skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the risk of just having the conversation naked?

I would say there is intrinsically no much risk. Naturists cross paths with perfect strangers while totally naked, and it is not a big deal for them. Some population lives (or lived in the past) naked, again, without real risk.

But, yes, I would not do that myself. But I would not say that I would not do it because it is "risky" or that they are "not worthy of seeing my body", but rather because it makes me uncomfortable. And if my interlocutor is into meeting people naked, I will just say that it's not my thing rather than being antagonistic. It seems to me to be a cultural thing, and therefore the way I do things is not intrinsically better than the way they do things, so I have no ground to pretend they do a "bad" thing or being aggressive towards them.

Also, if you care about protecting yourself from hurtful comment, do you wear a mask on your face when you meet people. Because physical appearances provide way more means to be hurtful than knowing that you enjoyed football at recess in 3rd grade. (and, sure, wearing a mask is not convenient, but my point is that we greatly under estimate the risk of information that we are used to share and greatly over estimate the risk of information that we are not used to share)

> Answering private questions means this stranger now has knowledge I would consider "privileged" about myself, which they can use as they see fit. Mean comments? Oversharing with friends? Gossipping?

While I can understand it for _some_ questions and _some_ circumstances, a lot of the questions in the examples in the article are very not exposing you to that risk. And if you can think of particular cases where they are, similar cases exist for plenty of other questions that you probably don't consider as personal.

If you are saying that "how did your parents meet" is risky because it may occasionally be linked to something touchy, so is "what did you do yesterday" ("I went to a funeral of a close friend"), "what do you do for a living" ("I've lost my job and I'm struggling"), "what is your favorite movie" ("It's the one that my parents watched when they met"), ...

You will notice that for all these normal questions, you can avoid the touchy subject in the answer. But that's identical if some of the questions in the article are touching touchy things.

It seems to me that these questions are no more personal than the "usual" ones, and it is just that: 1) we are used to the "usual" ones. In a parallel universe, someone would say "you ask me what is my favorite movie, that's strange and personal, can you not ask me what is my favorite gift I've been given, like in a normal first conversation", 2) we know that some personal information should be shared with care, but we end up considering all information we consider personal are dangerous to share. Except they are not.
"A study presented to the National Capital Planning Commmission adds to this growing body of evidence, showing that mandated returns to the office in the federal sector will lead to a workforce that skews older and less diverse. The study highlights the risk of the federal workforce becoming out of touch with the dynamic, diverse society it aims to serve."

The largest demographic in that "dynamic, diverse" society is not people who make noise online about how they do not want to work in an office. It is older folks who have worked in offices for most or all of their working lives. Who is serving who? The concern should be about becoming out of touch with working in an office or other place of work and the generations of Americans who did it and continue to do it.

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2...
My brother in Christ, releasing a tool for free does not exempt it from criticism
Slack may die.
> It's the business that pays the wages.

It's the developers who do the work.
devil's advocate: cables for an average user is a different story. also not to forget the vast range of cables already existing out there.

also "proper" usb-c support is another can of worms, and maybe sticking to an older standard gives you freedom from all that.
> They should take a page out of AMD's book and spin off fab.

It's way too late for that now. But even with the benefit of hindsight if we go back by a few years abandoning their main potential advantage just to compete for limited capacity at TSMC with everyone else wouldn't have been the best decision IMHO..

> flooded with "strategic" government aid, and maybe the rest of intel can catch up (or not)

How could that ever possibly help Intel's foundries to catch up if Intel itself switched to TSMC? The "government" doesn't need leading edge nodes so they'd just end up in the same as spots as Global Foundries.

To be fair they did outsource their last gen low-power/laptops chips to TSMC which is probably why they now seem very competitive with AMD/Qualcomm.
This is a really different take that I haven't seen before, or at least I thought I hadn't but in reality Star Trek and probably others before hit it too.

I know what we have today is really auto complete 2.0 models that are really impressive good and bad but we are chasing that holy Grail as you mentioned. Star Trek specifically takes Data without emotions and later his brother lore who has emotions but is really the extreme of humanity and is basically as you say - uncontrollable.

I think it's important as society takes its first steps towards AI or similar we really consider this more.
Maybe they meant writing C in an s expression syntax? Would certainly make macros nicer.
Having conversations naked is actually a great way to level the playing field: nobody hides anything, everyone is just as vulnerable.

One of the great principles of Naturism.
You passed my test :) that's the one thing I usually see skipped over with new auth solutions
I have criticized omemo in the past -- it breaks backwards compatibility way too readily resulting in XMPP clients not being able to talk to each other in levels that I hadn't seen since the Jingle debacles. However I just can't stand this article's tone (the accompanying imagery doesn't help), and then he has the balls to complain about the rude response he gets from the spec authors (even showing it off as if to elicit empathy from the reader), when if anything my impression is that his article itself is way more disrespectful.

