skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this is a guy who has been one of the architects of Windows for more than 30 years giving you hints about how they achieved their reputation for amazing backwards compatibility. He really, really knows what he's talking about.
At the and of the day, life expectancy is lower in US than in western Europe.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ILxqIEEMg
Had the web site gone? I know they ended their podcast, and I miss it; it was charming. I had assumed that the website kept going.
As far as alternatives to what the article suggested go, I think the ideal solution would be to have a compile-time error, so the developers never even get as far as having their printing code try to run on the Xbox. And since it's a compile-time error, there doesn't need to be any kind of runtime error handling or cost either.
... and then the energy saved by using more efficient hardware and software will be used to power more hardware to increase total AI power. There is no "enough" AI yet. There may never be.
"Food™ from Machines™!"
I think you are on to something. While I consider NATO will hold together, it would certainly avail the EU countries to build a military of similar capability to the US to thwart Russia's ambitions of conquering all of east Europe. It is best to hedge against that, particularly with the rise of MAGA fascism (and its alliance with Russia) in the USA. I feel it will peak when Donald Trump loses in the Fall but there is no guarantee of any of that.
On the contrary: What you call "lawfare" is actually one of democracy's first lines of defense against Pied Piper wannabe dictators.

Just imagine: What if Hitler hadn't been on the German ballot in 1932 because of his failed 1923 Munich coup attempt. Instead, the weak-kneed Bavarian authorities did an Emily Litella and said, in effect, "Never mind" about his treason conviction and imprisonment (he was released after only nine months).
Meta wanted more LLM training data from us and we caved. Whoopsie.
Umm but you can’t find a current version of Word that actually does that. Try it sometime.
TBH, I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, because there is so much in this comment that belies a fundamental misunderstanding of statistical testing and statistical power, which is the point I was trying to make.

> Now there are 8 billion people, so it's worth 16 times less.

That is not how statistics works, at all.

> In fact, this is why I always trust science in small towns more. In Colma, for instance, you sample 500 and you have covered 33% of the people.

These are the sentences that made me think this had to be satire (presumably you want "science" to apply to places outside of Colma...), but in all honesty these days it's really hard to tell.
Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a little experiment I've been working on - it's called the English Wikipedia Vector Database API, now up on RapidAPI. It's a nifty tool designed to make it super easy for anyone dabbling in AI to pull in Wikipedia content without the usual headaches of text processing and vector conversion. It's pretty straightforward: you send a text embedding, and it finds similar Wikipedia articles. Full disclosure, this is still in the experimental phase, so please bear with me if there are any performance hiccups. Would love for you to try it out and share any feedback. Happy hacking!
Behold a capitalist "utopia" where maybe if you are lucky your community might throw you a scrap of healthcare once a year https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/economy_and_business/...
> I believe I heard that some larger companies wanted to investigate using MLS to encrypt internal communications, and having hundreds/thousands of people in a group where most don't know each other but they're all managed by an authority who doesn't want to be able to know what they're discussing.

But it's impossible for the authority to achieve that goal. If they manage the group membership, they are free to add themselves and read the discussions.
It's simple. You just create set of rules that will eventually end up in earth being created. Just requires you to be God
There are tons of tests that would falsify string theory. Demonstrate, for example, that it's not possible to calculate the observed mass of the electron, and you would falsify it.
This has already happened with the Republican party.
What a fantastically detailed piece. Remember when there was a fire on the tsmc line and it fucked auto manufacturing for months right when demand recovered after the pandemic driving the cost of new cars through the roof? Image that 100x, also with a deadline (China promised to invade Taiwan within 3 years). If I were a hedge fund…
Welp, time for a RAIStick...
As a Muslim, I disagree. A business is more than the sum of its revenues. Marketing, research and development, relationship with clients, etc. are all part of the business valuation. If a buyer looks at some business and decides its worth 10x, then that's not haram as long as you're not deceiving them.
Valuation is only useful if you're looking for an exit, and maybe if you need to borrow a lot of debt (but if you're bootstrapped, that's not on the table). For lifestyle startups, profit is cold hard cash and valuation is a number in a spreadsheet.
Give the examples. Businesses this size in this market have very few (/0) logical buyers.
If the two options are "this app can't run on your Xbox" or "this app runs on your Xbox, but the printing functions don't work and some of the messages are a little weird", which option do you think users would prefer?
It is often said that the wealthy know quite well the value of solidarity, and that’s why they work so hard to prevent it in the lower social classes.
The source of several jokes of course https://stackoverflow.com/questions/430182/is-c-strongly-typ...
Paying people to work on open source is good
Am I doing the right choice?
I am going to do research on Incremental Learning on September 2024 at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.

As of right now, I am working as Angular Developer, Senior Associate.

