skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to be able to unblock people. An unblock all would be nice to get back to baseline. A while back I blocked everyone that followed a specific user that kept appearing in my feed (this was prior to the musk acquisition where you can view accounts you follow explicitly which is nice).

This was around 50k people (it did make a noticeable difference). The unblock is broken though - I was able to unblock maybe 1k, but now it lists nothing and it's impossible to unblock any others.

As is I just do it occasionally when I see a blocked account appear in a reply.
A few secure, random bytes without `pgcrypto`
This seems to require sharing our data we provide to OpenAI with yet another party. I don't see any zero-retention offering.
> Jurassic Park inspired more people to go into biotech than any academic paper. The Matrix inspired more people to go into computer science than any GitHub repo. The Martian inspired more people to go into aerospace engineering than any industry trend report.

> Science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it does something much more interesting: tell stories about technology so compelling that people dedicate their lives to advancing the frontier.
s/people using the feature/profit left to extract/g
So much syntax to enable something that other languages have had for 10+ years. That's why I can't take the "Java is as good as Kotlin now" arguments seriously.
> we can ram this data through a parallel map, but is it actually safe to do?

Most of the time - it is, sort of. As in, accessing types that are not meant for concurrent access may lead to logic bugs, but the chance of this violating memory safety is almost nonexistent with the standard library and slim with community ones (for example, such library may use a native dependency which itself is not thread-safe, usually it's clear whether this is the case or not but the risk exists).

The common scenarios are well-known - use Interlocked.Add instead of +=, ConcurrentDictionary<K, V> instead of a plain one, etc. .AsParallel() itself already is able to collect the data in parallel - you just use .ToArray and call it a day.

Other than that, most APIs that are expected to be used concurrently are thread-safe - from the top of my head: HttpClient, Socket, JsonSerializerOptions, Channel<T> and its Reader/Writer can be shared by many threads (unless you specify single reader/writer on construction to reduce synchronization). Task<T> can be awaited multiple times, by multiple threads too. A lot of C# code already assumes concurrent execution, and existing concurrency primitives usually reduce the need for explicit synchronization. Worst case someone just slaps lock (instance) { ... } on it and gets on with their life.

This is to say, Rust provides watertight guarantees in a way C# is simply unable to, and when you are writing low-level code, you are on your own in C# where-as Rust has your back. But in other situations - C# is generally not known to suffer from race conditions and async/await usually allows to flow the data in a linear fashion in multi-tasking code, allowing the underlying implementation to do synchronization for you.
>>> Credit card fees are where the real money is made, and the meat of the complaint here.

From the DOJ Press Release [0]:

"Justice Department Sues Visa for Monopolizing Debit Markets"

"Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the complaint alleges that Visa illegally maintains a monopoly over debit network markets by using its dominance to thwart the growth of its existing competitors and prevent others from developing new and innovative alternatives."

0 mentions of the word "credit"
27 mentions of the word "debit"

I'd love for this lawsuit to be about Credit Card fees, but it appears be limited in scope to debit card fees.

[0]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-visa-...
So there's always inevitably at least one poorest person in the country who is automatically depressed? Omelas is a law of nature?
The department store embodies middle-class consumerism of the 20th century. While consumerism is going stronger than ever, the same cannot be said about the middle class.

The shopping experience of the department store (pleasant environment, individual attention by knowledgeable salespeople etc.) is now only to be found in upmarket boutique shops, whereas hoi polloi are being served by goods distribution systems that are essentially automated.
The internet may have declined but it's the LLM's that are finishing it off.

