skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that, given the scale of time and planets that could potentially be habitable, there is a high likelihood for the existence of many alien species.

What I take issue with is the notion that it should be surprising that we haven’t detected them. There are so many reasons why they could be right in plain sight, not even trying to hide themselves, while still going undetected. Those explanations are under appreciated in my opinion.
Postgres itself has limits that Neon cannot help: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html. Neon currently serves TB-sized databases. Our storage team has put in a ton of work to enable that. Neon does not currently support something like Citus. Neon has cheap read replicas however, which can allow your primary to just service writes.
i'm a 20 something former semi-pro athlete with grade 4 osteoarthritis in my knee. pain was massively bad but over the past 2 years has improved significantly. here's what i did: 1) mindfully progressively overload the leg muscles to build strength 2) quit playing rugby (so stop playing hard contacts sports with a lot of abrupt, sudden movements) 3) do my best to lose weight.

our situations are different but i wish you luck.
Someone has to write the compilers.

...In their spare time, as an open-source project, something to keep their mind alive after a day of doing JavaScript on the front-end.
Here's a summary including the mechanism of action from a UW professor in 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IbzMbfEMIY
> Ukrainians always insisted what they are fighting to protect the homeland.

Just what do you think they're doing if not that?
The multinational antitrust scrutiny is purely coincidental.
Ask HN: Is Blind representative of the tech industry?
As someone considering a pivot into FAANG and tech in general, how would you all rate the culture?

Blind seems like a mild cesspool of hot takes, entitlement for high TCs, and a decent amount of anger at I don’t know what.

Obviously it doesn’t represent all of tech, but these people are working there. Is it like this in person and on teams?
This is crazy I just stumbled upon this company earlier today via search when I realized that Aurora Postgres Serverless V2 no longer allows you to scale down to 0 in times of low usage. AWS makes you select 0.5 ACUs as the minimum for V2 where with V1 you could select 0... is this just a straight up money grab by AWS to make the minimum monthly cost for aurora like $50 or is there a justifiable reason behind making you run virtual servers continually when there is no usage. I may be switching soon!
GPT-4 LLM simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments
Because nobody uses it, Microsoft doesn’t invest or promote F# heavily. I’m pissed about all of this, but I accept that eventually C# will get much of F#’s goodness.
The question now becomes: how to classify useful content. I doubt that's possible without downvotes and some more advanced algorithms than majority voting. Right now, those systems are full of probably unintended feedback loops.
> Digitally “fingerprinting” the users of a website is a known technique that has many purposes. The most common legitimate use is to identify returning users

Incidentally, this is not a legitimate use-case. It's insane to me that companies act like blatant violations of the CFAA are okay. You are not authorized to start scanning a user's private network and making requests to internal services because they loaded a web page.

The engineers, managers, and product people involved in doing that kind of thing should be prosecuted for it.
> they are the best of us

This gets said a lot, so I'll bite. Are they really? Many are just people able to go through the years of soul crushing things like being in the military. There are some straight up scientists on board, sure, I'll give that to them. But a lot are science people that are also fine doing things like flying bombing missions over the middle east. Killing tons of people isn't really a thing I respect.
Yeah, this is exactly the problem. Apple doesn't want hobbyist programmers either on iOS or MacOS. They see inconveniencing open source programmers who aren't selling a product (and therefore not going to pay Apple for the right of being an "official developer") as a good thing.
> Additional chips to prevent Russia from insisting on freezing the borders along occupied lands (you take our land, we take yours) during rumoured ceasefire negotiations.

I like this one. Negate a freeze as a negotiating proposal.
Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids ;)
Accompanying working paper that demonstrates 85% accuracy of GPT-4 in replicating 70 social science experiment results: https://docsend.com/view/qeeccuggec56k9hd
> Enjoy it, or endure it?!

If you're genuinely interested, PBS and Apple+ have the documentary series "A Year In Space", which details Scott Kelly's experiences.

As with most other things in life, it seems to be a mix of excitement, fun, awe, tedium, homesickness, etc. Missed some stuff from Earth; misses being in space for some reasons now.

We continue to study the impact versus his identical twin. Some impacts, but the man isn't exactly "withered".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Kononenko apparently liked it enough to go back five times, for almost three years in space so far.
>> You say that as if supreme court justices aren't also for sale.

Is this something that's recent you're seeing? I haven't done any research to find out if this has been a thing for the entire time the court has been around. I just know the media has suddenly gone after the justices since the courts majority changed from liberal to conservative for the first time in its existence.
The effect is the same if it means I can't launch my games without authenticating with a remote service that could go bust at any time, and has already dropped support for legacy operating systems which I still use.
It's a classic.

