skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> They were real hackers in a way most on this site cannot really comprehend.

Oh we all know what this was. It was someone doing something stupid and filming it. He can pretend that he was studying behavior but he broke that mirror when he started interacting with bears. This was someone creating footage in order to market that footage and support his lifestyle, no different than people in wingsuits doing dangerous stunts for clicks. Both were "experts" in the thing they were doing, right up until that thing killed them.
Only the LED light bulb. And then only kind of, they use approximations.
Epilogue:

In a dark room filled with hooded folks. One of them is laughing that people are focussing on 'icon' (Star Sprangled Banner) than real concrete thing.
Jaw-Dropping SNES Mod Fixes One of the Console's Biggest Problems
https://archive.md/LVFLn
I’m surprised by how tenuous the link is between the cave find and the archival find. Is the bar really that low for claims in archaeological papers or am I missing something? It’s a compelling story, but surely Occam’s razor would conclude that poking sticks into dead animals and fire pits is just what people have done for thousands of years? Where’s the evidence that there was chanting and a healing ceremony?

Edit: full paper is freely available on Nature here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01912-w
On the contrary, being the primary desktop OS that everyone uses and thus everyone supports is Windows' biggest advantage. Anything that helps thingns stays that way contributes to Microsofts bottom line.
going off of "devops are sysadmin that push their scripts to git" I think we can now call DBAs DbOps. I pronounce it like "deebops".
You're strongly implying that their jobs are not fulfilling, which it sounds like you have no more basis to claim than those you're responding to.
Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs
Very cool :-). I don't know that much about the natives of Australia and their history, I wonder how many of these oral traditions have been written down. An immediate google gave me this document, seems interesting at a glance: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/159354575.pdf
or maybe you need to touch some grass.
Russian air force has already destroyed numerous civilian buildings, in many cases killing dozens of people far behind the frontlines[0]. In at least one case, when 59 people attending a soldier's funeral were killed, there are "reasonable grounds to believe that the reception was the intended target of an attack, using a precision weapon"[1]. I think it shows that the military will be happy with much lower quality of classification than e.g. acceptable for driving in downtown San Francisco.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_civilians_in_the_Ru...
[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/attack-fu...
The missing piece is that the IDE runs on the same environment as your code (0). This is useful, for instance, to communicate with the various LSP services [1] VS Code may need in order to provide proper support (auto-completion and all sorts of other IDE features). I mean, even something as simple as "Run this file" may not work if you just mount the folder somehow.

There are other goodies but those are very VS Code specific, like the ability to describe which extensions are used on the DevContainer, that way you can very quickly have everyone in your team use the same extensions and also avoid having a globally installed extension that you only need for a single one of your projects.

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0: not the GUI part, a daemon.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol
Nowadays, some riders use glucose monitoring devices during training with relation to how long it takes from ingesting and getting into blood. They are now measuring more and more things, and food is a crucial role.

Glucose monitoring is banned during races, but I guess that is why you don't see some cyclist collapsing like as 15 years ago is because they understand their glucose levels.

For sure, doping it's still a fear, but these guys cannot climb Galibier at that speed only with storoids/drugs, it's insane the effort that they did over the year.
At the same time, I had smaller problems due to late trains than due to flights. (I travel a lot for work.) Those 15-minute delays are annoying, but I agree with the upstream poster: the situation is better than it's said to be. Those 64% look awful, and the situation is merely bad, not awful.

I heard the minister is considering reducing the investment in track improvement to spend the money on autobahns, though, so maybe it'll become as bad as it currently looks.
Interesting. The date at the bottom of the article shows 06/05/2024, which is this one? https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/main/docs/devc... renamed from your link in 2022.

All of this to say, I wish articles were upfront on original publication date.
According to NOAA the expected arrival time of tropical storm force winds in Jamaica is 8am-2pm EDT, with hurricane force winds to follow:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

Although it has dropped from Category 5 down to Category 4.
and this would be better how?
Indeed. With limited budget and manpower, they [Ladybird] should focus on a rock-solid core engine with great extensibility, then let the community—if any—create all the things around said core.

It's the best (perhaps only) "small project to stratosphere" 101-recipe I've found. [Note that for browsers, even 1% of market share is stratosphere-level.]

Historical music/media apps were a great example before browsers (Winamp, Foobar2K, XBMC…). Tiny teams + key community contributions made for amazingly complete and rich software fit for all use-cases, beating any commercial alternative by far.

(The fact is that to this day, these 2000-2010 solutions gave you far more user-power & customization, not to mention discoverability and meta-knowledge, than current Netflix or Spotify UIs.)

