skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I don't see why filter paid apps would solve anything. The aversion of the average Play store user to spending money on anything is in part the reason we are in this mess

If people can find apps that meet their needs which are also free, and free of ads and in-app purchases they should absolutely use those apps. Making it harder for users to find those apps is a much bigger problem than "but I wanted someone to pay me for giving them the same thing!"

The solution for people who want money is to make apps that offer valuable features the free apps don't have, not to make the free apps impossible to find because they're scared they can't compete.
captain obvious here: put a pedestrian next to an SUV and you see the heights nicely match the most vulnerable parts of the pedestrian's body. add emotions (due to cultural wars) and significantly worse oversight and you get what we have. shame on everyone who was part in this kind of "progress".
Fano plane, quaternions...
It sounds like you are picking and choosing what information to accept. You heard it was good.. you didn't believe it and then an article came from somewhere saying the opposite and you believed it.
How much difference does call to action make, not in relative terms, but absolute terms?

I sometimes wonder if we're overestimating the value because adding one bumps your subscribers by 10x, but what that means is that instead of 10 subscribers you get 100.
You could also just buy a very large amount of their coral consumer TPUs :D
I created my blog solely so I had something to show to employers and my mom.
Killing someone with a car effectively counts as not killing someone.
And when dietary issues or any number of other things causes gastric issues or any number of the other things on that list, there's a very real risk that nsaids can make them significantly worse for some patients.

You'll want to know if you're at risk before you start taking it regularly.
How many open-sourced codebases from failed startups have succeeded as open-source projects? Can you name a single one?
Switching to a mainly plant-based diet, reducing the amount of sugar I eat, and regularly riding my bicycle.
> danaris

Princcccesssssssssss!
The older programmes were typically exclusively BBC produced content - I can't think of any part of Connections that would be problematic for them. Surely with a new series of Connections having been made, they should have a look at making it available. It was a similar thing with their Oppenheimer series - fully available on YouTube and not on iPlayer.
Interesting. I also work in game development, and I tend to work on project-specific optimization problems, and I've had the opposite experience.

If I have to solve a hairy problem specific to our game's architecture, obviously I'm not going to ask ChatGPT to solve that for me. It's everything else that it works so well for. The stuff that I could do, but it's not really worth my time to actually do it when I can be focusing on the hard stuff.

One example: there was a custom protocol our game servers used to communicate with some other service. For reasons, we relied on an open-source tool to handle communication over this protocol, but then we decided we wanted to switch to an in-code solution. Rather than study the open source tool's code, rewrite it in the language we used, write tests for it, generate some test data... I just gave ChatGPT the original source and the protocol spec and spent 10 minutes walking it through the problem. I had a solution (with tests) in under half an hour when doing it all myself would've taken the afternoon. Then I went back to working on the actual hard stuff that my human brain was needed to solve.

I can't imagine being so specialized that I only ever work on difficult problems within my niche and nothing else. There's always some extra query to write, some API to interface with, some tests to write... it's not a matter of being able to do it myself, it's a matter of being able to focus primarily on the stuff I need to do myself.

Being able to offload the menial work to an AI also just changes the sorts of stuff I'm willing to do with my time. As a standalone software engineer, I will often choose not to write some simple'ish tool or script that might be useful because it might not be worth my time to write it, especially factoring in the cost of context switching. Nothing ground breaking, just something that might not be worth half an hour of my time. But I can just tell AI to write the script for me and I get it in a couple minutes. So instead of doing all my work without access to some convenient small custom tools, now I can do my work with them, with very little change to my workflow.
I think you're greatly overestimating how many jobs have moved to India. The largest company to do so is MPC, but for feature and TV work, it hasn't really impacted job locality.

It appears you're taking your own internal biases about India outsourcing and applying it more expansively.

I didn't say the job market isn't dry. Again, I'm pushing back on the conflation of layoffs and jobs being offshored to India. Canada and Europe are much bigger source of offshoring for the US. However that isn't to say studios aren't hiring which was what you asked about, and I answered. It's definitely a lot lower, but it's not due to outsourcing. There's so many other factors that I already mentioned (lowered production, strikes) that play in first. Animation is affected to a much smaller degree and several studios in Canada are hiring in reasonable numbers at the moment.

You can do with that info what you will, but it sounds like you don't actually want to hear an answer that contradicts your own and are doubling down on something that is not borne out of the reality of where the work is being done right now. It's especially exasperating because you're not even involved in said industry, outside of your partner, whereas I am actively every day.

