skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Mysterious Illness Is Spreading Among Dogs Nationwide
> It doesn't have a generally-agreed-upon definition.

It just means how productive developers are. How much they get done. I don't see what's peculiar about that.

Is it peculiar that "productivity" is a term?

> provide value by converting coffee into code, and the winning business is the one that is able to extract the most SLOC out of the cheapest and most miniscule quantity of coffee

That is pretty much the case, though you don't need to word it so awfully.

We provide value by spending our time to producing useful software. The winning business model (all other factors being equal; which they never are) is the one that is able to help developers waste less time when producing said software.

See now it doesn't sound evil.
Ahh the old "We've partnered with one of the largest proprietary software developers in the world to somehow improve open source things" trope never gets old.
NEW_THREAT_ACTOR_MEMBER_A: "Guys, let's find a cool name for the team."

NEW_THREAT_ACTOR_MEMBER_B: "Nah. Microsoft will do it for us."
Even neater.

DuckDB has an implicit "SELECT *" if you just give it "FROM tablename", which fits your example.
I think so -- I would consider crypto/x509's implementation good, and they similarly don't support revocation. More bluntly: it's not clear that revocation really works at all in the Web PKI; I've heard it described more as "homeopathic" than an actual security mechanism.

What makes a path building implementation good is (IMO) its adherence to the rules Ryan Sleevi enumerates[1]: as long as you conceptualize the path building process as a dynamic search problem rather than a static one with a "single" result, any implementation you build will probably have the right "primitives" for future constraints (like revocations).

[1]: https://medium.com/@sleevi_/path-building-vs-path-verifying-...
Aurora vs. RDS, Which to Choose?
> Quite the American-centric pov on University education, I would say.

Where are you from? The only developed countries with free or near free college are Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Scandinavia, Spain, NZ, and Italy
> Additionally Microsoft and Apple did not help the situation by themselves breaking the OS UI paradigms with media players, or in MS case MS Office.

Indeed - I remember this situation very clearly. Back when Office 2007 came out, there was no first-party way to create applications like that, and after a year or two, only few third-party libraries that were lacking in quality and polish.

This was the turning point. Clients asked us for it, we tried, but ultimately we decided to ditch the bad libraries and do our own thing - then the clients decided they might as well define their own UI design language if they're paying for UI component development.
Having some of the best universities in the world that attract a large population of international students will do that.

Do you think the majority of foreign students are going to, say, Harvard and Yale, so they can vibe out and engage with interesting ideas and discussion or to get a degree, go home, and actually do something with it?
geojson.io is owned & managed by our former employer, Mapbox, where Tom built it originally some years ago, whereas Placemark was an independent project by Tom.
Cambridge, England to Ely (also England) is about 17 miles. Not an everyday trip but very feasible for an experienced or determined walker. People quite often cycle it. It's also extremely flat.
I credit Nathan Wilmes for showing me how to speed up my development techniques & decision making...Mainly by observing him work during our pairing sessions. It's interesting how one can learn effective practices that are difficult codify with conscious thought & written or spoken language...Yet the human observational systems & nervous system are effective in working with these complexities. It's almost like how a GPU frees the CPU from processing graphics or linear equations.
This is why we should be charging taxes based on some combination of land value/servicing cost (or just straight land value if we calculated that as if the land were maximally utilized for its given zoning and zoned everything appropriately densely).

We got too enamored with sticking it to rich people because they are rich and build opulent things rather than focusing on charging rich people for the things they do that negatively impact the rest of the city and that has very little to do with how opulent their mcmansion is and very much to do with the fact that it's sitting on a large lot, with large frontage that increases the cost of delivering all services to everyone.

If we did this the change would go something like this: That 50's era bungalow on a inner city lot would be zoned for a lot more units (4-10 depending on lot size and other considerations that might allow 4+ stories to be built) and it's taxes would go from say 3500 under the old system to 8000-12000 which would let them choose to live in low density and pay for it, or sell to a developer, develop themselves. At the same time the mcmansion would see a smaller change in their property taxes and may be slightly higher or lower depending on lot utilization, or may have an opportunity to subdivide and develop what was once the landscaped garden area into more density to lower their tax bill under what it was before.
Streaming Service Costs Drive New Era of Hollywood Piracy
It would have to be EIP-623, hahah
The original article already mentions 'leotard bias' as the problem that athletes from smaller countries face some prejudice in judging compared to the ones representing a superpower, and letting viewers judge would amplify that problem much more - it wouldn't even be about what show/PR the athlete puts on to the audience but highly influenced by global politics and what their country's leadership does.
Even then, the reputation with the previous generation was dented by SI trying to make the swimsuit issue more progressive (that's the only time I ever heard a peep about it from older relatives, not that they bought it in the first place), which didn't make the current generation care more about it.
how would rust fix most of those issues?

they're logic bugs
I sat down with a map of the U.S., since that's where I'm a citizen. At the time, my parents were having health challenges, so I made a list of the cities from which I could fly directly to where they were living at the time (they're both much better now, thankfully). I wanted to live within an hour and a half or so from the airport, because any farther than that would be really inconvenient. This gave me a list of a couple dozen areas.

