skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did I say there was?

Yes. You explicitly wrote in your comment "This is the client side of things", as if there was any ambiguity in where requests came from.

> Where did I call this detail "obscure"?

You explicitly wrote that "(...) there is an additional piece of info everyone who writes clients needs to see" on what people like you "who implement backend services, may do if clients ignore such wisdom", as if somehow this was obscure, arcane and secret knowledge that no team whatsoever working on backend services with client teams ever dared share with the outside world.

> (...) why it is in general a good idea for clients to implement the principles outlined in the article.

I don't think there is a single developer out there working on client/server projects that aren't aware of the need to handle request failures and be mindful of service level agreements, specially when dealing with retries.

Your post reads like addressing life guards to let them know that there is an additional piece of info everyone who works as a lifeguard needs to see: that the water is wet.
Who calls who? – a simple events heuristic
It’s 30%: https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-gov...
Hi, this is Mark, the lead researcher and developer on the project. Cool to see it on HN today. Happy to answer any questions!

As a bit of an update, this project is not at Microsoft Research anymore. The new (main) repository is at https://github.com/BosqueLanguage/BosqueCore. MSR was a great place to work and do the initial work on this project, but was not the right place to make this a fully free and open language for real users.

Progress was a but slow in the last year while I found a new home but I am very excited to be starting as a professor at the University of Kentucy in January where Bosque will be the main project for my group! There is a paper from earlier this year that describes the language design, based on our experiments over the last few years, and shows some results from prototype tools built on the language. The Intro and Section 7 are pretty good for a quick overview of things: https://github.com/BosqueLanguage/BosqueCore/blob/main/docs/...
I was really confused by the title, because doesn't "commodify" mean "to make saleable", like commercialize? Hasn't tech made billions?

I think the author is talking about "commoditization", eg genericizing tech work so that any replaceable employee can do it.

From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoditization:

> This is not to be confused with commodification, which is the concept of objects or services being assigned an exchange value which they did not previously possess by their being produced and presented for sale, as opposed to personal use. One way to summarize the difference is that commoditization is about proprietary things becoming generic, whereas commodification is about nonsaleable things becoming saleable. In social sciences, particularly anthropology, the term is used interchangeably with commodification to describe the process of making commodities out of anything that was not available for trade previously.

Am I being pedantic? I thought the two had different meanings?

Edit: Ah, but wait... from Wiktionary instead: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/commodification

> Sometimes used interchangeably with commodification

Guess it's just a common mixup.
Several years back I was staying at a hotel than made me re-authenticate through their portal (enter my name, room number, etc) every time I unlocked my phone. I happened to have an AirPort Express with me. I plugged that in, authenticated once, connected to my new WiFi network instead of the hotel WiFi, and was good for the rest of my trip. Using cellular internet wasn’t a great option at the time/location, so I was really happy I had the little pocket router with me.
NASA Receives Laser Signal from 10M Miles Away
> Which, to summarize in tl/dr; form could possibly be stated as "EV's are less likely to catch on fire than ICE vehicles, but when they do catch on fire they can be much harder to extinguish."

I have checked statistics for Sweden only, but here the last three years the numbers have stayed at 20 EVs every year that catch fire, even though the number of EVs have doubled in this period. In the same time period, around 3400 non-EVs catch fire per year, so it's "once every three weeks" in the country for EVs and "almost 10 a day" for non-EVs.
It’s a dud photoid, we dodged the bullet this time. (“Three Body Problem” reference haha)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401613
Perhaps thats what would happen if you put your hand in the electron beam at the LHC, but a million times more energetic.
A large corporation establishes strategic partnerships with manufacturing and distribution partners? Shocked.
That’s the convention but you can use aliases too as in this example https://stackoverflow.com/a/7264842
They probably changed its status from "Bug" to "Feature" ...
Google analytics isn’t relevant to this subject.
Minority Report was a playbook for these bastards, instead of a warning.
https://archive.is/J5BGL
Hi from Argentina! Why Spanish? (It's not a complain, just curious.)

I saw the Spanish video in https://videodubber.ai/video-translation-to-your-own-languag... The voice is good, it sound almost like a mix of 80% es-es ad 20% es-??. But in the original English video the guy is screaming all the time, but the Spanish voice is quite neutral. Is it possible to make the AI voice scream!!!?
Hard to imagine anyone believes these prehuman theories. Just look at the h hablis wiki page to see 90% of it is pure speculation and debated.
This is absolutely fascinating and I love how this experience leads to an interesting idea for a solution to a different problem.

As an aside, what audio interface was this? Sounds fascinating (as an amateur audio-interested person).
Shades of the end of The Website is Down (2009) https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
No, to castigate the effort is precisely helpful in a case where it results in a gross violation of privacy — potentially even impact constitutional rights directly.

