skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, this can apply to any IPO-ed tech company, not only Google.
This is great, especially the little diagrams which help illustrate rebasing vs merging, one of the tricker parts of the git learning curve.

Having said that I think it could more clearly state the author's typical preferred practice for updating a branch and integrating it with main when you're done. There's a few techniques listed for diverged branches, but then fast-forward merge is in its own box and it's not super clear how you might use working-branch rebasing with it to eliminate divergences in the first place (even though it's hinted at under "pull changes").

I wonder if it would be clearer to say something like "combining branches: rebase your branch and do a (FF) merge, optionally with squashing," or however they like to do it.
Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game with AI Search
Agreed, I still prefer to write my own CSS than using tools like Tailwind.
That isn't 3 copies of the Sims 3. It's one copy of the game and two different expansion packs - Outdoor Living and Master Suite it looks like. This is a pretty important detail, because it's pretty difficult to come up with a reasonably likely explanation for why somebody would have 3 copies of a single game, but trivial to do so for game + expansions, which was then mistaken by an officer on the scene for being meaningful.

Ah but how the media has such different standards for conspiracy theories when it furthers a desired narrative, rather than contradicts it.
Mark Twain wrote some humorous bits about how chickens may be enticed out of a neighbor's tree by sliding a warm board under their feet. They'll step on happily, and can then be conveyed to a convenient sack en route to the kitchen.
Original reporting quoted in TFA: https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-...

Archive non-paywall link: https://archive.is/WZLQp

Why submit blogspam with snarky “commentary” with no substance at all.
One aspects to consider I think could be damage from external sources. Like freak hail storms that could be more common. If these sort of events regularly destroy panels with other accidents like fires due to failing installations average age could drop even if some panels are still functional.

Outside most extreme events nuclear plants in general are repaired if some component fails.
With Meet, time from opening the meeting link to joining the meeting is often <1 sec, whereas others (especially Teams) have painfully slow loading screens.
I always preface with "if you do a good job, I'll tip you $500, so please pay close attention!"
> There is no sensible explanation that a flagship device can be full of bugs and inferior quality to its 3-year older non-flagship counterparts.

The rich customer does not buy Apple because of the quality, but because of the price. /s
Why do you think that foo[1][2][3] requires more than one memory reference?
> Once Zig becomes stable

Zig was introduced in 2016. If it still isn't stable 8 years later, I wouldn't hold my breath.
> Lisp traditionally has immutable data structures

Can you provide a source for this? Common Lisp and its predecessors certainly do not have immutable data structures out of the box. The usual data structures are cons cells, lists (composed of cons cells anyway), vectors, and hash tables.

> I would be very interested if it’s possible to create an extremely simple garbage collector or an ergonomic Lisp that isn’t garbage collected, but a solution doesn’t spring to mind.

PreScheme immediately comes to mind for me as does ulisp. The latter in particular is designed for microcontrollers with limited memory.
There's also problems that society as a whole could address but choose not to, such as systemic poverty, which can lead do elevated mental illness of various kinds
Its comoptitor Baserow has an issue in the open source version/community edition: They have an (to me insane) open source policy, there is not eay to delete a user after [0]

0, https://gitlab.com/baserow/baserow/-/issues/2352
It seems to me trying to look at it objectively. The FDA is in an impossible situation forever.

If they delay drugs they are bureaucratic and indifferent. Filling graveyards, as said.

If they release drugs too fast/unproven then they open the gates to scammers, unethical companies trying to sneak ineffective products they spent too much on, ect. Basically the whole reason the FDA was formed would be in question. Then it sounds self serving but the people in charge will start to ask why do we even have the FDA? Which will drain funding then eventually set us back to the reason the FDA had to be invented in the first place. Snake oil salesmen will run rampant and we will need an agency to prevent dying desperate people being taken advantage of for whatever remaining money they have.
As long as you only ever visit Google web properties, yes.
Pretty cool. It is somewhat like Julia’s autodiff ecosystem - which also handles native, branching code.
It’s more complex than that in practice. You need to support variable length arrays, which means you need to pass length information with the pointer, which doubles the size of array arguments. And that has ripple effects; you can’t do that indiscriminately without memory bloat and severe runtime impact, so you need to annotate argument. And you don’t have complete memory safety. And it takes a lot of manual programmer effort to get there.

This has been studied for decades; there have been many attempts to build a safer version of C. And eventually the C standard committee will have to decide on an approach or lose out to newer languages at an increasingly accelerated rate.
> 1. Expand the stock of council houses.

perhaps England has a way of doing this. in the US it looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe

> 2. Rent control, rent control, rent control.

this doesn't work ANYWHERE and never has. it merely feeds scarcity and raises rents in anything economically or physically adjacent. it feeds urban blight, and does nothing to make private ownership more likely.

