skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to be overly cynical and say it was intentional, but the term was watered down to become meaningless, but when it first came into use, it had a pretty clear and unambiguous meaning that I don't think any reasonable person would argue with. The Washington Post published an expose early in 2016 about two men in Orange County who had the brilliant idea of exploiting pre-election hysteria by registering hundreds of domains with names like patriotdailynews.com, giving it all the veneer of a real news page, writer bylines and bios, but all of it was completely made up. It was just the two guys in their apartment living room brainstorming the most outrageous sounding headlines they could come up that they thought people might believe, then making up fake writers and fake sources. That is "fake news."

When it started being used to mean any published account of purported facts that is wrong because inference is imperfect, evidence can be misleading, and publishers have some inescapable level of bias, then yes, it became a useless term. But it is not useless to distinguish between largely good faith attempts by real organizations with investigators who are at least trying to discover, verify, and publish facts, but some of the time fail, and outright fraud committed by people making up the entire endeavor wholesale.

There is no reason at all we should believe authorities cannot accomplish the latter.
Krazam – The Solar Sermon [video]
It is pretty insane that Windows still uses regional encodings in 2020's, instead of switching to UTF8 everywhere.

My pet theory is everyone who cares moved to Mac OS (or Linux, or WSL) and the only people who write Windows native apps are the ones who learned this long time ago and don't want to switch.
Yeah kind of. But configuring them is a chore that not everybody got an appetite for. Plus WMs lack the convenience apps which proper DEs provide out of the box.
Not to defend the VC in this case, but thin skin assumes that the VC did not take the meeting because they were offended by not being picked first. VCs and Investors are more often than not lemmings with strong FOMO bias, and perceiving no other VC is interested is enough of a signal to not waste time.

From my own experience having met with VC's and investors is that most are inundated with pitches, and the old addage of 'Take every meeting you can' has been replaced with 'Say No by default.' There is no exact science, and so there are proxy signals they use in their heuristic.

It reminds me of the scene in money ball where the scouts are complaining about a baseball player who does not date an attractive women, so therefore they should not sign him because he doesn't have confidence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naO8n6HsqE
More interesting still is an archaeologist debunking Graham Hancock’s nonsense.

https://youtu.be/-iCIZQX9i1A?si=521Y4VpqaQqPeBpq
The secret life of bridges (2021)
> "bromine fluorine dioxide"

That's 3 reactive back-to-back no-thank-you's.
Here are two hard earned lessons from my experience fundraising. 1. If an investor isn't interested, cut bait. It's usually clear in the first 15 minutes. No follow-up with argument/data will convince them. Why they aren't may or may not teach you anything. Just move on and continue pitching. 2. Once one investor is interested, getting meetings with others is MUCH easier. If they can't lead, they will intro you to someone they've worked with that can. Getting in front of the A-list investors is hard as they see every deal and can pick and choose. If you can't get a B/C-list investor to term sheet, you or your biz isn't fundable (sorry). If you easily get B/C investors to term sheet you can probably get a brand name firm to steal the deal with better terms. In my experience A-listers aren't discerning on price if they believe in you and/or the biz. This seems to happen to the B/C investors all the time, that's why when they find you, like you/biz, they will drive you to close quickly. 2 months as referenced in OP is an eternity.
>Sprint's goose was most definitely cooked

The reason their goose was cooked is because they previously were planning to acquire T Mobile, but SoftBank got back-channel info that it would never be approved by the anti-trust regulators. At the time they had Marcelo Claure running Sprint, basically a corporate "fixer" guy for SoftBank. So he ran the company into the dirt in order to make the merge feasible to regulators (e.g. - Sprint purchased a 33% stake in Tidal, the music streaming service. Or how they entered a partnership with bankrupt RadioShack after it got scooped up by PE, and decided it was a good idea to take over all the physical RadioShack locations and turn them into Sprint stores).

"Oh, whatever shall we do, our company is failing, you MUST let us merge with one of our primary competitors or we'll go bankrupt. No company at all is worse for consumers than a merged company."
> I think that's the normal dynamics when an expert discusses something with laymen in a particular subject.

But this is hubris, or at least arrogance, on your part: this is a very broad subject with many impact (reliability, security[1], language UX, teach-ability, productivity impact in heterogeneous teams, and so on), and most of the people who've debated with you are in fact often more experts than you in at least one aspect of the topic. Your obstinacy to see them as mere “laymen” is what makes you unable to improve in your understanding of the big picture, which come by aggregating the wisdom that comes from experts of complementary topics to yours.

Your inability to do so is likely the reason for your intellectual stagnation.

