skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, that's a vastly larger job than an X11 wm because you're either implementing a full display server or need to create bindings to something like Wlroots - under X the wm is close to just another client of the X server.
If you want mainstream politicians to address obesity, that means taking aim at the food industry and the healthcare industry. Not every day people - because that doesn't work and never has.

We've done it before, with the Tabacco industry, but food is different. Food is a unique kind of addiction because you can't stop it completely. Also lots of people are fundamentally anti-regulation, so.
Every iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro camera spec and Capture Button detail revealed
It's not my job to offer evidence against every hypothetical claim of harm. There are infinite of those, and one of me.

It is my job (all scientists' jobs) to call out panic based on "science". More generally, the people who want you to believe that X hurts you (for whatever value of X) need to bring solid evidence, not just unproven hypotheses.
Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good
Huh? How can I get the same tier of seamless integration in VS Code?
That's also true. People need to be more flexible, especially if they are collecting a fat six-figure paycheck.

If you need more info from someone, just paste "Can you provide more context please?", and move on with your life.
I know almost nothing about archaeology, and what little I do know mostly comes from Time Team (a British show).

But, what I understand is that archaeology requires multidisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from various specialties to work on a single project. Which often means collaborating with people outside ones region or organization.

Especially complex archaeology like the Uk (pre-historic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Anglo Saxon, Medieval, etc.)

But again, what I don't know about this topic would fill volumes.....
Thanks for the comment, and you're right, modern computers do have a much better architecture! As I was laying out the story I was thinking about what it looked like when we started. I'll clarify that in the image caption that it's from that era.
Deno, Node, and Bun have been improving at a blistering pace lately. Within the span of a single day Bun and Deno both announced improvements to the ergonomics of parallelization (Deno with the new --parallel option to the serve command, and Bun with support for the node:cluster module). Node also released v22.7.0 today with support for transforming TypeScript specific features into JS with the --experimental-transform-types option. I literally just listened to a podcast host talk about avoiding TS features like enums partly because Node doesn't support them, and that limitation is already gone.
I agree my sibling comment by consteval . I am also not panicking.

> What, exactly, would you have the rest of us do, other than panic?

Push for better understanding and maybe regulations to help reduce the impact. Again, with getting fat I have agency over. It's on me to do it. With microplastics, government action is needed, so we need to be better informed and press government to act on our interest.
How did you do it? Having trouble with this right now
Prosecutorial conduct was perhaps more important than MIT’s, although the tragedy of his death provides bountiful opportunities for condemnation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/01/17/aaron-swa...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/disappointing-unsealin...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/aaron...
I've thought a lot about this because I owned and operated a business for 18 years, for 15 of those years it was my primary source of income, and it was entirely ad-based even though my "users" often complimented me on having an ad-free product. It was all affiliate promotion, they were there for the free content and it wasn't obvious that the free content was promo for subscription services, plus the affiliate links weren't being shoved in peoples' faces. They were there if people wanted more and were willing to pay, and the click-through rates were decent and it was profitable, so this type of "non-intrusive" advertising does work.

But ... I happen to be someone who REALLY DESPISES ADS ALWAYS

I'm not as "black pilled" as the comments that started this. My issue is not that ads try and psychologically manipulate people. I don't think that there is anything intrinsically wrong with trying to persuade someone to buy something.

My problem with ads is that they are annoying and distracting, most are this way by design, and they come at you completely unsolicited.

If there was a way that I could opt in or out of being shown ads in all areas of life, so that if I were interested in learning about new products I can, but if I'm not interested the ads can kindly fuck off and leave me alone ... that would be grand.

And that kind of exists. I mean, if I attend a ComicCon I'm going to a big trade show. I'm hoping that the show floor will have tons of wares and demos and such. I'm looking to buy. If I go on Amazon and start searching for products, by all means spam me with results related to what I'm looking for.

But if I'm trying to watch tv, or I'm on social media or in a context where I'm not actively looking to discover products that I might be interested in purchasing, I get downright offended and triggered when suddenly some dipshit character in a commercial is like: "look how ridiculous and annoying I am while using this product I want you to buy. If you buy it you can be just as moronic, obnoxious and annoying as me." In those situations I wish that advertising would just cease to exist in all forms all together.
> And I mean if that's the way things are going to go, then let's just steer the Earth into the Sun, because what's the point of any of this.

That's one hell of a statement for a place like LessWrong.
Is the hate for Windows 11? I'm still using Windows 10 Pro. Aside from the occasional forced restart, it's fine.
Is VSCode out for some reason? I don’t care for the defaults for some language plugins, but it seems easier to ship VSCode config than to build a whole editor.

