skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You forget to take something crucial into account: the US's safety standards are laughable when it comes to electricity. The standard US plug is _begging_ for people to stuff things in it like say, knives, rarely if ever has an earth pin, has no shutters, is massively unsafe, the cable gauge is laughable, GFCI outlets are a miracle to find, and the building rules are... let's just say they're an invitation for house fires.

Most european houses have a single 400v outlet: right in your kitchen, for the oven (which means the oven is going to be right in front of it.) The likelihood of a child playing with it is close to nil. As for adults, the vast majority of people are taught to just flip the breaker and work on it if needed.

I promise you more people died of sticking metal into US outlets than from 400 volts.
on steroids it seems
Detecting Language Model Attacks with Perplexity
You’re lucky then. I joined a company that had a team of inexperienced engineers where every form or details page was a separate program and the render functions were several hundred lines long by themselves. When I joined they had a dozen pages that were each so buggy adding new ones was nearly infeasible and fixing bugs took most of the dev time. Duplicate code can certainly slow down the dev process and kill a startup.
[Genuinely curious,] what have people moved on to?
Does it support Retina displays?
There's a joke that is roughly "Python is not the best language for any particular task, but is nearly always the second best language for that task" - it's a jack of all trades language.

Because of this, lots of people learned Python, and then applied it in many different areas, and it just became more prevalent and useful.
Jassy has ~$100 million / year compensation for doing his job. He is outvoted by >99% of the companies shareholders. Jassy doing anything not in the best interest of shareholders will get him fired. He does not care about random properties that are peanuts compared to his compensation and status as CEO of Amazon.
discussed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37296122

I found this comment useful:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37297963

Several comments noted that a 4 month improvement in life expectancy (for sigmoidoscopy) over the whole population is actually pretty good for a low-incidence cancer. That's several years for the people who actually get it.

But the comments seem naive about the downsides of broad screening: over-treatment, iatrogenic disease, false positives, opportunity cost, etc.
It is a matter of mindset. I work on software with soft real time, storage capacity and power consumption constrains, there is a constant flux of "small" feature requests and I cannot even "throw hardware at the problem" at will like as they apparently did, until it became unquestionable that the problem had to be fixed properly.

I'd recommend to adopt this mindset even if one doesn't have those constrains - without erring on the side of "faster than necessary" though - because it's usually difficult to assess how much time and money are leaking because of the inefficiencies one accepts in the name of questionable reasons. They were sort of lucky to have a bill to show it to them.

A proactive stance in this regard goes a long way.
Note that we are comparing against existing `*args, **kwargs`: no sorting is needed at all, as *args is processed by order, and **kwargs has every element read in O(1) time or it gets passed along by reference.
Thanks will download. Is there any particular reason this one is more accurate than dosbox?
For those who don't know: win95 came with an 'extras' cd-rom with a few videos. Among them there a Weezer clip [1] and "Good Times"[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc
That's not the criteria for population level interventions. This is to answer the question of whether should the USPSTF make a positive recommendation and force insurers to pay or if public health systems should adopt this.

You're conflating this with individual patient decisions.
Well, yes, at the end of the day Macs are still general purpose computers and despite all the hoops Apple puts in place that developers have to jump through, you can still release programs - including games - for them. So they do have and - unless Apple really screws up things somewhere - will always have games.

But what you're writing is basically what Linux gamers were writing for many years - even before Valve started focusing on it too.
I think you totally missed the point. Let me rephrase it: as per the EU legislation, I got a popup in WhatsApp that was saying that I have a right to object to their data collection. I followed those links and got the e-mail above.

They are essentially telling me: "You need to put the right words in your e-mail if you want us to take you seriously, but we are counting on the fact that you don't, and therefore we work around your right to object".

Hence my question here. If somebody found a way to send the right words to WhatsApp and shared them, I could send the exact same e-mail. Or differently, if we could find a "good e-mail" to send and WhatsApp still refused to acknowledge it, then EU-based users could complain to the EU and possibly get the law with them.

I think it can move the needle.
Ruby was never similar in popularity to Python. It was just a fad in webdev circles. I've rarely seen ruby before RoR and I've seen python all over.

Python was popular as a teaching language, how it gained a foothold in academia.

I remember 20 years ago when I was starting out it was popular for game scripting (Lua was more embeddable but python was also used). plenty of first class interfacing methods to native code (still remember c++ boost shipping python binding generator).

Many tools shipped python as an embedded scripting language.

Python was used for creating build systems.

Not to mention any distro out there ships python, it replaced perl in that regard. Batteries included and being available helped it become the norm for random scripting.

