skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be indeed. I've also found it interesting how rarely I hear about actual proper load testing. Like, it doesn't need to be a horrible experience, and it can be done in a controlled setting before even launching if one wants to. But this doesn't really seem to be that common, just by judging how rarely it's brought up in the pop-software dev sphere.
It may not be a joke. Perhaps it has confused making food for eating with directions for preparing food for menu photography and other advertising.
What’s upsetting is that the feedback has been provided before that the standards body and compiler devs aren’t communicating with build systems folks when modules were first being standardized. Looks like not a lot has changed.
> And i still think it is a spurious complaint, given that we have exactly the same limitations when dealing with any human agent

We're not talking about an LLM that is trying to do the job of a human, here

We're talking about an LLM that is trying to give authoritative answers to any question typed into the Google search bar

It's already well past the scale that humans could handle

Talking about human shortcomings when discussing LLMs is a red herring at best, or some kind of deliberate goalpost shifting at worst
Couldn't you cast your Android phone to the Daylight browser? I'm not super familiar with the area, but with the relative openness of Android, there should be other options.
Trying to language police the use of the word fascism to describe right-wing authoritarians is a waste of time and for me raises a bright red flag for the person doing the language policing. Instead of trying to get people to stop using a term of common parlance to describe the emerging and growing spread of right-wing authoritarianism, perhaps you might want to consider doing some constructive instead, or just coping with the fact that with the current rise of right-wing authoritarian extremism that mirrors prior rises of the same, some people are going to use a word you don't like to describe it.
It feels like we're in a cloud of mud here.

> Under what conditions, exactly, would you accept that masks don't work or are so unwieldy and ineffective as to be impractical?

I accept that as more of the following items are true, masking is less effective:

1. Wearers are unmotivated - if you don't want to wear a mask properly, you won't.

2. Wearers are uneducated - if a person has not been trained to fit a mask properly, AND to CHECK that fit, the mask will be less effective.

3. Masks of the proper standard and fit are unavailable. If a person cannot get a mask that fits them and meets standards, then masking will be ineffective. (This includes price)

4. Masks are too uncomfortable. Uncomfortable masks are very demotivating. Proper fit includes comfort; However the proper fit is not always the most comfortable. This dilemma is the reason that motivation is required. (If this feels like a paradox, consider human fitness - people who are more fit are more comfortable in their bodies, but sweating can be very uncomfortable)

5 + Anything that can affect any of the items above, including political or religious objections. (Basically this one brings in the whole universe)

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I've been accused of being a nihilist when I say things like the following, but I would call it being realistic:

The universe does not owe you proof, and especially does not owe you satisfying proof in the form you seek.

The linked study DOES NOT show that masks are ineffective.

The linked study DOES show that prior studies are UNSATISFYING.

My original comment attempts to address this:

> > Studying disease spread at the level of rigor that this paper anticipates is very difficult, would never get sufficient funding, and would never pass a review board.

I also do not have satisfying proof that a mask mandate has beneficial effects at a population level.

However I am personally satisfied that: Well fitted masks of the proper standard, worn by motivated and educated people, will reduce both pathogen ingress and egress.
The Bad Build System Drinking Game
I believe it was originally written by Jeremy Howard, who has been featured here in HN a number of times.

https://youtu.be/jkrNMKz9pWU?si=0kGhs7gyh0LUXUBJ
Got it - thought you were saying vendor lock-in meant the standards were de facto not open (which seemed unfair, the standards are transparent and not unusually difficult to implement).
I like tmux and have an extensive tmux.conf that I spend many hours fiddling with.

But I end up using the native terminal a lot more. I love smooth scrolling, command key shortcuts and, for whatever reason, colors are a bit off when I log into Debian. These tiny details add up.

Vim even has a built in terminal these days, so it’s one less reason.

But it’s a nice utility to have in your belt for sure.
Only the most delicate garments get hung dry, but otherwise the dryer is used the vast majority of the time.

As for the wear and tear, in my experience most of it came from the washing machine and not the dryer. Older washers with the agitator in the middle wore out my clothes a ton more than modern front-loaded machines, which also adjust wash time depending on load size. Dryers also have humidity sensors that adjust drying time, which is minimal as the washer spins at 1,200 rpm.

Lastly, hang drying also has its own wear if done outside: Color fading from the sun.

In the end it just isn’t worth the hassle (for me).
What is this ‘agentic AI’ you speak of? There’s no such thing to date. There is no AI yet that can train on pictures of animals and then decide to produce cave paintings. If you limit the output to be produced only with primitive tools, then the AI is not agentic, you’re just making a fixed-function paint machine.
What I like about tmux is that it in itself runs in a terminal.

