skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi folks,

I just wanted to share that the latest release of Encore automatically captures a trace of every test, providing much more visibility into what's happening and making it easier to understand why a test failed.

The test traces automatically include everything you expect: API calls (including mocked calls with Encore's new mocking support!), Database queries, Pub/Sub messages, HTTP requests, etc.

And it does all of this without the user having to change or add any code outside what they would normally write for a Go test.
Agree in part.

Fixing it. Have the
Web site code, using
Microsoft's ASP.NET, etc.,
running as intended.
Language is quite flexible, but I don't think it is very helpful to call a thermostat intelligent. Doing so does not advance our understanding the sort of self-aware, theory-of-mind-holding intelligence that is generally meant by the term (putting aside its alternative meaning as a synonym for information), and adopting the broad definition just increases the burden of disambiguating what we mean when what we mean is the latter.

The broad definition is not justified by the fact that certain attempts to define the term would attribute intelligence to thermostats; a more useful conclusion to draw is that the definitions in question could be improved.

It is sometimes said that we won't be able to gain an understanding of intelligence until we have a precise definition, but it's actually the other way round: definitions get tighter as our understanding increases. We now understand many things that not only were lacking definitions in the past, but were not even imagined.
But watch out for 100vh on mobile. It doesn't account for the sometimes there, sometimes not there address bar.

To solve that, there's svh (small), lvh (large), and dvh (dynamic).

If you want to make a div stretch to the height of the window, so that something can appear exactly at the bottom before scrolling,

{
height: 100vh;
height: 100svh;
}

works best... the first line is there as a fallback for the few browsers that don't yet support svh... and if svh is supported it will replace the first line.
Some definitions of intelligence (or even consciousness) are systems that simply process data. From that context, a thermostat is processing temperature data. It also underscores the GP's point that there isn't necessarily a consensus on the definition.
Bandcamp Fridays gave (and presently, still give) 100% of Bandcamp's cut to the artists. Any "replacement" platform that doesn't have it will mean the artists get less money, which gets in the way of the music.

As somebody who obviously didn't pay attention to any artist on the platform, of course anything beyond a quick, one-click, Amazon-style storefront will be "getting in the way of the music," for you.

There's already a solution for that, though:

Go shop on Amazon, if you don't care about what percentage of the profits the artist gets. They have the patented "Buy now with 1-Click®" experience, and it'll likely be faster for you to purchase using it.

Personally, I want a world where people can afford to make music for a living, and Bandcamp was great at doing everything it could to try and make that happen for as many people as possible.
I see so many business leaders touting the promise of LLMs allowing business to "talk" to their data. The promise does sound enticing, but it's actually kind of hard to get working in practice.

A lot of our databases at work have columns with custom types and enums, and getting the LLM (Llama2) to write SQL queries to robustly answer natural language questions about the data is tough. It requires a lot of instruction prompting, context, and question-SQL examples (few-shot learning), and it still fails in unexpected ways. It's a tough ask for people to use a tool like this if they can't trust the results all the time. It's also a bit infeasible to scale this to tens or hundreds of tables across our data warehouse.

It's great that a lot of people are trying to crack this problem, I'm curious to try this model out. I'd also love to see if other people have tried solving this problem and made any headway.
With LaLiga in chaos, it's 'clear and obvious' VAR is broken
Doesn't even sound like George Carlin to me.

Reads like a cheap parody of his work, but anyone could do that.
I completely agree. I've written several DSLs that are much better for machine use, and they've gained traction, but to really shift the industry would require involvement from vendors, who seem uninterested.
Intel co-developing 12nm node with Taiwan's UMC foundry
Intel will be leveraging old equipment in Arizona to jointly develop a process with UMC, Taiwan’s number 2 fab.
I recently gave a talk on this topic (sorry, haven't written as a blog post yet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TbtL73ibh0

I do believe revocation in the webpki is important to implement, but it's not great today.

There are two promising paths forward, which are complementary: The simple option is short-lived certificates (7 days), which essentially don't require revocation as that's the timeline existing revocation technology can revoke on, but that has some adoption hurdles to overcome in the future.

The other solution is what Mozilla is doing with CRLite: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...

They are collecting all CRLs from all public web CAs and producing a small, compressed representation of all revoked certificates. That can be pushed to clients, so there's no need for any network traffic (like OCSP checks or CRL downloads) to the wide variety of CAs in the ecosystem.

These "CRL Compact and Push" solutions benefit from shorter-lived certificates (eg, 90 days like Let's Encrypt does right now) because the set of revoked certs is smaller as they roll off once they expire.

I suspect platform verifiers like on Windows and Mac will hopefully ship something like this in the future, though they already have CRL and OCSP fetching and caching.

