skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
about WinUI

from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/

> At this time, there are two generations of WinUI: WinUI 2 for UWP and WinUI in the Windows App SDK (WinUI 3). While both can be used in production-ready apps on Windows 10 and later, each have different development targets.

In the Microsoft land it's always utterly confusing to get started. You are always left guessing what choice to make.
> In my experience, the average person I’ve worked with also believes in personality integrity and is guided by a sense of ethics.

Individual aspirations are not enough, if your org doesn't shape itself in a way to prevent bad outcomes, bad outcomes will happen.
The centralised authority would only verify your age, not what porn you're going to look at.

As for it being centralised, I'm all for web-of-trust but I thought we'd pretty much given up on that?
We have a few different things going on here. First, age verification requires sharing a lot of PII with some of the dodgier companies on the web. Pornhub’s business past is shady…and they may be the least shady of the lot. Second, things like gay rights aren’t a solved problem. The most awful fact in all of this is that people can be killed for watching gay porn in many countries. If a country changes its policy dramatically, porn sites will have a database of people who have watched gay porn in their country.

When someone physically checks my ID, I can be reasonably sure that it’s not going to be in a database. You could do age verification without a database, but it would be one hell of a lot easier with a database. And again, we’re looking at some of the dodgiest businesses on the web.
It's always a bit different.

I've both had to fight an at fault motorist's insurance on extended rental coverage, and I've also been hand delivered a rental and told to keep it until I'm comfortable with my repaired car by another at fault motorist's insurance.

Ultimately, insurance is in the game of saving money, avoiding court, and reputation damage mitigation. Sometimes you get an insurer that puts their reputation above saving money, but it falls on the claim and the agent to decide how to go about it.
I've been trying to do something similar by using a Pomodoro app (flocus) to dedicate time to a task. In MS Windows, you can have multiple desktops (crtl+win key+ right arrow), and I set several up based on my task to eliminate distractions. I build in get up and move time and respond to any new emails or Teams messages.
You'll have to ask him.
> As you say, the use of the word "addiction" in this context has nothing to do with scientific or medical reality.

I didn’t say anything like that. I said they’re perhaps using the word in a way that is broader than it’s used in medical jargon. That’s not the same thing as saying the word is meaningless or has nothing to do with reality.
I doubt it. And look how that worked out for the natives. Sounds like a great reason to not let that pattern play out again.
I’m not familiar with AWS Athena. But I am very familiar with being restricted to SQL for data processing and the sky really is the limit as long as you’re working with tabular data.
Definitely! But Starlink doesn't market it towards those people. Their page simply says "fits a backpack".

In fact, they almost don't do any marketing at all, and they probably don't need to, given how far ahead their service is at this point.
That would be a device level change. Pornhub doesn’t own Apple - they’re two separate companies.
I remember doing a presentation about how SQL would remove the need for programmers to be involved in the process at all.
Apparently they are quite common, but permanent magnet synchronous motors with double inverters are apparently increasingly common, though even there I've heard of similar tricks with polyphase winding as well as electronically "feeding in" power onto each phase to achieve whichever goals plant control wants.
> Sounds like your LLM guy just isn’t very good.

That's the central idea here. Most guys available to hire aren't. Hence why they get constrained into a framework that limits the damage they can cause. In other areas of software development the frameworks are quite mature at this point so it works well enough.

This AI/LLM/whatever you want to call it area of development, however, hadn't garnered much interest until recently, and thus there isn't much in the way of frameworks to lean on. But business is trying to ramp up around it, thus needing to hire those who aren't good to fill seats. Like the parent says, LangChain may not be the framework we want, but it is the one we have, which beats letting the not-very-good developers create some unconstrained mess.

If you win the lottery by snagging one of the small few good developers out there, then certainly you can let them run wild engineering a much better solution. But not everyone is so fortunate.
Of course. But at least try to minimise the damage. Don’t do anything you’ll regret.
In large organisations I've worked at previously, virtualisation has been disabled at a bios level and this has been a pain to get round, so for commercial users this would be enough to rule it out.
You do realize that US is ranked first in the list .

It is the 33rd alphabetically!!

Thanks for proving my point :)

[0] https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?tm=income%20distribution&...
Yes, opening a bank account is not trivial but it is doable, and if you don't have a social security number you can get one of these to pay income taxes: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/individual-taxpayer-identifi....

Here's a longer explanation: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/how-do-undocumented-immigr....

Although this is difficult, it's actually pretty common:

> The best evidence suggests that at least 50 percent of undocumented immigrant households currently file income tax returns using Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs), and many who do not file income tax returns still have taxes deducted from their paychecks.

