skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the person that committed suicide by self inflicted gunshot to the back of his own head? Or am I mixing up whistleblowers who've committed suicides?
> A drop-in replacement does the exact same thing, as what it would replace in the exact same way.

I agree, but do you see "drop-in" anywhere in my comments?

> You however don't seem to understand _why_ backwards compatibility is important

I completely understand why backwards compatibility is important. But something doesn't have to be backwards compatible to be a "replacement".

I have replaced C++ with Rust in my hobby projects.
I interpreted that statement incorrectly as being an endpoint on the satellite itself. I guess the "earth station" is the round trip terrestrial endpoint via the satellite. I was misreading it as being the local terminal.
He built a Lego model that from the right position, and with a fisheye/warp effect, would create a picture that looks like the famous painting.

Because of the “right position” any picture from any other angle shows all the cheating.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393107
“Complaint” may be underselling the Apple’s situation with iOS and iPadOS. They are getting forced in to change by the EU already and they are actively being sued by the US Department of Justice.

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft comes under fire for windows 11
all I can say is IPv6 (and to qualify, IPv6 is great everyone should be using it).
If it weren't such an insanely difficult language to learn, it might be interesting to be part of Chinese tech discussions.
Yeah, backwards compatibility that you slowly frog boil people out of is definitely the most effective solution for something like this.
Might as well just drop the var keyword altogether at that point.

func foo(x: int, y: int): int {
sum : int = x + y
return x + y
}

With type inference the type declaration just collapses out to what you have now.

func foo(x: int, y: int): int {
sum := x + y
return x + y
}

I've seen it in a few languages and it has seemed quite nice in use and appearance to me.
your model is bonkers
NVDA - Current Price: $921.93 | Projected Price: $30,082.68 | Difference:
3,163.01%
OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
There should be yearly awards for good science animations and learning tools like this
Use tailwind.css, it's the best way. Then do breakpoints such as md: and lg: in the class names. And lots of flex box.
Google Blog: Jump in with Dashie on Waze
It’s very difficult to ensure no data leakage, even for something like an Emoji prediction model. If you can try a large number of inputs and see what the suggested emoji is, that’s going to give you information about the training set. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a trading company or two pop up trying to exploit this to get insider information.
Always be mindful of this when submitting to HN. The real test of traffic surge. Right now, it is of not much use as it just gives server error.
Are connected scatterplots so bad?
I like this article. Yes, and:

"It gets bred out of us"

No one seems to go beyond that statement. Yet the common "everyone can be creative" ignores what people and their colleagues do with a real creative idea.

If you censor yourself too relentlessly, you won't be "creative."

And especially: if you're in a conformist environment (most businesses and schools) where "you're so weird!" is the worst insult imaginable, then you won't be "creative."

It's only a few places where the audience is willing to play with the idea, and it's only a few people who don't mind being called "weird" that really nurture creativity.
Owning a car isnt a per kilometer cost. Only some of the costs are per kilometer, a lot of other costs are fixed costs.

For the amount I drive, the per kilometre cost for me would be more like 100€/km because I only drive when I actually need to, like renting a car to move furniture, or make a road trip somewhere that I cant easily access by train.
Fahrenheit is not an absolute scale, so there is nothing special about 0F, you're right about that. As for your other two examples (atmospheric CO2 and stock tickers)... Yes, the scale should start at 0. Why shouldn't they?
You don't need a front end framework
Only two? Around 1995 we had four phone lines: home, home office, fax, and modem. There were only three physical pairs, so two of the lines (I think the voice lines) came off one physical pair with a frequency division splitter.

Some time later I saw a Pacific Bell truck and crew trenching the street. (We had underground utilities.) I excitedly asked them, "Are you running fiber?" "No, just more copper."

I guess they saw the demand for lots of copper lines per house and decided to meet it!

The underground phone lines did lead to some excitement one time. Their water sealing wasn't very good, and after a heavy rain the line would get noisy and clicky. During one of these episodes, we got a loud knock on the door: "San Jose Police! Open up!"

I ran to the door and asked what was going on. One of the officers said, "We got a 911 call from this address. The dispatcher couldn't hear anyone on the line, and no one answered when they called back. So we're required to come out and investigate the situation."

I replied, "That's odd, neither of us called 911. Oh... I think I know what may have happened. Come in and I'll show you."

We went to the kitchen and I put the wall phone (remember those?) on speaker and had the officers listen. It was clicking up a storm!

Then I asked them if they remembered the old rotary phones (they did). I explained how the phone dial worked by breaking and making the circuit N times for each digit you were dialing. And it must have been that in that flurry of clicks that the circuit was broken nine times, then once, then once again.
the list is small so the cost of deletions should be small.
How do mailing lists work?

