skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IBD presents all over the world and I'm guessing predates the microplastics phenomena.

IBD occurs in many parts of the world, but it is a disease of modernity. It is highly correlated with GDP. In particular, Chron’s and UC are basically absent among hunter gatherers and in very poor countries. (And researchers have good reasons to think this is not a measurement error.)
I know that there were almost certainly patent issues and the like that made this difficult, but I firmly believe that if Adobe had open-sourced the Flash player, then Flash would still be as big or bigger today.

If it were opened up, it could have been integrated directly into browsers and maybe even the web standards. The Flash desktop program would still probably be the de facto means of creating Flash content but at that point it could have conceivably still been on iPhone, at least eventually.

It's easy to blame Apple for this stuff, but fundamentally Steve Jobs' complaints were fair and I think it was a matter of "when", not "if" Flash was going to die.

The death of Flash kind of makes me sad. A lot of HTML5 stuff feels like it's playing this huge game of catchup from what we had in Flash in 2004, and I still think that Flash was one of the most fun development platforms ever; the ease of quickly going from "drawing" to "animation" to "code" was so streamlined and as a teenager I had a lot of fun with it, and I haven't found a tool since then that I've had as much fun playing with.
A server backup is useless if you can’t decrypt it and it’s very easy to accidentally lose the keys for end-to-end decryption. I too have lost my Signal history by migrating to a new phone incorrectly.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the "pit of success" looks like for a framework to make it inherently easy to build a well performing app ("fast" is a different subjective matter), even in some of the worst cases of a naive developer doing naive things. (I think I got really close to a "pit of success" with Butterfloat if you enjoy working with RxJS. Its defaults are tuned for smooth performance even if you are doing too much work in a component.)

There's no framework that has a "pit of success" on every subjective performance quality metric, but I do think some frameworks more than others have larger "pits of failure" that make it too easy to get bad performance even doing what you think is supposed to be the right thing. Because I've vocally picked on it many times at this point, an easy example to mind is Angular's Zone.js is a big opaque library that can accidentally drop you into a "pit of failure" without you realizing how you got there. I'm glad a couple years after I raised some warning flags about Zone.js that Angular is finally addressing that elephant in the room and removing Zone.js as the suggested option and are close to removing it as the default option.

(I'm less glad that the reason that finally pushed them to do that is adding Signals. It seems wild to me to have proper Observables and also Signals and that just seems like another potential pit full of accidentally doing the wrong thing because it looks easy but the interactions between imperative code, Signals, and Observables is going to necessarily be complex and fraught with scheduling problems. I can't say that I'm surprised that Angular development is again moving one step forward while also two steps back at the same time.)

I know others with similar rants about React Hooks and how easy it is to miss needed dependencies in the dependency list of a Hook and too easily fall into a pit of failure.

It is useful to evaluate frameworks with some small eye to "how hard does this make it to do performance right if we follow its 'best practices', even in the case of simple mistakes?"
There are two types of BNPL loans: interest free and short-term interest-bearing accounts. In theory BNPL has a couple interesting advantages. First you're underwriting each individual purchase whereas a credit card involves underwriting a line of credit to a consumer. This enables BNPL providers to charge different prices depending on the product being purchased, for example someone making 2,000 a month trying to buy a 1,200 phone may warrant a higher interest rate. Also given the shorter term they should be able to better optimize their rates versus a credit card which is a pre-approved rate across the entire line of credit.
Yeah, it’s not a joke…
This doesn't mean the solution of testing with a separate Postgres instance is wrong.
Taking advantage of bad contracts can be legal depending on various nuanced circumstances. If the potential payout is lucrative, then it makes sense to consult with legal counsel first.

I am not making a judgement about this specific case.
> But consider, maybe he explains things like he does regardless of who he is talking to?

I think this might be key. If he talks to everyone, or most people, this way then you should be able to make it less personal.

Regardless, it might be good to start doing 1:1's with your manager. I get the impression that this isn't something that is part of your company culture? But doing a fortnightly 30 minute session where you talk about "stuff" (not specifically work stuff) can help build a relationship between the two of you.

You say you're in the business for 20 or so years, when you interview for a new role have you ever had the question asked along the lines of: Have you ever encountered a difficult problem at work and how did you solve that problem?

Well, here it is. Rather than leaving, try to solve this problem. It will be difficult and you will have to get out of your comfort zone. But I think you might want to look at this as a growth opportunity instead.

Good luck!
You don't really need to have the onsite waste storage built before the reactor goes online.

> Also, after 9/11 we required nuclear plants to withstand a direct hit from a 737. Will the factory build SMRs to that spec, or will that be onsite as well (underground?)

