skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing wrong with the letter, but nothing particularly compelling either. It’s both too particular (someone talking to themselves about themselves) and too generic (well wishes for the future) to be interesting.
Well, they just released a new major version so maybe a bit clouded with chance of thunderstorms right now.
There is a story to go with that story. The colonel responsible for the negotiations with the Treasury would later recall:

> He explained the procedure for transferring the silver and asked, "How much do you need?" I replied, "6000 tons."

> "How many troy ounces is that?" he asked. In fact, I did not know how to convert troy ounces to tons, and neither did he. A little impatient, I responded, "I don't know how many troy ounces we need, but I know I need 6000 tons - that is a definite quantity. What difference does it matter how we express the quantity?"

> He replied rather indignantly, "Young man, you may think of silver in tons, but the Treasury will always think of silver in troy ounces."
I didn't mean to connect "blocked" with "neutral". From the top of my head I know of porn, piracy and foreign news sites that are blocked. I prefer not to name them explicitly though.
> See I don't really buy that.
This was a story about the gay community in South Florida in 2005. If you know anything about Florida, you can understand the statement that "some gay men are marginalized" is easily believable. Now today things are better, but a lot of my friends have come to Oakland fleeing dangerous places where their families kicked them out for being gay. You're talking about the scene in Berlin, but consider the scene in Oklahoma or... Florida today. Its still bad there.

> Why don't female lesbians display this behaviour?

Try undergoing a transition from a testosterone dominant system to an estrogen dominant system and you will understand. The nature of sexual urges under testosterone is very different from that of estrogen. Arousal under testosterone feels very urgent. I can control myself but imagine an abused 20 year old who never learned healthy self management. Without PrEP their urges may get them killed before they ever learn to control their impulses.

> I am against the prevailing hedonistic culture.

You can be against whatever you want. I am just explaining some facts about the benefits of PrEP for people that think differently from you.
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The OCaml backend for the BEAM was called Caramel but has been abandoned after his author went on working on hiw own build system, warp.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240710111919/https://www.wired...
The author seems very anxious because Rust is getting traction and they don't like Rust. They're afraid that one day Rust will become a "monoculture" and everything will be written in it.

I like Rust, but I consider this very, very unlikely.

Rust has actually brought more choice to the programming language scenario. If we're talking about monoculture, let's talk about C/C++. For decades this was the only viable option for systems programming. All new languages were focusing on a higher lever. Languages for lower level stuff were rare. There was D, but it never got enough traction.

Then Rust appeared and there is finally an alternative. And not only that, I because of that, other language designers decided to create new systems languages, and now we have Zig, and Odin, and Vale, etc.

So if anything, Rust is helping in breaking the monoculture, not creating it. C and C++ are not going away, but now we have alternatives.

And I think it's important to acknowledge that even if you don't like a language, if you see a bunch of software being written in such language, it's because the language is useful. I don't like C++ but I admit it's damn useful! People are writing interesting software in Rust because they find it useful.
This is more of a marketing move than actual negotiation. It's similar to how companies give out first order discounts, or have general coupons for 5% or 10% off.

Just added layer of AI chat to negotiate to engage the users and give a sense of power over the price while there's already a cap at how low the AI can go.
The project has been abandonned :
https://github.com/leostera/caramel/discussions/102
> sell people's medical data for

Why isn't this illegal?
I’ve been doing search engine optimization, and trying to rank websites since Altavista, Google Panda, Penguin, exact match domain spam, etc since early 2000s and almost all pages of sites I’ve created have been indexed. So we can fight anecdata vs anecdata all day.

And i’m not even defending Google. They’re awful especially their recent decision to sell their domain biz to Squarespace. I hate Google as much as you. But whether Google is good or bad has nothing to do with this. Thats an emotional strawman
This isn't using an LLM, it simply checks for similarity between keys using vector embeddings
And which browser are using the German now ?
Firefox should integrate a tracker-blocker which blocks all ads which rely on executing Javascript as well as profiling-related 3rd-party code snippets, but leaves ad images which are integrated into the page, served exclusively by the owner of the page, and are based on the content offered by the page. Like magazine ads.

Everything else is just agreeing with the advertising industry on their idea that profile-building is fine.

These advertisers nowadays think they have they are entitled to everything, and Firefox just helped them.
If censorship resistance and reliability are your metrics, there really isn't a serious competitor. There is huge incentive to claim to be so, however!

But if you're trying to build something for decades, as you should be for internet infrastructure, there isn't much option.
I don't believe it is feasible to run an image hosting service with your intended CSAM management plan.

Based on this comment thread, I fully expect your site will soon host CP/CSAM, if it doesn't already. Other image hosting services devote extensive resources to engineering a solution to this problem (one that is more robust than user reporting). I would not expect you will be able to avoid this work, and avoid liability.