He keeps criticizing one client while trying to pass it off as criticism of the specification (said client doesn't even implement the latest version of the specification, either), complains about the protocol changing too much and the protocol changing too little, and to top it off seems to promote Signal as the better alternative, completely missing the elephant in the room -- Signal being centralized with its decisions even more whimsical at the hands of one group only. Curiously, he does that right after criticizing omemo's choice to follow Signal's choices as lacking justification.
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Hopefully just topspin and not trash talk and "accidental" hip bumping the table.

Once the robots start cheating and sledging better than humans we're done.
I think the comparisons with Python are driven by how divisive it is to have leading whitespace be significant (though Haskell also has it without as much divisive discussion). There was some effort in Nim to have some of the standard library names mirror Python such as `strutils.startswith(str, "oops")`. That said that but for a few things like that, it is true that Pascal/Ada but made more terse are more an inspiration.

I know both languages well and personally I consider Nim to be more expressive and syntactically flexible than Python although it is admittedly a difficult thing to quantify (which "more"/your comment framing implies). As just a few examples to make the abstract more concrete, in Nim you can add user-defined operators. So, with https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer I can have let x = a +- b or let y = c ± d construct uncertain numbers and then say y/x to get a ratio with uncertainty propagated. Function call syntax is more flexible (and arises more often than uncertain value algebras), e.g. "f(x)", "x.f", "f x", and even "f: x" all work for any kind of routine call. The need to be specific about let/var constancy & types is slightly more verbose but adds semantic/correctness value (e.g. first use). Just generally Nim feels like "much more choice" than Python to me. In fact, the leading whitespace itself can usually be side-stepped with extra ()s which is not true in Python.

I am speculating, but I think what might make you feel Python is more expressive may come from ecosystem size/support effects such as "3 external libraries exist that do what I want and I only need to learn the names of how to invoke whichever". So, you get to "express" what you "want" with less effort (logic/coding), but that's not really PLang expressivity. Python is more dynamic, but dynamism is a different aspect and often leads to performance woes.
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Cost is not just salary. To begin with, health insurance and other benefits. And they'll need dev environments, they may need additional cloud resources depending on how the project goes, and there will be additional overhead when the team interacts with other departments.
Back in Python 1.x, function locals used a dictionary, just like module globals. This made it possible do to:

def f():
from math import *
return cos(3.0)

https://peps.python.org/pep-0227/#import-used-in-function-sc... notes "The language reference specifies that import * may only occur in a module scope. (Sec. 6.11) The implementation of C Python has supported import * at the function scope."

Python 2.1 added static nested scopes (see the PEP 227 link), which enabled a much faster locals lookup. With that one case excluded, all of the locals can be determined at parse/byte-compile time, stored in a simple vector, and referenced by offset:

>>> z = 0
>>> def f(x):
... y = x + z
... return y * 2
...
>>> import dis
>>> dis.dis(f)
1 0 RESUME 0

2 2 LOAD_FAST 0 (x)
4 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (z)
14 BINARY_OP 0 (+)
18 STORE_FAST 1 (y)

3 20 LOAD_FAST 1 (y)
22 LOAD_CONST 1 (2)
24 BINARY_OP 5 (*)
28 RETURN_VALUE

The "LOAD_FAST" uses offset 0 to store "x" and offset 1 to store "y", while "z" required a LOAD_GLOBAL to find z in the globals() dictionary.
If you have a simulation where realtime is 60 fps, you could simulate a little over 4.5 hours per second if you could run it at 1M fps. That would definitely help with learning rate.
This is cool.

Quick question, how are you implementing the Tailwind styles? I'm assuming that the material/web use the shadow DOM to encapsulate styles, and therefore allow customised using CSS variables.

So I'm a little confused why the global tailwind CSS seems to work
It solves the "we have recently been acquired and have a lot of resources that we must put to use" problem.
Man vs. machine: DeepMind's new robot serves up a table tennis triumph
What's the url for the Svelte community website?
Tauri: Mixing JavaScript with Rust for GUI Desktop Apps
Without guardrails, GPT-4 could imitate people (including the user)
Show HN: I built an Instagram clone so accurate it got removed from Netlify
I built this 2 years ago and realized it was removed from Netlify due to build image changes they made last year. I never bothered to re-deploy but wanted to do it last week and then I got a mail saying 'Your site is taken down by a DMCA request' I was shocked as I hosted this before with no issues and there were only the Instagram logo without any login page or anything on the clone.
When I take notes, in particular by hand, I already start learning or at least forming some notions in my mind about the things that I man need to review. Note taking is already part of learning. So I am not sure that this tool is actually doing me a favor.
Ah thanks for clearing that up. Entirely my mistake, I thought that it was a package like the ESP32, but it is not.
When I have the time, I like to script an attack on phishing sites by posting false data. The idea is to fill their databases with trash, and make it more difficult for the criminals to weed out real data entered by victims.
> I've asked him to write this up to go in a future rev of the datasheet.