Depends on who 'we' is. IMHO, SMR isn't going to make large numbers of reactors nuclear viable in the US; the problem in the US isn't really the cost of construction although that's not great, it's the cost of delays from the many levels of review and regulations; that ship sailed on March 28, 1979; and I don't think nuclear be viable again in the US until the generation of environmentalists brought up in the shadow of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are gone, which is going to take quite some time; maybe renewables plus storage will be more than sufficient by the time the US is ready to consider nuclear again, at which point it will be moot.
I would love to know if and how Adobe has obstructed a FOSS competitor to Photoshop (akin to Blender in 3D). There must be a good reason that nothing has emerged over the years. My guess is there are some features they get territorial over and then start to lawyer scare programmers who tread too closely.
> China is not the US

Not a very good comparison in terms of the state forcing companies to give out their customers' data...

Also love how, in your opinion, anyone pointing this out must of course be a conspiracy nut.
Past performance is not an indicator of future results.

It underlies everything in modern society, yet seems to be one of the most oft lost sight of understandings on the planet
Apple stops offering buy now, pay later loans in U.S.
JS frameworks were a terrible mistake
When you can't justify the actions of your country - but..but..but other countries they do the same!

Just looks at the western reactions about 'foreign agents' bill in Georgia.
> Can someone explain these buy now pay later that aren't just a 0% credit card offer? Why do they even exist?

There's all sorts of manufacturers that offer 0% financing. Presumably:

* A small cost in financing can dramatically increase their deal flow which makes the whole thing worth it.

* A lot of these deals have pretty punishing terms where if the customer can't pay on time, they get hit with all of the interest anyhow. Not sure if that's true of Apple's deal in particular.
South Park just did a whole show on this.
There is a unique use case for running linux as an app vs as the base OS. Seems to me it's a lot like the difference between booting linux and using WSL to run linux inside windows.
Consider the React function:

function Hello() {
return <div>Hello</div>
}

The div object is where the visual representation is handled. React in this case is only concerned with passing data to it, which is explicitly the model's concern under MVC. Although I suggest that event handling is really why people choose React, and that is the controller's concern according to MVC.

Again, React isn't designed for the MVC model, so we have to really stretch ourselves to find any kind of similarities. But if React was only the V to the greatest extent that we can pervert the meaning of V, what value does it add?
I think this is how some Diesel-electric locomotives are built, with Diesel engines creating electricity for electric motors, running the ICE at constant speed and minimum transmission (not sure a reduction is needed, probably not). Looks like solid engineering for the cases when electrification is not possible for various reasons.
I don’t think UBI type initiatives, decoupling healthcare from employment, etc are incompatible with free market actions; the goal is to cover basic needs so individuals can make their own optimal employment decisions. Wages can still vary with supply and experience can dictate positions available.

With regards to the garbage collection example (although they may not apply to all low level jobs):
1. I think wages can only inflate so far before being overwhelmed by employment supply

2. Raising wages for these jobs helps return dignity and respect to them within the community

3. Because labor cost is cheap/suppressed, we have nonoptimal solutions to things like trash collection and I think there are ways to reduce the labor required.

4. I understand people operate for themselves and don’t care for others, but I believe if society supports people, they will be better at returning the favor but reducing things like littering and dumping.
This was a great article! Thank you for sharing!
So much of Angular versus React is "No one got fired for picking Google tech" versus "No one got fired for picking Meta tech" with some of the obvious problems of their "parent" organizations' approaches visible in the maintenance efforts.
Could you leave a test Oracle DB running all the time and clear it between tests? I do this with Postgres.
Sadly, the efficiency gained from being able to run the engine at a fixed RPM is lost in the conversion to electricity and back. This technique has been tried a few times but it never works out in the end. The only time it makes sense is if you have a turbine engine, but since turbines have fairly lousy efficiency to start with this only helps get them back up to the baseline.
The Big Guide to Zero-Carbon Jet Fuel
Theoretically you might be able to do it with some VCSELs, not sure though...
Cheaper than that.
> If you are invovled in developing, supporting, or maintaining an application that sends emails, this guide is a must read.

I would also say a guide like this is helpful whenever you are using a custom domain with an email service, and therefore need to set these records yourself. Okay, you might not need to have an in-depth knowledge of these concepts, but it's certainly helpful to understand why your email provider is telling you to set all these weird DNS records.
See my other reply about how [x for x in y] now works. It'd be a variation on that.

I agree the current semantics are better by the measure of performance of the simplest possible implementation. Though that's not Python's main design goal.
I’ve always wondered why tools like this cannot become stateless. Most have an up and down action, but I haven’t seen one yet that can run a query to determine if a migration has been applied or not. Then no state tables/artifacts are needed.