Edit: I just noticed you're quite young. Congrats on all the great work. I think this CSAM thing could bring misery your way so I hope you find this comment helpful. Good luck out there.
Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app with React Native in 2024
I jumped from a 216 Canon 80D to a Sony A7RV.

It was sort of an insane jump but I'm having an amazing experience.

I told the wife I'd take very nice photos of a kid to try to justify the cost.

The glass alone can be $750- 1-3k. I'm borrowing glass rn.

Check out the sonyalpha subreddit to see what people are doing with it
The problem with using gmail variants is it's easy to transform terr.yc.ody+abc@gmail.com into terrycody@gmail.com, and spammers or spammer suppliers can do that automatically.
> Drug development is therefore hellaciously expensive,

And yet, drug companies still have outrageous profit margin.
Maybe you should go back and try a control without the dowsing wand
Can you explain vibration motors in Dysons?
By this logic wikipedia wouldn't be able to load any image
Most people who would want to be running machine learning models probably have some hardware at home that can handle a slow task for playing around and determining if it is worthwhile to pay out for something more performant.

This is undoubtedly entitled, but thinking to yourself huh, I think it's time to try out some of this machine learning stuff is a pretty inherently entitled thing to do.
also struggled with this my whole life, would love to see some suggestions that don't involve doctors for people who live in countries without access to that kind of healthcare.
That's a great insight.
That's the problem with C. It cannot have a sane cargo like system. The language is not built for writing libraries. There is a reason why everyone keeps reinventing the wheel when it comes to datastructures in C. Where is STL for C?
It was Satoshi who introduced the block size limit though. Awkward!
(Full disclosure, I work at incident.io!)

We recently released our On-call product, and as part of that, had to build a mobile app.

We'd noticed there's been some debate recently regarding React Native, and if you can build 'native tier' apps using it. We'd seen a lot of this but as part of an initial hackathon tried Explo / RN / Nativewind and were completely blown away by both the quality of app we could produce and the developer experience that let us do this quickly.

If anyone's in this space / thinking about making a technical decision here I couldn't recommend this stack strongly enough!
I know human curiosity is a big reason why we pursue hard things in life. But can anyone tell me why this specific problem has been pushed to such limits. What is the utility here?
I assume you can desolder the flash chip and directly dump its contents. Not trivial, but not too difficult for someone with the right skills.
NYT is still good at coverage, I'd just argue that the optics of their coverage can be removed from their original, erm, style, at times. (I don't want to say "politics" but we all know I mean politics.)

Still, they do excellent work to this day, just with questionable detours.
Hypersaline Hyperviscous Fluids Better Treatment for Blood Loss (2008)
Show me one Article that is openly antisemitstic?
Where is the Article that descripes immigratans as sub-humans?
How would you descripe a state that bans outlets that are criticising the momentary goverment? A few years ago there was a vote to ban "Indymedia". On this site you could find instructions on how to kill opposition right-wingers safely. The ban was rejected.
Now you have a magazine that criticizes the government and does not incite violence and it is banned, directly by the Minister of the Interior.
Get well soon.
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Yep, IME rust makes contribution easier because I generally don’t need to hunt for setup instructions which may or may not exist and may or may not work for my system.

And the compiler at least attempts to tell me what’s wrong when it fails to compile (and give suggestion though that is very hit or miss for non trivial case).

The one case where the compiler is singularly unhelpful is when trying to hunt down why a future is !Send tho.
I'll bite: What specific parts of rust syntax do people find so ugly?

I keep hearing this from decent chunks of people who don't write rust, but the language doesn't seem that far off C to me. It's certainly no haskell.
The goal is to make “fuck you money” then tell everyone, including users, to go fuck themselves. The specifics are up in the air.

Don’t forget to talk about the “wonderful journey” it has been when announcing the sale.
There's a smaller, simpler, safer language lying in Rust called "Rust without async", which would be good enough for the 99% of use-cases that don't need absolute-lowest-possible-latency async.
The author makes the best argument for Rust in the linked post[0]

Rust is great for teams because it removes many things that make working on team code dangerous. The items mentioned above are some.

I work alone, however, because I like to keep my code in my head and working with people means parts of the code are only in their head.

This also means that the bigger the language is, the less space I have in my head for the code.

Rust is too big for my small brain, unfortunately.

Most code is written in teams and even software with a single author needs a plan for when the maintainer steps down. Besides this I disagree with the author's assertion that Rust is not well suited for them, in fact I think it's strictly better than C because it often obviates the need to keep stuff in your head. Take lifetimes, in C you have to keep track of pointers and their lifetime in your head, and by definition all other maintainers have to do the same, in Rust the compiler does that for you, less to keep in your head. In fact I think the ability offload things from your head to the compiler is one of Rust's great strength. This ties in with compile times too, yes Rust is very slow to compile, but the compiler also does a whole lot more work than the C compiler. Obviously we want rustc to be as fast as possible given the work it's doing, but it will never be as fast as a C or Go compiler.