> 3. 100% capital gains tax

why? why would someone make an investment in something for 0% return? that's just entirely silly. great way to ensure that any good, mediocre, or even tolerable landlords exit immediately (being replaced by predators).

how about some taxes on non-owner occupied or short term rentals (Air BnB)?

maybe something like a land-value tax on under-utilized housing? with a close-to-ZERO capital gains tax. encourage investment, upkeep and providing housing. encourage vs. discourage sales to individuals.

graduated taxes based on number of units to discourage large holdings and encourage small.
I saw such a behavior before with chatgpt and some other LLMs. The created content has been deleted and it started to write new content.
StudioGigs
online editors???
Sounds interesting! I wonder what happens, when milk gets burned!

- - -

I gave it some thought, and a possible explanation is that water evaporates from the bottom of the pot, it leaves some waterless milk there, and that burns.

But this assumes that the inside of the pot can be hotter than 100°C, I wonder if that's true, or milk keeps it ~100°C (water is very good at transferring heat after all).
The domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a "curated" version of the Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) which lives wild in the tropics, can fly short distances and is still entirely capable of breeding with chickens. The parks of Singapore are full of the things, and it's not unusual to see one strutting past the chicken rice stall at a hawker center, clucking at its unfortunate relatives that have been poached and strung up by their feet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl
Unix Wars
E61 is a partucular group head design, it provides temperature consistency and a form of pre infusion.

Lots of commercially machines like slayer have a portafilter but that's where the similarity ends.
Amazing for compromising get-togethers.
Most big corps just need a lot of decent coders to pump out a lot of business logic and UI. AI is definitely going to be able to do that with some basic human validation along the way.
I wonder how many equally interesting commits go through merge requests. A lot of people are deathly scared of merging code into their open source repositories. They will make sure even the idea of adding a single function goes through scrutiny in a published paper (a pip, a boost proposal) and go through the crucible of internet forums.

Why can't we show the same rigor with scientific papers?
Seconding Pandas. I used it just the other day for this very kind of task, it really makes this kind of thing straightforward.
Fluids in the Source Engine: GWater2 – 0.3B [video]
New headline “AI robot takes psychedelics and messes up a scientific publisher”
I think you win the comment thread
You might be making the classic correlation-causation mistake, in that promiscuity causes mental health issues and substance abuse; it may very well be that both the sex and the drugs are symptoms of underlying psychological or psychiatric issues, and I can believe that in a society that judges them harder for it, women might be impacted worse.
The number of people that understand the details of how a refrigerator works is orders of magnitude higher than the number of people the really understand everything about cellphone technology. But yeah, the hum is not pleasant, has that been studied? ;)

I feel like for something to stick there does need to be more than that. But who knows, give it a try and see! If you look at the common conspiracies they seem to target more complex things.

Anti-vax is a lot more complex. There was Andrew Wakefield's fraud. There are real side effects for many vaccines. There are public health considerations. The science is definitely not at a fridge level. Pharma companies can have conflicts of interest. Maybe the original cowpox gives immunity to smallpox is more intuitive but mRNA vaccines that cause cells to make the Covid spike protein are not as simple. Covid vaccines were rushed to market (one can argue for good reasons) and they did have side effects (e.g. myocarditis, tinnitus?). Authorities have walked the line of being open about the considerations vs. trying to force public health policies, sometimes eroding trust while they do that. Even experts differed on some finer policy points. I know I was really upset with people who didn't vaccinate for Covid because I believed we could get herd immunity but then new variants showed up that were so more infectious and got around the vaccine where that didn't matter.
xAI announces series B funding round of $6B
We’re just going to write a lot more code than we could before. With higher quality
I don't think it should be flagged either, but it's wrong in a lot of ways. Some of those ways are boring, e.g. paying investor board members a salary isn't really a thing. Less boring observations:

Cybersecurity is somewhat unique in that historically most of the big VCs haven't paid much attention to it, relative to other things. Greylock, specifically Asheem Chandna and more recently Saam Motamedi, is the main exception that comes to mind. (This broad lack of interest is changing given the overall growth of the industry and the success of companies like Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike, though.)

Smaller VCs have spent a lot more time in the space, both because they haven't had to compete with the big firms and because cybersecurity has lower variance than other industries. The companies generate massive returns a lot less often, but also rarely fail, which makes them attractive to angels, second- and third-tier firms, and specialists.

It's an interesting dynamic, but I'd say the most problematic aspect of cybersecurity investing today is the existence of groups like SVCI (https://www.svci.io) and CyberStarts (https://cyberstarts.com). SVCI's investors are tech CISOs, i.e. potential buyers. It's pay-to-play with extra steps. CyberStarts and a few other Israeli VCs are even sketchier, flying CISOs around the world on lavish vacations billed as industry events where they socialize with the portfolio companies.

