skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The exclusive value of journalists is in the journalism - finding sources, collecting evidence, piecing together information. The writeup at the end, be it an article or a tv segment or whatever, is little more than a tool to present the findings. Undoubtedly a well communicated piece is superior to a poorly communicated one, but good reporting is only useful so far as there is something to report. Too many news outlets have mistakenly come to believe that their articles are the content. This has led to severe degradation of actual investigative journalism as the news outlets were reduced to summarizers with delusions of grandeur. How many articles now are just "X released a statement today; brief recap of previously reported context; Y commented on the statement; Z has yet to comment" with possibly a "here were some reactions on twitter" sprinkled in? Some good pieces get through, but they drown in a sea of mediocre, regurgitated "news."

Honestly, most news articles ought to be written by AI. This should allow journalists to focus on the important bit where their curiosity, their insight, their critical thinking, their zeal, and frankly their humanity can actually be put to good use. I only hope that WaPo is doing this to better focus its resources, and not to eliminate what little of its capacity remains.
The problem with the last example (show password in manager) are sites and applications that don't let you copy/paste a password. I've literally fought against those kinds of requirements as weakening security, not strengthening it.
Kagi allows you to define custom bangs: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/bangs.html#custom-bangs

And you can open an issue/pull request here: https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs

(Kagi's search bang redirects work even if you don't have a Kagi account.)

Kagi probably has the most updated search bangs, even though DuckDuckGo created them.
Generating differentially private synthetic text for fine-tuning models
Show HN: VoteFeature.com – Build what users want
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The author poses a very real and valid question but posits no solution and frames this as a binary.

The question is when to test.

There is benefit and tradeoff when you decide when and how to test your application. Sometimes you simply cannot test beforehand, such as when you are integrating with a live system with a cost of replicating the environment very very high due to this being a managed solution contract with a large cough IBM cough vendor. In these cases often the question is when to mock test. Then when to test. But this is still just how and when.

With a solo developer, it makes plenty of sense to write the feature then test it. Writing it may be the way to actually discover the behavior you want. With a team this can still be the case. In a larger team you can pass this to QA engineers to take these rapid prototypes and find the issues with them for a different type of developer to fix bugs in.

The reverse is the same. You can discover your feature behavior by experimenting with tests until the desired behavior is asserted to be occuring through things like type validation and object patching for instrumentation, or whatever profiling or debugging tools and test suites you like.

The hard answer is there is no one answer. Just like iterative development urges us to do our best to keep up by iterating on our features, we should iterate on our tests. Do not worship coverage, use it as a tool. Do not fear testing, it's just code afterall so you can actually make a full application that is just a series of tests (experiments) that run and if everything has passed, well you just wrote the same thing as a bunch of conditional checks in your library code.

Do what works for you, your team, the project you are on and where you are at. If youre struggling add some more tests. If you have so many tests failing you dont know what to do, write some more code and string your tests together with new functions. It gives a nice way to say ok, this is the next step of my iteration. Some like to start by testing some like to finish. I do both. Whatever you do, put love into it and if thats super sturdy prod code that has no tests and will never fail because you are the safest data handler in the world with the most flexible business logic in the world, go for it - but just remember if you someday later forget how things work and dont want to read documentation or experiment with the live system - you can always write tests to remind you how it works.

Tests are a form of documentation. They may not prove what you think they prove, but they document a fact about your code that is objective as determined by the code itself. This is a wonderful power, use it however you wish.
I've never heard of this either. Shifting left only changes the timing of work, not the workload.
yeah my grandpas brother died crop dusting in Saskatchewan

That was a long time ago but I’m not sure the profession has gotten much safer
The post above mine was perfectly reasonable; there's absolutely no reason it should have been flagged.

I am unable to vouch, so hopefully someone who is reading this will please do so.
I just found out about the controversy behind Super Size Me a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cw02ni/til_...
I believe that law is slightly more limited - they reserve the right to invade anyone who attempts to prosecute US citizens and particularly US military in international courts. I don't think it extends this type of protection to allies. At least the infamous "Hague Invasion Act" doesn't.
https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-commun...
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turns out you can parse html with regex
> One of the interesting reasons that the UN Security Council has vetoes is to prevent this sort of situation with Israel and Russia where the court appears powerless because the powers simply ignore the rulings, or retaliate against the court as Russia did this week [1] and the US would do so if any of their members were charged [2].