From there, I looked at weather. I despise being overly hot, especially (but by no means exclusively) if it's humid, but I don't mind the cold at all. I would miss snow if I didn't get it every year. That narrowed it down to about a dozen, if I remember correctly.

I prefer not to live in crowded places or dense cities, and this knocked a couple more places off the list (it's too dense for me almost everywhere within an hour and a half of JFK in NYC for example). I also wanted to be somewhere reasonably close to "stuff to do outside."

When I got it down to 6, I ranked them based on places I had some connection to and decided to go visit them all, looking for wherever felt like a good fit. I didn't make it past the first stop, though. I went and visited the place on the top of my list, which I had spent some time near before, met some like-minded people and moved three months later.

Ironically I'm not still in touch with the community I first wanted to connect with, but I got plugged into the area in other ways and made connections with other groups. After some immediate family chaos (several moves, a couple deaths, a divorce), my mom actually ended up moving out to the same area, and I think by now this has become "home."
Looking forward! Thanks for maintaining such an awesome library btw, most of my internal PKI (X.509 and OpenSSH) is managed with it. It's a bliss to work with, even more so compared to other crypto libs. :)
s/engine/printer driver/g and we basically have the origin story of Stallman and GNU.

Without source, and the freedom to change it, you are always at someone else's mercy.
OXO. The company that makes kitchen gadgets. They are owned by Helen of Troy, a conglomerate which I don't know anything about. But I've called up OXO several times for small issues with products and within 3 minutes, I had a person on the phone, within 10 minutes I had confirmation that they are sending a new part or product, and within 3-4 days, I had a new, working part/unit sent to me.

Sure, a better experience would be faultless products, but even the best companies will have occasional mistakes and if you have good customer service, it makes me super happy to buy your products again.
By itself? No.

The other details covered in the blog post, however, would absolutely do something to fix denial of service attacks.

To wit: x509-limbo
Even in multi-party systems, it comes down to ruling coalition vs. opposition. DPRK technically has multiple parties, but they are in a tight coalition.
A language is distinct from its implementation language. Else everything is machine code.
No, it's a fear that the other lab will take over the world. Profit is secondary to that. (Whether or not you or I think that's a reasonable fear is immaterial.)
> Sub $30K EV is the longest running con ever out of Musk

$25,000 of 2008 dollars is about $35,000 today. That’s a base Model 3.
The Work Structure Spectrum
I bet they could get Lowko to do it for free.
right but most of those men weren't samurai, were they?

Assuming a rhetorical question, can you share sources?
Oh. That's a big deal.
Canada has the advantage of a ton of crown land.
That's crazy that US law enforcement is storing genetic data about people they arrest. I understand that governments would store the data with consent from people, but without consent is not great...
> This is a classic Zimbabwe-style money printing disaster.

Have you ever asked why Zimbabwe started printing money in the first place?

* https://www.huffpost.com/entry/another-look-at-the-zimba_b_7...

* https://clintballinger.com/2020/04/30/airplane-crashes-arent...
It's roughly comparable to existing esync and fsync solutions in performance, but the main benefit would be that Wine could finally upstream all this and there won't be a need to drag around out of tree patches.
Yes, and also exceptions can have arbitrary value associated with them. You aren't going to get far using panics as a general error handling mechanism because there's only one type of panic.
US involvement in the Vietnam war ended in 1973, 51 years ago.

And it's pretty clear the author isn't against "pushback", but would rather see that in the form of refutation. You can agree or disagree with that and discus that, which is all fine, but your reply doesn't connect with that at all, and is just a generic tangent.
Panpsychism is going mainstream again.
I'm thinking about forming a support group
I don't think this is true. Rust cannot prevent all possible forms of denial of service, but there are plenty of underlying DoS causes that Rust either outright eliminates (such as memory corruption without further control) or mitigates through stronger types.

A recent example of this is CVE-2024-0567 in GnuTLS: an invariant that otherwise would likely have been noticed at the type level is instead checked with an assert, leading to a remotely trigger-able DoS.
Russia does build it's own chips but their fab tech is about 15 years behind the state of the art. The Asianometry YouTube channel has some details on Russia's own chips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4R4X7AWtU

While they build their own chips, the video looks at why Russia can't replace TSMC for all of domestic use. But I suspect the whole local industry is oriented towards the war machine. I doubt you need 3nm chips for missiles.
> BW is a near perfect game

It has a lot of pacing and quality-of-life issues.
For the life of me I don't understand either of these:

- Why, after so many darn versions of Wi-Fi security standards, we still have attacks that just bypass encryption entirely. How do these not get caught during the design/implementation with so many people studying the specs for decades?