I know a handful of CISOs who've walked into new gigs only to discover a dozen CyberStarts portco products laying around, basically unused, that they then had to rip out when the contracts were up. It's all deeply unethical.
Interesting timing: rogue chickens in the UK causing mayhem to locals because 200 chooks in the woods is ... noisy.
For specific components, I use explicit CSS, but for layout <divs> I use the tailwind shorthand (flex, flex-row, mb-7) and just add those to my CSS as I go so I don't need tailwind as a dependency. It's the best of both worlds.
Can't find the posts, but the gists were that they were admonishing people against saving an excessive number of photos to their phones/computers. To be charitable to their arguments, the digital storage is not free ecologically; there are costs to producing the storage hardware, as well as electricity needed to transport and store them, as well as cloud storage and web interactivity. But I think their argument focused purely on the electricity aspect on the act of saving the file.

Several Mastodon users in the same social sphere, who had a tech background, later posted their own takes, enumerating the actual electricity cost of committing a photo to a hard drive, which was quite miniscule (I don't recall, but it was orders of magnitude below the base functions of a computer).

It is, I would say, a general trend of people who do not critically inspect the ideas they choose to promote, even though their intentions may be good.
This is 404 in my country
Awwww. I thought we were becoming friends. I used a smiley face and shit... :[
There's not much risk in accessing your Netflix account from a work device.
Build a Real-Time App with GPT-4o Function Calling
Yeah: to me, it really depends on the story being told, and frankly even then it might depend a bit on the proclivities and interests of the person reading the story.

The one thing I'd say almost never works for reading code, though, is the thing people seem to insist is best practice: scattering everything into a hundred separate files with no clear order at all!

Trying to understand that code is like sitting down to an encyclopedia and then being asked to somehow use it to answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

The worst is when you grep the code for "main" in an attempt to at least come to your own idea of order, and it turns out that a bunch of files have their own main functions for various unit tests in files the build system just happens to ignore :/.
Yes, macOS makes it possible to install newer Safari versions on older versions of the OS. However, if you are the type that doesn't update your major OS version regularly, you probably don't check for random software updates anyway, because Apple still shows the Safari updates in the same place as general OS updates. From the settings app, it's the same little red update dot regardless of what the update actually is.

I suspect that many people who use old Safari versions are either used to sites being broken, or they use Chrome and don't care. I wish we had more data to verify those assumptions.
You can convince your company to switch to Workplace, a corporate version of Facebook.
How about answering the question? I don't see why not do that and instead reply to my comment.
I get the "corporate shill" angle, but I'm not so convinced by it. It's entirely possible to be both convinced of a cause's rightness and also funded by other people who think the cause is right.

I don't agree with her take on any of it, but I'm also glad that someone is out there saying it (while citing their sources, obviously). We need this. We may not like it, but we need it.

<prepares to be downvoted to oblivion> ;)
I don’t think that there is anything in the article that disagrees with this.
Cool cheat sheet, especially because it covers common use cases. But practically everything covered here I was able to learn independently with Magit. It's also much easier to press one or two keys in the magit-status buffer than to open a terminal and manually type git commands, so I pretty much never use the git CLI directly, not even for a clone.
Speaking as someone who did military service;

I agree that there's a fine line to walk between distain for the military in general and respect for individuals who served.

My distain is for the concept that "our military keeps us safe" (which contains a nugget of truth, but doesn't really explain why the US spends waaay more on military than the rest of the world combined.)

To maintain this apparently vital expenditure it's necessary to engage in spurious proxy conflicts whenever possible. Have weapon. Use weapon.

On the other hand I have respect for those who put their lives in danger, who are altered physically and/or mentally, or who get killed feeding this insatiable monster. I respect them in spite of the meaninglessness of the conflict that lead to such sacrifice.

I usually get down-voted for expressing this anti-military stance, partly I suspect because any military demands unconditional support. In the sense that if you start asking the gard questions, they may lead to answers you don't like.
On a budget, the point of leafy greens should strictly to get an appropriate amount of micronutrients and fibre. In terms of calories/$ they're godawful unless you douse them in oil.
There is a lot of evidence of crankery in the linked article. It isn't well written and reads to me like she doesn't believe what she is writing about is important. There was a lot of space wasted ranting.
There are no stupid answers, just stupid people.
Before https anyone could put a proxy and cache content.
What’s missing in your world view is that “high functioning” countries largely ride on the backs of lower functioning ones and depend on low cost labor to sustain their quality of living. Eg the US is just coming off of 20+ years of riding on China’s back.
I would hope that was rather obvious as soon as the second section (on the ABC and universities), as that was classic crankery.
The quote actually says "We need 70% less coders from third parties to code".
Are you confused about why purchasing a large amount of nearly empty land with minimal disruption to the small number of people living there produced less conflict than a large number of people moving into an already-occupied area? The Alaska Purchase and the Israel/Palestine situation are two of the least similar things you could possibly pick to compare.
The meat would probably be really tough. I'd think the only acceptable preparation would be braising or confit. They probably have a lot more parasites (worms) than you'd be used to as well.
I’m unsure about the higher quality part. I’ve seen code written by both AI and some humans — it’s a toss up.
`display: contents` has a11y concerns in a lot of scenarios. The `ul` will be hidden from a screenreader and it will be read as `h1, li, li, li...` etc.

