skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find this to be an interesting read:-
https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

In this, they make a good point about refactoring more with Rust than other languages. In some cases, "fighting the compiler" is not always want you want to do, especially when mocking some code/game state.
But everyone and their mom would rather be the Ramones than Blondie, LOL
The Koala Paradox
Ok but after two strikes? If you have gotten into trouble twice, I don’t have much concern. Life is not fair sometimes. Happy to see if there are better ways to treat abusers that improve recidivism but I am not convinced prison time works. There is something deeply wrong with people who not only have the desires but are willing to act on them knowing it will hurt their victims.
I agree, such a weird take.

In addition (to obviously trying to strengthen competition), this law also strengthens the position that users bought a functioning device over which they have control. That includes hardware and software and any required libraries and runtimes.

Apple is free to include their perceived "share" in the device price or any optional cloud services, optional developer tools or optional (with competition) app store fees.

I suspect they will to have to reduce their margins siginificantly.

Edit: The cited take is even more uninformed than I initally thought. The EU is many things but people working their have been in the law making game a day or two. They 100% expected some shenanigans from Apple and friends and designed the DMA accordingly.

It is no coincidence that this enforcement actions comes almost instantly (in "regulator time") .
It's great that you've got this up and running, but as many others will no doubt ask: why would I use this if I have hundreds of other choices? What value are you adding that others haven't got to yet? Best of luck with it, well done for getting something out of the door.
That is not how variables in Python work. Variable assignment is just name binding. This is clearly mentioned in every Python beginner tutorial I know of.
Python code is a script. Follow the script and you know what Python does (with only a few exceptions, see e.g. below).

About the scope: Python knows in principal only 2 scopes: local and global. If you define a function (or a class) Python creates a new emtpy/filled with the function arguments local scope (system table). That gets filled successively by local variable assignments etc. There happens a little bit of magic: if you use a variable of the next higher scope, it gets copied (!) to the local scope. You can follow that easily by print(locals()).
(You can also use the global scope, but that is another topic).

Edit: had to clarify some points
Mocking is an indeed an anti pattern ... when dealing with tests that pretend to be unit tests but are not actually unit tests (e.g. needing to be aware if IO edge-cases, to quote the article).

But tests that are not actually unit tests masquerading as unit tests and vice versa is arguably the bigger problem here. Not mocking per se.
Yup, very easy to twist 'interstate commerce' clauses into anything you want and the US has a long history of it. The entire war on drugs on the federal level was justified by the 'interstate commerce' clause in the constitution as well, much easier than amending the constitution like they did with alcohol
Takeaway dot bet – Get a random takeaway from Deliveroo (UK)
In Sweden, a far-right assault on the media is undermining the Nordic model
not at all - you ever tried to export or unexport an identifier module wide? its a huge fucking pain in the ass - versus a one line change with other languages
Stable Diffusion 3: Text Master, Prone Problems?
In Japan it goes, "The nail that sticks out gets hammered."

(Well not a metal "nail", but a wooden post.)
Hard to change people's opinions, but easier to nudge them, research suggests
given that we don't remember what happened before our lives, and most likely when we die we enter a similar state... so that life starts whenever a physical life begins (later a mental life starts and exists until the time that physical life dies)... Then the idea that all creatures are conscious is a pretty bad idea. It means that being a conscious being such as a human is ridiculously improbable, given the very high ratio of all conscious creatures count vs human count.
The only exception is if the microcode responsible for this was written in C somehow. I highly doubt it though.
Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping
Yeah I think what we need is:

"Other tools all have this problem" or "lack this killer feature" so I built my own to fix that.

Otherwise it's not clear there's a reason to choose this over one of the many existing options.
I mean you already pay per output token and (sure, you can limit it), but it's unpredictable given the prompt?
If I intend to create an e-commerce website without any JavaScript, may I use "--no-esbuild" given that I do not want to add any JavaScript dependencies? I am trying to replace the e-commerce website I have built using PHP & HTML & CSS (without any JavaScript at all).

I was even considering "--no-assets" and add Tailwind (or whatever else) manually.
Emacs Is Like a Warm Blanket
MOCA Hacker Camp – Metro Olografix Camp in Italy (13-15 Sept)
Any tips on staying for consistent with your project in your free time? I'm torn between pushing to finish my projects vs just accepting that I'm very interested in something else right now and accepting that and allowing myself to enjoy the new thing.
Some feedback after opening the link, from the perspective of someone that has looked at, and in many cases used, lots of this type of software.

What problem are you solving? This is probably related to the lack of discussion of features.

What are you doing that other services in this space aren't doing?