Note that this discussion is conflating two different courts, the ICJ which is the court for disputes between nations in the UN system, and the ICC, a newer court to which parties to the Rome Statute have delegated some part of their (universal, under international law) jurisidiction over individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and, most recently, aggression.

But that's also not the reason for the veto; in fact, the veto contributes to this problem with the ICJ.

> The alternative to this unfair structure is no United Nations, and no place for countries to come to the table which is potentially worse.

That's obviously an alternative, other alternatives exist, including one with a weaker but extent international body for nations to come to the table (proven, the League of Nations existed), and ones with a stronger body, with its own organic capabilities (and potentially greater independent legitimacy, e.g., by direct election of some key officers rather than appointment by member states.)

The UN isn't the only possible international federation.
The Good Docs Project
Yeah the Playdate screen is lovely, but pretty rough without a backlight.
> What you can't do is do that and expect the original manufacturer to still honour their warranty

One would suggest that if it is required that you use OEM parts to maintain your warranty status, then it is likewise reasonable to say the OEM is required to provide those parts with reasonable lead times.

Contracts with customers these days seem to be written entirely, completely for the benefit of the corporation, and that's bullshit. Contracts should be bidirectional agreements on how business should be conducted between entities, not simply a list of how a vendor gets to legally fuck you over. And we should be enshrining that fact in law.

If a company says "you can only buy replacement parts from us" then those parts should be damn well available to buy when needed, or the clause should be nullified. If you must get your product serviced by them then service should be available, affordable, and reasonably quick turnaround, and if it isn't, then that clause should be nullified.

Consumers should, as a matter of both ethics and law, not be put between a rock and a hard place simply because the company they're doing business with can't be fucked to uphold their end of the agreements.
>I expect that humans would accept that glue is acceptable to add to pizza if we were not taught otherwise.

That's doubtful, since pizza isn't improved upon with the addition of glue, and (again) because the premise that glue can make pizza cheese "stick" is absurd on its face. Humans don't simply add random ingredients to their food for no reason, or because no one taught them to do otherwise. There is process, aesthetic, culture and art behind the way food is designed and prepared. it needs to at least taste good. Glue covered pizza wouldn't taste good.

>Look at smoking, arguably worse then eating some types of glue, yet for a large part of human history this was normal and not even seen as unhealthy.

Again, the relative health benefits of glue or lack thereof is not the reason people don't use glue on pizza, nor is it why people consider the LLM's statement of a joke presented as fact to be absurd or exceptional.

>And yet, of course, now people think it's obvious that inhaling the burnt remains of some plant might not be so healthy.

And yet, there are also plenty of people who don't.

You just keep proving my point. There are layers of complexity and nuance to the human interpretation of all of this that simply don't exist with LLMs. The fact that we're here discussing it at all is evidence that a distinct difference exists between human cognition and LLMs.

I can see that you're deeply invested in the narrative that LLMs are functionally equivalent to humans, a lot of people seem to be. I don't know why. It isn't necessary, even with a maximalist stance on AI. But if you literally believe something as absurd as "humans would accept that glue is acceptable to add to pizza if we were not taught otherwise" and that, therefore, there is nothing wrong with an LLM presenting that as a fact, because humans and LLMs process information in exactly the same way, then I don't know what to tell you. You live in a completely different reality than I do, and I'm not going to waste any more of my time trying to explain color to the blind.
Promethium Bound: Rare Earth Element's Secrets Exposed
Correct, alcohol is a group 1 carcinogen.
Ah yes, the German Greens, truly the party of environmentalism... I would be almost shocked if I hadn't long become accustomed to my own country's extreme disconnect between the claimed doctrine of each party and their actual politics.
I think it was whenever they stopped giving the Moto G series numbers (G5, G7, etc), and just started making them "Moto G (Year)". Official LineageOS support has gotten worse since then, but I don't know if it's because they can't find maintainers or what.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466429
VSCode has plugin for polyglot notebooks https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/polyglot
Ex-bizrate CEO talking to Andrew Yang about AI [video]
The article only tangentially touches upon his alcoholism without noting that the claimed effects of his diet in the 'documentary' was in fact not due to eating McDonalds for a month but was caused by drinking a fifth of vodka daily. Not really mentioned, but I would not be surprised to learn that this alcohol abuse was a significant contributing factor for his cancer.
No that would be silly - TCP handles “infinite” length streams. The problem is that there’s so much extra data for the cryptographic handshake that latency of establishing the connection is meaningfully higher by a lot and performance degrades by a meaningful amount. That’s all.

