skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly right! Even though a mandated lockdown would have been received badly everywhere self-absorbed individuals reside, and whiny business owners would cry about their profits during lockdown, and bad actors would exploit Americans' lack of discipline and interest in the public good, Fauci made the situation infinitely worse by not giving America the tough love it needed and by failing to stand up the POTUS when it mattered. The was so full of double talk that he utterly destroyed public confidence in the efforts of his office. If America had locked down long enough at the beginning, likely through the end of the summer 2020, the pandemic would have resolved quickly in the United States, and hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. Students of history and communications will look at this period for what not to do.
For those not familiar with the term "zalgo": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
Simply put: it makes sense. When you are big enough, why not?
FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number
How to Enlist the Right Way (2021)
https://archive.is/2HFFV
In many jurisdictions suddenly "mandating" that an employee be on call every week/month would be a proposed change of employment contract. I.e. the employee would be fully within their right to refuse until the employer makes an acceptable offer, if at all.

Also, this "manager" sounds totally clueless...
Apologies, I guess I just wanted my two cents in and didn't see anyone writing it
> challenging economic environment

The "environment" problem isn't economic, but social. It's not new, and it's not about to change:

- Most users don't know that the browser that came with their device can be replaced by something else.

- Of those that know, many don't.

- Of those who do, they want it free; you cannot monetize it. You can't lock them in; they will switch to something else at the sign of any trouble.

The alternative browser user is pretty much the same person who doesn't want to see a single ad anywhere, or pay for anything.

You might as well wrap quartz pebbles in cloth and wait for whey to drip out.

A possible area for an alternative browser might be the corporate environment; employers who want to prescribe some kind of more locked down, security-fortified browser for use within their intranet. The challenge there is demonstrating value, compared to regular approaches: using regular browsers and securing things elsewhere.

Recently there was a HN submission to a story about how scalpers are able to get Ticketmaster tickets before everyone else, which mentioned custom browsers that the use. Someone makes money in that niche.
Gives me scammy, data being stolen vibes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa#Criticism
That article is a bit of a mishmash of factors, pros, cons, and trends
> Wordpress however is still a hug pile of garbage. It might be functional and has all the features you'd ever need, but I could never trust it to run even a simple blog.

Same here. I was kind of shocked on HN how man advocate for it.
If the cloud was truly cost-effective then AWS and its competitors wouldn't be the cash cows that they are.
Thanks for trying. It's not going to work well (It is in fact impossible).
Was caught off guard that it rates the following text at only "3.2% chance AI generated":
"As a large language model, I am not able to answer this question."
I side with the cats :)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/08/06/dont-blame-cats-for-d...
If I significantly harm someone with my car, even unintentionally, I do in fact get sued successfully for far more than $75k
All these policy prompts remind me laws of robotics by Asimov [1], and definitely our current 'robots' frequently violate them. Asimov's laws are more logical since those are hierarchical with high-to-low prioritization and self-referencing.

Can't those LLM/text-to-image model rules be embedded in the training/alighnment process instead of being injected before user input?

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics
Have you used Diptrace of Flux.ai?

I've personally enjoyed using DipTrace, very intuitive and easy to pick up, it's far less than $1000. I've been hearing good things about Flux but haven't tried it myself yet. I hear it's not complete, but coming along quick.
Given that the symptomatic rabies leads to death in 100% of cases currently, wouldn’t it make sense to try a version of this in those few cases when someone in North America does get rabies?

They already tried the experimental Milwaukee protocol even though it wasn’t clinically established (and in fact didn’t work)
Yes it was marked editorial/opinion and said something like not the opinion of wired staff at the bottom.
I assumed that the gigapress was a large stamping die. neither casting (melt the metal and pour it into a mold) or forging (shaping softened hot metal), but deforming cold metal in one or more steps using alot of pressure and a very hard mold.
It's not a limitation at all. There are no PCB design programs that have every part ever manufactured in the library. At some point you're going to have to make a PCB footprint yourself no matter what software you use. Pretty much all datasheets have explicit measurements of the footprint layout. Even better if you have the physical part and some calipers.
It is becoming very difficult to have a private conversation in our modern world. It is a shame.
> Lone Rock Point, a WordPress.com VIP Gold Agency Partner, led the project

