skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many social networks recently, Lemmy? The other one with crypto guys? This one? It's 2005 all over again? I am wondering if it's either because it's a relatively easy thing to code or because investors are likely to throw money at it?
Calculations don't matter if they are based on faulty premises. There is nothing all that special about earth that what happened here couldn't have happened on trillions of planets across billions of years in the known universe. I think that's why biologists and just generic humans like me posit that there has to be life elsewhere in the universe, no woo woo or gods needed.
He is ;-)

I only checked two papers by that author, but they both contained references to other papers by him in that journal.
How poverty is measured impacts who gets classified as impoverished
This is a pretty good laundry list of things you shouldn’t return in an api and why. I’m sure it will be instructive to folks.

What’s a bit scary is that depending on abstraction (ORM / service layer), it could be as simple as the difference of returning User instead of UserResponse.

The engineers could have easily known better and it was a bad autocomplete / model choice with tests that only asserted the needed fields were there.

It’s easy to bash the devs on how egregious this was, but depending on the system very little might need to “go wrong” for this to happen.

Curious what kinds of strategies other folks use to protect against this.

Annotations / lint rules for using models with sensitive data? Tests that check and fail on fields that shouldn’t be there? Comprehensive / sensitive tests for checking for sensitive fields?
That sounds like a recipe for burnout.

Don't get me wrong, we all have had jobs like that and at certain points of your career is good to have that kind of pressure/grind to quickly progress your skills, but at a certain point you need to give your mind a break.

One thing that I'd try in your situation is to have a talk with your manager and try to allocate a few hours of your week for personal development. "Most" companies should be ok with this as it is usually a win-win for both the employee and the company and that way you'd have time to pursue other technical interests that may or may not be directly related to your job. If this idea doesn't sit well with your manager it might time for you to start updating your linkedIn profile...
Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?
I confess: I was addicted to mint.com, and not that it's gone CreditKarma just doesn't do it.

What are the inexpensive/Free solutions out there? I need something that will sync automatically all of my and wife's accounts including retirement accounts. SaaS or McOs software will do.

A while back there was a tread in here where someone had an inexpensive one-time license mac software, but I cannot find it.

Thanks in advance.
Everyone he forces to. Its very common for seniors to pressure younger researchers to cite their papers.
Apple is trying to mainstream and normalize strapping a giant computer and camera to your face in everyday life.

I think having it watered down will actually push the dream of wearable computers for common use by making people feel less uneasy around it.
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At least we can agree to stop chasing dragons
> ya'll

what is this word that is being contracted here?
Perhaps, a better way to traverse this would be to look at the history of virology, trace main events, starting from the discovery of bacteriophage, and check out associated work. It is hard to say what kind of evidence would satisfy you. Viruses have been isolated many times, and transmissibility has been shown on cell cultures and animal models.

You can't purposely infect real people with disease-causing viruses in research so you won't find much studies like that. But there is no doubt that viruses are transmissible and can cause disease, and there is plenty of evidence to support that. Check out studies on yellow fever virus and flu done more than a hundred years ago.
okay that actually makes sense I appreciate your explanation.
I'm genuinely not kidding, as a non-American who has some family living in US, some of that just sounds absolutely bizarre. However I'm not that sure about its intricacies. But keep in mind, going to prison for having debt is also a thing in the states. So not paying up your dues can eventually roll you back into the system.

But yeah, pay-to-stay imprisonment is a thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-to-stay_(imprisonment).
My university had a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff[1] as the president when the pandemic hit. IMO we were lucky to have him as president.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Myers
Those are issues (though nobody will allow federally funded police departments in the US). Still, ideologically, if the US police were more uniformly well trained, they would still be dealing with a predominately confrontational and violent population, and they would be not only ideologically but legally obliged to stay out of things that aren't police business, like the so-called "truth" of any story. In any case, the veracity of any given narrative is for the courts, and potentially juries to decide, not a unitary, federally funded police force.

Its clear that many of the legal and police systems in European countries were built directly out of the legacy of the monarchies and/or fascism, where absolute and centralized power directly administrates the affairs of the law and the state. So even if they are more well funded, well trained, and more effective than their american counterparts, the threat of total control, and terror through domination, still looms large.
I created the BlogInABox[1] devcontainer to help people get started with Jekyll + GitHub pages. It's a repo that you can fork that has a site ready to go, and a devcontainer that has nice utilities like spellcheck & markdown linting/fixing. This way, you can use it locally in a devcontainer or with github codespaces and a simplified process.

It comes with a companion site [2] that shows how to get scheduled posts, comments, etc. working nicely.

