skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same, I expected a whole criminal AI generated novel based on a history of a chat.
Creative Computing was great too
I like this, it’s lower-level than Scratch, with a focus on doing stuff more than making funny noises and animation.

I want to have a play with seeing how you can demonstrate composition. Do you suggest any good templates for this?
Nobody is too stupid to use an auto formatter. I'm not even talking about that. CI can automate on commit or enforce it.

I mean literally it's just one command. I'm referring to style and neatness beyond the linter.
I feel like DRM is a stretch, the chip in the cartridge is used to track how many washes are left so it knows if it is empty.

The dishwasher can be used with regular tablets or powder. I use mine with powder and a small amount of citric acid, and have great results.
> Who is “we”?

Language is cultural and context-specific. Not everyone has to agree, but if you talk to software people about "open source" and don't mean what everybody else means, you're just going to confuse and annoy people instead of communicating.
> these days 1TB could fall on one's head without effect, but may instead be a choking hazard.

I like to point out that Johnny Mnemonic would have seemed a whole lot different today, when he could have transported "all" that data in his head without damaging his brain by stuffing a microsd card up his nose instead (or any number of other places).
iOS/iPadOS devices have never been marketed as general purpose computers though.

They have increasingly become that, and I’m not arguing that the limitations are good, but the limitations of the app store have always been core to the marketing of these devices.

The Mac product lines are the only “general purpose” devices.
The eye-opening part for me was that until recently I thought useless managers were simply people who wanted to help but maybe didn’t know how; that they actually tried to not get in your way but failed. Now I understand that I was completely wrong. Getting in your way, attaching their work to yours and feeding off of that is not an accident but a consistent, conscious method. Doing manager work is in many ways much easier than anything that requires creativity; not only you can schedule your work and stand by that schedule, but you also don’t have to deal with the psychological effects of failing something that you’re personally invested in. Ideally, society should differentiate between these two things and recognise that doing creative work (be it engineering, design, research, etc.) is harder and more taxing, and less predictable, and reward us accordingly. But in the country where I live (somewhere at the rich corners of Europe) there is this idea that everyone is just as important and should earn similar amounts of money, which has led to an insurmountable amount of administrative jobs and people who love them above everything else. It’s just a small leap from that to “you need to go through me first before you can do what you want”.
I suggest that the likelihood of accidents is connected to the ability to see hazards hidden by blind spots caused by obstructed sight lines and nighttime lighting glare.
Our brain is however the very definition of small and complicated. It's the most complex known organic object known to humans and for all that any given normal brain handles in a given day, it uses just 0.3 kilowatt hours (kWh) to do it. No computer we have comes close to handling what a brain handles with that power consumption.

ChatGPT by contrast, consumes roughly a gigawatt hour per day serving its users. Yes, to do this it's handling a colossal amount of queries, but that's all it's doing. Your brain handles everything in your body and consciousness, in ways we don't even fully understand, while also letting you think and communicate and reason as a conscious being with self direction.

Moreover, there is evidence that at least part of our brain's functions may be exactly as the other reply here mentions, weird, subatomic and deeply complex in ways that are difficult to get a clear grip on.
This is what GTK used to do. It's less battery efficient for an inherently less crisp option though. It also gets less seemingly crisp after rescale for for the much more common "slightly higher than normal dpi closer to 1080p" type monitors (e.g. the 125% in the article) you don't typically find in Apple setups.

Of course that's why subpixel rendering is all a bit moot on Apple devices. For a long time now they've just toggled the default font rendering to the equivalent of "none none" in this article and relying on the high quality screens the devices ship with/most users will plug in to make up for it.
Well, some of the people left their jobs after the course. (Employers were warned this might happen beforehand if they sent their staff on this course.)
> Humans communicate mainly with language and no OS provides this in a satisfactory way for the average user.

Most humans would have nothing to say to an OS. I am a software engineer and most of the time I function many levels of abstraction away from the OS. Most of my work doesn't even run on the same OS I work in, and when it runs, it talks to an OS that's not even running on an actual computer, but a construct that looks like a computer, but is entirely made up by a hypervisor.
I suppose it all depends on personality: some swe's prefer to write, some prefer to draw (I do both, but would hate to only have to deal a 1mil-lines-of-code fractal, but would be (and am) fine with the 1970 approach). The OP's solution then might be a great addition to my toolbox.
Yeah, apparently I have a very high IQ but I still suck at programming. I often wonder if they tested me wrong, but I was tested twice. IDK

Anyone else like this? Maybe I have a learning disability or something.
It is. I thought the author just mistyped in the post but looking at the repository example it's indeed backwards.
It's more difficult if you have lots of special containers (in this case with integrated electronics) that can only be sent back to a specific shop.

