skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean this is the zeitgeist for AirBnb, the first word of the SNL sketch is BLAND.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5E5DkBXyfw
My guess is that if you want to use any of the common apps you will need the play store services app that does all the data collection.
Ah Kickstarter. I see why they tried the blockchain thing, but it probably wasn't the best decision for that particular company given their audience's utter disdain for crypto and web 3 in general.

As for this:

> The biggest problem for Kickstarter, though, may be that time has simply passed it by. “I feel like they just were left in the dust culturally"

I'm not sure that's really the whole story. The story (at least from what I can tell) is just that crowdfunding has developed a terrible reputation due to all the scams and failed promises from big name projects there, so people don't really take it seriously anymore. The rise in popularity for things like Patreon isn't a replacement for that, it's a move to a setup where creators are expected to show their work on a regular basis and provide an actual return on investment on a shorter timeframe than 'whenever it's ready'.
It doesn't appear to have been reported in Al Jazeera but the pilot did in fact report a total loss of instrumentation for a few seconds. That being said, no I would not say a sudden drop of a few hundred feet, both preceeded and succeeded by steady and level flight, sounds like a "classic inflight turbulence encounter". That would be quite unusual.
remember that a recruiter is probably spending about 30 seconds assessing your job application, and that you're one candidate out of dozens. In that environment they're going to go with the easy route and showing them a bunch of pinned, interesting repos with a healthy number of stars in a format they're used to is going to help them to quickly put you in the "maybe" pile rather than the "nope" pile.
Sign language brings benefits to the organic chemistry classroom
Not easily readable / editable using a regular text editor.
Oh, thanks for the correction.

If all the vectors are on the unit ball, then cosine = dot product. But then the dot product is a linear transformation away from the euclidean distance:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1236465/euclidean-d...

If you're using it in a machine learning model, things that are one linear transform away are more or less the same (might need more parameters/layers/etc.)

If you're using it for classical statistics uses (analytics), right, they're not equivalent and it would be good to remember this distinction.
I'm not sure if you gave the wrong link or not but this link doesn't describe any failure modes and how OmniLedger allegedly resolves them.
Wonderful. Thanks. I'll email you via my protonmail address later today.
Yes, but Google did that so they could update the WebView via the Play Store because OEMs were slow to distribute updates.

But the system still needed a WebView for when Play Services were not available, so they made a way to toggle between them.
Anecdotal but we are in an AI freeze. I was, emphasize was, using copilot for over a quarter for development augmentation and seeing good velocity gains, our organization, now that it is all over the news (AI not our organization), has asked us to stop using everything except for one free search provider until they can come up with organizational rules. It is like walking through hip deep mud. The difference between this and dot com surge in 98-20 is that it happened within 6 months instead of 3-5 years.
The amplification of Apple's prestige brand status and it's influence on conspicuous consumption is a function of Apple's marketing and branding efforts and not related to any IP they developed.

Sorry to break it to you but most people who can't afford the latest iPhone find alternatives that fit their budgets with very little emotional distress. It's only individuals that feel the desperation to gain the approval of peer groups that discriminate based on middle class luxury prestige brand markers that experience any kind of emotional distress from not being able to display those brands on their person.
Looking at the state of things I doubt it would make a difference. Roku might pay a nominal fine at most.
> I can’t speak for most, but for me it’s simply that GitHub operates more like a social media network for developers than a web-based git. As such I evaluate it by number of users because it equates directly to the number of social interactions I’m likely to have.

My final employer blocked GitHub as “social media” and rejected all arguments regarding its many other attributes. New CIO came in, heard of this, agreed it was silly and promised to have the block removed. Apparently somebody dissuaded him, because it never happened. Strange stuff.
Not exactly, looks like there's no requirement to have €1,000,000 in your bank account like you need for alternative app marketplaces.
Then his testimony would be easily dismissed by the government as Russian propaganda
You're not far ahead if you're running in the wrong direction.

The standard is prioritizing the wrong things. It's normal that implementations are struggling when they need to implement something as complicated as C++ modules for example. There's no excuse for the .at() method being missing from std::span.

On the C side of things the problem is more egregious, it took over 30 years to standardize typeof after every compiler ever had already implemented something of the sort. GCC's __attribute__((cleanup)) should have definitely been standardized ages ago with so many libraries and codebases relying on it.

What does the C standard give us instead? _Generic. It's just silly at this point.
I thought he was banned for having unpopular opinions. Or was that just on lobsters?
Why not use parquet at this point? (or a row-oriented equivalent like Avro or SQLite)

If you don't have a human-readable file, might as well be compressible, queriable, and metadata-enabled I think.
Sadly, I'm both grateful & frustrated that my brain only excels in rote memorization.

