skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assessment is similar to mine. Firefox appears to have done a lot of the under the hood work necessary to bring a cool feature like this to their product, but then completely stopped working on anything beyond a rudimentary UI.
If you ever wrote any JS pre-typescript and then switched to typescript, I do not think you would call the problem "very limited niche."
Cameo to the Moon, and Back
hot take: don't like that it's called smart glasses, it's a camera(s) attached to glasses, sure wireless but yeah
It is very difficult for us humans to really grasp that unknown unknowns are real and have an effect. On some level, we assume that if we don't know something, it's not worth knowing, or we confidently make things up not even realizing we have done so. This bias influences us to believe that we know far more than we actually do.

...we should be able to recreate or predict some environments that would yield the same magic...

Why should we? Physics and chemistry derive from observation. Theory is descriptive.

1) Our experience with chemistry outside of the Earth environment is almost entirely theoretical. Only very expensive equipment can achieve, for only fractions of a second, in only microliters volume, extremes of temperature, pressure, magnetic fields, and never any environment with higher gravity than our own. We have no experimental access to, not to mention actual intuitive understanding of, the widely diverse environments that exist in the Universe. So, our experimental knowledge is lacking.

2) Were we disembodied minds with no actual experience of the world, could we predict the existence of terrestrial life from first principles if given complete access to current knowledge of terrestrial physics and chemistry? Probably not. We don't know what makes a good environment for life, other than that we look around on Earth and see it everywhere. So, our theoretical knowledge is inadequate.

3) Even what we perceive and define as life, sentience or civilization is limited by our lack of experience. If trees for example had a rich storytelling tradition, epics unfolding over centuries perhaps, how would we even discover that or understand them? Trees are far more relatable than aliens are likely to be given that we share a common ancestor. The concept of, say, wind patterns or waves or nebulae being alive or sentient is easily dismissed, but again, our definition of life is narrowly defined by our single data point, our interests and outlook conferred and constrained by our evolution. Is it useful? Is it dangerous? This is the sort of thing that informs even our ability to perceive something as worthy of attention. Before microorganisms were discovered, the concept of invisible critters was laughable. So, our understanding of what we're looking for is inadequate. I suspect that the evidence of alien life is all around, but it's just too different even to be interesting.
The Power User's Guide to Cody AI for Visual Studio Code
> Naively when you read a git diff or a pull request, you might think like me, that git is storing a diff between A and B and just displays it when needed. But in reality it stores the full file in the object storage.

I thought logically git stored every file, but implementation-wise, it does git-object compaction. So in reality, it's not actually storing every file on disk, no?
If you have time budget for several programming languages, then Ruby is a good one to learn OOP.

For getting a job - probably no, but depends on your local job market.
Thanks, this the underlying processor, IBM's "NorthPole", architecture paper.
First, I want to point out "ad hominem" in rhetoric has an even longer history than that. The assumption that any ad hominem argument is inherently fallacious is a relatively recent phenomenon. For the orators of antiquity, the fallacies were originally just a subcategory of ad hominem arguments, some types of which were legitimate.

For something to be an actual example of ad hominem fallacy, the critic must use personal attacks on the author as a means of outright avoiding to engage with the author's arguments on their own merits. "XYZ is a domestic abuser, therefore we should not listen to XYZ on climate change." I don't see that happening here. The critic is attacking Andreessen's character and his arguments, and explaining how the two are linked.

Deflecting these sorts of arguments, which by definition necessarily involve attacks on another person's character, as "ad hominem fallacies" are themselves a different type of fallacy.
It is a new design, not a direct competitor for nVidia’s flagship. And there are lots more applications for AI than LLMs.
I doubt sketchy seed or plant orders on Amazon follow any sort of proper protocols.

Amazon should not allow these, but are shamelessly callous towards any external risk. A pest coming in on seeds or plant matter can easy become a multi billion dollar agricultural problem.

There is no way anyone should be able to order bootleg plant material with a clean conscience. You save a couple bucks yourself but in the process buy a mega-billions anti-lottery ticket for everyone else.
This was for years actual policy in the UK, where most of the cops are unarmed. Using Land Rovers as police cars was considered too military, for example.

Sunnyvale, California, has a combined police and fire department. They train their people for both and they move back and forth. Emergency medical services is in there, too. At one time, their cops wore red blazers with the city insignia.
I think OP is referring to the fact that the Factorio devs are fucking awesome, they listen to the community, fix bugs in record time, add fun things to the game and even fix bugs that affect third party mods, which is unseen in any other modded game. If software development could be something near how the Factorio devs carry their game, we sure would live in a better world.
"There is no warning system to detect hams being thrown at you in response to the LED lighting up, so be mindful."
Superlatives and some other words get stripped from titles. Always double check your submission title after submission and edit them back in if appropriate (as in this case). This has been a thing for years, it is not new.

