skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visual Basic 6, and Delphi 5 made GUI programming trivial. You drag/drop GUI elements in place, then hook up event handlers.

These days, there's a lot more boilerplate in most languages. C# was a horrible downgrade.

If you can put up with the documentation, Lazarus/Free Pascal works amazingly well, and is almost as easy as it used to be.
Substack isn’t the government. They are not required to provide equal access to all. Like many tech companies, they are attempting to avoid consequences by appearing neutral.
More fundamentally, I tend to roll my eyes at anyone who blames our wars on one simple thing. Humans have been fighting and killing since there was more than one of us. Only the rationalizations, tools, and scale have changed.
I created https://rethinkraw.com that hijacks Adobe DNG Converter to provide a very limited Camera RAW that can even run on Linux. Why? Because why not.
Summarily executing people for thought-crimes does not strike me as particularly aligned with basic humanistic and liberal values.

And tons of Israeli also support rather distasteful things, including before Oct 7, which has been widely documented. Some of these people are currently ministers (e.g. Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, etc.). And many Americans, and Italians, and $any_other_nationality. I don't want to play "tit for tat" here but only for Palestinians have I ever seen the "well, they support Hamas, so therefore it's not a big deal" line of reasoning.
Parametric web app build using Python
This application is build using python and Viktor sdk for estimating the quantity of materials needed for foundation footing construction
Also single use plastic have two upsides. Glass bottles are heavy. And washing them to food standard is expensive and consumes lot of energy. Water used with lye is at 80C...
Are you grouping kernel exploits in with user space sandboxes? Lots of local roots come from data races which I would not call exotic.

And there's always https://portswigger.net/research/smashing-the-state-machine for web stuff.
The iPhone's built in text OCR and image subject cutouts are also extremely good, just in the photos app.
Pets = ceramic plate

Cattle = paper plate

I'll let the reader make the connections
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> An electric car is bad for the environment (described generally, not in the laser-focused "CO2 emissions are the only thing that matters!" modern sense) in almost all the same ways an ICE vehicle is, just with a reduction in runtime carbon emissions

No it isn't. You can charge them entirely with renewable sources (or nuclear), reducing traditional air pollutants in addition to CO2. This is even true when still using fossil fuel power plants, which emit fewer pollutants per unit energy than small engines.

Electric cars use regenerative braking, reducing the use of friction braking that releases brake dust into the environment.

> and with quite a bit more mining going into the raw materials.

Electric cars are only marginally heavier than gasoline cars because electric motors are light and the batteries take the place of not only the fuel tank but the entire powertrain and emissions equipment. It's not obvious how mining two tons of raw materials is dramatically different than mining 1.9 tons of raw materials, and in any event the raw materials can be recycled from older electric cars once there are older electric cars to recycle.
A few years back I realized I had a non-used landline due to DSL and I thought it would be fun to try to log into every BBS remaining in the country. I picked up a nice external courier modem from weird stuff for a couple dollars and started dialing.

I was thwarted by two factors, one is that the vast majority of the numbers I could find were now answered by humans who I felt bad for bothering. The other was the apparently even a lot of landlines (including my own) have VoIP steps in their transport that modem traffic doesn't work well across.
We may be living in a radiological hellscape but at least we won't have ID collisions!
It’s ok to box or use Arc.
They need the sunlight to prevent organic matter on the ground to dry and not decay in a way that could cause rot.

Trees also need to prevent infection from other trees, need to prevent damage from colliding from other trees, and mass damping doesn't work if trees are touching.

But they also want to be close in order to share nutrients through their roots.

There are many reasons why trees would want to do this, from an evolutionary standpoint.
I agree with you but there are pathways for decriminalization and legalization ala cannabis in states that have fully legalized it. There is still a difference between the "medicinal" products which require something resembling a prescription and recreational ones which are sold to anyone of age. Those recreational products still undergo testing and regulation.
I don’t understand. What would you need? You can look at the registers, save them, populate them with another tasks contents, rinse, repeat
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So this is overkill if I’m only hacking around with sensors and iot devices?
The Exasperating Topic of Database Indexes
I don't remember the incident where Israel killed 1200 Palestinians on a music festival with unmarked troops.