Its UX - like scrolling, copy pasting, pane management, etc - complements other terminal apps, resulting in a workflow that I find consistent and unobtrusive.
And that's a solved problem. First by not having a fragile setup, then doing backups to have some kind of rollback solutions. An IDE strong point is their cohesion and product support. But it's not magic and things can go haywire. It's like people coding with C or using Arch Linux vs using Java or Debian. The latter are stabler, but they're not silver bullets.
Mail the device to Spotify’s headquarters. Better, a Swedish artist should build a memorial made of these devices in front of Spotify’s headquarters.
Ah, that’s a shame.

So neither Python, JavaScript, nor Rust have fully adopted proper TCO across their communities. Whichever one gets there, I think that would be a strong point in favor of it being taught in university instruction, since recursion is one of the big concepts students explore.
Trump only normalized beliefs already gaining ground within alt-right, neoconservative and fringe Evangelical ideology. His politics were just boilerplate Fox News/AM radio fare.

Blame the Republican party for preferring to embrace and try to weaponize their lunatic fringe, and blame the other side rather than clean their own house.
The local news article linked inside has some more details. https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Anonymous-tip-claims-raw-m...

I think it still might be illegal to "distribute" raw milk? After all this time, I wonder what the current state laws in West Virginia about this are.
I built a similar thing with a streamlit interface for an hackathon recently.

https://devpost.com/software/personal-sql-assistant
I was thinking of creating something like this but centered around posting one’s intuitions on research, instead of the papers themselves (which are hard to read, even the list of titles are hard to parse). But researchers are afraid to say anything stupid and would prefer saying nothing at all.

It’s a hard problem but could be a good platform for research discussions considering none exists today. Best of luck.
> I think the “full stack” trend is harmful.

Please tell us why you think it's harmful. I don't see the harm in "too much to learn." That just sounds like software work to me.

When people specialize, the different specialties need to show their value, so they find greater complexity in their niche. The different specialties eventually independently "discover" many of the same concepts but explain them differently and their languages even diverge. I think losing the ability to share is a kind of harm.
the laying flat movement has mostly to do with lack of jobs/opportunity for young people.

- there's a societal trend to not hire people over the age of 30-35 in China. after months of looking for work, they've given up

- there's an unofficial 70% youth unemployment rate, and with 12 million new grads each year and intense competition for government work, sometimes hundred of applicants for a single stable government spot, the new grads give up

- the young generation has realized that no house/car/marriage/kid (没房没车没妻子) is a good way to live, and there's no pressure on them to create a life. so they lay flat. thus the abysmal marriage/child rate in China, which is near the bottom of world ranking

- the new grads don't want to work in a factory, day or night shift, for $2/hour.

- if the workers are in 1st tier cities, they can barely save up any money working and living there, due to the recent 50% reduction in wages ($1000/month -> $500/month) and increased spending on necessities. so it's easier for them to just not work and live off of parents.
You'd also need to disown it if you want it to persist sessions

If you just bg it, it will still die when your session disconnects
Being a big tmux fan, I never thought it would come to something like this, but Zellij (https://zellij.dev/) has completely solved this for me. I generally run Zellij on my laptop and tmux on remote servers -- it's been a surprisingly positive experience so far.

Try it out -- your tmux muscle memory (e.g. all the hotkeys you remember) will also work out of the box.
For me it's because I game and don't want:

a) 2 separate machines

b) To get banned for running the games in a Windows VM

Work is a Microsoft place, but honestly the web version of Outlook works great under Linux. Teams is usable. (My Linux friends complain that it sucks, but what they don't know is that it also sucks on Windows!)
> all foundational derivatives models were basically in place back then

In vanilla equity options, sure. But that’s like saying we solved rockets in WWII. The foundational models were derived by then; everything that followed was refinement, extension and application.
In Australia there is a pretty good welfare system, but they will basically give you a job to work while you keep applying for a real one. Usually it’s something like sorting clothes in a charity store. I imagine it helps to keep people engaged in society somewhat.
I have personally reproduced several like the interest one and the hippo eggs one, though not that one specifically.

Google has started restricting AI Overviews so much now that most of the example queries on Google's Search Labs page doesn't even trigger it anymore.
> i use neovim and screen as defaults and find them quite useful, but never found tmux useful

Thank heavens there's someone else - I thought I was the only one[1].

[1] I use screen, and then use vim with multiple splits and tabs, with each buffer being a `:terminal`. Works very for me, because I get all the terminals I want, splitted and tabbed in any fashion I want, using my existing vim muscle memory to switch between them, minimise, maximise, etc. Also, takes about 1s to save the session if I ever feel the need to exit vim (I never do, though).
I have trouble laying that at the feet of Goyal, who was not really interested in the feature, but who was willing to provide feedback and appeared willing to accept a patch.

The person working on the patch decided that they didn’t think the sixel library (which they were the maintainer of, so they presumably had a well informed opinion) was up to the task.

