skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You've been doing it for a few months, so you have an idea of how disruptive it is, and having done it for free, the thought of $1000 for doing the same thing may sound nice now, but be sure to extrapolate it out another 6 months or so of being tethered 24x7 to work, and price it based on how you're going to feel then, not now.

Good point. Perhaps I can charge $1500 instead.
> it sounds like you're saying we should just shut them all down as public dangers.

However, that's not what I'm saying.
Generally, a technology has to have a commercial market that scales in order to be pursued, much less to be widely and cheaply available.

It's often the case that a number of technologies have to converge to make a compelling product, and then all of them become commercially available at basically the same time. Firearms, for instance, required both the ability to cast strong, straight metal barrels and the ability to produce gunpowder. Prior to around 1600, these technologies existed but nobody was really pursuing them very hard because either one, by itself, isn’t that useful. Put them together and suddenly the world changes.
>not recommended because it's not very effective

My guess is that it's effective for those that are chronically K deficient, through Hyperaldosteronism or some other condition.

That would still be four large potatoes a day, to hit the original RDA. Every day.

I buy it in powder form to get the high levels needed.
https://www.bulksupplements.com/products/potassium-citrate-p...

Agree, the dosing on tablets are ridiculously low.

Eating several large potatoes, bananas, avocados every single day sounds miserable.
Yup, of course
Their "team quality" variable caused me to tune out really quickly. Sure, they found out it didn't explain much but it was enough to change the way I approached the rest of it. Reinforcing one academic problem while attacking another seems like two steps forward and one step back.

This phenomenon — variability in analytic results on the same sample — has been demonstrated before.
This is so pointless.
The 3nm chips in the M3 are rumoured to bring about a 30% improvement in power efficiency. If I wasn't moving towards using an Android for everything, I would definitely think about selling my M1 for that sort of improved battery life.
> If their website is a core part of their business, it's enormous - they're getting the peace of mind that if anything happens they have someone reliable they can call to get things fixed.

Good point! This is kind of what I was thinking: since they are a software company, the value of $1000/month is like you never have to worry about your company suddenly breaking.
Note that quantization has serious impact on the models capabilities.
There is a 2-3 years coding barrier till you become a "Junior" dev and can get hired. It requires access to quality education which people in developing countries simply do not have.

But since they are looking to earn money as well, they prefer to use no-code.

I'm talking from experience and from numbers: out of 60k no-code experts that we have, most of them (95%+) are from developing countries and not from developed ones
The brine isn't that salty, it is twice as salty as sea water. The Dead Sea is 10x saltier than seawater. They make Dead Sea salt, but the concentration is only slight advantage.

The big problem with making salt from sea water is evaporating the water. It either takes a lot of energy, or a lot of time and area.
I know this won't land well, and certainly it's a good option, but there's a terrific and hilarious irony in someone saying "I don't really trust the third parties with my non public data" And you're like, yeah use the one tool that's built and maintained by a literal spy agency.
i feel like the bigger these tool directories get the harder it is to find anything. search is broken on these. How is this going to be different
Many speculate that groups need a common enemy to maintain their identity. Obviously, communism and terrorism are recent examples. But what are our common enemies now? The New Atheists decried religion for years but frankly, I think the religious right is dead. Many consider new atheism movement to be dead as well. So we currently only have the other party to blame.
We've banned this account for using HN for flamewar and ideological battle. Please don't create accounts to do that. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—so we have to ban accounts that do it, regardless of what they're battling for or against.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You may be confusing Visual Basic .NET with Visual Basic 6 and its predecessors. C# actually predates VB.NET by about a year.

VB.NET may be syntactically similar to VB6, but under the hood they were so different that migrating projects to VB.NET essentially meant a complete rewrite.
This is a really deep misunderstanding of what freedom of movement means - and if this qualified as interrupting freedom of movement then there'd be violations every time we needed to fill a pothole. There is no right to convenient movement - just to movement at all.
>You took away a summary point that things are changing and somehow bad for degree earners, when in fact the bottom third of college grads have always been worse off, they’re the bottom third.

Sure, but when they were worse off they wasted maybe 10-20k on a degree. Lot of money down the drain, but you could pay that off working at a minimum wage job. Now it's more on the order of 5x those numbers, while spending power of minimum wage is down.

I didn't make that conclusion in a vacuum.