I'm sure Chomsky would find some justification for that too, but that's why the only thing I care about he did is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy - from there it's all been downhill, especially in the last few years. Before that it was at least from time to time worth thinking about.
Fine. I’ll just load Linux or a BSD and carry on. Perhaps run Windows in a VM.
What if it was organic? It would suck wouldn't it eh?
Yeah totally, I copy text from images all the time.
"Practical electronics for inventors" is what you are looking for. I have both books and I am a physicist. It's not that TAOE is not for beginners, it could be if you really want to put on the effort and are decided to go deep.
Whatever Happened to Programming? (2010)
I've found arrivejs to be magic for all things html async.

it triggers on any selector.
We will win.
It’s not because they thought my Samsung was cheap, rather they believed Android is inelegant or tacky compared to iOS. Another part of it was the lack of interoperability with FaceTime and iMessage.
My boss in a gear factory had some code from about 1982 that ran in "Tk!Solver" 1.0 under MS-DOS. He had moved it as far forward as he could, in DOS boxes, until Windows 10 got rid of 16 bit mode. The new version of Tk!Solver was something like $6000, totally unacceptable.

I ended up running the program in MS-DOS, inside VirtualBox. I used MS-DOS to route the "printer" to COM1. Then on the outside, I routed the serial output to a file on the host machine.

He just clicked the shortcut that fired it all off, did the calculations he needed to do, and "printed it", then exited Tk!Solver. The batch file then checked for output, and if it was there, it printed it.

He was happy, and it only took about an hour to get it all working.
Probably. I think it's always nice to have an understanding of what's going on behind the scenes; this book more describes the circuits that make up the sensor and iot devices, for example.

You can make practical devices by learning an EDA tool like KiCad, get familiar with how to choose parts, and get a feel for how to quickly/effectively extract the info you need from datasheets for various part classes.

If you are looking to design those parts, you need the skills in this book.
There are so many modern ML components that have terrible or no support in CoreML. Try to do any convolution other than conv2d, advanced or custom activation functions etc and you are out of luck. Exporting from PyTorch leads to all sorts of headaches with subtle behavior changes between implementations it is definitely a pain point for developers of widely used software
There's also a torrent there, in case you feel guilty about their hosting bill for direct-downloading 27GB.
> For anyone designing something new today, the main prep you can do

"Our new SaaS offers high security, reslience to deal with usage spikes, and compatability with doomsday scenarios where fascist governments have taken over during war-time while implementing draconic wars that are to sure to end with society as a dystopian nightmare. Oh, and we're Soc 2 compliant."
I co-authored that book (written in the late 1990s). I don't know when quantum computing will happen - I only follow developments very, very loosely now - but think you're being much too pessimistic. It is a very (very!) challenging problem, and it's still early days, but there's also been steady and impressive progress for many years.
I find the hive-mind potential utterly revolting, but I'm all for downloading Jeet Kun Do for protection.
This is nuts! If this advances as fast as AI image generators have, the music industry is going to be affected. This is a crazy tool for song writing inspiration for sure.
Some aspects of nationalism can certainly be traced to the Enlightenment. For example, the concept of one country = one language stemmed from the ideologues of the French revolution, who swiftly went to work suppressing regional languages in their own country. This fell like a lit match on Austro-Hungary, where each ethnic group now felt even greater pressure to carve out its own space on linguistic grounds.
Damn... so song artists are out in <5 years !?
I don't know. I've published Bayesian methodology papers and reviewed them and although I might call myself an objective Bayesianist maybe, Bayesianism has its own implicit biases. In the very least, I think it can take advantage of implicit biases people have in interpreting analyses.

One issue is that Bayes estimates are almost always produced, even if no information is coming from empirical data, and all the information is coming from a prior. So it's possible to produce results heavily influenced by the prior with Bayesian estimation that with frequentist methods would fail completely because of lack of identification of the model, sending a strong signal that something is wrong. This can all be sussed out with Bayesian methods but people often don't do it.

Another more subtle issue is people aren't quite aware of how a prior can deviate from "maximal conservativism". Sometimes, for example, depending on the model, a very flat prior is actually not conservative, and is overweighting tails.

There's other examples too. Basically, yes, Bayesianism forces you to be explicit with your biases, but people are really bad at interpreting the actual impact of those biases in a formal Bayesian framework, or at least, aren't any better at it than with frequentist methods that are available.

If you approach statistical inference from the perspective of accuracy (as the linked paper seems to do) Bayesianism is better to the extent the priors are accurate. This is true a lot of the time empirically, but it does lead to a kind of tautology, in that you're doing the analysis because you don't really know what "truth" is. So if you're right in your priors, Bayesianism is accurate, but then you didn't really need new data as much in the first place; if you're wrong, it's more biased. Basically in the bias-variance tradeoff, Bayesianism makes a bet on reduced variance assuming that the resulting bias will be small enough.

Philosophically, though, there's a completely different argument, which is one of competitive fairness. You might say this doesn't matter, but consider consequential decisions, like hiring or admissions decisions: if someone was making a prediction about you, would you want them to use a strong prior, or something that's maximally conservative and fair?

This philosophy leads to frequentism basically.

My preference is to be maximally conservative in a Bayesian framework, which leads to reference priors, which are often flat in many canonical situations, which is basically frequentism. In other situations you might have a different kind of prior.

