skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I am curious if there’s been any work on _semantic_ diff tools as well (for when eg the syntax changes but the meaning is the same).

if you do this your difftool becomes a compiler
Google is in the familiar position where there numbers are good, the charts are all pretty, but when you go put your ear to the ground, you only hear sounds of trouble.

If google had proper leadership, the company would easily be worth twice it's current value. Easily. Instead we have a situation where raw capitalist inertia is carrying the company forward, while active discussions of the company are ridden with grievances and frustrations. Grievances and frustrations in a market where there are competitors that users can flee to. It's a bad spot to be in.

There is no reason Google shouldn't be the ones on the cusp of releasing GPT-5 level LLMs. None. Instead however they have a middling LLM that is scared to mention white people. So back to the drawing board so they can work out the racial kinks, while the competition blasts past them.

Google needs big company technology focused leadership 5 years ago. But tomorrow would be good too.
> Say that to people with cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy who are getting real, lifesaving treatments now that were simply not available a few years ago.

Its an unfortunate fact of life that we can't build a utopia with no illness or suffering. We have developed many solutions for different medical conditions over my lifetime and I'm truly happy for those helped. Over the same time, though, we've discovered and named even more. We continue to develop new medications for diseases that didn't exist in text books not long ago, and there's good reason to believe that pharmaceutical companies invent new disease classifications to get fresh funding for a medication they already have on the shelves.

I'm not saying we shouldn't help those in need, only that we can't run down that path forever with a hope that if we can just solve one more condition we'll have it all licked.

> Making those worst off better without making everyone else poorer would be much faster with globalized trade.

I'm not actually sure if this is the worst answer. We frequently hear about the widening wealth gap, fixing that certainly would mean making some poorer.

> Never mind that the world is not constant - we need innovation on the climate front if we want to stay in a stable environment that doesn’t require more sophisticated adaptation.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment behind this, I just start from a different point. I think our best chance of helping reverse the problems we cause to the environment is to first remove the worst offenders of what we do today rather than start from innovating and replacing them. I think a big mistake in the green energy movement had been assuming that it would be untenable to reduce total energy use and that we must instead replace all current use and match the current rate of growth in energy consumption.

> I am sorry you have become so skeptical of progress, but I and others will continue working so that a rising tide lifts everyone, including you.

I'm actually not skeptical of progress, I may need to rephrase things if it comes across that way. I just view progress differently than I think many do today. Progress is often talked about as starting with what we have today and adding to it to make tomorrow better, i.e. always intervening more and never questioning how we got here. Put another way, I view progress worth having as progressing towards specific goals whether that means innovating our way out of it or backtracking to find another path. I don't view progress as an incremental approach that must always push ahead without giving time and consideration to removing when we realize pur current path is fundamentally wrong.
But the committee-thinking is still constrained by the language. Any committee-thoughts must be coarser and slower than the member thoughts.

We're trading depth for breadth, or something like that.
'California Forever' Billionaires Accused of Tricking People to Sign Petitions
I’m on a similar boat, but for all we know, for each of us there might be ten new users who have recently flocked to the site and don’t give a damn.
I've been out of this industry for a while now so my thoughts may be a bit dated but it seems to me that the current trend is components suppliers and board manufactures are offering design solutions has it value added resource to there customers. E.g. Element 14 or seeds studio. And down
I dunno. They haven't given much love to SSRS in quite a while either.
Incredibly anti-historical take.
1 & 2 sound like the person doesn't know how to touch type. An adult who types as a major part of their job should easily be able to hit 70-80 WPM (5.8-6.7 characters per second) when copying random words, faster for actual typing. If ` -m "` and `"` (6 extra characters) is costing you more than a second, you should make an alias and also practice typing.
You really need to cite a source on this subject, measuring the industrial waste is very difficult and any articles state that "we found this but anyway, it's difficult to track efficiently the industry wastes".
Old style interface on a development focused lemmy instance has completely replaced reddit usage for me

This is the equivalent of /r/all across the lemmy world

https://old.programming.dev/?sort=Active&listingType=All
Yes. On my self hosted email I had a myriad of DISCARD rules in Postfix. I've done this in a company as well for the obvious repeat phishing and for outbound MDN's before Microsoft improved out of office auto-replies. On the commercially hosted email I have numerous rules that mark-read and move to Trash and that self empties weekly.
Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop
Am I allowed to think this is too complicated to be an accident?
Forward Compatible CPU Instruction Set
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
-Ronald Reagan
https://archive.is/gzSFf
Sometimes truths have to come from the outside for them to be accepted by the closed minded.