What's the difference between a VM set up by a real person to handle their email and a VM set up by a spammer to spam you?
email has already been sufficiently captured by the big guys that if they chose to support this, there would be buy in. and without their support it's dead.

if outlook and gmail announce that emails that aren't MX2 get ranked more harshly in their spam filter, everybody will adopt it. if they don't do that, nobody will.
Things seem to be speeding up though. Look at the short period of time we went from flying a basic plane to landing on the moon. It was not hundreds of years between those two events. Perhaps as human population grows the "by chance" part increases/improves? More humans means more scientific die rolls.

But yeah who knows if we will stumble upon the solution to AGI next week or in 1000 years.
> Being oblivious to breaches clearly goes against this

I don't see how it does. Even "ensuring appropriate security measures" is subjective in the first place, plus as we all know, no amount of security is perfect and breaches will always happen either way.

Even if you took enough subjectively appropriate security measures, and it still happened anyway, there's nothing that guarantees you'll even know about it in the first place.
If the AI says it it must be true. For the sake of my portfolio, fingers crossed.
> In languages that don’t have typeclasses, you need to take special steps to ensure that you dispatch to the proper variant of the monad.

You might want to take a look at F#, which has no typeclasses (yet) but does have excellent first-class support for monadic syntax via "computation expressions".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
40,320 km/sec is full earth rotation per second, a tiny bit too fast . Should be /per day or so.
Also, 40k km/s is ~13% of c (speed of light)
> Especially frustrating was trying to get published in the Microsoft Store.

Attributed to Electron?
Hey, the model starts with the previous years growth numbers projected out 5 years. You are meant to give your assumptions to get to a valuation.

NVDA revenue grew 125% last year so projecting that out for 5 straight years results in a very high value but is most likely inaccurate!
Do it manually if you have their email. Email them asking what made them abandon the purchase.
I think this Globe and Mail article about the recently publicized case to be better read: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/article-montreal... (https://archive.is/fPNZT).

The renter in this case was responsible even though he claimed he did not know his landlord was a non-resident since she left Canada during the time that he rented. The Canada Revenue Agency disputed that claim since "[the landlord's] phone number on the lease was an Italian phone number; she had used an Italian e-mail address to correspond with [the renter]." The landlord had also asked the renter to start paying her sister who was still in Canada before she left for Italy.

I am curious about what would happen if the renter could genuinely establish that he did not know their landlord was a non-resident. Based on the defense lawyer's claim that "Whether the CRA could have collected the rent in some other way does not impact his liability under the law. The CRA and the Tax Court have to apply the law as it is written." [Note there is a mistake in this quote the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) collects taxes not rent].
The point is that Bend parallelizes everything that can be parallelized without developers having to do that themselves.
Plotting the average or top percentile latency of an API on the left axis and the number of calls to that API on the right is pretty much standard practice where I work. I would argue it makes things more clear. You get to see exactly how the latency changed as the traffic does, or where more noise is visible because the traffic was low.

Because both scales are using completely different units it's more difficult to confuse the two.
> Right, so they can run analytics.

Stop gaslighting me, it's not OK! I'm describing first-hand experience of things that were not related to analytics IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM.

Try running OLAP queries on a massively sharded MySQL 5.1 deployment, or any aggregation at all on a Memcached cluster. These technologies were designed for OLTP data, and were woefully incapable of useful analytics over massive data sets.

I was Tumblr's fourth full-time software engineering hire. When I joined (nearly 4 years after the company was founded) the only thing remotely related to analytics was a tiny Hadoop cluster, where logs were dumped and largely ignored. Nothing about analytics is "in their blood". All you needed to sign up for Tumblr was an email address. WTF do you even think they are "analyzing"? Your comments are completely fabricated BS.

> You could reduce your tracking data to aggregates

Once again, I'm not describing "tracking data"! I'm talking about things like content that users have posted, comments they have written, content they have favorited, users they are following. These are core data models of a social network. It has nothing to do with tracking or analytics.

> You don't need to keep that data forever.

The OLTP product data I'm describing does need to be kept forever. Users don't like it when content they have written on their blog suddenly disappears.

> Nowadays a single postgres instance will handle billions of rows without breaking a sweat, and social media content is exceptionally shardable.

Yes, but running a massive cluster of hundreds or thousands of sharded database servers is still very expensive.
It seems that whenever ISO C invent their own imitation of some GNU feature, in order to foist onto other compilers, they fuck it up first.

VLA's, inline, variadic macros, ...

More recently, they gaffed by making alignment specification not a type attribute but, get this, a storage class specifier. Ouch!
I think this has been the biggest benefit to my mental health working from home.

The ability to take a minute or thirty when I need it and not wonder what the perception of those around me is. Some of my best ideas come to me as I load the dishwasher.