To me the linked paper is pretty interesting and makes a good point. On the other hand, I'd rather not make any assumptions about a new result based on past studies on other effects. I'd rather just collect lots of diverse real data and meta-analyze it. There's no substitute for data -- and that includes priors.
> This is really hard. There's universally objectionable material like CSAM. That's (politically) easy to exclude.

You're right. Instagram feeds can get quite 4chan esque: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-instagram-video-algorithm-chil... Even so, TFA claims that Meta has figured out a way to suppress pro-Pal content... so clearly, something's up?
That's par for a settlement
So in other words, even experts on this topic disagree. So I don't think one prosecutor saying "no, this isn't genocide" is definitive -- just like another saying "yes, this is genocide" isn't either.

Ultimately we may never know if Netanyahu has sat behind closed doors and has said things about his intentions in Palestine that would meet the UN definition of genocide. So we can only guess based on what we do know and have seen.

FWIW, to me, this feels pretty genocide-y. The funny thing about the bit you paraphrased from Crane:

> and those need to be officials that also had the means to carry out or cause to be carried out that destruction

... is that by this definition, I don't think we can classify Hamas as genocidal, as they don't seem to have the war capability to actually "carry out or cause to be carried out" a genocide upon Israel.
On this scale, isn't it rather genocide?
[context: frontend eng here, with a CS background and lots of experience on the backend]

The reason frontend dev sucks so much, essentially, is humans.

Have you met humans? They are opinionated, dogmatic, and hidebound; their habits and preferences are arbitrary, and, collectively, comprise their horison the way the bars of a cage do a bird's.

A slight user preference for something inconsequential, like, say, a realtime indication of password strength, or an absence of loading delays, means that if your product does not "meet user expectations" for some some incredibly inane value of `$EXPECTATION`, you can reliably expect your competitors to consume not just some, but eventually, all of your sales, and is therefore strongly selected against.

Recalling that you are yourself substrated upon a human, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Be honest. Are all of your preferences rational? What even is 'rational', anyway? I'm not just doing a lazy gesture to pseudo-philosophy here, I'm actively asking you to define practical rationality (not just logic, mind you) in a way that has no reference to common practice, intuition, or habit. Good luck :) (Note: I wasted my twenties in a philosophy PhD programme, so I know enough to advise you that this is a honeytrap that you can literally spend decades unsuccessfully trying to answer. I know I did.)

Anyway, because of user expectations -- expectations like: bespoke widget sets, branding, performance, speed, similarity with native app, cross-browser compat, etc. -- we -- us engineers -- built elaborate tooling back in the day to accomplish all this, for 2008-ish values of 'back in the day'. Some of these, like jQuery, eventually crystallized into new browser APIs, but a lot of them involved various kinds of either stack lock-in, or conceptual lock-in. (React does both.)

Remember how I said humans were creatures of habit? Well, horribly enough, engineers are humans too, and we can't get good (really good) at things until we've put in 10k hours or so. So, if you've put in 10k hours into React, you're going to be at a competitive disadvantage if you move everyone to a saner alternative, such as htmx. This, too, is strongly selected against.

So, there you have it. Frontend development is terrible because it's the part that touches the most humans.
And porsche's "1970s east berlin exotic dancer" names are better?
Seems like the price is leaked

https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1738310519210246346
The LLC transparency stuff drives me nuts. If a company wants LLC guarantees, it should publish who their owners are. It is incredibly frustrating to literally have no idea who is being XYZ LLC.

Especially when you have “special purpose vehicle” LLC’s which aren’t really even real companies at all.
>They just have to build a compelling consumer product that can only function with AI

Yeah and I'm not talking exclusively about developer trust. Given Apple's current consumer lineup (see Siri, Apple photos, predictive text etc)... we only have evidence that they suck at ML. What makes you think they are going to suddenly transform overnight?
I agree, and frankly having gone from BASIC to 6502 assembly language, GOTO made perfect sense.

What I like most, and still enjoy today when possible, is how open the hardware is!

For someone wanting to know how computers work, it is damn tough to beat what many of us got as kids; namely, a respectable computer, schematics to understand the hardware, and BASIC right there, ready to go.

My first disassembler was written in BASIC. So was my assembler, and it was a line oriented one modeled closely after the one built into the Apple 8 bit computers.

And look at the BBC Micro! That BASIC was great and offered in-line assembly code! Excellent!

These days, I find microcontroller can offer something similar.

If I ever find time, the Parallax Propeller 2 could make a fantastic computer. It can run cores concurrently, or parallel, or even doing different things entirely. Jim Bagley and friends setup a NAMCO emulator and found they could host 8 simultaneous sessions of Space Invaders, complete with player controls and displays!