Non-platform verifiers like this one are really the hardest part to solve revocation. I would suggest supporting CRL checks, but that requires having disk space and caching infrastructure, which is hard for a library to know how to do universally. I think the answer is that we need to have most of our software outsource to a platform verifier, or at least some sort of system-wide revocation information cache or daemon. Maybe this means a new systemd component on Linux :)
https://archive.is/cQZrn
I… am interested in philosophizing which is why I specifically asked for the philosophy.

“Seems reasonable” and “baseball” aren’t compelling reasons for harsher punishment.
I don’t think it did need to be said tbh. In the UK there’s the joke of “careful or the farmer will shoot you” said to kids and youngsters just to scare them a bit. I imagine that’s where the commenter was coming from.
> measuring the physical phenomena and then concluding it leads to sickness

No such conclusion is made, though.
Yeah, that's legit pretty chilly. Quebec City in winter is on my bucket list.
iOS 17.4 Introduces Alternative App Marketplaces with No Commission in EU
futex_waitv was only a small part of the whole FUTEX2 package.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX2-futex_waitv-v2
...
https://www.phoronix.com/search/FUTEX2
...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Futex2-System-Call-RFC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX2-LPC-2020
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX2-2021-Still-WIP
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX2-Bits-In-Locking-Core

Though none of the articles so far have bothered looking up... 'NtPulseEvent() or the "wait-for-all" mode of NtWaitForMultipleObjects()'

Not many great hits for NtPulseEvent() but the first result I got says "Function sets event to signaled state, releases all (or one - dependly of EVENT_TYPE) waiting threads, and resets event to non-signaled state. If they're no waiting threads, NtPulseEvent just clear event state."

NtWaitForMultipleObjects()
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/synchapi...

After reading this, I'm still unclear about what's missing. A guess is the wakeup on timeout?
Observability platform Better Stack secures $10M cash infusion
Ah yeah, the STM clock forest is always fun to get lost in
This article was on r/newjersey a couple days ago and got labeled Opinion/Misinformation by the mods. [1] Reason being it's an opinion piece by a prominent DC lobbyist and the source material is privately funded and unavailable to the public.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/19ef9vy/nj_antip...
enjoyed the read as well but support the flag as it's just folklore w/o technical/hacker merrit
Just remember to use the proper Dual_EC_DRBG curve parameters :)
Isn't an aerosol pretty much by definition able to be carried all around by air currents rather than being just a briefly suspended droplet? I do agree though that the bathroom sink area seems like an important thing to test. I'd have thought it's of much more interest than the floor beside the toilet.
Indeed... it was different 4 days ago :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240121220542/https://zachholma...
How to think about the term "bottom-up" in regards to zettelkasten and pkm
How often in nature do humans encounter their own aerosolized fecal matter?
Community Growth At: Lego
Tell HN: GitHub Search Un-Usable
Never have I ever been able to find something I wanted via github search. Sometimes I use grep.app. I'm sad github has a search box to begin with. And overmore sad when there is a "Clone by HTTPS" link that is always a lie.)
1. Not every OLAP/columnar/timeseries DBMS has a Query Planner. For example in kdb+/q a developer need to think about correct order of WHERE clauses, know which columns have attributes (kind of "secondary indexes"), and lots of other tricks. The advantage is predictability of execution, the disadvantage - it's too complex.

2. I'm not talking about cases where a Query Planner parses the query language DSL, and computes Query Plan out of it. More the case when you kind of have an explicit Query Plan. The best example is FluxQL[1].

--

[1]. https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/cloud/reference/syntax/...
Apple Announces Changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
I just got an AD (one with four proper nouns I didn't recognize, an offer to win a $15 reward, and free movies for a year, all in one sentence!) as a notification from Sports Engine, the app (owned by NBC!) you use to check your kids sports schedule. This is an app the association pays to use.
You're assuming the full-time aristocrat will do a better job, which is the thing there is no evidence of. It could be completely the opposite -- the aristocrat makes their decisions based on political connectedness, finding everyone guilty except their cronies who are actually guilty.

In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the assumption should not be that either of them is inherently better at the job, and then a higher total conviction rate implies a higher false conviction rate.
I'm sympathetic to panpsychism, but it isn't obvious to me that intelligence should be what's behind awareness.

I've been blackout drunk before, and my brain was capable of intelligence, I got home just fine, but I had no conscious awareness. Same for a dreamless sleep and being put under for surgery.

Additionally, I the observer, can observe and be aware of intelligence which seems to indicate to me that it's something outside of what I'd call "me".
The thing I'd do differently with the paint is even more sanding. I've never tried something like this before and it's outside my usual skill set.
The main argument is this:

"I’d always thought SEO was better at selling itself than it was at improving search results, but my god was I wrong.

SEO techniques are extremely potent, and their widespread adoption is what’s wrong with the modern web."

