the law requires you to steal data or otherwise cause damages would support this idea.

I just wanted to argue against the idea that an unprotected computer is fair game for hacking. Morally and legally, it is not.
Rust drove the fixes needed in llvm to support noalias. They went through a couple reverts before seemingly fixing everything. If lfortran emits noalias, llvm can probably handle it now.
Yes. I'm a huge proponent of continuing education (which can come in a variety of forms, not just in a classroom). I think it's a huge shame that this isn't part of software dev culture like it is in most other professional fields.

But a large part of education is actually practicing what you learn in a realistic and persistent way. You can do that outside of a work environment, but it's easiest inside of one. And since most devs advance their salaries and careers through changing jobs anyway, it makes sense to me to include learning new skills as one of the things you look for in a new position.
Yes, same with the more general "whistleblowers". Unethical companies will always try to punish those who expose them.
Very different use case. Those have a transducer (speaker) inside the plug. What you'd actually need to do what they want is active threshold-trigger, or perhaps just really good ANC.

Edit: Also the difference between $200+ custom molds and plugs, vs foam ones that need to cost a few cents each.
What's the status of autofree engine becoming the default? It's perhaps the most discussed feature of the language. Last year it was mentioned the GC it's temporary until autofree engine is production ready.
But mah punch cards!
I really prefer Ministry to termination shock. I mean, it's a fun book, but it offers no solution (eg sulphur seeding does nothing for ocean acidification, not to mention termination shock). The fact that people read it and thing it offers a solution is puzzling.
Now Anathem is another matter! Brilliant! (although again I have quibbles).
(a) what if a company hires an external red team to hack their shit, would that not be 'ethical hacking'?
Tattúínárdǿla Saga: If Star Wars Were an Icelandic Saga (2010)
It might not be the manosphere making them miserable. I don't see anything in the article attributing additional misery to it.
> a thing that US manufacturers did back in the day

Is this...a joke?

We are currently going through inflation caused directly by margin chasing and stock buybacks. If you look into any industry you will see a long race to the bottom to get the most money for the least product imaginable.

It's the #1 function of a capitalist system, to extract the most value for the least work. Margin chasing is all we do. It should be included in our national anthem.
Ah, that's helpful, thanks! I do indeed have the Leap 2.
It is pretty universally used to filter out candidates. FAANG pioneered this and maybe for a while you could work in startups without grinding programming challenges, but unfortunately today even startups lean pretty heavily into this.
How to Check If a Variable Is Defined in Ruby with Defined? Keyword
Great example of moving the goalposts. You wrote "total lack of action" for which there is counter-evidence in the form of a national government action. With the same logic, one might as well claim that an entire firearm is an accessory to whatever is redefined as the "real problem."
Spirits of those cadets are probably laughing off their spectral asses .
Love this. Is there a nutrition wiki?
That's the exactly the same reason why basic income can't work if it's introduced on its own. This money will immediately land in the hands of landlords who'll just increase rent.
If a landlord becomes aware a company pays it's managers above industry norms, do they raise rent? How does any company make a profit in such a world?
Alot of people use travel to try to fix their lives or escape their problems. It never works.

Most people's travel isn't something to be jealous of anyway when you pry into it.
everything in early stage not prod-ready experimental project is on roadmap, there is no guarantee anything works or will work, this is only healthy expectations for such projects.

Now, can you tell why you and similar folks follow val author in every post even issue has been resolved long ago?
Show HN: AI Mental wellness companion for those without access
Hi everyone,

I built an app that is aimed at providing mental wellness support to those who for whatever reason don't have access to it.

It is built with a fine tuned GPT 3.5 and is 100% a genAi wrapper app.
I don't think it's that simple. The prosecution will have to prove the intent to commit a crime. If it looks like a service that should require authorization, and the door is swinging wide open, I think there's a decent argument to be made that you can't prove a reasonable neighbor's intent wasn't to perform a welfare check, and with no criminal intent there is no crime of burglary.

If my neighbor leaves his door open (in the winter, say), and I have cause to believe that something is wrong based on that, is a jury going to convict me for going in there to check on them? It really sounds like that's what was done here.

I guess creating an admin account while I'm in there is a bit like making a key for myself while I look around. That might be over the line. But without that step, I'm not sure how you can have proved that something was even wrong...

I'll go read the article now.
There is a difference between a variable and a value. The value is definitely read only or you would need a mut modifier. The variable binding changes in a similar way to shadowing it with a new 'let' on the same name.