My dishwasher uses detergent powder which comes in simple plastic containers that can be dealt with via regular plastic waste collection.
HP seeking to convert print users into ink addicts
Here's a site that does live tracking of ships:

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:1.7/center...

"Since December 2004, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) requires all passenger and commercial vessels over 299 Gross Tonnage that travel internationally to carry an AIS transponder that include a GPS receiver which collects the vessel's position and movement details."

Counting across the longest segment of ships at the narrowest point of the English Channel in the feature article I see about 18 ships. In the live image from marinetraffic I see about 8. So even though the feature article is a composite image, the English Channel is indeed pretty crowded.
Adding up this kind of numbers gets you no where, well, it gets you to a very dark place. In Gaza, it already did...
Note that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others are also involved in this ruling:

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, TikTok, and hundreds of other tracking-based online
advertising companies rely on IAB Europe’s consent system, which Europe’s data
protection authorities have already found to be in violation of the GDPR
following our complaint.
Got a source on them actually lying?
What ends up happening is that every single commercial website out there automatically has a cookie banner to protect themselves.

It wastes everyone's time. They're going to track regardless.

The web is definitely worse today, post cookie prompts.
We really don't have a mathematical theory for large complexity. We are kinda in alchemy stage for this "science".
I think it would be appropriate to put Hamas leadership, Trump, Biden and Bibi all in there along with a host of others. They're all produced by the same awful games that reward powerful, reprehensible men, promoting even those with majority disapproval to the top of the chain.
It's up to the club. But if a club is fine with hypocrite posers, then it is a hypocrite posers club. Which is fine. Many people want to be hardcore, but their moms don't let them.
Nearly 40% fooled by AI-generated faces
Fedora Workstation 41 to No Longer Install Gnome X.org Session by Default
It perhaps is an error from the point of view of the ”leading reporting tooling vendor in China” https://www.scudata.com/about-us/ which starting in 2007 built their own Java NoSQL data warehouse+sqllite?!) platform.

https://github.com/SPLWare/esProc
https://blog.scudata.com/qa-of-esproc-architecture/

Composibility aside, I’m more interested in their identification of limits of relational algebra and the alternative keywords they use for things difficult to optimize in SQL engines than their critique of using English. For that, see https://c.scudata.com/article/1694595486828?p=1&m=0
Isn’t there enough markdown floating around that the LLM can deduce structure from the three levels of headings?
Sure, but why not shoot a subject at infinity? (I said "wide aperture closeups".) It's hard to even know which tiny part of the face is actually in perfect focus. And at the resolutions tested, you will need perfect focus to see any difference.
What identical twin research reveals about criminality
Methane: The tricky hunt for hidden emissions
> Without Google, Apple, or Tiktok, we'd have other platforms. Maybe fairer platforms?

Yes, GNU/Linux phones are strongly disadvantaged at the moment due to the duopoly. Sent from my Librem 5.
The Brotherhood of Morons
It isn't really a problem with profit. More like a problem of the commons. The Molochization of creating an informed society.
Bad CVEs elsewhere aren't an excuse.
EU regulators probe Apple's latest Epic Games takedown
Thinking about memory usage and optimization is the role of the compiler. The fact that some software necessitates the programmer thinking about it is just a consequence of current technology.
The interview archive is immense and diverse. It spans 45 years, from 1952--1997, ran 1 hour each weekday, and the interview guests range from the highly famous to street and school interviews. I've hit on a few gems in particular.

The AWS back-end could be browsed or downloaded directly via AWS tools a ways back, and was about 600 GB last I'd checked. You'll have to sort out your own directory of content, however. Much of what's in there still isn't included in the official directory, again, at last check, though that includes numerous fragments and partial-tape interviews.

<https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/>

I strongly suspect that Working leveraged Studs's interviews, though all but certainly went beyond them as well.
Remembered that 3D printing still seemed the future of lots of stuff. But still 99% of houses aren't built that way.
Curious, what about resistance to earthquakes?

The region where I'm from is at high risk, so it's common knowledge that you want quite a bit of (steel?) mesh to help the concrete building withstand earthquakes, but I see none here.

The structure also looks like it has big empty walls, are those empty just for pipes and whatnot, or is that going to be filled? I don't see filling in the video so I assume it's not going to be filled.

Still, cool video.
I'm not in the US - I notice that quiet people get ignored in every country I've worked in so far.
As long as I am allowed to write keywords in capital case I am fine with the syntax. I kinda like it. It smells like the 70s.
FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
The US government's interest in TikTok is mostly a question of national security, not privacy.