The description of sixels as inferior also came from the person working on the patch.
My grandfather said there were such parties when he was young. That would have been 1930s-1940s. And what's even more crazy is that this was in the countryside in Portugal.
> I think it may be due to some sort of "outcome compression". The life of working a bottom tier-job isn't materially better than a life of not working at all.

The Hikkikomoris in Japan are all sustained by their parents. There's actually a growing concern there about the first generation of Hikkikomoris who are getting into their 50s already and their parents are starting to die, leaving them with no life skills and no source of income.
Most likely this has nothing to do with "recipes being safe" being in the model

It seems the glue thing comes from a reddit shitpost from some time ago. There's a screenshot going around on twitter about it[0](11 years in the screenshot but no idea when it was taken)

It specifically mentions "any glue will work as long as it is non-toxic" so best guess is that's why google output that

[0]https://x.com/kurtopsahl/status/1793494822436917295?t=aBfEzD...
Ha. I've got two production sites running in tmux.

Yeah I know. Crazy. Mad. Foolish. but its worked for years. Of course only two sites though, I swear.
Interesting the chain of failures here.

I got a notice from 'copper app' (debit card and bank like money transfer for teens) - that the banking side of their app was closing and my teen had like 24 hours to move their money -

and then a message about other ways to get your money..

then a message about you should expect your check in the mail

then something like 'we are still trying to get your money to you'

Or something like that - I am vaguely remembering the titles of the emails.

I recall scanning one of the messages and it saying that their 'partner bank' has had an issue and something something.

So my kid lost their ability to uber/lyft and get money to spend on steam and over priced drinks at school.

Overall a great lesson for us all to learn.

I didn't bother looking up any of the details until this article - and I now see that evolve bank is mentioned in the article and the google synopsis (pulled form a jan forbes article so..) says evolve was the bank for copper.

and now I find a TC article (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/teen-fintech-copper-had-to...)

that says "working with its banking partners, AMG National Trust Bank and Synapse, to return money to customers as soon as possible."

So I give up trying to understand what bank it was or chain of banks or whatever.

Even though copper had a good deal for fees, I found it lacking in what it said it's mission was, and I was shocked when they started pushing gambling apps for teens to earn money as ads / push notifications.

I'm sure you could debate that the 'games' were not 'actual gambling' or something - but I knew it turned to the failing dark side when I saw that and only way to stop it was to email and have it manually done on a per account basis.

Sadly I think there were only 2 apps that did banking for teens without fees back when I researched (limited research) the options vs the 'card for teens' on the TV commercials. Similar to the adult banking it's a field of junk fees and shade it seems.
The models also present themselves as completely accurate until pushed on the issue. And even then, the models will say something like "I'm sorry for the confusion" and then proceed to tell you what you're doing wrong when what you did is what the model previously presented you. It's quite infuriating. It's like talking to a sociopath.
Is this for implementing something akin to SRAM or registers for a future hypothetical QC or could this improve classical storage/memory somehow?
Facebook.gov (2018)
There are documents (tax, receipts, insurance,...) that I have to keep for a long time.

I print a copy for my filing cabinet rather than store them on disk (or online).
If you train it then it's no longer the same model. If I have f(x) = x + 1 and change it to f(x) = x + 1 + 1/1e9, it would not mean that `f` is not deterministic. The issue would be in whatever interface I was exposing the f's at.
I think what's missed in a lot of these discussions is your upbringing. Our society changed very quickly in the last 30 years and parents may not be providing the proper "foundation" for their children since they didn't grow up with all this stuff. Even if you had shitty parents before, you'd probably do alright since all of society in past times was based on in-person interactions and there wasn't endless media consumption at your fingertips.

Personally, my parents were very immature, divorced, and generally didn't set me up for a healthy/balanced social life. I haven't completely given up; I work, maintain loose contact with a few friends, and basically just "doing my time" until I die.
>it's a search engine, not a question engine.

for a lot of people and in a lot of use cases, it is a tool for answering questions. it generally works well for that.

i get that the AI implementation sucks, but to suggest that people don't use google to find the answer to questions is absurd. that's absolutely what it's for.
in particular, https://www.ajla-lang.cz/tutorial.html#automatic_paralleliza...
Ah man about a year ago my windows went black and white and I didn’t know why and couldn’t figure it out, I must have pressed this.
Had to reboot to fix it.
It looks like they could read the SRE book by Google. BTW available for free at https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

A bit chaotic (a mix of short essays) and simplistic (assuming one kind of approach or design), but definitely still worth a read. No exaggeration to state it was category defining.
>that's not really all that helpful for anyone who does any work over ssh.

If you are hoping to new machines every time then sure.

But lets be honest, thats a minority.