I'm still unsure how exactly the LLM's get fed going forward, it's not like the world will remain static once most of the human written websites have shuttered.
Attention, Spoiled SWEs: Take a Lesson from Go
I miss the days when this kind of tool would be something I could just install on my PC and use, rather than having to spin up server or pay a fee to use ($10 a month!?). Like this wonderful tool: https://sqlitebrowser.org/

OSS is dead.
Being Raised by the Internet
Just to be clear they still won't be able to interact with you after they're blocked. The only change is they can keep seeing your tweets directly in their account, as opposed to having to log out.
Treat it like you do customer support and automate it. Or is that not allowed?
When you buy any other car for $100k, you get something that's already easy to clean - the wrap is basically a $6k "our CEO is a narcissist" tax on every customer.
> i do think it would be clearer, though, to explain up front that the module being built is not made of python code, but rather callable from python code

I know nothing about micropython. Do the modules contain bytecode?
Maybe finally this can help clarify how their WASABI interface thing works for the visualization plugins
I agree, and also know my own personal bias against this particular company and whatever extent I might go to boycott or avoid its products are ultimately inconsequential to their bottom line.
You can insert "cancel" between "x" and ".com"
Imagine that if you want people to be consumed into solving some problem put there (like protein folding), you create scifi movie about it. And tada! More people dedicated to doing that.
Esper v0.2.0-alpha: a minimal PL that targets C++
Uh, who do I use if not Visa (1.15 to 2.4%) or Mastercard (1.15 to 2.5%)? Square (2.6 to 2.9%)? AMEX (up to 3.3%)? Paypal (3 to 3.5%)?
>You post something in public it is public

I find that Twitter users somehow misunderstand this. Especially small ones that only interact with themselves, posting misinformation. See a lot of the Palestine Twitter. Then a bigger account comes and comments/corrects or spreads their OWN PUBLIC POST. Then it's an "attack". Its baffling.
I've dreamed of cloning Flash for a long time. Aiming for full compatibility is infeasible (unless you can convince the Ruffle folks to give it a go once they're done with Ruffle!), but aiming to capture the spirit of Flash (e.g. build Flash like authoring tools on top of TS/WebGL) is certainly doable.

The Wick editor was one such attempt, though it didn't gain traction and was abandoned.

Also there seem to be quite a lot of us who feel this way -- a dozen or more every time Flash is mentioned on HN -- maybe it's time we got organized? "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it!"
You could change it
Removing the link to view cached content will do that.
Game theory works.
unbiased third party reviews

Where can I find these unbiased third party reviews?
Totally. Microsoft is a surely benevolent entity to host the Linux project. They've proven to be excellent stewards of open source in their copilot project.
> IIRC, cell death from radiation poisoning follows a bathtub curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident (this one is safe)

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81... (this is NSFL beyond a certain point)

> On a cold day of 2 December 2001, three inhabitants of Lia (later designated
as Patients 1-DN, 2-MG and 3-MB) drove their truck approximately 45–50 km
east of Lia to collect firewood. At around 18:00, they found two containers —
metallic, cylindrical objects — lying on a forest path. Around them, the snow
had curiously thawed within a radius of approximately 1 m, and the wet soil
was steaming. All three individuals stated that the two, rather heavy, cylindrical objects (8–10 kg, 10 cm × 15 cm) were found by chance while carrying out their usual task of collecting firewood.

> One of the three men (Patient 3-MB) picked up one of the cylindrical
objects and, finding that it was hot, dropped it immediately. They planned to
place the gathered wood in their truck the next morning, and because it was
getting dark, they decided to spend the night in the forest, using the hot objects they had discovered as personal heaters.

Section 6 on page 36 is where it gets NSFL. It only gets worse as you continue going through the timeline. There are pictures - they are not for the weak of stomach.

Section 4 is neat from the engineering perspective... "how do you move something that is radioactive enough to melt the snow around it?"
Most of those non-killed explanations were still Google’s decision. As a consumer, I do not care what is happening behind the scenes. Only that yesterday I was using Google-Foo and today it is Google-Baz.