[1] https://github.com/SeanKilleen/blog-in-a-box-container/
[2] https://bloginaboxdemo.com/

Hope this is helpful!
I agree with you on all points. It’s worth noting that the prime suspect for the lesser crimes you list (Sharma) is now dead. I suspect that’s another factor at play in the police’s decision not to investigate further.
Education and Socializing activities for starters. Slavery isn't exactly going to rehabilitate anyone. At best they'll be indifferent and at worst it will just make them more angry and resentful at "the system". Hard to integrate back into society with that kind of head on your shoulders.
Not just "Science," reporting generally. the reports that people were trying to buy Maui property right after the fires was "Russian disinformation" for a couple days before they stopped trying to deny the reality of the story. The roadblocks there, likewise.
> Look, I get that corporate America is strangled by puritan values from the payment processing networks on up, but it is arrogant and willful ignorance to pretend that adult content consumption is not a major part of the VR/MR story.

I’m glad to see this sentiment expressed here. I have grown increasingly frustrated with this very thing over the past few years. Anything which even approaches, erotic or titillating is immediately suppressed, censored, and pretended like it never existed in the first place. Apple is one of the worst here, but far away not the only one. All of the AI companies are exactly the same: try and generate an image of a woman and a bathing suit with DALL-E and you will inevitably fail.

Instead, they pretend over and over that these are simply productivity devices, meant to enhance our capabilities as workers or consumers of Disney-level entertainment.

I am a human being, who occasionally gets horny. I masturbate. This is not something that corporate America recognizes, and in fact, seems eager to censor and suppress.

A world curated by conservative HR departments is not one that is particularly appealing to me, and the Vision Pro seems like it is the month of this attitude.
Nit: you can group watch things with people who are remote. My friends have done this thing since the pandemic where we pick a show and all watch it from our own homes but while on a Discord voice call, and it just got a whole lot nicer to do this since last week ;)
Is the bitrate of the 4K 3D streams better than what's offered on the commercially available 3D Blu-rays? I've made 3D Blu-ray rips and watched them on the Quest 2 and they look pretty good. There's no technical reason a Quest device couldn't do 4K 3D movies, Disney and others just don't seem to bother for whatever reason.
You'll have to be more specific ??
Afaik no interop - they use different protocols.
I'm hacking right now want to join me?
Finally, a review that talks about that it is basically impossible to share this 3499$ device with others. This is such a glaring miss on Apple's part, I can't believe all the other reviewers simply ignored this fact.
Everyone knows it was Paul Le Roux
CEOs for many companies should have some amount of 'lower level' experience in the business of the company. I would argue the 'CEO' for institutions focused primarily on research should have a relatively good amount of experience with performing the research. A doctoral degree is a pretty good indicator that the person has done some serious research, so it does not seem unreasonable to me to want the person leading a research institution to have one.
Florida and Texas state universities, behold your future!
Just the fact that I can swap any part of this laptop, in cause they get old or worn out, is worth a premium price.

If it's worth _this_ much of a premium price, I'm not so sure though.. It's quite rough - compared to Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8, it's 850$ extra, with lesser (GPU) performance.
Maybe the author just needs some sleep. To “exhibit the supine behavior,” as we say in the business.
Saccade-Contingent Rendering
I find it to be pretty easy; some friends said they had trouble though. You can't see what you're drinking once you bring it close to your mouth, though.
None of Tailwind's dependencies ship to your production app. Tailwind is a CSS build system (mostly) so when you build for prod, the only thing that ships to prod is a CSS file.
The equivalent sum of money gets you _several_ somethings that maximise your social growth. A musical instrument and an amplifier. A competent bicycle. A squash racquet. A digital camera or a vintage camera, a kitted out darkroom and a membership to a photography club. You could do all of that for the price of Vision Pro.
> Postgres suffers from the n+1 problem, while SQLite does not.

?
Such shameless clickbait. Really makes me re-evaluate my relationship with this website. Working on my thumb muscle memory in safari. I think deleting safari history on ios turns off autocomplete and has made a big difference in my doomscrolling/endless consumption of garbage content
"Zombie" Covid particles may be responsible for lethal disease
Personal conspiracy theory is that "Satoshi" was an early emergent AGI trying to figure out a way to convince maximum monkeys to hook up maximum processing power to a network. And succeeding, apparently. Where are all those processors now?[1]

[1] From early crypto? In the trash, mainly. But it ramped up production, which is what fictional "Satoshi" would want.
There have to be limits to miniaturization. I have seen the industry evolve from 8088 chips to now; and what we have now was likely unimaginable then; but aren't we going to run into limits eventually?

When I look at my Apple Watch, even that feels too big (thick) to me, so thinning AVP is quite far off IMO.

On the other hand, all the research to make things thin will finally pay off when it happens. If Vision Pro can go half its weight and double the battery (even if detached like now), that will probably be the point when it becomes a serious platform.
Just from reading the page it seems like a mix of twitter and reddit. You can follow certain channels instead of an algorithm.

