skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once worked in a lab where all computers had its own electrical stabilizer, but they were so poor that probably they did more harm than good. When someone turned on a stabilizer, the nearest CRT monitors would distort for a second, then flicker and colors would be degraded.

Luckily, my place was by the wall, so the effect was diminished, but it gave me big headaches. I lasted only 6 months in that company this being the biggest reason.
True...

But it looks like that version of the lawsuit story is itself a highly-misleading claim:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/red-bulls-wings/

https://www.businessinsider.com/red-bull-settles-false-adver...
I always wondered whether there was a purpose for that. It probably is just spyware.

Also the Google app is required for many other apps, like to use Google Podcasts.
You actually shouldn't even say anything to the cops. If they show up with a warrant for arrest as well as search, you're going to jail no matter what you say. If they show up with just a search warrant, they are going to take whatever they want to take whether its outside the purview of the warrant or not. It will be up to a lawyer to convince a judge it was out of scope at a later date after it has already been taken. You will never convince a team of cops that their warrant is wrong when they show up. The only chance you have is if you're uber criminal and have your attorney present when they arrive.
If you consistently break functions down into tiny “functionettes” the names of the functions can as easily lie to you. You start with `buildURL` but it gets complicated, you break part out into validating the URL, now it should be `buildAndValidateURL` but it’s never updated and the function name “lies”.

I suppose if you prefer to ignore comments, they are more likely to get out of date, which may be why your mileage varies.
Yes, that one sounds frivolous since it is unreasonable for the consumer to expect such an outcome (at least in a literal sense).

On the other hand, placing a common fruit in a product's name without making it equally clear that it is flavoring is misleading. At least in a food services type environment. While people can check the list of ingredients on the packaging in a grocery store, they would have to jump through hoops to get similar information when ordering food in a restaurant.
The 1200DPI resolution is for engraving using rasterization, so, not really the same thing.

When you're cutting things on a laser, there's myriad sources of error. Odds are the optical path isn't completely square, so there's some cross coupling between axes. There's drive belts. The laser is often pulsed. There's taper.
Csam laws make sense of course. But there are fuzzy boundaries here too.

If your 18 and you have sex with a 17 year old. That can be classified as rape. Not sure the age of csam, but a 17 year old would enter this boundary. It doesn't make sense that it's illegal at 17 and suddenly legal at 18.

I think this is a necessary downside to a necessary law. But the thing with AI generated art is that the boundaries are too fuzzy. You will get worse consequences then just the fuzziness of the 17 and 18 year old boundary. And those consequences are farther reaching.

What you're not seeing is that csam despite it's necessity means we are already traveling down that path of "China." You are already using that law and laws related to argue for more laws. Draw the trend line. Personally I think censoring AI generated art could represent a sort of tipping point where everything changed.
It is not odd, it is basically accurate. You are making a fetish of the S-C interaction but the essential matter is that Kafka is designed to store & distribute logs, whereas Rabbit is designed to route & send messages. The ‘store’ bit is very much a part of Kafka’s mission statement but not for Rabbit.
We used to have an absolutely fantastic museum called 'NINT' in Amsterdam, it had 10's of live exhibits like that and none of it was supervised. Then it got moved and half the collection was lost, then it was moved again and the lost the other half and now it lives on as NEMO, next to central station. It's still a nice day trip for younger kids but the hard technology angle has been almost entirely erased. Not that any kid today would understand what a rotary phone switchboard does anyway...
The "give you wings" wasn't literal, which is what the GP was complaining about.

FTA linked in the article:

"Red Bull does not, it turns out, give you wings — even in the figurative sense. Red Bull says in its marketing that the drink can improve concentration and reaction speeds, but the plaintiff in the case said these claims were false and lacked scientific support. While the suit did not allege that plaintiffs were disappointed that they didn't suddenly sprout wings, it does say that Red Bull relies a lot on terms like "wings" and "boost" to give consumers the impression that the drink gives people some sort of physical lift or enhancement."
I assume they read this overly literally:

> In 2014, Red Bull announced it would pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit brought by buyers who said the energy drink didn't — as the marketing materials promised — "give you wings."

If you go to the source, obviously, the concern was not that it did not literally cause you to grow wings.
Exactly! Most will have a name given by its owner, a pet of sort but much more in function. You will need to reach a certain age to get it, the beginning of adulthood.

People will mourn them and there will be real world AI cementeries.

Diffie Whitfield envisioned an internet highway where every computer is connected to every other in 1974 and then went on to find out how to do that communication in secure channels.[1]

I think my vision is quite tame and deductible from the current situation compared to his.

