skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is assuming that you know better (1) what voters “really want”; and (2) what effects particular policies will lead to. Elites of both parties have encouraged mass immigration since the 1965 INA. But society seems to have gotten much worse during that time, in particular social and political cohesion.

Meanwhile, the benefits of both low-skill (e.g. farm workers) and high-skill (e.g. Silicon Valley workers) seem to have gone to a relatively small slice of the population in wealthy coastal cities, while reducing the opportunities available in the rest of the country.

In my home state of Virginia, we saw massive immigration since we immigrated there in 1989. It’s made northern Virginia richer, sure, but that hasn’t “trickled down” to the rest of the state. And all those immigrants helped northern Virginia take over control of the whole state politically. What would happen if you gave folks in Virginia in 1989 a picture of Virginia today, and then asked them to vote on whether to accept all that immigration?
The magic of unions, when it comes to safety, is that they let employees feel safe not just reporting safety issues, but outright rejecting unsafe requests. Even in union shops, unsafe directives are issued, against policy and law alike, but unlike non-union shops, workers in union shops know someone’s got their back if they call it out and/or say “no”.
One way to potentially resolve this is to place the setup in a darker place and/or add a piece of tinted transparent material in front of the camera. The camera will automatically adjust the shutter speed (not the frame rate) because of the reduced light to 1/30 or so which will allow more of the screen to be captured.
It’s an interesting idea.

My gut suggests that a Zoom Toastmastering might improve speaking on Zoom more than in front of a live audience.

Not saying that would be a bug. Sounds like a new useful skill. But a different one.

I suspect the culture and experience of a live group would be hard to replicate without participation from an established group of toastmasters.

Good luck.
I'm a big fan of `sed -nel` for an unambiguous listing of the contents of a file. The only case that sed doesn't show is a missing trailing linefeed.
Thanks for sharing, I didn't know the story. Given that the guy he was traveling with called out another vlogger for pissing off all of Cuba, it is kind of interesting that they teamed up together. But then again, that guy is also kind of dubious too.
I tried threads and stopped. It occurs to me though that it’s possible Facebook is building a product not targeted at me.

I use Twitter to follow several hyper specialized communities where the info is world class.

Threads was kinda entertaining stuff but felt low signal.

I’m not a huge instagram user though and that is way bigger than Twitter. If Meta builds instagram/tiktok for text it might be much worse for the sort of submissions HN finds interesting but also see more overall uptake.

I noticed Threads still massively outranks twitter in App Store ratings.
Everything dotnet is doing for cross-platform is great and better than alternatives --- except one HUGE issue: There is no official GUI on Linux.
Linux's exclusion from MAUI (while 25% of world's developers' primary dev machine is a Linux system according to Stack overflow survery) creates a huge hurdle for those developing on Linux to build any cross platform GUI app with dotnet.
If I , as a developer developing a windows/mac/mobile app with official dotnet, am using Linux for development , I cannot create a GUI app.
Hey dotnet folks! -- let me put a god damn button on the screen!
Sincerely
A Linux dev
[Don't get at me with Avalonia/Uno etc. I am talking about "official" GUI. A graphical user interface is not a specialized domain, or some niche to be left for others to fill. It is a core element of a user facing app. ]
your other game project 'grab n throw' looks hilarious, what made you think of that? its like a funny 3d version of pong (without stuff coming back)
While I agree, news is what has kept twitter/x relevant. So it's also a death knell imho. I am open to being wrong. I just dont see threads in the wild and most people dont seem to know it exists. Yet just here on hn ive seen a dozen or more x links today.
As someone entirely unfamiliar with the word until now, the first pronunciation inside my head, though immediately deemed wrong of course, was /CUE-ah-not/.
But I normally go to the bathroom and eat lunch during a work day.
to what depth?
Each news outlet has to issue corrections.

Here’s the current list for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections

Should we not read the news…or is it an opportunity to verify what one reads (aka mental hygiene)…?
> a 5 year old could come up with better icons...

Apparently none did.
A factor that I've slowly started to think is potentially very relevant is age of first habit formation. Not just a puff here or there, but the age at which you were first addicted. Extremely anecdotally, I have asked people and noticed that all of my friends who can't quit started much younger in their formative years than the types who can smoke a few when drinking every now and again but otherwise abstain with no issue.
As somebody who has worked in prepress full time, almost nothing in Photoshop makes sense, I just memorized it. I can always find what I need in GIMP. Photoshop is a necessity because it does things that the GIMP can't do, not because its UI is in any way better.
I never click on a thumbnail when an idiot’s face is making an expression like that. Easy pass.
My experience is no different and in fact it’s hard to convince anyone to treat indirect identifiers at all. Everyone wants the bare minimum, which is unfortunate, but understandable for someone trying to run a business. All of our current customers are only using their data internally and anonymizing to protect identities as that data is shared across other internal groups, mostly for testing and analysis. Even protecting only direct identifiers is far more responsible than the vast majority of businesses, though we push for indirect treatment.

