skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unboxing an apple product is a bit like undressing a lover for the first time

When I got an Apple product for work it felt more like I would imagine a prostitute feels when undressing a John. I wouldn't do it unless I had bills to pay, I felt dirty and just wanted it to be over.

Now I make sure to ask what choices I have early in the process.
Even the vacuum version is incomplete without adding an equation for force or energy, because no meaning can be assigned to the electromagnetic field or potential otherwise than by its relationship with the force or energy.

Even today, there exists no consensus about which is the correct expression for the electromagnetic force. Most people are happy to use approximate expressions that are known to be valid only in restricted circumstances (like when the forces are caused by interactions with closed currents, or the forces are between stationary charges).

Moreover, when the vacuum equations are written in the simplified form present in most manuals, it is impossible to deduce how they should be applied to systems in motion, without adding extra assumptions, which usually are not listed together with the simple form of the equations (e.g. the curl and the divergence are written as depending on a system of coordinates, so it is not obvious how these coordinates can be defined, i.e. to which bodies they are attached).

While the vacuum equations are fundamental, they may be used as such only in few applications like quantum mechanics, where much more is needed beyond them.

In all practical applications of the Maxwell equations you must use the approximation of continuous media that can be characterized by averaged physical quantities that describe the free and bound carriers of electric charge. The useful form of the Maxwell equations is that complete with electric polarization, magnetization, electric current of the free carriers and electric charge of the free carriers. It is trivial to set all those quantities to zero, to retrieve the vacuum form of the equations.
Some more clever sites asked for my birth year… forcing me to do the arduous work of taking the current year and subtracting 14.

But why? You could have just picked a year that worked, and sticked with it. Obviously, there's no way of telling which year works, but you could have bruteforced that just once.
A to-do list of to-do lists
Yale has an online course "Listening to Music" that covers quite a bit of music theory. I quite enjoyed it: https://online.yale.edu/courses/listening-music
Yes. Loading spinner. Loading indicator. Loading bar.

I associated 'css-loader' with a Webpack loader for css: https://webpack.js.org/loaders/#styling
> There is obviously a large problem with the way we do software engineering, and we are still figuring it out.

> The longer you spend in software, you realize that the "accepted way to do things" changes all the time.

Why though?

We had it figured out reasonably well around 2010-215 in my opinion. Then we got more fads, NoSQL, frontend frameworks, cloud infrastucture, GraphQl in place of REST.
These aren't required in the majority of places where I have seen them used, a standard old school lamp stack would do fine.

Everything is more complex, takes longer and solves imaginary problems that most companies don't actually have in my experience. Sure there are a few that will need that scale, but no one aims to keep things simple any more.
Or the excel side by side xaml/UI of the wpf editor in visual studio.
That sounds like a sensible thing to do!
> if I want to be stupid and I'm only endangering myself - why should't I?

I hear you, but - on the road you're not alone even after you die. Someone will have to pick up your remains, see your brain splattered all over the road, and live with the trauma forever. Someone will have to try and resuscitate you, taking time that could be spent helping someone else. Worse, partial helmets could save your life but still get you partially paralized or disfigured, which would further burden society and yourself (treatment etc).

Note I'm a rider myself (bonneville ftw), and yeah full-face helmet doesn't fit my Easy Rider fantasy, but if it spares myself and others from the worst consequences, I'm ok with it.
Isn’t regenerative braking similar?
One of the many monetisation networks alternative to Adsense, though I imagine much of the inventory comes from Google in any case.
True. Naive skepticism is what lies on the path to "can't see the earth's curvature from an airplane!"
Its quite effective to use ChatGPT to convert C code to Python ..
Reformatting makes a document more digestible, especially when not reading on a printed sheet of paper, which the OP is exclusively designed for.

What's concerning (aside from your callous disregard for people who have small screens) is that the PP created a new document, and didn't show it, suggested that we might find it more digestible.
This may be a silly question, but shouldn't the attitude thrusters still be restartable?
You're conflating rockets. The rockets used during the Mercury program [1] were literally retrofitted ICBMs designed to deliver nukes. It offered a great proof of concept and kept prices extremely low, but is nowhere near what's need for things like a Moon mission. It had a payload capacity of ~3,000 pounds!

As for oil, its price is largely driven by geopolitics, not inflation. In April 2020 prices were all the way down to below $20 a barrel. [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_LV-3B

[2] - https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil
Before I found out that statically compiled ffmpeg was a thing, I was trying to compile ffmpeg on a 2010 Mac.

It was a multi-day process and every time like two days in I'd hit some snag.
Your suggestion to what sounds like burnout is to do even more coding in your spare time?
True, it won't work if they need the cash immediately. I think that's not always the case, though. There's a middle ground here where you can wait a bit, but really don't want to deal with Facebook Marketplace level buyers.