Not sure what they mean with "Dock it every port, your network comes with your"
Is it federated?
You Can't Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming
This is the key part:

I wrote in the productivity section of yesterday’s Article, “To put it even more strongly, the Vision Pro is, I suspect, the future of the Mac.” I’m kind of irritated at myself for not making one critical observation: the Vision Pro is the future of the Mac if Apple makes software choices that allow it to be.

I’m mostly referring to the Mac’s dramatically larger degree of openness relative to other platforms like iPadOS: so many of the capabilities of a Mac are not because of its input method, but because applications and users have far fewer constraints on what they can do, and it will be difficult to replace the Mac if the same constraints that exist in iPadOS exist in visionOS.

Frankly, I’m dubious Apple will allow that freedom, and I should have tempered my statement because of that. I do think that visionOS is much more compelling for productivity than the iPad is, thanks to the infinite canvas it enables, but if you have to jump through the same sort of hoops to get stuff done that you do with the iPad, well, that ability to project a Mac screen into the Vision Pro is going to be essential.

If Apple seriously wants to make this the general purpose computing device of the future, it needs to be 100% as open as the Mac and other PC platforms.

Locking this things down like iOS/iPad OS is going to severely limit the potential, and that makes me very sad.

Of course this is Apple, and like any publicly traded company they see $$$ above all else, and they know they can make the most money by locking the device down, forcing people to use approved apps purchased only via the approved app store, and doing everything they can to prevent people from truly owning the device they bought.
"drops" is an autoantonym - it can mean "release / make available" but can also mean "gets rid of / disposes of".

Here they mean "opens sign ups to the public".
Seriously!? I love the idea, but I perhaps love more that Tristram Shandy was your choice of character to chat with. You have good taste!
> doesn’t mean prison == slavery.

Prison in these cases is slavery, but that doesn't mean slavery == chattel slavery.
This looks like a journal article not a paper. It's not a good one but framing it as a paper seems disingenuous.
Just use SQLite?

Specialized vector indexes become important when you have a large number of vectors, but the reality of software is that it is unlikely that your application will ever be used at all, let alone reach a scale where you start to hurt. Computers are really fast. You can go a long way with not-perfectly-optimized solutions.

Once you have proven that users actually want to use your product and see growth on the horizon to where optimization becomes necessary, then you can swap in a dedicated vector solution as needed, which may include using a vector plugin for SQLite. The vector databases you want to use may or may not use SQL, but the APIs are never that much different. Instead of one line of SQL to support a different implementation you might have to update 5 lines of code to use their API, but we're not exactly climbing mountains here.

Know your problem inside and out before making any technical choices, of course.
Thanks for the clarification.

Is he not involved in it anymore?
the white paper was written in British English with a very specific style afaik.

which makes me lean towards Adam Back or Paul Le Roux.

personally I like to think it was Le Roux, which would be insane if true.

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-many-facts-pointing-to-paul-le-...
Wow. Slashdot. Haven't seen that on HN in.... a long time, maybe never? I was a dedicated Slashdot user back in the day. I miss what it used to be.
Oracle partner gets multimillion top-up after Edinburgh Uni disaster
We should put airTags on all prisoners so we can see where they get trafficked.
Correct URL is as follows:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsunggalaxy/comments/y9gba7/did_a...

(For whatever reason, HN seems to override this to 'old.reddit.com' + rest of URL...)
Yup, my ability to quickly monitor what my kids are up to is a big deal to me. Putting on a headset, software options for monitoring, they're just not as quick, detailed, or convenient.
> Decoupling the Web Payments API and crypto is certainly the right move right now.

As much as in the past I wanted cryptocurrency to succeed, I agree.
A big problem of AR is the other people. Google Glass wasn't so awkward looking, but it still had negative reactions from other people that could be afraid of being recorded, or information gathered from them, or apps that do something "fancy" with the people you see like mood detection, to mention something tame.

We are not anymore in the internet or technology of 2014, you can put significant intelligence over what you see, and people may be afraid even of things that technology can't do yet or at least that Apple should forbid in some stage (you don't have to go as far as an AR app that shows everyone around you naked, just recognizing faces and show personal data and selected social networks information is bad enough).

And that is beyond updates in hardware (at least, while it is visible that you are using it) or software.
That was a fine review and telling of his experiences. I am fairly wealthy and my wife encourages me to buy any toys I want (advantages of 40+ years of marriage!), but I found it easy to resist the purchase. Do I think that in a few years Vision Pro version 2 or 3 will be a must buy? Yes, indeed!

I just didn’t want to go through early product hassles.

I have bought Go, Oculus 1, and Oculus 2 products. The Oculus 2 hits a sweet spot: I always use it once or twice a day now for 5 to 15 minutes to run around playing ping pong, watching live concerts for 1 or 2 minutes just to see what performers are like, etc. I should have bought an Oculus 3, probably, but for quick fun the older model is just fine.

