skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could vote this comment up 100 times. I feel like the writing taught in high school set me back 10 years; it took sustained contact with actual literature while in college just to recover somewhat.

A finer point: the five-paragraph essay that was popular -- no, required -- in my 90s-era American high school is a great format for creating forgettable text. It's a succinct recipe for making an outline slower to read. Thankfully, we have ChatGPT for that now. But still, real writing can aspire to something more visceral, or raw, real, or just damned interesting.

(For the record, I had excellent English teachers... but the tyranny of the prescribed essay spares no one. No slights, Mr(s). Neely, Vosovic, Dewar, and Green!)
Well it was wasn’t it? There was a massive boom where loads of companies over promised what they would achieve, followed by a crash when everyone realised lots of them couldn’t, followed by stability for the smaller number that could.

It was the very definition of a hype cycle as far as I can see. Hype cycle doesn’t mean “useless and will go away”, you have the second upward curve and then productivity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Well, protein powder exists. We already know the building blocks of muscles (and therefore meat), all the various protein compounds. They can come from non animal and non meat sources too such as peas and whey, so I don't see how one can eat vegetables with protein and drink protein shakes yet still be hesitant about lab grown meat. Perhaps you are simply hesitant because it is a new technology?
Can't you start your own labeler and just agree to take it down? Then others can subscribe to your labeled to avoid those posts?
Great article. I think it would benefit from a sentence or paragraph on Amdahl's law to help drive the point home about potential performance improvements of serial code, which I would classify synchronization as one type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
that's interested because you created a point I didn't make, in order to discredit the point I did make

I won't call it a strawman argument since the grandparent post did say "inability to functionally govern and reach bi-partisan support for a lot of meaningful issues renders us helpless to improve bad systems", I was not making a point about bills passing

my only, isolated point, is that it is valid to be frustrated by the ways in which the parties are the same.

you decided to talk about one way you believe they are different. its fine if that was a misunderstanding of my point, but if you're not aware of any unproductive way the parties are the same, then this discussion isn't for you.
I know, that is the usual response online, then we get threads like the other day about Tuxedo.
Because they make more money using their servers for their own products than they would renting them to other people. Meta has an operating margin of 41% AFTER they burn a ton on Reality Labs, while AWS has a 21% margin with more disciplined spending. Social media is a more profitable business than infrastructure.
But with RTO people aren’t physically in the same place at the same time so if we have Monday, Tuesday people and Wednesday Thursday people they can coexist in the same office so we only need half as much space or to hold the same amount of people you get the side of the office to store, knickknacks, and and get the other half of this office to put all your bullshit. There’s awkward logistical problems to be dealt with but hey, I’d get a private office.

One imagines a mechanized office with movable rooms that squish when not in use. Too many sci-fi movies ;)
My understanding is that it is actually quite far still from both ecological and economical standpoint. Complexity of growing cells at scale is very very hard.

Where as meat at lowest productivity is essentially self-caring.
I added the career breaks, because I've received the feedback that gaps in my CV look bad.

However, I just removed them from being under a specific company or job.
The same applies to tires though. The driving style EVs encourage (avoid heavy braking to allow regenerative charging) reduces tire wear too.
Electric cars can help with some of the problems but don't solve all of them.

In the case of brake dust specifically, presumably electric cars are worse because they're quite a bit heavier than ICE cars.
Obviously this is a highly moderation-averse crowd so I figured I’d add one small voice of support: I was very impressed by this post and your comment, and think this is a huge jump ahead of reddits mediocre system, or god forbid whatever’s going on at Twitter rn. This made me much more interested in Bluesky, and I might even click around your careers page.

In particular, applying Steam Curator functionality to content moderation is just perfect and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before.
Democracies can't really be condensed into one political moment; that is why they are so effective against dictatorships. Dictatorships have to make sense to one person.

The usual pattern is authoritarians do something stupid, democracies do something stupid but also erratic, then time passes then the democracies reorganise to try something new and the dictatorship gets stuck in a rut. Eventually the democracy tries something that works to the amazement of all observers. The authoritarians are still pushing the same tired old plan of failure.

Democracy doesn't have any secret sauce for making good decisions. Large groups of people are actually notoriously stupid. But they are much more responsive to situations where the government's official plan is obviously not working and the evidence is rolling in.
My example above was of a 5 year old. At that age, she already spoke her own language fluently so that anyone understood her well (of course, they still have a smaller vocabulary at this age as they haven't been able to talk about all sorts of topics yet). Do you think a normal 5yo normally still speaks blurry?? Or a 6yo? At this age, and even up to perhaps 12yo, as far as I can tell, they're able to absorb another language quite easily, and it only becomes harder around age 14 or so... though of course I haven't run an experiment or anything. I expect your learning curve becomes worse gradually between the ages of 14 and 30, maybe very slowly up to mid 40's.
As someone that uses Linux in some form since 1995, has UNIX administration as one of my roles, I likewise disrespectfully disagree, having had laptops where recovery from hibernation required taking out the battery (luckily it was still possible), the fingerprint reader had its days, and no matter what incantation on OS configuration, video hardware decoding never worked, and were the only ones not able to keep a stable WiFi connection on longer downloads on my home network, requiring a LAN cable.

