skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fond memory I had as a teenager was making a potato cannon with my brother and dad.

The cannon was in a J shape, where the end of the J had a cap for spraying in fuel - like propane or hairspray. Near the end of the J shape we cut a hole to put in an elongated lighter.

This went against the design of the video we watched - the video suggested taking the ignition stuff out of the lighter and making it part of the canon. Cutting a hole and just gluing a lighter was the easiest option... but also caused a lot of problems - namely with ignition.

During the building of this, right as my mom came home, I looked down the PVC pipe (there was nothing in it thankfully) and asked my brother to click the lighter so that I could check to see if it was lighting or not. My father was not in the room.

This ignited the residual fuel in the pipe and burned ALL of the eyelashes off of my left eye. My father came running in and started to scold us, and then my mom came in the room asking what happened. We all hid everything, because my dad didn't want to get into trouble either.

We shot many potatoes that summer, and the whole experience made me realize how useful eyelashes are.
this is a great tool, I dont think it replaces maintaining a proper changelog but it definitely helps track what is added to each release.

I think there should be both a generated changelog and an official changelog when a release is made.
Fundamentals before frameworks. I've been a tech educator for a decade now, and still see this so much.
One of the Turbine devs shared that Asheron's Call (an early MMORPG) was intentionally not released in major outlets at first so they would not scale too fast. This was perhaps wise, the first few months were largely---and remarkably---free of network and load balancer problems.
Would you like a law that says everyone must wear a helmet when going outside?
They are very minor, but because the consequences of an mis-issued certificate can be so high, there’s an explicit policy that misissued certificates must be revoked and reissued promptly. The distrust was due to them refusing to comply with the policy and outright stating that they did not intend to comply in future incidents either.
That's missing the entire point of my posts. My issue is that the vision being taken and made into being is the one from a dystopian future. Why not aim for a more utopian view of society instead? Focus on solving actual world problems that will make people's lives better as opposed to taking ideas from futures that most people would agree that they want to avoid.
Ah good point, like the FBI's overkill in charging people; obstruction of justice, lying to an agent, withholding information, etc.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-legal-syste...
Not sure what everyone is so upset about. Since when is code optimization a bad thing?
Why are 737 MAX still flying?
This is a subtle tug of war, because p16 suppression promotes cancer. So maybe this pharmaceutical agent could be administered every so often, but not on a constant basis (which would paradoxically increase the chance for a variety of cancers to develop).
> Everyone deferred to the agencies.

Delegating goes back to about 1825, and deferring ambiguities to the Executive has precedents to the 1920/30s:

* https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation03.html
Surely that sory of video would be easy to fake if needed these days?
I'm not actually familiar with Perl but viewed this out of curiosity, I had no idea you specify the version number as an import. What happens if the version number doesn't exist, does it fallback to nearest?
The headline is definitely clickbaity. It's just that the trademark “Bimbo QSR” was not approved to be registered. They probably have a blocklist for certain words or such.
Unless the way elections are handled changes, such as doing anything that selects for expertise instead of partisan hackery, all this is going to do is accelerate the gridlock, corruption, and dysfunction. It just does not logically follow that putting more pressure on the legislative branch to be functional is going to work when its functionality or lack thereof is based largely on a very gerrymandered population being blasted non-stop by a completely co-opted, corrupt media. When the corruption and control is so thoroughly embedded already, the difference between "unelected official" and "party-and-special-interest-approved elected official" becomes a silly fig leaf of a difference.
Thank you I missed that, still.. 7 months? Too many incidents in 7 months. If those incidents were spread over 5 years ok, but 7 months.. Nah, ground the Max.
> Honestly a lot of people in tech should be a little ashamed.

I think it's true that a lot of people are a little ashamed already, but that a lot of people in tech should be more actively opposed to what's happening. As a small example, part of the paycheck I get from placing hidden F_cebook tracking on my corporate website to analyze the behaviors of people who could not possibly consent, I donate to the EFF. Actually it's quite difficult to be politically engaged against abusive tech in the same way I may or may not be engaged in local politics, but money is one thing we all have.
I also know nothing of it, it's just a fun thought. In a previous life I really enjoyed faking parking permits and IDs and transcripts and stuff... it would be pretty fun to return to that but this time be one of the good guys: faking rhino horns for the sake of protecting actual rhinos.
It's a special kind of hell, taking a hallucinogen and finding yourself in a white buttondown and slacks, writing ad copy.
Person stops doing thing for 2 years, when returning to thing again now finds it very difficult, a while after returning to thing (plus adding in a hobby of pulling on themselves as instructed by youtube) is ok again.
I am not ashamed of pumping OpenAI in general and ChatGPT in particular. The sheer amount of technological heft they've brought in such a short time is breathtaking. I've literally had an hour plus conversation, by voice, with ChatGPT and I was engaged throughout the entire affair. The tech isn't perfect when it comes to some things like links and what have you, but what does work is short of a miracle.
Sure, but at least Uber actually works
I would be super interested in reading the HN crowd wisdom on this topic. It's super hard to know from the outside how organisations are structured & run. Any insights are appreciated.
No I'm not.

