skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this conversations with well meaning folks before.

The manufacturer of a product is liable for product defects, not the distributor. The seller/distributor is usually liable for accurate descriptions, etc. Caveat - I'm not a lawyer, and this is probably dependent on a bunch of other stuff and contracts, etc.

In any case, the reality is that safety incidents drive improvements in standards and enforcement and policy changes at the governmental level. Historically - car crashes, airplane crashes, water pollution, etc, etc.

Does this mean you need to wait for bad stuff to happen? - Not necessarily, but it does mean that you gotta have a lot more backing beyond "guys, trust me, this is a problem waiting to happen". If you can get enough people to agree with you, then you have some support to propose a change to policy at the governmental level, otherwise this is just venting on an online forum.

The usual followup is "people are barely making ends meet how are they ever going to have time to hit the streets over this" - Well, every change has required sacrifice and it would be nice if this wasn't the case - but that isn't how the world has worked so far.
It disrupts the nervous system, so in that sense it is similar. There is a fundamental difference in action though, pesticides (like most nerve agents) are based on a structure called an organophosphate (general structure O=P(OR)3 ). Most pesticides and nerve agents act on something called acetylcholine (ACh) or the enzyme that breaks it down, called acetylcholineesteraste (AChE). There are other classes though, such as sodium channel blockers, and in the case of water hemlock it's a bit strange.

No one is 100% sure just what the mechanism is, but it appears to have something to do with GABA. In particular cicutoxin (the active molecule) seems to hyper-excite the receptors involving GABA, which leads to seizures and death. It's interesting in that sense, it's much more violent than most nerve agents, for which the seizures and so on are just side-effects, not the lethal mechanism.
Modern detergents are capable of doing these jobs in cold water.
What utility do your NFTs have?
Just a question, I don't pay much attention to politics, are the two related? are anti vaxers pro trump? The vaccine was developed on Trumps watch.

I figured it was just like any other boss, takes all the credit if it works. desperately tries to shift blame if it does not.
Rather than expressing frustration at the less experienced developers you are working with... as a hiring manager I would prefer to hear something more constructive, like that you are able to understand the common pitfalls a team of less experienced developers are likely to run into and proactively lead/wrangle/herd them towards success.
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Unicode was a mistake.
Do you think that meta will give up their presence on the official app store in order to move to a unofficial app store? Because apple will not allow apps on apple app store if they are unofficial, i have no data, but I suspect they will not
Not really;

Gpts are a class of text predictors. Ultimately they are ranked on whether or not the output is similar to the training data, text-wise. If the training data included a game then it may be able to play that game, but only if that game requires reasoning about entire words (because of tokenization, gpts can't reason in terms of letters, that's why they do poorly at crosswords for example)

On the flip side, alphazero is a class of networks that have a list of actions they can take, and a list of parameters they observe about the game (in chess: the board position, in other games: their position on screen, score, speed, etc). The model is then trained to take actions that maximize an actual hard value from the game, like winning a game of chess, capturing a piece, increasing a score, driving the furthest.

In theory you could train a model with the alphago method to do text prediction, but LLMs are called "large" for a reason, the input and output spaces would have to be the number of possible tokens (and at that point just train a normal gpt, it's much more efficient). Also in theory you could train a gpt to play games, but you're spending huge amounts of compute evaluating extraneous words in the input (the prompt) and the output (most words do not have anything to do with your game). on top of that, you're iterating over every word you generate to generate the next one, so you're doing multiple passes of this largely infficient computing, which means you're slower compared to a tailor-made model that can evaluate one situation once and give you a list of outputs to perform.

in this specific case it's a bit wierd because the input space for the alphazero model would have to be every word that can appear on the board, but the reasoning part is most likely not a problem given enough model size. since it's competing with a multi-gigabyte llm though, there is space to spare.
My personal experience is with React only and I was in similar position as you a couple of months ago.

I picked up react due to similar reasons as you stated and I am happy with my decision so far.
Was able to build quite a complex web app as solo developer with React and Vite.

However there are some quirks about it, due to it being an older frameworks and many parts of it are not intuitive.

