skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - The UI for creating an account was slighly non-intuitive: I didn't realize that i could just start typing my username since there wasn't a cursor and there was a default name. It also didn't work very well in the vscode terminal.

This was a regression from a previous release, none of the colors were displaying properly. We have since deployed a fix. Your point still stands, we definitely want to make the onboarding flow easier.

Thanks for all the feedback!
I'm convinced the desire to switch from Earth-centric time to a solar-centric time will be the only thing capable of forcing our Julian calendar into obsolescence.
I was/am a very slow thinker, and I've never met anyone with higher task switching costs, around 15 I learned how to be clever and quick witted.

In high school I got really into drama and improv, to succeed at improv AT ALL I had to effectively have to be in an altered mental state. When I am being quick witted my brain is literally functioning differently, there is no truth, no data, no thoughtfulness, it's stream of conscious ejected straight from my brain.

Mentally it's not unlike skiing a steep slope but the single internal directive isn't "oh shit, stay up" but "oh shit, entertain", it's not even an active thought per se, just an internal bent.

Fortunately my inner dialog and thought life isn't racist, evil or cruel, as no filter is no filter.

Before I learned that I had the capacity for this mental modality, I didn't even know it existed, I finally made the break through during "improv training" sessions and the "flight" response that caused me to stutter and choke just spontaneously disappeared, I'm not sure if everyone has the capacity.

I usually engage in slow thinking, in highly social situations where I'm "On", it still feels like flying down a ski slope, fun, very mentally "on" and damn scary.
PDFO: A Cross-Platform Package for Powell's Derivative-Free Optimization Solvers
I liked the post but I didn't agree with that point about Apple. It may be necessary to read the fine print but I don't think they've ever had data they claimed they didn't have (e.g. they don't have access to iMessages sent and received but do have access to iCloud backups of messages).
It wouldn't be the first time there was an economic stimulus bill passed and that's what this purports to be. The "Made in USA" requirement is the only real difference. All the stipulations just makes this messy to administer but perhaps that's a feature.

An easier way to help taxpayers would be to give everyone a $5,000 tax credit. If you want to exclude to the top 5% or so for political show, the tax tables could be adjusted so it effectively does the same thing, with a credit claimable by those with a tax liability less than $5k. But since this is justified as a buy American goods campaign, it has to be complex instead of just helping (almost) everyone.
Game wardens should be neither mindless enforcement bots, nor "we'll show you who's boss, punk!" machos.

If (per the the article) both Pennsylvania and other states are busy moving toward de-criminalization - well, gosh, it sure sounds like top-level government policy makers believe the "crime" is neither bad, nor worth using state resources to discourage. Maybe the game wardens could take a hint from their way-up-at-the-top bosses?

Or -

> “The Legislature needs to address this,” Magisterial District Court Judge Raymond Sheller said while delivering his verdict, according to the Associated Press. “Everyone is playing catchup to science.”

- which seems to loudly hint that, from the PoV of current best practices for wildlife management, the "crime" is reasonable/acceptable/responsible behavior. Game wardens are supposed to know and care a bit about that kinda stuff, aren't they?
fastmail has masked email and I use that pretty regularly which can do the same thing. It also apparently integrates well with existing password managers like 1password and bitwarden. I haven't used that feature myself, but maybe it would work well enough for you.
The bike pictured is a VanMoof S3 which was discontinued when VanMoof went bust.
Can't upvote more. Very bizarre cult classic. Probably hard to find though.
Geometric Algebra was a complete mystery to me until I finally realized: it is just polynomial multiplication, but with some quantities for which the order of multiplication matters, and which have a weird multiplication table: i*i = 1, i*j = -j*i. That's it. Most intros present geometric product of two vectors:

(x1*i + y1*j) * (x2*i + y2*j)

as some deep mysterious thing, but its just the same FOIL polynomial multiplication you learned in freshman algebra:

(x1*i + y1*i)(x2*i+y2*j) = x1*x2*i*i + x1*y2*i*j + y1*x2*j*i + y1*y2*j*j

= (x1*x2 + y1*y2) + (x1*y2 - y2*x1)*i*j

The quantity in the first parenthesis, above, is the our old familiar dot product. The quantity in the second parenthesis is our old friend the cross product, but expressed in a new dimension whose basis is i*j, and which--unlike the cross product--generalizes to any number of dimensions. In GA its called the "wedge product".