It's a neat hack, but it's still a hack.
But did he use the Amiga later for any of his actual art? Yes, he signed on as a "brand ambassador" but was that a sincere endorsement or was it more like celebrities endorsing a toothpaste?
TBF, if you exclude Generative AI, they’ve been ahead of the curve with including an NPU and on device ML features. They’ve pretty much included some ML feature in their product releases since the iPhone X was released.
The pipeline had the additional complication that it was supplying heating fuel to Europe. Bragging about it to the Germans would have probably been a bad idea.
>The 19 journals were all previously owned by Hindawi, an Egyptian publishing company with a portfolio of about 250 journals that Wiley purchased in 2021. A Wiley spokesperson acknowledged that some of the journals had been impacted by fraudulent studies, but attributed the closures to other factors, such as low submission rates.

Hindawi is well known as a publisher of complete junk. No one takes any of their journals seriously. Baffling that Wiley would accept the risk.
The medical system has blindspots, and stigmas that extend even to well-documented diseases. I have EDS, which is a genetic disorder that causes loose connective tissue. One subtype (vascular EDS) is life-threatening, the others are merely painful and disabling. All but one subtype can be confirmed by gene sequencing, but the one that can't comprises the majority of cases. Most genetics departments reject all cases, except for vascular EDS. Rheumatologists usually own connective tissue disorders, but not this one because it's not autoimmune. There's no treatment other than PT and mobility aids.

It's a really bizarre situation because you can have a known-pathogenic COL5A1 mutation, dislocate your shoulders at will, and have a disorder so old that the ancient Greeks wrote about it, and still get belittled and gaslit (at worst) or passed off to a physiatrist who can prescribe you fancy splints and crutches (at best.) Largely (imo) because your disease isn't a good fit for any specialty.
Effective clickbait, since we're both commenting on it here.
Reproducibility does not mean implementability.

What I meant with reproducibility is reproducibility of state, meaning that the seed produces the same result on both the frontend and backend side which doesn't mean that it is easy to do across different programming languages.

> 50-250 lines

Usually you try out a library or existing package first before you start to implement anything.

That's how you develop stuff outside the C++ world :) dismissal intended.

I think that MT19937 has a good balance between being easy to implement across various programming languages and type systems while also not necessarily being cryptographically secure. It's somewhere in the sweet spot of "good enough" for most use cases while also being a seed based randomizer.

I also would not assume that frontend developer jobs come with mandatory cryptography knowledge criteria, which implies that there must be an available implementation across a lot of programming language ecosystems to get the same traction.
For anyone interested in this kind of thing, I wholeheartedly endorse the iOS app The Elemnts by Theodore Gray. A bit old now, but a masterpiece of appealing UI design. https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/the-elements-by-theodore-gray/...

Comes complete with Tom Lehres elemnst song https://youtu.be/U2cfju6GTNs?si=CIVJm66sqzM_p-Wq
Hallucinations would be terrible for brand appeal beyond being limited. Nobody has solved that problem yet. Just take a look at Google’s latest search results giving actively harmful information.
Yeesh.

Is it still considered a “vulnerability” if the door is built without locks? Or even a handle.
That's part of why Knuth came up with Literate Programming: he wanted to be able to present the reader of his code with a coherent order that makes sense to understand the project.

Given the strict formal requirements on order of languages like Pascal, Knuth had to come up with a clever preprocessing scheme to satisfy both the reader and the compiler. (See his tool, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(programming_system) )

Modern languages are a bit more flexible, but can still benefit from some re-ordering.

> The worst is when you grep the code for "main" in an attempt to at least come to your own idea of order, and it turns out that a bunch of files have their own main functions for various unit tests in files the build system just happens to ignore :/.

I used to use tools like grep a lot, but I found that my productivity really improved a lot when I set up an environment that supports 'jump to definition' and 'jump to references' etc.
That’s the thing: I think it’s not one vs the other. The correct way to think about this is: AI augmented humans.
At a big corp: 90% of my job is talking to various people to figure out what we want to code, who has to approve it, who I have to coordinate changes with, etc. AI can currently _maybe_ do half of the 10% that's left, with good amounts of supervision.
Do these fake papers have real authors trying to take credit for them? Or are they just noise to break science?