skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually go further and say that there's no reason I can think of that foo() shouldn't have access to the ScrubbingOption, so just pass that in.

If you have two-option enums and for some reason you transform them into two-option enums that represent essentially the same thing, of course that's going to be unnecessarily complex.

As a general rule, "it's more verbose" isn't much of a concern to me: verbosity is a very poor indication of complexity, and entering code with your keyboard simply isn't the bottleneck for writing code (if it is, you aren't thinking about what you're writing enough).
I just finished Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea.

One of the best books I’ve read in a while. Really gives a great story about the evolving history of thought.
[does relatively innocuous, relatively boring things]
Imperfections as signs of uniqueness is a beautiful perspective
New Mini Neutron Tubes with Multiple Applications
In my opinion, the term "open source" means "the source [code] is open for people to see". You might be able to stretch that to include "and modify" but that is stretching it.

That is all "open source" really means. It's open for people to see/view. Beyond that, is where a license comes in to restrict or give freedom beyond the term of "open source". That is what OSI does. Adds additional requirements within a license. It cannot change the definition of the term "open source" however.
Monopoly leveraging is illegal, not mundane.
Inaugural flight of Ariane 6, Europe's new heavy-lift launcher
There's also the third branch of anti-capitalism-first, who only care about ecology insofar as they can use it as an excuse to get on their soapbox. I'm really not trying to be sardonic, but there certainly is a tribe of green activists who demonstrably have no actual interest in the environment, just in insisting that the only solution to any problem is economic revolution - sometimes to the extent of actively sneering at and opposing practical, immediate measures to improve the situation (and green politics is not the only movement where they do this)
I think GitHub actions cause errors for a few minutes to alert, one could do that also with an API.
An experiment from The Washington Post to use AI to answer climate questions
IMO this is quite simple: does the person who you're getting the ring for want a diamond? If yes, then get a diamond. If no, get whatever she wants. An engagement ring is a gift and the most important thing is what the recipient wants, not my (the giver's) opinion on whether or not engagement rings should have diamonds in them.
My last job's [1] basic premise was trying to get around this by using their VC money to simply buy a struggling-but-still-FDIC-approved bank, and then try and make a fintech on top of that. It seems like that skirted a lot of the issues that most fintechs have to deal with.

[1] It is not hard to find my work history but I politely ask you do not post it here.
> So what people do is instead of carving perfectly, they deliberately slip to create some friction and slow themselves down.

As an amateur alpine tourist who is deathly afraid of that feeling of "loss of control" from incredible downhill speeds, this is exactly what I do.

That said, I'm here reading because I want to know if the heuristic for sharpening changes when A) one is mostly off-piste (rock, hard ice, etc) and B) really want those edges sharp for ungroomed (ie, icy) slopes.
A collective list of free APIs
What? You think that Mozilla devs would think about adding your domain to the whitelist of domains allowed to install extensions if you just asked nicely? That would be insane from a security perspective.
This is what patents used to do, but the economic and technological circumstances under which they did have changed dramatically over the last couple hundred years. All they really do now is entrench the power of the massive corporations with the capital to buy them up and sue anyone that they think encroach. It's not promoting innovation anymore, it's stifling it.
That’s only part of the equation. Grid displays require a lot more memory and often power to drive. By contrast, a seven segment display requires 7 (or 8) LEDs and 8 bits per digit on the output stage, 4 bit in BCD, which can be fed via a shift register.
The switch shouldn't be smart. It should just switch based on commands.
> On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court struck down a legal principle known as the Chevron Doctrine (or Deference). This doctrine dates to a 1984 Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council) that allows federal agencies to use their own expertise to interpret ambiguities in the law.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress struck down the legal principle known as the Divine Right of Kings. This doctrine dates to 3300 BC and allows the King to use his wisdom and expertise to make the law.

This loss of this principle will make creating and enforcing rules on people much harder as there will no longer just be a single person who must be convinced but will often involve long negotiations between different factions of the governed to obtain their consent.
I'm from one of these small communities and... yeah... it's bad.

A major issue is up until somewhat recently, the only form of media really available is conservative talk show propaganda.

I don't think people from larger cities understand what it's like to have 10 radio stations. 2 music, 2 for sports, 3 for religion, and 3 for conservative talk (with the relgious stations often being nothing more than conservative talk).

Quiet literally, the most progressive station available is NPR and often the most progressive TV channel is PBS.

Is it any wonder why rural America got swallowed up into a conservative media bubble? Old farmer joe's entertainment while plowing the field was an FM/AM radio for the longest time.

