skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's both discovery and experiment (but not invention). Forms are real, but not in the way Plato thought. He thought they existed in some empyrean realm. In reality, they exist in objects themselves. We discover what a thing's form is by experimenting with (or on) it. Aristotle was largely right.

The big philosophical problem with much of this is that people assume that the smallest things are the most fundamental. So people think that stuff, whatever that stuff is, is fundamentally made up of much smaller stuff, and that stuff is fundamentally made of yet smaller stuff, and so the smaller you get, the more fundamental you get. And so (they think) if you want to work out what is really going on at any layer of reality, you need to figure out what the smallest possible things are.

Yet this is ultimately a philosophical posit -- it's not empirically-informed. There's no good reason for thinking it.

To be clear, none of this is about physicists doing physics. It's about the philosophy that many people bring into, and therefore take away from, these kinds of discussions.
ACE 6. Late diagnosed with both dyslexia and adhd, and I didn't get my masters degree until I was in my thirties. I have trust issues and imposter syndrome, but overall I'm doing pretty well. I have a child that I love above all other things, and her happiness is my biggest priority. We choose happiness every single day.
> The reason is that Safari only shows the scrollbar when it's needed but without "reserving" the space.

Every browser with non-floating scrollbars will do this, right?

Safari, in its default configuration on a touch-ish device (macbook without a scrollwheel mouse, iOS) don't show explicit scroll bar gutters IIRC, and so won't have this problem.
Also, isn't this kind of access necessary to comply with e.g. law enforcement requests/warrants?
Aren't you describing a pretty standard "break glass" mechanism? I don't know who, if anyone, is under the impression that Facebook employees can't access the data you store on their platform, and I don't really understand the ominous undertone of this "revelation."

In any case, yeah Facebook is an immoral company, has been (very obviously) for a long time, and I strongly doubt it was just naivety that lured you in ($$$).
As a resident, your opinion trumps mine. But mine is that the Louvres would be much nicer without that pyramid. I don't care for the aesthetics of it, nor the mentality it represents.
Though the movie character was partly based on Elon:

>According to Fergus, the character was inspired by an amalgam of real people — but none so much as Elon Musk. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/tony-stark-elon-musk...

I guess fiction is often cooler than reality.
I want to be careful for legal reasons. Maybe I'll create a follow-up post.
> The rules are indeed stated in a robotic, and somewhat patronizing way, as if written by a mild aspie to teach a stronger aspie the rules.

Doesn't is kind of have to be? That "curse of knowledge" thing makes it kind of hard to explain things to people who's skill on whatever topic is more than a level or two below your own.
> I can’t do it anymore. I can’t keep contributing to a machine that’s built to exploit, manipulate, and ultimately, control the narrative of billions of people’s lives. Meta is not the future of technology I want to be a part of.

Until you actually do something to counter it, as in, actively counter it, you’ve just given up a very prized chair that millions of people would gladly fill. And haven’t improved the status quo whatsoever. The rate of population and new software devs being minted far exceeds the throughput rate of people resigning from Meta due to privacy concerns.

Also, this isn’t the first “I’m leaving meta because privacy” blog post we’ve seen. Others came before you, and others will come after you. Seems like no one actually does anything other than leave. And then get quickly replaced.

So let me ask you - how many years were you there for, and how much money did you make before ethics suddenly became a concern? You going to hand all that money back to Zuck or what’s the score?
Behavioral Pitfalls When Investing
Well, ten years is both a long time and not that long, you know? But yes US prescriptions peaked in ~2012.
I think they would say the same thing about navigation apps as well. People even joke about it— walking: 20 minutes, walking (gay): 10 minutes. But it's bringing up a good point where the software's design assumes something about the user.

A better design would just ask the user choose their waking speed and ability. If you're in a wheelchair no sidewalks will likely be a problem. If you walk with a cane you probably would prefer fewer elevation changes. It's one of those accessibility features that able bodied people probably get a lot of use out of.

