skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have me all wrong. I am a part of no movement. I have never once been in a group of people (more than two) where the discussion was about religion and where agreement (with me) was had. It's just not a part of my life.

I do not think there is a mythology around atheism. This was my question to you, effectively. Atheism is literally the lack of belief in a god. Yes there are people who have constructed belief systems around that lack of belief, but those are not necessary to meet the definition. There is no complex set of beliefs necessary to be an atheist. Just one lack of belief. Anything on top of that is something other than atheism.

There are no sects of atheism. But maybe of Atheism-as-you-understand-it. You claim I'm being intellectually dishonest here, but I maintain that we are talking about different things.

I'm still curious about the "historical fiction" of any version of (your) "Atheism", but I don't think I'm going to get a conversation about that at this point. If you're talking about the mythologies created by our friends Adolf, Joseph, and Pol -- then you are really stretching. They used anti-religionism (which is not atheism) as a vehicle for their own crazy/evil. I also do not blame Christianity for the Inquisition, although I do blame (bad) Christians for it!

It seems that you feel attacked in your beliefs by a vocal minority of atheists. That sucks, absolutely.

But militant Theists have far more power in this world than militant atheists. The latter are just rabble-rousers.

I am fully aware that tolerant Christians exist. But as intolerants go, the atheists have nothing on the Christians. At least not in terms of numbers or influence.

I wish we could ignore the militant Christians as easily as we can ignore the militant atheists.
My main takeaway from this article was learning that people actually want to be algorithmically profiled on their shopping. Personally I wouldn't even have a loyalty card in the first place.
That is a much easier problem than backing a truck up to a loading bay. Even landing an airplane is a lot easier if you have an ILS. Space and the air are mostly empty. A warehouse loading area is cluttered with other trucks, debris, and cargo. Although I could totally see this being done remotely with VR and a ton of cameras.
There are degrees of enforceability.

When I was first getting online, the expectation was that you at least had to be bright enough to lie about your age. Now I have to occasionally prune my timeline after it fills up with "literally a minor." Even an annoyance tax might have some positive effect. Scare the pastel death-threats back into their hole...
Supabase has been having issues all day, it's possible now their auth is down :') we haven't received enough traffic to bring it down yet.

EDIT: was able to confirm that my supabase instance can't connect to the auth service at the moment. 99% uptime but of course the 1% downtime is when you launch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But, even though you would very rarely need them, likely never for a vessel which operates close to shore, they must be maintained periodically because SOLAS, and maintenance of lifeboats is pretty dangerous because they're on the outside of a ship. So you may end up killing or seriously injuring more people by having lifeboats.

Did the designers of the Titanic write this? You're arguing having enough lifeboats for all your passengers is bad because you have to maintain the lifeboats
> I was surprised by the effectiveness of this intervention. An average of 2.442 seconds saved per entry. If I enter that door every day for a year, that amounts to around 15 minutes

Should have considered how much time will be lost lubricating the keyholes (including buying the lubricant, applying it, storing it and so on)
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' robot explorer resumes operations on lunar surface
"Japan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer is back in action, the country’s space agency said Monday, after a power issue forced the spacecraft to shut down upon landing on the moon 10 days ago."
> We can't simply pay more money to get a personal chef, doctor, and pilot for everyone, even if there was a magical infinite source of compensation to pay them.

Remember, money is debt – an IOU, a promise to deliver something later. It says "You do this for me now and I will give you this token (money) that you can redeem for what you want from me in the future.". 'Compensation' is just the other side of the transaction – you offering the same in kind. If there was a magical infinite source of compensation then there would necessarily be an infinite ability to provide chef, medical, etc. services.

In the real world, you only have so much to offer others, which limits how much you can receive from them. As before, transactions must be balanced. That is what it means 'to compensate'. In the real world, you have a pick what you want from the limited amount of value you can offer in kind. There is no such thing as an insatiable demand for chefs or doctors. People will stop considering those services when they become too expensive. The more expensive, the fewer people needed.

This only becomes a problem when price is prevented from rising (e.g. due to government intervention) – and that is when you can encounter a shortage.
Apple wants to sell more phones, sure -- but not at the expense of their values or brand.

So, say we get an amazing third party store. And its loaded with world class apps like "AR Butt Plug", "Is that a Jew?" and "SNES9X". Well, new customers might be drawn to Apple's ecosystem that previous weren't customers.

But those are customers and use cases that Apple probably doesn't want.
haha yeah, maybe I should at english to my list of languages ;P
In Italy restaurants frequently tack on an arbitrary cover charge per-person. They don't go out of their way to advertise this. I think it's more common at touristy spots though.
Scott Manly did a great explanation. The lander lost a rocket nozzle when it was in the final part of its descent - hovering and taking pictures of the landing site. Nozzles make the rocket's thrust much more effective so basically it lost thrust on one side.