Detailed explanation follows.

I think the most important revelation is the description of feedback loops that punish the long tail content.

But I agree with the comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132404

Perhaps our expectations have also increased?

But I must agree that without the SEO spam it would be more distinctly obvious that the answer perhaps is not out there - e.g. nobody has written about Koh Lanta like places in Croatia.
Yes, paranoia. You have about as many nonhuman cells in you as human cells. It’s hard to count. The would around you is full of microscopic life. You are absolutely covered in it.

Your immune system did not evolve to function in a sterile bubble. Some people were traumatized as children to be so afraid of microorganisms that they make ridiculous decisions.

The biggest culprit of foodbourne illness is sick cooks with poor hygiene. Not the failure to bleach every surface in your bathroom every time someone flushes the toilet. Oversterilization is a strong suspect in many sources of disease.
Apple Overhauls App Store, iPhone Features in EU to Appease Regulators
Destroyed seems a bit harsh. Tesla is moving forward.

FSD12 appears to be a major advancement.
https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1750448446790922634
I like the idea of ‘individuation’[0] where individual things (rocks, living bodies, minds, societies) come into being from their preindividual environment. As I understand this idea, it is just that a mind individuates within a body, and that mind comes to call itself ‘I’. So it’s not that we existed before a mind individuated, but rather we come to find ourself recognizing ourself as ‘I’ after individuating.

[0] https://epochemagazine.org/40/on-psychic-and-collective-indi...
> the best course of action for me is to start looking for other opportunities.

Yeah there’s a level of discernment you get from that point on
A Universal System for OpenID Connect Sign-Ins with Verifiable Credentials
Easier, yes, but not simpler.
I'm getting into a new hobby: amateur radio astronomy.

From what I understand you need an dish with d > 1m to pick up hydrogen line emission well.

I'd be interested to know if I can just build a wide wire helix like this instead of investing in a big dish. It'd have to look nice and be weather-proof to be wife-approved though.
The "reusable" plastic don't really solve a problem. Like everyone else, I have dozens of tote bags at home all ready. The fact that I need a bag in the first place is only because I forgot them or didn't have enough. Increasingly, stores don't even bother stocking them anymore - I've gotten used to just dumping groceries in my trunk when I forget my point.

The bag bans don't really have a clear objective. "The cruelty is the point" - as some like to say.
NASA commentators would call this nominal. A nominal performance.
Oh, come on, what a ridiculous comparison. As if deciding to skip a 10 minute short would reflect in any way on one’s life decisions. This website, man. No wonder the wider internet makes fun of Hacker News. For crying out loud.
Not for mayor of New York, no.
How is this an article? IQ is a bell curve - if we go from 10% of the population going to college to 60%, we're going to regress to the mean.
I managed to collect a rather massive digital music collection when p2p was en vogue.

I still listen to it every day because it's highly curated and has tracks unavailable on any service, but quality-wise it definitely feels like I'm plumbing the depths of a DVD collection when everyone else is watching Netflix.
This is an obviously false statement. Why make it? Especially regarding individuals, groups, organizations, and politicians that support black causes or women's rights. They have significantly increased in power over the last 60 years, especially on campus.

Just because you don't think they have much power, or as much as they should, doesn't mean they have "absolutely no power". I know I'm being pedantic, but if you actually believe your statement then it's an example of a mentality that forever holds us back.
Thank you for this comment. I know some fairly intelligent people who succumb to the us vs. them ideology and its disconcerting.

I have to remember this propaganda is created by people with a very good understanding on how to trigger the outrage in everyone’s brain.

People on all sides of the aisle are more alike than they want to admit right now.

Just hoping people can turn the bullshit off someday.
I assume that all of them put a plug up their ass so they definitely never fart in their bed at night putting those exact same fecal bacteria where they sleep.

Like, I get it - it's gross. But humans can be exposed to a certain level of gross and not die, it's fine.
The problem isn't the SQL generation per se, it's the mapping between natural language and the data that columns actually hold. If you have a clean schema with well named fields, LLMs are very good at generating valid SQL but if you have an old schema that has been patched and modified for years by a dozen DBAs each with their own naming quirks, short hands, and hacks, it can barely string a valid query together.
Google doesn't curate the web. They create feedback loops for their ad revenue.
Forbes is not a reliable source in general, but they are quoting a lot from a much better NYT article.
Wouldn't a $25k EV be even lower-margin than their current offerings? It sounds like shares are dropping because investors think margins are too low because of price cuts--hard to see how an even-lower-cost model would help this.
Not if you close the lid using your foot :)
It’s fucking hard, and it’s not glamorous

"Fucking hard" compared to what? Things I'd qualify under the category of "fucking hard":

- Agricultural Farming

- Lifetime debilitating disease / health issue

- Being enslaved or a POW

- Living in a 3rd world country

- Moving West in the 1800s

- Fighting in the American Revolutionary or Civil War

This narrative that starting a company is "fucking hard" is all part of the SV/SF mythos that needs a smooth stone straight to the forehead.
Not really... Usually a couple years in advocacy ahead of what becomes dominant. That said, there's lots of technologies to choose from.