- https://itep.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/immigration2016.pdf

Remember that most undocumented immigrants don't believe they've broken any laws (and many haven't), so of course they're going to pay taxes if they can.
This is nonsense. Similarities don't make things equal.
It's also being helped by the fact that the right wing has a history of attempting to restrict votes, from mass purging of voter rolls without telling people, to closing voting sites such that voting in-person requires traveling farther and waiting longer in line, to making it illegal to hand out food or water to people at voting sites (in Georgia), to having gutted the VRA in 2013 with Shelby v Holder, which is often what allows them to do this in the first place. I have no faith voter ID laws wouldn't be used simply to further suppress votes in states where Republicans control the state legislature; and yes, often in racist ways, because non-white people tend to support the left more than white people, so suppressing their votes (often those of rural black or Hispanic voters) is beneficial to Republicans.
Seems pretty straightforward to just follow these?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/winui3/... (not very pretty)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-dotne... (better)

In either case, my comment did not concern regular users but MSFT themselves.
It's a funny euphemism, in a dark sort of way. But if there is a domain where AI is not getting humans out of a job anytime soon, I think it's this one. I've read dozens of papers about remeshing, but for all of the research, very few algorithms make it to production pipelines. And those that do, still crash and fail in spectacular ways, even after a decade or more of refining and bug-fixing.
Yes, I totally agree. Likewise the covers that sit in the middle of the wheels are known for corroding over time and have to be replaced.

Luckily the costs and effort are minimal, but it's still annoying, given the problems shouldn't be happening in the first place.

That said, Tesla do improve their car parts radically over time.

The retracting door handles used to fail after a few years due to microswitch wear, so they redesigned the handles to use Hall Effect sensors instead (solid state) and now they're flawless. The new design can be retrofitted.

Some daylight running lights would eventually fail due to overheating. They redesigned with heatsinks and the new design can be retrofitted. It's a costly repair (~£700) but I don't think it's strictly necessary to fix these on my car as it was a 2016 model, and it wasn't a legal requirement to have DRLs at that time.

The computer storage eMMC chip would eventually fail due to writing wear. They have replaced this system design with a new chip and will replace the affected part for free, even for cars out of warranty.

And the whole computer unit in older models is replacable by Tesla for a couple of thousand pounds. While expensive, I admire Tesla for going to the effort of producing a retrofit upgrade. Other manufacturers would have simply abandoned owners with old infotainment systems. It's not mandatory for manufacturers to produce computer upgrades for cars, but Tesla goes the extra mile in order that customers can enjoy the latest software features if they want them.

As regards the warranty - I'm not entirely sure if replacing my bolts would void a warranty, but for me the point was moot as my four year warranty had expired anyway. Annecdotally I think Tesla are quite liberal in this regard. I made a proactive repair to my car by using a third party to de-solder the eMMC chip and replace it with a larger and newer model. When Tesla did the eMMC "recall" in the following year, they actually paid the expense (£500) of my chip replacement, even though it was done by a third party and was performed before the "recall" was live. They simply put £500 in my bank account. I thought that was unusually impressive, and leads me to believe they're amenable to third party repair where it's viable.
It looks like the repository for servoshell was archived in 2019. What’s weird is if you go to their website and download the tech demo it’s basically the same thing but may actually be updated.
They're probably going indentured to someone or to an organization that they'll be paying off for a decade or so.

My cousin payed someone to get a work visa to Canada from North Africa, which cost about $15k. Although the first time she did it it was a scam and she lost all of that money, which was pretty devastating for her. Another cousin payed a coyote to get him to Europe (via Greece), and that was cheaper, but they also left the boat for dead in the Mediterranean and he ended up getting deported back to North Africa.

So yeah, $72k is a lot, but if you're desperate and it's not all upfront, I can see it happening.
You are correct. US is 33rd alphabetically and first by the disposable income.

What I find amazing is you have to really count the rows to get that US is 33rd (alphabetically) as the rows are unnumbered. OP did that and didn't realize the rows are sorted alphabetically.
Doubt it. Things tech people complain about (like integration of Pocket) are completely irrelevant to the masses.

On the other hand, things like performance improved drastically, and it is now competitive with Chrome. Firefox the product is in the best shape it ever was.
The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn
Well, I am Russian who has left the country for political reasons. I have some idea of what Russian government is capable of, and how critically they are interested in destabilizing the West.
That happens from the territory of Russia

This is preposterous, you can’t blame Russia for every random domestic problem in USA.
Certainly no one should feel obligated to follow anyone's advice! There's too much contradictory parenting advice going around to be able to follow it all.