It gets complicated if you want to rule lawyer if the alternative implementation counts as a seamless alternative. Do technically any of the dozen plus chat apps count as killed? A similar functionality thing still exists in that space. Although they all seemed to cover a slightly different feature set.
Once upon a time, you could interact with someone using "@nickname ..." or retweet them using "RE: @nickname: ...".
I'm aware of Google's history of shutting down services... but...

> And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own software on it? Probably zero.

Will you have no trouble buying a Roku or Amazon Fire Stick though?

Those are also paper weights once the company decides to stop supporting them - and I'm not aware of any consumer electronics that allows you to install your own software on it.

Seems like a strange swipe at Google, even though your complaints apply to all of these devices regardless of brand.

For what it's worth - Google's latest phones, Pixel 9, boast 7 years of updates and support.
Not to mention people attempting to slander others behind a block (so the person being slandered has no idea until the damage is already done), or temporarily unblocking to say something to someone, and then blocking again.
They can spin it how they like. consuming arable land to make expensive gasoline is just a bad excuse to avoid making better solutions viable. Nevermind that food insecurity and poverty in "third world" countries generates a large amount of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels for lighting, heating uninsulated structures, etc. Grow food... to feed people.
You know this article is casting aspersions right? How hypocritical do you have to be?

I’d want to know what their goal was, what their velocity is, and what evidence we have that they intend to sandbag forever instead of just being 18 months behind schedule. This is generally how we’ve berated other fossil fuel giants in the past. So they were aiming for 5% and got 1% with a whole plant nearly done but not running. That could still go either way and there’s 18 months of subsequent data out there somewhere that would tell us which. Without that data there’s no scoop, no story. It’ll be news in January when their reports come out.
Should you be able to repost something from someone who blocked you?

The other feature was mute. I guess that is not necessary anymore.
The key thing to remember about credit cards is "credit", "CREDIT" You can have literally no money to your name but if you have a credit card, you can spend up to whatever the balance is. Someone is loaning you money, someone is taking risk that you will pay. You are protect by government regulation so that if you file a dispute, you are protected until it's proven that you actually did spend the money. With debit card or FedNow, you need to have the money, you don't have dispute protections.
My wife runs her own occupational therapy business (OT is consistently assessed to be one of the jobs least likely to ever be automated). Credit card processors still rule her life.
Slate Star Codex made an argument against it here https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Basic-Income-Not-Basi...

It's been a few years but my recollection is something like:

1. The jobs that are crappy enough for jobs programs are not useful jobs to be done anyway.

2. The overhead involved in having a job (Transportation, childcare, all kinds of second-order negatives on your life) can easily outweigh shitty salaries. Also jobs programs would be worse for people with kids, unless you add more child tax credit to prop up that side of the stool.

3. Having a job takes away free time that otherwise could be used for training or education. Planting trees by hand in the sun is not going to look like anything on anyone's resume. You could put another leg on the stool by having a college grant program or something, but it's another step away from jobs and towards UBI

If you're going to pay people to do something pointless, maybe just pay them to exist anyway?
Well, the way I see it, there is a real possibility that we're going to have to figure out what to do after that happens some day. There's no fundamental law of nature that guarantees we'll have enough work to keep the vast majority of people working.

It already feels like many of the jobs that exist today are bullshit, and knowing that your job is bullshit is not exactly good for your mental health, either.
Have you not paid attention to twitter since he bought it?

The guy has been forcing his accounts and shit takes onto everyone's timelines.

Accounts have mysteriously started following his account when they never manually did it.

Muting his account hasn't properly worked since he bought twitter.

It's literally what he's been doing it since day 1 of purchase.

Sorry if that sounds a bit rude, but I'm just baffled by people literally denying reality when it smacks them in the face repeatedly.
You are probably right, based on the quote in this very article where the judge says that is exactly the reason.

Not sure why you added ‘probably’
Yes, because the live chat that happens on IRC is meant to be ephemeral. It's a place where you go to hang out with people, shoot the shit, or ask off-the-cuff things. Most IRC moderators have a no-logging policy because it's supposed to be a shared space that people "move into and out of".