0: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/02/why-i-use-c-when-i-believe-i...
The compile times are the only real issue mentioned here.

I still think it's better than C++ but for large projects the compile times and crate splitting, etc. become a real pain.
And there goes my trust in Firefox out the window...

Safari seems to be the only decent, privacy-focused browser left on the market.

Until the Ladybird arrives.
> "if you don't have a USB keyboard, don't bother"

I think you should be able to hardware reset without a keyboard - but in my experience - you really want console access when messing with bootloaders and alternative os'. Even if it is just to get to a point where on-screen/Bluetooth keyboard works... Often an USB Ethernet dongle can be useful as well (avoiding the catch-22 of needing network access to download wifi driver).
Show HN: Django Render – Build Django applications with React front ends
I'd like to present our new library that aims to make it as easy as possible to build and maintain React frontends for Django.

Github: https://github.com/kaedroho/django-render
Website and docs: https://django-render.org/

Instead of client-side routing and APIs, Django Render applications use Django’s URL routing and views. So you can build your backend like a regular Django application but render the frontend with React components instead of Django templates.

We've released version 0.1 today, have a look at this discussion to see our ideas for what next:
https://github.com/kaedroho/django-render/discussions/34
“PBMs consolidated both horizontally and vertically, so each big PBM is now owned by a major healthcare conglomerate.

…

In 1987, Congress passed an exemption to a Medicare Anti-Kickback statute, which created a safe harbor for group buying entities to accept payment from drug manufacturers in the form of rebates, with certain guardrails in place.

…

PBMs get large secret rebates in return for allocating market shares…it’s virtually impossible to get any clear pricing on most drugs, because there is no one price.”

For a change the solutions seem simple:

1. Prohibit integration between doctors and insurers, on one hand, and pharmacies and pharmacy-benefit managers, on the other hand;

2. Repeal §§ d and f from the kickback exemptions [1]; and

3. Require public filing of insurers’, PBMs’ and pharmacies’ price lists. (Not disclosure: the binding price list is the public one.)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/1001.952
Go to your browser’s accessibility settings and enable “force zoom”.
Yeah, it looks ridiculously slender given how bulky the guitar overall is. The strat headstock looks wrong, but I quite like the look of a jazzmaster headstock on a tele (https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=123565)
You'd also need a Time Machine Apple would never allow upstaging its own camera so seamlessly
That is why an open standard should be made so it isn't locked to a particular piece of hardware and then allow modular support for different hardware to interface with supported drivers.
Lifetime bounds on a trait object argument can be confusing.

I have to look up how to write the where part properly every single time.
This I'd wrong. There are at least 4 independent, FOSS implementations and an open specification and spec process.
I guess the problem was more that the guy was a jerk or not willing to learn. I do remember a C++ guy who would only ever do stuff in text files refusing to use a database which was ok up to a point, until it wasn't. What I meant was that someone who has the competency to understand complex C/C++ will not struggle to learn to work well with Java/C#
>the syntax. It’s ugly. [...] I would prefer something that is less sigil-heavy.

That's also one of my gripes with Rust. Very sigil heavy makes it hard to google syntax elements. What's the name of the `|` glyph? Especially challenging if you know the name of the glyphs in your language but not in necessarily in english. Double challenging for glyphs with several accepted names

But in the end, I'm big enough to realize that this is not a very important aspect of the language

If it's ugly so be it. I'll still learn it

Also for once Bing Copilot pretty much solved this for me since unlike google search, it's semantic + it doesn't ignore special characters
> I mean, there's the part where advertisers pay for a huge chunk of the web?

They don't. Most of the web is unpaid UGC.

> Maybe you're ideologically opposed to that and think websites should only have crowdsourcing-type revenue sources, but in the meantime website owners need to pay the bills.

That's up to those website operators to figure out and not the concern of the user's browser. It only becomes the browser's concern when those website operators try to enrich themselves by manipulating the user into acting against their best interest via ads, in which case the only correct response is to block those ads. For the most part, the website operators that are in it to make a living are simply scammers that will not be missed.
Sadly, Rust is only a "huge leap forward from C and C++" for some use-cases.

Simple things like returning a const reference to a slot in an immutable array are easily 10x the amount of source code in Rust when compared to C. And all the standard libraries for embedded systems are C, so to get into embedded development, you definitely need to be good at reading C code. Rust is an additional skill, but if you only know Rust and no C, you're of no use in embedded land.

I think that's the main reason why we don't move away from C: You still need a firm grasp of C if you want to be a capable higher-level developer.