And this kind of antagonistic posturing is actually a problem for the whole world, because as you are proudly arguing about the “failures of sound methods” and the success of the alternative, the truth is that even if the real world deployment of TLA+ far exceeds the one of Coq, it's still pretty negligible in the grand scheme of things. And arguing that “but distributed systems do use TLA+ all the time” would be as pointless as saying “but Airbus is using Coq to make planes fly”.

In fact, none of the state of the art methods have gained widespread use, and this industry as a whole keeps pumping out tons of broken software every day without any sign of changing course.

The only successful (in terms of adoption) means of reducing the numbers of bugs are the following:

- static typing [2]

- unit testing

- fuzzing

All of them are pretty bad at their job in average, but at least together they avoids at a billion dollar worth of bugs every years, which is still much better than any of the technically superior, but practically unheard of but most software developers, alternatives. The jury is still out on what can actually work at scale.

Preaching for years on internet forums that your option of choice is the good option, despite its lasting failure to get mainstream adoption is as delusional as the posture you are criticizing, and at least those people are trying something instead of losing their time being patronizing over the internet.

[1] security is very different from reliability in that it has an adversarial nature: it doesn't matter if a bug is “less likely than hardware failure” on random input, if an attacker can trigger on purpose it with high probability. This is for instance something you have been consistently overlooking over these years.
Processing a Billion Aircraft Observations Using Apache Sedona
That's cool. I'm not a big Photos user, but I've heard some people really like it. Thanks for sharing!
Nobody is conspiring to “keep this under wraps” so it can’t be a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy requires people who have some hidden knowledge and are keeping it secret?
AT&T deal will make every phone a satellite phone
That is very much not how the distinction between state and federal law works.
Advice I gave a founder earlier this week
This documentary is worth watching if you want to learn more about how prisons provide modern day slave labor: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/80091741
Voicebot for Custom Data
As we all know, OpenAI and Google released multi-modal(voice/video) interactions. What if we do same but for custom data.

It will be like dozens of chatbot solutions in the market but with natural-sounding voice as primary communication mode.

Thoughts?
And short, I've discovered that an 11 character name doesn't fit in way too many things even today. Sorry, son.
I'm not talking about CO2 for global warming here, it's negligible. This is local air pollution, polluting the air I breathe in my house and on my street. The other big offender in this category is wood smoke from fireplaces, which I would also be in favor of banning, though I understand this would be extremely unpopular (I know, I love a good fire too).

People don't realize that wood smoke is every bit as harmful as cigarette smoke and much worse than modern car exhaust. Many (most?) days in winter around here fireplace smoke is by far the biggest contributor to general poor air quality, and then there are the days when my neighbor's chimney smoke blows directly into my yard where my children want to play, for hours...
> , attributing their creation to Plato's lost civilization of Atlantis over 11,500 years ago

what is with the obsession that ancient egyptians were incapable of building these monuments?
The grossly inflated price comes from where though? I'd put it to you that a ban on usury where real estate was concerned would crush land values over night. Easy money (cheap loans) allow speculation, and speculation is one of the primary drivers of land value.
I just picked up D3 + React for a VS Code webview project. Pretty easy to pick up but I find jumping in with examples very black box (as someone who doesn't have a ton of web experience). That plus going from JS to TS had some quirks that I didn't realize when in JS land.

I could really use a "start from the basics" tutorial.

I will say Github Copilot has been excellent at helping me with random TS errors when porting my graphs from JS to TS. It's nice how typed D3 can be when you finally opt into it.
Did it kill price competition?

My anecdotal observation is that there are more cheap phone plans now than, say, five years ago.
Who's advertising this? The military or the journalist?
It's odd how this is deemed acceptable - Wikipedia explains that the joke is in reference to its "brutal" optimization, which I'm sure eastern Europeans find hilarious (they might, they're known for their grim sense of humour) - but no one would seriously consider naming, say, their fork of the GNU assembler "Hitler".
Right its the only answer that accounts for wasted space there might be between wraps.
My understanding is that the claim is slaves weren’t used for the pyramids, not that Egypt didn’t have slaves.

I can think of many reasons slaves wouldn’t be used for the pyramids even if they existed. Politics, availability, even worse jobs to be done, etc.
You don't need contributor license agreements for upgrading to future versions of the GPL. You can just license the code under 'GPL version N or later': https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.html
Salsa cut-throat is a gravel bike, fits 2 inch tires. Personally, I find having drops to be more comfortable because you can change hand position. Look to tour divide bikes for gravel bikes optimized for comfort and fatter tires. I don't understand your prediction for an imminent transformation.
You can create a standard TCP/IP network between two machines using TB, correct. They're treated like any other network adapter, with any other network adapter capability.

