skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what they're saying there is "I was just taking pictures... noooo, you will break my camera!!! you evil brute!" when you say GTFO is no defense.

Not saying there aren't weird laws. Check the notions of boxed squares (miles) and airspace. Some of these need addressing at the federal level.
> Zig's type system can properly express a sum type.

Surely any Turing complete PL can express a sum type? I can't imagine a language that can support products but not sums.
No, that's where we are now. Not in the future, right now. It isn't working.

You fundamentally can't prevent someone copying your file. It isn't possible, full stop. You can only make it maximally inconvenient. You can't encrypt a user's eyeballs, so the media has to be transmitted in the clear at some level. Be it intercepting the LVDS signal to your TV panel or just pointing a camcorder at the screen.

The current tact is to just make it maximally inconvenient for anyone to access the file in any way. This does not consider the asymmetry in effort required. All legitimate users must deal with shitty DRM systems and broken apps, where it takes exactly one pirate to go through the effort of making a copy. Then everyone else who obtains a copy has to expend zero effort to consume the media.

Piracy is simply easier, which is why there's a resurgence now. The only sustainable option is to make legitimate consumption easier than piracy. For a lot of media, piracy is the only option to obtain a copy that will not vanish at some indeterminate point in the future. even if you paid for it.

Companies think that they can just make piracy harder, but that simply doesn't work. Once the first copy is made, the game is over. As established, there's simply no way to truly and permanently prevent a copy being created. That's simply the nature of digital media. At best, you can slow pirates down, you can never stop them. Piracy will never go away, and people need to accept that. People have been selling bootleg copies of goods since the dawn of time, there's no way to prevent it. There will always be someone nabbing copies of movies and sharing the files.

You can either waste everyone's time by trying to fight it, or you can realize that companies need to compete to survive, not just be large. If you compete with the pirates and produce a better product that people want more, well that's what capitalism is all about, isn't it?
Yeah, this article is very strange. The debate should be about whether the law is appropriate. This email adds nothing to that debate.
That sounds an awful lot like an Xbox, and I personally don't think we're too far off from those becoming general purpose cloud connected DRM computers coupled with recurring monthly subscriptions for all your app/game/content needs.
I can't stand the "OMG there's a new thing, we need to regulate it" way of thinking. No doubt in my mind the woman in the article doesn't understand much more about so-called "AI" than Biden.
Interesting graph, but I find it strange there are these really unpopular numbers like 0738. I can't see the reason why it would be significantly less popular than similar ones, i.e. 0739 or 0758
It is not that firebase is bad, it is that most types of data for most types of applications are relational and belong in a relational database

People bending document stores to fit every use case are insane.
Not liking Steely Dan.
(OP here) I actually quite agree with you on all of these points. There are tools, and programming techniques, for dealing with everything in my rant. And I also agree that many times people are "holding it wrong" - be it data that has not been partitioned, or people trying to do a "SELECT *" against a terabyte of parquet files.

My central point is that the "bucket of parquet" can be wrangled with by an expert, who knows the tools, their limitations, and programming techniques, in order to get it into a usable state.

But my post is a frustration with the sheer amount of tooling and knowledge required to get started - for example, the case where non-partitioned data is foisted upon non-experts.
That's what I imagined it to be, a slight improvement but obviously no miracle.
What other interface would you suggest for such devices?
That's not what he was doing. If it came across that way to you, that's an illustration of how cursed these threads are.
Of course, it will require exponential data for zero shot. The keyword here is zero shot. If you think about it for a second, this applies to humans too. We also need exponential training data to do things without examples.
First off, St. Louis isn't empty because of muh car centric infrastructure, it's empty because of deindustrialization. Secondly, parking lots are in fact a better use of space than empty, dilapidated office buildings.
“ let’s say we build 30 miles of subway, about what Manhattan has in that area.”

Public transportation that connects to nothing is not useful. The NY metro area has a massive public transit set of systems that extend out for a hundred miles in every direction. That’s why you can support such density.