Once you "get" that, you find that doing things like deriving rotation formulas, etc, become easy, because you can apply all the skills you developed in algebra to solving geometric problems.
Legally it doesn't matter - in fact you could say the courts practically endorse making emulators to compete with existing platforms, given quotes like this from Sony v. Connectix (where Sony attempted to sue Connectix for making a commercial (sold on shelves) emulator for the PlayStation which was then being actively commercialized):

> The Virtual Game Station is a legitimate competitor in the market for platforms on which Sony and Sony-licensed games can be played. See Sega, 977 F.2d at 1522-23. For this reason, some economic loss by Sony as a result of this competition does not compel a finding of no fair use. Sony understandably seeks control over the market for devices that play games Sony produces or licenses. The copyright law, however, does not confer such a monopoly. See id. at 1523-24 ("[A]n attempt to monopolize the market by making it impossible for others to compete runs counter to the statutory purpose of promoting creative expression and cannot constitute a strong equitable basis for resisting the invocation of the fair use doctrine.").

- 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corp.
Wasn't there some dubious history with OpenAI and poorly paid workers in the third world?
This is why I put my Netlify site behind cloudflare. I know CF is not well liked by the HN crowd but they don't pull this sort of moves.
whisper.cpp supports a model with "speaker segmentation" or "local diarization".
It is called "local" because that it doesn't name the distinct speakers;
it only tells you when the speaker changes.
See https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/1715#issueco....
Once you compile whisper.cpp and download the model,
run `main` with that model and the option `-tdrz true`.
Lowest incidents of reported rape against women/girls does not mean the numbers are actually low. Japan has a lot of issues with police not doing their job on these cases, and a lot of social blowback from reporting (e.g. if it got in the news, the woman could lose her job with no recourse, or be expelled from school).
This is super cool. Haven't seen such a pragmatic framework for composing local LLM action, especially in rust
When the hobbies become indistinguishable from the job. Congrats on the reentry.
Show HN: I built a simple user survey tool for SaaS
Hi all, I spent the last little while on building Survser, which is a simple and affordable in-app survey solution for SaaS apps.

I started working on Survser because I found that most of the solutions on the market are too expensive for smaller projects.

Some feature highlights:

- Fully customizable survey appearance to match your brand
- Flexible survey triggers let you ask the right question at the right time to collect contextual feedback
- A growing selection of ready made survey templates to quickly get you started with best practices of user research

Hope you like it as much as I liked building it! If there is anything you would like to know, I'm here to answer.
how do u report a digital wallet theft? are their cyber cops in cyber
space
Why bother? Given the breadth of diagnostic classes these days, there's a good chance you can find a practitioner[0] willing to make a diagnosis. That said, aside from getting funding for treatment or acceptance of accommodations, receiving a label of disordered often does not help, but does add harmful stigmatization. The OP's son seems normal, functioning, and isn't harming anyone. On the other hand, the diagnosing practitioner may need to be tested for Overpathologization Disorder[0].

[0]: http://www.psychologysalon.com/2012/01/overpathologization-d...
What am I watching here?
That’s a good overview of uses. I wish the interviews were less filtered. It felt like most of the people really wanted to sound like they were using this fancy new tech while making sure people didn’t think it replaced them in any way. I feel like reaching out to non-management would have gotten better on-the-ground experiences, both good and bad.