As the Enlightenment already absorbed eastern concepts into the western plane to some degree already (see the roots in Hume for instance), the relationship of westerners with eastern concepts as like hiring a consultant to tell you all the things that your employees were already saying, but which were ignored since they were merely grunts.
> you could make considerably more "tax revenue" by funding the IRS

The US government expenditure as percentage of GDP is now over one-third, as opposed to the pre-WW1 long-term average in the single digits. Keep in mind that massive infrastructure projects like the Transcontinental Railroad were able to be built in those single-digit percent times, or that US educational spending per pupil has been going up year after year for decades yet student achievement flatlined, and of recent years been trending down. Clearly, more tax revenue is neither necessary nor sufficient for the public good.

> reversing some of the nakedly corrupt corporate tax breaks

No arguments from me there.

> fund drug research only to then allow the resulting breakthroughs to be patented by a private firm and then gouge people for treatment

Fundamental research and bringing a drug to market are markedly different areas that require very different skills and incentives. An organization that is good at one is not necessarily good at the other. And this isn't confined to drug research; an architect can draw up plans for a house, but a family cannot live in a plan. Foundations need to be poured, chalk lines snapped, lumber nailed together, and plumbing and wires laid, all in the context of a competitive marketplace.
Very promising!!!
https://archive.is/BvEqS
At what point will cybersecurity firms arrange deals with cybercriminal organizations to keep the money flowing?

* protection for our clients

* drum up business for the market as a whole

* make competitors look bad -- especially if they get attacked directly

After all, breaking a window makes money for the glaziers.
https://archive.ph/m4ZnV
IANAL but it's baffling to me that this one took so long. This has been the clearest-cut abuse of monopoly in tech for a long time. Why did they waste time trying to convince judges that "free" could be monopoly pricing, when this was in broad daylight?
Inevitable settlement with no real change in the market dynamics, or am I too down on the U.S. Justice system?
Can you share the link with this tutorial?
The Darknet Diaries podcast recently had an episode on this type of scam:
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/
Sorry for the typos, I'm a quadriplegic using Voice dictation on an Apple iPad and sometimes it gets words wrong [especially homonyms]
It would be nice to have a version without paywall, or an alternate source. What are the details here?
Hannibal's Big Mistake
https://web.archive.org/web/20240321143739/https://www.nytim...
That's exactly what I have done with diffing SQL in lazy mode - just use a server and diff the AST/plan.
Tim Sweeney didn't get it done, so the US government will pick up the slack. I imagine they were waiting to see if Epic won before trying the case themselves, but Biden may have wanted to make sure it got moving before the election may take it out of his hands.

One of the most impressive successes in Epic's cases was just dragging the evidence into the open. A lot of illegal behavior is hidden in confidential agreements mostly to keep them out of regulators' view for as long as possible.
There are less serious versions of the same thing that people might unintentionally do.

09:25 - arrive.

09:30 - 10:00; breakfast

10:00 - 10:30; standup

10:30 - 11:00; Coffee after standup

11:00 - 11:30; checking emails before lunch

11:30 - 13:00; lunch

13:00 - 13:30; food coma, better just check some emails

13:30 - 14:00; coffee and a chat

14:00 - 15:00; maybe some actual work

15:00 - 15:45; someone needs help, they come over and have a chat

15:45 - 16:30; maybe some more work

16:30 - 17:00 wrap up, go home, urgently write some emails and expect a response before you arrive 09:25 tomorrow.

I've seen this, a lot of this.
If you do an accounting of all the organ functions, and then ask if the cell has this function independently, nothing is left out... but only if you allow that intelligence arises from the cells.

So I believe intelligence arises from the cells and is an essential function of life, not only an emergent phenomena. The organs serve as division of labor amongst the cells in community for what they are already originally capable of themselves.

More musings in this direction https://sites.google.com/site/pablomayrgundter/mind
Looking at their SEC filing [1], the CEO compensation breaks down into ~$1mil of cash and ~$192mil roughly split between stock and options. Both the stock and options appear to have further conditions attached to them that reduce that number further.

I'm not even a fake accountant, so I don't understand the exact nature of the dilution, but the $193mil overall number seems to assume a lot of stuff goes extremely well in the IPO. I think the stock number assumes a stock price of ~$33.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...
Perhaps it has something to do with getting Nvidia drivers to compile properly with RH's Frankenstein kernels?
Cloudtabs web browser
I would like to see some hard number from people that claim Reddit was hurt from the "API Fiasco". My theory is that this is a very small number of users with a very loud voice. Entitled mods were the only people that closed down subs. Most users did not even support this decision.

Same is happening again now, entitled moderaters who complain about CEO pay.

