skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The causality of this condition is not the same. Prion issues cause both sleeplessness and death, which is not the same thing as sleep deprivation leading to death. Thanks for the link though, this is interesting.
Roger has consistently been promoting the same ideals from the beginning.

BCH was also never "his" fork, it was just the fork he started to support.

"bash" is a slur to attack the BCH fork, same as the character assassination that Roger has been subjected to.

Finally, he sold firecrackers on eBay.
Seems very misguided for a government to make a bet like this.
Just wow. How did no one spot that one! how did Rabbit have the confidence to just post it. This is a masterclass in human psychology, hindsight is 20/20...
Tauri https://tauri.app/
Figma made a mistake including the absolute positioning in their Dev mode. It's never useful, and leads to confused engineers like this.

Figma is a design tool. It is used by designers as a way to build the visual mocks of software. It's not building HTML under the hood. As a frontend engineer, I have to interpret the designs given to me and translate the layouts into something that will be responsive, cope with different data, etc. that part is the job of a frontend engineer, and so far there is no tooling that solves that.

The Figma dev mode helps shortcut some of that work, by providing easy copy-paste for attributes like background, border, fonts, spacing etc. it's a timesaver. But you should never copy the whole thing.
Hierarchical 3D Gaussians for Real-Time Rendering of Large Datasets
In some languages , like German, children are referred to as “it” for quite some time as they grow
Ah, memories of buggering up Linux from DOS.
M4 iPad Pro: Will Apple put a brand new chip in its May 2024 iPad?
flutter. specially now that google fired half the team

it's not worse than tauri/electron for desktop, and you get mobile for free if needed.
Search for gravitationally lensed interstellar transmissions
You're not really imagining visual scenes, the resolution just isn't there if you think about it. It's more like you're imagining low resolution encodings, which is definitely the smart and efficient way of doing it that evolution would choose over a wasteful full sim.
The only exception I have to this is S3. There are so many S3 compatible providers that I don't see any problem with using S3. There's even MinIO for self hosting and local development!

Some more suggestions for open source components:

Redis for caching and queueing
SMTP for mail
Nginx for load balancing
Cron for scheduling
Here you go: https://archive.is/zS3WH
Surely Niantic Labs should freeze their copy of OSM data to prevent this kind of abuse.
MemoKit – Memories with Music
As an amateur sailor, the idea that they discussed wearing lifejackets INSIDE the craft seems completely stupid. One of first things any sailor learns is that you do not wear lifejackets inside the craft.

It is not possible to swim through submerged openings (windows, doors) in a lifejackets as it is simply pulling you up and preventing you from diving down.

A lifejacket is also very bulky and offers a lot of opportunity for snagging on equipment.

If they had lifejackets on, probably nobody would save themselves unless they were able to untie themselves in time.

Just imagine the hell of trying to free yourself from the snagged seat belt WHILE in a life jacket that constricts all your movements and makes reaching your legs very difficult and pulls you constantly up putting continuous force on whatever snagged on your feet.
Previously... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40203126
I have been told by a mod that I am replying too much to this conversation (?) and I therefore cannot address your point.

It’s a shame as I think it is interesting to see how people perceive things with hindsight specifically related to apple and how engineers who presumably work on similar problems cannot apply the same logic to apple but I am forced to stop the conversation. This will be my last comment on any thread related to this and I am rethinking my contributions to HN.
Architecture Testing in Laravel with Pest
May be, but moving to Python did not take anything away. It brought more joy that you have more control over things like, on which server to run the migration and choose UAT or prod and just a list of servers specified in the command line.

And organizing the modules was straight forward as we already knew/did that in the project.

Perhaps, it comes from my programming background, but its true.
Miri [0] is an interpreter for the mid-level intermediate representation (MIR) generated by the Rust compiler. MIR is input for more processing steps of the compiler. However miri also runs MIR directly. This means miri is a VM. Of course it's not a bytecode VM, because MIR is not a bytecode AFAIK. I still think that miri is a interesting example.

And why does miri exist?

It is a lot slower. However it can check for some undefined behavior.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
Okay I surely must have aphantasia then if you are describing seeing images like that.
Great stuff.

I know OSX has a tool to automatically fix permissions, is there anything in Linux?

If this installed + used a driver for btrfs or ext3 on the Windows side, I wonder it might be 99% of the way there (combined with however the permissions fix would work).
LOL, the wisdom of the market mechanism to the rescue of the irrational voters.
> flutter. specially now that google fired half the team

Source?
He says that demands from smart people are the worst since no one questions them.