OTOH their website https://lonerockpoint.com is terribly slow on my (Safari @ M1 Pro)...
nice, and leads in a few clicks to: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/exact-sequence-picturebook
https://nitter.net/molly0xFFF/status/1710718416724595187
1. I'd have phone/video calls with people who face the problem im solving, usually from my personal network / asking people on linkedin. In these calls I'd really try to learn about the problem and how they're solving it now. Possibly make presales on the phone at this point if the problem seems really intense and frequent.
2. Quickly build MVP
3. Send MVP to everyone I spoke with
4. observe whether it solves their problem
A salvage operation where you harvest raw cells is no where near repairability. That is one step removed from taking a crushed car selling it for scrap metal.
The fact that these conversations are rare on HN, is why the conversation tends not to be trite and banal.
I had an experience using Starlink at a hotel in the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan. Funnily enough, I only became aware of this after some websites began redirecting me to their German versions - turns out our traffic was being routed through a host with an IP from one of their STRLNK-POP-FRNTDEU1 pools. The list @mkimball linked to doesn't include Jordan, likely because the service hasn't been officially launched in the country. This also means that, for now, you can enjoy a truly anonymous VPN-less browsing experience out of there :)
Django and Wagtail.
Pay more or let them go. That’s it. If the job suddenly requires on call, and someone refuses to comply then show them the door and hire someone else with the explicit expectation that there will be on-call.
I don’t know that the outcome of that would be what you hope, but at the very least it would help prevent those same people from being victims again.
opt-in.
Pay them for it.
And have a culture of fixing stuff and spending enough before shit happens, so that on-call is rare and problems don't repeat too often
The point is that all this is not seen as valuable by users and market leaders. You don't gain marketshare in b2c by saying "my gizmo is more memory-safe than other gizmos", you have to show features. Chrome's process-separation was a feature: you could easily dispose of non-responsive pages, which other browsers couldn't do as well. Even then, it wasn't really why Chrome took off - it took off because of deep integration with Google's ecosystem, incessant marketing efforts, and monopolistic behaviour (Google "unwittingly" breaking GMail and other G products on other browsers, on a regular basis).

So what feature would full memory-safety actually enable? I suspect that's the bit that the Servo folks couldn't articulate well enough.
Works in dark mode on my machine (uses QT/GTK darkmode setting)
Can’t get high utilization modern cpu on cloud for cheap. Ryzen 7950x single core very fast and very cheap.
Looks cool, thanks for sharing
1% chance OP’s post was AI generated.
I see this being downvoted over the difference between dynamic typing and type inference.
I feel this is unjustified. The example shows what can go wrong with type inference, which is in fact a feature of dynamicly typed languages (even though it is not explitly called type inference in that context).
+ was simply replace with "". A very minor syntax change. The other stuff about wildly assuming you meant some unrelated, usually commercial, stuff though I agree with.
GPU sandboxing landed in 110 on Windows. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Process_model#GPU_... says it will be likely added to OSX and Linux with Webrender. Web Content processes are already sandboxed so I wouldn't say it's a joke ;) - sure they lag behind Chromium but Google has way more resources than Mozilla.
That is immensely disappointing. At least the Leibniz chocolate biscuit is actually named after the mathematician.
I just pasted a paragraph I wrote and it told me it was 100% AI-generated. Huh?
It's a good observation.

However, we need to keep in mind that just because it's not filtered by propaganda agents at the source doesn't mean that it cannot very easily be turned into propaganda. And that's even without counting the relative ease of manufacturing images (with or without AI).
Language Transfer: https://www.languagetransfer.org/
Not a single Christian would disagree with that statement.
Would you rather the keys be $5 from Walmart and pair with the car without needing an OEM programmer?
You can always export the files and you could also access them directly in the applications document database if needed.
What tool do you use for bookmarking?
Hey HN,

i am building my own bookmark manager called LinkCollect as i don't like the chrome default and also some of the popular bookmark managers are not what i need, so i am curious about what you guys use to save your favourite links and why

-> i launched v1 last month and now sitting back to look what other tools are doing and get some feedback

So would love your inputs
Big Tech happened
Looks like they load all assets directly from the "wp-content/uploads" folder (unless they reverse proxy this path to a CDN, which is unlikely). Plus custom fonts.
Since they have an ad monopoly they have incentive to link you to stuff that shows ads, which will in all likelihood be their's. Spammy medical sites with google-run pill ads vs the wikipedia page for the thing you searched for (often not even on the first page anymore for medical terms).
Read it. I cannot say whether the concept of a manifesto for small games is a worthwhile endeavour. It sounds like an ideology, a stricture on creative thought, and then you start the endless debates as to what qualifies, and audiences bifurcate into "but what does it _mean_?"

That said, I like to make what I have often referred to as "$10K games." If I was being paid a realistic hourly rate to implement an idea, what could I do for $10,000 USD? $10K is one month of household burn rate (for me), and so I can aptly weigh the decision of "outsource this or do it myself?" It gives a very clear budgetary limitation.

And sure, you could "work for free" or "get a friend to help out for a pizza" or "well if someone in a LCOL country could do it, that's like two years worth of income."

But we would be arguing pointless nuances at that point.

The question is "could _I_ implement this idea for $10K, if I were being paid the $10K? Would _I_ be willing to set aside all other possible endeavours to work on this, if _I_ were being paid $10K for it?"