In this case a word count doesn't assume anything about the user but reading time does. I think the emotional response is the one to having ableism pointed out. It doesn't make you a bad person or anything, it's just pointing out a design that perhaps isn't what you intended. If you were a slow reader would you like to be constantly be reminded that you're "below average?"
Historically the answer was "yes, rebuild the Colosseum with different materials," it's not just a modern thing. The desire to make it more original is stronger now than ever before in many places IMO.
Everything about flu and its vaccine !
You know what an artisan is though. There are varying degrees of artisans and craftsmen. Just extend that metaphor to programming. Layers of abstraction aren’t infinite. I’d say metal on metal is a master craftsman in terms of programming.
This is super interesting for me - but I'd love to put it on a bicycle (they are often locked up and stationary - for example) but move at faster speeds. Maybe this means they are only useful at tracking information when locked/stationary?

I really like the idea of using cheap (?) devices in a sort of mesh to feed back telemetry data on pollution. Pollution is everyone's concern, so visualising that would be cool.

Interested to hear if you had any more thoughts on this!
Any particular types of fish or sources of that fish fat?
Really interesting topic, not so great article.

Much better off reading the wilipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst#FRB_220610

In addition to the short summary of that specific event, it has a much more detailed treatment of the subject overall.
I don't know anything about this at all. But I often think about it! I read something once that led me to believe there is no dark matter here on Earth. But I know nothing about this so don't take my word for it. My question has been, if the universe is expanding, am I expanding? Is Earth expanding? Surely it would have to be, (?!) because I keep getting told that the universe isn't expanding into anything but rather, space itself is expanding. Well, I am part of space itself, so am I expanding? Ever so slightly?

I think I read that no, in fact, I am not expanding. The space that I occupy is also not expanding. In fact, no space anywhere near us is expanding. The expansion (we think?!) happens due to dark matter (?) which is not evenly distrubuted and which we can kind of measure (?) and we can know that there isn't any here (?)

Maybe someone who knows more about this can fill in the question marks or otherwise correct me.
This was my first thought when I saw the title. Lots of rapid eye movement and stimulation alongside therapy might release some of the stored trauma.
I can assure you it isn't. This is normal reaction to hearing time and time again the same kind of misinformed sentiment that comes with covert or overt hostility when .NET is mentioned, and attempts to provide details to help participants to update their priors are responded to with demagogy. At some point, it becomes one interaction too many that is bound to make people snap.

I don't think this kind of discourse belongs to HN in the first place, as it is driven by tribalistic behavior which is just shameful.
This article is likely fake, since it's not on vjeux's actual blog[0] and there's no mention on Twitter.[1]

The style is also all off.

[0] https://blog.vjeux.com/
[1] https://x.com/Vjeux
Java dependencies are too complicated for make. See https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-projects-with/...
It’s not snobbery, it’s knowledge and craft. You depend on the transfer of that knowledge from one generation to the next.
Strong migrations helps writing migrations that are safe for ZDD deploys. We use it in our rails app, catches quite a few potential footguns. https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations
The national median home price in the US is $385k according to the most recent Redfin data point on 15 Sep.

I find it very hard to believe that the "top 20 most expensive micropolitan areas" has 1/3 of the listed areas cheaper than the national median home price.
... The former president made a "comeback" ? Yeah... Because of these judges.

They erased his crimes. They released him from prison. They persecuted anyone who called him corrupt. Hell they even gave back the corruption money. They allowed him to run for president. They did everything in their power to make sure he won. Then they banned from politics the only guy who ever managed to pry the worker's party from power.

Then they went to public events to openly brag about it. Supposedly impartial judge goes out and literally says "we have defeated bolsonarism", other judges put out statements literally spelling it out for you that "Lula is president today due to the decisions of the supreme court". Then they start persecuting Bolsonaro and his supporters. Leading us to this very moment where Twitter gets blocked nation wide for failure to comply with their censorship orders.