https://www.heritage.org/impact/supreme-court-nominee-brett-...
This isn't going to make Congress write more legislation. No politician that was extremist is going to start compromising and proposing legislation. This simply shifts power from the executive branch to the judicial branch. It just makes the question of which party appoints federal judges even more important in the outcome of senate/presidential elections.
You must be ready to build a lot yourself. As nontrivial as can be.
The password prompt when you try to do an admin action via the UI, and it happened at like once a week on PopOS before I switched to xfce.
It gives manager types a way to pretend talking is working while inverting accountability which is prerequisite for any process they're willing to adopt.
ran a couple searches and this looks good!
any plans for outbound? i'm using luna ai right now
I don’t understand the design constraints and goals that would lead to someone choosing this design. It seems like an insane amount of complexity. I also don’t know much about web development. Wouldn’t it be much simpler to just build a C++ application? I think one possible reason for choosing a web based design is because web frameworks can look really good. But I think this is not an important thing to optimize for in an editor, especially if it’s coming at the expense of performance.
As you read the entire article you will note that OpenAI said they’ve not yet released the feature. The press release was about inking the deal not releasing the feature. They are still implementing the feature.

This is mostly an article about how unreleased features in software that are in development still don’t yet work in production and proving that the unreleased features are still unreleased, then dressing it up as a scandal.
In unrelated news, underwear store near airport sells out in a mere hour, shop owners puzzled but not complaining about record profits.
People can develop allergies during their lifetime, it's not just something that you're born with. There's also ongoing studies trying to desensitise people's allergies so that they can deal with foods more easily. So a person's allergy status can and does change during their lifetime.

But my message was about the general principle of insurance being the very thing your comment was against. The situation where the vast majority of people pay some cost of which only a few need to utilise.
Yup, arguably in the wider scale, more accessible unlocked phones will become available on the used market, serving low-income people better. Right now there are many locked phones on the used market, both wasteful and difficult to navigate.
You can skip pre-commit hooks with the --no-verify flag

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentation/git-commit...
Congress can still delegate the known unknowns. They can say "because we are not experts in this subject, we delegate to agency X the power to decide whether this should be done in X or Y way"

What they cannot do anymore is delegate unknown unknowns. They cannot leave X and Y unspecified, the executive agencies cannot do things in Z way that Congress didn't enumerate, or α and β way that Congress didn't even conceive.
I don’t put much value in polling claims that don’t disclose how their question was phrased. The difference between slight differences in wording can be transformational. What this also doesn’t capture is how strongly people feel about these policies. It’s very easy for people to casually support the status quo.
could be interesting, so far the only people doing this besides canonical are chainguard iirc
> judges will focus on their expertise—interpreting what the laws mean. And agency experts will focus on their expertise—applying that law to specific factual scenarios.

It's not always that simple: Sometimes, trying to interpret "the law" in the abstract, without deep knowledge of the factual context, is like being a bull in a china shop.

The conservative justices' various obsessions with textualism, originalism, and whatever other flavor of the month comes up, are often unrealistic. Ditching Chevron deference, in the teeth of decades of precedent and congressional approval, is one of those situations.

Granted, your 3d Cir. clerking experience, seeing that aspect of how the sausage is made, does give your view a certain weight. But too many judges need to start remembering that they're hired help, bureaucrats, and when Congress says "we want the agencies we create to figure out what to do, subject to political checks," it's manifestly not on federal judges to say "oh no, you can only do that in a way that lets us judges have the dominant seat at the table."
Note also that at higher altitudes the air is less dense, but the plane should fly at the same indicated/calibrated airspeed to generate the same lift, which means that it flies faster (at higher true airspeed).

Basically, with aircraft mass and angle of attack unchanged, \rho v^2 must be constant, so smaller density \rho -> higher air speed.
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39244889
> And God (PM) forbid, if you ever find yourself with some extra free time you might even reduce the size of dragons over time.