And so we get in to how to make a game that has a definite end, that somewhat fulfills the ideal of the small games manifesto, but still gives you enough creative freedom to achieve your goals whilst still shooting yourself in the foot by spending too many hours tweaking the individual pixels in a piece of artwork.

A $10K game, for me, could be a day's worth of work writing code and $9000 worth of outsourced artwork to make it beautiful. Or it could be two or three weeks of intense labour, flying solo, creating the art, music and code because you simply need that itch scratched. The game then becomes secondary to the importance of the creative endeavour itself.
Around 2011-2014, a coworker told me about a fellow online who was claiming that he'd solved all the world's health problems by narrowing the cause down to peoples' bodies having an acidic pH level instead of alkaline. The history of alkaline water pseudoscience goes back much farther,[1] but that was the earliest I heard of it in 21st century America. There was a list of "alkaline" vs. "acidic" foods, etc.

It was very much in the same vein as the "aspartame is POISON!!!" chain emails of the 1990s, so I was disappointed when I started to see products on store shelves catering to the belief.

I'm not seeing any obvious hits for the original source now, unfortunately. Maybe someone else has traced its modern incarnation back even further.

[1] https://ua.pressbooks.pub/pseudoscienceessays/chapter/the-al...
and lead (what you do to take a pig to market).

That's a curious example. There's surprisingly little on pigleading out there!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lead+a+pig%22
And now you have hardware transcoder from AMD.

How is going mobile GPU hardware AV1 decoding/encoding support?
My first instinct was "I'm sorry I can't provide a detailed answer" which rated 99.6%
~B1 French here with Duo being an important step on the way.

The trick for Duolingo is to use the desktop version and disable all the "helpful" bits you can or at least use the browser version if on mobile. Desktop had far fewer gamified bits than the app as of a year ago (sadly the new UI broke my workflow and I dropped Duo altogether). Gems weren't a meaningful thing, etc.

In particular: Use your keyboard for everything. You'll probably want to be able to type in the target language anyway and it helps you avoid the trap of being really good at pattern recognition instead of really learning all the grammar quirks.

You can disable both animations and the leaderboard gamification in the settings (the latter by setting your profile to private). CSS/uBlock can help hide other distractions, add dark mode, etc. as needed.

It takes some extra work now to unbury the learning tool beneath but Duolingo itself, especially if you go in with a general idea of how to go about learning a language, is still really useful.

Super helpful link that I used along the way as well (not mine): https://runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html
"Your most intimate thoughts and acts aren't recorded for random bureaucrats to get a laugh out of"

Actually they are all the time, the phone is always listening, Alexa is always listening, Ring is always listening. You don't know what happens to that data as it goes through the layers.

The bureaucrats are not laughing but the analysts are.
You're right, it was archived in 2022
The author is not saying that. They're saying google manipulates what those 10 links are to generate more money (bc of reasons like those sites serve more google ads).
Very cool language, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the purpose of the language in the original post. Can this be used in embedded systems too?
> Any minor damage and the car will be toast because the insurance company will total it.

Another best part is our currently skyrocketing car insurance - even for people who don't carry collision. Even if you don't contribute to the problem, insurance companies force you to financially support everyone who does.
Still happy not using PHP :)

The fact that WP is so big doesn't make PHP ecosystem much more attractive. And I used to do WP dev full time.
There are many examples in life where I have seen people and recognized that if this person were born in a slightly different household, slightly different time, slightly different economy, etc. - this person would have made it big!

I have actually seen this in many places.

One example on top my head- my neighbor was a talented video editor. Not legendary level, but okay. He eventually set up shop for editing wedding videos and such. He got contracts, he got praises and contracts in affluent families- all of this was not enough for sustaining a middle class life for an adult. He eventually set up a convenient store with the help of his father in law. He was quite old and had to move on to earn a middle class income. He did not have access to internet until early 2010s.

Now, his nephew, who is also my neighbor is also a video editor. But he got internet since he was born. He has all the resources. He has discord servers where people guide him and share resources. He is also an online gamer, and edited his own videos and posted them online. That led him to international contracts. Last month he earned US$120 working a single night.

That's HUGE for a 19 YO in small town India. Had his uncle (now in his early 40s) had all these, he would have made it big.

Circumstances do influence heavily how much a person succeeds.

I don't hold the line that equal opportunities lead to equal outcome- that doesn't happen.

But do think about the child that was born today in slavery in Libya, and a child born to a FAANG worker parent in Bay Area.

Do you think that they have equal chances of success?

And, I will also mention that Picasso had neighbors and peers. They didn't become as famed. Talent and individuality matters, too.
I literally built billions of dollars of equipment for my employer deploying new datacenters. Even with a mandate to pivot to cloud-first, that kind of investment still needs to be used. And predictably after suffering enough pain from cloud-preferred thinking, we're settling on a mix, in no small part due to both monetary and migration cost.
You might wanna sit down for this...
PHP and its model scales very well. WordPress is built very well, all things considered.