I actually wish I was delusional. I wish I was just hallucinating all this nonsense. Then I could just take some antipsychotics and everything would be fixed. Unfortunately it's not that easy.

> Your definition of censorship is delusional

It's not my definition.

Read the very simple words written on the constitution.

> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited

The accounts here were engaged in political speech.

Blocking their accounts for that speech absolutely does match the "any and all censorship of political nature" clause.

Nowhere does it say that the judge gets to censor them if they engage in "fake news" or whatever.

Therefore what the judge did is unconstitutional.

Before the elections I witnessed them censor a political documentary before it was even published. Without ever watching the thing, they decided it was "fake news" and stopped its publication. A priori censorship, something not seen in these lands since last century's military dictatorship. An obviously biased political documentary that nobody cares about and only a fool would believe to begin with... Their censorship of it was what made me realize the truth.
convex optimization by boyd vandenberghe should be mentioned https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
Just put in some earbuds and everyone will assume you're on the phone.
Caddy does this! (As you know, I think. I feel I remember we discussed this some time ago)
McDonalds isn’t looking for a chef.
This was posted as a comment on a thread about a new Google tool for LP [0]. It was in response to someone asking for resources on learning linear programming for business applications. It looks like the examples have been solved using Excel, and it's for business students at MIT. Definitely not cutting edge.

The original posting is about new tools and algorithms, with some more analysis. Well beyond my background from undergrad courses in LP and OR, but probably more relevant and insightful to you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41609670
Must be a pretty deep conspiracy then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613132

Created in 2011, that's quite a long con...
>if the universe is expanding, am I expanding? Is Earth expanding?

No. I've heard experts say so explicitly. The exception is that if the expansion continues to accelerate, then billions of years from now first planets, then people will be ripped apart.

Also the expansion is due to dark energy which is quite different from dark matter. dark energy is everywhere but (for now) it is weak enough that, e.g., gravity can easily hold the planet together.
I don't think you're using "dorking" correctly here, since web crawlers aren't anywhere in the picture. Server log queries aren't "dorks." Besides, if you can reproduce the issue and _if_ it's somehow logged in the database, it's usually not too hard to figure out how to query for other occurrences.

With that said, I think you're probably right. I doubt Firebase audit logs contain update contents, and based on the bug report, your "in and out" proposal is as simple as:

firebase.collection("boosts").where("creatorID", "==", "attackers_user_id").update({"creatorId": "victims_user_id" });

sleep(time);

firebase.collection("boosts").where("creatorID", "==", "victims_user_id").update({"creatorId": "attackers_user_id" });

(okay, not exactly, because this would also set the ownership of the victim's legitimate Boosts, but the actual code isn't much more difficult).
From your link:

> There is debate about how the therapy works and whether it is more effective than other established treatments.[3][9] The eye movements have been criticized as having no scientific basis.[10] The founder promoted the therapy for the treatment of PTSD, and proponents employed untestable hypotheses to explain negative results in controlled studies.[11] EMDR has been characterized as a pseudoscientific purple hat therapy (i.e., only as effective as its underlying therapeutic methods without any contribution from its distinctive add-ons).[12]

I always assumed EMDR's effectiveness had nothing to do with eye movements.
Beyond Borders: The Effects of Immigrants on Value-Added Trade
I think it depends on how new your students are to programming. If they are already coding and have their favorite IDE then it would be nice to force them to try something new to see a different workflow (even if they end up going back to vscode later).

On the other hand for newer programmers you want to focus less on the tools, installation and workflow and more on just getting them programming. In that situation the batteries included environments like RStudio would be preferred.

Another practical thing to think about is how much you and your TAs want to wrestle with installation issues vs just giving them a web based notebook environment like Colab.
Like that, but cheaper and more accurate.
I totally agree.