The other interesting thing is how reliant on midjourney companies seemed to be, despite local options giving the tools to have way more control over the product. The one example was not being able to get someone to float through prompting. That would not have been an issue with a local option using controlnet, inpainting ir img2img. If agencies aren’t using something like the comfyui krita extension, they are seriously missing out on the potential of this tech.
Umm, no. It's a booster of an orbital rocket, the booster itself is not orbital. Falcon 9 stages super early even compared to other rockets, specifically so the booster can come back before it gains anywhere near a significant fraction of orbital energy.

This is great because it does make it practical to recover the booster, but it's only possible by making the second stage significantly larger and more powerful than comparable rockets that stage later.

If the booster got up to orbital velocity, it would burn up just like the Rocket Lab "mothership" host satellite that accompanied the Varda capsule. They were coupled together, the mothership performed the braking burn to adjust their orbit into a reentry trajectory before the two separated. Only a minuscule amount of drift separated the two as they hit the atmosphere, but while the mothership burned up, the capsule survived.

If Falcon's booster achieved orbit, it would burn up just the same. The only reason it doesn't, is that it's only going a tiny fraction of orbital velocity when it comes home.
Quick-wittiness would be overrated. Better to hasten slowly and avoid lethal mistakes. Like using feet and meters to navigate a spacecraft.

https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metr...
> which effectively sidesteps all the need for the user to worry about array indices and having them in the right range.

How does converting AoS to SoA eliminate the need to worry about array indices? If you have an array of structs with N entities and convert that to a struct of arrays each array would also have N entities, so out-of-bounds accesses in one would be equally out-of-bounds in the other.
Hypothetical AI election disinformation risks vs. real AI harms
I think it's much simpler than that, because I did it myself, on a HPC scale high performance materials simulation code. Is it simple? Yes. It's easy? No, because you need to design for that and be mindful during implementation (const correctness, guarantees by design, valgrind tests, unit sealing, etc.). I think it can be made much simpler with smart pointers, etc. if speed is not that important.

We push humans too much to develop things fast. C++ is not very conductive to that, yet it's the only tool which works in some cases.

I won't retype my views about Rust because it's all over this thread. Just I'll tell that I'm against vilifying C/C++ as evil because they can be held wrong. I believe things can and shall be able to held wrong. Knowing failure modes and shortcomings is a plus. Because you can then hold dangerous things right, and appreciate things which promote holding things right.
'hits back' is a funny way to put it; just because the rust is "smaller than a pin head" doesn't make it ok, nor that its from dust accumulated from transport, still stains the metal. Just admit its a problem and wrap the things like every other car manufacturer

Ironically they might have sold better as Corten Steel; patina definitely has a market
Hollywood does slow explosions too. Its kind of a funny meta-anachronism when CGI uses the slow firey explosions that I suppose are inherited from the limitations of practical effects using gasoline deflagrations.

YouTube has shown people real big explosions (Beirut, Tianjin, etc) and how vicious they are, but you rarely see a CGI shock wave.

Rockets too, RPGs are fast but movies have them sauntering through the air.
Ok, but what if we feed the fish 500 l of jet fuel?
Thank you.

Make sure the puncture location is well documented.
That is a large part of the battel.
No, maybe, yes.

The philosophical argument against intelligent design is unfalsifiable (any evidence could have been created by an omnipotent creator for ineffable reasons), it is unnecessary to account for any of the evidence we have so far, and its proponents are not arguing in good faith.

"Could X be an alien megastructure?" isn't necessarily unfalsifiable, could be an attempt to account for evidence that doesn't fit in current theory, and could be in good faith, but it could also be proposed by people who just believe there are aliens out there in cases where there are obvious explanations and will just move on to a different "but this is definitely aliens" if the first doesn't pan out.
700 people must not be doing anything. Or more likely the dude is just high on his own supply
How to be smarter and happier? Broaden your friendship group
Yes I have actually. Jaspr is a very nice choice, especially if you have experience with Flutter.