The entire point of this article is that other news sources and “fact checkers” are being obtuse (or simply lying) to deny the fact that a kill switch has been called for.

This is typical Overton window bullshit; “no, no, that’s not what they want to do,” and of course five years later it’s completely apparent that indeed we have implicit (and probably even explicit) kill switches in cars.
In that case how is this an argument against the type of kill switch described?
I think it is looking more and more like the established, de facto cross-platform GUI is a web page, embedded into some framework or not. And this is the general wind direction, not just on .NET platform alone.

People say cruft but sometimes I wonder how much more cruft it really is when you use the system browser rather than an embedded web browser. Usually many shared resources for it are already loaded into RAM.

If the end result is something like MAUI, I much rather just use a web page.
I've used their GL-AR300M model for a few years quite happily.

Very flexible, i.e. wifi interface and two wired interfaces, and can mix and match roles however you like (e.g. wired uplink & downlink, wifi up/wired down, wired up/wifi down etc), combined with the ability to terminate a VPN on the device.

(Possibly my most silly use was to provide a network connection via a phone wifi hotspot to a wired network appliance).

And size-wise it's about half the size of a cigarette packet. (Yeah - that feels like quite an odd size comparison...)
There should be a way for everyone to compromise (put the data privacy angle aside for a moment) and allow for cars to heuristically detect impaired driving in exchange for reducing it to a simple, routine traffic ticket like speeding or at worst, stunt driving. Stunt driving shouldn't even realky be possible, technologically or otherwise (in terms of going insanely fast enough to allow for that capabillity)
I've always heard the term used in the sense that the author is using it. Oil is a commodity because there are many producers of it and it doesn't matter which one you get it from since they're all making the same thing.
Focusing on privacy is a weak angle of attack in this case. The issue of privacy is solvable anyway so time spent on this argument is ultimately time wasted.

The real issue here is the issue of our liberty being violated in a substantial way.

The ability for the state to remotely kill your means of transportation, thus remotely controlling our freedom of movement, is a new dystopian level of government control.

You might be wondering how is this different from the current system, the government already has the power to determine who can drive.

A few things:

- The current system works solely via the legal system. The law determines who can drive, there is no technological system to force compliance, yes you can be pulled over by the cops, but this is a case by case process that can't be applied to entire swaths of the population.

- a kill switch allows the possibility that transportation is denied to entire regions, specific minorities, a government could use this power to control people in ways make the power imbalance between state and individual even more extreme.

- The kill switch is a constant threat against our freedom of movement.

- The system could be abused or hacked, exposing us in this way for more power is abhorrent.
> whoever's maintaining proton

That would be Valve and yes they do fix game-specific bugs.
> The challenge there is that this takes trust, because you take a risk as well / there are no assurances if they do half a job. Make sure you get an address so you can torch their house or business if they mess you about.

In what country is your recourse against a business determined by whether or not the business is paying its due tax?
Driving is most certainly a right, just like your ability to post on the internet is a right.

The fact that people think it’s a privilege graciously given by the government to a grateful people is a big part of the problem.
Strictly speaking those are services not items you own. (The government can't suck back water you poured or power you used)

More importantly, freedom violations should be treated as seriously and physical injuries and even deaths, it really is that important. The mild safety gain is worth the loss of your rights.
Understood. I can do a lot better, and thank you for the feedback. I wasn't paying enough attention, in my enthusiasm, and I can do better.
> In 2021, an Arizona judge declared a mistrial in the case of Larkin and Lacey after they found that prosecutors’ arguments hinged on the horrors of child sex trafficking even though neither defendant was facing charges related to it.

government being a weirdo, I think there is a more productive way to engage with this market
Why Microservices Aren't Working for You
Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail and Photos Content Next Week
The point of php was to not be ”good”, but to be practical. A simple way to add some logic to html.

Write a few lines, upload it, boom it works. Quick and easy.

There is a place for typed & strict languages and a place for pragmatic ones.

But php got shamed for it so badly they got into an identity crisis, for the last decade it’s slowly been trying to become Java and do everything correct.

Same with Wordpress, before I could just make a plug-in with one php file & a few lines. Now I have to create a separate npm project and build for every tiny change
The observations of the Amaterasu particle increased over the years, coming from an apparently empty region of space. A minor science mystery. Then one day, the feint glow of a body was seen, just outside the solar system. It's trajectory was odd, foreshortened and the light was blue-shifted and of a very strange spectrum. Almost like an engine pointing our way, decelerating. "Time to lay out the welcome mat," the astronomer said, with mingled excitement and fear.
Long winded but the punchline is worth it
I have a couple friends that merged their facebook accounts so they don't take space on facebook
There's something extremely satisfying to me about finding the source of a noise and I love how this one was recorded and analysed. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum, and https://xkcd.com/1590/
That is so short-sighted. Practically all technological breakthroughs are expensive during the discovery and R&D process. Over time, engineering makes things more affordable at scale. And markets free to respond to supply and demand are the catalyst to make it work.
I love the new water colour. It reminds me of my holidays in the Mediterranean; Mallorca, Sardinia…

In the end it’s so subjective that not everyone will be happy.
I'll test out a conclusion-less format and see how my friends find it.

