skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you have 3 environments (which IMHO is the minimum viable number: dev, staging, prod), it tends to be much easier to generalise that to N, at least from the application side (spinning up the extra infra is a separate beast). It tends to weed out many of the "if (prod)"s because there should now be differences between dev & staging that you need to take care of, and sprinkling elaborate switch statements gets tedious really fast - most devs tend to be happier actually simplifying code.

I've seen some really nasty offenders though, e.g. actual business logic hidden behind an "if (window.location.hostname == ...)". Sometimes it takes a lot of patience to explain that this is how you get production-only bugs that QA will never have a chance to find or reproduce.
Surely there's some middle ground between the sibling thread where it's insured for 1000x and the situation I and many others find ourselves in with insurance dealings where the insurance company digs up some sale in a private database by a wholesaler in Szechuan, calls that the "market price" and then cuts you a check that doesn't even come close to replacing the item, usually a car.

I would love a clause in the contract where for non-rare goods you have the option to have the insurance company make you whole by buying you a same model, same trim or higher, same miles or lower, same year or newer car. Like you claimed the market price was less then half of what I can buy it for, use whatever contacts you clearly have and buy it for that.
It isn’t just Tyson. The entire industrial meat industry, especially in the United States, exploits workers. Those workers are often immigrants.

Take a look at what they did during COVID:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/meatpack...
Liberty Lifter: Transforming Fast Logistics at Sea
This made me consider what sort of orbital archeology would take place. I imagine it would be a gold mine for anyone trying to study that civilization, and attempting to snatch pieces out of orbit would be a huge focus.
Oh cnc them ibto stainless steel plates. Then they can silk screen them onto paper if they need copies.
> I can imagine that King has a very deep connection to The Shining as Jack is probably the closest that King has got to an autobiographical character.

Kimg has a few autobiographical characters, but surely the closest has to be when he literally self inserted himself into the gunslinger series.
I would gladly work for 1/2 the money to work 1/2 the hours. Like 30 actual hours per week.
You say that, but it used to be a common criticism Americans had of British currency, that large denominations (up to £2) were exclusively coins.

They cited that coins are in compatible with nearly all wallets, being weighed down, and somehow never actually having exact change.
Just had a cancer diagnosis (bile duct, I'm 53). Surgery in a months time will hopefully see me healthy again after it, but I've already decided to make changes even if it has spread and I only have a much shorter time to live.

I always thought I'd contemplated life and death before this (I am not religious), but having had several weeks of genuinely not knowing if I only had a week to live, I think you only really do this fully in that kind of situation. Even if I am cured, my life and attitude will never be the same again.
You have a distributed system on your hands at that point so you need idempotent processes + reconciliation/eventual consistency. Basically thinking a lot about failure, resyncing data/state, patterns like transactional outboxes, durable queues, two-phase commit, etc etc. It just quickly gets into the specifics of your task/system/APIs so hard to give general advice. Most apps do not solve these problems super well for a long time unless they are in critical places like billing, and even then it might just mean weird repair jobs, manual APIs to resync stuff, audits, etc. Usually an event-bus/queue or related DB table for the idempotent work + some async process validating that table can go a long way though.
Everything happening around the poles, that is where the biggest increases in average temperature have happened, should be worrying. When you replace ice/snow (that is good reflecting light and heat from the sun) with something darker like deep ocean water (for floating ice, mostly in the north) or plants (for this case) you are empowering another positive feedback loop towards global warming, accelerating the rate at which the planet as a whole heats up.

What is now covered by vegetation is a hint of everything that is happening all around.
This is probably the new CEO’s idea. Keep in mind this person got rid of the person that was supposed to be CEO while that person was recovering from cancer treatments. That should tell you a lot
There is something to being wary of rounding up. For example when you get food from a drive-through or buy groceries and they ask you to round up to the nearest dollar, with the rest of the exchange going towards a charitable cause. They do that because at scale it's enough for them to get a tax incentive for charitable donations via other people's action. I refuse to help an international corporation cheese tax law.

But for something like me handing the shawarma guy a tenner for an exchange that comes out to $9.39, it's not anything to even care about. It's a rounding error.
But nobody charged him with hacking.
Maybe it was before your time, but Diablo was absolutely huge in its day. Like, "top 10 for the 1990s" huge.

