skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.

Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.

What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?
Alternative would be to have model itself aware of sensitive topics and and meaningfully engage with questions touching such topics with that awareness.

It might be a while till that is feasible, though. Until then, "content safeguards" will continue to feel like overreaching, artificial stonewalls scattered across otherwise kinda-consistent space.
Was going to say, isn't this the whole point of what they do? Gain some assets, kill some assets, so no one really knows what they are up to.
> But art that's meant to be ignored has a place in our society, and I think hero images for blogs is the perfect example!

I should clarify: the Jetbrains graphics aren't just "art that's meant to be ignored," but art that cues you to ignore it. That's actually the most important characteristic that makes those images not-annoying.

But if the acceptable result is basically colorful whitespace, then I have to question what the point of a "hero image" is in the first place.

But my gripe about hero images is a consumerist objection, and there are more issues with these techniques than that.
Should be able to do it by having the scanner take multiple samples. As long as you don’t need a valid login and the performance issue is still observable, you should be about to scan for it with minimal cost
> Alpine is dynamically linked, we just do not link SSH against libsystemd. In general, I think systemd needs to split up the various components in libsystemd into separate libraries, as there is no reason sd_notify() would ever require liblzma.

Funny, I was thinking about this just now. I get that the average library size on npm and such is on the wrong end of the spectrum, but libsystemd seems to swing far into the other end of the spectrum. Functions ranging from pretty much C-Code based on the stdlib with a few handlers, like sd_notify, hardware state detection and handling to systemd-journald file vacuuming all in that one library? Phew.

(And no, this is no discussion about systemd, that's just a thought about library design)
Would you be able to compare them to Andrew Ng's course?
Yes, we have less data on newer drugs, but TNF inhibitors are currently the go-to medication for many autoimmune disorders, including Crohn's and UC.

Infection risk is currently the case with all current medications that act on the immune system. In all cases we are merely suppressing some pathway where the end goal is to reduce the immune response.

ThatMs really the best we can do until we actually identify the causes, and can address that rather than "dialing down" our immune systems.
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"The most common reason for bias internal to the IC is self-censorship

IC analysts and managers have consciously changed or watered down assessments. This self-censorship was largely driven by a desire to stay relevant or an effort to avoid retaliation from policymakers.

"

Would anyone be able to offer insight into this? Are they worried about pointing out ties of lawmakers foreign investment ties? Biden's son to Ukraine and Republicans to Russia?

Due to the political nature of this please post credible links to back up your claims.
Piracy is a serious issue, but I'm sure the FBI warning at the start of the movie will scare them straight.
And not every programming language offers a Decimal type and on most of those, there’s usually a performance penalty associated with it not to mention issues of interoperability and developer knowledge of its existence. For financial calculations, usually using integers with an implicit decimal offset (e.g., US currency amounts being expressed in cents rather than dollars), while other contexts will often determine that the inherent inaccuracy of IEEE floating types is a non-issue. The biggest potential problem lies in treating values that act kind of like numbers and look like numbers as numbers, e.g., Dewey Decimal classification numbers or the topic in a Library of Congress classification.¹

⸻

1. This is a bit on my mind lately as I discovered that LibraryThing’s sort by LoC classification seems to be broken so I exported my library (discovering that they export as ISO8859-1 with no option for UTF-8) and wrote a custom sorter for LOC classification codes for use in finally arranging the books on my shelves after my move last year.
Those were only the first two studies that came up on PubMed. There are a number of studies that support the same conclusions.
Why isn't anyone signing up?
Their website is truly pathetic leaving the burden on individuals to need to protect this information. They should bleed red severely for this in punitive damages to those impacted.
People who don't have income and other taxable economic activity in the country.
In the Mac world, Command has always been the standardized main hotkey ingredient for every GUI application. Of all the Mac quirks, it's the most fortuitous one in my opinion that they started out with only Command (and Option*), since they only had the GUI, then when they were in a mild "compatibility" phase in the 90s they were able to separately add Ctrl and define Alt as a synonym for Option.

Historically pre-UNIX-based-OS Ctrl was lightly used in massive applications that needed more hotkey possibilities (e.g. Photoshop), or used for running PC emulators like Virtual PC. And for the few people on Macs using a terminal to connect to Unix hosts.

Then Mac OS X hit, and it was a happy coincidence that now in a Terminal, you can hit Command-C to copy some text, completely outside the scope of the process running there, or separately, do a Ctrl-C to break the process.

*Mac uses option (Alt) at the OS layer too, but it's to compose variøüs diacriticals and (√•§¢) symbols, so it's highly frowned upon to use "alone" (as in "Option-V" because that should be dedicated to making the √ symbol) - but it's frequently used in combination with Command.
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It won't, and that's a good thing. Workplace deaths will plummet, people will have more free time, and the environment will improve from less people commuting. I don't see any reason why replacing certain jobs with AI is bad, so long as this is paired with UBI.
Just the basic facts...
Climbing a nearby telephone pole and hooking in his test set, he dialed the
subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The dog barked loudly, followed by a ringing telephone. Climbing down from the pole then he found:

a. Dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron chain and collar.

b. Dog was receiving 90 volts of signalling current.

c. After several jolts, the dog was urinating on ground and barking.

d. Wet ground now conducted and phone rang.

