skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I really like about Mastodon in general is that every instance by default serves open CORS headers:

access-control-allow-origin: *
access-control-allow-methods: POST, PUT, DELETE, GET, PATCH, OPTIONS
access-control-expose-headers: Link, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-Request-Id
access-control-max-age: 7200

This has lead to a delightful variety of custom clients like https://phanpy.social/ - https://elk.zone/ is another example that I really like.

It's the complete opposite of the Twitter API situation, where they locked their API down and killed the entire ecosystem of third-party clients.
No, Java really is pass by value. You can rely on this in Java:

String s = "hello";
foo(s);
assert s == "hello";

In C++, if the function takes a non-const reference, you can't.

Yes, Java always passes pointers to objects. But you can pass pointers by value. And passing a pointer by value is not the same as passing by reference!

I think the origin of the confusion around a function taking a list by value and the like is the implicitness of pointers in Java and its cousins. This Java method:

void foo(List<String> strings)

Is the equivalent of this C++ method:

void foo(shared_ptr<List<string>> strings)

True systems languages make the pointers explicit.
In the ~2 year timeframe we'll be using RAG.

Longer term it gets more interesting.

Assuming we can solve long (approaching infinite) context, and solve the issues with reasoning over long context that LangChan correctly identified[1] then it becomes a cost and performance (speed) issue.

It is currently very very expensive to run a full scan of all knowledge for every inference call.

And there are good reasons why databases use indexes instead of table scans (ie, performance).

But maybe we find a route forward towards adaptive compute over the next two years. Then we can use low compute to find items of interest in the infinite contest window, and then use high compute to reason over them. Maybe this could provide a way forward on the cost issues at least.

Performance is going to remain an issue. It's not clear to me how solvable that is (sure you can imagine ways it could be parallelized but it seems likely there will be a cost penalty on planning that)

[1] https://blog.langchain.dev/multi-needle-in-a-haystack/
Yeah if the difference is this obvious in a small thumbnail of a heavily compressed image then something probably went wrong. As you said the colours space doesn't look quite right, though I can't identify exactly which mix up took place.

I'm also not too sure about comparing it with some unidentified 'streaming' version. That's like comparing a high resolution digital audio file with a phone call.

Selective sharpening does have a tendency to overemphasize clear edges while leaving the 'unclear' parts untouched, this can give a bit of a plasticy effect especially on skin.
I have had several very close family members die, and had to clean out their stuff. That is always the weirdest part. Looking through things that they had hung on to, which have absolutely no meaning to anyone else, and are just thrown in the trash. Or the things that show that they were obviously not expecting to die, like the groceries, or some book they were writing.

It has changed my perspective, and not in a bad way. It has inspired me to live more in, and appreciate, the here and now. Though I do think faith in something beyond this life does make a big difference in how we are able to cope.
That’s only in high-demand areas. You can get dirt cheap land in most of the US - but obviously demand to live there is low. You wanna live in the bay are, and your cost is largely land. But you can’t build a modern home without significant cost, even if the land was free.
I only see four confirmed cases and one fabrication. Is that really the entire confirmed scope of this? The way Reddit talks about it, it was thousands.
I have no personal experience in professional stage or film, so I'm out of my depth. All I can do is rely on people who do know.
Really need to move to a 1 "share" total (1 company 1 share), 16 decimal place volume, market cap*volume=price system; and not a market cap/float=price system. If a company really issues 0.5 cumulatively to employees, then half the company's equity is owned by employees. No decimal point fvckery to open the tent to the dilution camel's nose.

You can use milliShares, microShares, nanoShares, etc, to avoid expressing a $10,000 0.000000134 Share position. There should only ever be one share: The Company.

ADDENDUM: bonus if we get to a computational level that allows for arbitrary but valid rational numbers (with a data size cost to keep infinitesimals down) and replace fixed sized decimals, and modeling capabilities which allows us to list options contracts in a unified market, with arbitrary numeraires (think contracts for A priced in B instead of $) and expirations, and with any combination of strikes (compound positions), as one trade. BSM is continuous in all dimensions, and all it's really doing is expressing probabilities as price (plus a small uncertainty spread for risks and to goose out an edge out of Expected Value). This many expirations bins, many strikes bins, stuck to 100-share contracts, many (separate) stock vs USD bins, thing seems a bit too arbitrary when we have Wolfram Mathematica-tier abilities to handle the modeling for this stuff now.

It's not 1989 anymore, get Tom Sosnoff on the phone I'm sure he'd pitch this innovative idea! Maybe I'll call it into his show soon...
Researchers should become practictioners to some extent, if they want their ideas to spread. Example : Donald Knuth and TeX. Racket programming language. etc...