Laptops sold by OEMs with Linux support.
Yep it is still quite a ways off. Perhaps in 20 years it'll be identical, and perhaps in 50 years these lobbyists will die out and it'll be legal again in these red states.
Conclusions of the paper:

COVID-19 vaccination reduced the risk of post-COVID-19 cardiac and thromboembolic outcomes. These effects were more pronounced for acute COVID-19 outcomes, consistent with known reductions in disease severity following breakthrough versus unvaccinated SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Almost a foregone conclusion nowadays, but I remember when the first J&J booster got pulled there was a lot of (imo justified) concern that COVID vaccines might do more harm than good for people with heart problems. This paper seems to conclude that's not the case
Well okay, but there's an outer circle of Hell where people write code to manipulate Windows filepaths.
Frugivore
Can’t split states when you moved half way in the year
In Seattle, in the densest parts of the city are glass towers that certainly have filtered HVAC, and the poorest parts of the city are relatively low-density areas near the port (particulates from diesel trucks and ships), the cement plant, the nucor steel plant, the highly polluted duwamish river, and boeing field.

Density doesn't equal exposure.
I just edited my comment; see above.
On the internet, and especially on Hacker News, any change to anything is automatically bad. There was a lot of complaining about the new settings app, and in the betas it was genuinely buggy.

But then, if you don’t choose to get hung up on it, it’s fine. Layout and location of things might be a bit different than before, sure, but it’s fine.
Wow, it seems to do just about everything right, in a space where there hasn't really been any good options for a while.

I especially like the documented HTTP based protocol which might allow for some interesting stuff like uploading a picture to a digital picture frame.
I'm totally adding "rescue and recovery of projects botched by AI" to my list of services. One thing is certain, it's not going to be cheap.
What you're saying is completely true for tire particulates, but if you drive an electric car normally you're almost never engaging the brakes. Since almost all normal amount of braking is in the envelope of where your regeneration braking can take all of the power.

This counts even for hybrids though. A friend of mine had to replace his brakes after over 10 years and 180,000km on his Prius for the first time. Not because the brake pads were used up, but because the brake rotors started to rust too much from not being used.

Of course if you're one of those people that floor it and hard brake at every stop light, this doesn't work, but for most cars it works really well.
From reports of passengers in the rear of the plane suffering the most injuries, it sounds like a descent followed by an abrupt pitch up (elevators push tail down).
I don’t think this is a 1:1 comparison though. Electric cars can utilize regenerative braking, which can significantly slow them down before needing to use friction from brake pads in order to stop.
Estes rocket motors always supported multi-staging. I made a ton of many-stage rockets as a kid. In fact, that was probably the biggest development -- how many ridiculous stages could I chain into one rocket?

https://estesrockets.com/products/mongoose
I use rfs for that. https://github.com/twbs/rfs
It was built leaning, it can't actually be straightened completely.
It is nice.
But the status of GPU support in Linux is rather poor.

I can see it working only with VLC.

Firefox has some support while chromium based browsers have that only formally.

In the real world you never see the video hw acceleration kicking in, neither with webrtc nor with videos.

It is a pity.
Yeah, that is why we didn't had to buy anti-virus software, duh.
This short conversation perfectly summarized the reality behind the Apple <> EU spat.
Or, you know, just don’t normalize indiscriminate email collection as a filter for using a service.
Who the hell comes up with these words like "sunsetting"? I was working with a dental company and their software we integrated with our system stopped working. I called the company and asked why and they said "We sunset this product". It took me a while to understand what they were saying then they asked for money because they released a new one. Sunsetting was just a fancy word for a money grab.

Wouldn't be easier to say we abandon the project or kill it? Does sunset sound fancier?
Isn’t nuclear war specifically a bad thing to try and make predictions about? The cheat is to always predict no.

It seems unlikely that the U.K. is getting nuked alone, they have a bunch of nuclear armed allies. Even if you don’t believe in quantum immortality, if you are predicting ‘yes,’ you only get to collect your points in the ‘yes, and I survive, and so does the betting market’ case.
Finally a good rant with lots of swear words, sarcasm and telling things as the author sees them, without thinking if any of that may hurt some companies feelings. There should be more articles like that.
Does the Bluesky blog have an RSS feed?
Why would anyone run their own aggregator? (i.e. if you run a search engine, you can show contextual ads to recoup your investment and then some.)