That said, there's a marked difference between the kinds of assymetrical communication that you're describing and baby sign language. We've done sign with each of our three children and it's remarkable to watch them pick it up—they clearly understand that these hand gestures are words that carry specific meaning and get a lot of delight out of learning and applying them correctly and being mimicked and understood. The language center of the brain clearly develops much faster than the parts responsible for controlling the tongue, and sign gives them a great outlet for that language.

Also, you don't have to do anything complicated to give them just a little bit of sign, so unlike a lot of parenting advice it's not difficult to try out. Just say a word while making a sign (ASL if you want but we'll sometimes just make up one on the spot) and then give them the thing or do the thing. "More", "water", "milk", "diaper", "good night", "up"—just pick one and try it! Once you start and see their delight it's hard to stop.
https://neal.fun/password-game/
What is a "whole game engine"? Ideally an exported game only includes the parts that are actually used and those should be much smaller than 50 MB for a simple example or even for most games.
I always found it odd how restricted immigration is in the US, considering it's a country recently founded by immigrants.
I mean, Elmo is welcome to help improve humanity's prospects of survival on this planet (small things like climate change, hunger, poverty...) so folks will have more time to be happy and actually want to have children.
There is no example or standard that would satisfy you. Any failing example can be added to the training set in the next version and even if it couldn't it wouldn't matter because you could find a person somewhere that would also fail it.
Anybody know any good Android tutorials?

(One that explains why every step is necessary, and what exactly it does in greater detail, as well as the underlying structures. YT tutorials are a bit outdated and are bad at explaining details.)
Not making an ethical/moral judgement here, just a practical one - is there any reason to believe that giving employees ownership of the projects will be any better than having "management" own it if all factors were truly considered ?

If every decision an employee made on features/issues/quality/time was accompanied by how much their pay was affected, would the outcomes really be better ?

The team could decide to fix all bugs before taking on a new feature, or that the 2 month allotment to a feature should really be three months to do it "right" without having to work nights/weekends, would the team really decide to do that if their paycheck was reduced by 10%, or delayed for that extra month for those new features were delivered ?

If all factors were included in the employee decision process, including the real world effect of revenue/profit on individual compensation from those decisions, it is not clear to me that employees would make any "better" decisions.

I would think that employees could be even more "short sighted" than senior management, as senior management likely has more at stake in terms of company reputation/equity/career than an employee who can change jobs easier, and an employee might choose not to "get those alerts to zero" if it meant they would have more immediate cash in their pocket.

And how would disagreements between team members be worked out if some were willing to forgo compensation to "do it right', and others wanted to cut even more corners ?

Truly having ownership means you have also financial risk.
> Current market leader is Mercedes with an SAE Level 3 vehicle

That's not a market leader when it just follows the car in front and has significant limitations.

Cannot even change lanes

Works only in traffic jams and heavy traffic

Works only under 40MPH

Works only on specific highways (which need to be mapped?)

Works only in daylight, does not work at night

Does not work in rain
FDA Expands Approval of Gene Therapy for Patients with Muscular Dystrophy
I loved reading this, because it feels like it's only the start. Now I'm really curious (and if anyone can point me to resources) --

1) Surely there are a bunch of more obvious optimizations, like don't place candies where they would fall because of gravity and nothing supporting them underneath, or always placing the candies in order of largest to smallest, and ignore anything symmetrical or rotationally equivalent to a previous solution... and how much would this reduce the search space?

2) What is the actual metric for fitting in a box "in the best way"? That lower layers are as full as possible before adding upper layers? That shifting of contents is minimized while upright? That shifting of contents is minimized in any orientation? To minimize small gaps and try to make non-used space as contiguous and compact as possible? Or is the box size arbitrary and the goal is to find the minimal box volume?

3) Is there separately a metric for "good enough"? Should the metric not to be to fit in a specified box, but rather find the smallest box of a set of standard box sizes that can fit the candies, with any arbitrary arrangement rather than a "best"? Is this a much easier problem, or is it just as hard or harder?

I feel like Amazon must have solved this for all practical purposes.

I suspect that it would work well and be fast if you simply place items in order from largest to smallest by volume, filling from bottom to top, quickly determine which box sizes are too small, and then just find the first arrangement that works. Curious if there are pathological cases where that wouldn't work?
These people aren't getting above board jobs usually, they'll be working illegally.

The person that cleans my house from time to time is undocumented, for example, but she declares income and pays taxes.
I disagree, IMO the main reason they lost so much marketshare to chrome was because for a long time, chrome just was much faster and much more stable. Performance, stability, and compatibility is all that matters to most users.