edit: It's 665 miles of MTA track, 14 miles for PATH, 700 miles of LIRR train tracks, and 385 for Metro North tracks. Plus Amtrak and the regional buses (the new depot alone for those will cost $10 billion).
Don't worry, it came along with him stating on Xitter that FSD will have the "nag" for holding the steering wheel removed in the next update.
Well, it sure seems to make a market for people who would/does pay for legitimate 4k video in their browser to pirate. I am happy to pay for streaming, but as the quality goes down so does any desire to shell out honest money.
The internet exists beyond the confines of HN. Hertz only adjusted the charge because of the negative publicity online. All of this happened before the post to HN.
A Model 3 with the extended range has 340 miles of range. That's not a realistic number, but let's be generous. A 2% difference in charge comes out to about seven miles—and that's being maximally generous to Hertz in this case. There's no burden here. Seven miles is probably about the round trip necessary to drive the car to a charge station. Hell, I've turned in plenty of ICE cars with more than 2% less fuel than when I got it and incurred no fee. The fee is more than two orders of magnitude greater than the cost of the electricity. And because it's so close to the maximum battery capacity, you're talking about an hour of charging or more—the closer to full a Tesla gets, the longer it takes to fill up (by design! It's not supposed to be filled that high, as the article points out!).
note that `exit()` on a script will also not work, as the exit function is only loaded on REPL. To make it work on a script, you will need to import the sys package and later call sys.exit()
It wouldn't be out of character...
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It is highly dependent on the snow conditions and the recent weather. Sometimes even just the a couple hours are enough to change the conditions to have a good chance of rollerballs. The climate also has an impact, in my experience more coastal areas have more periods when they form.

And in some cases the rollerballs get too tall for the bonding strength of the snow, so they break into parts that can restart the cycle if the slope is steep enough.
What the hell is going on with this article?

The article posits that NIMBY-ism is a myth, and to prove it, they do a thought experiment that shows that building more density in Palo Alto would yield more value, and hence it would be the rational thing to do. But why use an unrealistic thought experiment when you have real world examples of NIMBY-ism in action?

This article makes no sense at all.
Right. I wasn't making a point about environmental impacts, for example. I know some folks see that as the main differentiator (that I understand). My point was just to draw a distinction between what seems more "processed" vs not - knowing that the terms aren't well-defined.
This often comes up when writing a function which returns a wrapper over a generic type (like Option<T>). If your Option type is T | null, then there's no way to distinguish between a null returned by the function or a null that is part of T.

As a concrete example, consider a map with a method get(key: K) -> Option<V>. How do you tell the difference between a missing key and a key which contains `null` as a value?
This argument assumes that we can destroy Palo Alto, rebuild it anew into something completely different, and preserve the value people ascribe to Palo Alto. This is not how it works.

If it worked this way, why do it to Palo Alto? Why not do it to Eureka, CA, or, even better, some unincorporated land with no zoning rules to speak of? Just buy it for pennies on the dollar, slap midtown Manhattan density construction on it, and reap the profits. Why are Bay Area VCs throwing billions at stupid startup ideas, yet won't stoop to pick up trillion dollars from the zoning gutter?
The AI Review Lottery: Widespread AI-Assisted Peer Reviews Boost Paper Scores
Would you object if the FBI deputy director encouraged FBI agents to lawfully use their service firearms in the field to demonstrate their use to the FBI? There are real harms involved with increasing surveillance of the public and reducing judicial oversight. Placing the use of warrantless wiretapping as an end in itself rather than a possible means whose use needs to be carefully weighed necessarily means that the weighing will be less careful.
What faang allows remote work? What faang has average devs making 400k?

(Also it remains weird to me that Netflix is considered a tech company)

The reality is companies like this often use minimum cost contract companies to develop the software rather than actually employing developers directly. They seeing software engineers (or any non managerial position) as purely an expense not the source of value in their products so you only get penny pinching on development and QA.
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https://archive.is/tQ69B
> the States have given up on forming those well-regulated militias

The States claim that state-run National Guard units are the "well-regulated militias". Their claim is wrong, but not for the reason you imply. The reason their claim is wrong is that the 2nd Amendment is about the right of the people to keep and bear arms to resist a tyrannical government--any tyrannical government: not just the Federal government, but the State governments as well. If the States can organize a militia and then say individual citizens no longer have the right to keep and bear arms outside that organized militia, that defeats the purpose of the 2nd Amendment just as much as the Federal government having a standing army and claiming it's an organized militia.
Java 21's pattern matching (you don't need functionaljava, and shouldn't really use that unless you're really into FP) is kind of nicer than Kotlin's, because you can automatically "destruct" records in your matches.

For Java, see https://www.baeldung.com/java-lts-21-new-features

Kotlin's: https://www.baeldung.com/kotlin/when

Make up your own mind.
Epigenetics would like a word.

A gene can be expressed but from what I rember from my college classes....the epigenetics can determine if the gene actually works correctly and how effective it is.

