skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. With so much advancement in phone tech I’m still not typing as fast as 15 years ago when phones had physical keyboards. Copy paste undo redo is unnecessarily clumsy. The list goes on.
Checks & balances do not work in the absence of empowered incorruptible entities because of collusion. At best, they just slow things down.
What Is Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome?
I think it is https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/12fa019ae558641df0a23a79...
Would also be funny, if they were allowed to increase the penalty, based on how much they could have done with that money during that time. Opportunity cost.
Awesome! This is how the free market works without government regulations.
VAT is a tax paid by the consumer, not the manufacturer. If you buy an iPhone, it's you that pays the VAT on it, not Apple.
Epilepsy drug shows promise in reducing obstructive sleep apnea symptoms
Full caps AWK feels like a relic from the screaming UNIX days, and golang for Go is incredibly common (and as far as I can tell, the proximate cause of the nixlang term)
This looks interesting. I wanted to try it with my Rigol DS1054Z, but there is no AUR package for Arch Linux for it, which makes the installation cumbersome. The user experience with Sigrok is superior in that aspect ;)
Debugging in the Multiverse
Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript
^ What he said. There's something in story/branding/nostalgia too.
Yes, I'm aware that unanimity is not currently always required. But a claim that the EU "is set" to remove a rule is discussing a change to the status-quo rules in this regard, which I haven't heard about except as a very much not unanimously agreed aspiration of some legislators and some member states.
I like when the language is in it's own name, eg: Suomi -- makes it easier to find.
Just to clarify, the money has already been deposited to a holding account awaiting this ruling. So Apple will not be paying over any money, they will not be getting the money refunded to them.
https://lobste.rs/s/ixb3v7/nix_2_24_is_vulnerable_remote_pri...
We took self-driving Waymo cars for a test ride. This is what happened
https://archive.ph/MNWLn
1917 bridge still serving on the National Road in Maryland
EDIT: realized you were asking about the ext4 bugs, not the parent comment of that one. Oh well, keeping this up anyway for others.

Postgres has a whole wiki page [0] about it, it's quite a read. They also link a [1] MySQL commit to fix the same issue.

[0]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Fsync_Errors

[1]: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/commit/8590c8e12a3374e...
This is true (one is talking about zero-click zero days, the other is talking about “privacy,” not sure if they mean privacy against Facebook or privacy against other users of their device).

But the comment that kicked off the thread was the one about privacy.
In Slingshot, a mission to Titan goes off course
Because of how electricity works. You have to produce exactly what you're consuming (or extremely close to) to avoid dephasing the network, not less, not too much. The carrier will have to shut down part of the network if that happen (rolling blackout) if you're not producing enough, but producing too much is as dangerous and will end up in blackout too. You actually have a lot of literature on OEMs, Capacity market, SPOT and other creation to try to simulate a free market, but it's always exploitable, and it makes money (a lot). Investing in an electricity company that do not produce any electricity is still a profitable venture.
I think the full acronym would be

Keep It Simple Stupid, Active Sanity Saver
"Traditional" self-driving stacks use a ton of pre-built maps, lidar and other range sensors, and has teams of people keeping those maps registered and up to date.

Tesla's plan is (or has become) to do an end-run around all that, and just train a giant network on camera-only sensor stacks, so that it can navigate without large 3D representations of the environment / city in which it works, without expensive lidar/radar sensor suites, and to skip the "partner" phase that Waymo and others do with particular cities.

This allowed them to bring me, a MN customer, something like lvl 3 autonomy before any other company did. But it might not have the same upper-bound as other, more fine-tuned approaches do, and having ridden in Waymo, Nuro, etc vs my own Tesla, I can tell you the Tesla is wonkier for it. Time will tell.
You don't need even to bother with fsync unless you are developing a database or use the file system like a database.

There's a reason Apple made fsync useless and introduced F_FULLSYNC. They know developers have an incentive to overestimate the importance of their own files at the detriment to system responsiveness and power draw.
Apple Announces Expanded Satellite Services for UK and Canada
What? Of course it is accessible.

When you ask an LLM to estimate if a given answer was hallucinated, it converts internal probabilities into a token(s) that represent these probabilities.

Here you have an output of chatGPT where it estimates it's probabilities of hallucination - which I would argue are quite close to correct:

https://chatgpt.com/share/e/e10cbc17-cc35-432f-872b-cb061700...
Maybe it was a joint project?
I don't think people read the code before running a build with portage
> But this doesn't always work and you still need to be good at adding/subtracting.