I was tasked to refactor 2 feature, checkout and experience.

The checkout refactoring went fine until I started to invite 2 person to work together. In short, 1 person invite basically everyone else, there is no code review and I suddenly lose control how the checkout refactoring should be done. At that point, I started to create the Google Doc.

I want this to not happen next time and the experience refactoring is about to start next week.

I deliberately created new repository with a `poc` folder, `experience` application and write 30 pages of Google Doc about the new change, which is:

1. Trunk based development.

2. Feature Flag policy.

3. Pull Request policy.

4. Semantic versioning policy.

5. Why we should use Angular 17.

6. Why we should create new repository.

7. Session Cookie proof of concept.

8. dependabot proof of concept.

9. Clean Architecture.

10. Vertical development.

I set up a technical meeting, include my SPV, and the CEO to push the experience refactor forward.

I work overtime almost everyday.

Anyway, they paid my salary 6 days late and have not paid the 10% social security fund. And no overtime pay.

I got approached by other companies:

1. freelance, work from home, for Indonesian who currently live in Australia.

2. full time, work from office in Jakarta.

3. full time, work from office in Jakarta.

4. full time, work from office in Jakarta.

5. full time, work from office in Osaka.

and the pay is much higher than my current job.

I also work part time to create a website for the ministry of health.

I am thinking to resign, to start over and to start study Incremental Learning before September 2024.

I really want to say to myself "one more day". But, I am afraid everything will fall apart if I do not resign and focus on 1 thing.

I should have taken it slowly.

I am overwhelmed.
It will be down to policy not actual lack of data on infrastructure. Or is the expensive part the mapping? Or maybe the insurance?

Older bigger cities have built huge underground infrastructure recently. Londons power tunnels & crossrail for example.
Someday a bad Congress can make bad laws.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't have laws (or not have a Congress).

This argument against executive agencies is nonsense. Complete nonsense. The executive only has power delegated to it by legislature. If it's misusing that power the legislature can always pass a law that makes the agency do something else. If Congress isn't passing such laws, it's clearly happy with the current state of the agency.

If you don't like the NLRB, vote for a Congress that will dissolve it. I can't imagine that will be a popular campaign platform, but you never know...

(I know why this nonsense argument is so popular these days - the Republican plan for governance is having a Congress that won't do anything - so in order to implement their reactionism, they need to do it through unelected, appointed judges, who don't need consensus when imposing their agenda.)
> a 2nd Trump administration

Every administration in my lifetime has done this. Administrative power is the boogey man, not the New York real estate developer who temporarily holds it.
The Democrats are too aligned with corporate interests to really cater to the desires of the popular left (or really the popular anything). Amazon bribes Democrats a lot more than Republicans: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/recipients?id=D0.... Especially look at their 2020 totals: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/totals?id=D00002...

No way a corporate Dem is going to break them up.
Sorry if off-topic, but does this link work for anyone else? I haven't been able to reach archive.ph or archive.today from Canada in probably over 6 months, even with a vpn connected to different countries. However, the archive websites work fine when physically in some other countries like Ireland.

When I check isitdownrightnow.com which, I guess, should be definitive, both archive.ph and archive.today are always down (https://pasteboard.co/fjau0VrVphdn.png). However, people keep posting archive links like this here on HN, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something here.

According to my (admittedly limited) understanding of how the internet works, such a behaviour can't really be explained beyond some unlikely probabilistic explanation that I'm always hitting these links at exactly the wrong time. Is there some really sophisticated geo blocking I'm unaware of that could be occurring? Sorry, by now I'm just really confused about the whole thing..
In general, Germany is not especially keen to enter into conflicts with Russia. They are a long time economic and energy partner. It is why Germany has a history of thwarting EU energy security and solidarity, and why it dragged its feet w.r.t. early in this conflict.
I assume the second private was supposed to be public?
> as the F-16 cannot fire the Meteor.

To be fair, the MiG’s Ukraine does have were not supposed to be capable of firing storm shadows either.

But that problem got resolved, and they are now firing them well outside the expected operational envelope and scoring solid hits.
At 4x it almost seems worth it to hire out the rest of your day-to-day and let the operation cruise. The company will probably under perform over time but you'll get more juice from the fruit.
Eyes on the street.
My impression coming from France, which I never thought of as particularly progressive on the technological front, is that Germany is full of odd, idiosyncratic archaisms.
Except now you have lost the ability to run all the software that cannot be fixed and recompiled for whatever reason.
I think automated summaries encourage shallow engagement and poor(er) comment quality.

A summary is not the article, and the map is not the territory.

What do you think they would add, and why do you think that is a good thing?
Python has a GC.
Indeed, but be careful not to poison your resolution cache, having a wrong resolution and re-doing a large rebase can be a painful experience.
It really doesn’t have to be this way.

