skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm confused about why we're comparing GOTO control flow with channels, since they're completely unrelated. I guess you can make a mess with each when you use them inappropriately? With GOTO, you should avoid it because there are better options (notably, conditional statements).

Notes On Structured Concurrency goes into some depth on this comparison:

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

If channel sends are being used as invocations, then this description can apply just as well to channels as it does to the go statement.
One obvious issue to me is that we have over-centralized the internet on Cloudflare.

That's great they are fixing it on free sites though.
Cloudflare is rewriting the link on websites hosted on Cloudflare. I think it can be argued that those websites have in some sense opted in to some limited rewrites by Cloudflare? (Presumably they wouldn't be doing it unless their terms allowed it.)
Nah, that was solidly Millennial and Gen X territory
The headline (and thusfar only, it seems) application is a 3d metal printed waterblock with Asetek (the infamous AIO patent trolls, incidentally), with some hooplah about "quieter pumps" and better performance.

Arctic makes a line of AIO coolers which are among the lowest-cost, yet have industry-leading performance and can dissipate hundreds of watts with ease.

This just doesn't seem like an area that needs to be optimized. I could see certain applications like cooling high power RF stuff and lasers...but if this was the best they could do for their headline application, I'm a bit skeptical.

Either they're doing a poor job of commercializing it, it's got drawbacks that are deal-killers for a lot of industries, or something else...
This is what I'm trying to get at. It's not about removing responsibility but rather about seeking treatment options, like we do for any disease, instead of stigmatizing it and saying the patient can think themselves out of it. That last bit minimizes the impact and extent of the disease.

You can't think your way out of cancer, a broken foot, or even a plain old bacterial infection. So why do we think we can do that for addiction?

To your second para, we don't know the root cause until we diagnose it. We don't know if it's physical, psychological (trauma), a hormonal/nutritional deficiency or a combination thereof. Right now society wants people to treat themselves without an adequate diagnosis and that's problematic on multiple fronts.
Yeah it's like slide software was bifurcated: either you can actually collaborate (google) or make quality slides (keynote). Finally some hope: Figma actually does both of those things really well.

I'm also excited by what you can potentially do programmatically in Figma. Has anyone ever tried using the google slides API? It’s one of those APIs where you sort of wonder if you are the only actual user or if other people just enjoy eating razors to feel alive.

Footnote rant: And WHY Google for the love of all things can you STILL not import an SVG into a google slide deck?! It's supposed to be web software for crying out loud!
The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly.

- In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill....

- In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill....

- In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill....

- In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/...

- In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo.

So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 2024, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.
If you're willing to write a very detailed requirements spec you can just... write ruby or python code in a framework and have a working application...
I was writing a command-line tool in Python, and wanted bash-like line editing capabilities. And then I realized that there was a Python wrapper for readline. Problem solved!
Prior to WSL and .net core.

Anything c#, .net, Microsoft.

So many GUI tools to accomplish what shouldve been a one line cli command.
I think GP’s point was more about the truth for the consumer of the site. As a user, I trust a site to deliver the content it intends to deliver. Of course this is just a trust by proxy with Cloudflare because you’re trusting the site’s judgment on who to trust. As a user of the site, it makes me just a little bit more uncomfortable knowing there’s another layer of indirect control over the content coming in.

Of course this is all just philosophical anyway. We’ve not even touched on external module usage.
How do we feel about tech job application standards spreading to other fields?
This is just a way more reactionary way to communicate model benchmarks.

“A computer algorithm performed better than humans on a task it was designed for” sounds like the last forty years in a nutshell.
I don't think you're getting useful optionals without matching.
There are certainly considerations other than consistency in mathematical theories. But I don't think I'll be able to articulate them well here. Maybe someone else can help.
If you disagree with me, why not let me borrow $30,000 for a little bit? Even for a few hours, I promise nothing will happen to it...

And then there's the skyrocketing insurance rates because modern cars are calling home, even if you opt out, to the mfg and the mfg sells all your data to lexis nexis and the insurers buy that data.
Drivers See Auto Insurance Rates Spike Due To Secret Data Sharing
https://www.autobodynews.com/news/drivers-see-auto-insurance...
The Toshiba luggables T3100 / T5x00 with gas plasma display are still around; as are the Compaq luggables as well.
The problem with Tesla's approach is that it learns from humans. Specifically, it learns the mediocrity of humans. That's why it made that idiotic manoeuvre, it learned it from the typical people that drive other Teslas.

So Tesla will necessarily converge to the performance of your average driver, because that's where the data leads it.