I'm guessing this is why the space is growing so quickly with specialty vehicles.
Ah, makes sense. Not sure why I didn't just assume that.
No, earthquakes cannot be reliably predicted with current technology. However, some animals can predict seismic activities. So, perhaps we can observe their behavior and, based on it, make some predictions
The difference is that your right to swing your fists ends where my face begins. And operating a 2 ton death machine (the words of noted car enthusiast Elon Musk, not my own) in excess of the speed limit near people walking, biking, and just going about their lives is deeply selfish.
I use yomichan and mokuro for my system, which I believe are Japanese focused. But I’m sure there are equivalents for other popular languages
Cairo and Skia can do this.
Not sure what you mean, while it’s true that it would have been nice that Protocols were always the primary building block, as of python 3.8 they _can_ be depending on your use of Structural Typing https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
Black hole observations solve cosmic-ray mystery
The devs who actually implemented should be celebrated.

But they're not the same people as the ones that blocked specs and PRs by stating this was "impossible".

Blocking valuable improvements with an absolute statement like that makes contributing to such projects feel like fighting against windmills.
If you get to a capacitor, you've gone too far - you may be in a power supply.
Having a flag in the command line interface that spits out the source code of the program doing the same stuff as your command is pretty cool. It's like lifting the hood and showing you what's going on. This not only helps you get a better grip on how things work but also lets you make changes to fit your needs. You can tweak or add stuff based on what you want, making the whole experience user-friendly. It's all about giving users the power to customize things their way.
Nice. Daniel Stenberg is really careful to details and dev / user experience. This level of polishing is astonishing.
Should GitHub Copilot be a privilege for proven engineers or used by all?
Does your org have a GitHub Copilot policy?

GitClear white paper on effects of AI coding assistants. Their takeaways mirror some of the early feedback I’ve gotten:
- AI tools help you write more code faster
- AI suggested code has a higher churn rate, suggesting authors release it and later learn it’s not working out

A more surprising concern:
- AI suggested code is correlated with less code refactored and more code copy/pasted

I first considered that more code churn is OK if AI tools can make up the productivity difference. After all, failing fast and improving is at the heart of agile.

The last point about less refactoring, more copy/paste changes gives me pause. Reading code is much harder than writing, and it’s a substantial part of our job. I would extend that to say reading code gets harder at a faster rate than writing as code volume grows. With a low barrier to avoiding refactoring by using AI suggestions, we may make it increasingly harder for future engineers to interpret old code, and do so at a rate that AI tooling can’t help us with.

This said, I love copilot. I think it can quickly help you find your way around and reduce keystrokes. I think you need a skilled author at the helm to sniff when something is wrong and course correct.

Q: should GitHub Copilot be a privilege for proven engineers or used by all?

https://gitclear-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Coding-on-Copilot-2024-Developer-Research.pdf
If the problem you're trying to solve is Dan Arielys or journalists reporting non-replicable academic papers, restricting your review only to arxiv isn't going to help.
Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging Hurdles
I think python is the only language where the inevitable flamewar isn't about the language itself (it is instead about static vs dynamic typing). Java might be in this list too (usually the war is about OOP in general, but there's plenty of criticism levied at Java itself).

Discussions about C devolve into a religious war about simplicity and portability vs safety and an inadequate standard library.

Discussions about C++ devolve into a religious war about memory safety, bloat, developer competency, UB, and more.

Discussions about Haskell devolve into a religious war about powerful type systems and language constructs vs performance concerns, development complexity, and "endofunctors, lol."

Discussions about JS devolve into a religious war about npm, web dev in general, "== vs === lol" and more.

Discussions about Rust... oh boy.

In my experience, most discussions of specific components of languages inevitably spill into these broad and neverending religious wars.
A Call to Minimize Distraction and Respect Users' Attention
I think its a linguistic difference only. At least where I studied it was quite normal to call phenomena you can derive from a physical theory "predictions" even if they have been observed before. I agree the photoelectric effect strongly suggested some quantization before quantum mechanics was formalised.
While I don't really know, I have more confidence in it with an iPhone user particularly if we are using iMessage thanks to E2E.

However the contacts issue is a problem on iOS as well and I think it would be somewhat trivial for Apple to address that for any contacts that are associated with an iPhone user. Make it so the user can allow apps on someone else's phone to get their information (I am not implying this is easy, but some of the parts to facilitate this may already be there).

However it is also important to look at that Apple has been pushing the other way and working on implementations to make complying with those orders impossible. While currently iPhone backups are a major problem right now there have been multiple reports that they are working on E2E encryption of their entire iCloud system.