Created (or at least established or set the benchmark for) the action RPG genre, spawned clones and imitators, and has multiple triple A sequels.

Left a HUGE footprint, in other words.
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Assassin's Creed Shadows Has a Base-Building SIM Inside of It
Yes but they're a big voting population in swing states that actually decide elections which is why I say they're the votes that matter. It's why Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are getting pelted with political ads right now.
There have been a spree of recent experiments with LLMs solving logic puzzles (specifically Cheryl's Birthday). I wanted to replicate and repeat the tests from [0] with more LLMs. For reference, that article tested whether the trained models handled obfuscation of the text so that verbatim discussions of the solution were less likely to appear in the training corpus.

Then I wanted to move further and test whether LLMs were prone to distraction with extraneous and irrelevant data. In a world where RAG may pull in "compromised" data, I wanted to see if LLMs could ignore cruft or if it would alter their answer. TL;DR - it altered the answers.

o1 dropped as I was making graphs etc so, I included the results from testing it as an additional section. It was still distractable but was more capable in the obfuscated case.

Forgive the bait headline, I'm still trying to find the best balance of information and marketing for posts like this. Suggestions welcome on that front.

[0] https://timharford.com/2024/08/ai-has-all-the-answers-even-t...
That doesn't necessarily tell you what the solution with the optimal cost of x is, though.
How are you going to prevent fraudulent double spending of these digital coins? You'd have to invent some kind of Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus method.
I was given the opportunity to rotate many things at the beginning while trying styles. I removed all of them at the end, but I missed this one. It can be removed; it doesn't add anything. Thank you.
Yet you still can't tell me who was compared and if it was favorable or not.
I'm guilty here. For years I've been meaning to learn modern webdev, but every time I've sat down to read the docs, tutorials, books, and what have you - I just give up after a couple of hours. Getting seemingly easy stuff done is just a drag.

The other day I decide to try ChatGPT 4o with canvas. For a solid year, I've planned to create some easy membership registration and booking system for this small club I'm part of - just simple stuff to book rooms in a building.

Well, to my absolute amazement - I had a working product up and running after 4 hours of working with ChatGPT. One block at a time, one function at a time. After a day I had built on a bunch of functionality.

So while I'm not completely clueless on back-end programming, my front-end skills are solidly beginner. But it felt like a breeze working with ChatGPT. I think I manually modified at tops 10 lines during all this, everything else was just copy/paste and upload source files to ChatGPT.

Any errors I'd get, I'd either copy/paste, or provide a screenshot.

I actually tried doing something similar when GPT3.5 came out almost two years ago, but it was just too cumbersome then. What I experienced the other day felt lightyears beyond that.

So, did I learn anything ? No - not really. But did it solve a problem for me? yes.

EDIT: But I will add, it did provide solid explanations to any questions I had. Dunno how well it would have worked if my 70 year old mom had tried the same thing, but a gamechanger for people like me.
Watched the video and tried to visit the website. What happened to it? You close up shop? Looks like it was a good solution
Not the same at all. The results of calculators are verifiable. The results of AI can be dangerously wrong without easy validation. Calculators don't eliminate the application of concepts from learning, but AI does.
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I am surprised Heartbleed is not on the list, it’s very easy to duplicate.
Fragging
My comment wasn't about 'if's, but the thought of entitlement to mess around with other peoples stuff, or at least try 'look' at it.

That deserves to be flushed down the drain, or the kitchen sink.
Dudeney's Remainder Problem
And maybe, instead of common metals and assigning them arbitrary value, we could make them out of rare metals (with a little bit of alloying for hardness) and people can trade them for their relative abundance or rarity!
gosh, evidently being the bearer of bad news deserves a down vote. Or maybe people just think it's wrong and the internet does not reward shorter articles?
Have a colleague doing this. His rationale is that the phone is for synchronous communication only.

All the rest lives in the tablet and is both more practical and more cumbersome enough that it is used as a tool and not addictive/wasteful of his concentration. The tablet doesn’t fit in his pockets.
Nomination and selection process of Nobel Prize laureates
You and GP and all others in this thread of comments.

Can you share anything you've done so that we can all see it?
Never even heard of f.lux? It was pretty popular with Windows users.