One good thing about the prevalence of the Internet and smartphones is now these farmers have access to a much wider media diet. The bad news is many of them have spent literally decades listening to the likes of Rush.
Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Operated AI Bot Farm
Maybe we could just reduce the patent's duration to compensate for the acceleration of information diffusion caused by the internet in the last few decades. Does that seem reasonable to you?
From "Exploring Quantum Mpemba Effects" (2024)
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/105 :

> Under certain conditions, warm water can freeze faster than cold water. This phenomenon was named the Mpemba effect after Erasto Mpemba, a Tanzanian high schooler who described the effect in the 1960s [1]. The phenomenon has sparked intense debates for more than two millennia and continues to do so [2]. Similar processes, in which a system relaxes to equilibrium more quickly if it is initially further away from equilibrium, are being intensely explored in the microscopic world. Now three research teams provide distinct perspectives on quantum versions of Mpemba-like effects, emphasizing the impact of strong interparticle correlations, minuscule quantum fluctuations, and initial conditions on these relaxation processes [3–5]. The teams’ findings advance quantum thermodynamics and have potential implications for technologies, ranging from information processors to engines, powered by quantum resources.
Error handling and using the standard protocols for error reporting and logging
The title display is very clever but I really wonder if it would have as much of a punch if they displayed that one extra line on the "m"
> Police identified several teenagers aged between 13 and 15 as being responsible for generating and sharing the images.
As an Obj-C guy, if I declare a method as input only and no return, it can run async in the run loop.

I assume Smalltalk can do the same?
How do those compare on price though?
Like [slowing Youtube down] on [Firefox] [0].

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/youtube-is-slowing-video-loads...
When does that happen with gofmt?
> In order to earn a living, I have to give away my rights to the IP that I produce

You do not have to give away your rights to the IP that you produce. Which is an especially odd assertion to make as you insist that IP laws somehow make it more difficult to give a work away for free, as opposed to an alternative would require they be given away for free. One affords one the freedom to give away something for free if they so choose, the other requires it regardless of the author's interest.
So if we can’t have one without the other we should throw the whole thing out?

It is a rather bleak outlook for humanity when you consider a future where we don’t do the chores or creative endeavors.
The study i saw this on was a review of data from 200ish US domestic flights. Maybe you were close to a vent, or some other variable im not thinking of, or just an outlier
Unless you were otherwise going to use that time to make money (which most people wouldn't be), your time is worth $0/hr.
> Pretty sure it would simply equalize to the external pressure.

External partial pressure of helium which is extremely low.

> Consider it another way. If you have such a device with a vacuum inside, would it not pull in the external helium over time to reduce the vacuum?

It would, but only until the partial pressure of helium inside is equal to the partial pressure of helium outside (assuming the membrane is permeable only to helium). After that point the same amount of helium will traverse both ways, establishing the equilibrium.
It would be really cool to see a graph of the API usage over time with markers showing when each "stage" was occurring. I'm wondering if there were significant dips shortly after each stage, or if it was more of a gradual decline?

It would also be interesting to know if the API was still being used up until the final stage? Were there any ramifications/ angry customers at the door after that?
Durability and failure modes are also better with segment displays, which is why you still see them in military or aviation applications.
This is the difference between philosophy and number systems. The Babylonian number system was, by far, the superior system to the Greek number system (which they inherited from the Egyptians.) This is something even the Greeks acknowledged because they would use the Babylonian system to do their own calculations, and then convert it back into the Greek numbers (similar to how the USA scientists use the metric system and then convert back to the imperial system today).
If it’s fully on GPU that should be tenable, regardless of browser or not
Automated Experiment Design and Execution
If there was actual political will, it would happen. Heck, the government could use Eminent Domain to simply take those water rights from agriculture, and/or pay a token amount for them. It would be a lot more justifiable than many other recent examples of Eminent Domain use.
Or if they're worried about GPL stuff from Linux, there's also OpnSense, which works fine and I think is well respected.

I'm nerdy enough to have built my own router with OpnSense a few years ago, and it worked like a champ. The only reason I stopped was there was an issue with BSD and a specific Broadcom 10Gbe card that I couldn't work around, so I ended up hacking something together with ClearOS and eventually NixOS.
> Most definitely sharp edges, and your bevels, matter when you are really pushing it, especially if you are racing, and most especially if you are on extremely hard or even water-injected snow.

I have to ask, as someone into alpine touring and ski mountaineering (but not racing), what difference would backcountry skiing make to this advice? I imagine you'd need sharpening more often, due to twin factors of A) more rock and hard ice and B) really wanting that control on ungroomed (ie, icy) slopes at high angles.