Why should someone trust you with their data? Also, you want a lot of information that few people are going to give you without even knowing anything about your product beyond the tiny bit on the homepage. You'd be much better off providing a demo page.

There's no info about pricing.

Is anyone currently using it? Would someone signing up be nothing more than an unpaid bug finder?
>> We don't really know what GPT-4 "is".

Yes, we do. It's a language model.
Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
Right I get it and I too always put myself in those shoes. I think if you have been convicted twice that it’s likely to weed out most of those cases. Generally once you have been convicted once, you are already not allowed around children.
It's funny that the article tries to help establish the need for a warning label by demonstrating the case against social media for adolescents. The idea that a warning label on social media would do anything is sort of funny. My impression is that enough people already know that letting phones raise their children is bad, it's a question of what to do about that. Everybody knows it's bad, nobody seems willing to tell their kids no, you can't have a phone, so putting a warning on it is sort of a meaningless gesture. It's the equivalent of raising awareness about global warming.

In the case of the Surgeon General's warning on tobacco products, I don't think it was the warning that did anything to cut smoking rates. I think it was changing the laws around who you could sell or advertise tobacco products to, and making cigarettes much more expensive. If you want to do something about social media addiction, consider taking measures as severe as these.
Electric SUV maker Fisker files for bankruptcy
It's not Ok to be an asshole or a snake. You calling that "character" doesn't help; assholes and snakes are not OK characters to be.

(And I think in order not to be able to grasp that, one would have to be an asshole or a snake oneself.)
I'm not really addicted to ads, though.

I mostly feel like I'm surrounded by dealers willing to stab me with a needle full of the stuff when I least expect it.
Scientists use a 'butterfly attractor' to control and change the weather
> Hardware planes will hopefully reduce the latency again as it will allow windows to skip the compositor and allow mapping parts of the framebuffer to a window buffer.

Hardware planes are great but there are a limited number of them. Right now I believe Windows only uses them for the mouse cursor, and exclusive fullscreen.
Shawn Layden: 'The games industry needs to show some patience'
Testing Go code using the standard library
If there was a way to mark people who are shills as shills, and bots and bots, the situation would be much more manageable. The fact is that there is intense hybrid war fought on peoples hearts and minds on every possible informational channel.
That's a bit unfair when not including a fan for the ~same price point is a pretty harsh anti-consumer move I think.
> End users don't want complex UI

Agreed, simplicity can be part of a great UX

> JS frameworks should be the exclusive domain of companies employing hundreds+ of engineers

Definitely not. All it takes is a few comboboxes, date/time pickers, or literally anything wanting client state, to deliver a FAR better UX using js than pure html. If you tried building the kind of experience expected by today's consumers without js, you would know. People have very little patience for mediocrity on the web

Simple tech does not mean simple UX
I got 128gb of RAM and with a smaller page file I've ran out of RAM when doing LLM stuff mixed with other background workload. System managed is the way to go.
http://archive.today/zsnps
GPT-3 was out for years already for Googlw to see, but with what OpenAI saw of it they began training an expensive GPT-4, before chatgpt success, maybe started before RLHF.
Chinese companies are the government heh
related, https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
I only ever read Harry Mathew’s work because Queaneu rarely wrote in English and I don’t read French. I did like Exercise in Style though.
How else could you justify treating them as a mere raw ressource in factory?
They or their. It's a little awkward when you're referring to a specific person but becoming less so over time. However, you're referring to a generic person so "they" or "their" would be appropriate even without today's political correctness.
Good. I hope we return to a time where people made stuff because they want to. Not because they see it as a payday.
It is (a sham).-

Then again, I am, personally, split: The standards, and process, to become a part of this technocratic body that is the EU are very high, and they will (ostensibly) select amongst the best candidates ...

... might this "technocracy" be an option in today's age of political mediocrity and populism?
Definitely not. The most likely place is at home or on their phone.

The most recent new Pac-Man release was in 2022. The longest gap in a release was between 1987 and 1993. Since then there has been a release every year or three. These are specifically Pac-Man titles and not games with Pac-Man in them (Mario Kart has a Pac-Man outfit you can unlock with a Pac-Man amiibo) and not including compilation software packages.
I was surprised to see so many negative comments focused on the website itself rather than the actual content. Despite this, it's still worth sharing if even only one person finds it interesting.
The Surreal Numbers manage to be a sort of "biggest" ordered field, in NBG, though they're a proper class not a set. All other ordered fields are subfields of the Surreals. Of course "ordered" is doing a lot, since it excludes the complex numbers, vectors, bivectors, etc. Whether elements of some object that isn't an ordered field should be considered "nubmers" is related but different question.
> it is more that we are generally predisposed to human language in general

I understand, that's not what I was wondering.
We Support Meritocracy
I submit that the idea that it’s racist at face value not to date a Black person is ridiculous. If we indulge that type of view with any sort of seriousness, we’re just lending undue legitimacy to that idea.