Instead of one file with an up and down, there could be two files where each has a predicate and then an action, where the predicate would run to determine if the migration has been applied or not.
I'm a game developer and Affinity Photo is missing a couple key features which make it nearly useless for us. In particular, it doesn't have individual channel editing. This is sort of baffling because it's only a UX issue... the tech to edit individual channels (including Alpha) is innate in image editing.
maybe because there's actual value in the systems being built and it's not simply blockchain 2.0 just because you keep repeating it?

there's a fairly incredible amount of commercial value in a system that can provide a workable "fuzzy match" or a system that can produce an approximately-optimal outcome without an intractable optimization step, for example. what is the commercial value of making the entirety of US logistics even 5-10% more efficient, or work-scheduling optimizations in a server farm?

like people just keep blindly repeating that there's no profitability there regardless of all the places it's quietly being deployed to great effect.
Sad that the title of the article is completely different from the original: La Seguridad Social usa una IA secreta para rastrear bajas laborales y cazar fraudes

Which translates to:Social Security uses a secret AI to track work absences and catch fraud.
Gnome maintainers: here's how to keep your issue tracker in good shape
I'm currently in the process of trying to see if Samsung DeX is able to replace my laptop. It is running directly on Termux, as opposed to using something like proot. So far it seems promising, and the biggest thing issue I have is that the Termux-X11 session essentially acts like a VM in that shortcuts are not seemless.

I'd love to know how this compares to that. Or maybe there's a way to make that more seemless. E.g. if apps would be shown as Android apps as far as the launcher is concerned.
I use React like the V in MVC for my homemade framework:

https://github.com/williamcotton/williamcotton.com/blob/3719...

That’s a link to a route handler (controller) that makes a graphql call (model) and then explicitly updates the DOM with renderComponent (view).

FWIW, that code runs both client-side and server-side and it is written in F# that compiles to both environments.
Alright.

My current laptop was about 750$ , has a 8845HS and I added a 4TB SSD for 200$.

If I wanted to do the same thing with a Mac I'd be spending over 3k.

I actually have a M1 Air, but Apple decided soldering SSDs would be a good idea.

Dualboot Linux and Windows for the best experience...
What plugins do you use? And what do you miss from windows?

As a long time mac user I am probably unaware of neat stuff from windows.
Geez can't we have the a reasonably priced SBC that has at least 2.5 gig ethernet and 4/6 SATA ports for a decent NAS...
It is amazing how much leeway enormous companies can get by claiming ignorance or laziness.
That's good news! I don't think I could stomach another global disaster after the climate fails. /s
Not true. My father (71) always was the same, anti-bitcoin etc. Until he needed to pay for online TV (do nt ask, but it was impossible to pay w card)
This looks really neat. Now I'm tempted to see if I can get one and have a way to render a conference schedule on it. :D
> "always on sale"

Lenovo is great at this. Their absurd $3,000+ laptops are conveniently priced near market value after their perpetual 50% off LENOVOJUNE, LENOVOJULY, etc. coupons are applied. You don't even have to do work to use them, they're usually automatically applied at check out.

Talk about cheapening your brand and pandering to people who only buy things "on sale" out of principal. It almost feels insulting to the customer.

This is one thing Apple does right - there are no sales or discounts, it costs what it costs regardless of which US holiday is approaching.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...
Active Mass Balance Auto-Control (Gundam)
That's on the browser vendors.

Google added HEVC support to Chrome in 104. It relies on decoders exposed by the host OS, negating the need to license a software decoder.

There's no reason Firefox couldn't do the same.

EDIT: Apparently, similar support showed up in nightly Firefox builds late last year, hidden behind `media.wmf.hevc.enabled`
I was one of those who wasn't supportive back then, because it was pretty clear where things would go from there. They wouldn't switch for a subscription model to earn less money, that was sure.

And being a quasi monopolist meant keeping working with that old CS6 version was less and less of an option. So what are you going to do? Complain? Suck it up?

Even back then it was clear they are going for the slow-warming-the-water temperature-till-it-boils-strategy.
Thank you for this explanation. I've often wondered how laser cooling works and never found a clean explanation.
> That’s not true, you can also expand to new markets. For example Adobe doesn’t really have many offerings for musicians.

Ah yes, the google style of offerings.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

LoopStart: Expand into so many markets to then be unmaintainable, then randomly decide to focus on your main stream of revenue again and kill off the side offerings GOTO LoopStart.
I agree that "I ran out of things to watch/read" is something I find puzzling. There are so many great books, shows, movies, musical compositions, ... I don't know how anyone could ever run out.
CS6 was followed by Creative Cloud for all their products.
There could, but then you would have to explain why some permutations of matter create a new dimension of sensation which previously didn't exist, which then has the ability to reach back into the dimension of matter and exert will on it (are we opening a wormhole to an alternate reality of the soulbots or something??).
Leather’s near-magical. It’s so resilient it’s almost hard to believe it’s real.