If they wanted to fight for privacy, they wouldn't have to go to China to find egregious mishandling of personal data. There are plenty of examples well within their borders.
The majority decided to answer a question not part of the case, namely that Congress must act to invoke 14.3. That determination means that the entire amendment is not self-executing. They leaned on the 14.5 for this, though a strict reading would be that the amendment is worded as self-executing with no stipulations and 14.5 only offers Congress an avenue to act for a universal answer to, in this case, the question of the eligibility disability.

The ruling justifies this by saying that it seems nun reasonable for states to have the power of deeming a federal candidate ineligible. That meaning is not stipulated at all in the amendment, and goes in the face of both states' authority to run the election process and states' duty to enforce federal law (in this case the ineligibility of a candidate).

The amendment does not stipulate that the power to enforce sits only with Congress, the bench made this up. The amendment does not limit the authority to enforce the amendment only with the federal government, they made this up. Nowhere in the amendment is it written as non self-executing, to the contrary 14.3 specifically provides a way for Congress to undo the intelligibility after the fact.
Kinda surprising how much power the EU can exert on tech companies.. and the rest of the world. But now we get one of my favorite classes of vulnerabilities: data format interoperability. Where every vendor implements things to specs, but the specs aren’t clear cut. Anyways, EU sure is asking a lot these days, and these companies are happy to oblige
Cincom Systems has been a pioneer of extremely productive programming tools since ever. My first real programming internship was on an IBM 4381 running their Mantis 4GL tool (in 1984-ish).

I like to compare it to Ruby on Rails. Mantis is Ruby on Rails for the 3278 (and Dataflex 2 would be Ruby on Rails for the VT-100).
the point here is that stone throwing kills people, it’s not a joke. so the policy of it being illegal and punishable is not a "crushing" or "hate crime" and definitely is not "hostage taking".
Thanks, exactly what I aimed for (:
Regarding composition, anything you had in mind? I can draft a playground (https://play.flyde.dev/) example for you
> So the problem he helped Shepard in, he has another company that he could make money on to fix said problem?

> Am I missing something here or is this... super shady sounding?

It sounds like inventing the ship and also tools to avoid shipwrecks. I don't think there's inherently anything shady about the pattern.
I was recently gifted a recipe book via Amazon. I was excited until I opened it up—it was just low quality LLM generated recipes, poorly typeset. There's no escape.
See my other post in this thread.

The authors are from China so English is not a plus for accessibility in their market’s business users or analysts.
Dobbs and Microsoft Systems Journal were amazing tools for learning. When MSJ turned into MSDN it was not the same. Both usually had some article that I could apply to whatever I was working on and usually with a nice example.
Yeah I would have thought there would be a clear line -- something like "if you are touching the airplane with a tool there needs to be an official record associated" -- and no room for further discussion around it.
> The thing is, it’s still technically illegal not wearing a seat belt

Check if the law in your state actually applies to a tractor. Some states explicitly list which motor vehicles the law applies to.
I've been screen sharing my desktop (sway) for years at my job. Years is not an exaggeration.

What do Discord, Slack, and Nvidia all have in common?
Some A1 context, they have/had problems with the A1 resulting in a full recall: https://blog.bambulab.com/a1-recall-update/
Because even the countries publicly opposing might have ultimately voted for, or fucked up their vote.

For example on Nord Stream 2, there was a polish vote "yes", despite there being a lot of very public opposition from the government to it - NS2 was regularly used as part of scaremongering tactics about germans.
How does this compare with Pure Data?
Good find! I've dug a bit and the extension, at least for now, does not send any metadata associated to your browser[1], only a comma separated list of extension IDs. Of course the IP could be easily used.

Looking at the result from the API of one extension I had installed[2], it lists metadata associated to the developer. I've tried to use the `chrome.management.get(id)` Chrome API and it does not return this information, and there does not seem to be a way to get the content of the manifest.json programatically. Therefore, to do the job of the extension as it is, it does need an external source.

[1]: https://github.com/classvsoftware/under-new-management/blob/...

[2]: https://api.extensionboost.com/v1/developer?extension_ids=gh...
I think the parent's point is that it doesn't need to be like that.

You might be an abstracted adding thingy that adds two numbers to get some other number. But you could also implement a visitor pattern that hooks into the guts of your implementation, allowing me, for example, to inject a logger to record what those numbers were.