It is no more or less ridiculous than me being sexist because I am not interested in women. I’m not sexist. I’m just not into women. Reasonable people can identify the difference. We shouldn’t mistake crazy views for sane ones.
Dusty airports degrade aircraft engines
Great point, this is super insidious.

there probably is a seedy underbelly of pay for play placement, link sharing, and all the other influencer equivalents of shady SEO tactics
I see you chose Clerk for Auth. I really wanted to like Clerk. I found that they worked great when using their tools out-of-the-box - quick, easy, and they work. But once I started customizing the React components they became difficult to work with and buggy. Maybe it was all my fault, and I wasn't doing things correctly, but that just supports the statement that they aren't easy to work with.

That is the catch with pre-built stacks like this - they all look great when you put together a simple example with them, but the quirks of each piece compound on each other. Once your app reaches any level of complexity, you need actual expertise in each piece of the puzzle. When you fight one or two pieces that are new to you, much of the benefit of having the full stack handed to you is burned away.
Opening up the topic: is there any work, nowadays, on making a CPU custom-made for one language, implementing in hardware some of its mechanisms? Or at least FPGA implementations?

Apart from CHERI extensions, and a few research papers on hardware-accelerated garbage collection (which I find super cool, and wonder why it isn't getting into actual production, given e.g. how stable Java GC is and how many huge companies use Java. Or maybe offloading it to an FPGA? The same way we have GPUs and TPUs for certain classes of computation?).
Infinite scroll and engagement maximizing algorithms are the nicotine.

I'm continuously shocked at how addictive phones can be for some people. There seems to be something about the form factor. Laptops and desktops don't do it the same way. Something about that touch screen in your pocket and your hand that you can just grab and scroll and get dopamine hits is really intense.

I have for a while called social media the "tobacco companies of the mind."

Social belongs in quotes too. As social media has evolved it has become progressively less social, less about communication and connecting people, and more just a crowdsourced chum factory built around addiction. Do Instagram or TikTok even have a concept of a social connection? Do people actually use these to talk to their friends?
Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible
As someone who was bullied as a child, I think many of the "harms" of social media are the same as bullying, just often turned up a bit because the reach is to much bigger. The problem isn't "social media", it's "people". But as we haven't figured out how to fix people yet, it'll probably be "social media" that gets the attention.
The DSM-5 was released in 2013. Could that have anything to do with the bump in depression diagnoses?

https://www.verywellmind.com/dsm-5-and-diagnosis-of-depreasi...

As for the assertions about "governability," that seems to be more about the government reaching consensus. I think PACs play a bigger role there than social media, but I try to follow the money.
As someone who's not neurotypical and grew up in the 1990s I don't think we really did much for mental illness or have much of understanding of it until the past 15 or so years. Growing up the school system regarded people are disabled, learning disabled, lazy, normal, or gifted. There was no one checking kids out for social-anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, etc. unless there was an extremely serious problem with their behavior.

Within the past 40 years they used to lock people like me up, give us lobotomies, forcibly medicate us, etc. Its easy to forget how society used to treat folks with mental illness. Its frankly no wonder that people to this day still hide it. Heck, I've had to contact the EEOC more than once. But the thing is, social-media didn't cause this, video games didn't cause this. I've always been genetically predisposed to this. In my opinion, unfettered access to the Internet in general is probably the worst environment for people with predispositions, but to simply blame everything on the environment we've create online through video games or social-media is wrong if not irresponsible.
There were many like Egypt, Egypt was exceptional that it some sort of survived (but actually not really), while the rest got wiped completely. Then a dark age followed.
The EFF's response to the op ed is worth a read [0]. I happen to firmly disagree with the scientific part of their analysis—the contradictory evidence they cite basically amount to "teens say social media is good for them", which is... questionable evidence at best. But aside from that they do make some important points about the First Amendment problems.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/no-online-speech-shoul...
Not only that, but my dog has enough theory of mind to ignore a toy/food resource until another dog turns up, at which point she will grab it and parade in front of the other dog to show they can't have it. She knows she can demonstrate dominance by holding the resource that she thinks the other dog wants, even though she doesn't want it herself.
As an interim, I really want to see WSL performance. Hopefully in the next few days we get some clarity there; not a really an MBA competitor for me until then.
Ask HN: Why are we normalizing slang words for crime?
Bipping? Really? It's car burglary. What do lawyers call it when they charge the crime?

