skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm not trying to disagree, but to share the sympathetic experience I had on the other side of that generational divide.

My view certainly was not the prevailing one, as polls showed and Bush's re-election proved; but my peers at the time were a bunch of musicians, artists, activists, nerds, and weirdos, living in a big coastal city, so I was not alone in opposing the wars. Part of the horror of that experience was the dawning realization that we lived in a tiny, fragile bubble, and nothing we could do had any influence whatever on the mess being made outside it.
Ocrevus? How's it treating you?

I've been on Fingolimod Accord (generic Gilenya) for a year, Gilenya for 8-9 years, and before that Rebif for like 13 years? Medicated at 18, ill since 12. Never felt better really. Symptom free and side-effect free.

The Rebif was kicking my ass with its side effect, I attribute my constant intrusive suicidal thoughts during that time to the medicine, but other than a lower-than-normal heart rhythm I am a very happy user of my current medication.
The other day when there was a post about Starfield, it was quite striking to me how visually indistinct and cluttered everything is[0], like the people don't stand out from the scenery. The visual technology for Starfield is certainly less primitive (though every single thing looks like it's made out of glossy plastic to me), but I can't help but notice that something like ETLegacy feels much easier to visually process[1]. ETLegacy is also capable of maintaining 333 FPS at 4k almost all of the time if I set the cap that high, even on my now out-of-date GTX 1070.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=PISGdO_G8dY

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=iP6ihgnyHE0
That's why I say it's a low priority issue. Could there be an issue in the future? Possibly. Are privacy laws like GDPR worth the economic and other harms? Probably not. The amount of wasted programmer hours alone has far overcome the negative impacts of big tech ad tracking.

Neither real life or the internet are anonymous. We live with other people. But Google and Meta in particular have an amazing 15 year track record of basically never leaking user data. Various national governments have been much worse in this regard.
For emission spectroscopy has been a thing since 1859 when Gustav Kirchhoff figured it out but for stellar emission spectroscopy it was Joseph von Fraunhofer in early 1800s? Although 1866, Pietro Angelo Secchi may have also discovered stellar emission spectroscopy 1848.

An amazingly long time ago.
> instead inside the slice-typed variable which lives somewhere else entirely.

OK... where? Now you have a complicated heap-like semantic inside your compiler internals. But not everyone wants their string metadata in the heap. So now you need allocator semantics a-la C++, which ultimately leads to move semantics, etc...

Good luck getting that done in 1972. No, DMR was right, Pascal was wrong, and fancy modern string semantics were still two decades in the future. C was the best it could be given the constraints of the era.
...Nothing you wrote refuted the point that "making a profit and doing public good are completely separate imperatives."

> Every business? A mom and pop grocery store is a business. A old-fashioned diner that serves actual cooked food instead of microwaved pre-processed junk is a business. Are they public dangers?

Yes... I explicitly addressed this point already. It doesn't appear that you've actually read my entire post, despite its brevity.
If your code has a lot of debug and info statements, but you only set production to the warn level, then you’re wasting cycles interpolating strings that go nowhere.
Instrument Control Toolbox

https://www.mathworks.com/products/instrument.html
> In this case, the winning image wasn't a single prompt to image. The author generated a lot of images and invested lots of hours into it till he considered it ready.

This is exactly the “sweat of the brow” argument for copyrightability that courts have consistently rejected in favor of a creativity requirement since long before AI tools existed, though, so its probably not the argument you want to make for copyrightability.
Perhaps they're gas like.
People should really be more considering this as "Truth in advertising" type law. This isn't about whether Twitter follows it's policies as written, as you would be hard pressed to convict any company for merely not following it's own rules for something that isn't illegal (allowing inflammatory speech on your platform, or even signal boosting such speech), but more at requiring companies be honest about how they moderate their consumer participation.