I don’t know why OP brought in MTU and packet sizes since that doesn’t really apply here. The most you could say is that the size exceeds the TCP window requiring an explicit ack but that’s unlikely (windows are quite big) and everything I’ve read only talked about the latency of the handshake being caused by the much larger data exchange needed (ie if TLS handshake requires 32 bytes each way, Kyber and friends need to send 1kib each way [1])

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-for-all/
Unless the temperature differential is huge, hundreds of degrees C, the efficiency of these is tiny - around 5-7%. Incorporating things like stirling generators could theoretically get up to around 35-45% efficiency, but that adds weight and complexity, with the maintenance and production costs offsetting the potential economic gains in reduced fuel usage.

Better thermoelectric generator technology is possible - there are lots of exciting possibilities with graphene, and heat pumps, and so forth, but saving $10,000 in fuel costs over 5 years for $15,000 worth of technology in a car doesn't make sense. Auto manufacturers optimize for price and performance and space and maintenance and all sorts of competing factors, so it's not always as easy as engineering a technical solution and slapping it on top of everything else that goes into a product.
That's speculation about a hypothetical person, one that falls into learned helplessness, but there are people with different mindsets.

Getting some results with the help of infinitely-patient GPT may motivate people to learn more, as opposed to losing motivation from getting stuck, having trouble finding right answers without knowing the right terminology, and/or being told off by StackOverflow people that's a homework question.

People who want to grow, can also use GPT to ask for more explanations, and use it as a tutor. It's much better at recalling general advice.

And not everyone may want to grow into a professional developer. GPT is useful to lots of people who are not programmers, and just need to solve programming-adjacent problems, e.g. write a macro to automate a repetitive task, or customize a website.
Idk man, discussion was "uhh wtf?"

Sorry about your spam comment getting nuked
Are there any benchmarks to compare these online research agents? There’s so many to choose from now but it’s hard to compare them
The sheer absurdity of the 4 hour runtime impels me to watch the whole thing when I get a chance.
More like Ash... Which what you get after smoking a cig.
According to the documentation links in the article, it's using PCRE2.
Important reason for a company's ability to expand?
In recent months, I have been thinking about business issues and have found some information.

The main disadvantages of Airbnb include:

1. The quality of the listings is inconsistent, as most hosts are amateurs and cannot maintain the uniform quality standard of hotels.
2. Sometimes it is necessary to coordinate check-in and check-out times with the host's schedule, which lacks flexibility.
3. It is not possible to know the exact address before payment, which involves some risk.
4. Typically, the service quality is lower than professional hotels.
5. Risk of the host unilaterally cancelling the reservation.
6. Most Airbnb listings are illegally operated, making it difficult to obtain accurate information.
7. In recent years, prices have risen significantly, and some listings are now priced comparably to hotels.
8. Some listings are actually posted by hotels or inns, which contradicts the original intent of homestays.

I have been looking for different information and often feel frustrated, feeling unable to establish new businesses or successfully transition until today I came across these texts, which made me feel that maybe I gave up too early, and Airbnb is a successful company. What do you think is the most important factor that can turn a small company into a large company?
My (rather cynical) take on all these articles proselytising SDLC, Agile, Architecture, Testing, Patterns, Idioms and Programming languages is ...

There are too many people navel gazing, and finding traces of ancient astronauts in the lint that they pick up.
> As the other commenter pointed out, this competes with crop dusting, not tractors, although maybe it's possible that it could work for more targeted sprays? Some weeds for example are pretty resistant to standard herbicides, so if you could, for relatively low labor costs, target just those weeds, that could potentially be worth it.

Someone needs to do a cost comparison of using crop dusters vs. drones per square mile.
It’s different in that this one oozes of “thought leadership”.
This is the first I heard of this.
Did he start that drinking habit at the same time as the McDonald's thing? If it was already an old habit by the time he started, wouldn't his health be in the gutter from the start of the burger diet?
Though, unlike in the US, the investigators in France are required to seek evidence of both innocence and guilt [0]. So theoretically there's no need for defense experts.

[0] https://www.justice.gouv.fr/justice-france/justice-penale/pr....
I mean, it's a phone, and it's not samsung. That's a reason, right? Why not buy a pixel?
> All scientific writing in Slovenia uses long scale. I've heard it being used in EU institutions too.

I am able to easily find plenty of Slovenian academics using short scale in their scientific writing. Remember, English is standard for scientific writing and publishing in international journals. I have yet to find a single one using the long-scale, actually.

https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.123540
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abe6a7/...
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40294-016-001...

