skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Falsifiability, controllability. Most hard sciences study and explain phenomena in an isolated and controlled system. You have well defined input parameters, some starting context, and you observe the output over time. You change your input and/or the context and you note the change in the output. Because the system is controlled and isolated, the experiment, if repeated by a different observer, should in theory give them the same results. From those observations, you can begin to infer what the plausible relationships are between the actors in your experiment and devise your hypotheses. Physics and chemistry for example leave little room to ambiguity. Biology because of factors like aging and mutation has to account for some variance.

But the further away we move from an isolated system and include increasingly unpredictable or difficult to account for inputs or context, the less we can claim to have predictable output. Some nutrition advices for example are questionable, because they aim to give simplistic recommendations based on isolated observations of a phenomenon, that must eventually work as part of a sophisticated synergistic system. Many disciplines currently considered (or disputed) to be science allege to map inputs to output in similarly complex systems. Economy must account for human behaviour, culture, environment, leadership, just to name a few volatile factors (plus a crystal ball for things like COVID-19, remote work, Russia vs Ukraine).
If you searched on Google you probably found an image of a girl in a strange raincoat holding a puppet. The girl is Yoshino 四よ糸し乃 (a real Japanese name with Kanji in it) and the puppet is called Yoshinon よしのん (not a real name, spelled out phonetically.) I’m not going to say I am like that girl (I don’t have a magic green raincoat, never mind a green raincoat at all) but my YOShInOn is named after よしのん.

There is also YOSHINON which is the network name of the body that the YOShInOn system inhabits, seen here

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110568695732952713

If you do a search on Hacker News, however, you will find what you are looking for

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

in fact probably a lot more than you are looking for. Sorry I have been too busy coding that and another side project to blog about it.
Happy to see the release! Looking forward to trying it out
I wish these types of fallacies, related to ignoring base rates and equating likelihoods with posteriors, were more widely appreciated.

However, a big problem in practice — and a reason why these fallacies exist aside from simple ignorance or mistake — is that the correct number, the posterior, requires knowing the prior base rates of something, which is often unknown. In some settings, the base rates are very well-characterized, but in others you really have no idea. In a lot of those cases, knowing the prior is qualitatively similar to knowing the posterior, which you're trying to figure out, so all you're left with with any certainty is the likelihood.

The fallacy exists, it's important, but sometimes I think there's a bit more to it than simple ignorance. Sometimes there's no information on prior rates, or you don't really know which prior distribution something comes from, there's a mixture for example.
Supreme Court sounds skeptical of challenge to consumer protection bureau
Ask HN: Is it only me who found the idea of Hacktoberfest ineffective?
Is it only me who found the idea of #Hacktoberfest ineffective? Encouraging people to have only one month in the year to create and contribute to a movement about freedom is counterproductive.

I see many companies doing marketing-fueled efforts to support it and many community members competing with questionable PRs to get a rank or something. I miss the talk about #FOSS's value and how we can sustain this effort.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on that!
Only WGA has reached a deal. The other groups are still striking.
This is the reason why carbon tax will be at EU borders: if something is producing emissions and is sent to Germany or EU is will be taxed higher than products not producing emissions...
Its not a loss, its an unrealized gain. What happens is they just don't get to have it, but they still get their principle returned as well as any interest up that point -- i.e. they made still made a profit.
> I'd like to point out that this depends heavily on your institution. My CS program had a class literally called "Formal methods", and every student was required to learn formal proofs before their first programming-heavy class (namely, "Data Structures I").

But compare usage of formal methods and practices in software engineers in a startup (or even well-established company) with engineers designing a bridge, for example.
this looks very similar to Docusaurus. Do you know any differences woth mentioning?
if you like typing _, go ahead, but it's not 1 key press and shouldn't be treated as a keystroke like the letter a...
Having worked as a loader/2nd AC and getting thrown into the focus puller chair on some b-roll - focus is changing constantly. On a movie set, it’s pretty much an entire person’s job.
I wonder how much, if any, this is balanced on the male side. How many young men re-enter or double down on work once their first child appears? Women may drop out to become primary caregivers but how many men drop into jobs that they previously would not have taken? Go to any military recruitment center and you will find young men with same story: "My girlfriend is pregnant; I need a real job." I'm reminded of that classic Simpsons story where Homer has to abandon his dream job at the bowling alley to take a soul-crushing but higher-paying job at the nuclear plant. Is decreased workforce participation by Marge offset by increased productivity from Homer?