A project like Ladybird should take that general road, IM(very but educated)HO. That's how they can eventually catch up to big names feature-wise.
Fascinating.

Growing up in a Hindu household, a lot of our festivals involve listening to origin stories of the customs. A lot of those have of course been glorified to add an element of holiness, but it's possible they are actually derived from some small incident happened in the past.

Like a butterfly effect, a small insignificant event leading to a major celebration for billion people continued over centuries
I work for a foundational AI company. I guess we're technically AI infra. We're inherently "narrowly" focused since our origin (which was well before the recent hype in past 2-3 years).

Our customers are really the type of AI infra companies being talked about in this article. And yea, the new ones I work with everyday are often a dime a dozen. A revolving door of small startups trying to make the same general purpose AI infra targeting other traditional "boring enterprise infra" companies.

The ones that I'm seeing get the most traction, have the best products, and best chances of success have zeroed in on specific niches and sub-industries. (Think AI infra that helps B2B2B companies where that last "B" is like Roofing companies and the value provided is helping Roofing companies easily and drastically scale their outbound and inbound marketing and sales.)

The startups I work with that make me scratch my head are the ones trying to build "disruptive" AI infra that does nothing different, provides nothing special, other than potentially nice UI/UX, and is liable to have their lunch eaten by either natural iterations and improvements of our own services they essentially just white label, or some other incumbent.

To me, it's like trying to create a new company to compete against Walmart and Target on groceries because they're too massive scale to win against "a well tailored customer experience" but then forgetting Costco, Aldi's, Trader Joes, and Whole Foods exist. And why would any of those aforementioned companies feel the need to acquire you rather than casually crush you as they go about their business either ignoring you as you wither or taking your good ideas and incorporating them into their own offering?

It's not impossible, just has to make sense and even then a certain degree of "the stars aligning" is required. Which is why there inevitably can only be a small group of winners out of this massive sea of hopefuls.

And I of course can only shrug my shoulders if asked if the AI infra startup I work at is differentiated, necessary, and lucky enough to be at the finish line with the survivors at the end. (We're finding our PMF and potential road to incumbency mainly with two-ish markets: old and new school enterprise infra and non-tech Fortune 500 type of companies.)
Using nix and containers just ups the complexity of a project by so much.
Another versions of this can be found in guix, called G-Expressions [0]. This is one of the reasons I like guix vs nix, as it allows you to write the package declarations and things like build steps [1] or even service definitions [2] in the same language.

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.h...
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Build-Phases.html#i...
[2] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Shepherd-Services.h...
That was a cultural ritual, not scientific research. What scientific basis is there for Christmas or Thanksgiving?
Chrome also doesn’t support password autofill, sadly.
Unraveling the Myth: "Porsche" vs. "Henschel" Turrets
Denmark invests in development of topological fault tolerant quantum computer
whole title: Innovation Fund Denmark invests in the development of a topological fault tolerant quantum computer
Scientific method alone can be as good as cargo culting stick positioning for 12000 years, once you remove from the equation the underlying philosophy and curiosity that provide interesting hypotheses to test.
15-minute-old radar images show only the leading rain bands over Jamaica, storm proper still at sea and headed toward the island.
Ah, a vaguely wondered if it had something involving Cauchy sequences, I think that was that limit!

> The way we extend exponentiation to complex exponents is IMHO much less straightforward.

I think it depends on how much you're used to dealing with complex numbers. In college, I was always taught to prove that Euler formula by replacing ix for x in that series, and then noting that the alternating signs and presence/absence of i in the terms allowed you to separate it into two series for cosine and sine. That always felt awkward, like there was no way anyone could just come up with that naturally.

Many years later I found that construction with graphing e^(ix) by taking small steps using f(x+dx)=f(x)+f'(x)*dx, and everything clicked: how exponentials work in the real axis is pretty different from the imaginary axis, but both are completely intuitive and unavoidable once you understand that.

Even later I "discovered" the connection with group theory[1]; that one still blows my mind.

[1] This is a really nice explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmuCPvRoWQ
open source or not, because it's macOS-only, it's less available to developers than alternatives
Eh, whats the difference between spring auto-generating them at build time via an annotation or an IDE auto-generating them at write time?
Japan: WFH Boost Fathers' Household Chores and Family Engagement
This was present in the book Fall;, or, Dodge in Hell. (Published in 2019; takes place in the near future) Everyone had a personal AI assistant as you describe to curate the internet. A big part of the motivation was to filter the spam. A secondary affect was that the internet was even further divided into echo chambers.
But if you have it in the PW manager, isn’t it moot?

I guess it’s still safe against leaking of your password only.
I'll say a "state granted monopoly" on distribution is pretty close to censorship.