>What does it say when you look at the stat that degrees earn 2x more than non-degrees, as a summary

A general summary isn't a good idea on how to look at things, especially in a downturn. A general summary is that most "household's" average income is decent. But that's not who minimum wage is for, and also clouds the fact in the details that "households" have become more and more dual-income. Even if we didn't, we shouldn't ignore the 8% homelessness (random statistic, substitute it with the real govt statistic) and 20% minimum wage earners because the median is doing fine.
"On Error Resume Next"

I like a lot about the language, but let's not let nostalgia run away with some of the bad points. And that's not even getting into COM/OLE registry mess, or difficulty of handling c type/vb type mappings when interacting with the api. A lot of what I liked, I now like about powershell or python.
Checkout this blog post for tuning XGBoost hyperparameters involves experimenting with various settings
How quickly do they patch any new security issues? What's their track record here?
Thanks for sharing publicly. May I ask if the Caduet has any side effects? I'm going through a similar issue. I know that my problem is alcohol, being overweight and middle age (40+). I'm also on Telmisartan which takes it down from 170/100 to about 135/85 on a good day which is still too high for my liking. I might try asking the doc for dual therapy on my next visit and Caduet sounds like a good candidate. My cholesterol also on the high side just outside of normal range! I know I need to lose 20-25lbs but I can't see it happening because of a combo of dad/work life.
Usually that believe stems from the fact that those people explicitly announced they would do it again. And again. After being sentenced. In front of a judge.

https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/kleber-aktivisten-letzte-g...
This seems like a natural consequence of the busted DMCA strike system. Even with legitimately transformative content, a big account risks a strike, days or weeks stuck in appeals, and no recourse against the entity filing a bogus DMCA. Effectively the process is the punishment when an entity like Barstool relies on their social media accounts to function as a business.

If someone really wants to take Barstool to court, they can still do that, but by using burners they can't flag down their main accounts for leverage.
They revealed that publicly? (Do you work for Nokia? (or the NSA?))
Advertisers poisoned the well.

All ads must be blocked.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, and also please stop using HN for ideological battle? We're trying for something different here.

I'm not going to ban your account right now because it looks like you've also posted other things using HN in the intended spirit, but I saw quite a bit of this other kind of thing in your history too and that's definitely not ok.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
In a sense, we are facilitating BBs generation by providing it with rich mathematical space. The rich structure makes BBs more probable than normal randomness allows for.
This only applies to the supercharger network, but they are so common that I don't go from 10-80. It's usually more like 20%-60%, which is 15 mins or under for me usually. I can make it to the next charger with ~20% and repeat the process

Besides, chargers are usually really far from the actual building so you gotta add another couple mins just walking to/from your car :)
Really?? Oh, wow: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing...

Actually that's really awesome, I think.

My goal is basically to never touch Excel again. But, I have to admit - that 2D mixture of data and code called "a spreadsheet" is honestly a pretty cool programming paradigm for a lot of tasks. It can be horribly abused... but so can everything.
> avoid using “testid”

> This way any refactoring work would not require test changes

This is the purpose of a testid, your letting people know removing it can/will break tests.

(Especially e2e tests that might not only be ran by you/ might not live alongside the code)

> and any change of the visible ui / workflow to the user would require an adjustment to the test.

I really don't follow this reasoning; why would I want my tests to fail when the Accept button is renamed to Agree?
To be clear, Visual Basic isn’t dead. I work in the govtech space. I can assure you that there are VB6 applications still running into production in this space, even places you would not expect. VB6 doesn’t support threading, but I’ve seen Computer Aided Dispatch applications that use C++ to multi-thread VB6 server code for emergency 911 dispatch.

VB6 still runs on Windows, and will even work just fine in AWS.
Right, you could do all that with VB but most people didn't.

Exception handling was crap in VB (no call stack) so we wrote a Visual Studio Macro that would go and edit every single method to add "On Error Goto" with a block at the end of the method to automatically add the method name to a homemade exception object so that when there was an error we could actually tell where it was coming from. So you _can_ do that too in VB but it wasn't pretty.
Actuarials publish tables based on all of that data, and more
I have low blood pressure, and it has caused me to faint, twice. I was fortunate to not hurt myself severly, but it was close. But it feels like the blood pressure is a symptom of something else. But no answers yet.
Is it supposed to expose email addresses to the public?
According to the article, Bungie has won four copyright-based judgements against cheat software vendors, all of which were worth more than $6 million.
You might find it interesting that the SF subway runs on floppy disks. Not the fancy new 3.5" ones, either.

https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/02/sfs-market-street-subway-r...
The way I think about it is:

- Tutorial: learn how the system works
- How-to: recipes for common use-cases
Better strategy I think is to disallow %d and others, which is never necessary in logs. Have always used either %s or %r without issue.