Honest question, what is the company like where you can do that? Everywhere I've worked (only been working in industry for 6 years) has had such rigid agile development that even when I do find myself with free time, there's no flexibility to work on things that haven't been assigned to you and the best I can do is work on profiling/debugging tools.
This seems fallacious to me. Energy scales linearly with mass, so an object that is twice as big, is twice as bad. It probably isn't even twice the area, unless it's a flat sheet hitting broadside on - but even if it were, that's still at best the same as getting hit twice. Or are you saying that gluing two small pieces of debris together render them less harmful?
This was always the original problem with NYC implementation of congestion pricing.

Collecting revenue and making driving worse is easy (the stick).

But the carrot of actually making timely, meaningful improvements in transit is hard (the carrot) and no one believes its really going to happen.
Scheme, in particular.

> In early 1995, Brendan Eich was recruited to Netscape with the bait of "come and do Scheme in the browser."

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386327 - open access
Engadget says it spoke with five individuals who have sued Meta in small claims court over the last two years in four different states. In three cases, the plaintiffs were able to restore access to at least one lost account. One person was also able to win financial damages and another reached a cash settlement. Two cases were dismissed.

One of the most amazing facets about small claims court is that lawyers are not allowed. I'm thrilled to see people taking this course because it does force Meta, in a way, to actually address the problem
> Can you imagine a member of Congress or the President saying this?

definitely. The 2012 STOCK Act is routinely violated by members of congress who insider trade on information from congressional committees before laws are enacted. that money the openly argued about the legitimacy of in congress and Pelosi, for one, and Tommy Tuberville, for another argued that it should be allowed. Pelosi later changed her stance, but continues insider trading. you can find datasets for all this at (no relation...just interesting data) https://quiverquant.com
Because the regulators are less emotional than the media and general public.
Yep. My SSN was also my student ID number when I was in college.
Tip: It only „seems“ and „sounds“ that way. Your conclusion is quite obviously based on incomplete information.
This will do nothing to force them to legislate.

Zero regulation is what they want.

Removal of regulation while they sit back and reap the cash rewards is precisely the designed outcome.
While good in general, that does have its downsides. I've had a case of adding an "if (undesired input format) { change input format; goto place_that_decides_method; }" resulting in clang now considering most of a massive function as being a loop body, and thus a bunch of computation from various branches being extracted to be always calculated outside "the loop" (despite me knowing that at no point should any single path (beyond the small dispatching part) be executed more than once).
The analytics and insights they'll generate alone, citing most of these Ai tools are harvesting based on Google accounts, will be staggering in hindsight. By using Ai tools, so many people are surrendering volumes of data that are so much more invasive than Social Media ever could be. As Chat GPT gets integrated into many services, they'll be enabled to build a far deeper profile on everyone that registers, and even a lot of data on people that don't register on the service.

I think we need to establish prominent technical leadership/chief advisor positions within the White House and each chamber of Congress now to be able to establish ethical baselines and oversight before tech managed by private companies turns even more predatory upon public data (Similar to The Surgeon General's Role in authority perhaps)... There should already be solid ground rules for operation and oversight of Ai development efforts in place to control the egos of the people that will have access to all of this user data, those types almost always exhibit God complexes without any real accountability nor responsibility, because most of the people that legislate have no clue of what they can see on the backend.

For example alone, if we though insider training was bad, just imagine how toxic it's going to get when Ai development employees, or a product owner has access to every aspect of social, economic, and business moves of every single company and individual that uses tools integrated across Chat GPT and similar services, including Email and MS Office (without anyone really knowing their data is easily accessible)... It's not a bright future for fairness and equity at all, and there will be far more oligarchs and monopolies than there are now.
'plunges', 'alarming speed', 'The shocking incident' but in the end 'none of the passengers or crew aboard the 197-seat aircraft were harmed'

Once again we have a non-story overflowing with hyperbole. These types of articles increase unreasonable fear and do an injustice to journalism. I am flat out done with bad journalism that gets its viewership by hyping fear. 'The Standard' is off my list of credible news outlets.
If we could only built a 3d printer that would work with keratin...
Chatgpt, a product that successfully disrupted the market and inspired a number of other companies, is largely misunderstood and falsely advertised.

A HN submission about chatgpt hallucinating broken links to partner websites has comments like:

> It drives me nuts how OpenAI has misleadingly marketed their products, and the tech community at large has failed to clarify what their products really are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821262
I'm tired of flying. It's a miserable experience to begin with, and getting worse, and now all this junk is happening. Next year my wife and I are planning to try out a train trip to NYC, from Minnesota. It will take quite a bit longer, but I hope it will be a more pleasant trip.
people disliking "immigrants getting too much benefits" - while important for politics - doesn't make it true.

cost of brexit is about 2-3% of GDP roughly the same as spending on immigrants. (most of whom pay taxes.)

also worth mentioning is that the aging UK population would be in an even worse state without those workers.

leaving the EU is a perfect symptom of the other problems you listed.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/impact-brexit-
uk-economy-reviewing-evidence

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th...
I mean, if you treat commits as a line in changelog and write them that way, then the difference in outputs between autogenerated changelog and what you're talking pretty much goes away.