- Why 99% of end-users should even care about these issues from a security standpoint, given they already have https and such (because the transport is already assumed to be untrusted), and given that people have been connecting to "unsecured" networks for decades now, without the sky falling. Is the added security of each version of WPA even relevant to normal people?
I think linux + osx combined is probably developer majority. I'm assuming most Windows development is .NET or Unity based. Over the past nine years, I've worked primarily with Node, Ruby, and a smidgen of Java and no employer has issued Windows machine. It's in sharp contrast with the start of my career where I was in VB6 and C# where I only worked with Windows environments. Could be confirmation bias, though.
On my resignation as regulator of Dutch intelligence and security services(2022)
Nor the other myriad of logic and parsing bugs that led to incorrect behavior (more than just denial of service) in the Java library that was somehow not as good as Rust :/.
The malaria parasite Plasmodium has an organelle called the apicoplast which is biologically very similar to the chloroplast of plants (and is believed to share an evolutionary history with it). So it makes sense biologically that an anti-malarial drug could also work against plants if the apicoplast is affected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicoplast
Shareholder reaction is really surprising; I don't think it would have been like this just a year ago.
Vlad from Kagi here. We are very close to breakeven currently, with 4+ years runway with current spend and it gets better every day. Budget for shirts was allocated months ago.

Kagi is slightly different than other SV startups in how we approach things because of the freedom given by being (nearly) completely bootstrapped and built with sustainability in mind since day one. Some companies buy ads to attract new customers, we buy tshirts to show gratitude to existing. We also reinvest any savings we make into lowering the price and increasing the value of the product (check our product velocity in release notes [1]). Our customers propelled us to where we are through word of mouth, it makes sense to keep investing in nurturing that relationship. And having 20,000 doggos walk around the earth soon is fun.

Winning in search is a marathon, not a sprint. We might as well enjoy the run.

[1] https://kagi.com/changelog
But why should it be like something to convert short term memory to long term memory? Computational systems can convert data between different forms of memory but we don't typically believe consciousness emerges from this operation.
Coltan Discovered in Kenya – Mining Minister Salim Mvurya
Yup. No truer words were said than the Washington Post's (unintentionally ironic) slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness."
Git Star Rankings
Has anyone tried this with non-celebrity faces? I tried faces from thispersondoesnotexist.com onto various face on poses which would be easy to photoshop, and it had terrible results, changing the identity entirely and making the image look cartoonish even with no style set.

Are the great results they're showing just a result of the diffusion model having overfit certain celebrity faces?
Only double-blind tests have any validity and those are not "super easy" to do oneself.
Analysis of what-if scenarios and simulating likely expected outcomes of proposed actions is a very useful ability, but IMHO that is not part of what we'd call 'consciousness'.
For all their sanctimoniousness, universities tend to exhibit quite disconcerting levels of naked greed whenever they have an opportunity to do so.

Just looking at the amount of outright fraud that keeps the "publish or perish" grant system going ... the professors aren't in a position to criticize the capitalists for anything.

Let's not even start about the pusillanimity towards Beijing once enough CCP-affiliated students start paying their high tuition.
He's still playing! He is often in the ASL.
Same, in 20+ years doing this, I've never seen it this bad.
As a comparator for the pinpoint landing, the 1969 Apollo 12 landed within walking distance (535 ft) of the Surveyor 3 probe (which had landed two years earlier). It did have a human pilot who flew the descent and managed terrain avoidance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12#Lunar_orbit_and_Moon...
Hi!

> Test feedback - during our TestGen flow, the user provides feedback on the sequence and contents of the API requests.

So, it is not fully automated, the user needs to provide the feedback, or is it optional?

Originally by feedback, I meant if there is a feedback loop between the system and the test harness, so the test harness can learn from the system behavior and produce better data / spend less time on ineffective cases. This also is essential for things like test case reduction when a failure happens.

> There is no learning curve, assuming you have basic knowledge of JavaScript. Maintenance is typically minimal.

I'd be cautious about saying that there is no learning curve. Based on the docs at https://docs.multiple.dev/how-it-works/ai-test-gen I see that one who uses the feature should also be aware of your environment API, e.g. `ctx`, `axios`, etc. That does not match my expectations when read about no learning curve and basic JS knowledge. It is not far from there though.

> CLI - we are launching our CLI shortly, where users can start tests from command line as you describe. It'll work similarly to Jest or other unit test frameworks, where the test scripts will live in our user's codebase.