I have no critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

I didn't fully realize the repercussions until interviewing for management consulting jobs; it was humiliating. I became a CPA in my first career, which aligned much more smoothly :)

My brother-in-law earned his degree at a top Liberal Arts college and I witnessed what it means to actually be taught "how to think." He's an interesting case to me, however - a genius at that thinking style, but merely above-average in rote memorization.
Thanks! This was an interesting read.

I was hoping for something a bit more in-depth, though.

This was more in the area of stating/explaining some basic (and useful) concepts.
CSV is like an invasive plant species, or perhaps a curse; you're never going to be able to root it out even thought there are a billion better data formats.
Our repo hit a milestone today with 25k GH stars
I think they're very valuable if the position requires any coding at all.

In particular very simple tests (like an API interface, or reversing a string etc.) done in any language they feel comfortable is are usually a trove of info about the candidate. The result doesn't really matter, it doesn't need to run, it doesn't need to be complete, as long as you got to hear a lot about how the candidate thinks, how he moves through the problem, and how much they can write something basic, what they're confident in and what they're not used to do etc.
> I agree about fire, but I'm pretty sure you can count bees making honey as cooking.

Cooking is to apply heat to transform raw ingredients into a different, often edible form. Bees make honey by collecting nectar from flowers, storing it in their honey stomach, and then regurgitating it into honeycomb cells. During this process they add enzymes to the nectar and fan their wings to reduce the water content, transforming it into honey. Bees transform raw material, but not by heating it.
I doubt it makes a difference. SSDs are an awful lot better at sequential writes than random writes, and concurrent IO would mainly speed up random access.

Besides, I don't think anyone really has a local network which is faster than their SSD. Even a 4-year-old consumer Samsung 970 Pro can sustain full-disk writes at 2.000M Byte/s, easily saturating a 10Gbit connection.

If we're looking at state-of-the-art consumer tech, the fastest you're getting is a USB4 40Gbit machine-to-machine transfer - but at that point you probably have something like the Crucial T700, which has a sequential write speed of 11.800 MByte/s.

The enterprise world probably doesn't look too different. You'd need a 100Gbit NIC to saturate even a single modern SSD, but any machine with such a NIC is more likely to have closer to half a dozen SSDs. At that point you're starting to be more worried about things like memory bandwidth instead. [0]

[0]: http://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/202...
Divine Automation: Factorio and phantasies of mechanization
> "Did any company _ever_ launch anything borderline successful with The Almighty Blockchain(TM) that wasn't just some sort of token?"

No. But that only makes the goal more alluring:

"We could be the first company to make this work and unlock the untold riches of Blockchain as foretold by prophecy and the iron will of cryptographic destiny!"

Enough venture capitalists seem to have the faith too, to keep the money flowing despite lack of traction.

Blockchain is really the Philosopher's Stone for people who believe software is some kind of alchemy.
Does anyone have a better article on this? This is ok, but it seems like there are better - I would love to share with my team.

These are things I always share with them:

On code reviews: https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/

On simplicity: https://grugbrain.dev/

On SOLID (even though we use Python now): https://www.baeldung.com/solid-principles

I would love to have a "standard" article for planning.
I think 20 years for physics won’t really make much of an impact. Maybe you build an even bigger particle accelerator and confirm another well accepted idea. But, there’s not really going to be groundbreaking changes that affects people on the daily.
Agree.

As a developer I've tried to use Copilot and ChatGPT as much as I can to improve my performance, but even with GPT4 I've found that for my workflow the most of the leverage it gives falls into:

* Scaffolding of projects like unit tests or basic wireframes,

* writing or proofreading e-mail

* understanding cryptic legacy code that uses old practices

* saving me having to visit some framework documentation.

But I found it hard to believe it's the reason behind layoffs, as the ceiling of their capabilities it's pretty low when things get complex, and even in some cases can have diminishing or negative returns. Examples of this are hallucinations of APIs or code that is not compatible with the language I'm using. So it becomes like a slot machine, hoping that the next prompt will have a good result.

I think the main advantage of the current iteration of AI, it's like having the old Google back, before SEO and paid articles contaminated the web with useless first results.
This post has no rigor. "What happens if a node dies? Well another takes its place". Ok, show me. This is hand waving.
Apparently Bevy is a game engine.
This is needlessly adding yet another standard¹ to the mix. If you are in a position to choose what standard you use, just use:

• Whatever is best for the data model and/or languages you use. JSON is a common modern choice, suitable for most things.

• If you want something more tabular, closer to CSV (which is a valid choice for bulk data), use strict RFC 4180 compliant data.

• If you want to specify your own binary super-compact data, use ASN.1. I am also given to understand that Protobuf is a popular modern choice.