Python was big before numpy/ML.
My current house was built in '82. Is that a new house? That's 41 years old at this point. Its a pretty average single family suburban build for the time, not anything especially fancy even for its day. Loads of houses we looked at in the area were built in the 70s and 60s and often had electric 240V appliances in the kitchen. That's about 60 years old, is that a new? A single car garage 1500sqft 3bdr house in a suburb sound like a high end house?

And yeah, my house is full of 120V circuits, but once again the house has 240V at the panel and could run 240V anywhere in the house if needed. As you pointed out, they probably do have a 240V plug for the dryer, ergo they've got 240V service at the property, so they could wire the kitchen if there's no wiring already. Once again, practically nobody has only 120V service at their home.
Yep.

I've been playing War Thunder simulator battles in VR for the past few weeks, and have gotten serious enough about it that I've upgraded my PC and dropped ~$400 on a HOTAS setup.

I'm using my Quest 2 because there's really no other viable options. The resolution isn't high enough to be "good", but it's simply the best available at the moment. I'm anxiously awaiting the Quest 3 and will buy it at release.

There are some headsets out there now with higher resolution, but they're very expensive, hard to actually find for sale, from a small/unknown manufacturer, or all of the above.
> In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 long-term randomized clinical trials involving 2.1 million individuals, colorectal cancer screening with sigmoidoscopy prolonged lifetime by 110 days, while fecal testing and mammography screening did not prolong life…

That is shockingly bad. An extra three months of life is not nothing, but not exactly a clear win to push people towards the added stress and effort to be screened.
This feels like the fire department congratulating it self for putting out fires instead of capturing the arsonist.
I have, in fact. Probable cause is what police need to have in order for a judge to issue a warrant.
Remember, partner has an ETHICAL issue. Partner must work AGAINST you. If they can infer that you might mean something other than what you are signalling, they must take that into account.

I've been in the situation in game a few times. Thankfully, my decisions were pretty cut and dry.

You don't have to do non-obvious things. If you are going to accept any invitation to game... You are going to accept even if partner looks happy, what I wouldn't do is throw out a slam exploring bid if I was on the fence about it.

If I was absolute top of range... I'd go ahead and make the bid. Because there is nothing that would change based on partner's actions.
Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye.

Probably a fine product though...
There are a lot of differences:

1. Service worker lifetime is not tied to a particular window. They can live across multiple windows either at the same time or across time. (Think of a tab closed then later reopened.) A background function will stop running when the tab is closed.

2. Service workers have some ability to intercept network requests. In a page you could patch APIs like fetch and XMLHttpRequest but you have no ability to intercept image loads or top-level navigations.

3. Other APIs such as receiving push notifications are also tied to service workers (likely because of the lifetime restrictions, otherwise the browser would need to decide which tab to deliver a notification to or open a new one if none are open).
If you read my link above, WhatsApp literally told me that I could object to some data collection as per the EU regulations.

WhatsApp showed me a popup telling me that!
Related:

⊥’tsh : a dependently timed drum machine language by Joachim Tilsted Kristensen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DdBnR1K4UU
Pay the fines, business as usual I guess.
You're not naming the platform that you have a problem with and now you're just rambling. Trolling isn't taken lightly here ...
The limits of the right to roam vary significantly between countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam?wprov=sfla1
Very interesting, thanks for having posted it
No, it's real. It's commenting on the article by John, on old coworker of mine. I applied for Ignite but was not accepted and ended up getting into SE a different way. Anyway, I recommend reading the post by John and then reading this for the additional commentary.

https://djspinmonkey.github.io/2023/07/10/ignite-hiring/
I tried 3 email addresses to download the survey. "Please check your inbox for a download link – it should be there within a few minutes." Waited 15 minutes, checked spam folder but nothing. It's already a press release and advertising, but restricting the report looks more like trying to collect email addresses.
I think a lot of this hinges on tech workers thinking they're not "the proles" while management sure as hell thinks they are (or should be, or "will be soon") and makes moves in that direction.
> This instantly divided the audience in two groups: those who got it (and abandoned the OS/2 hype train that instant), and those who did not.

Why? Was there something stopping OS/2 from implementing DPMI as well?
Yep, most of them are a few percent more efficient at 240v too and have higher maximum power output... I run all my always-on computers that way.

Generally anything that has an IEC power connector will support running at 240v (but beware, you may need to flip a switch).
Police can legally enter private property unannounced and shut down a meth lab if it presents an imminent safety hazard. This isn't trespassing. They will not be liable for any loss you suffer as a result as long as their actions are judged to be "reasonable". There is an extensive body of case law on this (at least regarding physical places, not computers).
Your link directed me to an AliExpress page with the words:

Sorry, the page you requested can not be found:(
Yes. Steam is more or less a good Mac citizen aside from not being fully Apple Silicon native. But, as previously stated, the entire catalog was 32-bit and it evaporated overnight when Catalina ended support for 32-bit executables.
Right, but most users don't care about that at all. Particularly for non-technical users who are only ever going to use the GUI frontend to the package manager, almost none of the underlying system matters at all.