Linters will tell you if you have the wrong number of params and you’ll get a big exception at runtime as well. Better to avoid unnecessary work, imho.
Hey! This happens /s
It's very similar to the N64 FPS controls (i.e. Goldeneye): arrow keys (joystick) for the "primary movements" of forward/backward and yaw, with which you can move and look anywhere in a 2D space. Then, WASD (C buttons) for the "secondary movements" of strafe and pitch.
Can you cancel a tight computing loop (i.e. without system calls and without yielding of any sort) with async? I wonder how? Also if you can inject a cleanup code in your async task what prevents you from doing it with threads? Such things existed long before async/await and system calls didn't change for async/await. Also, what's the difference between "framework" and async/await runtime, isn't the latter a kind of a framework?
Couldn’t you use the surrounding points? Each point is surrounded by a set of nearby points. You can prepare a map of pairs of points into unique ids beforehand, then have a step that takes (before, current, after) for each point in the flight plan and finds the ID of current.
> he has revolutionised

His engineers have.
Shannon did foundational work on the theory of computers being able to play chess. That stuff might seem ‘obvious’ but you have to remember that would have seemed futuristic if not impossible when it was first proposed. That work in itself is fundamental to a lot of subsequent AI research (esp just the concept of ‘game playing’ as a model for testing approaches)
Normally it’s on the underside of the glass. It’s essentially impossible to remount in the exact same position.

I noticed two issues when I had to have my wind screen replaced:

* the curvature is slightly different on the new glass. Unfortunately, for me this put the heads up display at a slightly different position and I seat too high for it.

* glass has variation in thickness. This can cause visual distortion.

Further, when you’re replacing a windscreen you cannot guarantee the existing windscreen has the camera in the correct position. After all, if you’re replacing the windscreen, it’s probably damaged.
NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life
The Chrome users don't care so much about being tracked. They just don't want to see ads.
Both are true, but both are true for internal combustion engines too.

We have platinum in the catalytic converters, and engines last the projected life of the vehicle.

From what I've read, fuel cells are being designed for similar lifespans. As with many things, internal combustion engines included, we can choose how long they're designed to last, that's a design input. If they have limited lifetimes they're designed as such. If we want longer lifetimes, we just design them to achieve that.
Was just coming here to say it: And nothing of value was lost.
> None of those things matter to a beginner

That's where you are wrong. Beginners don't know that these things matter to them. But they very much matter.

> so they can actually learn programming

But they won't. They will become the "water from the toilet" idiots. Whatever they learn how to do will have no value, if they don't know how to do it well. Accidentally I saw this article today about how US military lowered IQ requirements for draftees during the Vietnam war, and how people with low IQ were five times as likely to die. You are suggesting to do thing wrong in hopes that it's somehow if you do it fast, nobody will notice? -- hell no. We already have armies of programmers who believe in strict static typing or in object-oriented programming. This will just add more idiots to their ranks.
The Challenge of Replicating Nature
That would actually be pretty bad. As mentioned, W3W is propritary, requires an online connection, and has homonyms. On top of that, you need to enter these waypoints into your aircraft's navigation system - sometimes one letter at a time using a rotary dial. These navigation systems will stay in service for decades.

Aviation already uses phonetically pronounceable waypoint names. Typically 5 characters long for RNAV (GPS) waypoints, for example "ALTAM" or "COLLI". Easy to pronounce, easy to spell phonetically if needed, and easy to enter.

The problem is the list of waypoints are independently defined by each country, so duplicates are possible between countries.

Rather than replacing a system that mostly works (and mandating changes to aircraft navigation systems, ATC systems, and human training for marginal benefit)... an easier fix would just be to have ICAO mandate that these waypoints are globally unique.
I don't have Office 365 any more... so I wasn't sure... Microsoft seems to slowly be killing functionality in everything, so I couldn't be sure.

Also, things went downhill when they got rid of full menus and introduced the accursed "ribbon".
An amazing tool adding a great deal of value to YouTube. If I could only donate to one project I would choose this. Shame on me I can't in fact even find how do I donate to this.
Viewing this website from my iPhone, it asked to use my precise location. That’s frightening given the capabilities of CISA lol. Cool resource though
It is commonly used for older plastered facades. Maybe there will be a resurgence.
> The sweet, sweet With keyword.

VB.net supports With though?

> Minimal runtime downloads to install apps locally, which also produced tiny, performant executables.

.net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days so you can deploy one exe without shipping your own runtime. Yes, officially you shouldn't, but there's so much stuff that depends on it now.
They are talking about carrier-locked phones which are still somehow a thing in the US.
People complain about the weirdest thi... the first five pages of the paper contain nothing but the list of authors and their affiliations?!?
AI and Hardware Engineering
I am a hardware EE with a couple years experience. What are some areas I should be investing time into in regards to AI? What can I learn right now to position myself well in the future?
But for how long and how many people kept those conspiracies you mention secret? Not for long or not that many; secrets simply cannot be kept, someone talks: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
At 17 seconds into the demo video, Mario appears to run into a Goomba horizontally without being harmed, and it just changes course to head in the other direction as if it bounced off him.