A corollary to this is that Homer's choice of job was dictated by the needs of his family. For many today, the big raise must appear before any decision to have kids. Work now dictates family.
“No data collected” is the tag I want to see on the app store next to the one that tells you if there are in-app purchases.
Similar, but not exactly. The details matter. The strobing needs to be synchronous with the frames.

Adding flicker without the motion clarity benefit looks bad. Strobing in sync with content looks amazing. How many people complained about 60 Hz flicker on CRTs over their 70 year reign?

https://forums.blurbusters.com/viewtopic.php?t=6519
gasp blasphemy! C programmers literally can't have nice things
I have been there. Very nice and fun place. Great day trip from Cluj!

(Cluj is a really nice and fun city to visit. Highly recommended.)
The author addresses this (in a very condescending way) in the last couple paragraphs. But yes, I tend to agree with you.
'Several Amish Men' Allegedly Shunned After Emergency Alert Test
Many C codebases predate that. And Visual Studio for a long time didn’t support anything newer than C89.
I’m sure many folks will take that smug sense of superiority all the way down the unemployment line while high effort, hardworking artists that leverage AI to make high quality works.
"There is no power limit for hydrogen bombs"

Edward Teller (who else) got there first!

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/12/in-search-of-a-bi...

A 1Gt primary (Gnomon) igniting Sundial to give 10Gt.
The free version doesn't allow GPU accelerated playback or editing or rendering which is a must for any serious user / business.

They get people in the door with a really powerful free editing software, and once you've invested time into learning it and made it part of your workflow, you want to pay the £300 to upgrade because it's too much hassle to learn a new editor, and Resolve is awesome, but you reallly don't want to keep waiting 3hrs to generate 1/8th res optimized media for your whole project before you can preview at more than 10fps on an i7 Extreme Edition (that's how they got me, if you couldn't tell).

It's an effective free -> paid product-led conversion path to acquire customers. Being on HN and presumably working in tech/SaaS, this is a familiar and effective business strategy.
As long as you never forget the WHERE clause for the DELETE statements, that sounds fine.
A fundamental problem in the JavaScript ecosystem is mixing up source files and "binary" (optimized, minified) files. URL imports seem like a bad move because they can point to either.

Sourcemaps help somewhat, but even with Deno, when using an IDE, the source you want is often in another castle. You might get minimized code or type definitions.

Contrast with the Go system which rarely has this problem. Following imports goes to source.
So I do have strong ethical problems with AI usage especially when talking about how a model was trained and properly paying people.

However I think Loki brings up an interesting question. Wether or not "AI" art could become its own style? Like to me the Loki series would benefit from those inconsistencies, weirdness, etc that comes from an AI generating art.

Not that a Human can't do it, but the results would likely be different.

Not really defending its usage here, just an interesting thought I had about this in this particular use case. It happens to fit the theming very well.
I wrote a brief article discussing my thoughts on playing 240p games on a CRT compared to a modern display[0]. It’s hard to perfectly convey, but the picture really does look exceptional and so much better than on a modern display and is something worth seeing in person.

The MiSTer FPGA does an excellent job with filters to recreate that experience but isn’t 100% there yet. The Analogue Pocket also does a great job recreating the look of GB, GBC, and GBA games. I’m very impressed by the people that have developed these filters and am optimistic about their implementation in the future. I’m not always going to have a CRT, so filters are the next best thing to capturing the original look.

[0] https://www.winstoncooke.com/blog/2023-08-26-appreciating-24...
To my eyes the stock image is unlikely to be 100% generative AI. It appears to be an Escheresque spiral projection of an AI generated image. The AI artifacts are exactly identical between each layer of the spiral, only scaled down, which would be hard to explain in any other way.
Amen, especially for reference documentation, such as API or functions / SQL commands (e.g. for a database product). Those docs should be checked in with the code, and PR should not get merged if the docs are not ready.
In a company I work for they decided to do the same, around the same time. I believe it was a wrong call. Over time requirements have grown and we ended up bolting all kinds of kafka features on top of the zeromq thing, but of course much crappier. And in the meantime kafka doesn't require zookeeper anymore and is the de-facto standard
No, it makes it quite usable for dual licensing scenarios.