However, Pheasant is much different from Jaspr. Pheasant makes use of component files (similar to how modern Vue or Svelte looks like); Jaspr takes inspiration from Flutter. Also, Pheasant has a different target audience from Jaspr, and aims to be a "new" framework, rather than an "alternative" to an existing platform.
Apple to disclose AI plans later this year, CEO Tim Cook says
Debouncing in Queueing Systems: Optimizing Efficiency in Asynchronous Workflows
The boosters aren't themselves orbital, and while the Dragon capsules have re-entered several dozen times now, they splashdown in water. I think technically Starliner would better fit the case of a commercial company landing a spacecraft on US soil.
> Low IQ is more predictive of success than High IQ.

I'm curious what you meant by that. Could you please explain?
Uh oh, do they have my payment info from when I bought Castle of the Winds?
I have 800+ accounts managed with a password manager
Yes, I heard it the first time that you didn't answer my question and instead changed subject. The fact is that no one was stopping you from saying on Twitter that diversity is bad for the talent pool, you just made it up.
Excellent article and the methods described are accurate. I was speaking extensively about this from 2017-2020 and the usual reaction when I talked about this was disbelief. I was not surprised when In-Q-Tel came calling. I pitched them a military grade privacy protocol but my suspicion was that they were more interested in spying on our users (a non-starter).
par files still used in newsgroups.
Ah! Cool. He’s a good dude and I think was instrumental in getting me (and many others, I’m sure) interested in VATSIM.
>I sometimes wonder what western historians will think when they study this era 100 years from now?

I sometimes find myself wanting aliens to find us and make contact, just so we can have an outside, hypothetically enlightened source (if we're going by the Star Trek fantasy) to say "You're doing WHAT?!"
totally agreed, and its so common that some places like snowflake give you div0 and div0null to opt into just returning 0 or null in those cases
In Poland, drinking in public space (with some exceptions) is forbidden. Sometimes police will issue fines even for “intention to drink” if they see a person with an unopened bottle of beer.
I just pulled up the apps info on my phone and sorted the apps by size. There are 128 apps installed on my phone and 67 are < 100MB. The median size of all the apps is 91MB, although I'm not sure thats fair because the app sizes seem to included data stored within them too. Example: The photo app is 225MB but 2.5GB (as denoted in the sorted-by-size app list) with all the stored data.
The article says:
> Edmonds received bone marrow and blood stem cells from the donor in 2019.

The extra five years of life may be a nothing-burger to you, but to Edmonds and his family and friends, I'm sure it has slightly more meaning. Also, most people at 72 don't look entirely healthy and many have multiple health issues.
A relativistic asteroid would not be a good time for earth. Apparently according to gpt4 (so big grain of salt), a 1km asteroid going 0.9c is roughly 4.37×10^16 megatons of TNT worth of energy.
For almost all my signups these days i use FastMail's email alias feature (built in support in 1Pass now too). I adore it.

The moment someone comes up with that for CCs with no real downside i'm signing up for them too.
You can even do it without 100% causing cancer now.

here's a breakdown of the current progress in a chart.

https://www.lifespan.io/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/...
This just a seems like a poor use of resources… why go after someone for doing something that is in a grey area of the law, and at least morally doesn’t seem like a bad thing to do. I mean if they busted him for helping them poach game, great. But seems like there would be more productive uses of their time - or hey maybe they just wanted to boost their “stats”
Kroger made about $2B in profit against about $145B of expenses:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KR/financials/

Albertson's was a bit better, earning $2B in profit against $77B in expenses:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ACI/financials/

(Look at cost of revenue + Operating expenses)

IOW - These businesses are not awash in cash and profits. A slight increase in costs (wages, etc) would wipe out their profits or put them in the red. A slight decrease in costs or increase in prices would help their business quite a lot.

Also, the grocery business overall is very fragmented and local, despite some large chains. And grocers most certainly do not have any ability whatsoever to control market prices or market wages. They are "price takers" in both cases.