It’ll be cool if someone even gets close to that with alternatives, especially at a similar price, but I’m not holding my breath.

I get the impression these alternatives are mostly a replacement for bonded “leather” so far, which is such a shit material that they ought to be able to surpass it without trouble.
> It's the only thing that distinguishes her from regular Pac-Man other than the bow.

And the lips, and the eyes. Literally everything except the yellow partial circle is differentiated.
That's probably not an EU thing, you should consider an EU country more suitable to your line of business. Or you know, just do your thing don't bother with the regulations and pay a fine if it becomes a problem some time in the future?

Apparently Spaniards like it this way, they live long healthy lives in the system they set up for themselves.
"Assume it's possible to simulate a conscious brain with a deterministic program."

I think this is touching on the 'philosophical zombie' arguments.

If something is crated like a robot/ai, that is completely indistinguishable from a human, is that thing even possible without having some inner subjective experience? It seems like people fall into two camps, if it is a machine, then of course it is a zombie, no inner life. The second camp that says the machine is conscious. The problem is from outside, you can't really prove it either way because the premise is that it is indistinguishable.

So, I think in your example, it is interesting extrapolation, the 'invention' is indistinguishable and deterministic, now what if we split it up, compress it, etc.. when would that inner experience go? or would it end at some point?

Of course, if a consciousness could be played back and forth like this, then that would be argument for GPT to have some consciousness .
This seems to completely throw out DX. Svelte is an enormous productivity increase from SolidJS, trading microseconds of performance for that (Svelte is still very fast) does not seem worth it at all. That's like saying your two choices are Python and C, Rust not being worth it.
The only USB thing it has is a NIC. But given the speed of my ISP I could get around that by using VLANs, I guess.

I mean: There's not much to it. LAN port, WAN port, MicroSD storage, and a (completely optional and of dubious merit) hardware RTC that sits on the GPIO header. I'm using the bog-standard Pi Foundation plastic case.

It runs OpenWRT, which itself is very light-weight -- it's more-or-less just enough Linux to set up routing functions using a GUI, and it's meant to be able to fit in the tiny little bit of flash that consumer router hardware comes with.

IIRC, the status at the time when I put it together was that it could route packets and perform traffic shaping at ~1Gbps even with a USB NIC. It certainly did just fine when I had a 400Mbps pipe.
It's open source so you can take a look (I'm not the author): https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/tokencost/blob/main/tokencost...

It looks like tiktoken is the default for most of the methods.

Disclaimer: I didn't fully trace which are being used in each case/model.
Which is a low bar... Most of the mycelium-based materials have pretty serious pliability and durability issues.
cfront was a C++ => C transpiler
I always thought this was a very odd thing for Apple to get into.

Apple Pay Cash seems like it makes sense (at least in the US; it never launched here in the UK, but there would be very little point in it anyway), but this and the Apple Card always seemed a little bit gross. Especially because I would presume most of the money is made from people who are less well off.
Those aren’t mutual exclusive. In fact having healthcare not be gated to the single few that can afford it might accelerate the process of fixing the issues around pricing.
Depends on the environment, design and usage. Asp on windows on oversized vm costs more than a small linux vm where less than 10 people access a lightweight applicatiin that doesn't even need a database.
i tried activating my old Lightroom software (purchased in 2015 or 2016) and they wouldn't let me activate it. Adobe customer service said their activation servers are taken offline for my Lightoom version.
Right, I think that's really the concern. People may care about artists in an abstract way, but the only thing that they are practically concerned about when it comes down to it, is what has a strong chance of causing significant legal or other real world issues for them.

It's also partly a reaction to the whole episode and what everyone is saying. Everyone is laying one on SD3 right now. It's what you do. Not that they didn't earn it.

But since everyone is talking about it, that must have at least got them thinking. It isn't good, there are alternatives, company with questionable actions that seem about collecting fees from the model. Makes sense to just avoid it. PixArt and Lumina should get more attention anyway.

I keep hearing about closed source diffusion transformer projects. I hope we will see more open source like Lumina.
That argument does not appear in the article.

The article says that actually the current bill does not cover any models at all, and gives advice on how to change it so it does.

It never makes any claim that AI is safe.

A lot of people read what they expect to see, rather than the words that are actually there.
Yeah, even if there's no sandbox mode, a separate sandbox account will usually do. Sometimes this catches misuse that would've caused rate-limiting in prod. And if a service makes this hard, maybe you shouldn't use it in prod either.
Just as if the goal of corporations isn't to provide value, but to extract value.
Don’t attribute to malice… Many people working on frontend came from application or backend development and preferred the JavaScript model to a more declarative one. Not understanding enough the document context that drives the web. This makes everything more fragile and slow but hey “functionality” wins over everything else in todays world.
EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow
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