Thanks!
It's (probably) XKCD #989 ("Cryogenics"): https://xkcd.com/989/
I think that my point is that the questions in the article don't provide much more ammunition than the "usual" questions, or even other usual things that we usually share.

If they want to hurt you, they can easily laugh at some particularity of your face and that would be very hurtful. Or laugh at you because your favorite movie is Star Wars or because you work in retail. I'm not sure how your favorite gift you've ever received is more personal and intimate than your favorite movie.

Not only the examples of questions in the article are usually as "risky" as "what's your favorite movie", but also you can easily answer these questions in ways that don't provide much ammunition.
I specifically mentioned not it related, so that rules out “Linux, programming languages, OpenSSh … fantastic computer emulators”.

In general you confirmed my point by saying that competing in domains is much more difficult. And open source isn’t a key to a win.
The squeeze is mostly within the segmentation of VRAM between products, it's basically a commodity and this week the spot price for 8GB of GDDR6 has varied from $1.30 to $3.50 [1].

Yet to get a card with 8GB more than one with comparable logical performance, you'd be looking at hundreds (or thousands in the case of "machine learning" cards) of dollars.

[1] https://www.dramexchange.com/
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Synapse isn't as heavy as it used to be.
It's quite lite and very stable, I would pick it over any other server, matrix has issues as it is, you don't want to add compatibility issues to the mix.
Agree, blender is a contender.
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Anyone knows a free tool for generating subtitles for movies and series videos ?
I was sceptical but your responses so far may have won me over.

Are you planning on implementing passkeys at all?
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That was not the question - these are meant for someone you don’t know.
> If you can actually prove this you can prosecute them for it.

How exactly do you think this would work?

> This is explicitly illegal.

Only if the congress agrees. For that you need the house and two-thirds of a senate so it's politically infeasible.

What other realistic pathways to prosecute a supreme court judge besides impeachment are there?
“What do you mean that I can’t get on this trail in my AWD Nissan Maxima?”
Some mathematics is hogwash. Some isn't. The game of mathematics is to define some axioms and sees what falls out of that. If your axioms are chosen such that they match reality it's not hogwash. For example boolean algebra is made physical in, among others, digital circuits. That's why mathematics also isn't considered a physical science by most.

I didn't make any claim to anything non-physical.
> Mixed in with this may also be architectural decisions based from a "let's just spin something up quickly" mentality

That, plus "they're probably going to fire us in a year anyway, who cares" thinking

And "we don't need to understand the business domain, let's just MVP", which they get away with because they would get accused of not being agile if they did boring stuff like trying to understand the business

I refer more to bigger off shore consultancy shops than individual freelancers
I agree with a lot of what you've said. However, I know from experience these "MBA types with a medical degree" (why not "medical types with an MBA", btw?) don't stop caring about patients. Sure, there are a few who worship the almighty dollar above all else, but IME* a real concern for patients is still the foundation of their worldview. I will take a hospital run by business-minded physicians all day over a hospital run by business-minded ... businessmen.

*source: am a physician
TBH, I think this way of thinking is part of the problem. It's not "developers vs the business". Developers are part of the business.
That is very questionable reporting right from the start:

- First graph: Yikes, that is going almost all the way to the bottom. Oh, the y-axis is fake.

- "Revenue for the quarter was a third lower than in the corresponding quarter three years ago." Wait, wasn't three years ago covid times, which lead to a giant boost in demand for laptops and pcs?

https://www.windowscentral.com/canalys-pc-market-2021-report

Maybe the article gets better after that, but that seems not okay.
Or cost increase or decrease!
Topics regarding layoffs at Dell Inc
Web app calculates your recommended daily water intake based on your weight, height, age, gender, and activity level.
I have to agree $100k/day seems close to unbelievably high, so I had to do some napkin math. In short, it seems it may be possible.

If the avg player dies 10 times, and the ads shown had $.5 CPM, then to make a dollar you'd need only 200 players. So to make $100k/day you'd need 20M daily actives, which is very high but it was really popular around those days.