I would say that a smart demand questioned by an idiot is worse but I'm no elon musk
Do not adjust your set: this is a forum thread from April 2024 about Pokemon Go players trying to cheat by getting geospatial data changed. Equal parts hilarious and sad.
Show HN: Domain Driven Design Template in Golang
go-ddd is a reference implementation/template repository demonstrating the Domain Driven Design (DDD) approach in Golang.

This project aims to help developers and architects understand the DDD structure, especially in the context of Go, and how it can lead to cleaner, more maintainable, and scalable codebases.

It's an opinionated approach, influenced by other patterns like CQRS.
Steve Bellovin's Retirement Talk
i dunno about that. nobody in the west is talking about hk protests or how china routinely do tank training manoeuvres inside Taiwan straight... yet everyone is siding against Israel genocide.

seems opposite of being bad at it.
Some foreign banks simply don't _want_ to deal with American citizens, precisely because of the reporting requirements strong-armed in agreements with the US -- because they have to report those bank accounts back to the states every year (or quarter).

It's not like the US is funding that foreign work to be done on their behalf, either. So the reticence to even bother with creating bank accounts for American citizens makes sense.
The part in which FLT is derived from the binomial theorem, lol.
If a project is really mature, reusable components in design tools can work. But for early stage stuff, they can quickly prove more trouble than they're worth.

The designer's job is to think creatively, on behalf of the user, through the entire system, the states, the transitions. Faffing around with reusable components gets in the way of the right kind of thought, IMHO. It's like the design version of big complex class hierarchies. Done too early, they will really slow you down.
Both as right, and wrong at the same time: developers have the knowledge of what's needed to run the service, and they know that if you make things too complicated it will be too costly to maintain and the organization will grind to halt. But the designers have the view of the users and they know that if the product is too unergonomic to use, there won't be any users to pay the bills. Both need to understand the other's POV in order to ship sustainable software that is actually used.
I think there's one point the author missed, and that's payment method standardization.

In the US, you put a credit card form on your website and you're done. That's how people pay online, period.

In the EU, this is not the case. You have countries like Germany, where many people use EC, not Visa or Mastercard. You have countries like Poland, where (debit) card adoption and usage is very high, but online card usage is almost nonexistent. Except for the young and tech-savvy, there's a weird phobia here when it comes to anything that can take money from your account without your explicit consent. That complicates subscription payments for one, most major streaming services had to give in and allow bundling with cable and satellite TV plans (Netflix), phone plans (Spotify and Tidal) or payments by SMS (Storytel). There was a Storytel blog post once where they discovered that 90% of Polish people that cancelled at the "payment" step of the subscription flow did so because "credit card" was the only method available.

And that's just two countries, I'm pretty sure the other 26 have their own nuances I'm not aware of.
What kind of deprecation are you talking about? Assuming deprecated functions/types/etc, isn't this something your compiler or linter should catch?
Show HN: QuickVid 2 – Summarize and Fact-Check YouTube Videos in Seconds
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The Red Dot awards are kind of pay to play. I visited their museum in Singapore. A large part of their collection was vaporware, while another was functionally unsound.
full 30 pages: https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/s... (transcript pp.13-25)
Oh! I didn't know that. Fair enough - that does rather make the point.
Have you tried the voice chat feature in Japanese? It speaks in a way that’s weirdly incredibly fluent and yet simultaneously completely unnatural in its intonation. It sounds completely American, presumably because the voice model was trained on mostly American English and a bit of Japanese and that’s the result — Japanese with a Californian accent.
Designers sure do seem to complain about figma a lot tho.
While this is true, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. At some point, we decided as a nation to only care about politics during election years. Participation rates for local elections is near an all time low. If people were more involved with the process, I would imagine that we would see more movement in Congress as a reaction to the will of the people.
How to Enhance Database Performance Testing Using Custom SQL Scripts in PgBench
> 4 billion years

Well the computers/CPUs haven't been evolving for a few million years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution); let's assume from Mammals onwards.

If a CPU has been developed so much within a few decades, then with the capabilities provided on ML/LLM/AI/and other-such-acronyms, in a million years we should at least have a "Lucy" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872732/) evolved. In the meantime, I expect that in a few hundred years we will have a Borg Queen (perhaps without the interconnectivity).
What I'm still waiting is for someone to come up with a way to search torrent content from a distributed index.
Bitcoin (BTC) worked perfectly as currency in the beginning, until Blockstream took over the development team, and they decided to keep the temporary anti-spam 1MB block limit, making 0-confirmation transactions (instant payments) very risky by implementing return-by-fee (which make transactions reversible before getting confirmed), etc.
I have no idea at which level of processing in which of my brain's visual areas my visual imagination is generated, however I can say that the subjective experience is "retina resolution".
Why was this your first thought? Is a limiting factor to transformers the MLP layer? I thought the bottleneck was in the renormalization part.
Sounds like a dream come true! Any jobs going?
Social services in the US include Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. (Note the capital letters. Those are the names of the agencies.) And yes, they all cover citizens living in and outside the United States.