Waymo's is developing a new type of understanding and modelling of the world. It perceives and tracks items above the capability of humans to track and understand. Therefore its limits are outside of the bounds of the most capable human drivers.

Your own argument highlights exactly why Tesla's approach is a dead end (exactly in the same manners that LLMs will lead to the dead internet), while Waymo's approach will likely generate super-intelligence.
Yes, but we'd spend even more if we were not in NATO, and we'd spend it on weapons we'd make ourselves.
>use only quad9 dns.

9.9.9.9

by the way. Seems obvious in hindsight but I looked it up.
The GoF book uses C++ and was written before the first version of Java existed.

Furthermore, the purpose of design patterns is not to introduce anything new, it’s to provide a catalog of repeatedly occurring existing patterns in software development, including the respective situations each pattern is applicable in, and their individual benefits and drawbacks. An important motivation was to name each pattern, so that when one software engineer says “builder”, the other engineers know what it means. Previously developers encountered certain patterns sooner or later, but didn’t know what to call each pattern, or each developer invented their own names, or meant different things by the same name.

The set of relevant patterns will change over time to some extent as software development changes, but that is orthogonal to the concept of design patterns. It’s a mistake to think of design patterns as specifically the set of 23 GoF patterns. Though some GoF patterns are unlikely to ever become irrelevant, like Adapter, Decorator, Composite, Proxy, Interpreter, Strategy.
A "no refund" policy isn't legal in places with strong consumer law, primarily due to past abuses by vendors.
I don't trust cloudflare at all. Why would I trust someone trying to monopolize all internet traffic?
Yeah, I agree, but also, what is the way out of it? By virtue of their value proposition, the only natural progression for a CDN is maximum scale, isn’t it?
They're very different languages and have different deployment dynamics. Elixir is a higher-level language. Other languages are lower-level. People will always be frustrated to see a language "shoehorned" into a higher- or lower- level setting where their preferred language might fit. We're an Elixir/Go/Rust shop. You could not use Rust and Go interchangeably for what we use them for, and you couldn't use Elixir almost anywhere we use Go.
I found this article in the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/new/
Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)
You’re not wrong. It appears to be a very garbled technical explanation. Mainly that organisms need to absorb low frequency/energy light while reflecting higher frequency/energy light. I’m guessing that chemically that’s harder to do.
In Denmark the pigs are fed soy imported from areas of the world where rainforests had to be cut down to make room for production. The short distance between Danish fields and sea, which is no where greater than 50kms, means most fertilizer from the pigs runs off into the sea, causing algae blooms that kill all other marine life.
There is no constraint applying it to elected officials only. The text says:

> Section 666 proscribes bribes to state and local officials but does not make it a crime for those officials to accept gratuities for their past acts.

As such, I see it applying to all government officials, whether elected or not.
I was definitely convinced that the article was somehow going to pivot to this topic until it started getting into "arenas"
If you ignore all the nuance, then no, there's no nuance worth seeing.
It’ll be like a resin printer, the hard part is the anode array which isn’t that hard, it seems that TFT screen manufacturers can make what’s needed and TFTs screens are really cheap.
Google slides has a bunch of "smart" features, which is when things automatically change without telling you in unexpected ways.
Keynote is absolutely the presentation software a designer would create, if they didn't have to do it while being saddled with inappropriate technologies.

I'm a pragmatist and I understand why collaborative editing and web-based "files" won out...but when you use a well-crafted piece of desktop software like Keynote it really makes you wistful for what might have been. People have forgotten how much of a hole you dig for yourself in when you have to build everything in the browser.
My CR-V uses a combination of camera and radar. So you'd have to fool both somehow.

https://owners.honda.com/utility/download?path=/static/pdfs/...
There are also no blue pigments in any plant. The various blueish flowers use other tricks to reflect blue light.
this is pretty unfortunate. iirc they had the only digital pdp-10 in the world that's currently in working order — the line of computers on which emacs, microsoft basic, simtel-20, and compuserve all originated. most of the arpanet was pdp-10s at one time. nasa's gsfc spacelink ftp site, where you could download space photos, was the only one i ever encountered running

hopefully that machine will find a good home in the auction and not be destroyed in the process

the fact that it's shut down is, as bobaliceinatree said, a terrible indictment of paul allen's estate planning. unless he just didn't care about the people who survived him
I agree 100%. This AI wave hopefully if will force universities to rethink the way students are assessed.
When I was faculty I had the luxury to teach small classes, and I could always be extremely flexible with assessments so I could assess students as the course progresses, or I could make it project-based, or a 1-on-1 oral exam. But I had colleagues that were teaching a class of 300 students, which meant most of the exams were looked at only by teaching assistants, or they were so heavily automated (e.g. multiple choice) that these days they could totally be fooled by an LLM. Something needs to change and it will (fingers crossed).
Or any other major commercially used language right now?