Of course in this publish-or-perish era, this is probably no longer possible.
Funny, that's how the very first customer realised that the Australian telco Optus was down. The wireless cat feeder relied on the Internet and when no food appeared, the cat decided to complain to management.
I would say the US is a far more common one, outside the US of course.

Maybe not as much now because of the "gun", "bad healthcare" and "expensive college" memes (in the scientific sense of the word "meme"), but it definitely used to be a thing.
Frankly, I do not know – mine is the '23 model, not the '24 one.

According to this video, breaks will be applied automatically, even if it is in neutral or if the engine stalls: https://youtu.be/8WIydvZZ23I
This looks cool, but I just don't understand why anyone would choose to do UI components for a project like this in Next/React instead of vanilla web components with a standard REST api, which can be used anywhere by anything.

Or, honestly, why anyone would chose to use react server components at all.

I was just kicking the tires on cal.com and saw the same thing - they did all their stuff with the react server components and next.js. And then? Well, it turns out that they needed an API, because apps do.

So they ended up reimplementing most of the logic in a RESTful API anyway.

I just SMH.
They can do this, badly. Is it a successful prediction?
Well I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit commenters didn’t have all the facts, but certainly four cases is horrific and far too many. This absolutely never should have happened, and one wonders, if we have four confirmed cases, were there additional unknown cases? And how else did the Saskatoon police treat indigenous people? Why did other police stand for such behavior?

There’s plenty of questions to ask if you consider for a moment the implications of police murdering people at will.

Edit: The “Censorship attempts” section of the Wikipedia page is informative as well, and shows that someone inside the police department attempted to delete mention of these events on a Wikipedia page about the police force. We might ask: do they have a habit of erasing information related to their crimes?
Not in SF (or even the USA), but the size of the vehicle, and whether it would fit down the driveway and into the garage of my parent's 1970s house was one of the two deciding factors in buying a BYD Dolphin (the other was price of course, which was somewhat flexible, unlike the width of the driveway/garage). The width requirement severely limited their options.

Car manufacturers need to make the cars we want, and stop whinging about needing protection from Chinese automakers.
Yes you would still get SQLite file locking; the thing you aren't using is SQLite thread locking around its own structures (according to GP, I don't know myself). But be sure not to use NFS mount for the files, the locking there is not that great.
Show me the land that this company can afford to build on and I’ll show you an undesirable part of the country.
I wish more operated this way. No matter how well you do, or what you accomplish, you will never be as successful ($$$$) as someone who joined a women’s leadership club right after their MBA and never worked a real job in their life.

Promoting from within forces you to actual reward value and understand the business.
For anyone wondering (because title is clickbaity):
Two new dengue vaccines were recently announced by the Takeda and Butantan companies.

Takeda: https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/newsreleases/2023/Takeda-Den...

Butantan: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2301790
Werner von Braun. If any of you ever get the chance to visit cape Canaveral, I highly recommend the visit. I got to tour the site and also the vehicle assembly building (VAB) which was once the largest building by VOLUME. When you stand inside it and look up, it is truly unfathomable. It can fully assembly a Saturn V rocket with room to spare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building
This idea that we need to spoon feed simple solutions to users of free software really needs to die. If you're giving code away you don't owe your users much.
There are very few good reasons to have your headlights off while your vehicle is running. Having a switch to manually turn them off if you're i.e. boarding a ferry and don't want to blind workers is fine but the default should be full on all the time - daytime, night time, adverse weather, whatever.
The thing that makes me curious about BSD (haven’t had a chance to give it a try yet) is that its more of a complete system, unlike Linux, which is a kernel in the middle of all of these modular components.
How these components are managed is what makes distributions, but there are misgivings about the stubborn cultures that back each distribution.

Ironically, the thing that I find most appealing about switching to a bsd is what makes it most similar to Windows, in that its mostly a whole operating system.

I like KDE, I don’t ever eveb change the wallpaper, though. I don’t want a tiling windows manager, I dont care about x vs. wayland, I just want to see what I’m doing, and, oh the system works? F—- if it uses systemd or not!

You got a version of a package that isnt 3 years old? It doesn’t have the newest backdoor? Great! I can get things done!