Think of it as the ability to lower the overall expression of the gene
I encourage the author to spend an afternoon and evening in Palo Alto as well as in SF and SJ downtown. Please tell us afterwards where you and your family would rather live.
lol this is like saying C doesn't need structs, you can just declare the variables with a common prefix separately! See ma, product types!
"I almost got my Steam hacked"
It might be the condition I have, otosclerosis, where the bones of the middle ear fuse. The surgery, a stapedectomy, involves removing the bones and replacing them with a metallic prosthesis. Unfortunately, in my case, the calcification is also happening in my cochlea which means that at some indeterminate time in the future, I will end up losing all hearing. Not to mention that even with the prosthetic, my hearing isn’t 100% so I have a difficult time understanding speech. There might be some gene therapy that can remedy things, but I think what I may be hoping to see is the ability to grow a new inner and middle ear from stem cells and transplant them into my head, but I suspect that at age 55, I won’t see this happen in time for me.
Definitely agree with this.

One analogy I see today is the typical testing pipeline. Unit tests get run locally, then maybe a CI job runs unit tests + integration tests, then maybe there's a deployment job which does a blue/green release. At every stage the system is being "tested", but because the tests validate different capabilities, it's like concentric circles that grow confidence for the change.

A software dev lifecycle that uses AI dev tools is similar. Agents will review/contribute at the various stages of the SDLC, sometimes with overlap, but mostly additive and building on the output of one another.
As the father of a deaf girl who had cochlear implant surgery a few years ago, I despise these videos for misleadingly representing the reality of the situation for most patients.

Those videos you mention are designed to invoke “happy-feelies” to maximise engagement and monetisation, nothing more.

The doctors warned us not to expect any reaction in our daughter like in those videos.

Even so, I wasn’t prepared for just how difficult my daughter’s post-implantation journey was. It took many months before the implants provided even remotely similar benefit as the tiny amount of benefit her older hearing aids could give.

She had to learn to hear all over again from scratch.

This affected her self-confidence, her friendships, her schooling, and was a very difficult time for her.

Those turn-on videos you mention are overly saccharine to make you feel good while having nothing to do with the reality of the situation for almost all cases.
They are doing that, with the California Forever project, which is equally as dumb
They also have Amazon Forecast with different algos - https://aws.amazon.com/forecast/
Why should that person sacrifice themselves when they are happy working? Just so other people are not held to that standard? That seems like a management issues. Don't expect the same things from everyone.
Take this entire article with a grain of salt. It was written by an internet troll named Joshua Goldberg, recently released from prison just last month, who after constructing a number of fake personas across various internet forums and social media communities, was convicted on charges of attempting to carry out a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
I sent the essay to several people, and a few wrote back to say they thought the writing excellent. This is not to undermine your point of view. You’re perfectly entitled to it. Rather to wonder what it is that causes different tastes and preferences to form so deeply.
This is an absurd article with a ridiculous premise not worth discussing.

“What if Palo Alto had the density of Manhattan?”

Manhattan has had 400 years to get to where it is today, the Dutch established a trading post there in 1624.
The people who trust it are the people who either don't know the difference, or the code ChatGPT outputs is comparable or better than what they can output.

It seems to work okay the other direction though, if code is well-named and well-commented, ChatGPT can explain what it does in natural language tailored to people of varying backgrounds and levels of experience. But it's not so good at taking natural language and making it into code that has to be much stricter.
If you have to do a chargeback you should avoid that company anyway. Luckily, Hertz does not have a monopoly.
The pattern seems to be that companies leave job postings up in order to conceal whether they are actually hiring.
Why wouldn't they just give it to someone else with 96% charge?
NYC used to be a zillion municipalities that grew into 5 boroughs over time.

The only way you could swing that kind of government heft is to reincorporate the Bay Area into a similarly singular entity.

Otherwise, as is now, all problems in the Bay are the fault and responsibility of the next city over.
In color blindness, the cone cells produce an incorrect opsin protein that isn't sensitive to red (or is sensitive to a frequency close to green). Gene therapy would fix that, though it'd probably take a while for the brain to understand the new information.

The main reason this therapy isn't available is because the FDA has decided that the risks of gene therapy aren't worth the benefit of curing color blindness. I agree with that evaluation, but I also think mavericks should be allowed to try curing their own colorblindness (assuming they had informed consent and paid for the therapy themselves).
A lot of things drive those prices, but a big one is access to work and amenities. Mostly work, though. The Bay Area is characterized by suburbs, but also provides some of the highest paid and most highly desired jobs in the country.
Apple to Power AI Tools with In-House Server Chips This Year
Biden's $7.5B investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations
https://archive.ph/AiheB
Ah yes. NIMBYs do not exist because a blogger can conjure the image of somebody with a trillion dollars cash to buy the town in their imagination. Check mate
Apple essentially wants to destroy those objects because it can't charge rents for them, but only for the electronic simulacras it offers.
> [Elon Musk] also said he would ask any executive who retained more than three workers who “don’t obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” to resign.