CC style can easily be enforced automatically, I often just rewrite commit messages when merging PRs from contributors, so it looks nice when I run git-cliff on it. You can always add a pre-face by hand to what was generated for every release.
Wow, you kind of went off the deep end there. I am not a vegetarian, nor do I promote a meat free lifestyle. You made an assumption because I said something you didn't like - a simple fact about the food production.

You see thousands of people on Reddit carrying on about being carnivores, I'll raise you 9% of India's population being vegan (that would be more than 125 million people), and another 40% of the population of India being some type of vegetarian. Find better data for your claims about the health impacts of not eating meat.

One other thing -

> Meat is clean of toxins as like in our own body

Uh huh. That's why farms routinely send meat to labs routinely to test for parasites and diseases, and mercury is a huge problem when consuming fish.

> Carnivores are strong, fit predators.

Eating meat does not make a predator; in the context of diet, if you are not hunting for your prey, you are a scavenger, consuming the remains of others kills (unless you think those Redditors you cited stalking the aisles of your local supermarket for the best deals counts as hunting).

The only reason I responded to this was because someone else might accidentally read your garbage post and be swayed by it.
So the malfunctions only count when people die?
I definitely wouldn’t call vscode performant. The UI elements have noticeable latency and most things feel slow. Startup takes multiple seconds.
Welcome competition.
I rebuilt my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I'm filled with regret
Apparently human terminal velocity is just a bit over 50m/s - I doubt there’s much of a perceptible difference between this and full-on free fall. Yikes.
> Same as having a standard coding style, you should have a standard commit message style that you do care about for every commit in the project. A mish-mash of variable quality and variable formatted commits more than subjectively looks bad - it reduces the signal-to-noise of the commit messages.

I already personally use a standard commit message style.[1] And that standard is about how to structure the prose, not about using any kind of structured markup (outside the trailers section).

> As for the `feat(scope):` in the subject line, it's a very succinct way to communicate the type of the change. Don't make me the read the whole commit to figure out if this was a feature or bug fix, or only affected the build.

Verbs already serve that purpose most of the time. Then you get redundant lines like `feat: add OAuth 2.0 login`.

> Sure. But I want the changelog to list features first, then bug fixes, etc. How do I do that automatically with only the git log w/o some sort of standardized tagging of the commits?

If you have such a high volume of commits (that users would care about) that you have have distribute tagging of all commits to all contributors,[2] you can use the trailers section.[3]

[1] I don’t expect anyone else to at work. In one free-time project people use the same style, with one exception (against my personal taste).

[2] And if you need such a detailed changelog, let alone a fully automatically written one

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820213
I think one could make an argument that the US system of governance was designed to encourage "politicking" by populist types in the House. Love him or hate him, LBJ was excellent at this sort of thing and an ideal representative. But I've read a lot of Caro and it seems he feels the US Senate has jumped the shark in this regard. The narrative laments the glory days of high-minded debate and the occasional cane beatings, but it's hard to say if that's Caro's actual view.

But it's fair to argue the Senate wasn't built for politicking, yet that's what it's devolved into. I'm a political layman, but perhaps popular vote of senators is a terrible idea as it discourages people unwilling to play hardball to get involved... these engineers, doctors, scientists, etc. It takes a special kind of thick skin to be in national office and those type of people don't seem to gravitate to science-based fields, but rather law and professional politics.
Ask it to provide references. I just asked it for an explanation of the Fresnel effect in VHF communications and to provide references. The first was Wikipedia. One of the other links was a site about radar that had no relevant content. One was to this: https://popups.uliege.be/accueil/ ... and one was to this: https://vividcomm.com
The interpretations break with precedent but they are rarely ridiculous.

As detestable as I find the outcome, Roe v. Wade built a right to privacy out of whole cloth where none existed before, and whether that was good law has been hotly debated ever since it was decided (https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ref...). It's within the purview of SCOTUS to go "This was bad lawcraft done by our predecessors, and we reverse it based on this reasoning..."

We can disagree with their reasoning, but my main point is you rarely see a ruling from SCOTUS that is nakedly "Because I said so," even though that's de facto the power they have. The initial Roe decision was shaky. "That was a shaky decision, so we have reversed it" was at most equally shaky. It's hard to argue that one is well-reasoned and the other not (though I think there's room to disagree on what facts the two Courts considered).