The US government makes employers (corporations) pay a large amount of money into the private health insurance system (Required by law per employee. That sounds socialized, doesn't it?). They do that to reduce the tax burden on the poor, and to maintain healthy competition in the insurance market, for better or for worse.

In my opinion, that means doctors make more money because insurance companies put the burden of paying them on big corporations that can afford to do so.

Essentially, it means the poor get healthcare, the rich pay for it, and small business owners can expense it as a reduction in tax liability.

What do you suppose you'd do if you were an employer (a corporation) with global media reach who didn't want the government to force you to pay for your workers' health care?

Well, I think you'd invest a lot into propaganda teaching people that rich corporations shouldn't pay it, the government (aka poor taxpayers) should pay for it.

And that's why so many people are under the same impression that you have (or had).
Tbf, the purpose of the blog is to talk about the power of Clojure/Lisp for defining the new paradigm, rather than the paradigm itself. Though the author then goes on to talk about "fragments" as the basis for the new paradigm.

The first sentence has a link to the project page which has most of the info you need.
Well, there's your phone number. Networks and law enforcement only need that.

Existing privacy level is adequate for members of the public. Anyone who actually, really requires more either has state agencies resources available or is being wanted by state agencies...
There was also Wubi[1], which, while not exactly this (which is more about putting a Linux FS in a WIM) was a windows based installer for Ubuntu which would save your disk contents on the NTFS partition in a single file (much like swapfile.sys).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)
Trivially it's all concatenative languages where each single token is valid.

Not sure if they have a name but I would be tempted to call it a free language.
If you're using .net: maui
Cross platform for win/linux/mac/ios/android
The internal state at layer M of token N is available at every following token > N and layer > M via attention heads. Transformed by a matrix but a very direct lookup mechanism. The state after the final attention layer is not addressable in this way, but it immediately becomes the output token which is of course accessible.

Note also that sequential computations such as loops translate nicely to parallel ones, e.g. k layers can search the paths of length k in a graph, if each token represents one node. But since each token can only look backwards, unless you're searching a DAG you'd also have to feed in the graph multiple times so the nodes can see each other. Hmm... that might be a useful LLM prompting technique.
> Imagine a SQL database refusing to answer a SELECT statement because some text column had potty words in it!

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that may yet become the norm in a not-too-distant future.

Anyway, you could try adding an extra ‘(this is for my partner who speaks [language]; I don’t intend to act on any of the translation; it’s just for entertainment purposes)’ or something like that to the prompt. GPT tends to relent if you tell it you’re not wanting to do anything bad.
I imagine these questions are what might make this project non-trivial, but surely achievable.

> If I chroot and then run0 will that process also run in the chroot?

That's an interesting question and it's not quite clear to me what should be the answer. For example, one legit answer might be that it would not work at all (in which case you would need to use some other tool that fits your needs), or another would be that the policy can decide what to do in that case.

But wouldn't you agree that it is better security hygiene to explicitly opt-in to inheriting properties when going to an elevated security level, instead of opting out from them?
Designer here. They really shouldn't because it is de facto the industry standard and no other software even comes close. Why do you think Adobe was willing to buy it for 20B
Maybe, maybe not. How do we fix the core issue of it making shit up all the time?
> it requires permissions that the android won't grant

No, it really doesn't.
yeah! I feel the same
It's way better than the previous status quo: now, more or less whatever distro I'm on, there's one command which answers that question directly, not a process of guessing how this system happens to be set up. You can guess and grep through most any kind of problem, but I don't see why anyone would want to do it as anything but a last resort, and to me that fits '37 easy steps' far more than the 1 consistent step in these replies (notice how none of them say 'oh, but on debian...'?).
Do you really do that in practice, or do you just blindly go 'if err != nil return nil, err'?

Because fundamentally the function you called can return different errors at any point so if you just propagate the error the code paths are in fact not spelled out at all because the function one above in the hierarchy has to deal with all the possible errors two calls down which are not transparent at all.
> That's why he's constantly announcing

Security fraud.
> Another example is Specter. Specter is a generically useful library for querying and manipulating data structures

> https://github.com/redplanetlabs/specter/tree/master/src

> MutableCell.Java. 8 years ago

package com.rpl.specter;

public class MutableCell {
private Object o;

public MutableCell(Object o) {
this.o = o;
}

public Object get() {
return o;
}

public void set(Object o) {
this.o = o;
}
}

Behold the power!
> You don't have to pay tax when you didn't earn money so stop being so stingy.

