skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python kind of had three things that really mattered, an culture of “one correct way”, an invisible but conservative type system, and an style guide build into the language an dictated from the language designers in the form of significant whitespace and PEP-8.

Ruby could have been a contender but still had some of the “there is more than one way to do things” left over from perl(ruby was kind of an pragmatic alternative to the “real soon newer” of perl6) and it’s a bit more dynamic than python in how it handles variable internally.

And the field of academic data crunching was hurting badly from the fact that the two only viable options for most entry level researches was Excel/VisualBasic or PERL so everyone wanted some level of structure which the python community led by Guido provided, once people begun to settle on bumpy and pandas.

And pythons popularity definitely grows from the fact that it’s what non programmers learned as an alternative to Excel/SPSS/SAS/Matlab(all of whom are expensive proprietary tools) in classes focused on analyzing data.
We use a balance of both. All of our body text is WCAG 2 compliant - we wanted to ensure the primary usability of the app is accessible towards the current standard. Where we diverge is when combining saturated colors with desaturated colors for foregrounds/backgrounds, which WCAG has some trouble with. Some good examples of this are here: https://twitter.com/DanHollick/status/1417895151003865090

This was relevant for our Figma's brand color, as prior to our accessibility pass it wasn't compliant when combined with white text for neither WCAG 2 nor APCA. We modified it slightly to be #0D99FF, which was close enough to the original brand color it didn't feel like a rebrand, while still allowing us a passing APCA color contrasts score. Notably though it doesn't pass WCAG 2, but you'll see from this example the contrast is significant: https://image.non.io/15ed7558-5337-40fc-9e5b-2392087cc35b.we...

That's not to say though that APCA is a perfect solution. Interestingly, should APCA be adopted as the WCAG standard, Figma and Hackernews both would fail contrast guidelines. Part of APCA is a guideline for what font size/weight combinations are allowed for any color contrast level. Even with #000 and #fff as your colors, fonts under 11.5px are not allowed (Figma uses 11px for much of the UI). For many expert tools, 11px fonts are fairly standard due to the amount of UI you have to have on screen - other examples here where this is common are tools such as Blender or CAD software. Hackernews uses black 12px font for the main body text against a #f6f6ef background, which according to APCA requires a minimum 15px font at normal font weight. This is a perfect example of my earlier point that you have to use a collection of tools at the end of the day to get to a correct solution, rather than using a single tool or algorithm as a dogmatic source of truth. You can create poorly accessible solutions with WCAG and bad user experiences with APCA.
Parent: That company does unethical things.

Reply: A lot of people reading this comment do unethical things, so we probably shouldn't be on our high horse in this thread.

I don't necessarily endorse that line of thinking as I believe it falls under the purview of "classic whataboutism".
> Probably I'm hit by the second chance pool.

Ah yes. I've always found that confusing. HN changes the timestamps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nicolodev does show 1 day ago.
Huh, that sounds neat but is a foreign concept to my American sensibilities. How far does that right extend? What's the line between a tent and a cabin? How much are you allowed to modify the environment to make it suitable for camping? How long are you allowed to stay before moving on? Are you required to remove your waste? How close can you be to an established dwelling?
The timing of key stokes leaks information. Here's the 2001 paper that describes the problem:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec01/full_papers/song/...
Thanks for the link. This sounds more useful to refer to (because more general_ than horseshoe theory.
The access was possible but not legal but they gave themselves legal access. It's a slippy slope. They have placed an unknown file as well on your computer.
> You're conflating "I can't get the diagnostic repair codes that Taylor can" with "Kids are going to get hurt because the machine is malfunctioning"

But the article and the linked vice.com article suggests that the device isn't just decoding error codes, it's also providing a hardware bypass for safety features like lockouts.
OpenBCI is usually a good place to start for BCI DIY projects. I use the Low-cost Biosensing Starter Bundle[1], it comes with EEG/EMG/ECG hardware & software.