And thats why I find something like FreeBSD appealling. Im sorry, I want to get things done, maybe have some fun, and not have to deal with a future of subscriptions or invasive telemetry. Sorry if I want a bsd thats too much like Windows…
> And there are other large tech cities

At least from my experience job searching, Seattle does not have the startup ecosystem that the Bay has. Not even close. I'm sure if you want to work in aerospace or military contracting then Seattle's a great option for startup jobs. But otherwise you're locked into Big Tech (something I'll never go back to).
> no complete configuration reference

What's wrong with the official reference? https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/ It has served me well.
Like I said, since the author made it for themselves, it's successful if they like it. But as a former chef with an art degree that tertiarily included both sculpture and interior design, I disagree that the decorative component of this furniture makes up for the lack of utility in the way most people use canned food.
A few years ago I had dengue in Singapore, and while my case was mild as far as these things go, I was still almost hospitalized because my platelet counts dropped so low. The overall experience was sufficiently unpleasant that I was strongly incentivized to take Dengvaxia, the only currently approved vaccine, but having gone through the process, I can see why very few people do.

- As mentioned in the article, if you have never had dengue and you take Dengvaxia, it paradoxically increases the odds of getting a bad case. So in Singapore you're only eligible if you have had a confirmed positive blood test for dengue previously.

- I had incredibly good health insurance at the time, which among other things happily paid for my dengue management at one of the best private hospitals in the country ($$$), but they straight up refused to cover Dengvaxia and I had to pay over $700 out of pocket.

- Getting the vaccine required 3 shots spaced several months apart. Not a huge problem for me, and side effects were minor to non-existent (much better than eg
COVID vaccines), but obviously this reduces compliance.

- Even in Singapore, which is a wealthy, dense tropical country with a lot of dengue and thus eligible people, the hospital (again, one of the largest and best-resourced in the country) had to special order the vaccine every time for my three visits and there were a couple of minor hiccups with deliveries etc.

My reward for all this is not immunity to future cases of dengue (remember, there are 5 serotypes and getting it once only makes you immune to that variety), but a 80% reduction in the odds of getting severe dengue the next time around. Which is nice, but not a game-changer.
Bye bye. Media business is hard if not almost impossible. The Snowden affair was an opportunity but it is very difficult, expensive and/or require unique journalists to break well researched events.

"The Intercept was awarded a grant of $3.25 million from Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It had only received $500,000 when Bankman-Fried went bankrupt and the shortfall in funding "will leave The Intercept with a significant hole in its budget" according to its editor-in-chief." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept
A surprising number of people seem to believe this is actually true when they discuss Copilot and ChatGPT!
the service syntax is the least of your concerns.

the windows service manager like UI of systemctl exploratory mode is one thing to tackle.

the lack of visibility on dependencies that are not obviously direct. or even relevant (like ssh depending on key generation at first boot, which depends on time, which depends on time sync, which depends on network target... which causes ssh to not get started, without any logs, if you don't have network... despite it not being the first boot... :mindblown)

i won't bother with whole list because 1. there's no alternative 2. "I'm just another systemd denier" like i wouldn't have to be using it from early on to accumulate so much grievances
I loved Gattaca. I've seen it many times.

I tried to like Anon, but I didn't. Same thing with another one his movies, "In Time"
> We need to get payloads into space, and cost per kilogram is what matters. Why do this?

They're fuzzy on how they get from ground to 140,000 feet. But the hard part of orbit is speed, not altitude.

Electric propulsion can be orders of magnitude more efficient than chemical rockets [1]. The problem is their thrust is too low for anything beyond cruising. Cruising into orbit doesn't typically work because you'll fall into the ground before you get up to speed. But if you're using the atmosphere to keep off the ground, maybe it could work? (I'm sceptical.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse#Examples
That briefing was written by people who clearly do not understand what they're reading.

For a start, this is factually incorrect:

> The Cass Report reveals that it discarded huge amounts of medical evidence, both from the UK and across the world. Out of 102 studies into puberty blockers and hormones, only 2 were included by the Cass Review team.

Actually, a total of 60 studies were included: 26 in the review on puberty suppression and 34 in the review of masculinising/feminising hormone interventions. Only the lowest quality studies (43 of them) were excluded from the authors' synthesis.

You can confirm this by reading chapters 14 and 15 in the overall Review:

https://cass.independent-review.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/0...

And the systematic reviews that those chapters reference (in paragraphs 14.19 and 15.15):

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/09/archdischild-20...

https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/09/archdischild-20...

This briefing that attempts to critique the Review can't even get the basics right. It has unravelled only itself.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240413093536if_/https://www.ny...
Even today, we don’t have a definition of “species”, a definition acceptable to biologists working in this domain. What is needed is a theory, and further development of that theory.