Is 20M daily actives possible? Yes, because if the average play session is 15 minutes, with that many players you'd have ~200k concurrent players. There's currently a game on Steam called "banana" where you just click on bananas, and that one has 292k concurrents. There are also several Roblox games with that many concurrents, so it checks out.
Don’t replace with in-house solutions anything that’s already working. Bring in-house just the thing you want to add next and go from there. At the very least it’ll kick your existing provider into gear when they know they (might) have competition.
> [...] there's progress [...]

Don't forget about Julia!
Wow I’m really surprised by answers in this thread - I just read the article and questioned myself on all of these, and thoroughly enjoyed thinking about them, when they finished I thought to myself “I wish I had someone to talk to right now and ask these questions with”

I guess everyone is different, I’m just offering a counterpoint, I thought these questions were thought provoking and interesting and don’t find them intrusive or anything.
Monopolies with repeated consumer interaction still want people to maintain high levels of consumption in their products.

For example a tobacco monopoly wouldn't make cigarettes that are immediately sickening to their consumers because of bad filters. They'd prefer for consumers to happily buy cigarettes for a decade or two before getting unwell so they can have more sales.
Universal healthcare is great if you are part of the elite that gets to skip the inevitable lines. Canada and the UK systems require interminable waits in certain areas and for certain specialties.
> Now to control this you want a capability to precisely define the allowed and dis allowed behaviour.

I don't think regular software controls are flexible enough but there is research in making AI create its own "RLHF" fine-tuning dataset, like Constitutional AI from Anthropic. You only need to give it a few general guidelines and let it figure out the details. Never heard anyone complain Claude is unsafe or a bad chat experience.
Likely about Opentelemetry
I think "k8s is complicated" and "AWS is even more complicated" can both be true.

Doing anything in AWS is like pulling teeth.
That's really a too broad generalization.

Services that people might leave, because of downtime are for example a git hoster, or a password manager. When people cannot push their commits and this happens multiple times, they may leave for another git hoster. I have seen this very example when gitlab was less stable and often unreachable for a few minutes. When people need some credentials, but cannot reach their online password manager, they cannot work. They cannot trust that service to be available in critical moments. Not being able to access your credentials leaves a very bad impression. Some will look for more reliable ways of storing their credentials.
Historically flour being adulterated with chalk and sugar being adulterated with gypsum were big problems, so I don't think that tracks.
Everybody does the work. For an enterprise, its administration or HR who actually pay the wages. The business certainly doesn't, they think up the model and the features, the business problems.

I find this whole thing very confusing, there are no factions actually and everybody contributes, and has more or less the same outcomes as their ultimate interest. Maybe not the shareholders. Those truly don't do any work at all, but extract value out of the work done by those who are paid a wage. They only bring in capital.

The real reason developers should be able to mandate when something is 'good enough' is because it is their expertise, just as 'the business' decides what features should be build (those that solve a business problem). Just like a medical doctor decides on the treatment and not the manager of the hospital.

While pumping out features or 'solving business problems' brings in the money, security risks can, at its worst, instantly terminate the whole business. But developers don't want the company to go bankrupt because they spend a year eliminating every risk. Similarly product people won't like their company to die because they squeezed out an extra hour or two out of the sprint by avoiding any security work. A serious enterprise is, or should be, concerned with risks as well as 'velocity'.
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Kia/Hyundai uses Magnadrive, which seems to be a clone of Haldex AWD systems.
> Indexing-based file search just sucks.

I don't know, locate works fine enough for me.
I really wonder under what circumstances one would actually weave these questions into a conversation. They sound incredibly robotic, what kind of person talks like this to strangers?
In Poland we also have "milk bars"(bar mleczny) but they are very different to what's described here - they mostly serve cheap, simple meals, mostly flour and milk based - dumplings, pancakes, soups etc. Traditionally meat was very rare on the menu, nowadays more common because I guess the clientelle expects it. But the general idea was always that it was a place where you could eat very cheap meals.

More info here(in English):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_mleczny
The point is still valid even at that price.
The old one lives at https://sveltesociety.dev - be aware, lots of very old content, but components and packages pages are up-to-date.

The new one lives here but is under heavy construction: https://v2.sveltesociety.dev

Ironically, the Search doesn't work on the deployed version at the moment.

Edit: Looks like the search actually works if you're logged in.
Thank you. So well articulated. This trash you speak of is absolutely everywhere. There’s no honesty in marketing any more.
Thanks for those book recommendations. I'm always interested in discussion or reactions to Heinlein.

>particularly the ones where he sets out to kill a Heinlein book

Interesting statement, I'm grabbing those books now.
Linear algebra is definitely not elementary. There are layers and layers of linear algebra, and depending on the audience, you have to select which topics to emphasize.
See also TranscriberAG: <https://transag.sourceforge.net/>
Really? You want to teach freshman people exterior products?