Email is where official business happens. That's where debug logs are pasted, and people can reply on a point-by-point basis, with quotes, references, and attachments. It's meant to be high quality/detail and searchable. That's why mailing lists have archives.

When IRC and email aren't separate, you get Slack and Discord -- places that don't do either off-the-cuff chat, or searchable documentation, particularly well.
You blocked 50k people? Don't you have to block people one by one? How did you even do this?
> An autonomously self-optimizing postbiotic system has emerged, the rapidly growing factual knowledge and the general, domain-independent intelligence of which has superseded that of mankind, and irrevocably so.

> The BAAN-scenario is a logical instrument that can perhaps help us to think about some of the deeper aspects in the applied ethics of artificial intelligence.

You know, my big problem with AI theory is that people make handwavy and nonsense statements, then back out by saying it's just a "logic instrument" and doesn't need to be explained. In science we just call this fraud; the author writes assertions that have no basis in theory, ignore the limits of conventional research, and blatantly stoke the reader's fears of AI armageddon. If you want me to fear situations where AI might have control over my life, start by introducing realistic stakes or circumstances where it might happen, not godlike entities in a post-dystopia AI-run world. Self-driving cars or AI-assisted medical care is subtle enough to get the point across.

I know this might seem novel for 2017 literature, but anti-natalism (or applied nihilism) and AI fearmongering are not new concepts. Also - they're just kinda wrong. There isn't really a logical or historically successful basis for nihilism besides the inevitability of suffering. But that alone doesn't deny the concept of life, and humanity stands here now as evidence. If society was built by absolute nihilists, we would have nothing. AI owes it's existence to people who, however foolishly, believe in a future for humanity.
I think I read she owes $11B as part of her conviction.
>The things I say to a room or to people at a table are not meant for everyone at the event.

Not what Twitter was or is? You have misunderstood the site like a Facebook timeline boomer poster. "uuoooh people can see this!!!" Yes. Twitter is not your own IRC server. But seeing as it started with MacBook Starbucks hipsters, I am not surprised they just made something up in their minds and rolled with it.
Most interesting! :D

Logic gates implemented with non-ideal transistors have non-zero rise times. Therefore, they are smooth and differentiable.
Oh the envy. The rest of us shlubs on other platforms had to hand assemble and poke it into memory. Ugh.
>part of the department store experience is the relative expertise of staff in each department

That's been unusual in the United States for at least a generation. Nordstrom is a notable exception. Department stores have shed departments, too. The camera counters hung on for a while after other electronics and toys had gone to big box stores, but they've gone the way of the candy and nut counter.
Debian Packaging from First Principles
This is true, but it is also very brittle and cannot kick in where compiler cannot assert that e.g. source and destination do not alias, where it might change semantics or where there might be side-effects that the compiler cannot hoist out of the loop body on your behalf.

Which is why most code that really cares about optimal HW utilization is vectorized explicitly - it's problematic to assert against potential regressions between compiler versions and addressing them is just as brittle.
How Propshaft Works: A Rails Asset-Pipeline (Visual) Breakdown
Do you actually want automated take-downs? Isn't that what people already complain the most about on YouTube?
"Maybe you're hallucinating", let alone "let's say you're hallucinating", is a really weird take on someone thinking of a reasonable semantic distinction even if you disagree about its existence or relevance.

Perhaps you can say that to a friend as banter or in a tongue-in-cheek way, similarly to how you might say "I must be hallucinating" about yourself. But as an argument in a discussion with a stranger, it seems rather dismissive and inappropriate.