If you aren’t in a position to choose your standards, just do whatever you need to do to parse whatever junk you are given, and emit as standards-compliant data as possible as output; again, RFC 4180 is a great way to standardize your own CSV output, as long as you stick to a subset which the receiving party can parse.

Nobody needs “USV”, and nobody should use it.

1. <https://xkcd.com/927/>
they do? I don't think I've ever seen this in practice. And even if I do, having to download dozens of monthly archives is pretty annoying.

(Also for example SourceForge only gives mbox files to administrators, not to regular users [0])

[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mailing%20List...
Because it's not a market, that's the whole problem, you have to target both platforms no matter what you do otherwise you are losing some marketshare. (Unless you are doing it as a hobby like me of course)

It's not like you can install android apps on iphone or iphone apps on android.

Sure in a market you might tell the consumer "shop somewhere else" but that's not an option here since they can't.
Too many tech companies think their US approach of 'litigate to mitigate' applies to the EU et al.
Doesn't sound very "viable" to me. From my reading, they are claiming that (a) magnetic shielding is impracticable for weight reasons; and (b) heavy electrostatic shielding can't currently achieve even half the protection required for a Mars mission.

TFA is unclear about what they mean by a "Mars mission". The amount of exposure an astronaut would face would depend on the duration of the mission, and a (say) two-day holiday on Mars doesn't make a lot of sense, if the one-way trip takes several months.

I think TFA's most-useful observation is a throwaway: "but you could probably get away with just picking old men for the job." Yes - just choose astronauts that aren't expected to live very long anyway. As a bonus, that makes it less important to figure out how to get them back.

I suspect my slip is probably showing: I'm very much a sceptic of long-distance manned space travel. It's definitely a job for robots.
In the case of bodyshops, they've been a drag on productivity IME. 0 Would be better than any. Before or after AI. It's only the McKinsey types that always like to espouse the value of their own decisions that like to pretend they saved some money by outsourcing.
It’s stealing the last layer (softmax head), not an arbitrary part, also it targets “production models whose APIs expose full logprobs, or a logit bias”. Not all language model APIs have these features and this characterizes what APIs can be targeted and what can’t. These important pieces of information should have been written in the title or abstract rather than “typical API access”.
> BBC Verify has spoken to Prof Hany Farid, an expert in image analysis, who said the editing could be a "bad job of photoshopping".

> He identified a missing portion of the cuff on Princess Charlotte's jumper and a blur on Catherine's right hand and in hair on the right of her face.

> He said it was consistent with a couple of different explanations - poor photoshopping, artefacts of post-processing done by the camera to remove features like blurs, or a bad composite of images.

> "There is a relatively new feature where you have a group of people, the camera identifies them through face detection, and it takes a series of photos in rapid succession," he explains.

Or, a cynical take, you can create it from scratch...

> What editing is allowed by agencies?

> "You photograph it, you can crop it, you can put a bit of sharpener on it if you have to... and then you send it," Mr Edwards said.

> "You don't alter the actual picture itself. For instance, if one of the people in the picture has red eye, you can't take the red eye out, you have to leave it as it is."

Hmm.. I'm pretty sure that's not all media agencies do.

> What does metadata of the image show?

> The first version was saved on 8 March at 21:54 GMT, and the second was saved on 9 March at 09:39.

> Metadata in the Reuters version of the picture does not include any information about Photoshop saves, and says the version was created at 11:34 on 10 March.

2 days - that's quite a lot of time...

> What did the Princess of Wales say?

> She said in a written statement: "Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused.

I very much doubt she spends her free time editing photos.
You got it the wrong way around. The goal for both was to offer full time incomes and compete with taxis/hotels.

The “offer a spare room” and “pick up someone going the same way as you” narratives were about skirting regulations.
Silly Cat Wiki
Yeah, I was talking about Adobe Animate. It is not at all as useful as flash was, without exporting to flash. Exporting to html/canvas is a pain.
Why can't I just donate once?

I'm too stupid to use Rust, I just don't have it in me right now, but I really want to support this engine. Please add a one-time donation option!
A good example of academia in the US being exploited by China.
Practically zero economists set policy, the exception being that central banks tend to have a decent number of them. Mostly they publish papers and talk.
There's good evidence for it, inferred temperature of the early universe included. Obviously not perfect evidence, but even if you assume "tired light", it's another thing all together to come up with a new version of thermodynamics.
Sure, there are other ways of doing this, the demos don't prove what I say, they only show that the theory works on a practical level. The science-paper however, does show how this mechanism can scale consistency.

Think about it this way: Our system simplifies running inter-system consistency and makes it much faster. Considering that Spanner exists, what proof would you accept to validate our claims?

I understand that reading all the material and putting them together isn't a small ask, but no new tech is easy to understand at first. Anyway, the material is there for anyone who cares to look and the system does what we claim it does.

