skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a wonderful example of how misinterpretations spread into the public domain. The article carefully avoids causal language, appropriately in a study with no genetic control. But on HN it’s become “affect”. Sigh.
It will not work to prevent someone from copying a webpage.

It will work to make ad-blocking difficult enough that most people don't bother anymore.
Isn't that the definition of causality? In life there can be multiple causes and multiple effects, but causality itself has one direction, doesn't it?
ROCm is AMDs AI framework/platform for its RX7900 cards, I think?
Mods, can we expand SCALE to Southern California Linux Expo in the title so people can tell what this is about?
Really poor people don't have electricity, cars, central heating, and have probably never seen a disposable diaper.

Source: grew up in that situation.
Spammers are probably not using their own computer or electricity, so this would be very attractive for them.
The utillity of a file being human readable cant be overstated.

File formats like CSV will outlast religion.
Yeah ROCm is name used for projects that provide more or less compatibility with cuda based software.
ASCII has had field and record separators since like, forever. Wish we had kept using those.
I find your first example easy to understand.

It's funny, because I'm watching my experience as I'm reading the code and I feel like variables are like a little break while doing work. When you don't use them, it feels like a constant run.

Also, they give some extra structure, because they name the output of the function. It's true that you have to make extra effort to think of the name, though.

I'll be honest, your example with naming every internal state feels comfortable. Sometimes I do chain a few expressions together, but I avoid chains that are too long. I want to say that more than 3 is too much, but maybe it depends on the specific code.

I don't have examples of my own code handy, so I can see how I did it in the past. Now that I think about it a bit more, I think I'm okay with a longer chain, if it involves transformations of the same structure, but not if it involves destructuring. I perceive the `for` loop as a destructuring.
What I really need is a software bass/treble control that can be mapped to keyboard shortcut.
> Anxiety is an intelligence attenuator. [...] Anxious people don't do well in aptitude tests, job interviews, exams, presentations.

Or maybe aptitude tests, job interviews, exams, and presentations measure anxiety levels rather than intelligence?
So this represents an initiative of Debian to better support machine learning use cases?
I have flagged this, as the linked website appears as if empty. Rather use this link: https://ci.rocm.debian.net/packages/r/

And, much more surprising to me: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debci
Was not aware that Debian have their own test automation system!
The only reason people get Affinity is because of the non subscription model.

Adobe software is just better.
But why the half measure of csv when it's just as simple to use a library to export to an actual excel file (which is really just xml) , which will properly preserve your data and make the business users happy.
As if other cloud offerings were any different in behaviour and tooling.
Csv sure is a step up from excel though…
This is where countries like Vietnam excel. The level of corruption at all levels of government jobs is unparalleled.

All you have to do is find the right connection (usually through a family member), pay some "coffee money" and whatever you want, you can get.

This would have been resolved for probably $20-40, but it would have only taken a few minutes of your time and a lot less frustration.
One particularly memorable on-call shift had a phenomenal amount of pain caused by the use of CSV somewhere along the line, and a developer who decided to put an entry "I wonder, what happens if I put in a comma", or something similar. That single comma caused hours of pain. Quite why they thought production was the place to test that, when they knew the data would end up in CSV, is anybody's guess.

I think Hanlon's razor applies in that situation.
Let's hope it succeeds! Granted, what we really need is a complete and total ban on all social media, but this is a good first step.
Is this comparable to Akita? https://www.akitasoftware.com/

> By watching API traffic live and automatically inferring endpoint structure, Akita bypasses the complexity of implementing and maintaining monitoring and observability.

> […]

> - Export your API description as an OpenAPI spec.

(Not affiliated, nor am I a user of either of these.)
>There is this strange pervasive myth that everyone who lived before current_year-20years was an idiotic barbarian and current society is peak human evolution.

Even just some cursory thought should put the lie to that. As Steven J. Gould ruminated[0] upon quite some time ago:

... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human
intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as
we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues
that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding
of their world, not in their distorted perceptions. Even the standard
example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads --
makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing
whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a
finite or an infinite number.
-- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds"

[0] https://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/freebsd_fortunes/to...
Some earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39817525
In general we don't need Docker, but that isn't what CV driven development looks like, thus here we are.
This is very well put.

Values, the roots, are so different they bear different fruit. Learning the new fruit and reverse engineering its roots you become aware of what most never do. You are a fish that discovers water.