Is this the correct game mechanic behavior? My recollection as a 90's kid is this worked differently: If you run into a Goomba horizontally, Mario is toast (or loses his mushroom bigness).

Am I confused? :D

Edit: Thanks to @h0l0cube and @cylon13 for explaining this in another comment- it turns out nothing is wrong. If you look closely after reading their explanation, you can see it. Certainly a subtle detail.

> I think that goomba bumped into the squished goomba Mario had just squished. Mario was just a bit to the left so the flat goombas hit box stuck out to the right a bit and the other goomba hit it.
Getting a rails app up and running used to be somewhat easy. You did have to ssh into a machine, but that wasn't that complicated, all told. Comparable to standing up a BBS way back in the day. Restated, if you could have a machine that was dedicated to the serving of something, it wasn't that hard back in the day.

To that end, I suspect telling people to just stand up a node server is where to start hobbyists off? Still very complicated with the division between front and backend that is difficult to see for new folks.

And I fully agree on the ridiculous churn. Having zero stability in documentation and how to do things has been terrible for our industry. What we have gained in better ways seems to mostly be lost in all of the previous ways that used to work.
Obnoxious people have rights too.
No, that is not me. If email was allowed I would have stayed with github.

But I need to access it from NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux. No one option would work for all 3 unless I purchase some hardware or give M/S my Cell Number.

If Microsoft would buy the hardware for me, the maybe my opinion would change :) But I just finished my move, so no looking back.
Is it true that no-code is just for making MVPs and can't be used for scaling up?
I would've thought it would get sent messages like:

<Grant access to KEY_ID>

<Revoke access from KEY_ID>

And it would keep track internally so that if the central system went down it could still function with already issued keys until it is fixed.
Devs were productive only at the start of the
project and slowed down to a crawl as things got
more complex.

...and as your productivity declined, your manager thought you were a dolt or perhaps had some kind of drug problem that was interfering with your work.

Because he saw how easy productivity was at the start ("look! you just draw a button with your mouse!") and couldn't understand why it quickly became a nightmare.
How to learn it?
Dumb question but what are the implications here? Is this problematic⌨ or is it more of an Easter egg?
I forget where I read it, but there was a similar assessment of the time needed for computer vision. Overall, quite an optimistic time.
Sounds like we need an all in one VM solution with GPU access, where the whole OS is embedded with the game and can run ontop of any OS providing there is a player for the VM itself.
Yes. And you can. Obj-C and Swift both have the ability to interop with anything that can speak C.

But if all you want to do is not use Obj-C then Swift us the 100% supported official path.

No need to hack your own wrapper.
Would you please stop perpetuating flamewars on HN? You started and fueled a doozy in this thread. We're trying for exactly the opposite here, so please don't.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> How quickly do they patch any new security issues?

Its more like patched Chromium rather than a hard fork. It stays in sync with upstream.

As for the patches themselves, they don't seem risky to me. Enhanced security is an explicit goal. But I am no expert.

> What's their track record here?

Uazo helped maintain Bromite (a longtime staple on Android). Now that the main Bromite maintainer is MIA, they just forked it.

...So the track record is not very long, no.
> Die entsprechenden Verfahren enden regelmäßig lediglich mit Geldstrafen.

This is plain wrong. Repeat offenders in this matter have been sentenced to jail time, in excess of the two months of possible preventative arrest: https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/kleber-aktivisten-letzte-g...
> Once we have the technology to accurately and passively measure blood pressure throughout the day, preventive medicine will become much easier

How? Do we have any idea what we would do with that data? AFAIK, all treatments we currently have aren’t suited for treating short-duration spikes in blood pressure (do they even need treatment? I wouldn’t know).

Also, why would we need preventive medicine for most people with hypertension? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertension#Prevention:

“The 2004 British Hypertension Society guidelines proposed lifestyle changes consistent with those outlined by the US National High BP Education Program in 2002 for the primary prevention of hypertension:

- maintain normal body weight for adults (e.g. body mass index 20–25 kg/m2)

- reduce dietary sodium intake to <100 mmol/ day (<6 g of sodium chloride or <2.4 g of sodium per day)

- engage in regular aerobic physical activity such as brisk walking (≥30 min per day, most days of the week)

- limit alcohol consumption to no more than 3 units/day in men and no more than 2 units/day in women

- consume a diet rich in fruit and vegetables (e.g. at least five portions per day);

- Stress reduction”
Brave used to edit links to insert their own referral codes. They only stopped when they were caught. That's like browser hijacking behavior, so I'm gonna stay far away.
I'm talking about the stratosphere.

If you're trying to breathe there, you have much bigger problems than inhaling SO2 :)