Largely, the main jobs that get outsourced to India is stuff like match move and rotoscoping. There's very little Core Animation, lighting or rendering work for most of the major studios done there, with the exception of MPC
That doesn't work anymore. Due to steeply sloped windshields and tinted windows, a pedestrian usually will only see a reflection of the bright sky, not the driver.
If you make public space bad, people won't use it.

A big problem with American leftism is that it's all young people whose primary goal is looking cool. They think drug users are cool and police are uncool. So if you complain that some guy is smoking crack on the subway, they'll yell at you because they think the act of watching the guy smoke crack is giving them street cred and will get them laid because they're not like those boring suburbanites.

But what it actually means is parents are going to drive everywhere and not take the subway.
Do you know if this works for non-technical subjects? I used to write about design tools and some front-end coding, but that was years ago and I was never super passionate about it. Recently, I started writing about personal finance, which so far has been pretty fun, but I don't know if you can sign up to give talks at conferences unless you're Ramit Sethi or equivalently famous.
i think the scenario prompting the sadface is that the law doesn't prevent your cousin from picking any random URL on the internet and claiming that his copyright (which he does legitimately own the rights to) is being infringed on that page. even if he knows perfectly well that it's not his content on the page.

what the parent comments seem to be saying is:

not perjury: "i own this content (true) and it's available at this unauthorized url (false) and i want it taken down"

perjury: "i own this content (false) and it's available at this unauthorized url (true) and i want it taken down"

but both statements have the same effect of getting the url taken down.
Question: Why do you even want people to visit your blog?
You get the same benefits from water fasting, but without kidney stones. And you give a chance to your gut to heal.

There is a clinic True North, they do medically supervised fasting, and have a bunch of studies.
no, the regulations are to blame in a lot of the way. I'd love to have a tacoma that was the size of a small truck than the size of the tundra of the same era. the new tundras are absolute behemoths. there's a curve that the auto manufacturers are having to hit and the curve tightens every year and the requirements are also tied to the sqft of the truck. so larger footprint == less stringent mpg requirement.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...
In much of the US it is expected that kids will be driven everywhere. Walking is often dangerous.

It's disturbing.
Back in the day, we used to embed strings into the translation units that would report the original name and version of the file. One could use the 'strings' command to get detailed information about what files were used in a binary and which version! DVCS (git) broke that, so most people don't remember.

Knowing know which version of a file made it into a binary still doesn't really help you, though. The compiler used (if any), the version of the compiler and linker, and even the settings / flags used affect the output and -- in some cases -- could convert an otherwise secure program into something exploitable.

A Software BoM sounds like a "first step" towards documenting a supply chain, but I'm not sure it's in the right direction.

This feels like this might actually be a use-case for a blockchain or a Merkle Tree.

Consider: A file exists in a git repository under a hash, which theoretically (excluding hash collisions) uniquely identifies a file. Embed the file hashes in the executable along with a repository URL and you essentially know which files were used to build a file. Sign the executable to ensure it's not tampered with, then upload the hash of the executable to a block chain.

If your executable is a compiler, then when someone else builds an executable then they can embed the hash of the compiler into the executable to link the binary back to the specific compiler build that made the binary. The compiler could even include into the binary the flags used to modify the compiler behavior.
That underscore before your name is very off-throwing ;)
Would be helpful to have the outputs of the tests in a table form as well -- not simply the inputs. Would it be possible to add this as another column on the table showing the models and all of their relative sizes?
It is idiosyncratic but it's not a bad recommendation, right?

AES+HMAC-SHA2 would be AES-CTR and you would need to handle the nonce yourself, and that's not great.

XChaCha is extended nonce, which should be safer. But there is no standard for extended nonce AES.

Filippo Valsorda wrote that he would like XAES-256-GCM/11 [1]

XChaCha looks like a good recommendation.

Because lacking key commitment can lead to problems, a scheme that also gives you key commitment is better [2]? So that's not crazy.

What does Google Tink do by default / recommend? What does Sophie Schmieg or whoever recommend?

1 - https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/xaes-256-gcm-11/

2 - https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1153.pdf
Add a clickbait title and post it in places like HN and Reddit.
How is it relevant that they're launching rockets? How is that relevant that competition is behind?

None of that matters when you try to make an argument that it's basically a replacement for space station, with few simple tweaks.
Our Honda Fit was totaled by a Bigass Truck. Driver didn't see it over the hood and A-pillar as we were approaching from a point downhill and right of their vantage. An entire car they didn't see. I'm glad I was not on my bicycle or motorcycle.
There are basically two ways: share it with existing people elsewhere such as here/friends/social media, or write SEO content.