And the extent to which we're really ignorant, is generally not ackcowledged in the way things are generally described.

For instance, in this article as is typical, the discrepancy between what current theory predicts, and what is currently observed, is described as the universe being "missing" something 8-)

It's not that our theories are incorrect, it's that the universe is "missing" this thing that we predict should be there 8-)

Maybe eventually the universe will correct it's error and meet human expectations 8-)
Not really, works quite well as long as your proxy/server have enough memory to hold the requests for a little while. As long as you're not serving near your max load all the time, it's a breeze.
FYI Garnet requires JIT but this is sort of irrelevant in Garnet's scenario as as frequently starting and killing your Redis server is the last thing you want to do. It can be self-contained in either case, and the happy path scenario will be using one of the pre-built docker images I linked in one of the sibling comments. The described issues are made up.
> break apart programs into object files and reusing them

So, libraries?
People have been able to buy unlocked phones and use them without a service contract for over a decade in the US. In recent years, you can even change mobile networks from your couch with a few taps via eSIM.

The US has 3 mobile networks, and it’s a massive country with massive infrastructure needs. I imagine costs must be at least a little bit higher to offset the need for more infrastructure per customer.
Current iPhone batteries are rated 1000 cycles. That's many years if you mostly leave your phone in standby, that will be less than a year before it significantly degrades if you're using it daily and not just for web/SNS browsing.

That's my home's experience, if you listen to The Vergecast that's the hosts' experiences as well.
Laravel has been using it for, what, a decade now?

https://laravel.com
For those not familiar with every CVE ID, that's a WiFi driver bug for a "chipset commonly used on embedded platforms that support Wifi6 (802.11ax) including Ubiquiti, Xiaomi, and Netgear devices"
Vim users only
VS Code + R extension is pretty good.
Not everything committed to WebKit ships in Safari.

But the status changed to resolved/fixed only a month ago and it's in the latest Safari Technology Preview so maybe scrollbar-gutter will ship this year.

https://www.webkit.org/blog/15860/release-notes-for-safari-t...
TBF Binet's formula is astonishing
This is a good point. When we envision a scenario we are tasked to either imagine it playing out in a way that supports our sensibilities about fairness and justice or we picture it playing out in a way that offends and repels us. Heavy weighs the head of those that take up the task of contemplating the infinite minutiae of the multiverse
FTC sues insulin middlemen for pocketing billions while patients face high costs
Many documented cases of non zero marginal cost energy systems failing. And in response we have learnt to eliminate, minimise, and manage risk better in those systems.

But apparently, in zero marginal cost energy it’s impossible. The only energy systems where you can have reliability have rent seeking minerals companies selling you fuel.
From the looks of the “good” code referenced in this article, maybe the author needs another 10k hours. `data: T | any` lmao, just WHY? why try to use generics if you’re going to allow any..
That's the weirdest thing about this whole saga. Opioids are not illegal, they haven't been removed from insurance or Medicare coverage, and doctors are still free to over-prescribe them with little to no repercussions.

It's kind of like if Ford got sued out of existence for every traffic death, but every other manufacturer got to keep making cars.
Older folks use Facebook so the answer is probably no.
In the legal filing yes spacex putting their stuff on the property is a main complaint. The lawsuit alleges trespassing, destruction of the pristine state of the property, and reputational damage. No idea how well the suit will fare but it certainly appears to have some merit.
Companies don’t need software artisans. They need replaceable people who can do the job until they run out of investor’s money.
It's an interesting phenomenon. ChatGPT and other LLMs have really opened up previously "archaic" tooling like Make and Bash. I've "written" more Bash in the last year than my entire career previously, because LLMs are such good copilots for that.
org chart has been shipped (excel labor cost model actually)
I had a similar thought, and wondered if any external security researchers found anything related to this backdoor.

If it's not exploitable outside of Meta, I am not sure it would be called a backdoor in the front-end, but perhaps more of an internal Meta tool that they probably needed for law enforcement and things.
> He could delete the files, and will no longer receive these emails.