Those that want to take the work of others for free, get the same payment that they are willing to pay upstream developers for.

Otherwise they can dynamically link it and take it as it is, or if it doesn't suit them, pay for the commercial license instead, and share their gold coins with upstream.

EDIT: missing words
"turducken" never heard of it and what a perfect word in this context LOL!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken
The WGA strike is over. The SAG strike continues. Both strikes were concerned about different aspects of AI generated content.
So what should they have done? Continued running the company until the day they died? Then what? Converted it to a non-profit/co-op/etc. and effectively donated 90% of their net worth and tens of millions of dollars (a tall order for most people)?
Lawyers have mostly looked at the common open source licenses long enough to know what they say: what is compatible with each other, what is compatible with their [corporate/clients] other needs, and otherwise how it works. While mostly they have not been tested in court, there general consensus they will hold up somehow (nobody knows for sure and there are a couple hundred countries that could each decide their own thing).

When you do your own license though lawyers need to figure everything out for just your project.
It's a string so you can probably register anything you like. In our village there are is a road with houses with numbers "<N> Cottages" and "<N>" (for various numbers <N>). I guess post is often misdirected.
I hope they do use AI. I do, and I know it has improved both the quantity and quality of my output at work.
> having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y

It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here:

https://github.com/httpie/cli

Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massive twist because they have an Electron wrapper that they haven't open sourced is mystifying.

I haven't studied the codebase but I highly doubt they are going to have a separate client implementation for the Electron product vs the CLI! They're just trying to create a nice Electron client, in addition to their well-known CLI, and start a business around it aren't they?
> If you're finding yourself reaching for pen and paper to write actual code, then your tooling sucks.

Oh bull. At the level of thinking where you’d pull out pen and paper, ALL digital tooling sucks. Not one single solitary tool can beat pen and paper at that level. Not one.
Is Discogs venture backed and are they now gearing up for sale?
EU states can use some or all of this revenue for a direct dividend to citizens, like in Canada. That would make most people better off than before, in direct financial terms.
>At least the ACM never attempted to hang on the coattails of the the Nobel Prize by naming the Turing award for Alfred Nobel.

Aren't they riding on the coattails of Turing instead?
Yes, I do this as well. It looks a little funny if you're not used to it, I suppose.
Battle of Thermopylae (1941)
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In this video we learn how to setup the business rules organizational folder structure, create ruleLibrary.js for business rules data structure. Create arrayParsing.js business rules file and start implementing business rule functions for array parsing.
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The explanation in that first video with ships sailing on a cylindrical ocean being analogous to a propeller was really great. But from what I understand, that's not how their car actually works, because they're actually powering the propeller from the wheels and expecting the propeller blowing backward to push the car forward, and not the wind moving past the blades in just the right way to pull it forward.
Circular Definition
I talked with Pieter at some length about his cancer, which he was very open and forthcoming about, and his ultimate decision for euthanasia. He was very stoic about the whole ordeal. He was somewhat depressed about it to start, but eventually came around to realizing the accomplishments and contributions he made throughout his life in both the technical realm and outside.

I say all that to mean that anyone being sad about his death is something that Pieter would not have wanted.
I'm glad that in Germany it's not as weird as in the UK then... we only sometimes have postal issues on newly zoned areas.
> It's better to have application-level processes in place to ensure data consistency.

Good luck doing that correctly and with good performance, especially in concurrent and multi-client system.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20842756/sql-indirect-fo...
If you want it to last longer than 20 minutes it would weight about 250 pounds.

Chainsaws are at the very corner of tools that have to be both portable, handheld, and very powerful. This means that their energy source should very dense. Lithium does not come close for the big saws.