Capitalism is like a game. For rich, greedy bastards, it’s literally a Monopoly game, while for the less fortunate, it can be life or death. But the point is, it has rules. Trying to change the rules and get rid of what feeble protections and regulations we have, in order to make more money, is just evil (in my personal opinion).

Corporations are not people and don’t have constitutional rights. I mean, apparently it is the case that courts have applied rights like the First Amendment to companies in court cases. But this should obviously be a very limited thing. We don’t need businesses to have a right to “pursue happiness.” It’s just a business.
Visual Basic as a language is just C# for people who want to type more to do the same thing.

Visual Basic as a tool for building Windows programs with GUIs was pretty hard to beat though.

Maybe there are tools that churn out fully-polished react just as easily nowadays, but I wrote a janky little data visualization app in 2 hours at my internship and they ended up using it for almost 15 years.
That twist-tie ECO process sounds aerospace-grade.

I saw things like that from IBM, just from their later Power AIX workstations.

For mission-critical computing companies, there was lots of process intended not to have anything slip through the cracks.

The first memory that comes to mind was actually DEC (or was it HP?), who, to send a single sheet of paper (e.g., for a license key), would routinely use an entire shipping box. Paper would be shrink-wrapped or poly-bagged, with a sheet of cardboard. Plus a packing list, itemizing not only that one sheet of paper, but also itemizing all the shipping supplies to be used.

Not very efficient in some sense, but if it avoided a single mission-critical incident for a customer, I suppose it was worthwhile.
> In particular, the desire to cram increasingly diverse and rich interfaces into 70s file IO is a strange sacrament

Long time ago I asked my karate sensei how come I see some of the black belts doing katas in a different way. His answer was that to improve on something one must first have deep mastery of how it is done.

(i.e. "Shut up and do the katas correctly. If you ever get to black belt then you can improvise.")

Always found that answer to apply to everything. In particular it applies to a lot of the poor quality libraries and code we see today as a direct consequence of not understanding the past and what has been tried and failed and why.

The fact that we're talking in 2024 about using the file abstractions of Unix created in the 70s is proof of how extremely powerful they are. Nothing is perfect, but that's quite an achievement.
... only because people have started removing books other than the "progressive" books they wanted to see purged. Turns out the Bible is a really quite obscene read.
Return to 2014 borders.

Done.
Death by murder.

Navalny was far from a saint, but his death is still a Kremlin job by any measure, and I suspect will only accelerate Putin's decline, as the state of Russian affairs continues to degrade.
>If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens

It's a double stretch to say that (1) the "rich" are the "most productive" members of society, and (2) that imposing progressive taxation on them somehow harms the economy.
Honestly I'd be fine with it if the public agencies just used it as a justification for a eminent-domain style "We're going to do this project this way in the interest of the public, we're giving you some cash to cover your immediate costs, and that's that."
The specific thing the author is suggesting is correct (components should suffer before users do), but I take great offense to their framing. "There may be times where you need to make an API do nothing." "The wrong thing to do is to have the printing functions throw a Not­Supported­Exception." No, no, absolutely no - what the author is describing is a hack to support a shitty client. Yes, you have to do this sometimes. No, it is not normal or generalizable advice.

The way they've worded this betrays the internalization of their suffering as a MS developer.
Up in Westminster/Broomfield, there are several actual bike tunnels that go underneath a main road e.g. on Big Dry Creek bike trail underneath Wadsworth Blvd.

The tunnels do get a bit wet/impassable if it has rained or snowed heavily, or if the nearby creek is running heavily (which is rare). But people dont typically bike in downpours.

It doesn’t really matter, the point is that cyclists are totally separated from car traffic.
Largely BS.

1) These are not clinical biomarkers used for detection of cancer now, and in fact, they are known NOT to be clinical biomarkers useful for detecting cancer.
2) This is a publication focusing on the device/method, not the clinical application. It is published in a journal of vacuum science, not a cancer biology or medical journal.
3) There are several inaccurate things in the paper, one being that they state that current technology requires 1-2 weeks to measure either biomarker. Wrong, clinical tests exist today that can perform those immunoassays in minutes on large automated analyzers.
4) This isn't fraud, it's just a really typically overhyped report of a novel device/meausrement strategy (and it's not that novel) that targets a biomarker that has a role in cancer, and then some mass media picks it up and says that they have "the test for cancer". This happens all the time.
5) This should maybe be considered a proof of concept about the electronics of their detection strategy, since the immunoassay component is known (immunoassays to both biomarkers are not only published, but commercialized) and the clinical use of the biomarkers is not at all diagnostic for cancer or useful for screening.
Because Ukraine lacks military aircraft, but got reasonable AA. We're partially back to WW1 there.
> It's worth close to zero.