So at the moment I have far more trust in them considering their entire business model isn't built on gathering up as much information as possible.
Pretty much any biopic or historical documentary struggles with the tension between the realities that, on the one hand, they can't completely make up everything out of whole cloth and, on the other, the writers don't want to let facts get too much in the way of a good story.

But some number of people get POd when not everything is literally true.
This author is asking Google's chatbot, Bard, about this feature and reporting it as if its responses are fact. It is incredibly irresponsible to present quotes from Bard as fact or as official Google communication. It ends up making for a very confusing article (complete with a multi-paragraph late addition with more non-fact-based speculation about Apple features that might or might not be coming nine months from now?!) that has absolutely no useful information.

As for what has actually been announced (LLM-based writing assistance within Google Messages), do people actually want chatbots to write their text messages for them? I certainly don't. But what a terrible world we'll be living in if "AI" anti-features like this take hold. Next to no real-world utility from LLM tech, but just one more layer of inhumanity injected into our worsening communication. This is a sure way to send messages you don't mean, but it's even worse because there's probably another LLM on the other end, summarizing all meaning and personality out of the messages anyway. So all text-based human communication will soon be reduced to a neverending string of misunderstandings thanks to the LLM-telephone game happening between you and your contacts.
I have zero experience, but a few thoughts nonetheless that I'd like pushback on. I believe there are at least two major categories here

1. They are more of a business/school friend. You share knowledge and passion. You compliment each other's strengths and cover each other's weaknesses. There is little risk to forming a mutual business partnership, since loosing such a friend is part of the game.

2. You were meant for each other, perhaps you are even married. This venture will make you even more entangled, increasing risk but also reward to your relationship.

Be VERY sure if you choose #2. Strongly consider whether your relationship can handle the added risk of loosing the business and consider when it's time to walk away from the business (despite the financial consequences) in order to save your "marriage". In my marriage we've made bad financial decisions (wrong house purchase) where walking away cost us 100k but I think definitely saved the marriage. Loosing that money was worth every penny.

For #1 it's more of a straightforward business decision.
Reminds me of $something that allowed Delphi desktop applications to run in the browser. I think it was CGI-based and really fragile.
"Isn't someone's sense of self control and autonomy..."

Indeed, it's worth a lot! Which is why I want my children to be able to walk and bike safely anywhere in the town. Or anyone else who can't, doesn't, or simply prefers not to drive, for that matter.
It also really limits the ability of a lot of software. Design, including user interface design, is a communication medium— not even primarily aesthetics. I don’t blame people for not seeing the depth and complexity in fields they’re not in, but as someone that’s worked professionally as a (back-end) developer even longer than i have as a designer, I’m still perplexed by dev culture’s open disdain for design fields. I’ve spent many thousands of hours of my life contributing to FOSS projects, but not as a designer, because most are weirdly hostile to it. The FOSS movement could have so much more impact on the world if we addressed the fact that inscrutable dev-created UIs are unusable to people without a working mental model of software development. The big user-facing FOSS projects like blender and Firefox are foundation or corporation backed with professional designers.

I’m comfortable with layout not being engineering— the processes are quite different. What annoys me is that so many in engineering look down on it because of that.
This is misleading.

I recommend [1] as an introduction to the semiconductor physics behind the Rowhammer problem. Rowhammer is an instance of the "weird machine" problem behind many security problems, i.e. a mismatch between two abstractions: the abstraction we pretend describes the system, vs the reality of the system. In the case of Rowhammer, that is the abstraction of memory as a digital device, against the reality of storing bits with capacitors and wires, ie. analog devices. Clearly a leaky abstraction. The denser you pack those capacitors and wires, the more leaky.

[1] A. J. Walker, S. Lee, D. Beery, On DRAM Rowhammer and the Physics of Insecurity. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366976
Technology, materialism, science. The currents of thought that move us based on perceived value and belief, and where myths and assumptions stem from.

A popular creation myth at the moment is simulation theory.

Reducing consciousness to material data-processing is a way to believe there's a possibility of life after body-death.

A popular "promised-land" myth is that technology will save us.

The assumption that mind stems from matter is so commonly beheld that people take it as fact, in the same way some people take god as a fact, unquestioningly.
I can't see how this could pass 1st amendment scrutiny.
“If it can happen, it will happen.”

That saying predicts the future better than a time machine would.
I'm imaging this used as a public listing of your online avatar information. So any chatbot can skip all the pleasantries and formalities of getting to know you.
Glad to see at least one other person agreeing, I got the doom and gloomer downvotes.
Part 2: compare the packaging to the stream of garbage that comes up as "ps xa" or "dmesg" :D
> have the government selectively prosecute social media companies for having users under 16.

The US government is already legally mandated to prosecute companies known to harbor information, collected online, concerning minors less than 13 years old without consent from their parents or legal guardians.[1]

It's why Youtube blocks comments and doesn't personalize ads on videos published for kids, to pick out a prominent example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot...