People are not Libres to distribute or use some bunch of text because the judicial arm of the government will prosecute them.
Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached, and convicted in the impeachment, and he couldn't stop it. The House committee (whichever one originates such things) had already voted to impeach. It was then going to go to the full House, which would have voted to impeach, but Nixon resigned first.

To show what a different world it was then, the chair of the House committee, a Democrat, called his wife to tell her "we voted to impeach", *and then started crying" because it was horrible that it had come to that, and that the president had done such things. Today they would have been cheering.
The HN Guidelines state to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", which is what I did. And yes, I was aggressive, but I don't think it was unwarranted given how strongly he feels about making people "do the right thing" as far as he is concerned.

It would be nice if we could go back(?) to a world where the user operates their computer, not the computer operating their user.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
Most of the funds, even the big ones, trail the overall market, and even the successful ones have difficulty maintaining a long track record of success.

The reason for the big pension funds and endowments to invest in VC is that it’s a bit counter cyclical. Also it’s a tiny pimple on the side of the PE sector overall.

You can see how marginal it is in the financial sector by going to an LP meeting — the big institutionals send kids — first year analysts — to attend because it isn’t that important.
I think the title is intentionally misleading.
I get what you are saying but what is the end result when someone is so shielded from the outside when they decide to block everything that irks them and stuck in an echo chamber?

What if the user is a conservative voter and considers anything counterpoint to their world view the worst part of the internet and removes all instances of it from their daily lives? Not to say that isn’t already happening but they are consciously making the choice, not some AI bot. I can see something like this making the country even more polarized.
I don't see any mention of CSAM in the article. OTOH, this is how the third paragraph reads verbatim:

> The decision stems from “the imminent risk of serious and irreparable or difficult-to-repair damage to the fundamental rights of the affected data subjects,” the agency said in the nation’s official gazette.
I find it hard to believe that software can be fully designed on paper before development. In my experience, experiments are often necessary to determine performance limits, data requirements, synchronization needs, and other critical factors. Many aspects of design can't be anticipated in advance, so the design must evolve during development.

Regarding code understanding, I find UML too detailed and not much different from code-level details. What’s really needed is a big-picture view.
> DB is better than it's reputation.

No way. I use DB quite often, and its bad reputation is well deserved. Traveling Cologne <-> Leipzig I don't think I've ever had a train that was less than 20 minutes late, and since the beginning of the year, I've had two trains cancelled on me (with no compensation for the reserved seats) and two missed connections. Polish trains used to be a joke in comparison, but not anymore.

Just in the past 4 years things have gone from tolerably bad to really bad. Even Ukrainian trains operate better (personal experience), and they're dealing with Russians knocking out their infrastructure each day.
It's a healing ritual as per the article, it either works more than random chance or it doesn't
Suggestion for that, look into using MSG instead of salt.

Obviously doesn't work everywhere, but it does work in many places.
Yes but it's less of an issue than when we typically talk about it.

Overfitting in most ml is a problem because you task an automated process with no understanding with the job of mercilessly optimising for a goal, and then you have to figure out how to spot that.

Here you're actively picking architectures and you should be actively creating new tests to see how your system performs.

You're also dealing with much more general purpose systems, so the chance you're overfitting lowers.

Beyond that you're into the production ML environment where you need to be monitoring how things are going for your actual users.
> I honestly don't get why people and the media supported the elonjet thing as some sort of fundamental free speech human rights thing.

Flight traffic is public info. You can't censor it because it's being broadcast over FCC-regulated channels that anyone can correlate for themselves. Lo and behold, an aggravated college student ends up being the person to make a bot that automates the process. And now Elon is pissing himself like he doesn't know how to... *checks notes* not use a private jet?

Also I don't use Twitter, but Taylor Swift didn't ruin a bunch of people's favorite app, for one.

> Even a bill was signed into law in May in response that allows for anonimization of registrations, making such tracking essentially impossible.