In a world that has almost completely standardized on grub, systemd, fhs, etc with major applications being shipped in container-like blobs (snap, flatpak, appimage) that mirror a Windows-style setup.exe workflow and then bypass the filesystem and package manager and talk right to the kernel anyway... yeah, if you're an end user, your distro choice doesn't much matter. Pick whatever has out of the box drivers for your laptop's trackpad.
Ah, I see, looks like that might have been a few years ago, when I last worked in that space.
What about quality of life? Colon cancer did not kill my wife's Grandma, but complications of the surgery did.
> When I first encountered Python, it was as an alternative to Perl.

Me too

I am amazed that Python won out against Perl

Perl is much easier to use. Does not have the incredibly irritating treatment of whitespace

Perl was a disrupter, whereas Python was "computer sciencey". A false dichotomy but it really mattered to people
>Human doctors 'hallucinate' stuff all the time, due to lack of sleep, lack of time, lack of education and/or just not caring enough to pay proper attention to what they are doing.

No, they don't. If that happened anywhere near all the time, we would never have given up alchemy and bloodletting, because there would be no reason to trust medicine at all, and yet it works overwhelmingly well most of the time for most people. Meanwhile, AIs hallucinate by design.
> "Nobody should seriously consider these options unless they are living a very privileged life".

> I maintain that most employees have basically zero leverage to negotiate their worker-hostile contracts

He's trying to tell you from direct personal experience - as are many others in this thread - that it is not as dire as you're committed to believing, and that it is absolutely possible to negotiate terms at a non-executive level.

To put it differently: the corporate overlords have successfully convinced you that you have no power.
oh wow.

"This is an important, though uncommonly discussed, issue in the translation of evidence from cancer screening trials.1 It is known that overdiagnosis (treatment of cancers that would have been no threat), and high false positive rates (misdiagnosis) lead to medical harms and unnecessary surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation...

...margin of benefit suggested by the analysis above it seems likely that if there is a benefit to screening mammography it is balanced out by mortal harms from overdiagnosis and false-positives"
ByteDance does a lot of ML research on music/video.
A modern replacement for DOS/4GW is "DOS/32A". It's compatible and you can even patch out old binaries to replace DOS/4GW with DOS/32A.

https://github.com/yetmorecode/dos32a-ng
Why not one of the coreboot/openec powered machines from System76? Purism kinda...sucks lately, but there's also Tuxedo computers, the KDE laptop, and others as well...

There's also starlabs but their ship time is atrocious.
python does many things well

ruby does one thing very well

So apparently the "do one thing well" thingy doesn't always hold
When they were building the M25 motorway around London (about 120 miles for the loop) there were large sections that were built and not yet open to the public - much fun was had on fast motorbikes late at night! Though once the whole thing was open, it all got out of hand [0]. Having said that, back then you weren't risking serious jail term for high 3 figure speeds (on top of the risk of losing your licence, and potentially your life).

[0] https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/1980s-motoring-exce...
Quite untrue.

There is this thing called "Bridge Judgement" that you are allowed to use.

Just because your hand has 10 HCP... but has 13 spades... doesn't mean you will pass. You'll bid your 7 Spades and call it a day.

Bridge has many shades of grey. It is learning how to dance them correctly that is hard.
iFixit Wants to Fix McDonald's Busted Ice Cream Machines
Many users are effectively phone-only these days. Assuming that a user has at least two devices is dangerous.
Turn JavaScript Functions into OpenAI Function Calls
Can’t agree more! The other day I found an old hdd I had since 2006, and the amount of stuff in there left me with mixed feelings, happy, sad, nostalgic, all at once going through all those memories.. I did back it up but most likely won’t open soon from how I felt. I remember I also had an external hdd, the first external one I ever had back in 2003, where I had all my files in there, sad part is, it died I think around 2009, and young me wasn’t techie enough to recover the data, so it’s all gone.
"During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. The CEO told his charges it was a “judgment” call."
I've written non-trivial code in both Erlang and Go. Beam doesn't have anything to do with supervisors that's an OTP thing. mailboxes can be simulated with channels and there are conceptual similarities. process monitoring and the registry are unique to BEAM it's true and they have useful properties to leverage. But they aren't core to how the BEAM handles concurrent processing. The schedulers work on a similar conceptual mechanism for the programmer when writing concurrent code with differing optimizations in each.