Put a BASIC on that, and a reasonable macro assembler and the result would be a killer learning system able to drive lots of hardware and use any display one can find from old TV's to HDMI panels and everything in-between.
Any examples of this? That hasn't been my experience but that may just be the communities I frequent.
> if a Nazi achieves power via democratic means, and stays there via democratic means, he wouldn't be a Nazi: Nazism is the rule of antidemocratic Might Makes Right; he wouldn't remain democratic if things didn't go his way.

The same is true of communism, which advocates for the violent murder of land and property owners and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. I have little faith there would have been another election after Allende; Marxism is an inherently violent political cult which sees its enemies as subhuman. Sound familiar?

> you dislike democracy, and your worldview is despicable and vile. Still, your honesty is something!

Try to attack ideas instead of people. The way you argue is unconstructive. I like democracy, but it's imperfect.

> your worldview is despicable and vile

You defend the presidency of a Marxist; I can say the exact same thing about you. Would you likewise defend a Fascist who was elected and vowed to abolish democracy?

I think the disconnect between you and me is that I see no substantive difference between Communism and Naziism, while you seem to think that Communism is capable of a soft side, which it objectively is not
> if he had been more methodological

I assure you as someone who was reading WikiLeaks from before the big ones, they were extensively methodological, working with journalists and actually contacting the government with notices of upcoming releases providing them the opportunity to request reasonable redactions. They were as good or better than the infosec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_vulnerability_disc... community.
This went from "understanding the rules" to "know all the rules". Having read the rules, so "knowing the rules", doesn't mean you understand them or that you already have the muscle memory required to play. It's also not yet about tactics.
Don't greyed out comments mean someone is downvoting you? What's going on in this thread, this is the second comment of yours that's factually far better than the preceding one but greyed out.

I agree with you, quantum ai has only ever been people shouting "quantum" at black box neural nets, as if that had ever produced a viable algorithm yet...
Another tip: if the box rattles, throw it away!
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So you believe it would have been wrong to violently remove Hitler from power when he was chancellor before the death of Paul von Hindenburg?

If you had to power to prevent a man who espouses a genocidal political ideology from seizing absolute power, would you not do so?
No, not hundreds of times larger. Maybe ~5% larger.
PS: For many (myself included), Christmas is about loving your family and not “the birth of Jesus Christ”, even if their mothers see it that way
Beta-Bernoulli multi-armed bandits (BB-MAB) are definitely a good way to get started on a Bayesian version of A/B testing where you've the additional benefit that your population is dynamically allocated to the most performant option (actually this dynamic allocation makes it similar to interim analysis [1] rather than vanilla A/B testing).

There are some caveats though - and I mention these from the experience of running such solutions on a large scale in production. First, BB-MAB can't adapt to context by design. They only look at click/no-click behavior across the population. So, if your population has two distinct segments - youth and elderly - who behave very differently wrt purchases, the BB-MAB won't pick a different winning advt. per group; its blind to these groups.

The solution is to use something like a contextual MAB - which assimilates user features (or whatever you might throw at it) into the MAB. There are simple ways to adapt simple MABs to the contextual setup [2] (in my experience, these can also be effective) but, of course, the literature in this area is wide and deep.

A second caveat is that if the ratio of the size of the pool of advts. to the number of impressions is high, the BB-MAB won't converge or converge to a good optima; the search space is simply too large relative to the data. In cases like this it becomes important to begin with the right Beta priors, instead of the standard recipe of starting with a Beta that looks like a uniform distribution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_analysis

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04383
Why would you do that and get locked into that provider's ecosystem? Everyone I know ignores their watch provider's system as soon as they figure out how to make it sync to Strava.
Note that Windows has major bugs here - from memory, it only keeps track of the 2 most recent DST rules, so historical timestamps will be wrong after the rules change twice.
> No, you can have your attorney file an habeas corpus to either have your case tried speedily or have you be released from jail until the court date.

That is unless the individual is considered a flight risk from Brazil.
Now I'm wondering:

1) Can you get a digital line to support 56k BBS hosting anymore?

2) Can you even get an analog copper line from AT&T for outbound calling? (I know the FCC recently said carriers aren't required to offer it anymore.)

3) Absent either of the above, what's the best speed you can reliably do over VoIP, assuming G.711 / no compression?
Why are elm/htmx considered stupid?

And UI programming is hard because of the user you are interfacing with :-) and the fact you are not forcing them to have amazing working memory needed to deal with a CLI.
much love to AMC for par. it is always useful.
It seems like a very sensible and polite resolution.

In an alternate universe we might see crown hyperaggression where trees are constantly fighting it out along their crown lines...
Not that many trading firms / hedge funds in California