It had very good software which adjusted to this and brought it down softly enough to land but it couldn't stop the pitch over.

The spacecraft landed within 50m of it's target which is exceptionally good accuracy and that part of it's mission was a complete success.

The rocket nozzle problem may have been due to a stuck valve or some other problem and obviously they have work to do on that but apparently something similar has happened on a similar design before.
A carbon tax will make the problem worse. To make up for the profit losses from the tax, business will produce and sell more goods - actually increasi g the pollution put in the air.
My Apple Watch is definitely the most optional of my Apple devices. I mostly just wear it hiking. Day to day I don't get a lot of notifications and I just wear a cheap Timex that goes years on a battery.
In one sense, certainly not, for example I have 2931 points, in theory that's £14.65 value.

As this story explains, if you knew the 11 digit account code for those 2931 points you can just rock up to a Sainsburys store with the appropriate code on like a piece of paper, scan it with the reader, and it'll conclude you're me (that's my code after all, that's what I do when I shop with them although my code is printed on a little plastic card they gave me) and therefore you can "spend" my points, typically in lump sums of £5, so you could buy £12 of booze, take 2x £5 = £10 off the price and spend £2 on booze that costs £12.

You can't turn it directly into cash, but obviously goods like booze, electronics, jewellery which are all potentially available are very easy to turn back into cash at a discount.
The bay area would benefit from more housing, but this is a fascinating look into the politics and process of how development happens, and what happens when people don't want to change too quickly.
I don't understand what this is. This landing page actually made me annoyed :) .

I doubt you will get many conversions based on current landing page.

> Try clicking around on some of the words below - and make sure to give the audio a listen!

OP I clicked on the text and bunch of tags popped up. I wasn't sure what those tags are or what I am supposed to do after that.
>A shortage of truck drivers is unlikely.

Surely a transient shortage is possible due to licensing requirements. You could offer ten million dollars a year, but there are only so many people with a current CDL and finite capacity exists to grant new licenses.
I'm a little confused whether your comment is the answer to mine or someone elses, cause we seem to agree on all points. In any case, I left G* lands ages ago (gtk2->3) and can only speak for that time. It coincided with the issues around their development policies.
I doubt that people do want to be profiled however I would argue that the information stating they will is hidden somewhere in tiny text on page 267 of the T&C.

Cash is truly the only de-facto standard that gives you privacy on expenditure.
Wow this video is actually great at imparting the concepts with animation.

It's a little distracting how it looks like an ad for an adult themed video game, but it's very well thought out.
> Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day.

The lack of detail and explanation here does work that no amount of exposition could do.
Another recommendation for this. I've been using this method for a few years now with no complains.
Juiciest topics on which to write a thesis
I have to choose which topic to write my thesis on and I would like to decide on a good topic, perhaps in the area of computer security

Suggestions?
In what way this the environment a "cultural artifact"? Especially when compared to a famous painting.

I'm sorry but I don't think I can possibly believe that your first association with "valuable cultural artifact" is the environment, assuming English is your first language. The environment influences culture, sure, but environment is not culture.
What do you think ought to be controversial about it?
See also the blog post: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/whis...

WhisperFusion, WhisperLive, WhisperSpeech, those are very interesting projects.

I'm curious about latency (of all those 3 systems individually, and also the LLM), and WER numbers of WhisperLive. I did not really find any numbers on that? This is a bit strange, as those are the most crucial information about such models? Maybe I just looked at the wrong places (the GitHub repos).
I didn't say news I said headline news. Almost everything is news.

> everyone just ignored it.

Did they ignore it because it wasn't headline news? Because the harm a single motivated individual could inflict was small and theoretical rather than large and real as we have seen today?
All things considered, Wallmart is a pretty decent company, at least for workers, and even more if you compare with Jeff Bezo's slave driving operation.
I get it. Some managers and employers seem to optimize for hassling and controlling their people.
The nice thing about this is also that truckers would be able to go home everynight which would make the job more attractive
Ran across Orcad CIS for the first time last week while downloading symbol files from Intel/Altera. Trying to convert to Altium. Is there any documentation that exists for sucking out symbol info or do I need a full install of Orcad?
This should be required reading for every software engineering team (and the business & product teams they interact with).
The title is wrong. This is a newer version of Code Llama announcement(I didn't found the model yet). Not a Llama 3!
I doubt AI is making anyone lazier and less worried about code quality, if they weren't already.
I would guess that WalMart assigns drivers to a route, everyday they go from the warehouse to the same WalMart(s). Most days there is no overtime - they keep every walmart within a days drive of two warehouses so if one warehouse fails (fire...) they can shift everything - that means some drivers will need to go to a different warehouse and then they need enough slack to pay for that extra overtime without running out of time in a day (a day is less than 24 hours for drivers)
Note that that consumer is still buying the Quest 2 instead of the Quest 3 so save a few hundred $.

https://mixed-news.com/en/quest-2-vs-quest-3-amazon-sales-fi...