I don't consider myself "really pushing it", but would like to have every ounce of control I can get when heading downhill. I'm enough of a beginner that I will often side-slip or even just hike completely down a slope I don't like the looks of.
To spare a search: https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/+/refs/heads/main/module...
Why should it be just the IoT devices that get the insecure network? Why not just stop trusting the LAN altogether and instead use technologies like HTTPS and DoH to ensure privacy on the important devices? That seems to be the way the tide is turning anyway.
Also, a strain of bacteria is not what makes you sick. It's exposure to overwhelming amounts of that bacteria, its toxin, and/or compromised immune system.

We have a lot of pathogenic bacteria in our guts, and a healthy flora keeps them in check.
copilot was apparently snipping license bearing comments, and applying "semantic" variations of the remaining code.

i would package the entire code as a series of comments, [ideally this would be snipped by the pliagarists] leaving a snippet of example code that no one of sound mind would allow to execute, being proffered by copilot.
What if you tried to print Wikipedia? [video]
Cody’s lab on youtube did a video on this, with balloons
You are, apparently.

Whether this is a useful way of looking at the world or not is up to you.

But in any case: no, they're definitely and obviously not the same.

Just because someone's view of a particular situation isn't exactly as diabolically dark and sinister as yours -- doesn't mean they see it as all rainbows and unicorns, either.
> Jody Freeman, adds, “It’s a massive power shift back to the courts and away from agencies..”

Unless the justice system is broken and corrupt, this is not a bad news at all.
Show HN: Quantitative Finance Tutorials (Aquarianz.com)
Hi Y'all,

for those interested in trading using quantitative finance ideas, I'm open sourcing the software I made in the past 10+ years along with a series of tutorials on YouTube which gradually introduce the concepts.

It's work in progress, for now I covered the foundations (stock price movements, option valuation, the arbitrage idea and the replication technique).

Next I'll introduce how to import historical market data for stocks and options along with where you can buy it for a reasonable price (you can't find free historical options data) and some basic cleanup techniques because it might be cheap but boy is it messy.

Then we finally can dive into the interesting stuff: actual trading strategies ran on real market data. And behold how nothing works! :)
Can you elaborate?

Is it just Google's competitors, or it is everyone?
Post Office Horizon inquiry told of 'incomplete curiosity' and 'toxic culture'
Safari also has some Apple specific features, like being able to show a special dialog for logging into other websites with your Apple account that works differently from passkeys or password autofill, or the redirect based flow they make other browsers go through.

Always wondered how it's implemented in JS. WebAuthn with proprietary arguments...?
Official release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/...

Report: https://www.ftc.gov/reports/pharmacy-benefit-managers-report
I've done things like this before: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/PTAEAkFMBsAdIE4Gc...

The gist is: define your enum values as a const array. Then you can generate a TypeScript type based on whatever values you have in there. And, since it's an actual array, you can easily write guards / asserts.

So you end up with something easy to extend and also has compile-time and run-time checks.
>small TFT/LCD and even OLEDs are cheaper.

How can that be true?
I'm sorry it's just a vague intuition from watching a lot of documentaries about the Celts and very light internet research.

But generally speaking Druids had an oral tradition of maintaining knowledge in Celtic society. They had inter-tribe gatherings and went through long and difficult training.

Specifically also law. So they had at least the power of judges and to some degree law makers.

Perhaps you can find out more with some of these keywords.
Piggy backing on this post to ask, does anyone know of good multithreaded testing libraries akin to what thread weaver used to be before it got abandoned?

https://github.com/google/thread-weaver

Happy to discuss frameworks for other languages too as I love using it as a tool to explore different possible ways that concurrency can go wrong even if you might never encounter them in standard testing.
Wait which non-commercial uses would there be for this product? I guess you'd only use it as an issue tracker for open source projects with no funding?

Regardless, by doing that the software would no longer be open source, and it seems like being open source is a significant part of the marketing strategy currently.
On Chrome for Linux you'll need

> The chrome://flags/#enable-unsafe-webgpu flag must be enabled (not enable-webgpu-developer-features). Linux experimental support also requires launching the browser with --enable-features=Vulkan.

Nightly Firefox should have it already.

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status#...
My reaction was somewhat similar, and I posted along those lines in the comments to Aaronson's post. As I said there, the question is not about a function f that could call the constant 1 function or the constant 0 function depending on whether God exists. The question is about a label f whose referent will be either the constant 1 function or the constant 0 function, we just don't know which unless we can figure out whether or not God exists. To me the question isn't actually about computability at all (the computability of both of the constant functions is trivial), it's about labels.
Sure, maybe my definition was imprecise. Good catch.