This law is so consumers can make educated choices about the platforms they want to use.
>only the government can violate the 1st amendment

how do you figure this to be true?
I honestly haven't used it because I thought they had retired it altogether. The last time I did use it was about 20 years ago and found that they had changed it enough that I wasn't nearly as productive with it as, say, VB6.
Pascal strings were a bad implementation of general strings, but were extraordinarily easy to implement.
I'm trying to figure out which happened
The interests of platform vendors and application developers are not aligned.

Platform vendors seek to lock in developers and discourage development on competing platforms, while developers wish to leverage their skills portably across multiple platforms.
$ echo -n $'It\'s not too difficult. All you need is to generate many variations of potential words and check whether the sha256 hash matches the wanted leading characters. For example, check this text.' | sha256sum
182a7c9d2e99162688aaaf3f97638edd7d06f8d295e456c7bb1f16abf3a8f70c -
When it comes to random identifiers, the advantage of uuid4 is mainly that it's a standard thing that everyone understands well, and finding a lib that generates one securely won't require any thought. It's never the ideal solution, but it's often good enough.
Archive: https://archive.is/8HkEe
To me and XML-ified this would look more nightmarish than the status quo... it's just brief, space separated and \n terminated ASCII. No need to overcomplicate things this simple.
The crux of this argument seems to be that UUIDs are too long? Which I disagree with. I can't memorize them, no, and it would be cumbersome to try to say one aloud, but these aren't situations I've ever found myself in.

Does it make the URL in the URL bar longer? Yeah, but does that matter?
This isn’t so crazy. Apple doesn’t want developers creating a bunch of slow, bloated, interpreted apps.
But using the raw Cocoa Objective-C APIs via a wrapper... also requires someone who knows Objective-C? Because how else are you going to understand the API documentation?

It seems that if you unleash this wrapper onto a C programmer who has never used Cocoa, you'll just be in a world of hurt with unexplained memory leaks and segfaults due to misunderstood object lifetimes.

For example, class factory methods like +[NSString stringWithFormat:] will return an autoreleased instance. How will the C programmer know this convention if they've never used Objective-C?

Practically nobody starts a new project on macOS / iOS that uses manual memory management instead of ARC, so you won't have a lot of documentation when you go down this path. The Apple documentation for the aforementioned stringWithFormat: method doesn't mention (anymore!) that the return value is autoreleased because that doesn't matter with ARC, but makes all the difference for someone using the C wrapper.
Hi Lindsay, please contact me. I have been dealing with health issues since 2019 and what you say about dissassociatiom, tmj, and fatigue/inflammation seems extremely relevant to me. My symptoms seem caused/exacerbated to the extreme by pornography and computer games. I have a long history of dissasociation as do my parents. I would like to discuss this with you as nobody else believes or understands what I have noticed concerning the connection between my physical and psychological symptoms. My email is hydrok9@gmail.com. I tried to message you on hn but wasn't able to. Thanks.
Of course it isn't and op used that notion effectively to illustrate how it's also not acceptable for corporations to do variations of that also.
2185? Not 2273?
Impressive. Now how do we defend against malicious use of this POC?
> A simple ID like 3c6n63N is more than enough to represent any product while keeping it readable and making communication easier. A UUID alternative like a73ba12d-1d8b-2516-3aee-4b15e563a835 is just wasteful from a user’s perspective.

I would challenge the premise we appear to be starting from, that the average end user cares to be dealing with any random string of numbers and digits. GUIDs work well, they’re implemented everywhere, and you won’t find out long after you go into production you made some mistake that is going to make it so you have to migrate away from them.
Sure, you don't need them, but why re-invent the wheel? At least UUIDs are not some one-off function in a helpers file that may need to be amended many times before you get it right, but are backed by a specification, are time-sortable, etc.
VB didn't die. It got reborn as VB.NET. Still supported, still used.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/gettin...

The classic VB you probably remember got end-of-lifed in 2008, but MS still supports classic VB apps.
It has a compiler flag which will remove the null value from most type’s sets, that is a String will never contain null, if you want it to be nullable you have to write `String | None` (or Null? Something like that).
> ...about 3 conversations a day...