If you treat indirect identifiers with our system, the minimum level of anonymization would ensure that there are always a minimum of two matching combinations of indirect identifiers, i.e. k=2, for every record in the dataset. This is far from foolproof for preventing data leakage, but it does prevent singling out and provides a lot of protection in the case of breach.
I was somewhat surprised to find that when I got my driver's licence at 39, it was the same number as the non-driving ID card I got issued at 18. So at least Arizona doesn't seem to be eager to hand out new numbers.
25 minutes is shorter than 2 hours, I guess.
Not as easy on Fox News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p0J65FOIgQ
From the old greek Oddsimendius
What is frustrating to me, as a long time user, is that OS X used to come with books that would cover what was new.theblast oneni can remember was from 2008 or so and by that time they became leaflets with the major new features.

I’m sure I miss dozen of things with each yearly release now if I didn’t catch it during a keynote or stumble across it somewhere on the web.
Air force participation increased the design size of the space shuttle.
Development time in the end didn't change much - I code all the time, most software I develop isn't or will get done. But the quality and the codebase size I've being able to create and manage is much bigger now than six months ago. I've being coding using chatgpt almost every day since then, many hours a day.

In fact, chatgpt might have made the development time bigger as I'm refactoring it more often and even recreating things from scratch with a much better quality after validating some PoC's. I'm really enjoying this workflow for a side-project.
This would have made things easy for us in 1997, when we were deciding on a boy's name that would be recognizable in English and Japanese. In the end, we settled on a variation of "Ken", which is the one recommended by this site anyway!

We struggled a lot more with our second son....
I’m not sure how valuable these analogies actually are, but your example of the broken engine really seems to go towards my point. If the car breaks down, the driver still has several options: coast downhill, switch to a different car, pull a bicycle out of the trunk, or just get out and continue on foot. But the car enforcing the end of the trip by simply exploding and killing the driver isn’t really an acceptable response to engine failure.

A library that unrecoverably crashes your program for any reason is defective by design, and a programming language that purposely allows a library to do so as a design choice is also defective by design in my opinion.
>The micro-optimization of me using switching to electric stove does not register on any discernible metric

Switching from a gas stove? It absolutely does register, much more so in your household air quality but also it helps deprecate fossil fuel infrastructure which can have a big effect everywhere.

Gas infrastructure is notoriously leaky. A few houses switching away from gas stoves may not do much, but a neighborhood switching would cause a bunch of pipes to be shut off and emptied, reducing baseline direct methane emissions into the atmosphere, which have an outsize effect on climate change compared to the CO2 emitted by burning of the methane in a stove. First a household, then a neighborhood, then a town, etc. and eventually all those leaky pipes get shut off.

The long-tail effects of small optimizations like that can be surprisingly significant, rarely linear, and often non-obvious.

>I would argue the market did decide to support the Civil Rights movement and there was obvious benefit for minimal cost to most. Civil Rights was a bottom up movement.

Yes, it was definitely a bottom-up movement, resisted by the market and political establishment vehemently, until the cost of protest and other disruption made resistance no longer viable.

Similarly, big players in the fossil fuel industry are still fighting any attempts at change. We can work to hold them accountable via institutions while still trying to make small changes on a personal level.
You can change the icons back to the color ones in the settings.
If large geopolitics escalates, no one will care who used what earlier, only what someone could do. It’s all politics. Another obvious target is GPS satellites.
True. In this case the author is speaking specifically about OCaml, which is quite comfortable to write imperatively.

I think the thing that tickles most people about Rust is the thoroughness of the type inference and type checking, which one generally gets from any ML.
i'm tweaking with fly-pie (already got 2 menus that i use a lot [there's even a dedicated key when keyboard is at mouse-layer]) & i got the blender extension too...

i think there's so much potential to trackball gestures. have you thought about multiple commands at the same direction based on distance? (could be useful for setting the volume/brightness, for example)
I would imagine that most of the data for the ID checks based on public records (where did a person live; own a car/house/boat; ...) are trivially handleable.

Just takes one person to leak the database, which is probably only a few TB compressed) for all of the US and fits on a single HDD/SDD.

I would be surprised if these DBs aren't already sold on the darknet. And this DB doesn't have to be super up to date b/c security questions often go back years.

Interpreting the DB should be easy to hardcode but even easier handled with an LLM.

So the protection afforded by these checks is IMO at best nominal.
There are extremely few people who work in image editing who didn't learn on Photoshop, and aren't required to use it on a daily basis because of industry standards (or differences in capability.)