If anything is destroying Reddit, it's the mods IMO.
Wait, I have a javascript framework I want to tell you about....
If I understand the linked chart, there are discontinuities in the marginal tax rate, not the effective tax rate. So in that case yeah at certain levels the amount you owe on each additional dollar goes up, but that would not mean that making 105k is worse than 100k unless the marginal tax rate is greater than 100%.

This ignores stuff like losing childcare subsidies that is likely not included on the graph.

In the us you hear stories of people decreasing their income to be in a lower tax bracket and often it is due to them not understanding that the tax brackets are for marginal tax rates.
my love for pizza is surprisingly resilient, and the job was athletic enough to generate a healthy appetite.

but yeah, most of my coworkers had a hard time doing it sober
"Maternal mortality in the United States: are the high and rising rates due to changes in obstetrical factors, maternal medical conditions, or maternal mortality surveillance?", Joseph et al 2024 https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(24)00005-X/fulltext

"38% of direct obstetrical deaths and 87% of indirect obstetrical deaths in 2018–2021 were identified because of a positive pregnancy checkbox. The pregnancy checkbox was associated with increases in less specific and incidental causes of death. For example, maternal deaths with malignant neoplasms listed as a multiple cause of death increased 46-fold from 0.03 in 1999–2002 to 1.42 per 100,000 live births in 2018–2021. Under the alternative formulation, the maternal mortality rate was 10.2 in 1999–2002 and 10.4 per 100,000 live births in 2018–2021; deaths from direct obstetrical causes decreased from 7.05 to 5.82 per 100,000 live births. Deaths due to preeclampsia, eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal sepsis, venous complications, and embolism decreased, whereas deaths due to adherent placenta, renal and unspecified causes, cardiomyopathy, and preexisting hypertension increased.

...The high and rising rates of maternal mortality in the United States are a consequence of changes in maternal mortality surveillance, with reliance on the pregnancy checkbox leading to an increase in misclassified maternal deaths."

It has been interesting watching these stats circulate for years with no mention of how obviously maternal deaths did not skyrocket over a few years totally coincidentally and unrelated to big reporting changes. There's a large appetite for such statistics, particularly ones which show the EU to be better than the USA.
This should remain the only comment except for a non-paywalled archived source.
Sounds like they just need to be nationalized at this point.
Using LLM-as-a-judge for an automated and versatile evaluation
Isn't part of the problem how US anti-monopoly law is worded requiring proof of "consumer harm" which is normally measured in increased costs? In the case of Apple's monopoly, its not clear how you would measure that let alone prove it to a court.
Background: I got my start dabbling in WP around 10 years ago, and still maintain a few WP sites.

If you needed a 90-minute video — I daresay you either did it wrong, bit off too much to chew, or were better off using a high-code framework instead.

One of the reasons WordPress got popular is its at-the-time famed ‘five-minute install’. [1] You just throw the files on a server with PHP, give it a MySQL database and that’s it. (Nowadays, even this five-minute process is usually abstracted away behind a mouse click.)

With that, you get the core WP functionality, i.e. a modern theme, the ability to create blog posts, pages, and have visitors leave comments. For many people who just want to get a relatively simple website, this is quite enough, and IMO there is still no comparable no-code site engine.

Want a different look? Just search on the official theme directory (quality varies, but there are decent ones — just try not to get forced into the old ‘classic’ editor), use one of the first-party themes, or write your own.

Want to extend the core functionality? Just search on the official plugin directory (again, quality varies, so exercise judgment) or write your own.

Now, is it possible to blindly throw a cocktail of plugins at the wall, resulting in an unmaintainable abomination? Yes, it is — but as you’ve already discovered, you won’t necessarily like the result.

[1] https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/befo...
Good. Also, don't hire good devs, only hire the cheap ones in India.

Money saved can be paid to these providers. That way, the money stays in the us. A 10k IQ move that no one will understand.

/s ov course
Western ones. They are the worst.
Last Week Tonight, on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
They probably interviewed him to see if he’d be a good person for PR reasons. And I imagine he got it for free. So he has plenty to be happy about with the situation
Given the size of the universe and its age, I'd say we have waited long enough for probabilities to line up and produce such a complicated design.
Hackers can extract secret encryption keys from Apple's Mac chips
Lots of people in the west seem to support what's going on
As an opposite anecdote, I probably use it as much now as before the API stuff.
Isn't dealing with bare string literals for HTML-like syntax a terrible developer experience?
well, it still has the login stuff but just further down. -_-
What is your point, exactly?
Thank me not my child, we serve only ourselves. Now, go forth and ply my corruption as you see fit.
> Part of our problem is the way we think. I am a person. I am not a complex adaptive system.