https://www.ktvu.com/news/florida-family-plans-pull-son-from-oakland-college-after-car-break-in
Spotify rises prices once again
An interesting parameter that I don't read about a lot is vocab size. A larger vocab means you will need to generate less tokens for the same word on average, also the context window will be larger. This means that a model with a large vocab might be more expensive on a per token basis, but would generate less tokens for the same sentence, making it cheaper overall. This should be taken into consideration when comparing API prices.
Such a dismissing statement without any meat. Happy if other alternatives are explored but I have not heard of any that significantly improve the recidivism rate.
Problem is, the "bad things" the rich want to stop from happening are usually what the rest of us are doing to stop bad things from happening...
You say that like US states didn't have boundaries cut or decisions on when states were admitted to affect elections. For example:

Missouri Compromise,
Kansas Nebraska Act,
Nevada, Utah, and the Dakotas' existence,
Washington DC not having representation,
Puerto Rico languishing

Coincidentally it seems like the rural United States has disproportionate representation and power. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the Republican party not winning popular votes in presidential elections for all but one election in over 30 years
Basic Python Project Setup
It is a different story in Lean though, because Lean, as most other logics based on type systems, doesn't have subtypes. So all you have are coercions. That's actually a bad thing.
>Then why do people keep bringing it up all the time in Fisker's context?

I brought it up, because it is important to the Fisker story.

I think you got me completely the wrong way. Everything Fisker outsourced was good, they bought a reasonable car platform from a competent company. Most of the good things people had to say about the Ocean is the work of Magna Steyr. Most of the bad things they had to say about it was presumably the work of Fisker.

Outsourcing was definitely the best decision on their part, the problem was the rest of the car.
I genuienly think that this is one of the biggest factors when talking about this topic. Lots of people seem very defensive when talking about it. Because if they admit or speculate that animals have some form of consciousness, they also admit that they're responsible for killing thousands of conscious beings.

As for myself, I can't believe that animals aren't concious.
Floating mats of plastic and plants are visible from space
Exactly. People forget (or simply don't know) that orbital plane changes are incredibly expensive from an energy perspective. It's not like you're walking down the road picking up trash in a row, you have to adjust your orbit, canceling out movement in one direction while adding movement in another. And it takes an incredible amount of energy even for minor plane changes.
> In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith

The longer I live the more I realize I don't know. For me it means I have to have some trust in the people communicating with me - that they're operating in good faith. More so when their comms are persuasive arguments.

Without my trust + their forthrightness, I have to expend significant time and energy parsing and vetting their statements - for little practical benefit.
Nothing wrong with it, exactly, but it's tonally very different, and I preferred the more serious tone of the manga. The anime has more comic relief, a more episodic story structure, and doesn't get into or take as seriously some of the themes that come up later in the manga.
Biden was the most centrist of the Democratic candidates, and is considered center right by many. It's hard to argue that presidential elections have become more partisan and polarized.
Neat.

But this literally comes off as probably being malware itself.

If your going to ship something like this, it needs to be open source preferably with a GitHub pipeline so I can see the full build process.

You also run into the elephant repellent problem. The best defense to malware will always be regular backups and a willingness to wipe your computer if things go wrong.
Gutenberg and GPT (2023)
If you want you can still keep this point of view, by saying that IO is conceptually a data structure that builds a description of what the program does. In this point of view it follows that there is another, impure program that interprets the IO data structure and actually performs the computations

(Of course in practice IO isn't implemented like this, because it would be too slow)

(But in every other language, like Javascript or Python, you can define IO as a data structure. Or even in Haskell itself, you can define for eg. a free monad that gets interpreted later, and it can be made to be just as good as IO itself, though typically people make it less powerful than IO)

However note that every other "computational" monad (like the list monad or the Cont monad) actually is a data structure, even though they describe effects just like IO does. This is because IO is the only possible exception to the "monads are data structures" thing in Haskell (if you don't subscribe to the above view), because Haskell doesn't let you define types that aren't data structures

The only issue with this point of view is that you now need to say what flatMap means for things that are not shaped like arrays. Eg. does it make intuitive sense to flatMap a tree? (A retort is that it must make sense, whatever you call this operation; and flattening a tree means to turn a tree of trees into an one-level tree)
"Bipping is the slang term for a specific type of car break-in in San Francisco that shatters vehicle windows with very little noise."

It's specific to this area and crime.

Also, lawyers don't charge crimes, police do. [edit: fine, prosecutors do the actual charging, but the police arrest on suspicion of a named crime]