Urban tree climbing arborists (that need a small saw to chop limbs while up in a tree) now sometimes use battery powered saws that run off of an "umbilical"- a cable off of the saw runs to a separate (backpack or other container) battery. These saws are among the smaller chainsaws (maybe a 12" bar, sized for chopping limbs). The other extreme is a saw for bucking and felling medium and large trees, which uses a MUCH more powerful motor and a 30" bar or bigger.
This is my personal style:

http://edit.rupy.se/?host=move.rupy.se&path=/file/game.cpp&s...

It's messy and in many ways ugly but it compiles and runs for an eternity.
Is there a link to the community where this is being developed? I was unable to find one on the site itself. I'd be interested in writing a scraper for my state and the digitization pipeline.
You may want to look at courtlistener.org as inspiration--similar set of problems, but in a different space obviously.
I now regret making this remark.

My purpose was not to be dismissive of economics as a proper science. It was just a clarification the this prize is not part of the Alfred Nobel's will, it was instituted in 1968 by Sweden's central bank (in a way that you might call a bit shady).

Nowadays, Swedish media is quite good at making this distinction, but international media is still rather confused about this.
"AI image checkers" are complete garbage, I had a lot of fun with them, but they shouldn't be used for anything other than entertainment.
This is a looney article. In Canada, 80s rates hit over 20%. Rates today are not even remotely high, they're lower than the late 90s!
In C++ I do it Google style:

static constexpr int kConstantName = 42;
100% acceptable

Acceptable to whom? Consumers? Or Luddites and a guild whose interests aren’t entirely aligned with consumers?
Surprisingly enough, it transpires that the actually difficult part of programming isn't the languages.

It is learning to express what it is you want, clearly and unambiguously enough so that there is as little room for error as possible; and even before then, learning to understand for yourself inside your own head what it is you want in sufficient detail that you can verbalise it, and maybe reason through how it might be achieved and what the possible outcomes, whether good or bad, might be.

Tooling can mainly help here by getting out of our way, so that we are free to focus on thinking about the actually important parts of what we want to happen without distracting details of how specifically it might be implemented such as the memory safety you mention.

However, with all those details gone, the actually hard problem of bringing your creation from your head into the outside world still remains. It predates computers, and is still present even if you remove computers from the equation entirely: it is why, e.g., lawyers as a profession exist. It arises not from the technology or area of activity, but from the nature of our own minds.
EU mulls more restrictive regulations for large AI models: Report
Palmer Lucky had an interesting point about these headsets in their current state, that even if we gave them out for FREE, people still wouldn't really use them. He's got a point that there isn't that "killer app" for VR.
Seeing as this is for business use where money is part of the data, is there a way to export all my data at once? Not only for having a backup, but also in the future in case I no longer like the service, or I outgrow the service, or the service shuts down.
We’ve lost the “best hope”, not all hope.
How does screen studio compare with screenflow? I've been on their upgrade path the past few years, but none of the new features add anything to the basics of what I tend to use. The 'multidevice' pricing on screenstudio is a bit off putting; it's similar in screenflow, but the extra couple minutes of 'deactivate/activate' a few times per year is probably worth it vs an extra $100.
Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind using byte length instead of bit length?

Most of the time when I use fixed-width int types I’m trying to create guarantees for bitwise operators. From my perspective I feel like it therefore makes the most sense to name types on a per-bit level.
Micro: Bit
I started using Ardour in 2007 and quickly transitioned our studio to it in a big move to Linux for audio production. I'll be excited to reacquaint myself with it later this year on the first analog restoration I've accepted in almost a decade.

The extent of its wonders escapes me now, but I recall with jack+ardour, the new lowlatency/preempt kernel, and some tcp/ip stack fun, we were able to get 40ms network audio latency on commodity hardware, vastly expanding our field processing workflows. Sort of how you can walk out of any venue today and immediately purchase an SD card of the event, we could produce MP3, CDs, and live webcasts of events, ready within minutes of closing with nothing more than a laptop, usb sound card, mics, and the internet.

I also had a little trick for transcription; shorthand with macros! Eventually, I could type them all one handed. Today, you can just pipe through whisper and have subs in every format and language. What an incredible time to be alive.

My lessons learned have been that free, open source software is amazing, and if you don't know something is supposed to be "hard", it can't stop you. Don't let greed or pride make you withhold from yourself.