It does always work. If you mean that not every integer product can be written this way, you're right; 23 × 46 can't, unless you're willing to memorise squares of half-integers. But, if avoiding non-squaring multiplication is really key, then you can still just write 23 × 46 = 23 × 47 - 23, and then compute 23 × 47 = 35^2 - 15^2 as you suggest.
> Arguably, prenatal ultrasounds are some of the more challenging to get right

Prenatal ultrasounds are one of the most rote and straight forward exams to get right.
I was not referencing Arrested Development. Dozens is a term that was used to describe groups of people well before AD and the context here doesn't fit the meme at all.

I am not skeptical at all that you know three people who got sick on a cruise, but out of the 30+ million people who cruise in a year it's completely meaningless. A CDC study showed that only about 0.18% of cruisers get a stomach bug

I could easily come up with a list of 24+ people who have gone on a cruise and not gotten sick. Why are my dozens less valid than your 3? You can post your anecdata but don't get mad when someone counters it with their own.
I can say that it doesn't work on Google Docs, which uses the IP address's language^, even though my language is set to en-UK. Unless you're logged in, but I often have to use incognito because of another misfeature which is that Google will dox you to other editors if you access a public Google doc while logged in. Googlers reading this comment: please fix this!

^ I wonder how this works in places like Switzerland and Belgium that have more than one language. The notion that IP addresses can be mapped to languages needs to die.
Levels of "US versus Them"
What a brilliant idea! Not everyone's motivation of course, but I'm sure this has valid business potential.
"...improperly filled root canal; some root material remained inside the tooth..."

UGG. I've been experiencing noticeable tinnitus this motorcycle season. It is to the point I'm now actively investigating. Recently I read neck pain or tension can cause tinnitus. I have a terrible mattress. I'm contemplating a move, so I've been holding off on replacing it. Trying exercise and stretching in the mean time.

I also had a root canal in November 2023. The tooth was sensitive and this only abated somewhat after about six months, which is coincidentally when I noticed the tinnitus.
This is an awesome example of the kind of innovation which overlong copyright prevents.

There’s no particularly good reason that it should be legally impermissible for someone to build and sell a system like this loaded with movies from before, say, 2010 (or 2000, or whatever), but instead what the prospective entrepreneur would be legally able to include would be … Steamboat Willie, and other films of that vintage (as an aside, while Disney’s had a pretty rough couple of years, I’m pretty sure that Steamboat Willie being out of copyright has nothing to do with any of that).

This sort of experience shouldn’t be limited to children of high-tech folks with access to 3D printers: it should be possible for any child — or adult!
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> Not that hard to implement, except perhaps parsing the Accept-Language preferences with their quality value can be cumbersome.

Many web frameworks provide a tool for parsing these for you. If yours doesn't (or you're not using one) you may be able to find a package that does. Some will also do the matching for you, so you can pass it a list of languages you can support alongside the Accept-Language string and it will pick the best option that's found in both.

For example, here's the documentation for such a method in the excellent Nette PHP framework that I've been using where I can lately: https://doc.nette.org/en/http/request#toc-detectlanguage

But I've also used this stand-alone package:
https://packagist.org/packages/willdurand/negotiation
As I Spaniard I could still guess 'forest' could be somehow related to 'forestal', which is something related to the woods/countryside.
I did say generally, but fair point :b
Referrals are more problematic but if the radiologist works in the same organization as the ordering physician then they should have access to the full patient chart in the EHR.
There is usually little to no value in revealing that you are a woman in these spaces.
Wi-Fi 7 support is confirmed - during the Apple announcement, the summary card of new features showed a "Wi-Fi 7" in the lower right hand corner.

see https://www.pcmag.com/news/iphone-16-and-16-pro-get-wi-fi-7-...

No idea why they didn't announce it.

Maybe they had a rule, "discuss camera and ai features only"?
V8 is damn fast, faster than C++ when it comes to numerics
1.b. When somehow they identify you’ve change IPs the first time, and now that you are home, there’s still some sticky session that doesn’t get cleared without purging all cookies for the domain.
Billionaire takes off for first ever private spacewalk
Even Accept-Language headers aren't really a particularly good solution. I might prefer some sites in Danish, but others I'd like to have en English. Unless browsers allow you to set language on a per site basis, we still aren't really capturing the nuances of language preference.

Accept-Language could be a pretty good indicator of a persons language skills, but it's just to far into the browsers settings to be something that a normal user would adjust. I can see why checking the domain is quicker and perhaps more inline with a persons intent, even if it is ignoring travelling.