Those who quibble about definitions should develop theories and test them, amend them, replace them. All these activities help understand the phenomenon in the question. When people engage in definitional disputes, it shows that intuitions about the phenomenon conflict. That’s all. To settle these issues, one should do science: that is, develop theories, derive consequences, add back ground theories to test these consequences.
OSS Code's Git support is embarrassing compared to Magit. (Perhaps the proprietary extension is better, but I refuse to depend on proprietary tools for my core computing needs.)

No line-by-line committing, no branch spinout/spinoff, no worktree support, no interactive rebase support, no reflog, the list goes on.

I can see OSS Code being better for only novice Git users.
I agree.
Where have all the netbooks gone?
I don't think they're seen as the good guys in this scenario, but ultimately those services are what we are paying the ISP access for. Also, I don't think nobody blinks an eyelid at the profits of those companies like Facebook and Google.

Facebook, Google and the like do much much more than provide internet.

The problem with fast lanes is that it makes the internet an uneven playing ground for the distribution of services. It is completely changing the fabric of how they operate at the expense of the consumer.
Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, has died at 94
You said, and I quote:

> needs to be upheld both at compile time and run time for Rust code to function.

That is not correct, in general, even if in some cases, it causes a crash via panic or segfault.
It was made. Are you talking about his version of Dune?
Cool idea, terrible website. So many spelling errors too.
native racism in the prairie provinces has been awful. in alberta indigenous population appx 7% but inmate population appx 50%. saskatchewan and manitoba likely similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Alberta#Visibl...

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/0238e596-4add-46ee-81eb-2dbf...
I moved here ~2 years ago to join an early stage startup and while its "not what is used to be"[1] I have personally benefited a lot from being exposed to the business and engineering culture here. I'm starting my own company now and have access to much more networking events and people who "get it" than I think I could have access to if I lived anywhere else. I haven't though so its hard to say.

There is an incredible amount of tacit knowledge in this city that is hard to really internalize until you are actually here and living through it. I think programs like https://www.siltahouse.com/home take a great advantage of these things.

There's a lot of counter intuitive things about early stage that you can't really convey in a blog post, or you may not even believe until you see it yourself up close from people. The open minded attitudes and culture around risk is something that you can really internalize when you are around other people who give you the correct social proof.

Is this all things you can get other places? Sure! It may not matter as much as it did 10 years ago, but you will have a hard time not getting a positive experience out of living, working, or building in the Bay Area.

[1] people have said this since the beginning of time about everything anyways
You mean the time that I read and memorized long ago had an inflation of 14%? You have read the title of this post, right? And you're aware that 18 > 14? If I assume you are, you are just making another vibes-based assertion. Would you rather I didn't?
You need to run your machine shop like a clean room. Laminar airflow, high grade air filters, glove boxes, etc. Anyone who has ever even walked through a machine shop will know how challenging that would be. You probably aren’t going to do it in your garage.

For uranium there’s an actual public US government report.

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4284913

And here is an interesting write up on how hard it was to manufacture the plutonium spheres for The Gadget at Los Alamos:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1...
I made the move from CA to TX and don't regret it.

1. No state income tax.
2. Lower cost of living.
3. Less government interference in private affairs.
4. Less out-of-touch wokeness in public policy.
5. Shoplifting and car break-ins are still crime.
let's agree that real surveys of real equipment, with names and model numbers, are a "thing" .. yes
"This page was last edited on January 6, 2020."
How many executions do you think is appropriate for a police service to perform?
What’s your point? One person made a wrong prediction in the past, thus an different person commenting on an unrelated subject is also wrong?

What if instead of that quote you had posted one of a correct prediction, such as a claim that NFTs were a fad? Would that then mean that this article is right?
Yeah it is political lol. What do you think political means? Why is it important to society that we know more about old people in the old age homes? Do they need more or less support? Social security and supporting older people past retirement is a political choice. Choosing to publicly fund Healthcare for the elderly is a political choice. Who owns the newspaper? What are their goals? Why are they using their limited space to express this story?

Political isn't always negative but the news is always political. All news, including good sources like NPR, is promoting a point of view. Nothing is impartial even if that's the goal. Ignoring this doesn't change it.
See, it's not that you have to tweak Emacs; it's that you can tweak Emacs.

ALL software has flaws; it's just a question of whether you can fix it yourself or you have to live it with and hope someone fixes it for you.
"Snake oil is a term used to describe deceptive marketing, health care fraud, or a scam. Similarly, snake oil salesman is a common label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

Selling something as "full self driving" or "autopilot" when it is nothing of the sort is in fact deceptive marketing. Claiming something will be "ready in 2 years" for 10+ years in a row is deceptive marketing and a scam.

Fine print saying the system has limited capabilities does not make it not a scam. Using a name consumers associate with 100% computer control is flat out deceptive and indicative of snake oil.