I don't know kitty in specific, but wezterm ie. can connect to target via SSH, start daemon of itself there and actually work better then tmux, because it's controlled from the client (where the gui runs), but with all the tmux upsides.

And yes, it's not as portable as tmux (simply because its not as popular), but again, in majority of the situations the setup required is really not that much.
Especially if you would spend that time on tmux config anyway.
Cannabis use linked to epigenetic changes, study reveals
Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light (1963) has somebody in Sweden becoming depressed and withdrawn due to anxiety over China developing an atomic bomb. Then in 1982 Prince sang "everybody's got the bomb, we could all die any day". That's two decades of continual anxiety about sudden obliteration (or worse, near obliteration).
> At first you run into all the usual tool roughness that you'd expect from new experimental features. For example, GCC generates dependency files that don't work with Ninja.

To sum the link behind that statement up: The default output format used by the GNU Compiler is for GNU Make, a ninja compatible format can be generated but is not the default. The blog author considers this default broken, GNU developers consider this behavior correct.
Yes, I use C-z instead of C-b
What it's like inside the operating room when someone gets a brain implant
Even if you ignore persistent sessions, there are some limitations with kitty's remote multiplexing functionality. For example some functionality relies on copying files, including executables, to the remote box, which may not be desirable or even possible. It also uses the ConrolMaster feature of ssh, which has some downsides, such as not being able to add additional port forwarding after the master session is created (at least on older versions of ssh, maybe that is fixed in a more recent version than what I use at work?).
Where do you keep someone else's finger?
I’m not tmux master but I love using it to help organize different repos/projects I’m working on and especially when I need to run a long running query on a remote server it’s a lifesaver. I made an intro video for my setup here if anyone is interested: My Simple Tmux Workflow
https://youtu.be/hC5-j30olKc
It's because this reporting is nonsense. It comes from a health influence with "mama" in the name, always a good indicator of scientific rigor.

They say they tested for "organic fluorine", and when it predictably came back positive they crowed that the floss contains the kind of PFAS that has been loosely correlated with health effects (such as the small-molecule chemicals PFOA, PFOS, or Gen-X). But if they had any familiarity with chemistry or the products they were testing, they'd have known that what they actually found is plain old Teflon, which is the most biologically inert substance in common use, does not emit volatile PFAS, and is not (yet) under regulatory scrutiny.

Your floss is perfectly safe.
If contracts are "code for human behavior", then legal templates are a well-tested code base. Wordperfect had great support for formatting codes. Looks like it's still a feature being developed for lawyers, https://www.wordperfect.com/en/licensing/legal/

> An all-time favorite feature just got even better! Reveal Codes window now displays codes for font attributes and text alignment features in table cells, rows, and columns. In addition, cell and row codes appear before table text in the Reveal Codes window, delivering a clearer picture of what font and alignment formatting has been applied.

Ecco Pro is great for manually linking items in multiple locations within a complex hierarchy, with one change reflected everywhere. Hard to walk away from a well organized database of research or writing.

Scrivener has been praised for complex writing projects, e.g. worldbuilding for novels and screenplays. Looks like lawyers use it too, https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
> It was all about the illusion of security,

Correct. The "IT security" group was practicing what I've termed "checkbox security".

They have a long list of "requirements" and beside each is a check box. If they can check the box by reading the marketing brochure for product X, then they are "secure". In this case one of their check boxes was "screen shots disallowed". So they turned off screen shots, and were able to "check the box" and therefore they were "secure" (at least by their definition, which is "if the box is checked, we are secure"). The fact that trivial workaround exist make no difference to the IT security checkbox specialist.
There's not been many studies, but no, it probably won't. A nuclear winter would involve heavy dust and soot, that won't stay up in the air for very long. After that settles down, the net effect is just more CO2 from all the burning, and CO2 is an oxide, it is very very stable...
Because the C family is guided by a committee. Even worse, an important and respected committee.
Yes and us as human filter through the noise. But you cannot rely upon it as a source for anything truthful without that filtering. Reddit is very, very, very context dependent and full of irony, sarcasm, jokes, memes, confidently written incorrect information. People love to upvote something funny or culturally relevant at a given time, not because it’s true or useful but because it’s fun to do
Is easy, you don't have the same amount of courdination problem, most of what's wrong in software today have in big part problems whit two things legacy and coordination problems, need back compatibility means that useful solution aren't posible, soy then you need to compromise and then compromise again because some users cant use you solution, so now you have solution who don't satisfied anyone, sum that whit natural misalignment of any organization and is obviously that focus sitmrs whit few stakeholders and willingness and capacity to break change can do a better job, this ins't particular problem of programming.
As far as I know Apple Pay is equally secure whether debit or credit. It contacts the issuer when you add it, then communicates in unique tokens for each purchase so your card number is never at risk.