I think the VSCode config is just JSON on disk and I believe you can install plugins on the CLI. You could probably have a bash or Python script do the setup pretty easily.

Edit: responded before coffee, missed the “native GUI”; please disregard
> ...revive a flagging birth rate.

Just about every developed nation has this problem today and no one has an answer. It seems no amount of money can be thrown at the problem as people just don't want as many kids as they used to. And I'm not sure they wanted so many of them back then either but rather lived with the consequences of their actions as birth control wasn't nearly as available.

To face the problem we need to really consider how to make people far more productive in the fields where it really matters and we face a logjam. That's healthcare and hospitality/services for aging and end of life people. Today's methods and approaches will obviously not work down the road since the human capital simply won't be there.

The current solution of desperately importing human capital, almost exclusively low value human capital, in the hopes that enough of them and/or their offspring will be able to and willing to change adult diapers, go shopping, and cook meals for the resident elderly is clearly causing social issues of their own right now and appears destabilizing and unsustainable.

Governments need to open up innovation in the healthcare industry especially as it pertains to elderly and aging people. We need automation in the elderly care industries.
Yea, I think it's a very neat structure. The typical presentation of the general concept of ordinals as an aspect of set theory hides a more down to earth cute algorithmic thing.
I might be missing something but why would you want to use a terminal interface when a GUI is so much easier?
The tech behind Semgrep Assistant's triage and remediation guidance
IIRC Intel iGPUs support it and I read somewhere that their dGPUs do as well, but I might be misremembering.
I wrote a tool a few years ago which automatically generated and inserted type-aware fuzzers for C APIs from DWARF info: https://github.com/intel/fffc

Generating headers and also mutators that you could then modify to meet type constraints was part of that.

Edit: just to add onto the LLM side, I can see this labelling anonymous structs or similar but I'm not sure that's a good idea. What might be interesting would be to try to get an LLM to verbalize/summarize known type constraints for documentation purposes.
It's a digital data stream. The bits either make it or they dot. Unless the cable is actually faulty (i.e., the error rate exceeds what error correction and recovery can handle), one cable cannot "sound different" to another.
Good error messages are hard. You want to tell the user what to do, but if you knew that the error could be thrown, you probably should have been gracefully handling the problem. You don't know what information is useful to a hacker and you don't know how your error will be propagated. Meaningful errors at one level ("incorrect parameters passed" when calling an API) is perfectly useless at another level ("incorrect parameters passed" when interacting with a React UI). And if you respect all of the above, at some point you'll end up with an error message that basically says "I can't tell you what, why or how something went wrong, but it did."
Countries should act faster to curb the spread of mpox
Ask HN: Does an application-level query optimizer like this exist?
Recently, I did a round of optimizations on an old side-project. There turned out to be two types of changes I made which made the bulk of the difference:

1) Rewriting queries that were pulling data out of the DB that wasn't all used
2) Adding in-memory caching for repeated queries

A possible third, which I didn't need but could see being beneficial:

3) Querying data in bulk when possible (e.g. n users each make the same query for their version of some data, which could instead be made in one bulk query and then stored in memory and parceled out to each user)

In principle, for this simple app all three of these optimizations could have been made through a tool that looks at user code, request runtime, and a list of all queries being made and the time spent on each one. My process was to make one of the optimizations, rerun through some representative workflows, and verify that everything still worked and that runtimes / queries made changed in the way I expected.

This process felt formulaic but time-consuming (to make sure things like invalidation were done correctly). It seems like there's a lot of tooling out there that can point you at slow queries. Are there any linters / tools which go far enough to drive most of the optimization loop themselves?
I think this is true for most careers and prominent roles:

"When I first came to The Times in 2006, a reporter warned me not to identify myself too heavily with my work. “Any job at The Times is a rented tux,” she said."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/dining/pete-wells-steps-d...
Not sure but it was already floated. Wikipedia:

>On 18 August 2011, Hewlett-Packard announced that it would purchase Autonomy for US$42.11 per share with a premium of around 79% over market price that was widely criticized as "absurdly high"...

Seems HP were kind of dumb.
It's a ceremonial plaque, was it always supposed to be the same literal recording but golden?
The limits for other types of diving are interesting, too.

All of the different gases you use for SCUBA diving have a maximum operating depth. At high pressures, various gases become toxic or cause side effects. Oxygen has a limit somewhere in the 1.2-1.6 bar range, and it becomes toxic. For deep dives, you need a lower percentage of oxygen in the mixture. Nitrogen causes nitrogen narcosis at higher pressures, so for deep dives, you need a lower percentage of nitrogen in the mixture. You need to add something else if you want to lower both nitrogen and oxygen, and that’s helium. At high enough pressures, helium causes high-pressure nervous syndrome, a.k.a. helium tremors.