How you want to define 'difficult' with regards to file sharing or internet sharing, I'll leave up to the most familiar users of each OS who can argue which is best.
This hardly explains anything. It doesn't talk about the tags, how loads and stores actually work, and how much each kind of cache costs. On most Intel CPUs for example the L1 cache is physically larger than the L2 cache, despite being logically 16x smaller. It just costs more to make a faster cache. It has more wires and gates. So that's why we have different kinds of cache memory: money.
I use it to remove pollen, pine needles, gravel, debris from clippings, etc from my deck and drive-way. Sometimes I use it to clear out the gutters on my roof. I usually blow it all down into one corner then use a dust-pan and broom to collect it all and throw it in the debris bin. I hate it when people just blow the debris somewhere else; they're making it somebody else's problem and that's wrong.
Given how many prisons treat incarceration as a loophole in the 13th amendment it probably shouldn't be a surprise that they don't take on-the-job accidents seriously. An attitude of "plenty more where that came from" is a natural consequence of such an exploitive system.
Some yards are large and some people are older. They can’t take and lift leaves. Many communities have it so they can be blown the street and are picked up every few days - much less labor and effort than raking into piles, picking up, bagging etc.
I did use Lazyvim. It was definitely better (though I spent a fortune in time modularizing is plugins).

It just doesn't feel like a great solution for a variety of reasons. You're still a little on the hook for plugins and LSP configs. You're beholden to the distro e.g. if Lazy ever grows obsolete, Lazyvim could go too.

In a perfect world there would be a neovim core (what it is now) and a formal neovim distro.
Electric Small Heat Pump
Hollywood at Crossroads: "Everyone Is Using AI but They Are Scared to Admit It"
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring Software Engineers
The state cannot stop people from killing themselves, but I don't think it should assist young, non-terminally-ill people in ending their lives.
Awesome pics! We love tarsiers too
I feel it is that way much less than other plotting libs.

Maybe 80% of what I do is applications, 10% systems and 10% data analysis. Often I will spend two weeks making Jupyter notebooks and then not look at it for two months.

I find most plotting libs have a lot of arbitrary things to remember, they usually have several nano DSLs (strings that get interpreted in ways more complex than atoi.). On top of that most plotting libs have something wrong from my point of view in various areas like deciding the range of the axes or handling huge numbers of points or something.

D3 makes you do a lot yourself but the interfaces it provides to do that are conceptually straightforward. Instead of using someone else’s bloated and buggy general purpose code though an APi that feels like assembling a ship in a bottle you can just do it right with D3.js.
Hello ! I wanted to know your feedback on this type of application, would you use it ?

I am also thinking of generating QCM with an IA for each question scanned in the exercise. It would gamify a bit the user experience.

Thank you !
I've not lost billions twice, but have definitely lost tens of millions, and worked alongside at lost one person who lost a billion once... It's an "interesting" business to be in...
Thanks for taking the time to understand my question. It goes without saying that without any tangible value, you're just gambling that somebody will buy a stock from you in the future. I'm wondering if there's some other mechanism at work here that gives these tech stocks value, other than, as you said, basically a pyramid scheme mechanism of buying stocks because somebody with the same "line goes up" mentality will do that in the future and buy us out.
I didn't think so. As a user, you don't care about the underlying protocol when paying, just the UX, whether you can tap a card or your phone or if you have to stick a card in a terminal. I was attempting to communicate that contactless is as secure as chip and pin (which you help me do through your context provided, thank you!), my apologies if that did not come across as intended.
If you like video essays, I enjoyed this movie-length debunking of Ancient Apocalypse.

tl;dr: The evidence is simply not there, and real archeology is much, much more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
That may not suffice. My wife has a hyphen in her legal name, and even today, many companies' systems cannot deal with such a thing, or, worse, store it with the hyphen in one place and drop it in another, resulting in strange errors.
You're implicit assumption of commercial use here makes everything you've said invalid in most use cases discussed in this thread.
I genuinely don't get your point, you mean as opposed to an LLM ... ?
As someone who hasn't researched to this topic at all, and therefore has no dog in this race, I don't like when people link to something and say "this guy says I am right." That goes to both linking the book in the first place and it's refutation. I especially dislike when people post the names of books on these types of topics because these are really topics that need to be treated academically, while popular books try to persuade you to their opinion for 400 pages while leaving out or rewording fair criticisms. I would much rather read 150 pages from 3 articles published in reputable journals than 400 pages of a biased viewpoint. I should note that academics can also be biased but 1) they are less free than book authors to make things up 2) you can read multiple opinions 3) they do not use as much rhetoric as book authors. Basically, the name of a book is not an argument or a discussion. Posting the argument(s) of the book is much better, whether accompanied to a link to the book or not.