[1] according to Singh Simon: The Code Book
It's a bit frustrating reading this article, There's clearly two different problems going on here.

Claiming your filling is 100% tuna or that your drink is made with aged vanilla, when both are completely untrue are just outright lies to deceive people. Companies doing this should legally be required to change their ways.

On the other hand, redbull not literally giving you wings is obvious. Only a child would literally believe this. There's a stark contrast between this and expecting açai in a "strawberry açai" drink.
When I worked in the city Chinatown was pretty cheap but I agree in general. Going out every day, especially for a reasonably healthy lunch, adds up.
I get the sense you’re proud of this story, and do not realize how negatively it paints you
Both _awesome_ comments, I made a similar one up above, but hadn't considered the `testing` use case which is actually really really cool to "protect" your test scope like that. Almost like a fake "setup/teardown".
The reason it's illegal to distribute and possess CSAM is, to my knowledge, not to mitigate demand for its production, but specifically because we have every indication that its distribution (really, knowledge of its distribution) does inflict subjective harm on the victims.

The reason anything is illegal is because of the subjective experience of perceived harm. There is no harm that exists other than the "subjective", "experienced", and "perceived" kind. The question is just whether the rest of society empathizes enough with that harm to protect against it.

I do find the argument around allowing (fully) synthetically produced imagery in order to satiate demand for CSAM without harming real people an interesting one. I'm not sure where I land but probably probably somewhere near "if it actually reduces demand for harm-producing imagery, then good, and if it does not reduce that demand, then bad." I.e. this position would probably increase everyone's chances of coming across synthetic CSAM which in turn might actually increase the market for "authentic" material. Not sure how this would play out.
> In 2014, Red Bull announced it would pay more than $13 million to settle a lawsuit brought by buyers who said the energy drink didn't — as the marketing materials promised — "give you wings."

Rather than face federal judicial action, redbull paid out $13 million to settle.

If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.
Non-moving data is a journey
This argument that "we don't have to do anything because other countries aren't" is so utterly lame. It was goto talking point for Trump too. Sunak can't simultaneously say Britain is a "leader" on climate change and then say he wants to slow roll until everyone else catches up. That's the opposite of leading.
how do you prevent use-after-free with a wrapper?
This is the most blatant case of false advertising since my lawsuit against the film The Neverending Story.
I was wondering the same. Maybe there is just an uptick in legal firms taking interest in bringing suits because it has proven to be a viable business? The article points out these firms exist, but "increase in one form of lawyering over the last decade" isn't nearly as sexy as "Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after x"
Meanwhile, country of origin labeling has become less and less transparent over time.

There is a war against our ability to make informed choices about what we put in our bodies, and we are largely just letting it happen.
Mental images in everyone are hazy and fuzzy and undetermined compared to what we perceive via sense perception.

I have doubts about the existence of aphantasia in the strict sense. While I can agree that different people indulge in greater or lesser day dreaming or imagination or pay greater or lesser attention to mental imagery or remember and recall images better or with greater precision than others, I don't think aphantasia as the total absence of images (where "image" is understood as a hazy sense impression) is real. I suspect that whose who claim to have this condition falsely believe that others have images that are of the same "resolution" and vividness of sense experience, but this is not the case, certainly not in most people.
Love the "both sides" that Deseret and BYU argues.

Far Loony Left: "People should be allowed to exist as long as they don't harm others."
Standard Right: "Gays should be drowned."
Centrist: "See, both sides are the same."

Jared, a 'centrist', in the article and how he puts in the words to basically say "I don't like women who think too much and don't want to be treated as property."

Then the next paragraph, they understate Emily, who is basically saying "I shouldn't be murdered at a traffic stop because a cop is having a bad day and doesn't like blacks." to "She said she worries conservatives don’t believe the same things she does about respecting racial differences or social causes."

I keep wondering how big of an incel problem BYU has due to the Mormon ethology of what a family structure must be and the servitude of females to the primary male. (Not talking about polygamy as that is supposed to be gone and was actually a reason one of my forefathers was kicked from their wagon train because he didn't want to take on another wife.) But just how the man's word in the family is law. So, the women seeing this might not want to get trapped like that which basically is like dry kindling to the fire that spreads incellism.
There's a lot of handwaving in there.

We don't currently have completely automated computer factories. Large chunks of manufacturing are automated, sure, but a) those automated segments are monitored and controlled by humans, and b) there are also significant parts of the assembly process that are fully manual.

Does that mean that fully automated construction is impossible? Of course not. But it does mean it's not something we are certain we can do today, without additional genuine breakthroughs.