I was looking some time ago (a year or 3) how to de-rust stuff and found out that you do go over the thing with a wire brush, then some acetone, and then you pick up your industrial laser rust remover! Magic happens at step 3 apparently.

...I did good enough on my project - phosphoric acid stuff + a lot of scrubbing.

As someone who started doing things in `meat-space` at the tail end of 2020 I've learnt a lot about YouTube sponsor-fic vs reality.

I have a YT channel which is me documenting stuff I've done. Anyone interested is encouraged to (easily) find it. And this is just to prove that my mouth is exactly where my written word is.

Reality always wins. I take solace in that.
It’s worth keeping in mind that in the case of Apple platforms, a lot of this has roots in the revelation a decade and change ago that third party software on mobile platforms can and will exploit every affordance the operating system offers to extract data, often silently. It’s no different on desktop OSes, but users have been more acclimated to it there since full blown access to everything has been the norm there longer than it hasn’t.

That said I can certainly see the argument that Apple isn’t going about handling this set of problems correctly, but ignoring it or pretending it doesn’t exist isn’t right either.
I agree with you, as far as adding new features to C# from F#. When I have the time to refactor larger codebases, I'm often finding new C# features/syntax makes the code easier to understand and reason about (often due to decreasing the number of lines needed to accomplish the same thing, without overcomplicating things). I do make sure that if I'm introducing new language features, that I'm refactoring related portions of code, so I'm not leaving behind the "old" way of doing things while also introducing the "new" way for the same functionality. I'm always thinking of the next developer with anger issues coming into the codebase after me.
I have the same objection but coming from the other side. The mainstream languages used to have pervasive mutation and side-effects. Now they have pervasive mutation and side-effects with lambdas.

But my question is: what is missing from the OO side? What would it take for C# and/or others to "do OO well"?
P.S. I've been a klutz since before you were born. Apparently it's not something I'll grow out of :(
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

MacOS has a number of ways to run VMs, including VMware, virtual box, parallels, UTM, qemu
I have an Elektron Octatrack I turned one twice collecting dust. Want to buy it or know the best way I can sell it to someone who will love it to make music?
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> Yes, make macOS more and more like iPadOS so their users can do less and less other than buying apps from the app store and scrolling through the slop on Safari.

This doesn't seem at all a fair characterization of what happened here - you can still run these applications, they just added a (seemingly pretty reasonable) step to do so. I don't see this as allowing users to do less, and I struggle to find a strong argument against this when the typical user is not a l33t hacker type and most typical users find it extremely easy to download and run malware.
I occasionally do competitive matches with handguns (USPSA in the US), so I have some background knowledge. The eye cover is to reduce strain / fatigue from squinting, however it also helps the other eye focus on their aperture sight naturally, thus making it easier to take a more accurate shot (with all of the science behind closing apertures and front sight posts, linked in this thread).

In USPSA, while we don't use eye covers in a match, but a lot of competitors will use them on their dominant eye to practice fast target acquisition, independent of their pistol red dot or iron sights. Translates to very refined muscle memory when you don't need to rely on your optics to align your aim.

In most type of shooting, you're generally NOT closing either of your eyes while aiming. It's counter productive to your situational awareness
The shot will likely be exorbitant in the USA. Gilead charged almost $2k/month for Truvada (list price, of course) and Descovy is the same. Generic Truvada is like $30/month now, so the price was never about the cost to manufacture. Obviously Gilead is developing these new drugs/shots for when Descovy's patent expires.

They rely on the government mandating that health insurance companies cover the shots. This drives up the price.
The point here is that nobody owes you a course in art history which would answer all of your why questions when many such courses are available.

You're not entitled to free education from us, particularly - against your will ("convince me"), when there are many resources out there available to you.

We can point out why your opinions are bad (they are grounded in too little knowledge of what you're opining on), we can point out where to get more knowledge.

If you want to learn, you will.

The saddest thing here is not even arrogance, but lack of curiosity.
The tool is intended for taking down obvious scams, like wallet drainers, phishing pages, counterfeit items, drug stores, animal abuse, etc. It's up to the domain registrar to investigate and validate the report.