Scarcity and abundance are so different that unless you’ve experienced both you really will not understand.

Becoming a SWE changed all of this for me and I’ve noticed the culture, especially in FAANG is so wealthy.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39817525
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39817525
"Look, when you send your cell phone in for warranty repairs we may _occassionally_ send one back where the mainboard is replaced with thermite that will ignite the first time you connect it to a charger. If we do that without telling you, we're not liable for your house burning down because our warranty document says we don't cover that. Thanks for understanding. HTH HAND."

I'm sure that will totally fly in a court. Not one with real lawyers or jurists, but _a_ court.

This wasn't a mistake or freak accident. This was a reasonably foreseeable outcome of EVGA's decisions. They could have prevented it at multiple steps along the way. The only things the customer could have done to avoid this (i.e., replace the cables) they were directly advised not to do by EVGA.

Who could have prevent this happening, and how?

The end user could have prevented it by... not making use of the warranty he was entitled to? Ignoring EVGA's advice to keep his cables and instead replace them at his own expense without even knowing that the cables were in fact different?

EVGA could have prevented it by not sending him a PSU with a different pinout, by sending him the appropriate cables for the PSU he was sent, by providing a warning that the PSU was incompatible with previous cables and telling him to replace them, by...
Fortuneately the off-Broadway Bond villain failed in this attempt to suppress free speech.
Allow me to echo other comments: What is this? The title sounds interesting from multiple angles (AI stuff is a big R&D area; is this Debian being on the cutting edge? And I know I'm a weirdo but I'm always very interested in CI setups...) but the actual page is... a series of single-letter links to lists of packages? I don't see any explanation of what I'm looking at, and even clicking through a bunch doesn't seem to say anything? Like, https://ci.rocm.debian.net/packages/r/rocminfo/stable/amd64+... - what does this say? This package exists and... I'm assuming gfx803 is a graphics card it's testable on? Except that the actual log says no tests to run?
That's not true at all. There's also the strong dislike of Adobe as a company.
It’s not a disguise. Think of it as time travel to 100 years ago. After you learn to fit in, the old part is alive and well in there still. You from both times in the same body and mind.
You're probably not the target audience though. Adobe products might be old, dysfunctional, and janky under all that cruft, but they have vast amounts of domain knowledge put into them.

Meaningfully competing with Photoshop & co involves breaking the lock-in (nearly impossible) and being much better use-case-wise. It's been done in certain niches where Photoshop is bad/mediocre/stagnates, like digital painting, but for general purpose suites like Affinity it means they have to be better at most things, which they just don't seem to be capable of.
> If you don't print frequently, the ink nozzles clog up

Not sure about other printers, but I use HP InkJet for a decade, never clogged up, sometimes sits unused for a month or more.
I'm curious where universal forecasting models are most useful. It is technically fascinating but forecasting specifically seems like a domain where you'd want interpretable modeling - you use it for big-value problems and it significantly affects your action/policy. So, the tradeoff between performance and model simplicity should lean towards the latter?
Children often touch things in the grass and then touch their faces or put their fingers in their mouth
USV has a mountain of problems.

And really is in search of a problem to solve.
The Switches games are all available on the Switch's store. There is no good reason to pirate them. As usual, pirates make excuses for ripping off creators.
In my experience, human readable file formats are a mistake. As soon as people can read a single file they think that that's the entire format and that it's okay to write it by hand or write their own code for it. And when everyone writes code based on the just what they've personally seen about a format, everyone is sad. This is why not a single piece of software on earth uses the CSV RFC. This is why people hand you CSVs that don't quote string fields with commas in them. This is why you find software that can't handle non-comma delimiters. This is why you find software that assumes that any field made of digits is an integer and then crashes when it tries to do string operations on it. This is why you find software that can't be used unless you change your computer's locale because the front end understands locales and uses commas for numbers but the backend is running on a server and doesn't know what locales are and now everything is broken. This has happened for every single "human-readable" format in existence: html, markdown, CSV, rtf, json, everything. I consider human readability to be a death knell for a format's chances of broad, easy interoperability. There are certainly other things that can doom a format - parquet is almost too complex to implement and so only just barely works, for example - but I'll take a sqlite database over a csv every single time.
4180 is just one of many CSV variants. You can't simply examine a CSV and determine for sure which flavor of file you were given, you can only guess.
Canva seems lost in terms of what they are or want to be. I suppose AI doesn't help businesses like Canva's.
100% this. There is absolutely 0 reason to use Affinity of Adobe besides pricing model. They can play around with the numbers and try to have a cheaper subscription than Adobe, or maybe bundle it with the other software Canva offers, but ultimately I think switching to a subscription model will be the end of the Affinity software suite.
Typical Greghead response
I painfully switched to Affinity because of the rising Adobe subscription prices, I'd been a photoshop/illustrator user from the Dot com boom... I recall paying around 780 every two years for creative suite and given the hell I'd gone through by choosing Flex for a ERP project (Adobe's promises of iOS compatibility never materialising, then breaking compatibility - requiring a close-to-rewrite in their next version of Flex)... to cut a long story short - gave me shall we say - a few resentments towards the company. I suppose it's time to consider Pixelmator now, I'm such a grey-beard... subscriptions suck. ;-)
One thing I like about America is that we have the same levels of corruption, you can just codify the same process in the law and call it due process