This is mitigated by fact that many good resources are available.

However if I was to start new project I would choose svelte as i like how it is more intuitive to use. But I would not pick up this as my first framework, hence chose React so that I can get comfortable with frontend development.

One advise though whatever frameworks you choose, start with typescript it will make your development so much better
It doesn’t scale. Number of connections/hardware is exponential to the number of nodes.
There are some European countries with worse mobility than US, but the top countries on most indices I've seen are mostly European, and the US is a ways down.
Postgres creates multiple WAL files of fixed size. Old ones are deleted according to nebulous rules.
Yeah the blog is littered with SEO spam and 5 paragraph articles with clickbait titles.
Just doing something for 10 years doesn't make you an expert, I started coding 11 years ago- as a kid. But my knowledge became so diffuse across topics I was interested in that I never really became an expert in any of it.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I feel like it needs an explicit rule for "non-tech articles written, propaganda-lite style, to elicit rightful indignation"
AWS and GCP are giving companies like Apple huge discounts so someone could say something like, "Even Apple iCloud is in AWS and GCP because of how economical it is"

There is too much nuance to say one is better than the other. In some cases using a IaaS is more economical, in other cases it's not.

For Apple, the same is also true[0] to say "Even Apple is running their own datacenters because of how economical it is"

0 - https://dgtlinfra.com/apple-data-center-locations/#:~:text=a....
Apple to Remove Blood-Oxygen Tool to Avoid Ban, Masimo Says
MIT has been particularly egregious at slapping their name onto paid postgraduate programs. I get their ads constantly. Selling out the brand for short term profit isn't just for publicly traded companies anymore.
Incandescent lights still waste heat 90% of the time when there’s no snow. Adding some resistive heating to run when needed on LED lights is much preferable.
This seems to be a poorly disguised consultancy ad, rather than an insightful article.

> Most developers don't speak to users

Maybe so, but I really don't believe it's beyond most software engineers today to spend a bit of time talking to users, flicking through (or perhaps answering a handful of) support tickets or dog-fooding the product (if it's B2C). It's 100% given me an appreciation of what actually matters to the users who are part of the target demographic, and what their pain points are. Sometimes that's different to my own idea of what deserves focus; sometimes there's overlap.

At a small company, you often don't have a choice but to wear these hats. I personally think the experience of working with smaller orgs has made me a better engineer in the long run. Larger companies seem to focus on moving engineers further away from end-users and using folks who don't understand the codebase, system architecture or technical specifics of the domain to come up with product requirements.
Do you think that meta will give up their presence on the official app store in order to move to a unofficial app store? Because apple will not allow apps on apple app store if they appear on unofficial, i have no data, but I suspect they will not
> Not that the phrase really means anything as far as I can tell, but that's a separate issue.

Actually I think that's explicitly the issue and a main part of my point. In fact, dog whistling or other type of coded language typically depend on ambiguous language. It's literally because language works like an autoencoder. There's what you have in your head that's encoded into what you say and then decoded. The coded language comes through a learned/tuned decoding.

My point is that such phrasing isn't inherently innocuous. Vague language is always inherently dubious. The juxtaposition just makes it more obvious in this case, but it's always true. It may not always be dog whistling but in the least dubious case it lets people fill in whatever they want. That's why I'm saying it isn't a good example.
Fight over Fishing Regulation Could Help Tear Down the Administrative State
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Yes, there is an airport. Not sure how Amazon gets things though.

At one point, outbound through USPS in Billings was a delay of 2-3 weeks, during COVID.
Warranty or not, I don't think I'm relying on Tesla's performance claims as data. I know, it's warrantied - 'but wasn't it your fault? What humidity level did you store it in? The moisture sensor says ...'
Who knew Gell-Mann amnesia could go malignant?
Had a boss once who told a room of developers who argued for changes to the software. If you don't talk to users you don't have a vote. It was only after becoming an entrepreneur and facing that same dilemma with a coder working for me that I truly appreciated what he was saying ;<).
SQLite 3.45 released with JSONB support
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> Which for people like me is a big "WAT?" What does that even mean, what are consequences, why didn't they do this earlier?

