skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a dongle life, for us
It's a dongle life, for us
Chosen for us by apple
'Stead of charging, we tangle
Through our dongled life

No more ports to use, oh no
No more ports to use, oh no
USB-C, we discuss
Grab a dongle, yes you must
It's a dongle life!

It's a dongle spree, for us
A new accessory, trust us
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> It's of interest that you personally chose a limited reading of "skeptical examination", whether that's due to limited experience or an innate tendancy to only imagine the best behaviour in people I wouldn't speculate.

OK, now you're being a bit silly.

I assume error over malice. It's not only imagining the best, it's also statistically and ethically a better way.
oh, that's a misunderstanding. That was serious
>A classic Russian disinformation move to distract the media, which was quite successful.

It's also basic PR. Hell, watching "The Thick of It" is enough to teach you that when a bad story comes out, try to use a different story as a distraction. That hardly requires Kremlin support.
It’s infotainment now. Even cnn adopted the fox news model
As I'm not really a Weezer fan, I didn't recognize the name, but just looking at his profile tells you right away who he his. His employer is literally listed as Weezer.
You're staging a strawman. These drugs are not in short supply for diabetics because of morbidly obese people using them. It's the influencers and socialites.

The fact that you even created discourse to put on me and argue against is just... sad.
You are both right, I did not mean that they had any obligation but I see how it could be read that way.
I love this comic on-topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/11gxpcu/our_little_...
So he sees someone interacting with some other tweet in a way he doesn't like, and then blocks them from following him?

Having not used twitter, is this easy one-click thing that takes no time nor thought, or is he having to switch screens and spend time on doing this?

(Technically I became a twit yesterday because nitter stopped working and there is just one person's posts that I like to check up on, so I ended up giving in and logging in... :( But I still don't know the UI well enough to answer my own question :) )
Helicone is also pretty decent: https://helicone.ai
It’s also open source so you can self host.
Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use
Again, my point is that there will be requests for features that will still be beyond these new features such as needing Javascript. And again, these are great and useful advancements.

For example, the `@starting-style` allows for a starting value, but if the UI requires that it's conditional, then that's likely JS. It's toward the end of the article. You may not have gotten to it.
Yeah that's my whole point. You made a choice to position yourself in a debate where you don't even have a voice and in pretending to transcend it you just sound like one of the sides in it.
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> Why are you so against Google charging a minimum fee for doing that while still giving you the opportunity to watch for free in exchange for being shown a few ads?

I'm against it because advertising is not the only business model that works at scale. Google effectively introduced itself as a middleman between content creators and consumers, which they continue to do whether you pay with your attention/data or cash.

I happily support content creators who don't rely on advertising or Google itself. I just refuse to be forced into a corrupt business model.
Always interesting to hear other perspectives on simple stuff like this. Personally, I like doing dishes in the morning while the espresso machine heats up. It's a nice rote task my half-asleep brain can come up to speed on, I feel like I've accomplished something right out of the gate, and I didn't need to interrupt the flow of whatever I was enjoying the previous night.
I’m grateful that this resurfaced.

I also missed original post but I would flag it as I’m against internet dramas of any kind. And I get it that many people are interested in this kind of politics but I don’t think they recognize that there are many who couldn’t care less.

This is the response I’d personally expect and moderation context and how it unfolds is the interesting part to me.
Squashing is very useful....for local development.

The idea of squashing already-pushed commits frightens me, glad I've never had to deal with it. Where are they doing this?
To make meaningful statements about P and NP problems, you probably need to be able to model your problem as a computational one.

If for example, you model it as a graph, with a peg represented by a node, and a bounce direction to another peg with a directed edge. Assign probabilities to all the edges. Then you cqn simply flood search outwards to the end of the graph, accumulating probabilities by multiplication. Any node on the boundary with probability higher than zero can be reached, given enough balls. This job is clearly in P.

I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about "P" for physical problems without a computational model, but I'm not a complexity theorist
>definitely makes some media more accessible and equitable

I disagree on this bit. Media is only accessible as long as the rights holders decide to play ball with the streaming service(s) the user happens to subscribe to. Constant rug pulling is going on with no sign of it stopping.

Just a few months ago I was watching Suits on Amazon Prime. I was 3 seasons in, and I went to watch (after just watching an episode the previous day) and it was now listed as needing to pay per episode. Netflix bought the rights and it was over there now. Another movie, I started watching and had to pause it halfway through, when I went back to finish it, it wanted me to pay for a rental, because their rights ran out. This is a horrible customer experience.