I tend get more done when I can bounce between ideas, projects, states of mind, locations, etc than when I'm powering through something at a desk for hours at a time.
I came across these recently from a quote on a deals forum that said they’re better than anything you can get in North America for less than $4-500. It absolutely shocked me what you get at the price. Look up steeldive official store on aliexpress
Lets say this is entirely true, but that he was badgered by Boeing and their counsel knowing that this is a likely outcome due to deteriorating mental health that he suffered through their actions, could they be considered accessory to suicide?
Related (2005): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party
Just wanted to chime in that I hope this ridiculous prophecy holds up!
Well, it's not even 1% then, but 0.01%. 3.8 million vs 378400 millions.
So, it's great that they try to actually get data on what kinds of charts convey what information. However, you need to know who your audience is. I, for example, found all of their suggested alternatives to be harder to interpret than the dual axis chart. If you're trying to see whether or not the ups and downs of two different variables are similar, suggesting a connection between the two, none of the suggested alternatives do as good a job (although two charts could, if instead of having them side by side you had them one above the other, with the same x-axis scale, but that is really just a stealth dual axis chart).

Most of these "don't use this kind of chart" seems to be trying to make it impossible to confuse or mislead your audience, and that is just not plausible. You do, and probably usually should, have some point in mind when you are showing someone else a chart, and the format needs to make it easy to see that. Almost any chart, even pie charts, have some particular use case where they are the best chart for that purpose. No chart is going to always be the best way to present data. Like choosing what kind of language to use in explaining something, you need to know something about who your audience is, and what they are accustomed to.
Noooo! It can't be! I bought 5 of them and was planning on moving my family to London!
I believe the real reason that reactors like this never took off is that the US government pushed hard against them due to "proliferation concerns". Which may or may not have been a cover story for saving the fossil fuels industry.
Corporate Memphis, art style associated with Big Tech
Reddit reintroduces its awards system
You actually don't need to do that part in the algorithm. If you don't know the length of the list, you can just choose a threshold that seems reasonable and calculate the margin of error after you're done processing. (or i guess at whatever checkpoints you want if it's continuous)

In this example, they have the length of the list and choose the threshold to give them a desired margin of error.
I vote for yes, we should stop posting X links in as many places as possible. I don't have an account and do not plan to create one.
Haha yeah, I will have to upgrade my api limit. Thank you!
Sorry to hear that, I can definitely and easily see it going wrong, so it was important on my team to emphasize

1. this was completely optional. it was a daily timeslot but we didn't go every day. We were more than free to schedule other meetings over it as it was the lowest priority.

2. Timezones will always be weird, but fwiw ours was at 3pm and slotted for an hour. Usually we could go over if there was a particularly thorny task but we respected everyone's time. Towards the end of the day but not quite around the point where we started to check out for the day.

3. The time should hopefully feel productive in some way. We never did any kind of "team bonding exercise" that'd fit more into some party icebreaker. we were professionals, and outside of some very specific hobbies members shared (e.g. half the team loved music production and would occasionally talk about sound design topics) I'd say 80% of the "active" hours were focused more on getting unblocked from some tasks. I think that's why it was important to frame it as "office hours" and not "social time".

4. It was absolutely okay to have quieter days. There was no pressure to speak out or pretend to be engaged or whatnot. After the first few weeks we'd normally just start with no video on and it'd be a small voice chat. There were days where 1 or more members just cut out early (and since it was a 4-6 person team, if half or more weren't engaged and the rest weren't stuck, we'd just not do it). There were others where it was just maybe 5 minutes of small talk and people just stayed in the ambience. It was common for at least one person at any time to be muted, so again: no pressure to engage. It was time for us to utilize.

Maybe it simply doesn't work for you, but I wouldn't cast off the entire idea just yet.
2 different machines
Eastman just recently announced they are fully operational at their new molecular recycling facility:

https://www.eastman.com/en/sustainability/environmental/circ...

https://www.eastman.com/en/media-center/news-stories/2024/ea...
Because starting at zero can cause scaling issues that mask meaningful trends and variation. That can also be abused to mislead, but a simple rule like “always include zero” ain’t the solution to that.
> This is bizarre but maybe I see the reason why. If it's to restrain foreign ownership of rental properties.

The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash flow is coming from the renter they are also responsible for it. There is a similar situation with employers who are responsible for remitting tax withholding even though it is the employee who owes the income tax.
64bit coming soon
When the Red Army captured Berlin, the #1 thing the soldiers wanted to loot was wristwatches.
Because some product manager at Microsoft needs something to show for at his next performance review, and that kind of forced user engagement an easy KPI to game and show off: "Thanks to my leadership and my team's work of setting the default save path in Word to OneDrive, OneDrive users are now up by 500%! Now gib house in Bellevue."