Is this "excellent, necessary and trustworthy test" referring to some specific criteria at Tesla or is it judged at an executives discretion?
Developing expensive areas seems like an effort in refinement, not as an actual monetary investments.
Yes and no. In transient oriented development you can build the transit infrastructure first and then densify around the new nodes of transit.
I'm hopeful we will be able to cure retinitis pigmentosa with CRISPR one day.
I agree but that's not what the article is discussing and accounting for the costs of.
Ultimately Congress should have written the law more carefully. It's their job to balance the various concerns of the government; effectiveness of their law enforcement vs. civil liberties. The FBI's job is only to investigate to the maximum extent of the law, and the email was just reminding people of that.
I definitely thinks it's a factor. You really don't see CEO who worked part time during their rise to power. Maybe there is something to that.
Great idea for creating some specific videos for engineers, designers, etc.

Browsers are interesting since they can do almost anything but "you can do anything you want!" is intimidating for many new users.

We've given e-mail thought and it's certainly a door we are considering as we keep on building. Has anyone built a browser without thinking about an email client? :P
I think you described it perfectly. "Corporate gaming experience" is what MS is selling.
How do you think NYC became NYC?
The thing that's breaking me is that I can't even figure out which combination of what I need to get what I want.

I just want to pay the $5 and watch the damn movie/show!

So instead I just ... check out the Roku from the library that has all the services and binge ;)
The Theory of Bounded Rationality tells us super humans are over rated.
There will always be problems you throw in the lap of a super human, that they wont be able to solve cause of lack of time, or cash, or personality or missing info, or conflicting needs, or their belief system etc etc.
It definitely deserved a lot of praise, but the testing situation wasn't really against a fully fledged stockfish running on similar hardware, but one that, among other things, had no opening library.

The issue is not whether alphazero was impressive, but that we should be careful about the specific claims of the press releases, as they are known to oversell. The whole thing would have been impressive enough if the games had been against the last release of stockfish with good hardware, just for the way it played.
Yeah, I use it for lots of boilerplate work like adding new API endpoints, new Celery jobs, and building react components.
Abstractly this is true, but software development is a human practice, so it matters not what's technically possible but what people actually do.

That's why the most important difference between C++ and Rust isn't some technicality even though the technical differences are huge, it's cultural. Rust has a Safety Culture and everything else is subservient to that difference.

Sugar matters, Rust's familiar looking loops are just sugar, it only "really" has a single way to do loops, the loop construct, an infinite loop you can break out of. But despite that, people deliberately write the other loops - and the linter strongly recommends that they write them, because the programs aren't just for machines to compile, they're for other humans to read, and a while let loop is an intuitive thing to read for example, so is the traditional for-each style iterator loop.
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Blink really turned me off when they started running some automatic shell script that curl | bash's some static version of mosh from their servers without me noticing in order to 'improve' the experience.

No, don't run anything on my servers thanks. I don't even care if there's an option to turn it off.

Switched to termius, I'll miss being able to use custom fonts but meh.
I read this years ago in NurtureShock. Studies of adopted kids showed they still shared more personality traits with biological parents than adoptive ones. In fact they measured the two biggest factors as genetics and peer relationships with parenting being marginal. If you casually observe good parents with good kids or vice versa that's mostly genetic. Of course there's also a big distinction between personality and behavior. Parenting can certainly influence behavior regardless of personality.
I don't care who they are, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huberman or Robert Sapolsky (especially him), I always take what they say with a grain of salt because the lure of the almight dollar corrupts their objectivity and why not? There's nothing wrong with making a buck and the general public needs to have information that is at least grounded in reality. If it's enertaining too they'll pay attention and learn something, which they didn't do in high school.
Yes, but it goes against the principles of "Explicit is better than implicit" and "There should be one-- and preferably only one—-obvious way to do it." We use parentheses () to call a function. print was a keyword in Python2, now, with print(), it's clear that we are calling for the execution.

It's fun because `exit` alone in the REPL will return an object, and you can get the `exit.eof`, where is the message of what the keyword shortcut to call exit is, and it changes depending on the OS.
Why not just leave Palo Alto alone? There is nothing special or desirable about that area, and it’s populated by weird, quirky, or even insufferable people. The world does not need more Palo Alto.
Remote Attestations and Dangerous Protocols
As mentioned, there are a plethora of queuing systems that have cross platform clients.

If you’re interested specifically in a background job system, you may want to check out Faktory. It’s Mike Perham’s language-agnostic follow-up to Sidekiq.

https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
Absolutely. One guy making big public claims should be treated with particular skepticism, even if they have relevant credentials.
And I want to see UV like our proto progenitors,
enough of these little brown birds we can't tell apart.
Many people in Palo Alto absolutely do not want more more building and density.