I don't understand your point about the tool being abused for mass complaints. We do have a captcha implemented with the form. If someone wants to spam a domain registrar, they can also spam from their email accounts. I don't see how we enable mass spam directly.
extend your arm, now focus your vision on a tip of your finer, and (still focusing on a finger tip!) try to point your finger just below some small object in the distance of few meters. If you use both your eyes, if done properly it should be impossible because the object you try to point to, but not look at, will be seen double and will move as you move your finger. Then do do same but with one eye closed - now it still should be blurry, but nothing more so you can aim.
This is how you aim in shooting (always focusing vision on pistol, never on target) so you need to do it with one eye. You don’t want to keep it shout as this creates additional tension in body, and probably may affect your face after years of training, so simple piece of paper or plastic to shield the eye is enough.
Why do you say he's "center-right" on environment? I'm not in Minnesota so I don't know what issues he's dealt with.
https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/abuse-approach/
In English we already have naïve, coöperate, reëlect as perfectly acceptable, if somewhat old-fashioned spellings. So I'd argue the look at least of Türkiye [1] is not as foreign as the two examples you gave :)

[1] Admittedly the diacritic is an umlaut not diaeresis, but I take your point to be about the (supposedly) foreign appearance of Türkiye.
It will be virtually non-existent in Africa if it is priced like that.
> huh? People are going to buy cars. They will be electric or they won't. Either way, people are going to buy cars.

I think that this is a short-term picture. The US infrastructure has been set up to make owning a car a very rewarding proposition, so, of course, lots of people own cars, and that will continue to be the case as long as things stay in the neighborhood of where they are. But there's no reason that future infrastructure decisions have to be made in a way that continues to privilege cars over other forms of transportation, and car ownership will follow, with a lag, the way that infrastructure decisions point.
Sure, but I've got serverless computing with Aurora v2. I've got upto 15 read replicas, blue/green deployments, upto 128 cores per replica at a cheaper price... I'm just not really thinking that a bit of branching will make up for a 10x or more increase in cost.

Those increased storage costs make the decoupled compute and the associated auto-scaling benefits almost irrelevant as far as the overall cost picture goes.
Even apart from the grieving, that sounds like very odd behaviour. Don't deer herds usually flee in all directions the moment they hear the bang of a shot? It seems weird they'd not react at all here.
Then why do we need binaries when we have ld.so ?
"It's bizarre to me how the media only reports on how they disagree with the result (which is a legitimate opinion) and completely fail to discuss, debate or report on the legal theory behind the decision"

In a lot of cases, they do more than that and outright misrepresent it.
I think there’s two reasons:

1. AI training for large models just requires a lot of bytes – there are lots of parameters and lots of training data, and I think you don’t provide such useful training by just reusing the same subset of the training data. Similarly you can’t really train just a fraction of the parameters. The more diverged participants are, the less useful their contributions may be so I think you’d need to move the parameters back and forth quite frequently too

2. People just don’t have that much compute at home. And you probably need more compute because of the bandwidth/latency issues.
Why does ukraine let Russia’s gas flow through the country (and fund the war)? Wouldn’t it make sense to cut the line?
Artificial light at night decreases leaf herbivory in typical urban areas
Yes, "should." I've found that should happen and did happen are two very different things when it comes to a lot of homes.

Incidentally, our roof had gutters/drainage originally. We put in our own french drain after about 8000 hours of research, and decided to re-route the roof drainage to right above the new french drain (separate pipes) because the roof drainage broke at some unknown point and was dumping water around our foundation piers (yay...). Well, our roofers came and installed gutter guards after all this, which caused the gutters to shed 60% of the water into the drainage area because of the way they're angled. If we hadn't put in a french drain, it'd be a real problem, but as it is now, it's a mild annoyance that I keep telling myself I'll fix.
Congress is only meant to pass budgets if they can agree on one. If they can't, then they aren't supposed to. Anyway, after a lot of bluffing and negotiation they inevitability get it done, the process you deride as dysfunction is simply politics. There's no rule that they must do it as fast or smoothly as you think they should. Calling Congress dysfunctional is just political rhetoric.
Wikipedia says: "Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye"[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
I've been writing C, C++, C# and some js/sql/ts/python for money. Lua for lulz.

And *nothing* gets even fucking close in terms of productivity to C#.

Great language, mature and robust ecosystem with sane compilation times and

great tooling: package manager, test runner, strong debugger, one CLI with almost all tools needed.

I wish C++ was half as enjoyable as C# is.
Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C#, just to clarify lol
As I recall, Jobs hated the Blu-ray software stack, which included mandatory use of a JVM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J

“Big bag of hurt” was the expression, IIRC.
We might not have made it clear in the post how to signup for the sandbox. Just head to http://release.ai and click on "Start Free Trial".
No ones saying Fair Source is better than Open Source, but in your analogy one protects the commercialization of a project, and the other does nothing to protect the creators.

The clarity of what is and isnt permitted is something we'll be looking to make sure is enforced via the license, at least in FSL's sake. The intent is that if you're commercializing by say, providing support or integration services, that its totally valid. What's not valid is hosting a competitive offering using the source code. That is, with FSL you cannot spin up the project and sell it as a cloud service, but you can provide professional services to customers using said product.