C++ is then the logical upgrade because it's compatible with C and looks very similar. Java also did OK because it looks and feels very similar. And there's good automated C to Java converters. So you get the benefits of Java over C almost for free. Rust, on the other hand, throws away most of the C conventions and that makes it feel foreign and "incompatible".

Rust also suffers from a serious "not invented here" problem, in my opinion. It's super easy to re-use C code in C++ or Java. It's significantly more difficult to re-use C in Rust unless you go unsafe and abandon most of the Rust advantages. That means most dependencies need to be re-implemented in Rust if you want to have all the advantages that Rust offers. Go had the same problem, but they had Google's weight behind them to push out tons of libraries. Who is doing that for Rust?

In the end, I agree with the article: Rust is great! when it fits. But there are still plenty of situations left where Rust is worse than old-school C.
I got to 42 tags, after hitting two tags that exist but were considered invalid by this game (tt, center) I gave up :)
Wired is not the publication it was 20 years ago.
No, the updates are not slow. I've been running Librewolf for years now, no major complaints. FYI I'm on a rolling release (linux) distribution, but I doubt that changes much. If you are comparing it to stock Firefox, there is no competition (Librewolf is imho just more enjoyable experience); if you are comparing it to Chromium (and other Chromium-based browsers), in my experience the biggest 'problem' is the lack of support for pwa's. Anyways, give it a try.
This is a sort of odd phenomenon, but I've noticed that the Rust software I'm developing professionally is never actually getting run before it's pushed to production. We have some unit tests and run those, and if that's fine then into prod it goes. It's honestly a bit insane when I think about it, but it works...
Transitions are amazing: the lady turning into a jellyfish turned my brain inside out!

There are signs that this is generative ML (legs on the cloud changing positions, weird placement of signs on the car wash), but this is impressively close to perfect.

Would be interesting to see how much compute power this video has required...
Especially since this is very similar to what happened with Cliqz and that there likely are many at Mozilla who were around when that happened too. And the Cliqz scandal hurt Mozilla's market share a lot in Germany.
They could offer a deal to Toyota and tell them they're offering image-only ad space on all car-related pages. For example images with deals. Toyota would know from the referrer that the click came from Wikipedia.

All the other images are hosted by Wikipedia themselves and are not ad-related, so I don't see where's the issue here.
No one is forcing anyone to use async though. It is an entirely optional part of the language.

But it is naive to think that not using it is an easier path towards a solution.
Fishtail, lifetime and closure syntaxes are rather ugly. Just specifically when combined in practice, not alone in isolated examples.
But if you only give them a few months that's barely enough time to run a simple Hello World.
That's not really why the study was conducted on African Americans.

> The conception which lay behind the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee in 1932, in which 100% of its participants were poor, rural African-American men with very limited access to health information, reflects the racial attitudes in the U.S. at that time. The clinicians who led the study assumed that African-Americans were particularly susceptible to venereal diseases because of their race, and they assumed that the study's participants were not interested in receiving medical treatment.[4][45]

> Taliaferro Clark said, "The rather low intelligence of the Negro population, depressed economic conditions, and the common promiscuous sex relations not only contribute to the spread of syphilis but the prevailing indifference with regards to treatment."[45] In reality, the promise of medical treatment, usually reserved only for emergencies among the rural black population of Macon County, Alabama, was what secured subjects' cooperation in the study.[4]

I mean the other racist part was the fact that penicillin, which is still a standard treatment of syphilis today, was developed while the study was ongoing and yet there were still three more decades that it ran.
Isn't it so often the case that those so staunchly "anti-gay" are, in fact, in the closet themselves? And those so in favour of censorship are likely the most debauched?

People who don't care don't care. You cared. So I think going veggie/vegan was inevitable, unless, perhaps, you were just a genuine asshole like Bourdain. Most people aren't assholes, though.
The problem is that the polygraph doesn't work on both levels. Obviously, it doesn't detect lies. But more to the point, it also doesn't extract useful information from most liars, and leads to fake confessions.

To stay in your metaphor:

- Not only do sugar pills not cure tumors, but imagine
- 60% of recipients don't report decreased pain levels (no placebo effect)
- 20% of recipients feel more pain
I also use the surface for everything I need: I like it a lot and I’ve never had a problem with it. I don’t get the hate, nor why the inaccurate idea that you cannot run things on it persists.
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And almost all of that for bulk uses like shell casings and electrical wiring - vast supply chains which no competent enemy agent would waste time looking into.
Chrome, which meant Mozilla managed to scare people away from their own browser into a using a browser which respects user privacy even less. Great job there Mozilla!
I wonder about Keras 3. It's now backend independent again, like in the early days, and supports JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch. It's a nice thing if you defined your model and can then easily switch between the frameworks, right? Or no-one cares about that, and everyone just uses PyTorch?