Many states, agencies have “expedited processing” options built in

Looks like Colorado’s DMV did not

At the state and municipal level, you might be surprised how easy it is to lobby for a tiny tweak you would personally like. You don’t have to be registered to vote there, and many times its not even a popular vote required. Just the mayor or a 5 member county board who are even more of a grifter than you are.
I feel like the pacing was awful, and especially as its Netflix, I don't even trust they'll finish it. I really dug all the SF stuff, but the human drama aspect of it really ate a lot of time.

(spoilers)

- So much time was spent on the cancer story, only for it to lead no-where. Especially toward the end of the show, increasingly more time was spent with the characters doing nothing and sitting about, still refusing the call to action. It was bizarre seeing there were only 2 episodes left to go, and still no-one was doing anything or even really caring.

- The video game was odd. I'm supposed to believe only advanced scientists can solve it, but actually only one of the levels seemed to be solved with actual science. The rest were just deductions about the society - I really doubt many people would struggle passing through it.

- After the reveal that it is aliens, the show seems to just wander about not knowing what to do with itself. Only the reveals about the cult are really consequential after that, and when it's all revealed you're basically spent just following this rocket story that only 1 character really cares about. Again everything takes too long here too.

- The show didn't seem to care about the interpersonal relationships of the characters at all, but then toward the end spent an insane amount of time forcing us to watch them. The actors couldn't sell it, and the script was bad too. The show only really shone during the sci-fi stuff, but drips it out at a snails pace.

- The ending was silly and didn't land for me. My boyfriend and I laughed at the head going off course because it was just so bizzare, especially as the show had forced us to sit through the the pondering and fake in-fighting about the decision to choose the cancer guy as the candidate. What was it all for?!

- The ship nano-wire scene was insane. Like an amazing sequence we were "holy shit!"ing our way through. But after it all happened and the ship is utterly destroyed it's like.. was I really meant to believe this was better than a missile to disarm it and swatting the place?
You can add

http://connectivitycheck.android.com,

http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com, and

http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html

to your list.
> In fact, the reverse path could be true: that differences in brain function cause lower SES.

Except the ACE study exists, showing a massive difference in brain function and attainment based on childhood adversity, regardless of SES.

https://nhttac.acf.hhs.gov/soar/eguide/stop/adverse_childhoo...

Oh, and ACE's tend to go up with lower SES:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6872440/

Finally please don't elevate eugenics by using the word "unfashionable" when its not only deeply disproven but also has a horrific legacy as the primarily stated justification for some of the world's worst atrocities.

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-a...
iPhone is a mobile application appliance, not a general-purpose computing platform.
example.com, example.net, and neverssl.com all lack HTTPS.
> all these sources aren’t able to agree on some successful format.

But the same is true for csv, and they are not readable by everyone since you don't always know how to read them, there is not enough info for that

Also it's not a good reflection on "deep experience" if it leads to reflexive defense of common stupid things people do with wrong analogies (e.g, flac is less efficient, so more like csv)
Show HN: Learn any language with an AI tutor at your own pace
I also try to avoid the two big "A"s, Autodesk and Adobe.
Step 1: Announce the acquisition. Everyone will talk about the company and the fear of subscriptions.

Step 2: Tell everyone, that the current pricing model will stay and no subscriptions will be offered. Everyone will cheer and recommend the products.