About Wiki, 1400K is an exaggeration, the default curve minimum (at night) is 4500K.
Don’t buy insurance from the same company giving you the service.

Insurance is for you and you should pick it from your own choice of company and you should tailor the policy for your own needs.

Same with financing.

In my case, I get a lot of my insurance from a guy in my town and he has an office that I can walk into if I need help.
I haven't read them but that certainly sounds more autobiographical.

I've also seen the theory that Jack Torrance in the film had been sexually abusing Danny. There's various links with the use of bears (e.g. the fellatio scene with the man in the bear suit) and the subtle use of pornography around the hotel (e.g. Jack reading PlayGirl in the hotel lobby).
Does anyone have suggestions for math textbooks that follow these writing rules?
No, I can't agree with you here.

I'm software engineering student. I had a phase year ago where I was using ChatGPT a lot, a lot more than I ever should have.

And it messed up with my brain a lot. I felt I became utterly lazy; to the point where quick fixes that should have taken me like, 10-15 seconds (?) I had to do with AI, which often took a very long time.

And the point of studying is to learn. You won't learn anything if you have someone else write your software for you.
Technology that renders effort and research pointless makes people lazy and stupid, story at 11
Come on. It is not an article and I have read it.

My point is that I see the streaming payout scheme as fraudulent. It is a block box 'trust me bro'.

Clearly, it is possible to abuse it and the streamers want to be the ones doing it.

I understand perfectly well what the FBI and music industry think is the fraud. They wanted some other label to have the money.
My friends in a top tier high school had no intuition about numbers because they used calculators for everything, including basic addition and subtraction.

Some of them had customer service jobs where they became utterly confused if the change was 99 cents and the customer gave them an additional penny.
I'm not the person you asked, but most people like that - opportunistic burglars, etc - are no more keen to run into the police than you are to run into them. They'll just run.

Granted, the equation changes dramatically when various drugs are involved.
> there are writings that are either outright dangerous, or at least need some context in order to be consumed safely

Can you name three?

In the real world, I can't think of any writing that was/is dangerous on its own. There are some texts people colloquially accuse of having historically caused trouble - Mein Kampf comes to mind - but those were arguably just nucleation sites, themselves little but random objects around which preexisting moods and sentiments crystallized.

(I specifically don't want to say "catalyst", because that would imply the writing had to be very specific to the reaction its introduction caused. Nucleation, in contrast, can be trigger by whatever random impurity that happened to be the right size.)

I mean, the continued existence of the Internet kind of disproves the idea of outright dangerous texts.
the difference is I still understand everything the calculator can do, and can do it by hand on paper

the AI generation is not going to know how to do anything other than type into chatgpt

at which point human progress ends and we start going backwards
The reference to the Monty Python spam sketch is gold :D
No need for the word "tribe" here. They are the Dene. They are the Slave. They are the Cree. we don't say "the German tribe" (of Europe), or the Swiss tribe. This term typically is used to describe a smaller group belonging to a larger group. In this case, the larger group is subconsciously thought of Indians, or even First Nations, or Aboriginals. But the Cree, Slave Dene and any other number of nations are not tribes . They are nations. So, the Cree... The Slave.... The Dene....
I'm curious what the speed would be, kinda strange the post mentions "mentioning speed" but not what speed is maintained
Rare alignment of seven background lensed galaxies magnifies deep space
Excel I don't know but I'm pretty sure spreadsheets shall still be there by 2075. Microsoft didn't invent the concept of spreadsheets and millions of SMEs are doing everything with Google Workspace, from Macs or Linux computers.

What was the headline in my national newspaper (so a non-tech one) last week? Something to the tune of "Do not install the latest Windows 11 update for it may send your computer in an infinite loop". Something like that.

I understand nobody gets fired for choosing to get locked in in the Microsoft ecosystem, Stockholm syndrome style.

But meanwhile SpaceX is sending rockets in space and providing for example StarLink. How's Microsoft involved in that? Genuine curious question.