Which goes to prove that some grounding problems can be passed on.
Here's my own 500 mile email story. This happened to me about a year ago.

Just a normal day at the office when suddenly the internet drops out, except for my machine. Everyone else has a network connection, but no internet. Except for me, I can't reach devices on the local network, but I can reach anything outside.

Now, our network is not large or complicated. We have a consumer grade ONT and WiFi router provided by the ISP, and a big unmanaged ethernet switch. There's really nothing to go wrong here.

After some debugging, I notice that I have been assigned an IP address in my ISP's public block. Tracert seemed to show no local network between me and the WAN. It was as if the router had somehow connected my WiFi client directly to the ONT, bypassing the local network. That only barely makes sense, but it was my best guess so I condemned the router.

Next day, new router, same problem. I couldn't explain it. This time though, I didn't have an internet connection, but local network was reachable. Some sanity restored, ar least.

Turns out that our fiber line had been accidentally cut during construction work. Once the ISP fixed that, all was normal.

The question remains, how did I have internet connection through a severed fiber line? It's not likely that the router had a bizarre failure right before the line was cut. I suppose it's possible that Windows had sneakily connected me to some other WiFi network, but then why did I have a weird IP address?

I have no explanations
If it's an intelligence agency exploit, this is nearly certain. Getting agents hired as employees of foreign companies to provide intelligence is an ancient practice. Getting agents to be open source maintainers is a continuation of the same thing.
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If you use the same syntax as OP, C’s parser will also round that literal. The existence of a hex literal for floats is something orthogonal
Exactly. You spell auto or an interface or base class whose derived class cannot be named. I think both are ok. In the latter case you can name the interface instead of auto.

Yes, auto is a perfectly valid return type, usually quite useful in generic code.

However, in generic code, starting at C++20, I would recommend to use concepts to name a return type that can be many different thing but that is compliant with the same "compile-time" interface.

You could do:

forward_range auto f(auto && input);

You do not spell the return type but you are saying that type conforms to forward_range. Note that the auto type returned
could be one of many unrelated types and it is computed at compile-time.
California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
It is confusing, but it's also kind of the standard pattern for decorators in Python, so it's a useful example.

The decorator syntax itself is just simple syntax sugar for replacing the decorated function (add) with the return value of the decorator function (show_call). The example is essentially equivalent to this:

def show_call(func):
...

def add(x, y):
return x + y

add = show_call(add)

So show_call has to return the function we want as a replacement, which is the nested "out" function here. The "@wraps" thing is not strictly necessary but updates the new function object to have the same name as the original.
If the noise is behind merges, you can also use `git blame --first-parent` and it should show the big merge commit with the comprehensive explanatory message, rather than the small commit in the feature branch. You can use `git show -m` to show the diff of those merges.
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We have a problem with data - even when we apply our newest advanced technologies to put data in ever increasingly small environments (even down to the atomic level), entropy still exists.

So what we have is the ability to input data, but not yet a delivery system and retrieval system that can fit on say, a small chip, or light array, or other small systems.

It's a giant part of reason we'll see diminishing returns with data being applied in classical material approaches. New materials (currently being workd on, like graphite and others) will be needed to harness the compute power to enable large scale data capabilities at increasingly smaller and smaller levels (already a well known issue to be resolved).

Similar in physical approach but different in application would be TinyLM.

Timeline? Not sure but we created ION drives over 30 years ago. Seems to me we're limited not by the science, but the material needs to continue technological advancement. Seems to me autonomous driving is within reality in under 25 years. If I had to put a guestimate on it.
Bing/Copilot works without an account too, it's just very limited and it will ask you to sign in way too often for it to be useful, openai will probably do the same thing.
I think by that definition you can argue that all the entities I mentioned in my original comment are conscious.

There is no way to quantify how expressive your model of the world has to be, or what mechanisms you have to act.

For example, a single neuron in an artificial neural network has a model of the world (it's weight), and can act by producing different outputs for different inputs.
Repealing Prop 13 and removing local control of zoning decisions can be done via votes in the legislature, no new technologies required, so I beg to differ with the "no easy fix" tag.
Well sure, but she didn’t know that. So she found a feature by fuzzing the UI.
Over a long enough time span, assuming anyone else cares, then yes of course the likelihood of being revealed approaches 100%.

It’s still better than the alternatives for those afraid of being tricked.
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For those who believe that "incognito" is actually something private and secret, no it is not and was never meant to be! It still can access the major part of your personal configuration and history, mostly for a convenience purpose. Its main purpose is to stop appending more data there, not to hide you. If you really want to keep your browsing private, you should be using guest mode.
Two brothers use fish finding tech to locate sunken cars and missing persons
This is just 1 of the problems with animal ag.