I have some (cringe) unboxing & assembling vids if you want to see what comes in the box[2]. (Recommend watching it on 2x speed till I get better at editing)

[1] https://shop.openbci.com/products/low-cost-biosensing-starte...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiCSFuMQ0nDL02Ml5lUCVqQ
Unfortunately these more modern units are still stupid expensive (in the US) compared to the older style. Unclear why; probably some sort of shenanigans with the HVAC manufacturing companies.
It just occurred to me that Japan also uses 120V (actually I think they use 100V), so it may be just a matter of speed. You can boil water a lot quicker with your 240V outlets than we can with our 100-120V.
That's very odd. Polymorphism and inheritance in general is quite easy to deal with both for the compiler and for the IDE.
I would agree, but this is also very dependent on the level of brokeness. This is good advise to most 20-somethings but if OP is really broke, it’s not really actionable.
Yeah near me they rarely ever pop, and when they do it's almost always lightning related.
I LOL'd. This is why you don't let AI write anything. It's great for giving a gist or summarizing/categorizing things... but this. I ... wow.

> I object to the processing of my personal data, including but not limited to my contact list, messages, location data, device information, and any other data that WhatsApp collects for purposes that are not essential to the provision of the service

It's literally a messaging app! You literally need ALL of those things just to send messages. Else how do you send a message without processing (aka, routing) it? How do I share a live location without processing my location data?

> Specifically, I am concerned about the processing of my data for targeted advertising, data sharing with third-party entities, and any other processing activities that are based on WhatsApp's legitimate interest rather than my explicit consent.

OK, so what. Sending a message is literally sharing data with a third party. There's no way around it, there will always be AT LEAST 3 parties: the sender, whatsapp, and the recipient. Like come on. Are they supposed to ask you on every send: "do you consent with sharing your message with the recipient?" LOL

> I am concerned about the potential misuse of my data, the risk of data breaches, and the sharing of my data with entities that I have not provided consent to.

For some reason, I assume they're concerned with this too and go to great lengths to protect their infrastructure.

> The aggregation and analysis of my data for profiling and targeted advertising purposes infringe upon my right to a private life and can lead to unwanted and intrusive advertisements.

LOL. So counting the number of people who do X where the count is in the hundreds of thousands to a millions somehow endangers your right to privacy? I can't wait to hear about this one.

> the sharing of my data with third-party entities without my explicit knowledge or consent

Your habits of drunk dialing on Whatsapp (which is the only way I can really think of involving a third party without your consent, though I guess butt-dialing counts too) ... are not their problem.

> prioritize transparency and user control in its data processing activities.

Yeah, if they're sending messages without telling you, then I suppose you'd probably want to stop using that service.

This message was a good laugh, and all the more reason NOT to let AI do ANYTHING meaningful.
Human Neural Larva Migrans Caused by Ophidascaris Robertsi Ascarid
Abstract: "We describe a case in Australia of human neural larva migrans caused by the ascarid Ophidascaris robertsi, for which Australian carpet pythons are definitive hosts. We made the diagnosis after a live nematode was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old woman who was immunosuppressed for a hypereosinophilic syndrome diagnosed 12 months earlier."

Related Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-...
> for no discernible reason at all

Are you asking? Post the location and I'd be happy to weigh in from a cyclist's point of view.
They will definitely work out when even a minor engine failure on the average new ICE car being sold in 2033 costs over $10k to repair and even the cheapest garages are billing $300 per hour to work on such complicated machinery.

Which seems to be the trajectory every automaker is going down to meet fuel mileage requirements.
iFixit – Why McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken and How to Fix Them [video]
I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop
What I was trying to say is that if you're comfortable using modern C++ and try to switch back to a C++ compiler from the early 90s you are going to find a lot of the features you regularly use suddenly being absent. With C this is much less of an issue.
"After working full-time for at least five years, you can take extended paid leave financed from retirement savings. In return, you voluntarily agree to increase your retirement age.