It's like people who speak English talking about how everything in Spanish is in the wrong place. It's the cheapest way to bikeshed: make it more like the thing I know already!
I agree with your assesment 100%, People are just really simple minded and don't want to be grouped in or compared to nazis in any way share or form. Just look at all the emotional arguments presented in this thread alone by people who presumably identify presumably with more left leaning socialist values.
I don't know the factor, I think it was about 3x.

But, NuScale has no experience building anything. It's just a startup. It's a miracle they got their reactor design approved.

BWXT however is the company that builds the Navy's naval nuclear reactors. They are cooperating with GE and Hitachi [1] to build a 300 MWe SMR. All 3 of these companies have plenty of experience delivering on numerous types of projects, including nuclear ones. I do think they have a chance.

[1] https://www.bwxt.com/news/2023/03/21/BWXT-Awarded-Engineerin...
I don't think it's the functional part of ML that tickles them. I think it's the thoroughness of the type inference and type checking.
The hilarious part is when they inevitably end up addressing it as “welp, we ‘hate’ clickbait thumbnails too but it gets clicks from dummy viewers like you all so we just gotta go with it because we got mouths to feed!”, as they post yet another video of them spending an absurd amount of money on some obscure eBay or Craigslist trash for content
It's not just Experian. We publish an article every couple years or so with the same content and just the names changed:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/25/no-way-to-prevent-this-says...

https://qbix.com/blog/2023/06/12/no-way-to-prevent-this-says...

And then of course there is this:

SIM swapping - someone can just steal your SIM and then get into a lot of accounts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-04/teen-game...

Amazon - someone can just take over your account

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/hsj4x8/my_am...

Apple and Amazon together, they can take over ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS (the most terrifying read):

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking...

I recommend to everyone to use a email alias at gmail or a similar service, different once for every site, instead of your actual email, as the login to Amazon and other services. That way the attackers can't guess your actual login, let alone your password.
At least in my piece of corporate software engineering, I'm looking at Rust as a "gateway drug" for FP. Management doesn't want to take the risk of investing in FP, so reliable choices like Java and C++ are usually endorsed; the safety aspects of Rust are a much stronger argument for them.
I would think that the Mission objectives are broader than that in you can basically swap out any mission payload that would be too costly to launch and develop a whole satellite for and task it quickly.
My understanding is that in most cases, slander/libel is never a crime anyway.

It's merely a tort (wrong). It never rises to the level of a crime. The few instances/places where slander is a crime in the US (historically or otherwise) are very problematic and subject to abuse.

Perhaps this specific kind of slander should be criminal, but it might be the only kind that should be. Not only would you need to justify that philosophically, but somehow convince legislators to make it that way (at the federal level, I should think).

It'd be a tough journey.
This is nice, so well done, but I wish every new thing coming out wasn’t React based. Where can I find cool new things for the web to use in my projects that don’t require the complex insanity of React? Just not a fan of npm installing things…
Sum types are useful tool, but they are not helpful in this particular case. There is nothing about sum types that would help avoid this problem in the slightest. Perfect need not be the enemy of good, but good is not equivalent to not even trying.

This is not a general "wouldn't it be nice of Go had..." thread. We are talking about a specific problem.
We've had about seventy years to build up a political taboo against the use of nuclear weapons, which turned out to be an important guarantee of sustained peace in the Cold War environment we ultimately ended up in. But von Neumann passed away in 1957 when we were only first developing that taboo. There would have been close to zero moral compunction against using the atomic bomb against Nazi Germany had it been ready in time. And the communist regimes in Russia and China exceeded even Nazi Germany in the amount of mass murder they committed, and if you also count the degree to which they impoverished not only themselves but the countries in their spheres of influence for decades, the continued existence of communism throughout the 1950's and beyond has been arguably the greatest humanitarian disaster in human history. And if anything, someone in the early 1950's would have expected even worse; the Soviet Union was not quite as tyrannical and murderous after Stalin than it was under him, and the same is true for China after Mao.

Von Neumann's remarks also took place in an era before we allowed the Soviets to arm themselves to the degree that they posed a serious nuclear threat to the United States. The pop culture notion that a nuclear war between the US and Soviet Union would entail both sides completely eliminating each other in the first day of hostilities was arguably never completely accurate, but especially in the early 1950's it was not even close to true. Again, we know from hindsight that allowing the Soviet Union to build a massive arsenal of ICBM's and hydrogen bombs (neither of which they had in the early 1950's) didn't lead to them actually using those weapons against us, but that was arguably an extremely lucky break for us and from von Neumann's perspective, eliminating that threat before it manifested wasn't a totally unreasonable option.