Obligatory IANAL.
You can probably get pretty far with the generated C code, then look up the same curl options in the Python bindings:

https://github.com/pycurl/pycurl
I asked ChatGPT why lemmings choose to jump off cliffs,

"The idea that lemmings intentionally jump off cliffs and into the sea is a myth. This misconception likely originated from a 1958 Disney documentary called "White Wilderness, ...."
"no man is an island" and in most circumstances you're not alone when driving, unless you're on your private farmland or something.

moving fast enough to hurt or kill you in a car means you're going fast enough to damage or kill whatever you hit, too. even if that turns out to be a ditch or tree, you're still running into something.

pulling your corpse and smashed vehicle out of a ditch is going to cost someone something, even if no one else died.
I was not thinking VS Code or anything in particular. I just wrote IDE/Text editors in general because programming has 2 major aspects, one is writing code and another one is running it. I see so many advancements in open source softwares that are used to write code but see barely any(feature wise) in the software that runs the code. all new code running softwares just say fast, faster and fastest and few like Warp are there but there are not OSS and too slow to deliver
Nowhere in the guidelines [0] does it say "do not post jokes that don't add anything". It does, however, say:

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Discreteness would mean that there exists some base distance p such that the distance between any two objects is Np, with N being a natural number (and any surface is some Mp^2 and any volume is Qp^3 and so on). Continuity is simply the opposite of that. It could be that objects can be at arbitrary real-valued distance d from each other, but that d > p is a precondition for any other law of physics.

By contrast, discretness has various unintuitive mathematical properties that mean it's not easy to fit into some other theories (particularly those relying on differential equations).
Libcurl is a c/c++ library...
Just use Requests
This works well for standard WordPress sites, throw in GuardGiant and Sucuri plugins for extra layers.
Making Better Forecasts
why it's important and a process for doing it
I remember this option was mentioned in a 3 hour video[1] where Daniel Stenberg himself went through most of the curl command line options.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5vZWHP-RqU
It's hit and miss but the responses i get are all super detailed and usually quite helpful. I've never had interactions like yours. I'm mostly coding in Python with some Rust fwiw
I'm still on the fence about government doing a parent's job here, especially for kids under 13, but I can't stand that no one pushing these bills has come up with an actually reasonable age verification method.
There's no difference in mechanics, the resistance on the wheel's axle is similar, therefore tire wear is similar. The GP doesn't seem very informed.
> the iPod was actually the first product that truly saw packaging elevated to the same importance as the product itself.

This is an absurd claim; vinyl LP records are just one counter-example. Some collectors will actually buy the vinyl disc from one source and then get a sleeve in near-mint condition from somewhere else. Does anyone buy used Apple packaging by itself?
Supabase Storage Outage
I used to now I don't. After over 3 decades of hearing about it, none of the catastrophic predictions have come true. The sea level hasn't risen by any perceptible amount (I live on the coast). And I see no reason why it's considered a bad thing if it gets slightly warmer.
You could say the same about smoking I guess ?

For kids under 13 to see any of the content , ask them to enter a credit card ?
I'd suggest this is entirely context dependent, though it doesn't hurt much to give the user both options except more work for you.

Some apps that I use, I don't care if they are Light-only. There are others that I only use at night, but are blindingly bright and have no dark option. Conversely, dark themes can be very difficult to see in the daytime.

You'll have to assess when & how your users use your app
probably the thrill of living on the edge.
> Of course that's only a good thing if you're buying new.

Not sure I follow, isn't this a good thing whether you're reselling or buying used? Macbooks like most of these things experience the largest drop for the new purchaser with even second-hand selling doing better on a percentage basis.

> You can get a great deal on used thinkpads that have been treated very well and are in very good condition, as large organizations buy them and then they end up as cheap surplus.

+1. When I buy x86_64 machines off-lease enterprise managed SFFs, laptops, servers, etc are IMO the way to go for this kind of hardware.

A great deal for the person buying used, abysmal resell value for the large orgs dumping these things in bulk to surplus resellers. Not that they care anyway, leasing depreciating hardware combined with the bulk discounts from HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc and often tax advantages make this a win-win-win for all involved.
> Obviously, there's no way of telling which year works

Um, it's simple maths. Guessing you're meaning something else though?
The armchairism in this thread is something else. Happy the mission is not lost and kudos to JAXA.
There's no immutable aspects of you. Everything is constant change. The illusion, the impossibility that you speak of, is this belief in immutability and the craving for it.
I am fairly sure that most works are (now) protected by glass.
Robotic "Companions" Are Testing the Scope of Privacy and Sexual Freedom
https://archive.ph/hugFe