And it does reek a bit like something stolen from LLM terminology.
god explaining how much I racked up with CompuServe to my parents was hard as a kid... and then long distance later on when I found a free unix shell I could connect into.. ahhhh those were the days :)
They are not that fragile if you don't drop hard. Never used case for A50, it still looks almost new after years of active use. But for iphone I got a thin case, to protect popping out cameras and to make it look cool. Main concern is thieves if I travel somewhere, not the physical damage.
Children, generally, do not read academic papers.
Thinking LLMs are anyone's salvation in the fact of Dead Internet Theory has to most the most incomprehensible thing I've read on this site. Maybe ever.
Looking through the demo I think almost all of the experience is being powered by the zillow API, and a minor amount of summarization may be getting handled by an OpenAI API. I think the AI claims are largely but not entirely hype related. It's still not very clear to me what advantages this is giving me as a buyer vs a traditional agent or even being unrepresented and just using zillow's product offerings. Maybe I'm missing the point though.
I'm sorry you're frustrated, but it has nothing to do with this change, which works in the opposite direction.
Closure on a Stack Exchange site isn't supposed to be permanent: it just means "this question isn't answerable (by us) yet". Maybe try, and see what happens?
Seriously? There is no amount of money I would be willing to serve two years in prison for.

She has no money, can’t get a job, and is going to be IN PRISON for two years.

I never understand people who seem to think any amount of jail time is trivial. I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.
NotCo alliance with Cramer will now do perfumes with the help of AI
Here are the books I've read so far in 2024, with a letter grade for each:

1. David Copperfield (B). Dickens's favorite of his novels, but you can definitely tell he is being paid by the word. I think a writer's workshop (if they had existed in his day) would have admonished him to tighten things up.

2. Postmodernism 101 by Heath White (2006, A-). A short (165 pp.) book written from a Christian (but academic) perspective. I found it very helpful.

3. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978, B). Written in the form of the memoirs of a director recently retired from the London stage. As a woman, Murdoch is eerily effective at representing the thoughts of a prideful, slightly unhinged older, but still vigorous, man. I think this is the first book I've ever read with an "unrealiable narrator," but perhaps someone who has studied literature seriously might disagree with that assessment. In addition to being a prolific novelist, Murdoch was an accomplished philosopher, and her brilliance shines through from time to time. But I must say it is a strange book. I would recommend The Bell to a first time reader of Murdoch.

4. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (1922, A). My daughter recommended it to me, and it's probably fair to call it a women's novel, but I very much enjoyed it. It's about women that are stifled in their daily lives in London finding, each in her own way, a new joy in living -- while staying at a seaside castle in Italy for the month of April.

5. Love & Mercy, a screenplay by Oren Moverman (2012, B). My daughter-in-law is a screenwriter and recommended this to me. The story centers on Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, specifically his descent into mental illness, and how he is eventually rescued from tyrannical and unproductive psychiatric care by a woman who becomes his girlfriend and steadfast advocate. I haven't yet seen the movie, but it had an A-list cast.
So all diddy needs to do is get on the stand and describe every single party of his and he’ll get a slap on the wrist?

While there should be more incentives to cooperate, like the type of prison, allowed visits, etc. claiming someone should serve less time because they described so much of their own crimes is kind of silly
completely correct, but I dont think thats where OP is coming from or what the article intends to suggest either. Its recommending that you try multiple things, get a feel for whats technically feasible & if it looks interesting to the customer and push that forward. Its very well applicable to indie devs & also applicable to large companies to some extent. This philosophy is great to identify the feature/product you want to spend meaningful time on.

In fact, one could wager that the situation you described is directly a consequence of not adhering to what OP is suggesting.
They are figs so they do produce the same kind of syconiums as figs but it's not really intended to be consumed by humans because it is small, tastes bitter, and can be a mild laxative. Plenty of other animals consume it tho and it's used a lot for feeding livestock.
As long as it stays with one server that’s fine. But what do you do in the hypothetical scenario that Facebook decides to use your tile server?

Nginx is fast, but I think that’s asking too much of it.

Of course that problem hasn’t happened yet, but it’s what I’d be worried about.