Sorry about going off-topic, I realise it's only tangentially about labelling.
You should check out FitMe - https://www.fitmelabs.com.

It's a cool device that allows you to track your body visually and easily understand how it progresses over time! Fits within your budget and I've found it to be super effective in tracking my body and getting a sense of how my body is changing.
Motorola's newest budget phones look surprisingly good
it's a valuable tool wherever GPU compute is used. Not sure if video decoding would even register as utilization since that is dedicated hardware.
Your comment is baffling. You start off by expressing your displeasure at one of the board members, transition to talking about how privacy is "incredibly hard", and then vaguely implying that webtunnels have some sort of vulnerability? How are these related to each other?
> Market Cap $1.1T. Hype funded.

I'm confused. How does your stock price, which determines market cat, affect your cashflow to fund R&D? It does not.
Could the more selective intake account for most of the higher hit rate? I have a hard time believing either education is actually better, except a fancier school helps build a network faster and increase chances of being sponsored/hired by alumni.
Ok, based on your last sentence I know you are not worth talking to about this, goodbye.
Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears, by Peter Smith. Also his An Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems.

https://www.logicmatters.net/books/
Tenant-aware Serverless Postgres to build SaaS
The lessons being learnt are more on the marketing side, there are already some USENIX papers about how secure WebAssembly actually is in practice, as it slowly becomes an interesting target.

And by the way, Chrome recently had a CVE related to WASM, because as usual there are the paper definitions in theory, and then the actual runtimes.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40067050
Mentour's recent videos have become much more fake salesy ultra-high energy. I actually had to unsubscribe.

The same phenomenon is unfolding in chess youtube world. The audience of laypeople (with minimal to zero chess knowledge) who are entertained by yelling and extreme over-excitement and butt-plug cheating scandals is 1000x as large as the audience of true chess nerds.
Tembo CLI: Infrastructure as code for the Postgres ecosystem
Man it seems like there is some sort of special brood every other year lately.
Doesn’t the Abrahamic god specifically want to be impossible to detect? If you can get a god to influence the dice, you can easily come up with an experiment where you detect that it exists.
Not all public workers are exempt. We have public health workers here, and there has been cases of people going to jail for looking at medical records without medical justification. This is a nurse that is going 3 years to jail and a 4,000€ fine for checking the records of her ex: https://theobjective.com/espana/tribunales/2023-07-31/conden...

The immunity doesn't reach all public workers. Only politicians and law enforcers
I went there two month ago. Did not notice anything but the tower leaning.
I think the only thing to do at that point is contain wildfires ignited by the burning propellant. The other commenter's entirely right: it's not practical to stop a combustion reaction where the fuel and oxidizer are already mixed.

Here's a ground-level view from a similar solid-rocket failure, for some perspective:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTmb3Cqb2qw ("Delta II Launch Failure - Multiple Views - GPS IIR-1, 1997, Rocket Explosion, USAF, Canaveral LC-17")
I don’t believe it’s a new term. It means they are intentionally phasing out or terminating something.
That is why consecutive key events is necessary, to distinguish character versus a string paste operation.
For everyone else, I'll shamelessly use this to plug Netmaker[0].

Not affiliated, just a satisfied guy that needs access to private AWS VPCs across multiple accounts and would love to see them be more widely adopted.

[0] https://www.netmaker.io/
On the first point, OPA is much older than OpenFGA. To really illustrate the point, OPA became a graduated project about a year before OpenFGA had their first code drop in the public GitHub repo. The OpenFGA people are aware of OPA and I'm sure they learned from the tradeoffs OPA made.

To the main point, what you described reflects the current trends of authorization. Define a data model, define data that adheres to that model, write declarative rules that consume that model, make a decision based on those rules.

Where things really start to differ is the kind of data that they bind against and how do you write rules. E.g. OPA is often used for either ABAC (Attribute) or RBAC (Roles) while OpenFGA is looking at ReBAC (Relationships). Each has their complexity tradeoffs, depending on the system being implemented. How easy or difficult a system makes these kinds of checks has a significant impact on how you write policies.

Hope this helps!
Ever since Proton and Wine, Linux has been objectively the best desktop os.

You get the advantage of having all the software that doesn't work under windows, while having a windows dev environment that works very well even with Cuda for ML.

FTFY
> If it's been a few years since you gave Linux a try, I'd strongly recommend giving it another go.

I've heard this since around 2004, and did try it every once in a while. And while I have the utmost respect for the Linux desktop developers... the experience was never comparable to me. I'm a sucker for well-thought out and coherent user interfaces, and the rigid principles Apple developers have to follow are no match for a loose group of open source devs.