Likewise, some ORMs have some abilities to bypass the query engine to hand-write a query, or change the way data types are serialized/deserialized - the key here is basically providing an API to peek under the hood when the user needs to do some stuff at a lower level than the abstraction dictates
I must be missing something here, what arguments could IAB Europe reasonable use to say they're not a controller?

Article 4 from the GDPR:

> ‘controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

Seems so obvious that they're a controller by that definition (specifically a "Joint Controller" according to Article 26), even if "only sets the rules for how data should be used" would be true, that would put them inside the definition, so even by their own admission, they are a controller?
I have no idea what you're talking about I'm sorry. If you're talking about style and neatness in the same sense as style and neatness in literature it's just as important in code. If not then style and neatness is just an aspect of good grammar and simple hygiene, should be mostly done on autopilot. Maybe you have some other experience of pointless pedantry but I don't know what it is.
There’s some pretty compelling research on the brain effects. Here’s a quick explainer: https://youtu.be/dCm6QLGnPPw?si=-OlxcXp8mRBHlCo7
I got a new Miele dishwasher, which is able to use "PowerDisks". I actually find it quite handy.
Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare
What angle? I'm talking about the definitions of the words.

Pandemic: occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population; characterized by very widespread growth or extent

Endemic: characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment; a disease or outbreak of disease that is typically present in a particular region or population : an endemic disease

COVID doesn't even really qualify as endemic based on the dictionary definition, but it's certainly not a pandemic.
I have not read all the code closely but it looks like you are scraping the HTML directly. True?

It would be easier to use the JSON feed for a couple of reasons:
- the data is segregated into types of things that you otherwise have to back out from the HTML/CSS
- you don't need logic for parsing multiple pages

Have a look at code I wrote on this: https://github.com/hughdbrown/who-is-hiring

The code to get a month of Who Is Hiring posts just hits `https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/{article_id}` with a GET request for a particular article_id. Finding the monthly article_ids is the only manual maintenance.

The code is split into multiple commandline tools that extract JSON from HN, preprocess the JSON, and filter on what I was interested in (rust job postings). You should be able to replace downstream parts like preprocessing and filtering.

See if any of this is helpful.
The operators in PostgreSQL used to represent something that feels a lot closer to rel algebra than SQL.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at pgsql code for 10+ years so this could have changed.
Snapdragon 800 -> Snapdragon 8 Gen N is terrible marketing. It makes everything sound like a point release.
Especially since it only takes two accounts to flag a comment.
Hi all. SQLite Cloud's founder here.
Our service is still in beta. We'll announce pricing as soon as we're out of the beta phase. There is no marketing strategy at all here, we are just developing one step at a time.
Retailers Selling Identical, Easily-Hacked 'Smart' Doorbells
Google announces major update to combat AI-generated spam in search results
Show HN: RequestLog – An HTTP request logging & retry tool built on Spring Boot
Simple integration for gaining logging and retry capabilities.
Looking for feedback and feature requests.
This feels like it was written in 1993
Making Powerline Ethernet Faster
Free Natural History Specimen CT Scans
Well, it is conceivable that the owner of the Bob company might post here.

I agree with you otherwise.
While I don't agree with the conclusion of the article, I still wonder if there's an alternative to SQL that is:

- declarative

- easy to understand

- scales well with the complexity of the query

Perhaps it could look and feel like a functional programming language but underneath uses the same execution engine as SQL

I've seen a few attempts at it, but none of them have clicked with me.

Thoughts?
Ah recursion and serverless. A classic big cloud footgun
A lot of “dependency injection” type frameworks run this way.

The framework or runtime calls your function, and the return value tells it what to do next.

Prominent examples include React and Excel.
>Any time you see two entities of similar size fight, bet on the one that thinks it’s fighting for its life.

yeah sure, but also bet on the one that can pass legislation regarding the other one.
>American companies need to start learning that profit seeking has its limits

Why do only American companies need to learn this? And in the same response, explain why non-American companies haven't stopped buying Boeing, since it isn't for economic reasons (since they don't profit seek)
The point is that choosing what appears to be wrong tool for the job and putting a bunch of engineering effort into it makes no sense unless you can demonstrate some special something that makes it all worth it.

Sqlite is very nice and frankly I love using it, but its data types, features, indexes, really everything is just a simplified version of all the of the more enterprise grade databases.

Heck, some of them are even free and open source, run in a container, and (as I said) have decades of bug fixes and solutions to difficult weird replication bugs and performance regressions from their various features they added.

Like with any new solution, its on the people presenting it to proffer why its better, and the marketing spin seems like you get a vendor specific extension to a thing that ties you to them forever, not so great for data that might live for decades!