He could, but that would be less funny and he'd have one less backup.

And it's not his job to delete the files that Dropbox already said they'd throw away.

> I find it odd if you ask me to store 2.5 TB in my computer, don’t bother deleting my reminders, and even post against me.

He paid Dropbox exactly as much money as they asked for, as a normal user in good faith. Dropbox chose to make indefinite cold storage part of the normal plan, rather than have a 3/6/12 month cutoff.

If you offered indefinite cold storage for previous customers, and you were sending emails like this, I wouldn't find it odd at all for someone to post against you.
> Not only have you invoked Godwin

Nah that only happens if you use the h work or the other-n-word.

> you have managed to compare Winston Churchill to Hitler!

Oh no! The Godwin threshold has been breached! Awooga awooga!

It's almost like I did that intentionally. Let's think for a moment why that might be an appropriate comparison: first they were historical opponents, on opposite sides of a conflict. Hitler is the bad guy, and at least in most people's minds Churchill was the good guy. But Churchill is also responsible for somewhere in the region of 1 million deaths due to treating another group as less than human. Which means any portrayal of him as the "good guy" is choosing to ignore, discredit, or diminish the value of those lives. Murder by imperialism and bureaucracy is still murder, just apparently easier to get away with.
> They give it a B for the research and an effect size of moderate improvement. Also a B with a small effect size for anxiety

To be fair, this is among the most highly rated things on the entire site - let not the "B" scare you off. A moderate effect size is pretty substantial, all things considered.
I don't think you necessarily need to optimize before you make the code "clean" but you should at least understand what it will take to make it performant. This is a stronger requirement than it might sound like since most programmers are quite bad at predicting what will perform well without profiling first.

So knock together a prototype and profile that to understand what the bottlenecks are in your program, then you have an informed baseline of how the program needs to fit together to function well.
Installing Firefox + unlock origin does the job without the effort.
Python.jl – Seamlessly blend Python and Julia (but you probably want seams) [video]
Spot on! Given the domain name, I was expecting to see something more serious. The ads are an instant turnoff, never mind the content.
The fusion breakthrough in the National Ignition Facility was said to be essentially a program claiming to be for nuclear weapons research but instead they did fundamental research.
> he does not have an answer

Well, yeah. That's the whole point.
I can assure you, you are wrong. Most Linux devs and admins don't know lick all about best practices/maintenance/care-amd-feeding of a .NET runtime.

I get the pain at seeing a snap judgement against a valid virtual machine. But we just don't have the wide scale practice of running that virtual machine, like we do node or python or jvm or rails. .NET has long been a very distant satellite practiced by people who are not like us, who don't run Linux.

It's no longer a hard barrier to cross (running .net on Linux)! Many people do! Yay!! But it still feels like a separate world from a separate place & circumstance.
Around 7 years. I don’t update software that often either (I’m usually 2 versions or so behind, always)
They're not subject to that agreement by accident.
It’s kind of a QA tactic in a sense

It's not kind of a QA tactic, this is literally the definition of QA. Specifically, this post is about ad-hoc functional testing. Kinda funny how this kind of testing used to dominate, but in the era of CI/CD, dedicated QA departments, and fancy webdriver suites, we've flipped too far the other way, and developers need to be reminded to QA their own stuff!

I think we've all learned the hard way that nothing works until it's been fixed, no exceptions... no code comes off the dome flawless.
The HN account being compromised seems like the obvious explanation.
H100 NVL is easily available. It’s just that it’s close to $20k.
Artisans don't scale.
Just flag+downvote and move on, it's been 8 years already and it never changes.

While on the topic of macOS, Swift Library Evolution ABI support is coming .NET for native integration with Swift (particularly for system APIs). I have not tried it yet but it's an interesting feature AFAIK no other language has, well, besides Swift itself.