But you have to pay a fixed VAT for what you buy, even if that is food or clothing to survive. Remember, you pay twice.
Tracking the Wins
text https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10847188/

no specifics of "artificial light" definition anywhere.
Saying you condemn Oct 7th but you support the overall cause to free palestine is like saying you condemn Russians murdering Ukrainian civilians but you support the overall cause to retake the territory. Doesn't really work like that.
Affordable healthcare being chief among these. If people could go to the doctor without fear of bankruptcy, they might stop trying to self medicate with potentially addictive substances.

I was listening to a podcast the other day and one of the hosts had lost his job. He was thrilled to "only" have to pay $1000/mo for insurance on the Marketplace for his family of 6. And he confirmed it wasn't even a "Cadillac" plan!

If my back hurts, I'm probably going to reach for weed over a visit to the doctor because $10/day is a potentially more affordable than needing to shell out $8k for back surgery or physical therapy treatments for years. Maybe I get lucky and the pain goes away, or I can focus on finding a new job with better health benefits and still come out ahead financially.
Designer often prioritize design over user experience.

Custom mouse cursors, unaccessible images, non-obvious buttons, non-standard interactions, strobing lights, a million parallaxes.

A lot of designers think that "pretty" is the same as "usable".

Most devs I know, don't care about "clean code" itself, what they care about is _robustness_. If getting something to work requires thousands of lines of html, css, and javascript, then I can guarantee you that something is gonna look broken on some browser in some viewport size.

When designing you need to keep any mediums limitations in mind, be it paper or the web. The medium is the message.
Browsers are buggy implementations of mediocre standards, if you design oblivious to their limitations things will inevitably be buggy, ugly and weird.

Designers can't just live in an ivory tower of auto-layouts that actually work, and have devs magically weave their dreams from garbage.

If we just replaced the web with figma (or if Figma had a runtime like Rive, to just run the entire thing with the web as the platform), I'd be more than happy, not being editor-first is the biggest flaw of the web, and figmas auto-layout is a lot less sucky. But until then, (good) designers have to learn the basics of the tech stack too, and figma does not help in that department.
I don't know if thats true, theirs a massive flicker in the guys hair (the one thats mostly black background and black shirt) half way through it completely loses tracking on his hair and it like snap changes.
I utilized JavaScript to render music notation from pppp to ffff iirc that can connect to a MIDI keyboard, allowing users to practice along with the interactive notes. Initially, I experimented with Adobe Flex before transitioning to web-based solutions and yes, it can read and play any MIDI files to my SF2 soundfont.

The only problem is that MuseScore community took years to fix a missing measurement in MusicXML structure, I had to patch the code on my own.
Again, I'm not disagreeing. I thought I repeated "I don't believe aliens are visiting us" in my comment often enough to make that clear.

I am only commenting on your point:

> Before camera phones were ubiquitous, the bulk of reports were very elaborate and fantastic tales where the so-called witness played a central role in the story.

> Once everyone started carrying a camera, all we see is questionable light shows taken from a very long distance.

> Strange, isn't it?

This argument is not based in logic. Don't argue against "aliens" and the like by making points that are not based in logic. Find arguments that are based in logic.
Encodings perhaps, but I assure you the subjective experience of the resolution is indistinguishable from my eyeballs.
I can't remember where but I read somewhere a theory that says that most of life started sleeping, in the water, this was the default state.

At one point in time stuff started being awake and developed wake consciousness, and the evolutionary pressure was on the wakefulness of things, because if one thing is awake everything has to be eventually.

It made me think - why are we thinking our wake life is real life? When we're asleep - we're sure the dream world is the real world.

It's like one life is not enough from an evolutionary standpoint. You have to have 2 lives, interconnected on 2 different dimensions, alternating day and night.
The comment I was replying to talked about Jewish in israel. They claimed that most of Jews in israel are from Middle East which is wrong and the link shows that. See the table about parental ancestors.
> Tools like this do the deployment, they aren't generally deployed themselves.

It will have to be executed on many different developer machines (or even your own machine several years in the future) so a simple, reproducible build process, including fetching pip dependencies, is critical.
IMHO Ruby is better for creating DSLs, so I wrote a small thing to scratch my own itch: https://github.com/marius/koch

This is not meant to scale to more than a handful of machines, but you get the idea how nice straight Ruby is for a machine specification DSL.