I’d resubmit if you want responses at this point or email (contact link at bottom of page) dang to edit it now.
In what country would your groceries be an item on your tax reporting?
Ruby is not a bad language, but I would not invest in it unless:

1. I am Shopify or another huge Ruby shop with a lot of existing engineering knowledge, libraries, team members etc.

2. I am interested in building something with Rails

Otherwise I cannot think of a compelling reason to choose Ruby.

The red flag here is that you dislike Python and JS for personal reasons which makes me think that any reasonable advice will not be important to you.
Have to install plugins to your repo to use with containers.

Sessions write to disk by default.

Uploading to S3 is a plugin you have to install - that defaults to still saving to disk then uploading after a minimum duration.
I did post the links. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here is a photographer now living in Gaza

Primary source

https://instagram.com/motaz_azaiza?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==
Yes but RSS was and that is what is in discussion here - smtp is for mail which is not mentioned here.
Is it just me or is there a noticeable increase of the "left to far left" comments on HN recently? I don't remember seeing that much of a "eat the evil rich exploiting the poor and virtuous" stuff here before. People migrating from twitter?
Could you send the screenshot? It sounds awesome
The design on your site reminds me of kinopio.club, I like the sort of whimsical style that doesn't compromise on utility.

> There's a feature to write a note and leave it on the page for others

Your site says that "nothing is stored." Does writing a note require everyone to be on the site at the same time? At first I thought it was sort of like the old "Dissenter" extension that added comments sections to every page, but the description seems to indicate a more live chat style.
400M WR is 43.03 vs 800M WR is 1 min 40.91..at 400M pace the WR would be 1 min 26...the 15sec difference is due to the physique of runners optimized for different distances.
12GW at 1100kVDC. [1] That's bonkers! I wonder what the spare part plan is for this beast.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGH1B863oI&ab_channel=Engin...
If you review the economists, political commentators, & business experts on his list – Adam Smith, Brad DeLong, Clayton Christensen, David Friedman, David Ricardo, Dierdre McCloskey, Frederic Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, George Gilder, James Burnham, Joel Mokyr, Johan Norberg, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Simon, Ludwig von Mises, Martin Gurri, Milton Friedman, Paul Collier, Rose Wilder Lane, Thomas Sowell, Vilfredo Pareto, Virginia Postrel, William Nordhaus – I suspect you'll be able to triangulate Andreesen's views pretty well, modulo a few customizations due to uniquely modern conditions, or the inside view of an venture-capital operator.

But really, why insist on a x-ray of the author – "is he nuanced enough in all things?!?" – rather than directly assessing the 5200 words he chose to offer?
The comment was flippant, but to be fair, all the anime in those examples is shonen, made for young boys
Sorta related: What is the current situation regarding testing for being actively under the influence of marijuana? For better or worse, breathalyzer tests have been generally accepted for testing being actively under the influence of alcohol. Are breathalyzer tests used for marijuana, too? Or, is it just a field sobriety test?

Further, what is the situation for recent-use testing? I've heard that marijuana can be detected in blood for something like 90 days. Like, how would a test work for a job like an air-traffic controller?

Disclaimer: I'm not a smoker at all. Not trying to protect my job at the airport. Just curious, as more and more states are legalized recreational use.
If you're a beginner, Ruby is as good a language as any. Fundamentals are what you should focus on. Pick anything reasonable that appeals to you. Ruby is well inside the boundary of reasonable choices, regardless of popularity metrics.
Even now the fiber installers around here don't terminate, they just run a (potentially very long) already terminated cable and then shove it into the ground (blade into the dirt, press a bit, shove cable in).
> Time to take capitalism back. Refuse and resist corporate communism.

But this is capitalism.
It's funny saying there's a 10% reduction in worker time. Like I get that that looks bad, but they must realise that sick workers coming into work arent really doing much, the hours in office are wasted even if on paper they're working.
I'm looking forward to this series. I feel like I'm getting "grumpy old man" syndrome with Ruby. I've been using Ruby for long time and I feel like a lot of the changes we get now are more "wouldn't it be cool if..." instead of "this is a really solid, useful addition" changes

That said, I do really like how Elixir does some things.
That is well said. I added that first phrase in an effort to create space for my comment to exist apart from whatever my own politics and opinion might be. But you are correct. The failure of news institutions is bad for everyone. Pretending the scales are balanced when they aren't works against the goal of collective sense-making. It seems some number of organizations and people have lost the plot, concluding that "objectivity" means "inability or unwillingness to apply judgement".
lol what? I'm not a fan of Facebook, but saying they coordinate with Cambridge Analytica is quite a reach. Global Science Research Coordinate with Cambridge Analytica… Facebook had a shitty API.
World may have crossed solar power 'tipping point'
Good post overall. Some comments:

> Here is how you make a Mastodon account: You go to this website. [...]