I will continue to follow their progress, but as it stands, using a Linux desktop on my main machine feels like swapping a Mercedes with a home-built Gokart.
I interviewed at a few Silicon Valley campuses in 2017-2019. I was surprised at how…humble the cars in the parking lots were.

Then someone told me the Porsches remain garaged at home until the weekend.
One of the conditions to being able to distribute your app in this way:

> Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.

Apple really need to be slapped with another multi-billion dollar fine.
It's not 1950, everyone on this site has a 1+ GFLOP machine so there's no need to squash a bunch of independent variables down to one dimension or as you call it "set aside race." Unless you're not a hacker, that is.

Even into the 1960s wealthy black people were prevented from buying and living in the 'good' parts of even northern US cities.
The authors get LLMs to perform pretty well in a variety of IF-style text based games. Which is pretty cool, these kinds of games are played and read in natural language, which makes them pretty hard to write AIs for normally.

Something I'd love to see one day is modern AI applied to other kinds of text based games like nethack. Last I checked nobody had managed to solve the problem of nethack AI without using hard coded heuristics and goals!
> Java doesn’t claim quite to be type safe considering type erasure is built into its spec, so that, by runtime, containers (for example) might be surprised by a runtime appearance of an object type not checked for or known at compile time.

Erasure has nothing to do with type safety; ultimately almost all types are "erased at runtime" since we have Von Neumann architecture where effectively everything is a byte/word, but this does not mean mechanical computers cannot run typesafe languages. Java reflection is arguably less safe due to type erasure, but reflection is almost inherently type-unsafe in the first place.

(Java does have type unsafety via e.g. covariant arrays, but that's a design choice, not a fundamental limitation)
yeah, but how do you get the hiring managers to see things in the same way? :)
Agreed. The site should automatically delete the uploaded photos after a set amount of minutes or seconds. No reason to store them.
What's stopping the initial handshake packet from being replayed into the network stack? Seems like there would be no packets lost that way. Also, what is the purpose of checking for "udp[8] = 1" in the eBPF filter?
But a car is used for more things than going to the dealership, and the dealership does not sell me groceries. Perhaps I want to race, or carry ikea furniture, or jump start another car - it is a general-purpose transportation device.

Similarly, I dream of going to Epic's website to download some Fortnite, maybe charge a thousand vbucks to mom's credit card if I'm feeling adventurous, and that has nothing to do with Apple or iOS.

This is how every single general-purpose computing platform (including Apple's MacOs) and the open internet has worked for multiple decades.
you're right, but people predict the future all the time, if there's a pre-established model for that prediction. I just threw a ball in the air and predicted how long it'd stay there </akshually>

so I think this comes down to how the predictions were arrived. One way to do this is to ask individuals who both have similarly high predictive scores and bet on the same types of events to explain some of their past predictions, and if their methods are similar then you've learned a new predictive tool.
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Three key philosophies behind C++
Sounds like twitter acted more ethically than government department. So I guess I choose twitter.
Radiant – The First Portable TLCD/RLCD Monitor
This is an old argument against determinism - I think a serious challenge is that:

1. Modern physics suggests you can implement such a lookup table for any subset of our universe.

2. We are a subset of the universe.

3. Therefore we are representable by lookup tables too.

...so your argument appears to prove too much, namely that humans aren't thinking beings either. Which is fine, but personally I don't think that's a useful definition of "thinking".
Are people confused by why we mean by moderation? Did we lie and call it "speech amplification?" I should think people would be significantly more confused if we began talking about our robust solution to censorship, because by connotation people interpret censorship to be the suppression of criticism and interpret moderation to be the suppression of disruptive behavior, even if by denotation they both involve the same thing.

If we're going to discuss the intricacies of language, we should factor in its connotations as deeply as the denotations. If you think an act of moderation or a company policy has crossed the line into censorship, I think it's more than appropriate to say so. In fact, I'd encourage it. But speaking personally, I don't want to chat in a forum without moderation, and I don't think you add clarity by casting such a wide net. I think you lose it.
There are multiple research positions, of course lesser than engineering but the work that researchers do in big tech is no where close to research done in universities
There is a decent sized gap between 0 acceleration and 0 regen equal to the amount of energy required for the vehicle to maintain speed against rolling resistance and air resistance. Anywhere inside that gap, you're not using regenerative braking at all, you're just decelerating from not supplying enough power to maintain speed.
Thanks for the kind wishes. I have some residual neuropathy in my right hand, and I have to take anti-seizure medication every day or my brain tries to kill me. Either the medication or the brain injury has reduced my brain-power and ability to articulate my thoughts by about 10%. There are some things that were easy before that aren't possible now, but all in all I've had an amazing result. The experience has entirely removed my fear of death, so it may even have have been a net positive. I can't complain!
What's in a GIF?
Google kills "feature unlock" app due to family policy violation