For example, you can take three months extra paid leave while you are 35 by agreeing to increase your retirement age by one year."

In the US, it wouldn't fly with a corporation doing this because the expense would be on them. It'd make more sense to revise IRS rules to allow these sabbatical periods (by allowing portioned access to your IRA / 401k with tax rules adjustments) with government-mandated unpaid time off in exchange for retirement age adjustments. I'm not saying I agree with what I've just said, I'm thinking about how corporations and the government would allow playing ball with the exchange idea to begin with.

The company my wife works at allows paid sabbaticals (that gives a month / month-half off) after 5 years of employment, and her's will start in a few month. However, there's no guarantee that you still will have your job by the end of it, but because it's sanctioned by the company, I'd imagine there's less of a likelihood that happens.
Learning to count sheep (the Lincolnshire way) [video]
So your issue was with the nature of the language and the size of the project more than the application of DRY?

I think I see what you're getting at, but I've certainly also seen very large Java projects that are simple at a high level and composed in such a way that they're still legible without a ton of duplication. These might be somewhat orthogonal concepts.
> "Oh but you can replace this with a derived class", it's not as flexible (for example, mix and matching, etc)

What do you mean by "mix and matching"? I feel like a concrete example might help me understand what you're thinking of in this thread.

> Sure if you only do CRUD you probably won't run into those cases. Math heavy, scientific code, simulations, etc might disagree

Ha, it's funny because I've recently started doing more math-y / scientific / simulation work in python, after a career spent mostly doing CRUD-y things in not-python, and I've never been more convinced that it is best to make code as statically legible as possible. It's hard enough to make sure the math and the algorithms are right, I don't want to also be reasoning through dynamic abstractions.

But again, maybe there's a concrete thing you're thinking of here that I'm not seeing!
They didn't say not to care, they said not to preemptively block the EU.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230816114128.h...

Oceans release microplastics into the atmosphere
No, the latent heat of fusion is 143.6 BTU/pound, not 144. It's just a coincidence that the energy to raise water one °F ÷ the energy to melt ice is almost 144.
Who will you give this aid to? Realistically, it would be given to the government right? Do you think it would be spent wisely, considering most(if not all) poor countries are run by extremely corrupt governments.
Just matches common characteristics of toxic, controlling people. Bad managers, maybe, but they know how to get what they want
Huh? Why would the satellites go off? The Starlink satellites know they own location, so they most likely have a list of cells they are allowed to serve. It's a lot harder to hack a satellite in orbit than a terminal you have physical access to.
Legal AI – ChatGPT for Lawyer's
But you need an extra conductor, no? Doesn't that make up for the reduced amount of copper in each one?
Agreed. Is the kind of stat I think I reflexively refuse to believe at face value. :( How did things get that bad?
Face mask recommendations did not impact Covid-19 incidence–regression analysis
Full Title:"Face mask recommendations in schools did not impact COVID-19 incidence among 10–12-year-olds in Finland – joinpoint regression analysis"

"Conclusions
According to our analysis, no additional effect was gained from mandating face masks, based on comparisons between the cities and between the age groups of the unvaccinated children (10–12 years versus 7–9 years)."
NYC is honestly great for cycling. Say what you will about Bloomberg (or, allow me: scum), but his transportation secretary Janette Sadik-Khan did so much to turn this into a cycling city. If De Blasio and Adams had followed that lead, our cycling infrastructure would be second only to Amsterdam by now.

(and yeah I lived in Portland too)
This is only applicable against a white background. Do the same rules apply for a black background or other colors?
Who will take the liability and PR losses for those fraction of repair jobs, done poorly anyways, that fail?
Seem like there's a market to be a buyer of a few thousand of the Italian machines state-side, in complete (for selling) and in parts (for repairs).
I've been through pretty tough times before and by several strokes of luck + hard work I'm kinda getting back to the path I want to follow in life. The below is what I would tell my teenage/early 20s self:

- Realize that some events are outside your control. If you were screwed over or unlucky in any way you need to move on from whatever happened and focus on what you can change

- Consistency is key. Just show up everyday and work towards your goal, over time you will see some positive results.