> I thought the image was generated by AI.

That was my initial plan, but I found AI-generated images to be more entertaining than informative, especially when the topic is new to the reader.

P.S. I don't know if you already tried this, but if you highlight any snippet of text in an entry, you can start a realtime chat about that text (without having to provide any context yourself).
The paper was published yesterday. The particle was detected over 2 years ago. May 27 2021
And this attitude is why most software is mediocre and not fun to use.
https://archive.is/NWPzt
Support for PHP7 has been discontinued. It's a matter of security, and performance is a plus. Upgrading systems has its cost, but the cost of data loss or leakage, exploitable through software that will not be patched anymore, will cost you even more.
I too, am very concerned about a 'not authorized to drive to zone 4' error for specific income brackets. However, I am concerned those same zones will be Green Zones that don't let ICE vehicles in either way. . . . Kit cars?
If someone is driving so sleepy or having such a medical crisis that they can’t keep the car on the road, they shouldn’t be driving even if they’re sober. The harm to others doesn’t go away just because it’s “medical”, you are still just as dead if grandpa falls asleep and crosses the centerline. And it is still a crime to do so - you can be arrested for driving too sleepy already.

Much like CSAM, this is one where there not clear daylight between the advertised situation and other similar situations (why would you want to stop pedos but leave mass shooters able to communicate?) other than the targeted class being particularly villainized by society at large. People should really have the faith of their convictions and discuss this as a generalized thing, “what is the benefit of having killswitches in all our cars for impaired drivers” and not just pretend that it’s only alcoholics who are dangerous on the road. This will eventually be coming for anyone who displays dangerous driving even if it’s “medical” and should really be viewed in that context.

I’m not saying that’s entirely a bad thing either. Maybe we’d all be safer if our cars spied on us 24/7. But people are generally repulsed at that idea because I’m not a filthy drunk driver, how dare you treat me like one. It was never about road safety at all, it was about getting one up on the underclass who we’ve socially determined it’s ok to scorn and hate.

If you think that’s not the case, contrast our social attitudes towards using a cellphone, which is equally dangerous to other drivers, and equally willful, and is so broadly accepted that people get upset about new laws to stop it. Clearly with some of these medical issues, it’s not because of the harm per se but because of the social villianization - it’s okay to hate drunk drivers or fat people, and we don’t have that radicalization 24/7 against these other (equally if not more dangerous) behaviors.

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/cell-phones-and-dr...

Also, reminder that alcoholism is a medical problem too, not sure how that take gets started in the first place. But overweight and alcoholism are definitely villianized because of the perception that it’s “your fault” whereas not getting enough sleep last night is not your fault at all! It’s quite difficult to talk about some of these topics for a lot of people because “drunk driving bad”… but in a harms sense it’s no more harmful than grandpa getting behind the wheel and crossing the centerline because he’s 75 and not a good driver anymore. And both individuals do consciously make that choice.

And if grandpa or a narcoleptic have a right to drive to work because that’s what our society requires of them… so does the alcoholic. It’s weird to give people a “drive while impaired” pass when the idea is supposedly about harm reduction - again, you’re just as dead if grandpa crosses the centerline as if a drunk driver did it.
Do these 18 things before open-sourcing your project
How to keep your users safe and your contributors happy
There must be some difficulty in studying biological brain intelligence to distinguish between features that contribute to intelligence and those which are simply path dependencies from millions of years of nervous system evolution.

Over that time, brain function was mostly concerned with aiding the organism to find food, grow, reproduce, and avoid being eaten, rather than language, logic, mathematics, arts, and so forth. Its rather astonishing that humans are somehow now able to do the latter, using brains evolved to do the former.
Don't they know the law is only for people who vote wrong?
The best office prank I ever pulled was on a fellow dev, probably the smartest guy in the room. He came back from lunch and all of his apps stopped working. He couldn't launch anything. He restarted the computer and still nothing would start. He eventually figured out that launching an app from search works, but nothing would launch from his desktop shortcuts.

That's because while he was having lunch, I took a screenshot of his desktop, set that screenshot as the desktop background, and then hid the dock and deleted all his real icons :) (Well, put them in a folder for easy recovery).