Although Asgard's Wrath 2 is a pack-in game for the MQ3 it plays fine on the MQ2 and doesn't take advantage of the more powerful processor of the MQ3 and only includes a tiny amount of MR gaming as an afterthought.
If you live with other people, it could still be appealing. Not everyone wants to watch the same thing at the same time. Also, living together does not mean everyone is family.
10-15% of goods in my trolley are "£5 or £2.50 for loyalty card holders". You actually have to be a member to pay correct market rates for their goods.
Inside the Music Industry's High-Stakes A.I. Experiments
Available solar power must be a big constraint in remainder of this mission, probably?

I guess Slim isn't all in the shady!
My father was an elementary school janitor and worked harder in a day than I work in a month. However, I make multiples of what he made (even adjusted for inflation, though jobs at the bottom of the pay scale haven't risen like that over the years)

All that said, I think the question isn't whether the pay is acceptable, but why Walmart pays so much relative to other companies, where the drivers do pretty much the same job.
For context, if others aren't familiar: type hinting generics were added to Python 3.9 by PEP 585 (also available in Python 3.7+ with the annotations future import). PEP 484 previously added type hints to Python 3.5 as explicit imports from the stdlib's typing module.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/

https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/
You wouldn't switch but use DuckDB in addition to your system of record, to perform analytical queries. Pingcap's TiDB has a simulator to show the kind of queries that an OLAP db like DuckDB excels at, although TiDB OLAP is based on ClickHouse (1).

--

1: https://play.tidbcloud.com/real-time-analytics
For this bill, no. It does not meet conditions (d) and (e) of the 5 conditions a site must meet in order to be a social media platform. I've quoted the relevant part of the latest bill text in this prior comment [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39176380
This has happened to me on multiple occasions when traveling abroad where I didn't have cellular service.

"Do you have wifi here?" Nope. "Can you just tell me what's on the menu?" Nope. Here, just use my cell phone.
I went to a restaurant, ordered from a physical menu, and a had a nice meal.

Then the server stood next to me and held his order taking gadget in his hand.

Apparently I was supposed to hand him my credit card at that point, and then take his gadget so I could type in a tip.
That idea can be taken further to every digital file ever. You might both be interested in checking the pi file system.

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Isn’t traditional streaming kinda missing the point of this device?

Consuming traditional 2D content is like using a PS2 to watch DVDs, sure it’s possible, but is that really the target market?
I agree with where you're coming from, but publicly documenting their feed algorithms (which is what a call for "open source" effectively is) wouldn't change much. What is actually needed are open API access to the data models, so that competitive non-user-hostile clients can flourish.

I believe this would be legally straightforward by regulating based on the longstanding antitrust concept of bundling - just because someone chooses use to use Facebook's data hosting product, or their messaging products, does not mean they should also be forced to use any of Facebook's proprietary user interface products.

This would not solve the collective action problem where it's hard for an individual parent(/kid) to individually reject social media, but I also don't see this bill doing much besides making it so that kids have to make sure their fake birthday is three years earlier than the one they already had to make up due to COPPA. Of course the politicians pushing this bill are likely envisioning strict identity verification to stop that, but such blanket totalitarianism should be soundly rejected by all.

Unfortunately the larger problem here is that the digital surveillance industry has been allowed to grow and fester for decades with very few constraints. Now it's gotten so big and its effects so pervasive that none of the general solutions to reigning it in (like similarly, a US GDPR) are apparent to politicians. It's all just lashing out at symptoms.
I mean, sure. I think that's what I said.

But if we started rapturing all the militant religionists today, we'd lose a lot more Christians than atheists.

I'm completely in favor of rapturing the militants of all stripes.
didn't gtk/gnome invent this trend?
I read their previous post, and nowhere do they explicitly say "a transform is a...". One might assume that it is indeed a linear transformation, as you suggest, but it shouldn't be up to the reader to do detective work just to understand the objects the author is talking about.
Collapse is not continuous, by definition.
Copenhagen is discontinuous.

If you want continuity, then shun collapse, and believe in Many Worlds. You know you should.

Wolfram is another conversation, and one that does not fit in this margin.
The demo article only had a couple translations, so we auto-translated some missing ones. Sorry the Turkish one isn't great!

Most of the app we try to encourage you to use professionally translated works to learn whichever language you're studying, so try to do as we say not as we do :D
Should You Write Tests for Old Code?
They use "glitch" as a synonym for "non functional", and this was probably only about the solar panel not getting sunlight.

In that sense, it's fixed.
> But the softer fields lack such harshness -- they're comically tolerant.