In my experience I think my statement still stands.
The risk being that the experience will be miserable. I can totally imagine a world where you can talk between Signal and WhatsApp, but reactions don't work, sending files doesn't work properly, changing permissions in a group doesn't propagate, etc.

Unless you force everybody to use the exact same protocol, with the exact same features, and to never add or change a feature.
He is adopting the missionary tactic of feigning a desire for discussion when it is just veiled evangelism.
Cybersecurity Lexicon
100 definitions of key terms, acronyms, and concepts about cybersecurity.
Definitely. I never really understood why ISO 9000 was the focus. It's one thing to say, "We need operational definitions" and "Our procedures should be well specified" but totally another to have all these consultants running about bikeshedding the format of the documents and things like whether you should be able to select and copy from a PDF file. Documentation systems don't give you quality, but something is needed to maintain the documentation of the system, so that you know how you got to where you are.

I have been in many places where I wished that people would apply some of the system of profound knowledge. Just getting the PDSA cycle into effect on a few teams would have been great. More and more, though, it is hard to see how we should be measuring the capability of the system. Deming's examples are generally from things that lend themselves to time series analysis, preferably with small batch samples, like manufacturing processes. It is much harder, in my opinion, to determine what to even study in a software process or a medical care process. If you focus too much on a metric, it will become the goal.

An interesting book to me was Juran on Quality By Design. It complements the systems approach with a design methodology based around trying to understand a lot of the ecosystem of the product. Juran, of course, was another Western Electric guy influenced by Walter Shewart.
Just migrated from Supabase + pgvector to Weaviate hoping to take advantage of langchain.retrievers.weaviate_hybrid_search.WeaviateHybridSearchRetriever. Unfortunately i can't get it work asynchronously :(
Also visible in the popularity of the Arch Linux wiki as being reliable, up-to-date "how to fix it" instructions for common problems, regardless of whether you're actually running Arch.
I agree, though we're past the first step. Massachusetts has been trying this through The Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Program which would see prisoners trade jail time for body organs [1]. Probably inspired by China's forced organ harvesting [2]. Not to mention that commoditizing human life has been happening through things like human trafficking [3], or surrogacy which exploits poor women [4]

[1] https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/HD3822

[2] https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-killing-...

[3] https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/infographic

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/mar/28/cross-b...

I'm glad that the people in power have everyone's best interests at heart /s
Cancer treatment isn't a complete positive. If you subject large numbers of people to it some of them will die from the treatment. If you save 1 person from cancer but kill 5 more that didn't have it, is that a net positive?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/certain-customers-sp...
They still mostly choose to have two taps in the bathroom.

Part of the reason I emigrated.
The way I (somewhat hazily) remember it, Python was mainly competing with Perl as a scripting language, not Ruby as an application/web language. I started hearing about Ruby years later when Ruby on Rails drove the Web 2.0 movement, but that feels like a different era to me. Eric S. Raymond wrote an article[1] in 2000 about his experience trying Python after spending a lot of time with Perl. I'll quote some of it here:

> When you're writing working code nearly as fast as you can type and your misstep rate is near zero, it generally means you've achieved mastery of the language. But that didn't make sense, because it was still day one and I was regularly pausing to look up new language and library features!

> This was my first clue that, in Python, I was actually dealing with an exceptionally good design. Most languages have so much friction and awkwardness built into their design that you learn most of their feature set long before your misstep rate drops anywhere near zero. Python was the first general-purpose language I'd ever used that reversed this process.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
Many people on HN claim that big co's like Amazon, Apple, and Google only want RTO (return to office) because they stand to lose so much money in real estate. However, these are companies worth >$1,000 billion. When you dig into the value of their corporate real estate holdings, it's almost always only $5-20 billion, a paltry percentage of their overall worth. Their financial incentives mean they do not care about losing even 50% of a $5-$20B real estate portfolio, if it in anyway impacts the ability of their workforce to be productive in making the $50 billion/year profits required to maintain >$1,000 billion equity value. Losing 50% on $10B real estate means a 0.5% loss. Losing just 1% productivity on your workforce is a 1% loss, double.

These companies care about their software productivity and profits, period. That's what drives their decisions. Their worth isn't comprised of real estate.
Thanks! None of it is currently particularly in vogue, but it certainly satisfies the research and chasing rabbits^W gremlins down tunnels itches.
GPT is barely two months old, I wouldn't expect any impact it has to be very visible yet.
Yes and no, by installing Steam as flatpak. The Steam Linux (and Windows) clients still require 32-bit, but with flatpak the rest of the system doesn't have them.

Edit: freedomben commented that Steam works but complains on Fedora w/o 32-bit libraries. So it might work until a game actually needs them.

And macOS has a 64-bit-only Steam client, altough they don't support any 32-bit games anyway.