I hated PHP back before PHP IDEs were a thing. I think now, PHP has matured in a way that has done itself a lot of favors.

Blind hatred is annoying, yes, but there were good reasons to dislike it back then that probably aren't as applicable today.
You want a consumer desktop chip in your server? Consider the I/O.
I wonder why certain usernames are blocked. Are they typically honeypots or something?
> Who could ever be productive with something like this?:

The millions of sites running on Wordpress?
Wordpress?
Facebook?

Maybe Wordpress has outgrown its php legacy, but there are many websites that are far better off writing a bunch of HTML/inline CSS/and a sprinkling of php and JS and getting it out there, as opposed to setting up massive build tool chains and writing React components.

In fact, when that was the norm, line developers were far more productive and building tons of personal and commercial webpages from scratch, building websites, web apps, etc. The developer output and productivity outside of large corporations and organizations seems far lower today than it did a decade+ ago.

Edit: I’m not a PHP developer, but I’m going over that code and it seems eminently readable. Heck, even as a non php developer I can fully understand what it’s trying to do. What exactly is the issue with the code? Is it the fact that the HTML part is written as HTML and not some made up language that tries to look like HTML but then compiles down to JS which then tries to reconstruct the HTML looking like thing back into HTML? Or the fact that i can read much of the code in that single file and don’t have to dig into a build configuration file to figure out where the corresponding JS and CSS files are located?

I’m sure there’s a lot of ways the code can be improved, but this code seems just fine?
I am positive Levi's pays for ads on google and google has incentives to show increased sales for Levi's as a result of that advertising
Looks like her claim was in fact false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
Minor accidents resulting in cars being totaled does what to insurance premiums? Makes them sky-high. There was an article earlier this week how some Tesla owners were facing extreme insurance premium increases and others had their insurance dropped altogether.

All the savings you hear about with regards to EV’s are going to be more than offset by insurance premiums - which means these gigacast vehicles aren’t going to sell well.
+1 for Drizzle. I was really drawn to Prisma because it seemed elegant, but the problems surfaced by this blog post are really concerning.
Fireable already implies that the result of somemethod() is something fireable. That is why op uses somemethod(). Maybe a better name would be getSomethingThatCanBeFired() but that would not really explain OPs point better.
The whole, "How can I get people to do X when they don't want to do it for $Y?" is just a funny question. It is like asking, "How do I buy a sandwich when no one wants to sell me one for $1?"

Of course if everyone except a single employee IS willing to do X for $Y then the company many choose to replace them.
I'd love something exactly like this, but with less paradigms and statically typed, for use as a configuration language.

I've used several projects requiring non-trivial configuration that, instead of requiring you to write hundreds of lines of yaml, simply let you write Lua or Starlark/python, which feels so much better to me. I'm always missing autocompletion and reflection though. There doesn't seem to be a good candidate for this, pretty much all small embeddable scripting languages are dynamically typed...
It means if you ask for “ideal person” you won’t just get blonde hair and blue eyes.
No coroutines :-(
Easy. Pay them a decent salary for every hour they are on call. Simple as that.
“Show them the door” seems a bit callous. If the hiring manager didn’t think to talk about on call responsibilities, that’s their own mistake. Maybe that doesn’t change that they need someone on call and maybe they still need to find a new employee, but a job doesn’t own a person 24/7 unless that signed up for it. If a manager pulled that bait and switch shit on me I’d definitely never be recommending to my smart friends to work there.
I pasted my best ai-generated paragraphs, verdict: 100%. I'm impressed.
Has there ever been an attempt at a good standardized machine-readable exchange format for datasheets in general, btw? Feels to me like it still all comes down to authoring tools for making pretty PDFs, and while there's something to be said for the universality of a good ol' paper-style doc made for human eyeballs, but it's also silly (not to mention error-prone) for Engineer A to use a SW package to make a schematic for a datasheet PDF, and Engineer B then reading it and inputting it back into a SW package.

I assume many vendors also offer parts libs/files in EDA formats, but are those proprietary or is there any de-facto standard like Gerber files?

It'd also be nice to browse datasheets' other contents in a consistent interface right in the EDA or in a web app instead of dealing with a zoo of PDFs in vendor-specific styles.

Maybe it's this kind of thing we'll automate using LLMs/models ... give it a description of the scripting API of the EDA, give it the PDF, make it map a footprint from one to the other. Or to a standard format. For back catalogs that could be useful ...
I didn’t mean to suggest they invented Santa. Just popularised the red and white colour scheme.

Yeah it existed before, but it wasn’t the standard representation. And now it absolutely is.