The older I get, the more I advocate for KISS over any specific approach.
A hub and an accessible wall port are not common parts of Ethernet networks today. The former hasn't generally been used since the 90's (putting it generously) and the latter is usually locked up. GP referred to a cable tap, which is just not going to give you access on an Ethernet network that you will find in any building today.

Old, old Ethernet specs used to include multi-drop buses and a "hub" model. That hasn't been true for a very long time.
Apple is allowing alternative browser engines in iOS 17.4 – but only in the EU
UI definitely shouldn't have to be standard, but if it deviates, it should be good! Intuitive, memorable, easy to navigate, etc.

There are as many bad user interfaces out there as there is bad graphic design, although I often think that the majority of "egregious" examples of graphic design (signs, etc) are actually quite functional and informative, just arguably visually-offensive -- they do their job well enough, they're just tarted up like toaster pastries.

Bad UIs on the other hand are genuinely unusable and can make or break an otherwise-brilliant program or service.
A lot of ugly positions are pushed as necessary.
If you want to talk about things that are algorithmically amplified and spread far and wide, we could talk about the first and second world war. We get the phrase "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" from Schenck v. United States which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment. The yelling fire in a crowded theater was telling Americans not to die for a European war and to burn their draft cards. The same thing happened during the Vietnam War. It happened during the Iraq war, and anyone who had doubts about Saddam having WMDs was shouted down. It happened with Covid too
There must be some context I'm missing, because the article isn't clear at all about what's going on. It's addressed to people who are insiders I think?

This reddit post provides a lot of the missing context, specifically the top comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/19cvlt3/big_controve...
Exactly. I still remember about this "revolutionary" querying language being designed, that would allow for non-technical people to perform complex queries and reports from databases.

People: stop trying to mangle SQL "because it would be better..."; nah, SQL is supposed to be the "better" already. The idiosyncrasies it has is because it was designed to be kinda-sorta conversational, modeled as an english language query.
I'm 50/50 on this being either AI-generated slop or just being poorly copied-and-pasted.
It's a Mac. I say he didn't go far enough!
(1) antenna

(2) the signal of a radio transmitter is (usually) more or less a sine wave that is either modulated by varying the amplitude or the frequency. You could feed the same signal to multiple antennas. For instance in this photo

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111780254496170231

there is a radio antenna used for emergency responder comms. Note that there are several arrays of antennas stacked on top of each other. If you feed the same signal into an array like that the radiation pattern becomes focused around the horizontal plane so that energy is not thrown into the ground and the sky.

(3) It is the shaking by random vibrations that makes the black body radiation of a light bulb. If you stopped that shaking there wouldn't be any light.

(4) By "environmental field" I mean the electromagnetic field inside the laser that an active molecule or atom inside the laser experiences.

Note if I hooked up 50 antennas to the same oscillator that would be coherent, but if I hooked up 50 antennas to 50 different oscillators that would be incoherent.

Take a look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array

there are two ways to build a phased array. A passive phased array has one transmitter and an collection of phase shifters that delay the signal to create a controlled wavefront. In the first case the emissions of all the antennas are coherent because they come from the same oscillator, in the second case the antennas are coherent because the oscillators are synchronized to a common timebase and controlled by a computer.

Note the "magic" of that kind of phased array is similar to the "magic" of a hologram (they do similar things to wavefronts.) Light other than laser light has a certain amount of coherence though it is a complicated subject, see

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06215-x

Note in Figure 10 they show that you can get enough coherence out of an LED to make a hologram. When they use a real laser the picture is really sharp but you see a speckle pattern that's caused by interference of the light with surface roughness. The LED image is blurry but doesn't have the speckle.
Added to OpenSSL last November: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/11/23/OpenSSL32/index...
OP here, fyi Stuart Kauffman's comment is below on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39131136
You Suck at Marketing
Certainly not the tech. It's 2024 and their iOS app is still not ipad-compatible.
Sweden has a similar right to roam called "Allemansrätten" that allows people to go cross-country through private natural lands as long as they follow a handful of guidelines. I think it's generally that the traveler needs to stay out of private gardens, off farmland, away from homes, and not despoil the land. There is so much open land in Sweden that it's pretty simple to achieve all of these goals just a few dozen kilometers outside Stockholm (my opinion: I haven't actually tried it).
Towards an Objective Metric for Data Value Through Relevance [pdf]