For now. If my memory is correct, Diaspora was also like that; at first everyone went to the same instance. Then they closed registrations, and every post that was saying something similar was suddenly linking to an instance that no longer accepted new accounts.

And now users will need to do the exact thing that you (presumably) wanted to avoid: choosing an instance from a list.

> Not difficult to use

The first thing that comes to mind is if you visit a different Mastodon instance and want to "Like" a post. Don't you have to go back to your own instance and find this post on your instance before you can "Like" it?

Same with login credentials. I can see someone not techy enough accidentally leaking their account credentials by trying to login to a different Mastodon instance that looks exactly the same as their usual instance.

> Anyways, I am using Threads, and I will continue to use Threads, because I am a pragmatic person who wants to connect with readers wherever they are because my livelihood and my reporting relies on it.

Eh, this is probably also the reason why many people don't even think of moving out of their current centralized social network site.
That's awesome, here is original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798
Thinking deeply does not override your boss' orders which are usually aimed at making him richer. They are approximately never aimed at improving the web (or any part of the world really).

Your comment reads so generic so as to be essentially meaningless.
Chrome recommended focusing on improving old formats.

"""
Helping the web to evolve is challenging, and it requires us to make difficult choices. We've also heard from our browser and device partners that every additional format adds costs (monetary or hardware), and we’re very much aware that these costs are borne by those outside of Google. When we evaluate new media formats, the first question we have to ask is whether the format works best for the web. With respect to new image formats such as JPEG XL, that means we have to look comprehensively at many factors: compression performance across a broad range of images; is the decoder fast, allowing for speedy rendering of smaller images; are there fast encoders, ideally with hardware support, that keep encoding costs reasonable for large users; can we optimize existing formats to meet any new use-cases, rather than adding support for an additional format; do other browsers and OSes support it?

After weighing the data, we’ve decided to stop Chrome’s JPEG XL experiment and remove the code associated with the experiment. We'll work to publish data in the next couple of weeks.

For those who want to use JPEG XL in Chrome, we believe a WebAssembly (Wasm) implementation is both performant and a great path forward.
"""

After this announcement Chrome themselves have added a new experimental image format into libavif 1.0, based on AV2. Libavif and AV2 are not WebAssembly, but native codecs. It is a full new format, not optimizing existing formats.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libavif-1.0-Released

Jpeg xl team has ported according to the advice from Chrome the JPEG XL heuristics into an old format, the usual 8-bit Jpeg. This effort is called jpegli. Jpegli can do 10+ bits in the 8-bit formalism, which is great for HDR, and can compress 20-30 % more depending on which features and quality settings of the codec are used.
On a modern PC, Esc key is Esc key... whatever the application wants to use it for (99% time, cancel some UI operation).

To me it's insane that one of the most used key command has a 1 second delay in the terminal.

Or that typically Esc + some function/arrow key results in some junk.
>On what basis do you believe the explosion was more likely to be Israeli than Hamas?

First, you'll notice I never actually said this.

>1. Hamas is extremely willing to sacrifice their own people in pursuit of their goals.

Not even Israel claims it was Hamas intentionally bombing the parking lot.

>2. Hamas was making homemade rockets out of water pipe. Far less reliable than Israeli munitions.

Sure, but not sure the relevance of this, yes, it could be an accidental misfire Hamas munition. It could also be a purposeful firing of Israeli munition.

>3. Isreal has demonstrated over and over that they will bend over backwards to minimize civilian casualties

I do not believe this is true.

>4. Israel is not shy about taking credit for bombings even if civilians were causualties when they have credible evidence of Hamas presence.

Israel is pretty shy about taking credit for things that get them in hot water in the foreign press. For example, when IDF soldiers deliberately targeted, shot, and then denied medical aid (killing) to American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Israeli government blamed her death on Palestinians for months.

>5. Hamas are documented liars in the region and even their Arab neighbors don't trust them.

As noted, Israel are also documented liars.

Anyways, I liked this reporting from the UK which does a pretty good job of laying out the uncertainty one way or the other: https://www.channel4.com/news/who-was-behind-the-gaza-hospit...
Unfortunately the federal government is allergic to doing anything in-house.
Having worked for a Beltway Bandit "consulting" company in the past, you are exactly right. It's not about getting work done, it's about spending hours so you can receive more.
You're conflating the civil and criminal judicial systems when the reality is they're quite separate, and defamation has its own special corner of the civil realm where plaintiffs have a very steep hill to climb.
so is jabber.ru still secure now? what needs to be done on the user side to make it so? can one reissue/request new server certificate from the server and not from let's encrypt? thanks
I live in Finland! Unions are so powerful here they are practically a branch of government.
At the very least, maybe qualified immunity in this specific case is revoked, i.e. they could counter-sue the officer.
> Time to take capitalism back. Refuse and resist corporate communism.