Look, I'm glad you work in a language where you don't need to describe those things any more, but the vast majority of people still do. And for that group of people, understanding that "Design Patterns" is a dictionary, not a recipe book, is a really important thing.
With some of the earlier ones that may have been the case as many were simply melting small blobs of metal and dropping them onto eachother. The newer ones act a lot more like a welder. It's why it's been possible to 3d print rocket components.
Roblox's Road to 4D Generative AI
In my case, they sent back a form letter about a similar issue, but it didn't address my specific issue.
iPad accelerometer is 90 degrees off
Wow, cool app, I love it!
And I miss the MTV of old :)
They have not yet started doing any training on user content and I applaud them for that. (They've only used public community files so far.)

However, they are headed that way to support advanced AI features. Quoting Fimga:

Two important highlights: First, all admins have control of whether their team’s content data is used for training. Second, participation in AI content training is not required to use Figma or Figma’s AI features. Learn more about our approach to training.

PLEASE, PLEASE make that opt-in versus opt-out. Do the right thing here, Figma!
Sohu AI chip claimed to run models 20x faster and cheaper than Nvidia H100 GPUs
Do protons decay? The answer might be on the moon
maybe he is campaigning for the reintroduction of cursive script in schools
The are widely used and in a terrible format that's hard to work with (programmatically). So yes, there are problems.

My particular pet peeve is that many rendering platforms suffer from floating point rounding shenanigans, such that rendering/rasterizing a 8.5x11 doc at 300 dpi results in a the height being off by a pixel :/
An e-ink with an HDMI input would be fantastic.
SpaceX to deliver vehicle to deorbit International Space Station
From TFA:

Does proton decay exist and how do we search for it? This
is what a recently submitted study to the arXiv preprint
server hopes to address as a team of international
researchers investigate a concept of using samples from
the moon to search for evidence of proton decay, which
remains a hypothetical type of particle decay that has
yet to be observed and continues to elude particle
physicists.

Edit: Fixed formatting.
Nobody tell him about the “Google Safe Browsing” censorship bloom filter list used by Firefox, Chrome, AND Safari.

Relevant today as ever given that the Supreme Court ruled that the 1A challenge to the executive branch asking big tech to censor doesn’t have standing to be ruled on.

Google has a big red button that can shut down any webpage on the internet for 99.9%+ of the web browsing public. There’s no bypass button in the UI like a TLS failure.
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I wouldn't say that they can be used to do large-scale surveillance, but they can definitely facilitate it, especially with CV integration. I think one can easily imagine the following scenario: you fill a LLM with photos from people (taken from a public camera for instance), it finds the closest matches (via a web search for instance, as Gemini does). From then, you can easily gather the most essential information: first and last name, age, usernames... And then use this information to structure even more precise prompts and find even more potentially interesting data: posts on forums, relatives... And with this data, you can create an exhaustive database with a plethora of information and data about these people.

That's what any good stalker or person experienced with social engineering is able to do right now, but it takes a lot of time and energy. Resorting to LLMs would considerably decrease both. And it gets easier the more people you have information about.
Last time I touched Oracle is going on a couple of decades ago. But I did discover at the time a readline wrapper which provided at least a modicum of functionality. Looks as if that's Still A Thing:

<https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/rlwrap>
i am pretty sure cursing is against the site rules, so i object ;-)
250,000 students a year benefit from Ontario Science Center, the best of whom go onto the engineering and computer science programs of Canadian universities like U of Waterloo and U of Toronto, from where they are recruited by North American tech companies.

> zero return on investment

Any junior i-banker can produce a spreadsheet showing the lifetime labor value of high-quality technical talent educated at Canadian universities, many of whom are recruited to work for US technology companies.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-deep-learning-pioneer-geoff...

When you translate a sentence using Google, or ask Siri to send a text, or play a song recommended by Spotify, you are using a technology that owes much to the innovative research of Geoffrey Hinton.. “deep learning” – a form of artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks.. Hinton’s revolutionary contributions to the field have earned him the nickname “the godfather of deep learning,” and have made Canada a hotbed for high tech.. for his excellence as a global pioneer in deep learning, Hinton received a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from the University of Toronto, where he is a University Professor Emeritus.

> companies are there to make money

Nvidia agrees and invested in the future long before others. Thanks Geoff Hinton for planting seeds of science and money!