I hate to bet against Apple but Meta may win the escapist just having fun market. Two Apple products have however totally changed my life style: the Apple Watch lets me comfortably function in the world while having no other digital device with me: perfect for quick calls, messaging, checking calendar, etc. while I am out of my home. Much less intrusive to being a human being than carrying around an iPhone. The other product is the iPad, which does a little of everything, and is such a great form factor. I have an Apple Pro Display XDR monitor that pairs perfectly with a modern iPad Pro.

I look forward to something like the Vision Pro in the future that revolutionizes my life like the Apple Watch and the iPad.

EDIT: it is true that a good iPad Pro and an Apple Pro Display XDR together cost about $9000 and as spectacular as watching movies on this combination is, apparently the Vision Pro for $3500 is better, the iPad Pro and Pro Display XDR also have other excellent functionality.
I read it, but found it a bit long-winded and felt others might feel the same. Maybe not!
Thanks for letting me know. Guess the group is set to private or something off. Feel free to reach me @ benjo(at)cityinnovate(dot)com.
Even on the iPhone it’s one of my regular frustrations that Apple’s autocorrect tries hard to keep me from using profanity. There are some ways to mitigate that but it’s tedious and annoying to have to do so.
Would it really have developed into a hot war though? Already WW1 made most countries way less willing to engage in another one. Was not enough to prevent the next one of course. WW2 was quite terrible even though nukes were used only at the very end*. Conventional Soviet strength was overwhelming immediately after WW2; it can therefore be argued that the developing nuclear stockpiles contributed to the Cold War as it happened. It would have still happened in a different way, but the Soviets might have eventually prevailed without the threat of nukes stopping Soviet tanks from reaching the Atlantic.

Edit:

*: Which meant that only the "true" winner nations were able to hold on to colonies and go on military adventures.
If your machines are all hypervisors you could migrate important VMs to a couple hosts and turn off the rest. You could also possibly throttle the vcpus, which would slow down the VMs but allow you to run the machines cooler, or more VMs per machine. Finally the ones with long running jobs could just be snapshotted and powered down and restored later, resuming their computation.

There's a reason us old fogies were so excited when virtual machines got increasingly robust. We could use them to solve problems quickly that used to be nearly impossible.
AP server admins will likely de-federate the largest ActivityPub servers, like Threads and possibly Mastodon.Social if they start generating a lot of inbound traffic on their instances. I predict the AP network will split into the network run by commercial/big entities and the network run by small hobbyists/idealists. Running an AP server that scales to the traffic generated by Threads will be no easy job and not cheap.

Running a Personal Data Service (PDS) on the ATProto network should be much more doable for hobbyists. The relay and app view servers handle search, discovery, and caching to alleviate traffic. So a typical PDS should not see too much traffic. Now just waiting for the Bluesky ATProto network to actually go federated, but I don't think we are too far off from that happening as they've already federated their own PDS into multiple PDSs.
So what do voluntary prison laborers get paid?
All the people who hold BSV and need it to increase in value "know" it was Craig Wright. Everybody else is able to identify the extremely obvious fraud. https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/03/the-cryptographically-pro...
Segmentation is a horrible hack to make it possible to have a larger address space than what the word size of the machine would otherwise suggest.

Partitioning the address space into regions with more fine-grained permission controls than what traditional MMUs do is fine and all, but it's orthogonal to segmented memory. Having large enough machine words to not have to think about near pointers and far pointers is great.
Those are all good points. I also look at it from the perspective of having an "inside person" championing a package you both agree on, versus you convincing the recruiter to champion it enough for HR to champion it too.
EU has no legislative powers outside EU.
I am not sure, during the Twitter drama was in full swing Meta tried to launch an alternative, and how long did it last? A couple of weeks? I think social sector is filled, with boomers on facebook, cool people on instagram, kids on tiktok, woke on twitter, meme people on reddit?
I've received a few emails from myself, maybe four or five years later? It was a really moving experience. I highly recommend this service.
Probably because we need new ones badly. Reddit and Twitter are two sinking bot-infested enshittification ships and we need a new place to go. Network lock-in is proving to be a very difficult nut to crack in the dystopia we have created though. You need people to jump ship but no one wants to go where the millions of eyes aren’t.
From Code to Clarity: ChatGPT Impact on Writing Robust and Well-Documented Code
Differences between cross-tabulation and tabular tables
A broader way to put it is whether people really want a completely immersive experience for most purposes. I mostly don't.
I think i missed something. Why did you use the word “accessibility” there?
My first reaction was “yup that’s Reno”, but the same problem exists in colleges across the board, red states and blue states, socially conservative states and anything-goes states.
"Collect call from Bob Weaddababyeetzaboy" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
What if the ultimate solution is only achieved after our lifetimes?