- Pandemics

- Antibiotic resistance (The sheer stupidity of using the same antibiotics we depend on to stay alive just to make animals grow faster and be more profitable.)

- Climate change (1/6th of all emissions)

- Soil, air, water pollution

- Deforestation

- Higher food prices

- Less net food available
> Why, when mitigations are removed, is COVID no longer so dominate it's pushing the flu out?

Because nearly everyone has had it already. The mitigations were removed because Omicron so visibly ignored them that everyone just gave up at that point.
> The pattern of wrinkles on the back of your hand is absolutely unique.

It also solve zero real-life problems, but the presence of structures like DNA and self-replicating cells does solve a problem, i.e. they fit inside something much larger than itself, requiring compounded infinitely improbable samples of luck to have been created.
I thought the “typical” keto diet tends to be higher in meat, egg, seafood, and dairy-based product consumption than the western diet. Which would make it lower fiber, since that comes from plants.
Why would you expect a person to be able to afford a family on minimum wage? Why would you even want that?

If you raised a minimum wage to that level, you would eliminate a lot of low-level jobs completely, and leave people who don't aspire or need this non-trivial level of achievement without jobs.
I would use it for cross platform native ui development with wxWidgets
The economics of this sort of thing is full of surprises.

Someone with a solar farm who cannot sell the excess they produce at noon (local utility won't take it) can put it into producing methane to sell (or use), if the equipment is cheap enough to amortize over only the over-productive intervals. And claim extra carbon credits for displacing mined methane. They might install some extra panels to increase the intervals. Displacing methane they would have had to buy yields more value.

Probably in the future it will be more profitable to produce ammonia instead. Ammonia is even more useful than methane.
Now's the time when the best minds of HN need to get busy making bots that fill social media with RATIONAL DEBATE, moderate views, and links to valid news sources. Fight fire with fire!
(Author here.) Yeah, I get where you're coming from. Ultimately, this was an editing decision first and foremost.

Beamforming is cool and magical, and MIMO even more so. The post wasn't intended as a primer on wireless technology, just as a fun read for folks to enjoy. I tried to sprinkle in some nerd-snipe-quality technical detail and offer links for folks who might want to dig in, and MIMO is explicitly discussed in both the 802.11n and in the several links on beamforming I provided.

I barely managed to explain beamforming without that sidenote turning into a paragraph of its own. I don't think I could have done MIMO justice in a sidenote.
I don't know what's going on with the GitHub pull request but I'm guessing Linus didn't actually merged it using GitHub but rather as part of [0] and GitHub noticed the commit got merged and automatically closed the PR.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240331102711.GAZgk6f8mOWJiFN8p...
I'm not at all knowledgable about this, but: is it feasible (and if so, hard?) or impossible to have some sort of live reporting from the turbines about the speed/position of their blades that connects to the radar system allowing it to ignore what it knows to be turbine noise/shadow and therefore be able to have turbines there and still get good radar?
Bad Government Repeal the Patriot Act
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> There are better definitions.

I'm a linguistic descriptivist, not a prescriptivist. This is how I think most use the term, even if there's a more useful term of art in economics or in politics.

> You said Voldemort's name! Now he will surely haunt us

One might even say that a spectre is haunting Europe… ;P

> So the composition of incentives switches from worker-like to owner-like somewhere around $10MM net worth, and this is worth noting.

In a sense, sure. This is also close to what I'm told is the actuarial value of a human life in the USA, and that's not a mere coincidence.

But also, at that level you most likely only got the money by having a very different objective function to begin with, as it comes from starting a successful business. (Other options are "inherit" and "win big on lottery" and both groups have differently bad reputations to the kind of bad reputation that successful businesses people get; I can't possibly comment how accurate any of these reputations are).
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I think we need to consider the context. The attacker ultimately only had control over the lzma library. I'm skeptical that there's an innocent looking way that lzma could have in the open introduced an "accidental" RCE vuln that'd affect sshd. Of course I agree that they also wanted an explicit stealth backdoor for all the other reasons, but I don't think a plausibly deniable RCE or authentication bypass vuln would have even been possible.
It’s also worth pointing out that parts of the RCE were prepared almost two years ago which makes this entirely implausible.
Several major blockchains switched to proof of stake which uses virtually no power so that's some progress. Bitcoin is still using proof of work. Bitcoin miners are trying to use the cheapest power available which in many cases is renewable but Bitcoin mining is increasing load on the grid faster than capacity can be added, so effectively their demand is keeping old dirty power around.
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how come it's always the things you actually want that get announced on april 1st?
Got recruited as a run of the mill PHP dev at a local medium sized business. Turns out my PI did not get the grant and so I ended up going private
I have no idea if you're correct or not, but that doesn't really indicate who was behind it other than suggesting that it might NOT be Chinese state actors because that would be way to obvious of a giveaway when investing multiple years of effort into a stealthy project.
Missed opportunity for a 2in1 April Fools: a crowbar shaped spudger, and the following lawsuit from Valve.