You don't need all your content to be SEO, but you should have a few good SEO articles that do well with search.

If you write original content that is not highly searched for, you're likely not to get too many visitors because bottom-feeding leeches like Google have ruined the web and turned it into an SEO-farm nightmare so that they could line their pockets while greasing the wheels of needless consumerism.
This is extremely unethical to offer as a service. Apple account credentials have to be stored as plain text to continuously reauthenticate with apple's servers and the broken e2e means they can store whatever they want from your messages (as well as all other parts of your apple account, like photos and icloud backups).

If they wanted to do this properly the answer is to reverse engineer whatever protocol imessage uses under the hood and make their own client - this is most likely just a simple rebrand of the few FOSS tools that already do the same imessage relay thing.

And of course, when apple inevitable does fight this, the average person will chimp out thinking it's apple doing apple things when in reality no other company would allow a third party to harvest their user's credentials and data in this manner.
The Problem with Compromise: You Get What You Never Wanted
This study should not be used to make ANY medical decisions and is only useful in proposing additional studies. I would recommend against sharing it with anyone who is not trained to read and understand these results. Often laypersons will take these studies and make absurd claims based off of them that kill people.

Keep in mind that this is a study of a single person and the tumor reduction was insignificant compared to the 4CM reduction from radio/chemo therapies. There is no way to know if Keto even did anything without a larger cohort. For all we know, it made the cancer worse than it would have been.
I encountered a niche but common bug and figured out a workaround. Mentioned my blog post about it in the relevant GitHub issue discussion for the bug. Gets a low but steady amount of traffic to-date.
Why Cloud Data Warehouses Are Too Expensive for Emerging Data Requirements
Airbnb acquires secretive firm launched by Siri co-founder
I'm not super informed on the space but i do try to keep up with different 3D sensing tech. What makes this a big leap forward over what we already have? I mean doesnt the iphone and most flagships already do 3D sensing?
> I leave just enough time to not be hit by the vehicle

We need laws (and enforcement) that make it so that taking risks with pedestrian safety can be ticketed (or other consequences).

I've had experiences recently (in TX) of people forcing my action to avoid being hit. Had someone essentially play "chicken" with me where they were actively accelerating through a crosswalk timing it just so that we do not intersect. (but they were increasing velocity in such a way that if my trajectory were to change, such as tripping, stooping to pick up something I dropped etc, I'd be hit hard).

And many will say "Call the police" but the fact is in a large number of metros (including Austin and others in Texas), the police do not respond to much if anything. A lack of enforcement and consequences (on behalf of the perpetrator) is equivalent to a lack of laws entirely.
Specifically:

https://www.fortunejournals.com/articles/significance-of-cal...

> Conclusions: This study demonstrated the significant beneficial effect of a calorie-restricted ketogenic diet for two types of aggressive cancers with metastases. Even a brief KD intervention has a profound effect, implicating the significant therapeutic potential for the ketogenic diet as adjuvant therapy for cancer treatment.

Obviously small sample size etc etc

More generally:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375425/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10221628/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221287781...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.59440...

It’s primarily as supporting therapy and quality of life, and is tumor specific, and at this time basically “more research is needed” effectively.

I would love to hear from those more qualified.
there's a company called Emergency Physician professional association.

they appear to be fishing for additional management fees over and above the hospital bill.

I contacted the hospital and confirmed they're a contractor but couldn't provide anything else.

when contacted for itemized billing, the first time, they just lost the bill. the second time they offered a discount

when asked for the name of the doctor who they managed, they could not provide.

it's clearly some kind of hospital kickback scame.
They are better at snow driving
Switching to a mainly meat based diet, increasing protein and reducing industrially produced foods.
The less rain you get (i.e. during a drought) the more you tend to get dust in the air. We went through this last summer; my dog would kick up clouds of dirt dust running through our yard.

Worse than this, though, is the durability of the material. Lots of these super reflective paints don't hold up very well to rainwater (which itself is not especially clean or PH neutral) or seasonal extremes.

Typically, you wouldn't want to paint the sides of buildings, as that'll just reflect the light mostly down. You want it on rooftops, which most people don't pay to clean frequently or at all.
Why can’t CAFE regulations just be modified to include these modern SUVs and trucks?