I don't think anyone owes us their time to check our claims, but I don't think the fact that not lot of people will do this changes anything either.
If you live in a place where comma is the decimal separator, your CSV files will often use semicolon as the separator instead of comma. Will this tool cater for that?
Haha, yes, that would be something to try, but in the meantime I upgraded monitors and the new one does not have Roku or any of Roku's problems. Yet. If Roku gets away with it this will be everywhere.
Charging Drones from Power Lines
Then those aren’t contributors, at least not at first; they’re mentees/students.

Projects which can follow that practice are substantially fewer than projects who can quickly solicit contributions on e.g. GitHub: requiring mentoring restricts the field to projects whose authors have the time, skills, and inclination to mentor, and restricts potential contributors to people willing to be mentored in new tooling rather than the (much more common) case of people who simply want to provide an improvement to code with minimal friction (and often minimal other involvement with the project, if we’re talking about point fixes for issues faced by the contributing user).
They would make money hand-over-fist if they did all of that.
PHP (the language) has long since moved past awful practices like that, and we can definitely tell people to stop doing that and use the provided safe alternatives instead. In fact, the PHP docs do just that. PHP is no longer to blame here.

Also that number is greatly exaggerated. It's simply not true anymore, check the CVE website if you don't believe me.
Dang, it would be nice of you if you at least addmitted that the front page as opposed to /active is heavily curated and hand-picked by you and other moderators. Anyone who has been on HN long enogh can see this, there is no point in phrasing it otherwise. And I guess people will be ok with this as long you guys are transparent about it.
"The story (at least from what I can tell) is just that crowdfunding has developed a terrible reputation due to all the scams and failed promises from big name projects there, so people don't really take it seriously anymore."

Sounds like a great fit for crypto!
> GitLab’s UI really feels like it steers you towards work inside of a company more than open collaboration like GitHub does.

That's kind of what it was designed for, though. GitLab.com wasn't a popular choice for open projects compared to GitHub until the "big migration" several years ago. Before that, GitLab was very popular for self-hosted internal instances (their customer reel demonstrated that). Even before modifying their OSS org policy for self-hosting, many groups ran their own GitLab CE instance. You couldn't (and still can't) do this with GitHub*. It also had a longstanding unlimited private repos compared to GitHub's free tier (formerly) that enticed developers.

GitLab's UI/UX was made for business workflows and processes (hence it being an "all-in-one DevOps platform." GitHub leans more into the community graph and semi-social media style for orgs/communities (the Discussions section a case example). It has come a long way for the business side, though.

* Yes, GitHub Enterprise Server exists: good luck getting it without paying for it (unless things have changed).
Of course, the Space Alien True Believers know that this is just another lie and government cover-up.

Similar situations for the Psychic Abilities True Believers, and the Occult Powers True Believers, and the QAnon True Believers, and the Flat Earth True Believers, and the ...
Or even Venus, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

(Text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm)

Both involved Cyril Kornbluth, what a great talent, taken far too soon.

Interestingly, Pohl wrote a sequel to The Space Merchants decades later, and I picked it up, fully expecting it to be terrible, and it was brilliant, and made me cry at the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchants%27_War_(Pohl_nov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon#Muon_sources
Wish the animations were playing in 60 or even better, my native refresh rate.

They look super choppy using firefox on macos
ECS is basically a very simple relational database. There is no equivalent of foreign keys or other constraints between components. I can't say, for example, "every entity that has a location must also have an associated mesh". If I forget to add a component it's just a silent failure. Everything runs fine, just the expected result doesn't happen.
Not parent, but bluegrounds and regular apartment hotels.
I don't know about my pet. It would need full storage access, and even I agree that keeping apps separate from each other is a good idea, security wise. I don't see how you can argue against that when you're considering monopoly issues.

On the other hand, Apple not allowing apps not approved by them and not allowing manual single app installs without going through their app store or some other app store does look to me like a monopoly issue.
Devin: AI Software Engineer
Why? A Java quine is not supposed to return the source of the runtime of JVM. Quine returns only the program, which in this case is, I suppose, the prompt.
The World's Largest MMORPG: You're Playing it Right Now (2009)
> You're implying that bees are less intelligent than humans.

While bees thrive in their ecology by using intelligent behaviors like dancing, counting, navigating, remembering colors and scents, and making decisions using a process that resembles cost-benefit analysis, the sheer scale and complexity of human intelligence is unparalleled in teh animal kingdom. Our neocortex facilitates advanced cognitive functions, including our capacity for reflection, conceptual thought, and technological innovation generally puts humans at a higher level of cognitive complexity.
All downsides, no upsides.

You cannot edit it in regular editor, like csv/tsv/jsonlines.

There is no schema or efficient storage, like binary formats.

There is no wide library support.

Not all data is representable.