Some lot of good that does. If you know the airport that Elon departs from and you can correlate his public departures, it would be trivial to re-identify the plane's anonymized callsign. Again, this is all public info and the best you can do is try to hide from people that call out your jet-setting.
U.S. faces aircraft carrier shortage as tensions rise everywhere
QR Cube – projections of this cube give 6 QR codes with different messages [video]
Introducing the Semantic Graph (2022)
Steroids before too. He speculated that the growth hormone actually triggered the cancer growth.
There was no tech here. My new landlord contacted the local ISP, the one they liked to work with, to say they had a new tenant arriving soon. I'd bet that my connection will have been setup long before I arrive, at a time convenient to the landlord and local provider. A landlord recommending a favored local vendor to a tenant, or a tenant to a vendor, is the sort of human relationship that predates electricity.
What makes you think so? The months of starvation didn't have that effect, for example. More Ukrainians died than before, but if they debated giving up I didn't read about it.
The Self-Service Research Sweet Spot
same here, from dev container to just docker here, works well
Tangential and a bit hand-wavey but:

I think you can use a Turing-like argument to argue against the existence of a finite set of moral rules that covers every situation too. The argument goes: suppose you have some set of rules. Now engineer a situation where, if the rules are followed, you cause something bad to happen. That’s similar to the step where turing says, “now create a program that asks if p halts, and if so runs an infinite loop”.

Which means, no sacred text or set of commandments could possibly cover every situation.
"Each one was found in a separate fireplace around the size of the palm of a hand—far too small to have been used for heat or cooking meat.

The slightly charred ends of the sticks had been cut specially to stick into the fire, and both were coated in human or animal fat."

That's rather more than circumstantial evidence. Granted the ritual might have changed a bit over 12,000 odd years but where else have you seen people poke sticks into tiny hearth's?
It's people that write you love letters until you western union them your entire retirement account.
Yeah, recommended daily doses appear to be closer to 5-20g per day.
Correct, at the time of writing Beryl is off the SE of Jamaica projected to hit (on the south side of the island) around 11 Eastern [0]. It will still be a Cat4 then.

[0] https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-tracker/hurricanes/beryl
Honda's New Battery Packs with Solar Power Can Power Your Scooter or Your Home
> We're back to good ol' days of "Internet Explorer is the spec". It's just made by Google.

and the code (at least a large part of it in the form of Chromium) is Open Source. I don't think it's as bleak as people make it out to be.
They did not get to the moon though did they, which is what we were discussing.
If I could predict with 50% accuracy which startups would unicorn and which would die I'd be extraordinarily wealthy.

For example, invest $1000 in two companies, and expect a 100x gain and a $1000 loss over the next 5 years.

(I say "out of the gate" because you can change your bets as situations and positions evolve, and I'm sure MS do.)
Beyond the aurorae: How solar flares spill out across the Solar System
Unfortunately no, the remote development feature is not what I mentioned or alluded to at all. Remote interpreters and docker services were supported even before 2019 in JetBrains IDEs which easily covers the articles use case.
Not demanding, sorry if it came out like that. :) Just a bit of constructive criticism.

As for random volunteers disappearing, the protection against that is easy - increase the bus factor, by multiple people having necessary access, and by keeping your infrastructure documented. This should be table stakes for any project that becomes even marginally popular.

Then, if a random volunteer disappears, things might slow down due to lack of manpower, sure, but not come to a screeching halt.

You can't increase bus factor with Discord, since it's out of your control.
Ancient Songhai: A Cosmopolitan Trading Center
> You mean the company dominating the internet heavily promoted and pushed users towards its own browser.

If the company dominating their hardware did any better, maybe the majority of them wouldn't leave Safari. If Apple doesn't want to build a competitive browser, then they need some (non-anticompetitive) strategy to retain their users. Otherwise we're doing the Microsoft Shuffle again.

> Where by "feature-filled" you mean "all the Chrome-only non-standards because free market or something"

No, at this point I really do just mean "feature-filled". iOS has notoriously restrictive APIs and it makes full sense that those users would want a browser do do the things Apple prevents their iPhone from doing natively. At the rate Apple's heading, I wouldn't be surprised if next-gen iPhone apps were just PWAs that hook into WebGPU. Big-business has no reason to keep living under Apple's thumb, and market regulators can't justify it in Europe, Japan or even the United States.
Yes you're right. It is not complete and had plan to fix all that a couple of years ago but put it on the back-burner. I'm still happy to merge PRs upstream from motivated contributors! :)
Cost benefit analysis. You get process isolation, remote execution. The cost: additional complexity. More cost processes are isolated so integration is harder, remote execution instead of local, etc.

It is easy to hype things if you do not consider the additional complexity, and then do not consider the corresponding down sides of the benefits in the "... long list".

Note that while I do not use Dev Containers, I use docker extensively in development process. The point I am making is that it is not a simple cost/benefit analysis.
It's impossible to take technology out of the equation.
I.e. that one person may have superior insights in their physiology/glucose levels, or a superior diet before the race. And so on.

Similarly in football, by studying your opponents in previous matches, so that you can identify weaknesses during the match, even if playing in isolation.
They are clearly talking about one aspect of the industry which is the marketing part related to maximising engagement. It is not meant to be conflated with the e-commerce industry as a whole.