Do you mind sharing examples of what you guys use it for? I basically never use LLM's and I am curious what uses others have found for it. From what I have seen, it is mostly used by students as a better search engine
I mean, don't use UUID for user-facing things sure, but that doesn't mean it's not useful in of itself.

That's a terrible way to use it is all.
Well yes because you're describing a system where there are really low stakes and crash recovery is always possible because you can just throw away all your local state.

The flip side would be like a database failing to parse some part of its WAL log due to disk corruption and just said, "eh just delete those sections and move on."
No, it's more like saying your browser has detected possible internal corruption with, say, its history or cookies database and should stop writing to it immediately. Which probably means it has to stop working.
I haven't, but I'd love to. My approach wouldn't be very "HR friendly," though.
I'm not aware of anything like these efforts in the USA.
> Disneyland-like Fast Passes, for TSA Scans

Is this an American-exclusive thing? I've been in many airports in multiple countries and I've never seen anything like this. What's it like, you just pay to skip the line? Or is it an actual "fast pass" system where people grab queue tickets and return at a specified time?

Also, the vast majority of airports still have the simple "metal arch" detectors. Even then, I still wish I could try flying the way it used to be done - having been born after 9/11, I've grown up with it already being this way.
Probably, sure. Which if anything is all the more reason I think it's unhelpful to jump right to "my guess it's an emotional regulation problem" before you've ruled out physical causes like chronic enthesitis.
How do you jail a political party?
https://psychologycolor.com/orange/

https://www.colorpsychology.org/orange/

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-color-psychology-of-orange-...
Would you believe in God if sha256 of "I am God. My name is BOB " would be 4920616D20476F642E204D79206E616D6520697320424F4220202020202020 (the text in hex)?
I think it's not really clear that nothing bad would happen if we stopped fossil fuel consumption right now. It would be pretty massive perturbation on a complex system. I think we should still do it because the alternatives are even worse, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking there are risk free paths out of the pickle we are in.
Depression is physical ailment but it can have either an external cause (a death, loss of job) and an internal/physical ailment (a virus or other pathogen) which causes depression.
There are always consequences to regulations and practical restrictions seen at the ballot box. If the reporting is justifiable and required of all restaurants, then... so be it? If the People are unconvinced that it's necessary or they don't like it and think the government is out of touch, we throw the bums out. The very real risk of losing of power is what keeps them from passing the sorts of "ridiculous" regulations you are proposing.
Use sequential IDs, but run them through a maximal linear feedback shift register.

They will be in a deterministic order, but will appear semi-random to the end user.

For things like product IDs or user IDs, etc you don't actually need them to be random. But perhaps you don't want them to simply start counting sequentially.
Ask the Amsish
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather study finds
IMO, it didn't really make a smooth transition to the web. Webforms was the attempt but it was a leaky abstraction (iirc, it kept state for UI components but not variables so things got... weird) and kind of worked against the paradigms at the time (everything was a POST).
Game Pass also seems like the first step down this road for a more “core audience” and Sony has one foot in and one foot out with their PS+ strategy, while we’re at it.
NYT Connections: Group words that share a common thread
Happy to see the SIM card go away. eSIM provides just so much better experience.

This also enables easier installation and setup for basically any carrier. Just download the app, configure eSIM and you're good. Maybe the easier switching is why adoption is kind-of slow on the carrier side? Easier to keep you locked-in with more obstacles in place.

Seen some comments mention potential issues with it vs physical SIM, but I hope these get resolved with time or standard solutions are developed. Personally I had no issues with it, using it for over 2 years now.
I know that 10% of my marketing spend gets me 90% of the benefit. The problem is, I don't know which 10%.
Isn't auto generating UUIDs "fast enough" in most situations that its negligible?