Their combined market share would be only ~12%, putting them in second place behind Walmart at ~18%
https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2022/10/14/kroger-...
There is a long, thick (hold your jokes) tail of grocery stores getting the remaining 3/4 of the market. This is not even remotely a monopoly situation.
The linked page to their company site specifically states "We are FAA Part 107 Certified and Fully Insured." As the article does not state anything related to violating FAA rules, it'd be safe to assume (until proven otherwise) that this commercially licensed company was following FAA rules.

This seems to be specific to PA game laws and at least at a glance, seems like it might be entrapment by the game wardens.
"Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages
The last point of that comment is the core to "never use mocks": implementing a fake that behaves exactly as the real implementation means that you can run a test that passes both for the fake B and B.

Eg a simple example is having FakeSentimentAnalysis that will behave exactly like SentimentAnalysis for the classes it can return. You can then have an identical (parametrized) test that works on both, and from there on, you can trust that this test will break when fake diverges from the real implementation, without having to worry about mocks littered through code.

I like to push that even further and implement fakes inside the code/library/service that implements the real thing too: this ensures interfaces are really identical, and you only need to structure the code using the same approach.

As this is all code under your control, that is an ideal which is not hard to achieve if the entire team accepts that mindset.
Disagree. Set realistic goals, achieve them, and finish your life satisfied that you've done what you set out to do. Constantly demanding more is a recipe for being unsatisfiable.

If I died today, I'd do so happy that I checked off the most important things on my list. I gain nothing by adding another 100 things to the list just so I can say that life is too short. It's long enough for what I want to do; anything more is a bonus.
Login and payment info tells me this hack is not likely. Maybe a few accounts were sprayed.
Almost 45 years. Started as a kid in the 1970s with an Apple 2 and some sort of timesharing system (MUSIC/SP?). Regret not getting a degree (it seemed like a step backward at the time). I moved from systems programming to “web” programming which sort of became systems programming once we moved beyond simple CGIs.

I don't particularly enjoy it any more, too much gatekeeping. Oh? You don't know the specialized name from 1997 for a common pattern that has been around since the 1960s? You must not really know how to “program”. I find we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. We have multi gigahertz systems that barely seem better than the megahertz systems a generation ago.
I served as a strike cell attorney in Baghdad during the Daesh fight (Operation Inherent Resolve).

Specific criteria are classified, but the U.S. military systematizes the four LOAC principles: military necessity, distinction, proportionality, no unnecessary suffering.

Positive identification goes only to the first two principles, and—while I don't know specifics—the DoD's "human in the loop not on the loop" AI philosophy makes me think that AI won't satisfy PID by itself. In addition to that, all munitions targets would have to meet CDE in accordance with CJCSI 3160.01. In my experience, there is typically a CDE expert as well as a lawyer involved in every targeting decision.
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Yes, that's the opposite of _Dracula_, though. Dracula isn't overwhelmed by the modern world, he's defeated by it. That's not the same thing. He's no Lestat in _Interview_, driven to catatonia by change.*

Dracula loves the modern world (particularly with its lack of Catholicism & peasant superstitions about how to fight vampires). He is, in fact, an enthusiast for modernity and England, an anglophile otaku, you might say, with a library stuffed full of English books & periodicals he reads obsessively: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_2

Further, he is a dark counterpart to Van Helsing in that throughout the novel, he is 'waking up', and scientifically experimenting in learning how to use his vampiric powers effectively in the modern context, and Van Helsing tells us that Dracula was only days away from becoming invincible, after discovering that he is allowed to transport his own coffin-soil and hide them away in places that only Dracula's fog or animal forms could ever reach: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dracula/Chapter_23 (Rather than depending on humans, who keep receipts and addresses, and happily reveal the locations of all of the coffins to the protagonists.)

It is only by the skin of their teeth that they are able to destroy his backups before he has figured out how to move & hide them, and reduce him to a single backup and force him to flee to Transylvania before he finishes his 'hard takeoff vampire Singularity', if you will.

* yes, I know Rice retconned this for her narrative convenience so she could churn out sequel after sequel. Nevertheless.