He just kept clicking and clicking on that screenshot for way too long. Best 15 minutes of my life...
Yes. Welcome to the hell of "No debugging, no fixing anything. Call vendor support and hope for the best"
>That's a snark that does not bring anything to the discussion.

Where's the snark? I was being dead serious.

>People were dissatisfied with the fact the country could not control immigration from the EU.

What for? The UK's major problems were all self inflicted by it's own crooked political class not by the Eastern Europeans coming to work and pay taxes. They were just the scapegoats in a xenophobic driven witch-hunt because blaming some powerless foreigners who can't vote is always the easy way out.

Also, if the UK didn't want any Eastern Europeans all they had to do was veto their EU membership when those countries applied to join. Simple no?

And now, how did Brexit fix the migration issue? Now you have even more migrants than before except they're not eastern European. Is that better now?
How was it all not low-key xenophobia.
Maybe Eto.Forms on .NET if you want to go native controls and simple for Windows, Linux, macOS: https://github.com/picoe/Eto

It's not from Microsoft but who cares. They don't have a reputation of holding onto new UI frameworks anyway.
Note that in modern terminology, the term "rest mass" is no longer preferred. It is now considered cleaner to use the term mass as a constant. The greater difficulty of accelerating as you get closer to the speed of light is then just a different formula for Newton's second law, instead of a change in the mass ("relativistic mass").

This is all equivalent mathematically, but it seems cleaner in terms of terminology rather than saying that the mass of an object depends on the relative speed to the observer.
Who decides whether or not a question is relevant? Your refusal to even engage the question proves that you believe your freedoms are worth more than the lives of others.
It lets people effectively own ideas, prevent others from using them, and potentially license the ideas out for money.
Yes, that's one of around 50 currently recognized factors of aging.
Do you have some benchmarks?

Last month I had a problem becasue I don't know enough Python to be sure when something will be broadcasted and parallelized. So I had to make a few tries until it was faster. Do you have an example of an easy case were this is much faster?
The first one is… uncanny valley disturbing to me haha. Second one with fluid is cool.
Of course it is! That’s why I have nothing but love and patience for my son. But we usually learn to put that aversion aside when we understand that it’s for a good reason. That part takes time and maturity.
I respectfully disagree. Bringing this issue up again and again is important even though it has almost nothing to do with the topic being discussed. They had so many options "SharedAI", "CommonAI", "ResponsibleAI", "WorldAI" - but chose the only adjective that does not reflect what they are doing. It muddles waters. It makes it more difficult for the real OpenAI organization to form (what name should they adopt - "RallyOpenAI"? "TheOpenAI"?)

Yes I know the arguments they used to defend their choice but I don't find them convincing.
I have, for many years, experienced sudden loud buzzing/sine tone sounds accompanied by vivid monochromatic zig-zagging phosphenes (as I have more just learned they are called) when I’m in the process of falling sleep and suddenly jolted awake by some external stimulus (a sound, usually).

These appear to last just a fraction of a second and are rather jolting. I wonder if my mind was “playing” these sounds and sights as part of the normal sleep process, and the sudden waking just raised my consciousness enough to catch a glimpse of them.

Anyhow, thank you for sharing, I have long wondered if this was a known phenomenon, and now I have a name for it!
> It's easy to find out if someone is driving as though they are impaired, less easy to find out if they actually are. Medical emergencies spring to mind as something that will be hard to distinguish.

For the average medical emergency, everyone would probably be better off with the car stopping by the roadside: heart attack, stroke, confusion, … are not improved by hitting other cars, buildings, pedestrians.

> How many people rushing to the hospital with a pregnant wife in the back will no longer make it before giving birth?

I would say if this is anything more than a movie trope it would be solved better by fixing your medical system, and not having to drive dangerously and illegally in the first place. Planted into a tree is not a great way to give birth.
When you maximize a video for full screen you get those messages that give a warning. Those seem to be impossible to remove due to a potential of abuse by hackers.
All of those famous public statements by Salk occurred after his work was determined to be unpatentable by the funding agency. We don't really know what happened behind closed doors other than the normal university/nonprofit research process, which involves a lot of profiteering. The same thing happened with Sabin before that vaccine was also released without a patent (Sabin would have been a Soviet/Russian patent, so it's a slightly different system).

The famous "could you patent the sun" quote was about obviousness, not about anything else.
I’m glad I scrolled all the way to the bottom because I thought I was going to have to point this out! It seems like one of those things many of us are used to the higher ups at work dumping on us in moments of excitement: some great sounding idea whose generator never considered all of the implementation details that are so damn complex
Of course it is a nice prank, but best 15 minutes?
I rarely check luggage and delayed luggage for various reasons—or no apparent reason at all—is not at all an unusual occurrence in my experience. And there’s no guarantee your luggage will be able to just catch up with you at some random location in a day or two.