Cool! So, the user needs to commit the test code to their codebase, right?

> The use of AI - we use AI to generate realistic-looking synthetic data, which can be challenging with strings. The AI matches each field to the most relevant faker-js function. We need the content of the string to look like something the target application would receive in production. And with HAR files, we use AI to help filter out irrelevant requests such as analytics.

Yep, thanks for the clarification. I am thinking about how effective such realistic-looking synthetic data is in uncovering defects, i.e. if it covers happy-path with such data, then it left me wondering what about uncommon scenarios? Specifically, if it still can cover uncommon characters (from various Unicode categories)

Overall, I'd say that I like the idea and what I've read in the docs :) Good luck!
The people punished for exercising suppressed speech have been on the right for about ten years now, and that’s been on behalf of that loosely aligned bucket of identities you cite whose views have disproportionately been in power at universities.

I was in university during occupy, and i was a participant in occupy. The movement hardly impacted campus life, especially compared to the way that open antisemitism is affecting it.

I’m all for free speech on campus, from all sides, but these articles today are coming from the so far dominant side, who has been pushing a line the world outside their ivory towers will not toe.
It used to be that travel was expensive, difficult, long, and rare.

Traveling 20 to 30 miles was doable, but rarely done, so if you did it you'd find quite a different area.

As travel became more possible (first powered boats, then trains) areas became more similar as people moved about. But it was still quite different to go from New York to Boston, even.

Planes shortened it even more; but the real shortening was mass-market communication - radio and then television, and the complete cultural domination of the United States.

Now I can travel thousands of miles in mere hours, to visit someplace that every year feels more and more like I've not really left home.

You can still experience difference, even in the USA, but you have to work much harder at it now.
> do fear that, with the hollowing out of democracy, we are headed towards another set of dark ages.

The power of democracy has always been proportional to that of the people to backstop their source of power which is violence.

For a brief period of time weapons and force was accessible to the common man. As overwhelming complex weapons of nation-state cost dominate government the wheel turns in their favor until the next technological change like the firearm shifts violence back towards egalitarian access to violence.
40% increase isn't even that bad compared to some I've seen.

I saw that before the recent layoffs at Discord their employee headcount had grown 5x since 2020, and after the layoffs they're merely at 4x their size of 2020
Think different. That will be 30%.
if google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?
> Because then you're under, you can even be "interactive" but you're not conscious of it because your short term memory has been disabled.

I don't find this convincing. If you asked someone under such anesthesia if they were currently conscious, they'd probably say "yes". Doesn't it seem more likely that you just don't remember having been conscious? If I magically wiped away a year's worth of your memory, does that retroactively mean you had actually been unconscious during that year?
I think I was including "landing" in the relevant part of "pinpoint landing," not just the pinpoint element, which was what made it amusing. It did (apparently) "land" and not "crash" (or at least that's what I'm assuming from the fact that it isn't crushed/doesn't look like it made primary impact on some part that was not intended for impact), but "landing and falling over" doesn't normally earns a perfect score in any other common context.
I used to work on an Ingres database using QUEL that did have FROM before SELECT, just with different key words. We would use something like:

RANGE OF t IS table
RETRIEVE INTO target (t.column1, t.column2)
WHERE t.condition

Instead of

SELECT t.column1, t.column2
FROM table t
WHERE t.condition

I still find the joins to be more readable:

RANGE OF t1 IS table1
RANGE OF t2 IS table2
RETRIEVE INTO target (t1.column, t2.column) WHERE t1.common = t2.common
issuing stock and selling it into the market doesn't make the stock price go down. Raising money for this activity on a large scale is why the stock market exists.

The value of the existing company "before" remains the same, and the sale of the new shares brings cash into the company at the selling price, so those new cash assets exactly balance out the dilution of ownership.

If anything it might increase the value of the company if shareholders believe that the same "profit multiplier"/ROE will be applied to the new cash, for example if a profitable restaurant chain sells new shares to get the cash to open and operate new restaurants in new locations. Of course, changes to the share price are due to changing expectations so that will occur as information about the pending transaction is incorporated into the hive mind and not necessarily at the moment of share sales.
This is assuming you even know where they are.

Suppose you want to impose tariffs on China because of cybercrime originating from there. Then China comes back and says they've investigated your claims, the computer you say the attack was coming from was actually another victim being used as a proxy and the real perpetrators are in North Korea or wherever. Then they make up some IP address in North Korea and tell you to go after them, which you can't because they don't have any money or don't trade with you or already hate you.

Or cybercriminals in whatever country actually do just compromise some machines in other countries and use them as proxies to keep their own local authorities from having to care, and then you legitimately don't know where they are.
Some people claim to be able to tell the difference between red and white wines with ease, but fail to do it when red dye is added to the white.