In particular databases (where UUIDs taking space was a big concern) they have largely switched to a packed binary format that makes the size of UUIDs over time a non issue for all practical purposes.
Unless you've been getting weekly tests you can't be sure that you haven't been infected with SARS-CoV-2. Many infections are asymptomatic. You might not have noticed at the time.
Isn't PATH_MAX 4k characters these days? Have to have some pretty intense directory structures to hit that.
You're on the nose. Dismissing mystery symptoms like this is doctor 101. As it happens we do have research on ME/CFS causes and biomarkers such as gut dysbiosis toxins[1], deficient SCFA production[2], elevated rates of enterovirus[3] and herpesvirus[4](particularly EBV, HHV-6 and -7) infections. Coincidentally, every single of those things is associated with dementia in old age.

Absolutely everything points at the origin of CFS being down to ongoing infections causing immune response, mitochondrial dysfunction, and sickness behavior. OP's "central sensitisation syndrome" is akin to 19th century's "female hysteria".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8960409/?report...

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.27.21265575v...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20170809125253id_/http://enterov...

[4] https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S13866532067000...
Agreed - not to mention the specification of new ones with different features keeps evolving.
9/11 Contradictions (2008)
Is the ARM dent bigger than the AMD dent at this point, or visa versa? The TSMC dent is certainly no laughing matter.

Intel is accruing dents...

On the plus side they have a real GPU offering just when having a GPU offering is a great idea, assuming it can be made competitive at inference.
> Outdoors we at least have airflow to wick heat away. Indoors, it's just stale, warm air

Our bodies generate a pocket of heat that we end up sitting in without airflow. Years ago I bough an air circulator (a fan designed to push a lot of air slowly across a room, instead of blowing on a person) specifically to deal with this, and it brought my room-temperature-upper-tolerance from ~76 to ~80 without any need for AC.
Instacart is in free fall as its valuation plunges
Ask HN: Show me all the shell code you've over engineered
I wanted to make this post because a few years ago I was running a very low powered laptop and wanted to cut some time off searching Google and YouTube for things.
So I wrote [this script](https://github.com/0x3444ac53/ellies-bash-scripts/blob/master/modules/search.sh) that can search a variety of sites for a string. It has support for the encyclopedia of philosophy and will let you select the article you want and output it as a PDF file.

Anyone have anything similarly over engineered for a specific use?
Uh... because that's literally what the First Amendment says?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The 14th amendment later extended this to apply to state governments as well - but still only governments.
It matters aesthetically. A huge site like Amazon might care about that, otherwise it's not a high priority.
> Does it make the URL in the URL bar longer? Yeah, but does that matter?

Yes. That's one of the author's arguments.

) A simple ID like 3c6n63N is more than enough to represent any product while keeping it readable and making communication easier. A UUID alternative like a73ba12d-1d8b-2516-3aee-4b15e563a835 is just wasteful from an user’s perspective.
A bit late, but thanks for the more substantive update. I had no real name recognition for the dude. Sounds almost uniquely awful.
Fixed - once again, thanks!
For me, normally if something didn't get cleaned well it is because the dish either wasn't loaded quite right or it moved in the wash cycle. That improper positioning then preventing the sprayers from really hitting the dirty spots very well.
Doesn’t UUID have mechanisms to prevent collisions even if you start two processes simultaneously with the same initial seed? There are human readable tweaks you can make to them that preserve all of the good properties without limiting the pool much though.
The issue is using both ADEXP and ICAO4444 waypoints, and doing so in a sloppy way. For the waypoint lists, there is no issue with structurelessness -- the fact that they're lists is pretty obvious, even in the existing formats. Adding some ["",] would not have helped the specific problem, as the relevant structure was already perfectly clear to the implementers. I am not lying when I say the bug would have been equally likely in a JSON format in this specific case.
Are Big Projects Ditching TypeScript?
What you're saying is: people prefer free products with ads and that annoys you because you prefer paying for products without ads. That's not a moral issue.
SKC to acquire 12% stake in US chip packaging startup Chipletz
> 1. they can afford agricultural subsidies/crop insurance to protect farmers

Insurance relies on a relatively small chance of a bad event occurring. If there are widespread failures, insurance companies may refuse to insure anything altogether. Systemic risks are not typically solved by insurance companies (see 2008 housing crisis, current Florida housing market insurance debacle)

> 2. they can afford consumer subsidies

For how long? If the answer is "forever, until we reverse all CO2 emitted", that might change the math for subsidies considerably.