This is capitalism, or what it inevitably devolves into. No need to bring communism into it.
I get the impression that Mastodon server operators have a tendency to become dictators (banning accounts, speech etc), which I guess is their right as they are hosting content for free. There are questions also raised about the scalability of Mastodon.

I'm more hopeful/wishful that Nostr [0] will take over.

[0] https://nostr.com/
Do you mean the local overrides from the console? Or something else? It would be cool to learn about some different approach.
Since pi never repeats it should actually contain any sequence of numbers possible though, right? So if you encode your source code as number thet argument should hold up.
I don’t agree on your first point. I do think power and talent is highly consolidated among a small number of executives. Especially when you look at (as most boards do) executives within a specific industry vertical.

That’s not to say those people guarantee success, but it is less of a risk than picking someone unknown and without the established network and direct relevant experience.

Again all this to say I don’t think shaming companies into paying less will work, we should just tax CEOs more and let companies pay what they want.
I felt like this when Google Glass was announced - but these days smartphone cameras are so ubiquitous and people constantly photograph/video others, I'm not sure this actually makes much of a difference. If someone wants to video you surreptitiously, they'll do it with their high quality phone camera and you won't notice.
My belief is it was oversold in terms of its transformative impact, both by the advocates and detractors. The major change is no longer refusing insurance for pre-existing conditions, and the various lives that have changed due to having health insurance when in the counterfactual they would not have had it.

But there's a reason why all democrats are still running for federal office on a platform of healthcare reform. It won't be repealed after the supreme court upheld it and the republican congress under Trump gave up on trying to repeal it after McCain's no vote on repeal.
Increasing inequality leads to polarized politics

Millennials being locked out of developmental milestones

Covid showing that sometimes governments can be effective
> You can buy a repairable Nokia G21 for 134e at the moment would probably be sufficient for my usage but sadly support is crap :(

At 134e support might be crap. What kind of support contract are they offering you if you throw, say, another 1000e at them? How about 10,000e? 100,000e? To value something requires demonstration of actually valuing it. You can't just say "I value this" and expect things to magically change. Words are meaningless. Only action gets things done.

I get the impression that what you actually value is a phone leveraging economies of scale with decent support.
Resistance to Critiques in Academic Literature: An Example from Physics Research
Reimagining alien life: A new model focuses on function over form
On macOS at least, if you want to keep data encrypted, you can use encrypted disk images. If you want a more user friendly alternative, you can use https://www.espionageapp.com, which lets you encrypt folders (note: I wrote Espionage).
They do. Apparently this is the best they can do for a pepper they were mainly looking for spice out of.

There's many other varieties where flavour is a priority.
Fairplay, I'm revisiting the article because I also heard radio news reports on this earlier and it was like really freaking out, clips of the Privacy Commissioner's quote etc.

The sting operation they set in play seemed like really trapping the employees when in 8/10 cases they were probably just trying ot figure out what the problem was on the machines? USB and wifi disabled? but what issues did they report to the stores when submitting the cases?
Harry Houdini's unlikely last act? Taking on the occult
Nah, don't teach them letters and words. Teach them 'War and Peace', letters and words are so... outdated.
That’s an exceptionally silly take. Using your high beams against regulations is annoying and potentially dangerous.

Police officers using a simple traffic infraction to abuse their power is more dangerous.
Yeah, I'm not sure how people would prefer this resolving.
> These traits are innate parts of the personality of each of us from birth

So because I wasn't born with it I can't become machiavellian tyrant? Surely there's management or police training that can grant people the necessary skills and credentials, no?
> My goal was to learn more and go deeper on subjects, but I was stunned by how often the linked citation didn't support the claim in the Wikipedia article. There were many times where the linked citation said the opposite of the Wikipedia article.

WP is, unfortunately, not obviously any worse than researchers in general are: https://gwern.net/leprechaun#miscitation

> Trying to correct these articles is some times like going to war with editors who refuse to admit they were wrong.

Yep. Because now you are doing 'OR' by interpreting the paper, especially when the abstract is just lying/spin.
Playing with words doesn't change the fact that Swift fully supports OOP, even without any presence of @objc annotations.

Classes, interfaces,interface and class inheritance, polyphormism, variance, type extensions, compile time and dynamic dispatch, overloading, associated types.
Potential Option 3: your perspective is more influenced by the prevailing tone / narrative that you're reading online than you realize. When Twitter was in positive light and Meta wasnt, you may have been more positive / neutral on Twitter and negative on Meta. Now the prevailing tone is negative on Elon / Twitter / X and you may be going with the flow while being more positive on Meta now that the prevailing narrative has shifted to more neutral or positive.

I've seen this with dozens of our employees and people in tech. Without anything materially new to come out of Zuckerberg, everyone magically started liking him again simultaneously. It's amazing to watch.