VHS, DVD, and BD were much more accessible. Region issues aside, if I buy a DVD it will play in my DVD player and no one can decide to take my rights to play it away mid-movie. The way streaming is today, it would be like needing to have a different DVD player for each studio, or if the VHS vs Betamax, or Blu-ray vs HD-DVD battles never ended.

One of my big[] worries is that I will grow old and want to watch the movies from my youth and be unable to because the studio went out of business, or decided that movie wasn’t worth streaming, or one of countless other reasons why access would be lost. It’s the modern day version of the “Disney Vault”, which I always hated as a kid. They’d release VHS tapes for a limited time to create scarcity and drive up demand, then pull it and release something else. My sister’s favorite Disney movie never seemed to come out of the vault.

I actually have a friend who has been messaging me pretty regularly lamenting that he wants to watch some movies from the early 2000s and can’t find them on the couple services he has. He doesn’t really know what to do. He wants to watch some movies, he is paying money every month to these companies, and he isn’t getting the content he is after. These movies are 20 years old, the studios and actors have made their money, there is no reason anyone should need to deal with these roadblocks to access. He has been talking about going back to DVD. What other option does he have? How is this accessible and equitable?

[] it’s a big worry in the realm of media, I know in the grand scheme of things it’s a small theoretical problem at the moment.
That's a false dichotomy. There are many monetizing alternatives besides advertising, or paying the platform to remove advertising they introduced in the first place.
Groundhog Day anyone?
It was hard, but with enough effort, fixing mental health issues, and mass applying to jobs (about 300 from August to December 2023), you can get there in the end. I only got about 4 interviews in total; an insurance company (ghosted), WA Police (turned down), Atlassian (ghosted), and HSS (current role).

Finding a tech job in 2024 is definitely going to be a lot of luck, mass-applying, and trying to make yourself stand out from other candidates.
Seems useful as a cable-replacement for e.g. uncompressed video; DisplayPort tops out at 10.8 Gbps, so even allowing a 19x reduction for "real world" limitations, you could send DP over 20 meters with this.
Is this globally? Is this just in your own experience?

In the case of Australia which had a five year long Royal Commission into Institutional Sexual Abuse of children that took in tens of thousands of interviews across schools and all religuous institutions the final report included:

Many children have been sexually abused in religious institutions in Australia.

Based on the information before us, the greatest number of alleged perpetrators and abused children were in Catholic institutions.

In many religious institutions, the power afforded to people in religious ministry and the misplaced trust of parents combined with aspects of the institutional culture, practices and attitudes to create risks for children.

Alleged perpetrators often continued to have access to children even when religious leaders knew they posed a danger.

We heard that alleged perpetrators were often transferred to other locations but they were rarely reported to police.

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/f...

The Catholic Institutions in Australia with the worst behaviour were the Christian Brothers who operate globally and there was no evidence seen that as an international group dealing with the education of minors, most often orphaned minors, their behaviour in Australia was somehow better or worse than their behaviour elsewhere - they rotated bad priests in and out, dodged responsibility, and hands down "won" the prize for most children abused.
Yeah that's what came to mind as well. I've now lived long enough to see what was once a caricature of outlandish selfishness becoming something people want to emulate.
> Asked what portion of JetBrains' customers have objected to AI Assistant, a spokesperson said, "We can't say for sure how well these opinions represent the position of all of our customers."

I have been a big fan of JetBrains until now, but I am looking closely at how they go with the AI stuff (and they just changed CEO, right?).

I don't want anything to do with AI, and if my JetBrains IDEs do not allow me to _entirely_ disable _anything that has to do with it_ (be it for training, telemetry, or just suggestions), it will be a reason for me to completely drop it and start hating JetBrains. To me they may as well introduce ads between my lines of code.

I wish it was _clearly_ opt-in when installing the IDE, just like the vim plugin (and some others).
I find it very useful.

I'm not asking it to write code for me or anything. More like a quick way to look up syntax or flags for obscure programs I don't use too often.
A example would be Windows phone where they just not only did not make a YouTube app they denied access to the YouTube app made by Microsoft.
I think you have it backward. All successful musicians are in majors because they were the ones who could propose the best deal at the start of their career.