That’s normally the limit. Pretty much every gas is bad for you at these pressures. There is an experimental alternative, which is to use hydrogen gas for the deepest dives, but people are understandably cautious about breathing a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen.
So it's all clickbait for the video. That's lame.
Won't be reading PetaPixel again.
It's easier for the people who put it up as a shield around them.

Every person caught in a web of automated support is one less question they have to answer directly.
> The problem with this line of thinking -- "If X happens then we'll all be cooked!" -- is that it ignores the fact that X already has been happening and yet life is just fine.

We sure as hell are cooked, son, we just ain't stopped movin' yet.
I agree we benefit from sun exposure, what I don't agree with is a lot of the anti-science BS I'm seeing in this thread.

1. No, tanning isn't good. We've known that for a long, long time. Remember tanning beds? Why don't people do that anymore?

2. Yes, you DO produce vitamin D while wearing sunscreen

3. Yes, you DO get mental health benefits from being in the sun with sunscreen

4. No, sunscreen DOES NOT cause cancer

These aren't even opinions. These people just don't know anything about anything, which is fine, but then they talk like they have it all figured out. Because their wrinkly granny survived the sun or something.

Can we stop with blatant misinformation? Why is this still such a problem on the internet and why is it a problem on hacker news?
I'm encouraged by the talk of improved exception handling and a recognition of how much garbage it creates. It makes it hard to do things in an idiomatic way and keep GC pressure low.

I hope they also revisit task state tracking and TaskCanceledException. It feels out of place to use an exception (and unroll the stack) as control flow in the same API they added ValueTask to keep Task handles on the stack.
Some of it, like random IOPS, spindle bias etc...was well known.

Well among implementers, vendors were mostly locked into the vertical scaling model.

I ran a SGI cluster running CXFS in 2000 as an example, and by the time EBS launched, I was spending most of my SAN architect time trying to get away from central storage.

There were absolutely new problems and amazing solutions by the EBS team, but there was information.

Queue theory was required for any meaningful SAN deployment as an example and RPM/3600 had always been a metric for HD performance under random.

Not that everyone used them, but I had to.
Most high level applications do not deal with any of the low level details. They open a channel by specifying a hostname and a port number, and are given a reliable bidirectional byte stream from the network layer.

As far as most applications are concerned, the hostname is just a string that is interperated by the network layer. Be that through a DNS lookup, or parsing as an address native to the underlying network protocol.

A minority of applications get fancy and request a datagram oriented link, which the network layer also provides (with an admittadly small limit of 65KB that leaks over from that.

Few applications ever go deeper than that.
I've only met a single person in 15 years of work who couldn't touch type, and they came from a completely unrelated background and were 45+ old.

Is it really a concern for younger candidates to not be able to touch type these days? I suppose Gen Z who are phone-centric would not have much experience touch typing.
Tornado (2021)
I thought that was debunked, that in "blind" tests experts nearly always selected modern, high end violins over the Stradivarius's (Stradivarii?).
If it's cloud connected, it's going to do this.
Yes. Below the article are some tags with numerical values, "complexity: 4", "expertise: 2".

Another fitting tag would have been "weaponized pedantry: unusually low"
it's also a believable affectation.
Yeah, I get that, but it's still not a great experience, and inconsistent. It would be cool to see something that uses iTerm's support for inline images: https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

Not sure how practical that actually would be, but I can dream.
It was never designed to Empower the (end) User.

This is vaguely the experience that should have been present in an Empowered User centric BIOS.

First cold boot; BIOS verifies the hardware isn't broken, checks for a boot preference, finds none.

Present the User with a set of choices: Check for BIOS Updates (manufacturer), Check for OS Choices (manufacturer), Begin installing an OS (options list). Locally cached (present with the system) choices would be listed first. Microsoft Windows (installer) is probably OEM shipped (might not be). Linux / DistroName plugged in USB device, etc... 'Local Network boot (search)', and 'Install from the Internet' (shipped by manufacturer or added by local preference).

The BIOS would also support enrolling ANY signing keys of local preference with user confirmation. This should happen even at first boot for the keys known by the manufacturer; they shouldn't just be in there for free, confirming the key with the user should be part of the flow.