The way I would have preferred the discussion to have been had would to be something like "Jonathan Haidt has a book out (The Anxious Generation) arguing for a causal link between children having smartphones with social media, and the increases in depression, suicidality, anxiety and other negative effects in teenagers and young adults over the last decade or so. Specifically Haidt notes that/ claims that x factor caused y result." If the only thing you can mention about the book is the conclusion, ie. that social media causes depression, then there may be little substance to the book. This is part of why academic journals have book reviews. Similarly, "read my link that refutes your book" is not helpful as it now requires me to read the book (which, as explained above, I don't want to do) and the refutation. It ends up just as people trading links without having an actual discussion. So I agree that it would be better to just post the relevant point(s) directly by both sides.
So use a rake and broom, it's what I do when I clear my yard and driveway.

Edit: and for that matter we probably need to stop clearing so much yard waste. My village has crazy expensive yard waste tags (with free pickup on select weeks of the year, usually fall) and everyone agrees it's not worth it to bag grass and leaves for the better part of the year. Unsurprisingly we have tons of pollinators, healthy firefly populations, and plenty of critters that feed on all the bugs. Not to mention during spring, every one who's too lazy to manicure their lawn sees blooms with dandelion, clover, ground ivy, and columbine. My block looks like a meadow for April and May with zero effort.
I do not care what crime one commits. No one deserves treatment like this. Though, I suppose that is hard for many to fathom considering cruelty is the point of the US Judicial/Justice System.
They wrapped Dijkstra and Scholten's predicate transformer semantics [2] in a monad[1]! This almost irrationally pleases me. I'd really love the general concept to get wider traction too. While it's particularly useful for this kind of deep language design, a weakest precondition calculus be used manually when writing code[3] without any particular additional effort once proficiency has been achieved. To use an analogy, it's like the old trick of solving a maze by starting at the end and working backward. Often it ends up being considerably easier.

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-3228-5

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2499370.2491978

[3] It pretty much boils down to looking at your code and asking yourself "what has to be true for this to work?" and then writing code that ensures whatever is necessary is true for all possible code paths. Naturally that means limiting possible code paths. There's just one more reason why spaghetti code is bad.
If I ever get tired of IT and want to make sure my kids won't pick it up as a profession either, I'll make sure to name them something like "null; // ¿¶\©` and make sure they use it as their username everywhere
All payment terminals down in the Netherlands
My gut sense is that is that over 50C you are getting into scalding territory.

50, which is halfway between 0 and 100, so that, too, kind of makes sense.
The last ice age ended around 12,000 years ago and started about 115,000 years ago[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period
But like bicycles, not every wants to use them, or has the health to use them.
The solution is super easy. Just use Mikolaj instead of Mikołaj as your username. Problem solved.

Polish people often do that, especially in SMS communication. It's not offensive or anything.

Yes, the world is not perfect and unicode is still not widely supported everywhere. It's a bummer, but here we are.
Which other library would you recommend?
Historically, people trusted something reported as fact and were naturally skeptical of opinion. It seems that many people are realigning to an environment where the "facts" were presented to create a limited, specific perspective of the world (which is closer to opinion) and the majority of "opinion" producers were challenged to be, and in some cases became, more evidence-based (which is closer to fact). In effect, the system is self-correcting to reflect the natural state of the world: truth exists, and the task is on you to discover it.
That's what it's for, depending on how you define "destroy"

It fries on board electronics, so could be used against missiles as well, really anything within the effective range / frequency
Geographically distributed Postgres for multi-tenant applications
And they were doing so well there for a few years I even switched most of my activity to a Windows desktop.
Maybe this project another commenter is working on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40373310
A stable super genius is quite literally even better.
AI and deepfakes blur reality in India elections
It definitely buries the lede and is overcomplicated
In a USB type-C universe, why can't I even share files between two computers? If something so basic-and already possible with existing standards-isn't working today, why should I think that an announcement like this is anything more than hot air?
The point being made is that AT&T should have never been allowed to reform itself as it did, probably along with numerous other acquisitions/mergers that the government approved that they should not have. There was a period of time late in the last century when many of us had numerous (i.e. 5-6) options for a while.
As an aside, what did the author do to get banned on X?
> GabrielAI will share data from Gmail with 3rd party AI model.

ah yes, since that's what I want all my communications fed through
I also would assume that the state and/or religion aspect may have resulted in citizens (skilled and otherwise) willing to volunteer as well.

The local church down the road from me can bring out a TON of people to work for free for various activities, and they're upset if they miss out.

It doesn't seem unimaginable that non slave locals in Egypt would be similarly motivated and even enthusiastic about working / being a part of it all.
I wish a Linux desktop team could market and use this as publicity to raise awareness.
Here's an ASCII name: Robert'); DROP TABLE Students; --
I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search
I first saw this in an LTT video and I'm super excited.
Several have! There’s no consensus on the relationship though. Some cases it does, some cases it doesn’t. Unions are a big factor.