We where trying to book a table at a restaurant, it's part of a fairly large chain. We where in Sweden, but the chain also operates in Denmark, so we know that they have a Danish version of their website and ordering app, you just can't use the Danish language when you are in Sweden. You can get English for some reason, but not the Danish version. That to me seem like a missed opportunity.
Regarding rooted android, it is possible to bypass the root checks of most banking apps:

- 1. use MagiskSU for rooting

- 2. add some modules to bypass SafetyNet/PlayIntegrity (https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix/releases)

- 3. For especially annoying apps add some modules to hide well-known "root apps" from the applist, so these apps don't know they're installed (https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed.github.io/releases + https://github.com/Dr-TSNG/Hide-My-Applist/releases) [I only needed it to get Pokemon-Go to work, banking worked without it]

My local banking apps and even google wallet work mostly fine with these workarounds. Though it breaks every few months, which is then usually quickly fixed with a magisk+module update.
> diamond windows for lasers 10cm across

> Diamonds are now something you can buy by the kilo, in plastic bags.

I can’t wait to use diamond cookware. A pan with a thin layer of 430 stainless steel for induction, a wafer of diamond, and then another thin layer of stainless on top will be amazing. Almost perfect evenness over any cooktop.
hey chris, sent u an email
Building a Modern Serverless Cloud for Bioinformatics
I don't quite know how the developers would fit a game like that in a mobile device. I still recall my PC GPU struggling without upscaling. It's not even available on something like Nintendo Switch either, yet here it is for Apple devices: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/death-stranding-directors-cut/...

Guess it's a testament to how far hardware, modern game engines and competent developers can all go.
> But they're definitely asking for something intelligible and real that Windows absolutely lacks.

Interix was what Windows lacks, but it was abandoned. It wasn't a Linux compatibility layer like WSL1 (or just a gussied-up Linux VM like WSL2). It was a freestanding implementation of POSIX and building portable software for it was not unlike building software portable to various *nixes. GNU autotools had a target for it. I built software from source (including upgrading the GCC it shipped with).

It was much more elegant than WSL and was built in the spirit of the architecture of NT.
>The Unix path format replaced the previous URI format used in our system interfaces, improving compatibility with POSIX/Linux libraries and programs

According to https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-240131/#:~:text=Red..., this was done to simplify porting Linux software but the old format is still accessible.
> I've worked as an economist at one of those government agencies. They are filled with keen PhD / MSc economists looking to bust kartels and find collusion.

There is the skillset of the employees, and then there is what management allows employees to work on. A decade or so ago, a Statistics Canada senior manager was interviewed and claimed as fact that they were unable to reproduce an Excel model that analyzed the % of real estate sales to recent immigrants to Canada, one that an individual CRA team (one person I suspect, it's not complicated) in Richmond BC had done a few years before.

At the same time, they were given additional budget of many millions of dollars to accomplish this task and other things. They did not accomplish the task.

> Proving collusion...

The government has tipped their hand already as far as I'm concerned. I don't expect anything would ever be proven, I just want to see as much evidence as possible to help me decide what I am going to believe - I'm certainly not going to take epistemic advice from anyone in the Canadian government.
1. Can I understand it - this is a low bar as I don't do much coding anymore and often the teams I'm working with use different languages / tooling to what I'm familiar with. Try to avoid anything too clever!

2. I try to think of stuff other than the base functionality, often non functional requirements e.g. storage of system config and secrets and where, performance, security, error codes, naming, modularisation. A lot of my thinking comes from reading code complete when I 1st started coding.

3. Not really part of code review but I try and get an idea of whether the developer understands the reason for their code in the wider context of the project.
Maybe she comments on hackernews.
That's not it. You can't write to a file handle returned by os.Open.

https://pkg.go.dev/os#Open

func Open(name string) (*File, error)
Open opens the named file for reading. If successful, methods on the returned file can be used for reading; the associated file descriptor has mode O_RDONLY. If there is an error, it will be of type *PathError.
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That's basically how Hollywood accounting works, with some of the highest grossing films and franchises in history not paying a penny in tax due to showing a 'loss' on paper.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ended up with a $167 million loss on paper after grossing nearly $1 billion. According to New Line's accounts, the LOTR trilogy made "horrendous losses" and no profit at all. Same as Forrest Gump, Men in Black, and Return of the Jedi.

The Music industry is far worse in its financial machinations.

With some minor exceptions, the companies involved in this are all American.
You havent refuted grandparent: what you write is true, but it is also true that IQ started to matter more a few hundred years ago.