Instead it turned out that the entire free world spent the next half century living in absolute terror of nuclear war, followed by the extremely happy surprise of the Soviet Union completely disintegrating between 1989 and 1991. Again, this was a really lucky break. And it was also a lucky break that the massive Soviet nuclear arsenal stayed under the control of a sane, democratic Russian government that never reverted to authoritarianism or corruption and developed strong institutions to ensure that those weapons could never fall into the wrong hands. We'd be in for a really rough future if that arsenal ended up in the hands of a corrupt dictator who consolidated power to the point of eliminating any possible succession plan, thus guaranteeing a massive crisis when he inevitably died of old age.
Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]
“autoclaves, antibiotics, and anesthesia during surgery are nice but the super intelligent AI that found the cure for all illnesses and the ability to go back in time and etc. are more important.”

Someone in x thousand years from now.
So... not the totally innocent "next gen technology testing platform" as often claimed, eh?
I resonated with Ezra Klein's "exodus shocks" concepts. With Musk at the helm of X, it just seems like there's the periodic random outrage that pushes people to at least try other alternatives (and maybe stop logging into X itself). Some of it sticks. I ended up with a Mastodon account and it just seems much more chill. YMMV I guess.
What makes it basic is that you can earn additional money on top of it. It's the basis of your income.
I would estimate that would be a 3 person-year project, and the result will contain precisely zero improvements for any user (even if theoretically it might be easier to bring various improvements after that is done).

That is a hell of an ask.
Only because they thought they were going to be deploying pre-KH11 satellites that needed film/equipment retrieval/renewal.
I think the ‘is or is not a true ML’ argument is a bit unwinnable so I won’t comment on it. Regarding ‘functional’, Rust makes it harder to write in a traditional functional style because (a) it doesn’t offer tail-call elimination and (b) the resource-ownership tracking makes most normal functions feel side-effecty. I think it’s pretty hard to have a natural-feeling functional style without cheap allocation and some kind of deferred automatic deallocation (this is carefully phrased to allow for a garbage collector or a kind of arena allocation)

I don’t think this is that bad for rust though. For (a), it turns out that tail calls can make debugging harder, and they can be incompatible with certain type system changes you might want in an ML, and lots of OCaml (perhaps not a true ML?) in practice uses little explicit recursion and instead first-class functions with names like map and iter rather than recursion. So I don’t really think it’s very important. Rust also has these first-class iterator functions although a bit less of map for containers that can have many things (e.g. vectors). Rust iterations allow for writing code that is more functional when memory/performance are stronger constraints because the pipeline gets composed together instead of producing lots of intermediate objects. For (b) I guess the big difference is that the usual tool in functional programming for manipulating data is creating new copies of immutable data whereas in rust it is controlling ownership and then just updating it (a middle ground may be koka where you write code in the former style but the compiled code inspects recounts to potentially just mutate instead)
OCaml has a separate language for module interfaces where types are required. Even better, it allows you to abstract over types and make them entirely opaque, so that users of an interface never have to look at any of the implementation details.
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In OCaml the type checker won't force you to handle exceptions (from what I remember.) See e.g. https://ocaml.org/docs/error-handling#exceptions
If you are already using twitter, most of your follows are not gonna move to threads because of network effects, the ones that moved exclusively are easily forgotten and likely they have low follower counts and will not sacrifice their network unless they really really hate Elon for some weird reason
Thank you for this insight. I was incredibly confused and shaken in my understanding of relativity for a moment there.
Even if someone doesn't have a public email address on their GitHub profile, you can generally find a routable one in their commit messages. A corollary is you shouldn't use a non-public email address in your commit messages.
And your employer feeds their payroll into Experian and its partners so it can then resell that information.
Please, please, reference the tasks or chats that were especially impressive.

For example, trying to get chat gpt to do something very simple for my work, like implementing a convolution it took me in circles and circles.

It gets the general idea right, sure. But it actually makes significant minor errors that ended up being more confusing than helpful.
Oh that's not too bad, I thought graphics always needed host OS network support. I'll try it, thanks!
it's important to do the research, but this is one of those headlines that any rat owner would say "Yeah, obviously." to without a second thought.

They strategize, they're mischievous, they test you, and ultimately they're quite cunning. These kind of behaviors are predicated on having an imagination to a certain degree.
Sure you would, what a reasonable thing to say.
The shuttle was made big enough to retrieve X-37b.

Ignore the dates, they have time travel, too.
Working with shapes in Photoshop can quickly degenerate into a nightmare. Raster drawing is not vector drawing.

Also, you can just use the selection tool.
Care to share some of these communities?
Threads is not winning, it’s not even available in Europe. And that is because of Meta’s general practices regarding privacy. They have to change, but don’t seem to be willing to. Even after an incredible launch in the US they still not playing nice in the EU. Look at the absurdity of the Instagram subscription that popped up this week, just so much arrogance.