Traditional retargeting is done discriminatory. You visited a site, got enrolled in a list, etc. and they start targeting that. Ad engagement retargeting on the other hand waits until you "engage" with the ad, meaning that you have explicitly showed interest. Is another explicit vs implicit.
My opinion: Vue, specifically the Vue 3 Composition API. Most of your UI state should come from computed() values. Bookmark https://vueuse.org and come back to it often. Go through VueUse's source (the docs for each function link to their source): you'll be surprised at how simple most of it is, and it works as documentation of best practices for using the composition API in general.
You became an expert in learning a variety of topics
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Interesting that it doesn't use the normal advertisements of danger (bright red colour, bad taste, etc.). Instead the thing looks harmless, tastes nice, and kills mammals at a small dose. I suppose it works to protect from anything that herds since killing one is sufficient to keep the herd away.
If you see apps only appearing in 3rd party stores and not on the Apple store, then that would be a huge red flag. Hopefully, there will be someone looking to make a name for themselves that would download the binaries from each store it is available and test for any differences. Those looking to avoid the cut paid to Apple seem to get all of the attention, but it's these more nefarious things that scare the bejeebus out of me. I don't even use apps from Apple's store because of the shit devs pull. No way in hell would I use something unregulated
Okay, but my point is that somewhere along the line there always is a useEffect() that reacts to something. Maybe it's in your own component, maybe it's in a third party component.
I'm a huge fan of React Aria and have built a component lib on top of their hooks and React Aria Components(RAC).

I find some downsides though around how insular the development is. Hardly any outside requests get more than "we have no plans to implement this in the near future -closed". They have a very strict interpretation of the ARIA specs, to the point escape hatches aren't afforded to those wanting to create components that match industry expectations. All the position code is custom instead of taking advantage of something like Floating UI.

It's very much a project by Adobe for Adobe. That's a fact you just have to accept, and why there is still no tree grid list, tag fields, and etc.

To end this with some praise though.. The lead dev is pretty brilliant. There are a lot of cool concepts implemented with slots and contexts which make it "easy" to create components that compose and customize based on their ancestor context. It(RAC) works perfectly well with Tailwind which I have love/hate relationship with.
Gotcha. Why the price discrepancy then?
Well to be fair that’s literally just water…
> Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.

Well, that makes me feel better.
Also there are some things which are not enjoyable, and definitely not necessary.

Standups are one of these in my honest opionion.
This is a super important space and hard set of problems to solve. Kudos for taking it on and sharing what you're working on.

Couple of points of feedback, take it for what it's worth:
- I don't really know who your customer is. Clearly your app is meant to generate quizzes, but I'm not seeing anything to show me what a generated quiz even looks like. Is this for primary, secondary or university teachers? Other adult education providers?
- Really consider updating your Terms of Use to be more protective of your users' IP. Saying that anything I put into your AI generation tool could become public is a great way to get me to not use your tool.
- Your home page has a CTA that says "learn more" and then sends me to a google form survey. That's a little misleading - and feels more "take" than "give." If you have a newsletter for people to sign up to, that's probably a better use of that space.
- "Get Involved" also goes to that same survey, which is weird since I would expect "Learn More" and "Get Involved" to not be the same action.
- Gating your whole app behind a sign-up is going to really reduce the number of people who try it out, especially given that you don't really provide any kind of samples of generated quizzes. I'm going to have a really hard time giving you my email address and sharing any lesson plans (that have no guarantee of privacy) without any kind of promise or highlight of what I will get in return.
Go study in the US.. EU will pay peanuts and there's not much going on except for a few companies.
I don't think they were saying that STEM undergrads are getting law firm jobs without law credentials, they're saying that STEM undergrads are not likely to go into personal injury (for example) after law school - that they're going to be working on issues at least somewhat related to their undergrad field of study.
He's obviously Sacrotes, the AliExpress version, who ate spotted water hemlock instead of poison hemlock.
I have land on Sandbox game. Which didn't cost a lot when I bought it initially (like $80) and is still worth much more than initially paid while the game is slowly still majoring. Could have sold them for 15k each in the NFT hype but I rather build my imperium in their universe one day :)
I feel most of my time as a professional software engineer has been learning stuff that I didn't need to. And I would argue that the majority of debugging time goes into debugging external code from libraries, the language itself, company-provided platforms, code, libraries, DLLs, experimentally figuring out how to use a system or tool that isn't documented, and more. It's pretty miserable. It'd be like being a carpenter or mechanic but spending the majority of your time debugging, fixing, and communication with manufacturer's of broken or poorly working tools.