It doesn't take a genius to recognize when a musician is much better than average, and sure marketing will help a bunch but you can't market something that sucks, it will fail regardless.

So, the way it works is the reverse of what you think: good musicians get to be in majors because they are much better than average, and they will get a lot of advantage from the infrastructure/logistique/network from the big players early on, even if it means they will need to take a cut in the future. That and the fact that if you are a musician starting out, you are very likely to be poor or in an uninteresting odd job, a major who can just buy you out with enough cash to cover expenses for years is exactly what you are looking for....

And in the end, I don't think the marketing matters much. A good track is a good track, which is why some get to be reused endlessly. The reason they do marketing is because they can afford it, from all the cash the artist is making for them ever directly or indirectly.

All this to say that these are the reasons most people strongly dislike the major rightsholder companies; while they have their usefulness in some way, it feels quite bad seeing them make so much profit while plenty of artists barely get by. And the artists they "defend" are mostly the extremely successful ones that are so wealthy those license conversations seem very greedy and out there. Sure, TikTok makes money but it is not strongly related to music and the artists who would get payouts are the ones already making big bucks.
Looking at the simple (as in good) layout and all the old hardware reminded me of Pricewatch.com (specifically the late 90s/early 2000s era version of the site)
The problem is that I moved countries in the meantime and here it's not quite so easy buying one on your own :(
Supercompilation acts as global program optimization. As far as I'm aware, there were no attempts to supercompile separate libraries.

In fact, supercompilation subsumes many common optimizations, such as function inlining, constant propagation, list fusion, etc. So we can say that it's actually used "to a small degree", although I wouldn't really call it "supercompilation" per se.

The reason that full-blown supercompilation is not used is that it's too unpredictable -- the direct consequence of being too smart. I've elaborated on it in the final section of the blog post.
https://www.euromomo.eu/how-it-works/background-data/

For whatever reason, Israel participates in this by providing the necessary data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag14Ao_xO4c

It's the first 30s of this clip, for the curious. (Movie is a bit dry but pretty good.)
Love the key binding to select & fix the current line!

I dont have typos that often, so their 15 free fixes every month works perfectly good for me
Now, useful software for w9x (there's a good chunk of libre software too, as 7Zip and retrozilla + an Ublock Origin plugin for it):

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Windows Update (W2K and up): http://legacyupdate.net

Needed for dependencies on some software.

Hexchat will work well against the Bitlbee IRC servers at https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/servers.html

Here you might set several bridge accounts, including IRC+TLS, Jabber, Discord...
In fact, most don't do 12v. The common voltages are 5, 9, 15, and 20 volts.
You've poured your heart and soul into crafting the perfect product, built a passionate sales team, and diligently sent out countless cold calls and generic emails.

Yet, the results remain lackluster.

You see competitors using similar tactics and achieving success, leaving you wondering: what's the missing piece?

Is your product subpar?

Are your salespeople slacking?

The answer, friend, might not be in the "what," but in the "how."
Some chargers don't do 12V or 15V, but will do 5V, 9V and 20V. This depends a lot on the total wattage. Lower watts, like 20W or 30W can or can not do 15/20V, but 12V@1.5A (18W) and 12V@2.5A (30W). Usually the >65W will do most of them, plus PPS. Always check specs. And what is the input voltage this powerplug expects; 15V or 20V?

> Utilizing any 12V-capable

If so, this is usually at a VERY low wattage. they usually go to a max of 2.5 or 3A max at 12V. I would expect it would use 20V and step-down as 20V is more generally available at a high Amperage. (Note: 3A is the max possible for cables without an E-marker, os if often regarded as a ceiling). This would have made the device much bigger (and more versatile. a clear trade-off).

Actually, I am more concerned about -12V, ... at 0.1A. That seems rather low. Also, the 12V rail itself is only 1.0A. The original supply did 12V@2A and -12V@0.5A if not mistaken, and so does the C64psu.com. Overall, rather low Amp values. This might affect 'stability' if your machine is expanded (although it claims: "of even the most expanded configurations"). Curious if they can share some details. I have a BlizzardPPC in my A1200.

> allows users to tap into a vast array of affordable and readily available “power bricks”

if DC5521 at >12V to 20V is possible, that would be great, as this allows you to use a Lenovo or generic laptop brick, or a USB-C trigger cable. Perhaps something I should make ...
That would still be the company paying, but the individuals responsible avoiding punishment.
I wish they had a picture
This is the actual cost of a smartphone, without subsidies of the targeted ads and walled gardens.
callbacks/lambdas/method references seem like table stakes coming from the modern reactive web frameworks, but if you're doing Immediate mode or a more hybrid approach there might be more wiggle room.