> observations by cataloging positions and redshifts of billions of galaxies in the next
decade
> and the configuration is stable over billions of years.
> (networks having up to a billion of vertices; there is no limit—except the memory size—on the number of lines
I'm using https://store.bigme.vip/products/worlds-1st-all-in-one-pc-wi...
... or rather: I have it next to my Dell. I think some of the issues "why" may be addressed by a software update later, some by moving to a sunnier country.
I switched my personal desktop to Linux a couple years ago from an MS "feature" of ads in the start menu search on insiders. My MIL has been using Pop for about 4 months now without issue after a phishing attempt.

My SO after seeing me watching a video on this feature is now ready to switch her laptop and desktop over after checking that the two games she plays regularly are supported.
Building the Endgame Invisible PC (DIY Perks)
Interesting product, but this is probably one of the worst website ever, it's hard to browse and very hard to find actual useful information, let alone specifications about the HW/Battery..
> All regular expressions for this function, as well as REGEXEXTRACT and REGEXREPLACE use the PCRE2 'flavor' of regex.
Tractors famously (its in the name) can pull many times their own weight using a fuel that is cheap and energy dense compared to drone batteries... Farmers don't have enough margin for their most expensive capital outlay to not be extremely good at what they need it for.

Tractors can carry many tons of liquid that needs to be sprayed on crops, as well as an implement that can spray a many yards wide swath of crops.

A tractor is also something that is needed for the rest of the farming and harvesting operation.
> Besides just gaining weight, the movie also claimed that Spurlock got major liver damage and started suffering from a range of mental health issues, all as a result of eating fast food. Notably, none of the people who replicated the experiment suffered from these problems.

> Years after the movie’s release Spurlock admitted to being a lifelong alcoholic, despite claiming otherwise in the documentary. Alcohol abuse can easily explain the liver damage, and alcohol withdrawal during the filming of the documentary also explains the sudden mental health problems he was experiencing.

Hmm, I'm not sure what to think with this new information.

I really enjoyed the documentary when I watched it as a kid. But I did remember thinking it was weird he puked so early in the film. I brushed it off as "everyone is different", and forgot about it.
I understand we want to contribute cancer to something someone directly did, but that isn't always the case. Cancer sometimes just happens.
No, he was a long-term alcoholic and that is why his final health report was so bad. Add in the additional calories he was drinking each day plus any DTs from a hard-core drinker trying to go straight for a few days while filming a movie and the results are pretty much exactly what we would have expected to see.
I don’t think this is correct. Most of the stars we see in the night sky are close by in our neighborhood of the Milky Way. Being in the void between galaxies, there wouldn’t be many neighboring stars close to the orphan stars. This would make their night sky much emptier to the human eye.
1. multi certs. a benefit to all. no reason all browsers should not adopt. w3c gets behind.

2. oh, you don't have a Google cert store cert in your bundle? why would you not want the best and free cert? seems suspicious, going to lower your google rank.

3. now that everyone have a google cert, chrome switches to using only that.

convoluted, yes, but then you have the exact same setup as today, with google making all the decisions
DDG massively oversells their own contribution to the search results.

If you look at their marketing material, they claim to "use a variety of sources, 500+ to bring you your search results". This is of course technically correct, but the truth is they are a relatively thin wrapper on Bing results.

So yes, I'd claim it is a form of deception.
No, specially vs €1k/yr which is what I paid. Just the electronics software related licenses I had access to with Cadence and Xillinx would be over €10k per MONTH.
Netflix scales on short intervals for reliability. Scale up quickly to handle a spike in traffic, scale down slowly to save money.

They also do proactive scaling to address the issues you brought up, since they can predict with fairly high accuracy the normal viewing patterns.

For example scaling up on Saturday morning ahead of all the kids waking up.
> one that is very secure

Another reason we're open source - better security.

> Most health providers still require faxes, which is a huge pain in the butt.

Yes indeed - mindblowing how such critical data still relies on faxes in 2024.

> I have also heard many complaints about Epic Systems.

Yeah, Epic is not perfect, but they are ubiquitous in healthcare - and Metriport provides a nice interface to pull/push data to their EHRs!
Magsafe is used for things other than wireless charging. Tons of accessories that mount to the magsafe "ring"
Make the tractor free and you still have to buy the spray; the whole world has to deal with the externalities of the spray.

Tech solutions to reduce/eliminate spraying are what need to be worked on. Not drone sprayers. "Cheap" drone sprayers make the problem worse.