Furthermore, what you're proposing is not merely automated construction, but automated improvements to the construction process. That means you need to be able to reconfigure the entire manufacturing process without human intervention. I feel reasonably confident in saying this is not feasible with our current technology.

Beyond that, your very first comment—about needing the means—is very much nontrivial. I don't recall the exact figures, but I was definitely seeing stories about ChatGPT being massively expensive to run, both in terms of money and in terms of energy. And that's just a current-generation LLM. Attempting to bootstrap from there to....the singularity, I guess? is likely to take more energy than is feasible to dedicate to any such project even if it were possible.

And finally, you say the AI will "train future generations"—train on what? An LLM's quality is always going to be largely dictated by its training data. How is an LLM going to be able to train a next-generation LLM any better than it was trained, especially, again, without human intervention? It's nearly impossible for what you're describing to result in anything that can do useful work, simply because training like that requires humans in the loop giving feedback at every step.
Isn’t caffeine, which Red Bull contains in spades, scientifically shown to do all those things?
First, the government would push the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars - currently set to come into force in 2030 - back to 2035. The 2030 date has been government policy since 2020.

The rubber is about to really about to hit the road between climate policy and geopolitics. China is increasing dominating ~all the industries required for the green transition. At this point there'd be no remotely plausible way to enforce a 2030 EV car requirement than to wind up with 70% of your auto market being Chinese EVs. It would be government mandated seppuku of basically all US / UK / European auto makers other than Tesla.

It would not only stir huge "populist" anger domestically but critically undermine the direction leaders want to take geopolitically towards China. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place and the only solution is to re-learn how to do advanced industrial production domestically at scale and price-competitive. It's no longer clear that's possible on any relevant timeframe though.
Does anyone know a tool like this but for arbitrary PDFs?
What a joke.

This is selling our children's future in an attempt for the Tories to cling to power. This is short-term thinking at its very worst and it's the kind of regressive policy that has led to us not investing enough in renewables and thus driving up the cost of heating fuel.

> "Our politics must again put the long-term interests of our country before the short-term political needs of the moment."

That is just a bare-faced lie - he's doing the exact opposite whilst also demonstrating that the Tories cannot be trusted to stick to previous commitments and instead they just point the finger at each other like a bunch of shit-flinging apes and declare that they're only thinking of the people struggling with the cost of living. Of course, they pretty much created most of the cost-of-living problems whilst they funnel money towards oil companies instead.
It's easy to say that when it is not your work others are making money on

Just "moving on" is like putting your head in the sand to avoid difficult conversations about financially sustainable open source (which requires an amount of unopen-source if we're going to be honest with ourselves). Donations and charity don't put food on the table for those building the projects.

We have not figured this out as a society, so we should keep talking and debating
Actually, bash has now a loadable builtin to listen on tcp socket. I wrote a script and the patch. https://github.com/dzove855/Bash-web-server

The patch is now included in bash 5.2
The is not the natural state of things. That's also not the original state of things.

For the decades that software engineering has existed, people have been busy migrating more and more information from offline in a different context into inline right at the code. Every single one of those times, people have experienced huge gains on the quality of the resulting comments, with moderate gains on project organization and productivity.

So, the reason comments are a greyed text inline with the code is that it has worked better. Having the comments offline (like software used to have) is very likely a flaw of those platforms. But well, the text-creation people never looked at improving their tooling anyway.
Generic trait methods and new auto traits
It's worth noting that the PHP framework is spelled "Symfony."
Yeah somewhat like the “moron in a hurry” standard.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
Right, creating generators in a loop is not usually something you want to do, but it's meant to demonstrate the complexity that arises from late binding rather than demonstrate something you would actually want to do in a real program.
> Warning: not just pdf, but forced download. Have fun cleaning up your downloads folder...

Not if you configure your browser correctly? Why would you allow random sites to save files without even prompting you for it?
Total peak UK demand is about 35GW, China to add 400GW of coal by 2030 - https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-p...

If the UK eliminated all industry and commerce we would delay the climate catastrophe for all of about 30 seconds.
The only sensible interpretation frfr
I implied but did not state clearly that I’m on the 12 still. I usually skip every other version, but at some point I skipped 2 and got on the even numbered editions (never buy the first version from Apple) and now it looks like I’m skipping at least 4.

It’s valid for a customer who had generally been happy with a company (or in this case a division) to complain that they haven’t given them a reason to do so in a long time.
I can on a Pixel 7 pro. Did for a while before deciding it was useful and wanted it but didn't like it trying to pop up, so I went from disabled, to off by default but callable by dragging from one of the bottom corners and requiring me to press the mic button for it to listen. Kind of the best of both worlds, it stays asleep until I need to change whats on the chromecast.
After 20 years in industry, I do think title inflation is a real issue. Senior is the new just "software engineer", Staff is the new Senior, and so on...