Moreover, when people lived as you describe, they frequently endured famine, and brain tissue has very high metabolic demands, so there was selection pressure to keep brain mass low.
Many marketers have convinced you of that. To many, the story is a story of blood and tears. Diamond mines are terrible places.
Like the UI a lot. Although def depressing to see how inaccessible the world is on my Indian passport. Def makes me want to work towards a good exit and get one of those nice passports by investing in a country.
The hypothesis was that LIDAR was a crutch, humans manage with just vision.

Whether this is correct for delivering self driving cars, we will find out soon enough. Long term though, it definitely makes sense. We just don't know what the missing pieces of the puzzle are.
Use proxy services like jauce.com
But then where's the flag for Liberia and Belize and Singapore? What if I'm in Indonesia and you don't offer an Indonesian option but I know enough English to get by - what country's flag should I click?

Just don't use flags, man. It's ridiculous that this is even still a discussion.
4000 fopen() & fclose()
Last place I worked definitely had this.

Each programmer that wants something, like a part of a line from a text file or a field in a db record, just gets it directly from the source individually on the spot.

Coder #1 22 years ago needs the customers name, looks up the customer row and discards. Or maybe doesn't disacard it but still no one else benefits.

Coder #2 needs the customer email, fetches and discards the same db row. Does not know that coder #1 already loaded it.

Repeat 2035 times over the course of 15 years.

No one knows what all the other code is doing, they just know they were told to add or modify some detail feature today like add another field to the printed invoice or something.

They don't touch any of the existing code, they just add in the new little job they were given today.

Now it's 2036 lookups of that same db row.

It's avoidable but requires a leader. Someone who can all 3, recognize the problem, devise a reasonable way to address it, power to tell everyone else to do it.

Last place I worked all coders were more or less equal, no architacture lead and so no cohesive architecture, and the owner didn't recognize such things as important, all the owner cared about was saying yes to every customer every day and billing. And so we had this big time. Every process throughout the system. It was all local file based dbs so the OS and hardware magic-ed away most of the evil with filesystem and disk cache.
Some people are just so creative... It stole me a good laugh seeing the Carpentopod facilitating beer and chips to its master only to park politely (but not silently!) side to its less capable static fellow. I want to see more of these fantastic creations!
That diagram "not to scale" is terrible.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6d0a/live/206974...

vs

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
Let me get this straight: your evening routine has no margin for 10 minute parallelizable tasks, yet you’re commenting sarcastically about supposed chores in my life? In order to defend doing the same but every 3 days instead?
It can't matter more when the alternative is death.
I was very coolstruck to discover that GStreamer has a built-in sink to output ASCII "video" to the terminal: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/aasink/aasin...
> Interestingly, Google does respect the Accept-Language header.

Google knows I use/want English. It knows this because I'm logged-in and have set my preferences, but also because of that Accept-Language header my browser sends in every single request. Yet for years, perhaps because I am 20km from Germany, it has assumed I would always prefer German when doing social sign-in.

Google may occasionally glance at Accept-Language, but it does not respect it. It even demotes my own logged-in preferences below a guess based on my location.

When there are no other indicators, fine, guess my language from my location, but otherwise location != language. But I know for fact that my browser is sending out Accept-Language headers in a convenient format that will tell you all you need to know.
thanks for the comment! Yes, indeed it is depressing :( Do let us know how we could improve this product! Maybe offer a similar service to see how to get the nice passport?
Sweet project! I did something similar a few years back after reading this: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tag/#building-an-...
LOL. Your naivety is so sweet :D

New features aren't for users. They're for the media so the company gets publicity and we have conversations like this and don't forget about them.

Imagine if Apple said "we're done, users have all they need", but Samsung kept putting out new features nobody wants or needs, and press releases and launch events... It's obvious what would happen to Apple, right?

Your average user has no idea what the buzzwords mean either, and that's for a reason. God knows why I need titanium, but I know it's strong and probably expensive so helps justify the price. 120fps? Who knows, but it's more than 24 or 60 so it must be good, etc. The features page goes on and on, gushing with how easy things are, high pro quality, time saving, etc.

Features are there to bamboozle buyers and overwhelm them with "benefits" to justify the high price. Frequent releases are for regular publicity. Heaven forbid any of this is actually because users want any of this stuff.
> Do you mean before or after manufacturing?

After the sale-- that's why I qualified who the device belongs to in my post. Before the sale it belongs to the manufacturer and they can do whatever they want to it.
Meta: I don't understand "RNG" (random number generation, right?) in the title, since the article is about a quoting issue causing a value to be interpreted as a floating-point value in scientific notation, rather than a string. Is that the "random number generation" the title refers to, perhaps? A like puns, but maybe I'm just tired. :)
It's the way they're used and how they alter behavior and affect those in the vicinity. Phones are antisocial. Tablets and watches and laptops are not.