Firefox (mostly) caught up with quantum and process isolation on the desktop, but by then I think it was too late. And the android version still has horrible performance, stability, and compatibility compared to Chromium browsers.

Mozilla just doesn't have the same engineering resources to poor into the browser that google does, so I'm not sure there's any way they can really maintain pace with google outside of becoming yet another chromium browser.
That was no problem, because back then you only really needed a GPU for training. People who only learned about DL through transformers and LLMs might find this hard to believe, but you could comfortably run inference on AlexNet with 250mb RAM on a CPU and Inception only used like 50mb. No fancy hardware or accelerators necessary.
Is this approach beneficial for something other than users feeling better about themselves?
While working at a Big Bank, a new policy was instituted where we had to fill out time sheets. We also had to allocate our "budgeted time" into these timesheets (Regardless of what we actually did).

It ended up being a bin packing problem that no one actually did till I wrote a script to do it for me. This in turn led to some interesting conversations with my manager and the head of Capital Markets and Banking's CFO.

You can read more details about it here: https://twitter.com/alexpotato/status/1296856648435326976
I have no idea what to make of this, does anyone have further information? Faces match, some careers match, logo is insane:

https://rumble.com/v4wxpje-challenger-astronauts-alive-deman...
Calling this a “detailed review” of two laptops when the author continually asserts that they don’t use their laptops as a laptop is pretty audacious.
What will the eventual homebase look like?
You're talking about the 0.0001% of things it doesn't recycle. But almost every single molecule of your body will be recycled in dozens of different ways by hundreds and thousands of hungry little mouths that specialize in recycling viable organic matter--even your bones. Effectively everything within ~10cm of the surface of the Earth is going to get recycled into usable matter for the biosphere, and even those things ~1m will slowly decay in rich soil. Soil is alive by the way. It's not dead dirt, but 50% by volume bacteria, fungus, and other micro-organisms. Sure, soil accumulates and packs down and sediments out, as evidenced by so many geologic layers, but that's the 0.0001% I was referring to--limestone, sandstone, peet, shale, oil--the leftover of the very active recycling system back that pumps matter back into the biosphere and extracts latent chemical energy from it. Think of it; a layer in the sedimentary record that represents 10,000 years might only be 1cm thick, globally. That's not much waste. And it roughly balances out from all the volcanic eruptions, asteroids, meteorites, and space dust the Earth sweeps up.
> One example that comes to mind is the security person who wanted our logins to expire so frequently that we had to log in multiple times per day. He insisted that anything less was below his personal standards for security and it would violate his personal integrity to allow it. Of course everybody loathed him, but not because they lacked personal integrity or ethics.

Speaking as a "security person", I passionately despise people like this because they make my life so much more difficult by poisoning the well. There are times in security where you need to drop the hammer, but it's precisely because of these situations that you need to build up the overall good will with your team of working with them. When you tell your team "this needs to be done immediately, and it's blocking", you need to have built up enough trust that they realize you're not throwing yet another TPS report at them, this time it's actually serious, and they do it immediately, as opposed to fighting/escalating.

And yes, like the original poster, most of them think they're the main character in an suspense-thriller where they're The Only Thing Saving Humanity From Itself, when really they're the stuck-up side relief character in someone else's romcom, at best.
There is also the "secret" nonguix channel which packages nonfree things for Guix: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

It's a funny problem but because it's antithetical to the original project's spirit you won't hear about it from any official Guix sources and so it's relatively unknown.
People interested in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell might also be interested in "Limes inferior" by Janusz A. Zajdel, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell.
One group finds a way to automate a job, and then our whole society agrees that the people who previously did that job should be tossed out into the street. But for some reason we blame the first group rather than the second.
Does the currently proposed method prevent someone posting their ID online?
Meanwhile, hundreds of honest people have their Facebook accounts banned regularly. And banned for what seems like no reason, without a solution to renew.
there is a probabilistic interactive component. this protocol allows the prover to fake it by just using a book where they know where Waldo is. in each iteration you choose whether to confirm it's the original book and page under the paper or see Waldo (but not both). a cheating prover has p = .5 of fooling a verifier.

but your concern is invalid to begin with. nothing in the definition of a zkp requires them to be multi-round interactive. there exist non-interactive zkp.
How does the STT compare to Fastwhisper?
in each iteration you choose whether to confirm it's the original book and page under the paper or see waldo
We have one. Unfortunately, it's plastic (usually PET - see coffee cups or any kind of coated paper product)

Please don't spray anything more on my food.