Anecdotally, I think the field of psychology is in getting the public ire recently because of this. I read more and more complaints that certain highly touted (published?) therapies are failing and destroying individual lives. The other sub-field I see it is the societal impact of, again, highly touted & published psychology hurting entire classes of people.

The more bombastic the claim, the more likely it becomes de facto "reality". As you describe it, there is no simple & quick way to rationally disprove, and why would they - it is fashionable.
The armchairism in this thread is something else.

Right. Now we need more comments starting with, "What about...?"
And what does the driverless truck do when it loses its internet connection at 70mph on a freeway?
Whatever the merits of this project -- and it does seem to be useful -- they should be a little clearer about the fact that it's not actually part of the "official" svelte framework.

I'm sure they consider it a tribute but it fees a little deceptive that they're cloning the svelte docs look and feel without any kind of "who we are" statement.
I doubt their drivers are any better than anyone else's. Drivers are carefully trained and there are strict laws around driving trucks (much stricter than cars). They may do a bit more training than required, but there are other trucking companies that do the same.
How to Be a Blackbird
If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don't Have Any
I think a company taking things seriously would view it as a gift from the heavens, but the fact that Boeing is seeking an exemption for certification doesn't really seem like they're putting safety ahead of profits.
game devs are already relatively underpaid for the value they bring to companies. I don't know how an open source initiative can even afford a single professional graphics developer.

Also, you say they are a couple of generations ahead, but do these kinds of software need to be bleeding edge? Even many games don't, the kinds of software in research labs that do pay even better than gamedev (and of course require PhD's and whatnot).
Blok AV
Introducing BlokAv it’s a modern antivirus utilizing blockchain to allow for rapid updates and community consensus on voting and recognizing malicious files. This is still a work in progress. I did this to learn and also to give something to the community. There also aren’t many open source AV options besides ClamAV.

Behavior analysis, signature scanning, sandboxing for Linux, blockchain implementation etc are deployed but still being worked on. A windows update will come in the future. I screwed the code up and just decided to restart it. The signature scan for now requires a hardcore path to a hash list. I’m working on downloading the list from a server. I’d love any feedback etc.
Show HN: David UI – Tailwind CSS and Angular Components
I miss the old convention of showing a button with shadows indicating it's been pushed in vs. showing it with just a flat plane when it's not pushed in. A button that shows that it's been pushed in with a triangle icon means it's playing, clicking or touching it will stop it from playing. A button that doesn't indicate it's been pushed in with a triangle icon is not playing, clicking or touching it will start it playing. Bonus points if there is a small virtual led that turns on when it's pushed in.

Fewer and fewer devices we have access to these days have physical switches on them, though.
" It might be, that spinning up an ECS Service will be more cost-effective for your particular workload. It's also not unusual, that plain EC2 instances will offer the best combination of price and performance. You have to do the math."

And if you're doing anything non-trivial, getting a dedicated box may be the actual best combination of price and performance.
You can both have five minutes of work and some extra JVM speed juice over awk. The following Kotlin Script runs in ~2m46s on my M1 Mac. This is faster than the baseline and a bit more complex than it otherwise could be to avoid using too much RAM.

I think it's also more readable than the awk for people who don't already know the language whilst being of a similar length, but that might be just me. More usefully you can get type checking, autocompletion, use any libraries you want and so on.

class Result(var lo: Double = Double.MAX_VALUE, var hi: Double = Double.MIN_VALUE, var total: Double = 0.0, var samples: Int = 0) {
val mean get() = total / samples
}

val results = HashMap<String, Result>()
Path("measurements.txt").useLines { it
.map { it.substringBefore(";") to it.substringAfter(";").toDouble() }
.forEach { (name, measurement) ->
with(results.getOrPut(name) { Result() }) {
lo = min(lo, measurement)
hi = max(hi, measurement)
total += measurement
samples++
}
}
}
results.toSortedMap().mapValues { (_, m) -> "%.1f/%.1f/%.1f".format(m.lo, m.mean, m.hi) }.also(::println)

You can do this sort of thing with jbang, although for some reason Gunnar's baseline is slower. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
__VA_OPT__ Minutiae
I'm a fan of Om's work, but I don't really believe that's what he really thinks. He also says he doesn't understand why people own televisions. Om has been on many hours of video podcasts (TWiT). Apparently he understands why somebody would watch a podcast but not why they would own a television? I don't buy it.
Soz, I don't like to cross link my accounts, especially with all this TSWift shenanigans going around. But, if you look at https://civitai.com/ plenty of people have links to their ko-fi accounts where you can commission them (heck you may even find me somewhere on there).
I installed Debian on a home server instead of Ubuntu, and it just feels much snappier. After all the "everything's a snap!" and "here are all the packages you COULD have upgraded if you'd paid for Ubuntu Pro!" bullshit, I think I'm going to go to Debian unstable for my desktop as well.