Serious question… have you bought a business before?

It’s what I do.

This business is not worth close to zero, and the stuff that the current owner does (even if he’s some miracle worker, which xooglers aren’t guaranteed to be) can be handled any number of ways that cost less than $236k by some buyer. This may not mean you or the person that I replied to, but you two most likely aren’t a part (and certainly not a significant part) of the market of buyers for businesses like this.

I can’t tell if you’re circle jerking the owner, xooglers, or the (limiting) engineering way of thinking about businesses.
I don't believe they could run a battery of 81+ tests on a drop of blood. There simply isn't enough there.
Why do you think they take tubes of blood for testing, currently?

The issue is concentrations and the presence of them in sufficient amounts to be detected reliably and consistently.

edit: typo.. words are hard.
I think the problem is the original purpose of unions has been a line bit distorted. Originally it was supposed to protect workers from getting injured and making human capital just expensive enough to make your employees valuable assets you retain.

I have to be careful with my next comment, because reading it on the internet can sound like I personally look down another group of people, which I do not; my goal is to point out that it is not skilled labor.

When we’ve gotten to the point of “package handler unions” and “barista unions”, I think the system is abused. I completely agree with thongs like fire sprinkler installer unions on the other hand.

The other issue i have is forced union dues. Nobody should be forced into paying a private organization money. That is comically unconstitutional
MCUboot
Acting ethically can be turned into a PR boost, but it would take time and money to do so.
If I remember correctly, yes, they had a modified terminal that picked up cards more than a meter away. But the other comment is overestimating the damage, there is no way they took 'hundreds of thousands', more like thousands in total. Especially since contactless payments usually have a very low transaction limit (something around R$100 in Brazil).
How to get all your set git options:

git config --global --get-regexp . | sort -u

A hack I like that makes diffing possibly minified or formatting-mangled source files easier:

diff.css.textconv css-beautify

(Unminifies and unifies the formatting of css files before diffing them, might need to have the *.css type set in your .gitattributes though)

core.editor nvim

(Use neovim as the editor for commit messages and other things)
In color?

And I get how this would help narrow down possible suspects from a list, but I don't think it's going to be very effective at finding suspects in the first place, which is usually the biggest challenge.
Only a single data point, but my father, who was Vietnam-era USMC in "special weapons," wore his wristwatches this way all his life. He never really said why other than that was what he learned in the Corps (he had never owned a watch prior to then). I always assumed it had some practical purpose in the field, but I'm not sure what that might have been.
Or worse, crashes at a random spot because it tried to initialize the printer stack.
Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
I've been spending a lot of my spare time over the last year creating this little racing game. It's built in PICO-8, which is a really fun “fantasy retro console” that's been mentioned on HN several times. The console has strict limits and I wanted to see how far I could push them

The source code for the game is over here: https://github.com/maxbize/PICO-8/tree/master/Driftmania. It's a bit of a mess, but I'm happy to answer any questions on it or development of the game. Cheers!

EDIT: For those not familiar with PICO-8, there's only a few inputs: arrow keys, Z/C/N, and X/V/M
> Instead of just being tribal, it's better to look positions on their merits.

I agree. English is not my main language and maybe I should have used a different word than "side".

Above someone said that this seems to be an OS problem, which should be fixed by Apple. The person I replied to said "Or they could just not."

And that's why I asked why they were siding with Apple here. What's the benefit for users if iOS doesn't work as expected when a different rendering engine is used for a web app? How is this good for EU users? I don't get it.
Civilization is an umbrella term that usually covers multiple cultures.

We also speak of Western civilization, even though it doesn't equal to one conglomerate culture either.

As for 'colonialist' term ... sigh, do I care how people call Europe on Arabic or Turkish forums? Every cultural region has some lingo that reflects its history.

'Europe' itself is a Phoenician word that means "country of sunset". From their perspective, it was. Hereby I am forgiving old Phoenician colonialists (and they indeed colonized much of the Mediterranean) for naming some continent according to their local perspective. That is what people tend to do.
But what does "win" mean here? Ukraine clearly is not going to displace Russia, but they can presumably make Russia's occupation expensive and net-negative for several more years at a fraction of their current attrition rate, unless they're forced to the table.

And this seems like a functional loss for Russia. The Eastern provinces Russia holds aren't that valuable in any objective sense. Crimea provides an extremely valuable Black Sea port, but only if Russia can safely keep warships there -- which Russia currently is not able to do. Russia has certainly proven that if they rebuild their entire economy around the goal of holding these assets they can, indeed defend them indefinitely. But they haven't demonstrated that this is worthwhile or sustainable without a very generous peace deal from Ukraine.
"Never be deceived
that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth."

-Lucy Parsons