The problem isn't just an across-companies thing, within companies people generally don't really do work scoped to that role. They more-or-less continue chugging along in their role. Nobody is the "bad guy" to come and point out the mismatch.

There's also general lack of calibration across organizations at companies. Where a staff in one org is really a senior in another. And companies with poor engineering cultures don't have enough across team mobility to calibrate well.

This also happens because people want to get paid more and managers want to retain them. Seniors cap out at a certain pay level. We probably should have a route for people to be really good seniors and still get paid a lot just crushing code.

This also happens just because social pressures that you should progress in your career. When I sort of think we should reward people for their growth in different ways (their ability to learn and crush any type of code) -- not just for somehow acquiring org or company wide scope, coaching others, or taking on architecture.

I think we generally don't hold high enough expectations in our field too. Depending on the culture, people basically "get away with" more without getting blunt feedback on where they should be held to a higher standard.
When the time is right. There's finally new APIs coming in the Java space that will make native-code interop easier and more reliable.

Our open source database edition can also be used embedded though, so we can only upgrade at the pace of our customers and because of that we still are compatible all the way down to Java 8.

Were it not for this detail, we'd probably consider it a lot sooner.
Stadia’s death was due to a ‘self-sustaining cycle’ of lacking games and players
To be fair, the red bull one is the only real outlier here, and it's only one sentence in the article. And the actual lawsuit wasn't about getting actual wings anyway.
The "we've been automating since the industrial revolution and jobs have adapted" argument doesn't really account for scale. If I skin my knee (~1% of my skin) once a month for five years, that's hardly an issue. I might even form callouses. If I lose 60% of my skin to injury at once, that's a far bigger situation.
Google Tweaks Ad Auctions to Hit Revenue Targets, Exec Says
Please can people stop posting pointless news articles from The Guardian or the BBC. It's happening every day now. I come here to get away from this nonsense.

It's not even a story about doing something. It's a kite-flying, anonymously-sourced story about considering doing something.

What about this story gratifies any intellectual curiosity?

Per the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I am extremely, extremely excited about this.

I was wondering: what is the difference between VLCN and ElectricSQL?

Thank you!
Why C? What was so special about learning it? You got to fiddle with the computer's memory structure and pointers?
> eBay just doesn't care and they really have no incentive to care either. Your credit card company works for you and they will always care.

So why does your credit card care? The only reason is because you might cancel your cancel card, or you might use it less often because you perceive it as risky, or you might bad-mouth them to others causing them to lose reputation.

But eBay should care for those same reasons. You might cancel your eBay account, or you might use eBay less often because you perceive it as risky, or you might bad-mouth eBay to others causing them to lose reputation.

I happen to agree with you that complaining to your credit card is more effective than complaining to eBay. But I don't think it's because of the reason you stated. It's some other reason but I'm not sure what.
You’re bending over backwards to make your narrative fit. These burger restaurants are a blend of major national chains and completely local ones. The local ones absolutely are not “instituting buybacks”.

This is not some corporate conspiracy. The fed’s comments on inflation have made it very clear there is a labor shortage in the services sector that is driving up costs there quickly.

Starting hourly rates at these restaurants are now $20/hr, up from $15 a couple of years ago, and that’s still not enough. Each one of them has hiring signs and is clearly short staffed.
One of our distribution channels is Maven Central where we ship Java 11 compatible library. Embedded users preclude us from leveraging latest Java features.
I suspect it’s less a general social trend and more a cohort of litigious profiteers looking to make a quick buck.
Unironically this? It might violate gdpr to get consent for the purposes of maps but then use it in more contexts. I guess they might include all purposes when the user is asked, and at that point it boils down to whether the user is being asked consent for overly broad purposes or whether it is legitimate to bundle all the Google apps together.

It's internet explorer all over again.
I mean, it's possible to build something like that but why would you ever want to do that? It's so much simpler to just use a transaction per request and let the database's transaction logic handle which requests succeed and which ones fail. Clients should have retry logic to handle the failure scenarios. It's a lot simpler to reason about than trying to turn a distributed system into a single threaded one.
This looks great, I really want to try it!

When trying to run it on my Mac, it crashes with the error message "Info.plist must contain an NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription". I've created an issue: https://github.com/kbre93/every-breath-you-take/issues/9
The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean?
With the new GFTC license, we hope G1 is much more accessible now.