Step 3: Wait until the dust settles and switch to subscriptions. The community will say "told you that this will happen" and life goes on.
If I only ever use a single locale on my phone, why isn't there a way to avoid needing to download all of the extra info that my phone will never use?
I’ve used it since close to day one and it’s great. You can get some detailed information and action items and it’s super easy to use.
Hopefully this will allow the Serif team to improve their products. I bought their products from day one with the hope they would get better but after 10 years or so I'm still on Adobe.
You're not getting it. The "act" becomes you, you become the "act". The commenter I answered is not from a different social class anymore, he's just remembering. Just as you "act" grown up when you're growing up, then gradually you are grown up and that is you.

And Obama? What makes you believe he would speak "Negro English"? He is not from that background.

The truth is that people can't really join a different social class without fundamentally belonging to that class. And belonging to a class depends on what you presently do and have, not what you did or had in your past. If the commenter was not a software engineer, no acting of his could fool people for a long time. With the exception for expert con-men. So even though he might feel as if he's faking it, the part that really counts is real.
Interesting. Affinity has a big following of people who want Adobe clones without paying a subscription fee, and Canva can certainly boost their growth to take over more of the market.

On the other hand... can Affinity's "no subscription" model really remain intact after an acquisition like this? Canva might want to make big changes to increase profits, since they need to make back the money they spent purchasing it.
Like many HN'ers, I too grew up with these, but my life was radically changed when I was gifted a Gakken Denshi Block system to learn with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakken_EX-System

It was a lot more robust than the spring-based electronics experimenter systems, and its built-in shield meant that my experimental circuits could survive the transport to school and the inevitable attempted rip of cables from the bullies, in order to show my favourite Math teacher what I had been up to over the weekend, and that led him to give me a student key to the schools computer room, and free access so I could hone my skills.

I still collect Denshi Block systems, and the day I got the EX-181 with its synthesizer module was particular joyous. In Japan, Denshi Block systems were used in electronics engineering schools, and they were much, much larger and with a bigger variety of component modules .. I'd love to have one of those one day.
If the pricing model is the only thing that differentiates Affinity then that wouldn’t have been a very good sign for their future
OverScene is an AI-powered overlay that augments desktop applications. This tool is designed to enhance any app on your computer, aiming to streamline processes in art, design, coding, and image creation.

Its functionality extends to various applications including drawing apps, 3D apps and web apps, making it versatile and efficient. Many creative tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, ZBrush can be maximized by OverScene without the need for any plugins.

It possesses intriguing features like the conversion of screenshots to code and transformation of sketches into masterpieces. With OverScene, 3D models are amplified with stunning detail and realism.

It provides a 'floating frame' feature which can be dragged over any content for transformation with a click, enabling instant turn of wireframe to code or fast generation of realistic 3D renders.

It leverages leading AI platforms such as OpenAI and Replicate.com. The tool is designed with a focus on ease of use, featuring one-click installation, no learning curve or vendor lock-in, and is lightweight in terms of resource utilization.

Despite its deep set of features, the application maintains simplicity and efficiency, freeing creativity from the constraints of operating systems or plugins.
How is your takeaway that their personal encounters are “unlikely”? This was an anecdote in response to a question asking for examples of their experiences, not a soapbox professing a dim take on the world.
Yes, because programmers are the cornerstone of the Internet. More money attracts better people to build better things. Imagine if the per capita salary was $10, what kind of people could you attract?
Apparently it could've been better.

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You make a very good point. Passport processing is another good example. However, it is so much more fun to pay someone directly where you know it is going to feed their family vs. just being an additional tax to the government. One guy once told me that my money was helping buy his kids books for school. I don't know if he was lying, but I appreciated the thought.
So is the idea that the dark red squares are inaccessible and you just can't move to them? I spent way too long trying to figure that out. I was stuck thinking along the lines of not being able to to move into check, even after transformation to another piece.
At this point i suspect excel is as dangerous as powerpoint to the quest for sharing and improving human knowledge, in that it gives the illusion of allowing people to analyze data but not the tools to make sure they get their data and model lined up correctly.
Found a site with a lot more manuals, if anyone needs their memory jogged.

https://radioshackcatalogs.com/science_fair_kits.htm

I had the 130-in-1. Yesterday, I was thinking about it for probably the first time in 20+ years - what a coincidence that this link popped up today. I was a bit too young to actually learn much from it beyond the basics, but I remember having a lot of fun with #85, the "Falling Bomb Sound".
In Ubers case, the app works well when you travel. Not sure why LinkedIn would need that, if that is your question.
Packet-editing games in Golang (2021)