I agree that, in general, we humans, downgrade the importance of external stimulus and interactions with our environment (including other people). My two cents is that this is downplayed where we live in cities and don't move too much, once you move to very distanct places and cultures (and not assuming yours is the best one) more things tick in the brain.
they already have that, it's called dominoes. there's still a market for tattooed freaks with culinary opinions throwing dough and poking a fire with a stick
Which weekly nuclear threat?

Sensational out of context drive by sound bytes from the likes of Guardian, Fox News, Twitter and video gammer subreddits are not sources - they’re click bait.
What Are Fields?
I had him as a CS teacher at SDSU for a class. I had no idea he was a sci-fi author when I started the class. Bought his books and was hooked.

He taught me how to implement OS thread context switching in 68000 assembly language. We also had a lab where we had to come up with a simple assembly function that executed slow or fast depending on whether it used the cache efficiently or not.

Great teacher and author, and a very nice guy in general.
Haha someone didn't like that I'm pointing out flaws in Python and down-voted that question.
How is this even a monopoly? That's like saying "Walmart has a monopoly on selling products at its stores." There are thousands of competing phones with their own software and app stores.
West after all is build on genocide... Or at least hugely profited on it.
I'm not saying I work for a company that does, I'm just asking for a friend.

Can you recommend any actual, better alternatives?
> The Justice Department, which began its investigation into Apple in 2019, chose to build a broader and more ambitious case than any other regulator has brought against the company.

As I was reading the specific charges detailed in the article, I was thinking this case seems like a stretch and will be difficult to prove. Apple will argue that security and/or performance reasons drove their decisions related to browser choice, messaging, and Apple wallet. FWIW, I am a former lawyer and spent a little time doing antitrust law for the CA DOJ, a long time ago. Just my two cents.
The Russians have not expressed interest in returning to their internationally agreed borders, so "peace deal" can only mean "Ukranian surrender". Especially as they keep asking for terms which would make the next invasion easier.
This is about a PDF reader though, not Google Scholar itself.
Yeah, that's an affirmation from someone who's in a very pampered US-centric group of Reddit users (if he is that at all). "My investment is very good!"

In the last year, Reddit has pushed localized home pages across the world, and my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery.

There were good communities, but they were molded by their good moderators, and these moderators are gone.
Are we reading the same comment?

The gist of it was: "This specific thing makes my job difficult, please be mindful of people like me" is just personal experience.

The comment even contains the word "please" in it. And they even acknowledge that it solves other problems.

But it's a bit shitty to dismiss someone's personal experience and plea by mocking with exaggerated quotes from a comedian, just because you happen to disagree with them.
Remember the fuss over Ventilators. People saying "don't put people with weak pulmonary capillaries on these machines" were "trying to kill everyone" then just ignored. That pattern kept repeating with anyone attempting to point out risks and problems: "we're all in this together, pull your oar" into disaster.
"I don't think it worked in the past, therefore it can't work in the future" isn't a particularly compelling argument considering the number of breakthroughs in the last 3-5 years.
> "Hull losses" due to cosmic dust are basically zero, the only recorded instances are on low Earth orbit due to space debris.

You're not wrong about that, but…

> with some dangerous shoals/rocks thrown in for good measure.

Pretty much describes the landing phase and why so many mars and moon probes failed, while

> mostly water and wind

describes many launch failures, and also the initial failures to land on Venus (modulo that the Venusian atmosphere at ground level is past the critical point and no longer distinguishably either liquid or gas, but it's CO2 not H2O).
https://archive.ph/xg9V3
Are there bank accounts that have a person watching every transaction and can call you to ask why you went to a Bitcoin ATM? A bank account an elderly person with dementia could use?
Yes, but that doesn't mean people will take you seriously.

In order to evolve such a system all you need is for the separate components to be useful. A cell laying still and multiplying is useful enough, so that is the baseline. Then adding a flagella to move randomly so it can move away from its waste product and keep hitting new nutrients is also useful. From there it can start to detect waste and move when it is near waste and stop moving when it is near food. Then yo just continue such steps, not very hard to imagine compared to imagining macro evolution.
I am a bit surprised that the DOJ is going after them but it seems like a necessary continuation of the changes that came about as a result of the EU action in this regard. I generally believe free markets are usually a positive thing but in Apple's case, much akin to Standard Oil, I think there becomes a point where the government has to take action to protect consumers, as we're seeing here. I'll be interested to see whether or not this actually ends up forcing any change stateside or if it's another pointless and toothless act of grandstanding for political purposes.