This isn't just a problem isolated to Microsoft but applies to every major publicly listed company out there where you're tasked to justify your existence every year/quarter because Wall Street investors want their "growth" pound of flesh, leading workers to fuck with every product they can to generate the necessary theatrics for a promotion at the expense of everything else.

It's the curse of chasing short term gains at the expense of long term product quality and reputation damage. See Boeing. It's a wonder how Steve Jobs managed to avoid this trap for so long during his tenure.
Germany releases nation wide hospital quality index
Sure but neither of them is what collectors are looking for. Your grandfathers Vostok was made during the CCCP time, not today.
Pure functions only? This is disappointing. Furthermore, it invites a comparison with JAX.
This was posted before ages ago, and I suspect I know the answer, but I have to ask -- has anyone here successfully done this?

I had grand designs to use ethanol as an anti-solvent to accelerate crystal growth, and I bet you can guess how much progress I made towards that goal. Maybe I've lost my hacker mojo entirely and should be expelled from this site forever.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride#cite_ref-28
> Notice it says “should”, not shall. Does this mean consent is technically optional?

Does it mean you never actually read the law? Does it mean you assume that the words of an HN user are a direct quote for the law? Does it mean that any statements you make about the law are false and misleading because you never read the law and rely on misinterpretation of the words of strangers to paint a picture of what the law is about?

The law does not deal in "should"s.

Scroll down to "suitable articles" to see what the law actually says, and not what you think it says: https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/consent/ Start with definitions and work your way through the referenced articles
Resembles these websites that will show a fake anti-virus scanner claiming that your PC is infected with a virus.
People strongly prefer single family homes in places where zoning codes forbid the construction of anything else. It's not clear that there is any reason people should always prefer such homes, in the absence of such restrictive regulation.
The picture at the top on the right is an etching by Escher. Lipson and Shiu computed what the distortion was on the image, then undistorted the image to create a "clean" picture of a village. They then built the village in Lego, photographed it, and applied the computed distortion to that photograph to create the image at the top left.

The pictures throughout the rest of the post document what they did, and what the model looked like from other angles. You may think it's implausible, but I can assure you that it's all true, and that's why it's impressive.

As to the use of "rendering" I'm assuming you mean this:

> I wondered for some time whether it would be possible to produce a plausible rendering of any of his pictures in LEGO bricks.

Basically that's just asking if they can produce a duplicate of the Escher image by photographing a Lego model and applying a distortion.

Which they did.
Fair. I posted a new comment without the unnecessarily provocative tone. (And thank you for adding specific examples.)
What’s next, a shadow of a 3d-printed save icon?
“unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation”

If somehow you got a ticket for this, you’d just say it was necessary for safe operation, after all, why else would there be a speed limit in the first place?
IMHO people should create "googlebomb" channels to mess with their training, maybe with the goal to get their autocomplete to offer offensive or nonsensical suggestions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing
hey, I checked as well and it looks like they currently don't have any tours online. I can forward you the contact from when we booked our tour at the time if you want. sent you a linkedIn connection request (I think, connected some dots).

Also, I found this [0] post with lots of pictures [1] from the Technical University of Graz about a visit, and the pictures give a good taste of what you might see there.

btw, if you come to pass Austria (Vienna or rural Upper Austria) and want to grab a beer or something let me know - seems like we are both working as engineering managers and share some interests, might be interesting :)

[0] https://www.tugraz.at/institute/iee/news-events/article/fueh...
[1] https://www.tugraz.at/institute/iee/bildergalerien/2019-07-1...
That’s really interesting and thanks for sharing.

I am very curious about the extraordinarily gifted. What made you think Knuth is crazy good? Was there a particularly moment? Was it how fast he groked ideas? Was it his ability to ELI5?
If you don't know the length of the stream in advance, you can just calculate the margin of error when you're done, no?
Class action lawsuit against Tesla over full self-driving cars can proceed
i didn't know the simple.wikipedia.org subdomain, pretty neat!
Of course Edge doesn't have a monopoly; MS is using their monopoly on desktop operating systems to unfairly push Edge and Bing and other MS products.
Termux: Making A Filesystem(s) Mounted On The QEMU Linux Server More Accessible
Did you document your failure? I'm honestly curious -- the author of the post mentions some of their false starts, but I think a description of what you tried and what didn't work could be valuable (even if you didn't do an extensive root cause analysis). There are a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacks here trying to suggest what you did wrong, but unless someone has tried and failed themselves I don't think there's a lot of value in the feedback.
Come on, the UI is pretty usable even in mobile. It's a lot faster than most bloated social media apps.