But my point remains. I don't feel like I should be compensated for my HN posts. My great aunt doesn't expect compensation for posting her cat pictures. To be honest, I don't care about consuming artists' content. I'm sure it's great. But I go to the local art museum for that. When I go on social media, it's to hear from my great aunt.

And if YC wants to train a model that will eventually replace me, sure. I don't want to be paid for it. The whole thing is inevitable. You can't stop technology, only delay.

People just want to enjoy using computers (in the time humans have left).
Not really? If anything, widescreen is better for working since it's nicer when you put two windows side-by-side
FTC Releases Interim Staff Report on Prescription Drug Middlemen
I remember libFuzzer's shrinking not doing a great job for sophisticated structured inputs, but maybe it's worth another look!
LXD 6.1 Released with Automatic Core Pinning Load Balancing
HN: Might you know of any country with even a half-decent policy to deal with these kinds of cases? (And what's that policy?)

I could see putting it on the kids' permanent record - both police & school - but that's probably of minimal deterrent value for a large fraction of young kidiots*. Not that catching the perp's is any sort of sure thing, either.

It'd be lovely if one could "re-train" youth culture, to greatly reduce the impact/thrill of the crime. I'd guess that that's the only payoff for 98% of perps. But in a world where (by many accounts) kids are often routinely browsing "extreme" porn years before many of their parents are comfortable with them being taught anything more adult than "when a man and a woman love each over very much..." - it's hard to imagine that the school or authorities could actually do that.

(Any thoughts?)

*Yes, like most old men, I was once a young idiot. No offenses remotely resembling this...but that was back in the days when a line-printer-on-green-bar-paper dirty image was still cutting-edge smut.
That only Google can do, which makes competing with them harder. This isn't difficult to understand.
Report:

Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies

https://www.ftc.gov/reports/pharmacy-benefit-managers-report
My access point is still Ubiquiti, since I haven't found a solution to get WiFi access across my house that works directly with my homebuilt router that I'm sufficiently happy with. I'm sure Ubiquiti is doing the same stuff, behind the scenes.

I'm open to suggestions if anyone has them on the best way to avoid this.
Device Memory TCP Nears the Finish Line More Efficient Networked Accelerators
> the most interesting content is in the comment section
It is, indeed!
Official release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/...
Good! Tools like this will only get easier to use and more convincing. AI is always going to outpace regulations but we need to try to prevent abuse like this and much more. People have killed themselves over leaked pictures like this.
Now do that math for the US southwest, where water is ridiculously cheap and also severely limited ....
They also wear out quite quickly.
Hey this looks great, Do you guys also supporting parsing relatively bigger JSONs like amazon product pages or wikipedia pages ? How much ballpark $ amount does it take typically to scrape them ?
It is what is needed, giving those tax money to Ruzzians or USA and killing your local tech is bad.
I think I'll have to try it out! I'm just dubious about approaches that don't put shrinking front and center.
You have a competitor, Zoom. They have an in-browser version. Can they use this API for troubleshooting performance issues? No? The European regulators might be interested in that.

Perhaps this is one reason why Meet performs well in the browser and Zoom doesn't, meaning Zoom users use the native app if they want reasonable performance (particularly with many people in the meeting).
What is the probability of a Biden alternative win? Building a statistical model
This is interesting to me because you have all the right facts and are reasoning well with them. But, we end up at: "Yeah you're right it wasn't killed, just a rebrand, so they'll probably just delete the code for it"

I worked at Google, and I can guarantee ya people don't go back and change names in old code for the latest rebrand done for eyewash 4 layers above me. Not out of laziness, either, it just has 0 value and is risky.

Also, video conference perf was/is a pretty big deal (c.f. variety of sibling comments pointing out where it is used, from gSuite admin to client app). It is great on ye olde dev machine but it's very, very hard on $300 WintelChromebook thrown at line-level employees

FWIW, they shouldn't have hacked this in, I do not support it. And I bet they'll just delete it anyway because it shouldn't have been there in the first place. Some line-level employee slapped it in because, in the wise words of Ian Hickson: "Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision."
One very nice thing, dependent on use case of course, is that 7 segment displays are very simple to wire up and use. They can be easily used for analog circuits, without any digital micros at all if needed.

You can just grab all the pins to say 8 and wire them to vcc and it works. They are just led lights, arranged a particular way

You can even drive them with something like a 555 timer or other 74 series ICs if needed to make basic and very robust monitoring systems. They are very tough, can’t easily break or be destroyed by heat or cold

They have a place.
is there anything that uses a computer vision model/ocr locally to extract data?

I find some dynamic sites purposefully make it extremely difficult to parse and they obfuscate the XHR calls to their API

I've also seen some websites pollute the data when it detects scraping which results in garbage data but you don't know until its verified