If the exclusions are removed then the manufacture cafe ratings across products will go down. Thus be forced to be more efficient and sell smaller cars.
While not Miyazaki (but still Studio Ghibli), Isao Takahata's films Grave of the Fireflies (and to some extent, Princess Kaguya), isn't really some ”feel good” movies. Optimistic is the last thing i would describes those two masterpieces.
You're definitely correct in the fact that Polestar isn't the highest in software quality, but it was the examples of what they did right that I wanted to focus on.

They're garbage when it comes to their mobile app and some of the controls on the infotainment system.

> sometimes the HUD doesn't work(it's 50/50 if it will turn on).

You should definitely reach out to Hertz and ask for a car swap. Sounds like there's a bad connection between the display and the IHU. Both screens are operated by the same system, so it's unlikely to be a software failure.
I don't read that comment as victim blaming at all, it's just a statement of our sad reality: it's de facto legal to murder someone in a car so long as you're not inebriated and you stay at the scene and plead your innocence.

As a general rule I go out of my way to not piss off drivers, not because I think they're in the right, but because they can murder me with impunity and they know it.
Finding the Longest Consecutive Sequence in an Array
Ask HN: How to get back to programming Python?
I've used Python back on my university days (some numpy coding, some gui apps for both linux and windows) and later professionally, when doing webdev in Pylons and Django. Then I've switched to Ruby and for the last 15 years haven't touched Python at all. And now actually I'd like to get back to it, with some side projects. Ideally I'd love to do some image recognition / qualification apps. Question is - what's the best place to start? I remember some basics, but as I can see, A LOT has changed.
I really haven't but tend to use it more as a dumping ground of things I want to remember how to do.
i.e. how to join an audio track to the video track using ffmpeg from a couple of years ago https://denner.co/2021/09/24/join-audio-and-video.html

I also use it as a spot to stash the side decks from presentations I have given (for example to the local linux user's group).
If your trade as a programmer is in automating tasks with computers... I can see how it might seem like OpenAI is your Squarespace. Most users were never going to learn to code no matter how well we designed scripting languages, macros, etc for them. Just like there was nothing stopping them from learning HTML or using any of the available tools for building their own websites. They still paid people to do it for them. Now we're at a moment where they don't need to pay such people anymore... just like when Squarespace-et-al killed off the need to hire a web developer to build your website.

I don't think Djikstra would be appalled in the sense that the author gives it. He wasn't saying that C++ or Python were precise languages; they wouldn't be precise enough for him. He wouldn't be appalled that we don't write programs in them. He would be appalled that we don't write precise specifications.

ChatGPT-4 can generate code. Is it the correct code? We don't know unless we specify what correct means in a precise and unambiguous way. Natural language isn't precise enough to do that. We have a language for that called, mathematics. ChatGPT-4 is not very good at understanding or speaking this language for the time being.

What matters is whether ChatGPT-4-generated-code is good enough for your problem. Generate a script to organize some files or help you with small tasks where correctness isn't crucial? Go ahead. I don't pull out a whiteboard and fire up a theorem prover when I'm organizing a photo collection.

However, if I'm working on a system and have a theory that we can parallelize an algorithm over a complex data structure and it's critical that this is done correctly or the system cannot be trusted? I wouldn't think twice before firing up TLA+ or Lean 4.

For now, ChatGPT-4 cannot reason and think for you. The industry isn't over, in my opinion. It's annoying. It's noisier. But not over.
Ask HN: Please suggest Open-Source Framework for Prompt Engineering ?
> I don't see QUIC taking over from TCP any time soon.

HTTP/3 uses QUIC, so there’s already a substantial amount of production traffic going over it.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/http3-usage-one-year-on/
Are there currently any non-russian technical assets?
Tool – Too Many Ideas Quick Evaluation Framework
I've encountered enough janky translations to prefer getting software in English.
LLMs and the End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with Dr. Matt Welsh [video]
Musk's title is chief engineer, he has stated many times in interviews, and has been corroborated by other spacex engineers, that all engineering decisions go through him.
RPM .spec is more readable, IMHO.

Archive of system repo + mock + SRPM does the same thing, but offline.
We also need to reduce aircraft contrails. Contrails increase high-altitude clouds (cirrus and related), which blocks the heat that would have been lost by radiative cooling. It isn't hard to reduce contrails. We have the atmospheric data telling us the height of and where clouds are likely to form. Aircraft need to change altitude by 2000 ft from what was planned to avoid the cloud-forming regions.

research paper
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/19/8163/2019/

AI is helping reduce the problem
https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-airlines-contrails-clim...