> 3. there's tremendous slack in the food system. In the US only 27% of crops are used for feeding humans, the rest are used for livestock and biofuel

Livestock food is not slack.

> 4. Food represents a small fraction of Americans (and likely other developed countries)'s overall budget around 11%

Sometimes a small change in margin makes a big difference in decision making. If you go from 5% profitability to -5% (10% swing), you suddenly turn on the behavior on its head. How many households would be insolvent if their food % went from 11 to 15? What about 11 to 22?
The Topologist's Comb [pdf]
Many of these providers have deals like 100 MB for $5 which would be an inexpensive way to evaluate their network.

That said, as noted by others T-Mobile actually offers exactly what you seek :)
The Wikipedia article suggests it's still around and that it's being focused more towards rapid development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(.NET)
Plus I could easily represent UUID in base64, such as JlEt5BSYe0enwB7nxl5V6g, which makes it shorter if I need that.
If they ever have another season or another movie, they MUST finally either start the alien invasion or debunk the whole notion of one. One way or another, they have to finish what they started.
You don't. They are not a person.

I didn't come up with the totally bonkers idea of declaring some organizational entity a person, so don't expect me to defend the logical conclusions stemming from it.
Correct. The other "leg" of a solution to this problem would be to codify migration practices so stagnation at the tech level is a non issue long-term.
Sure.

But I also might not be running one of the services in my personal dev environment.
In countries where pre-paid rules, I doubt they will go away, unless operators make it as easy to switch, and they won't per their locking nature.
Nothing has changed. The issue wasn't with ATAs themselves, but VoIP providers. They handle things like compression that are out of your control and can mess with the modem signaling. Without a VoIP provider, you can configure everything so that the modems will be able to connect at 33.6kbps. As the article mentions, 56kbps requires special equipment on the ISP's end which is why 33.6kbps is the limit.
Genuine question: how was the process corrupted?
And it is, indeed, not cool.
Now we have something even simpler than HDD trays : HDD duplicators that don't even need to be connected to a PC, where you place the (naked !) HDDs vertically.

They can also be used as USB HDD hubs, but since the copy button is unprotected, I'm always paranoid to only have one drive in it at once...
Minimum specs shouldn't be 4k@60Hz.

1080p is fine for min spec.

120Hz is more than twice as hard of a performance number to hit compared to 60Hz.
Aric Toler, Director of Research at Bellingcat, joins The New York Times
UUIDs are packed in DBs. But they tend to get misused as PKs. In common relational DBs, your PK for every table should probably be bigserial.
Not to hijack the thread, but we are talking about weird things you can do with ATAs here: anyone know of an ATA with a cell modem? I’m responsible for a municipal septic pump with an autodialer in the control station for alarms. It would be nice to get a phone call from it if it fails.
I’m probably incredulous because our tap water is 5-10C.
I'm sure there are "names" that can get cushy gigs as advisors, board members, etc. My personal experience is I can certainly pick up a few dollars here and there but getting a steady income flow is harder--and I'm not even sure I'd want to if I were in that position.

ADDED: Most of the cases I've run into of decent part-time/freelance work are indeed through people I know but it's been mostly in the beer money category--I admittedly like better beer.
eh, aren't you just repeating "Over the long long term it will be enormous, but they're many growing pains until then"
I think that’s the sense in which it died in that if you were going to switch to .NET you would probably also switch to C#. The original VB had A GUI builder better than almost anything (even today!) but the UI builders in today’s visual studio support C# as well if not better than VB.