If you decided to build something that tried to sneaky leverage the business model that funds development, that its so closely related to what the company would do, and then the company does it... well, don't do that? You'd be stuck on the old version. Thats the price you pay for trying to be sneaky. The license is effectively encoding a set of values/ethics in how people should run businesses, particularly when building on top of other peoples businesses. I think this is totally fine, so whenever people bring up these hypotheticals I just shrug them off, as they're an academic edge case that all but a handful of individuals will never need to care about them.

Also generally speaking, the case you're describing sounds more likely to be an integration say between your service and their service, or more specifically, your code and their service (say an integration between Sentry annd MyCoolTicketTracker). You could still sell that integration just fine, as its your code, not the FSL code. What you couldn't do is sell a cloud service that was MyCoolTicketTracker, that funnels to a privately hosted Sentry, and then exposes the functionality of Sentry into MyCoolTicketTracker. At that point you're commercializing Sentry itself, not your services.
Because some of the people who are giving the ruskies money for that gas are the same people funding the opposite side of the war.
If you don't want to add a dep on numpy (which is a big complex module) then it's nice to have a stdlib option. So there are certainly at least some cases where you're not better off with numpy.
Dan Bilzerian on Hedonic Adaptation
I listened to the whole conference and here's my impression:

1. NASA manager Steve Stich said there's a relatively wide "band of uncertainty" in how risky a Starliner return is. Some (many?) NASA engineers are at the high end of the band and are advocating a return on Dragon instead. Boeing is obviously at the low end of the band and thinks it is a low risk.

The problem is, the data doesn't rule out either side of the band. So they are trying to get more data to narrow the uncertainty (in either or both directions). [Interestingly enough, the data from the White Sands testing made them more worried because it revealed the Teflon seal deformation.]

But my sense is that if they don't narrow the uncertainty (i.e., convince the NASA engineers) then they will very likely choose a Dragon return. That is, it sounds like if nothing changes, the astronauts are coming down on Dragon.

2. Stich said they need to decide by mid-August, in order to have time to prepare the Crew-9 launch for Sept 24th. So we'll know by then.

3. They emphasized that (a) the thruster problems are all fixable (given time), and (b) that even if Starliner returns without a crew, they will have learned enough from the test to potentially certify the capsule for regular service. This is probably the only way they'll be able to keep Boeing as a provider. A redo of this mission would cost Boeing half a billion dollars, easy. And since the contract is fixed-price, this would just add to Boeing's losses. So I expect they will certify Starliner even if it comes down without a crew.

4. In some ways, Starliner is being held to a higher standard than Dragon Crew-2. If Starliner were the only vehicle available, NASA and the astronauts would absolutely take the small risk and come down with a crew. But since Dragon is available, I think NASA is thinking, "why take the risk?"

5. There's a huge difference between how NASA engineers and lay people look at this issue. Many people (particularly on Twitter) have a binary safe/not-safe view of the situation. Either Starliner is safe or it is not. Either the astronauts are stranded or they are not. But the engineering perspective is all about dealing with uncertainty. What is the probability of a bad result? Is the risk worth the reward? Even worse, everything is a trade-off. Sometimes trying to mitigate a risk causes an unintended effect that increases risk (e.g., a bug fix that causes a bug).

I don't envy the engineers, either at NASA or at Boeing.
Debian and switchdev on Mellanox SN2700 (32x100G)
> you can still run these applications, they just added a (seemingly pretty reasonable) step to do so.

Every version of macOS makes it harder and harder to run unsigned code. They keep pushing the bypass deeper and making it less convenient. It’s super super annoying and stupid.
It's a "talking point" (for lack of a more descriptive term) that punches thru the war's workaday background noise to establish without doubt - for Russian audiences too - that all is not going swimmingly in the current military stance of glorious Mother Russia, and that Ukraine is not about to roll over and play dead.
Why are there so many birds?
A lot of health care problems are undermined by the profit motive angle.

I don't know how to solve that because there's no such thing as a free lunch and the people developing solutions deserve to be paid.

But Africa is extremely poor and the rest of the world suffers the consequences when we can't be arsed to make their problems solvable at a price point they can afford.
What's CM? CyanogenMod?
HIV drug resistance is a real issue, not sure why other comments are dismissing the risk of resistance. The risk of resistance is why HIV positive individuals take a cocktail of drugs, and why PrEP (Truvada or Descovy) requires regular HIV testing (because if you end up positive you need to upgraded to a cocktail of drugs).