It does seem like the big three (React, Vue, etc) emphasize declarative as best practice
OK, I'll bite. What are some alternatives besides advertising or paying a fee to get no Ads?
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Thank you, I see it now.
From Amazon delivery driver to deploying my Full-Stack app in 6 months
Half a year ago I was an Amazon driver in rural Germany, it was not at all fulfilling. I was working long hours and had no time to myself. One day I had to take a few weeks off from work to do some documents, and that's when I realized I did not want to go back to this job. So I turned to programming.

I have always regretted not getting a CS degree when I had the chance earlier in my life, but I was at a make-it-break-it point because I did not want to be a delivery driver anymore. I went back to work but every morning I would get up early and do CS50x which I finished in three weeks. After that, I went into CS50w which I also ended up finishing in three weeks. Now I had a solid foundation and basic understanding of web apps due to learning Django, but along with all of that, I was also introduced to React.
React was very interesting to me so I decided to go in a direction where React would be a priority. So I took the FullStackOpen course from the University of Helsinki teaching the MERN stack and after a few months, I ended up finishing the main course alongside GraphQL and Typescript certificates.

Now that I had a solid foundation I teamed up with my best friend to work on one of his projects, he tasked me with making the front end for this web app. After completion, I now had enough experience that I felt confident enough to try making my own full-stack web app.

During Christmas, my mother visited and we talked about AI, she is a producer making a movie about AI actually right now. From that, I got the idea of making a script-reading AI, since producers often get offered many scripts that they do not have time to read so they outsource that to script readers. Why not kill two birds with one stone and make AI do it? It will save time and money.

So I ended up building AIScriptReader (https://aiscriptreader.com/) in a month using NextJS which I had to learn as I went because it seemed like an awesome tool to know. I also ended up running into issues with NextJS but I was too time invested in it so I had to make a Django microservice that uses Celery to deal with async functionality. Also, I ended up learning Docker and Caprover specifically to make this all work and allow for smooth and simple CI/CD.

Now looking back on my journey I am amazed with what I have achieved in the short amount of time that I have spent, from where I was half a year ago to today. I think I was able to do it because I knew what I did not want to do, and I knew that I liked building things with computers.

The point is, just do it. I did it all for free, thanks to CS50x, CS50w, and FSO which are all free and give you certificates. Do it a little at a time because the snowball will start rolling and you will be in a better place day by day.
You’d also get text that has very little to do with the training material from any statistical model. A prediction may have nothing to do with the past and it might be wrong or right. For example, the weather forecast said it will rain all day, but the sun is up and bright in the sky without a cloud in sight.

The model knows what a limerick is, from the source material. It knows what your criteria is from the source material. It can predict what someone would say given that prompt.

Humans also do this. I’m usually one or two words ahead of the person I’m speaking to, sometimes even entire paragraphs ahead if I’m paying full attention. My dreams give me unrealistic situations to explore new ways of dealing with them. When I write code, I have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to write before I write it.

The main difference between a human and an LLM, is that a human has no limit. A human will still continue when overwhelmed with data, usually by shedding unimportant data. An LLM will just tell you it’s too much data. Smart humans won’t just shed the data, but “mark” it mentally as potentially important in the future and come back to it once a deeper understanding is achieved.

There are other, smaller differences as well, but that is the biggest, most annoying one, so far.
What is the crime to incarceration rate?
For those downvoting: Just as an example here's Google's Material "designers" doing a study with 800 people to figure out that yes, text fields must look like text fields, and learning literally nothing from it: https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...

As a bigger example: almost every single CSS framework decides that color and contrast are for suckers and makes many controls (and especially text inputs) with barely visible gray-on-gray colors.
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I think it means the trees still absorb carbon dioxide. However, it's written in a way that it could also mean the trees are pumping carbon dioxide out. It sounds much more extreme.
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> Putting a foam they knew to be dangerous into a medical product

I doubt it's the executives deciding on the materials to use. Like in Boeing's case, it probably wasn't executives that decided not to use redundancy on a critical input.

Both executives (command principle) and the actual engineers/designers and everyone else who received the reports or somehow knew about it deserves prison time.