Nvidia Science Centre?
is there one for windows?
I'm still not understanding rlwrap. Could you describe more about what I should notice running the ed command you posted.
Also, there is a snail that was revered millennia ago for some blue ink that could be extracted from it. Several religions, notably Judaism among them because it is still around today, attach significance to this difficult-to-obtain colour.
Really awesome work. The WASM lets you show this off to a massively larger audience than a regular binary. I'd encourage you to make your Voxel project also using WASM, then you can easily turn it into a mobile/tablet game.
Some flowers are blue indeed.

They are made to stand out, so it is like they are a purposeful exception to the rule
The best explanation I’ve read is Feynman’s delightful QED.
I'm really interested in learning more about this (multimodal LLM + OCR approach for PDFs), do you have a writeup anywhere or something open source?
The 3D printing they do for aerospace engine parts is certainly very much different from how most metal 3d printing is done. Because the requirements are completely different, and the budgets that aerospace have available to them are insanely much bigger.
Barbed wire fence is a great example of technology that was originally meant for capitalist ends - specifically, to allow for the slicing up of a commons for private use - eventually employed to literally rip apart people.
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What to know about the sunspot facing Earth again
as i said in another comment, that's possibly the only dec-10 in working condition in the world

selling it off piece by piece probably improves the chances that the most important pieces will be preserved rather than the whole thing going to a scrap metal dealer
An epic battle between good (uncheckers) and evil (checkers)
lmao auto founders that never heard of recalls :)

move fast and break things may be ok for social networks, but never ok for endangering the safety of others

to launch a 6th model of a marque, so well established, theoretically knowing a lot about cars, a model that dies when it gets wet, it's just embarrassing
PDFs and JPEGs are the standards for 'digital documents'. I expect they still will be in 30 more years because they're "good enough".

Other than plaintext, are there any others?
rlwrap provides line-editing capabilities including ctrl-a, ctrl-e, and up and down arrows to recall previous commands
Most meat produced by Danish farmers gets exported to countries like China. Only a small fraction gets consumed by Danes in Denmark. The pigs are transported alive to meat packing plants in Germany and Poland where wages are lower, and most farm hands in Denmark are cheap imported labor who often live under slave live conditions.
The article says it’s using doppler effect.

> The velocity of the target also manifests as a frequency shift in the received chirp due to Doppler effect
https://archive.is/W6dk4
That “both sides are the same” attitude is how we got ourselves into this situation in the first place.

Vote Unchecked in November!
stay out of my boxes.

the more you check, the less freedom you have, so i am in favor of leaving some boxes unchecked. especially the boxes that contain my private stuff.
Another perspective: The reality is that not all customer service is created equal, and for the individual, escalating through side channels is simply taking advantage of the system as designed.

> Much like the United States has decided, in its infinite wisdom, that caseworkers for immigration and passport services should be staffed in every Congressman’s office and not at the agency that actually handles immigration or passport issuance, there very likely exist people at the bank whose job is working the bank more than it is working for the bank.

> As a sophisticated user of the banking system, a useful skill to have is understanding whether the ultimate solution to an issue facing you is probably available to Tier Two or probably only available to a professional earning six figures a year. You can then route your queries to the bank to get in front of the appropriate person with the minimal amount of effort expended on making this happen.

> You might think bank would hate this, and aggressively direct people who discover side channels to Use The 1-800 Number That Is What It Is For. For better or worse, the side channels are not an accident. They are extremely intentionally designed. Accessing them often requires performance of being a professional-managerial class member or otherwise knowing some financial industry shibboleths. This is not accidental; that greatly cuts down on “misuse” of the side channels by that guy.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
My understanding is that eink only uses power on refresh; if you don’t change the image, the pigments remain where they are and draw no power.
A closed line of credit (eg: closed credit card, paid off loan) will fall off your credit report after about 7 years, lowering your score.

Having many inquiries from asking for new credit cards frequently implies you're trying to take on a lot of debt, which is a higher risk factor and thus lowers your score.

Buying with cash means you didn't take on debt, so that obviously doesn't factor into your credit score.

Parent is right, people (such as yourself) chronically don't understand how finances work.
One of the best ways to improve crop yields via genetic engineering might be to create black plants.
USA! Fuck GDPR!
We could say that yeah. It's not unlike an os process with a pid. You can monitor the process using a pid, you can kill it, you can trace it, gets it stack trace etc. But unlike an OS process it also has a mailbox associated with it, so you can send it message and it can receive and pattern match on them.
Wasn't this shared a week/few weeks ago? Not that I mind it being posted again, just that if it was already posted it might be worth linking the old thread, in case there was some interesting discussion there.