- Desire is suffering, if you're chasing a house, car or lifestyle realize that when you get it you'll just want something better. Try to be happy with what you have first.

- Positive reframing, your situation may not be that bad. It probably could've been alot worse right? Maybe your situation will force you to take action and be a better person

- Don't compare yourself to others, no one had the exact same path in life

- Success = working hard and being ready to take advantage when luck strikes

- Workout atleast 3 times a week, even if it's doing a home routine without any equipment

- Just be nice to people you work with, your network is your networth
Ditto in my previous job, there were weekly package deliveries of hard drives from Europe, which were a magnitude faster (then) compared to what was possible for a reasonable price... Of course this was all back in the day, and might only be economical these days from somewhere with major airports but no connecting fibre.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/01/13/final-lawsuit-over-fox...

The Reply-All podcast did a great episode covering the Mount Pleasant / Foxconn events at the time:

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd/
On the other hand, we have the fact that listeria just killed a couple people due to ice cream machines not getting cleaned properly. https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/monocytogenes-06-22/i...

Franchise owners use 'hacks' to disable the lengthy cleaning process on their machines to make more money at the expense of our health.
Speaking specifically to riding in the center of a lane: if there's not a bike lane or wide shoulder then it's not entitlement, it's a safety issue.

If a cyclist hugs the edge of the road then drivers frequently squeeze between the cyclist and oncoming traffic. If the cyclist stays in the middle of the lane then drivers recognize they need to wait for a clear passing opportunity.
Says they built it in 2011 in the About. No worries.
I also work on FAANG NLP research teams. I'm just saying that anyscale is now competing with AWS. Supposedly their moat is shrinking, Google has yet to release a model that competes with GPT-4. Anyone using these models on a daily basis is not impressed with Llama 2, and cannot build useful systems with it, aside from a narrow vertical.
I spent a large portion of my late 20s/early 30s in a pretty bad state, but found my way out in my late 30s. The biggest difference was to try to only deal with one dumpster fire in my life at a time, if possible. I was dealing with several, and wasn't able to handle any of them adequately. Unstable relationship, unstable health, unstable employment/money; any of those I could manage individually. Taking that seriously may mean choosing lower pay/more stable employment, ending a _possibly_ salvageable relationship, etc. None of those are easy, but in retrospect it would've been easier than trying to manage all of them simultaneously, badly.
The paper doesn't prove you can't be highly efficient in real markets. It proves you can't be perfect.
I dont know, I dont think we even had that much access to tune it so to speak, this was VB4 (1991) back then, I dont think it was a VB extension but an OCX (1994) which is OLE2/ActiveX technology.

I think I got it from a 3.5" disc on the front of a computer mag from memory in the UK but it was a US company that wrote it. So there might be a copy of it in the wayback machine.

It was quite simple to use, so alot of their AI decisions or tuning was probably already made for us in order for it to be put out there as an addon.

But I have never seen anything since for an addon, and it seemed such a good idea in the scheme of things when it comes to computer security with all the hacking that is in the press today.
Building an AI Powered Web App with QwikJS – Generative AI Web Development [video]
In this new series, @heyAustinGil explains how to incorporate AI technology into your applications. In Episode 1, Austin shows how to set up your project file for building a versus app with OpenAI and Qwik.js.
Theory vs. Practice in Modeling Edge Storage Systems
Nattramn
This is already the case for the majority of asset (stock or bond) wealth. The threshold to pull this off is way higher than simply getting a private key or hardware key device off someone. In the first case there are many controls to halt or prevent this sort of thing. In the second, if the perp gets the key, they've won.
This HN thread is the first time I learned about 400 V to homes in Europe. My oven is 220 V. I just checked the manual. All my house is 220 V. I live in Italy.