If only I got to spend my time writing interesting code and learning interesting things.
Nepalese restaurants are also all over the country and reliable veg friendly options. They sometimes serve only Indian food but the menus are made to Japanese taste so it's fun to try as something new. They also often stick to the Japanese tradition of offering free rice refills by having free naan refills instead, at least until recent inflation.
> The DMA is expected to force Apple to make a range of significant changes to the way the App Store, FaceTime, and Siri work in Europe

I'm not sure that's going to fly. My understanding is that the DMA, like the DMCA, applies to EU citizens wherever they happen to be.
Goldsmiths, UoL. is quite low. Probably lower in the light of people teaching using procedural text generators. Quite a waste of taxpayer's money.
You're image url didn't go offline yet?
If you haven't seen it, you might enjoy Dan Olson's video on the subject[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=0cZchezdeeVY0fbF
With that being said, the base-model Macbook
Air is absolutely designed to leave you unsatisfied.
256gb of storage is a decade-running joke

I spent a couple of years doing Rails and Python work on a 2018 MBP (local dev) with 256GB. It's doable, barely, if you are willing to leave a low-profile thumbdrive permanently inserted. Or if you are willing to velcro an external SSD to your laptop lid =)

8GB+256GB is fine for a lot of use cases though. If you have a remote development setup, or if you are just kind of using your laptop as kind of a glorified $1099 chromebook.
> And there is nothing anti-competitive about Apple charging for their developer kit.

Not only that but a bunch of iOS apis incur services costs on Apple's side. Certainly seems valid that they should be able to charge to provide push notifications, iCloud storage, etc. There is a wide industry of businesses monetizing development kit usage and/or enterprise services. Nothing in the EU's regulations should preclude Apple from monetizing their investment into the iOS development platform.
Hey this is really cool. They are "xx xxx" out text everywhere except where you are directly looking at. And it looks mostly the same. I would expect this, but it's cool to see someone doing it.
GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him
It is more like a hobby/personal development kind of thing. The methods used in the course (stochastic models, multivariate optimization etc) are also applicable in many areas other than finance.
This is a “no true Scotsman” argument; DEI didn’t work because we did it wrong, so we must keep increasing DEI.
Some companies are careful to include all the libraries' licenses when minimizing JavaScript code. There are tools to do it. But it seems wasteful, so it's great that you removed the requirement.
Facebook and Instagram both killed their NFT features a while back, and even Twitter got rid of NFT profile pictures recently.

It continues to amuse me that the most iconic set of NFTs were so aptly named: Bored Apes. That's exactly what the owners were, just a bunch of bored people with too much money.
Phew, that was close. I thought I had missed a story about NFTs having actual utility.
But district heating is a distribution mechanism, not a heat generation mechanism. Cogeneration plants are one way to power it, but you can also use waste heat from industrial processes, very large scale heat pumps, or burning household waste. All of these are in common use in places where district heating is common. The public district heating utility in Stockholm claims to have the world's largest heat pump installation, which has the capacity to extract 225 MW of heat from treated sewage, in the process generating both heat that's sent into the district heating network, cooling that's sent into the district cooling network, and finally a small amount of electric power by releasing the treated water into a lake via a turbine. This facility opened in 1986. The utility also has various other facilities, both cogeneration plants that burn biofuel (mostly byproducts from the lumber industry) or household waste, as well as other heat pumps that extract energy from seawater.

District heating/district cooling has three advantages: you can change the heat source centrally without having to refit every single dwelling, there are economies of scale in the heat generation, and you can take advantage of heat or cooling that's just in the wrong place and transport it to where it's needed.