The BIOS _MUST_ also support multiple bootable entries, even if one is the default (without a timeout, even with only manual selection E.G. F12 / F11 / whatever... though this too should be standardized).
In case of systemd-cryptenroll (and other LUKS-related systemd infra, even without TPM) it's systemd that handles the passphrase to generate a key to unlock LUKS device - possibly combining with a PIN or passphrase or also a FIDO-compatible device or a smartcard.
Why London is 4-5 hrs ahead and LA is 3 hrs behind Boston though both are as far
Mike Lynch co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain dies after car crash
Most of these words haven’t “become” offensive, activists have declared them offensive. It’s not that Latinos felt offended by that term, some academic activist came up with Latinx because they wanted another shibboleth.
Kishida's problem is that he isn't a leader, it really is as simple as that. He says nice things but doesn't do anything. Great way to handle diplomacy (Kishida was once Japan's Foreign Minister), not so much leading an entire country.

He doesn't put the leader in leadership. That's why his politics have been stagnant, it's a leaderless ship.

The recent LDP financial scandals merely finally broke the back of a camel who was already suffering arthritis.

None of this is to say the LDP will lose governmental power, though. The opposition parties are somehow even worse.
... Isn't capitalism great?

I remember a thread on here a while back where some folks were sharing their peloton-alike setups and sadly I've lost the bookmark for it.

Isn't it possible to hook a road bike up to some kind of 'bike treadmill' or such and go on virtual rides (maybe with an iPad or a tv or something infront of it?).

With the kinds of money Peloton are charging, it did seem like a much better deal, and you get a road bike included...
The future is getting better, broadly and on net, judged by human-centric measures. Because the data is choppy and fractal as you look from x billion people to one individual, it's easy to say things suck and are getting suckier. But overall measures of human flourishing have been improving for hundreds of years. Maybe the trendline eventually reverses, but it hasn't yet.

Is it getting better deterministically or nondeterministically? Both.

We still don't understand all manner of deterministic forces in the universe. However, most improvements in humanity's existence have been and will continue to be driven by human will.
PhD cannot be simplified further down without making it not "significant contribution to science/art/craft". However, DAs (Doctor of Arts) could be granted for hard sciences. The threshold for DA is "outstanding achivement", which would be fit for a post-AGI doctorate in hard sciences.
Even with a tanking stock, I don't really see the market for action cameras to disappear. It might not be big enough to support an entire public company, but I don't see any reason it would be entirely unprofitable.
https://grafana.com/
One of the better website I’ve seen in a while
Not recent, but I really like the Notion landing page: https://www.notion.so/

It's clear and to-the-point while still being reasonably detailed and informative. I get a clear idea of what the product is just scrolling down, reading left to right, with clear text and graphics and organization and no unnecessary distractions. It really hits that balance between "professional" and "beautiful" for me, and I don't feel either talked down to or overzealously marketed to. It's just a clear picture of what they offer, with clear pricing, all in a nice presentation.

(I'm not even a customer of theirs, since I usually join companies that have already decided on their own web office stack. But I just remember their landing page for being nice.)
> I do regret that I didn't join any clubs in college until my last semester, and that I didn't make the kind of friendships I wanted

As a parent of teenagers, I struggle with how the hell to convey this to my kids. They are so engrossed in YouTube, stupid memes, and games that they don't join any clubs or sports at school; they don't seek out IRL activities; and my 17 year old has no interest in getting his driver's license. I have tried limiting screen time (and I took a lot of good lessons from Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation[0]). They've both got ample opportunities for therapy (depression runs in the family, the eldest has various diagnoses, etc.) and for engagement with peers.

They simply don't make and develop friendships. I have no doubt whatsoever that this will be a huge regret of theirs because they've already said that they wished they had more friends. It's infuriating and deeply saddening to see my kids want to be connected, to have everything they need to be connected, but to still not connect.

[0] https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/book
What model are you using? People that'd want to buy this wouldn't want you dumping everything to OpenAI or any other major provider.
Generous ration. Yeah there should be limits, depending on the environment.
https://www.arcolinux.info/ might be interesting to you
> I wasn't doing this, so whatever you are arguing against, it isn't me.

That's the core of what you're asking, "would they have understood it as part of commerce". That's literally asking us to peer into the past and into the minds of the Founders. It's the core problem of originalism too, we cannot actually know what they meant to mean or would think now.

> Wickard v. Filburn

The logic is sound in the case intrastate actions have interstate consequences. It wasn't the first time these kind of controls had been passed either. But also I don't think we should be wedded to the exact nature the Founders thought the country should take. They gave us a system with the ability to interpret their words and we should use it.

> Of course producing things that will be traded in commerce requires labor, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether employment counts as "commerce", which is what I was asking about.

So it IS an inextricable part of it but somehow doesn't count as part of it legally?