Plugs are usually Shuko for high power appliances (washing machine) and two smaller pins for low power (phone chargers.)

By the way, Italy traditionally had a three pin in a line high power plug but more and more appliances are coming with Shuko plugs so wall socket are either bi-standard or just Shuko now.
> AlloyDB AI allows users to easily transform their data into vector embeddings with a simple SQL function for in-database embeddings generation, and runs vector queries up to 10 times faster than standard PostgreSQL. Integrations with the open source AI ecosystem and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform provide an end-to-end solution for building gen AI applications.

- Embrace [X]

- Extend [X]

- Extinguish [?]

Will they allow it to use custom embeddings?
220, 221, whatever it takes.
I think NY is the same IIRC.
Modern management science pulls heavily from WW2 organizational tactics in western militaries when conscription was common and the idea of conscientious objection was not well received.
I'm working with an API right now that is absolutely based on duplicated code. They have a system for querying items and the API has 3 different ways depending on the endpoint. I just found a new one the other day and I hated it -- why is this one API unnecessarily different from all the rest!

I'm building a library to call this API and I've abstracted over all these differences so my callers never have to know how messed up the underlying API is -- they get a consistent experience regardless.
This is a bad example because it implies that the bikes aren't observing traffic laws.

A more analogous would be that some cars choose to go off roading, or spend most of their time in driveways or parking lots - or some only drive to car shows. A much more accurate analogy would be cars that only drive in one lane and never use the left lane for passing.
This question is for me!

In my late 20s I started having many weird symptoms and essentially was unable to continue my physical job. I was on food stamps.

I always thought I wasn’t very smart, but I just gave up too easily. Without any other options education was my only option. I graduated with high honors with a CS degree.

Met a VP in school he offered me an internship and I have been working for him for a few years now.

I ended up finding that programming is really my passion.

I’m planning to go back for my masters as my workload is pretty low.

When I think back I remember how I was losing hope. I grew up poor so I had no parents to really fall back on. I’m glad I pushed through. Now, I’m on vacation enjoying the sun.
https://archive.is/vXAEb
...because they're not part of a franchise. Part of being a franchisee is that you're accepting the standards/regulations of the franchisor in exchange for use of their brand. I think it's very reasonable if mcdonalds had some sort of regulation like "all soda fountains must be disassembled and cleaned every 24 hours", and enforced that through hardware interlocks.
That’s one of those comparisons where the goal is to underestimate the greater Chicago area’s population, but it’s not even an accurate statistic.

From 2005 to 2016 Chicago with a population of 2.7 million had between 3 and 8 cycles deaths per year vs 27 to 65 pedestrian deaths and 282 to 487 motorists. https://activetrans.org/sites/files/crash%20report%202018%20... Edit: The closest to 1/3 days I could find was 13 bicycle deaths and 95 pedestrian fatalities totaling to 108 for the region. Which is 1 cyclist death per 28 days out of ~10 million people.
Sorry, I misread your comment, that makes a lot more sense now!
I have clothing with buttons and zippers that are "backwards" (online tailors will do either way). There's not a huge difference one way or the other, so I don't really buy into the notion that it was done because servants buttoned your clothing. Proponents of this theory leave out the fact that wealthy men had valets up until very recently. Yet valets had no apparent issues buttoning their masters. If this were a class symbol, men would engage in it as well.

If it had a reason, it was probably to distinguish "men's" clothing from "women's".
The login fractal - a shape that is infinitely recurring, starts at a random place, and indicates entry with "zooming".
Not if you expect to actually get data out of them after hurtling down the road. Even for top end enterprise grade SSDs made at the highest standard, I would only assign a <99.9% chance of doing so. So that's 10 bad SSDs per trip at least.
The very conventional search form for the site I work on has six colors that are obvious including the white background.

I am looking at a picture of an anime character (Kizuna Ai) on my wall and it has two shades of five colors plus one shade of blue used in the background for a total of 11 shades.