In any case: "spreadsheet != excel".
Forcy McForceFace: building a keyboard switch force tester out of an old 3D prin
But it is very limited. Understandably so, as they don't want to ossify the internal APIs, but it still is so limited that you can't actually build anything just using just that API as far as I know.
Off-topic, I find people have a similar misunderstanding of FAANG compensation. Functionally, the salary + RSU + bonus + refresh structure is equivalent to a larger salary (enough to cover fees for the following procedure) where you take out 4-yr loans every year to invest in the company stock. With that in mind, listing the realized stock growth when describing total compensation always felt a bit disingenuous.
I find it interesting that I like a lot of movies based on Steven King's writing (The Shining, Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, and Misery are top of mind), but I don't particularly care for Steven King's writing style or many of the books that are considered his best. I didn't care for 'IT' at all. It's like Lovecraft, I appreciate the ideas, body of work, and talent, even if it needs a different style for me to get into it.
I feel it’s like walking in the woods in the south — you make a lot of noise so you don’t surprise a rattler? Were you walking stealthy so they don’t hear you coming?
The only cache is via "Cache-Control". By default is this one:

https://github.com/brisa-build/brisa/blob/2e14f765f425c129a6...

However, is possible to change any response header including this one:

https://brisa.build/building-your-application/routing/pages-...

Other than this. We don't like to use cache, because a framework needing cache is a sign of a patch to cover a problem. We are fast by nature, we invite you to try it and you will see that the server takes 4-5ms to render.

However, an important part for the 1.0 routing is to do a lot of optimizations that we already have in mind.
I can't imagine anyone going to a whiteboard back in the day to make a pair of sunglasses and walk away with any lesser of a design than Raybans. Give human ingenuity at least some credit. you can tie your shoes you can out design Raybans
I use AI to ask questions when I am not totally sure what the question is, and it is very helpful for narrowing that down. It can be powerful as a tool to help get your foot in the door on new knowledge. Just like google search there is a correct way to use it and an incorrect way.

Another thing to consider is the motivation of companies like OpenAI. Their products are designed to be used as a crutch. Their money is in total reliance on the product.
It's a fun fantasy. Work a few more elements into it:

- you're hit by a bus, and your family is clearing out the storage locker.

- management is alerted to a bad smell coming out of several units, and they have to enter yours to verify that you're not accidentally storing dead raccoons.

- the police are serving a warrant on a unit, and accidentally open yours due to a typo.

- a homeless teenager just needs a place to sleep for the night.
UPM – Universal Package Manager
Voting begins for Alaska's Fat Bear Week after contestant was killed in attack
Javalab – Free interactive science simulations written in JavaScript
this seemed interesting before i read about oracle... Never. Trust. Oracle
> There has to be a cross-user dependency.

You could assign a pot per users and let the user distribute the pot according to some algorithm.

Assigning other users' pots to the suspect's bots seem like a rather bad algorithm.

If there was a per user pot, manipulation like the suspect did would give bogger all.

I guess the fundamental problem is that the streamers want to manipulate the royalties.
This is the person who was in the news a few years ago for commuting to Google campus using 19 different methods in 19 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWftDrwY2U
They're usually more science history than science. Who did what, when, and a basic ovnrview of why it's important.
I have been using a flip phone and never had a smart phone . They work better as a phone for me. I recently got a smart phone and do not really like it as a phone and am thinking of moving back to the older flip phone and carrying the smart phone as a tablet (mostly for the camera but also web access and note taking).
I was curious what the theoretical distribution of digits might be, did not know that there is an extension of Benford's law for later digits which suggests the uniform assumption is quite nearly right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Generalization...

Of course in real life, 50 cents and 99 cents are way more common.
> Can you name three?

Personally, without reading the rest of your comment - because I glimpsed one title that makes the list - these are the things I would tell my child not to read without talking to us first:

- Main Kampf

- Just about anything by Ayn Rand

- This one is a bit of a cop-out because it's very generic, but certain online message boards & Facebook groups. When they're old enough to start browsing on their own - which is probably now, come to think of it - I want to make sure they don't start reading something that reads vaguely plausible on the surface, but quickly plummets into weird racist/fascist rhetoric.

> I mean, the continued existence of the Internet kind of disproves the idea of outright dangerous texts.

I don't think it does, and I would argue that anti-COVID, anti-global-warming, and the other radicalization stuff online is a point to me. Nucleation is a good analogy, I guess, but some people are impressionable enough that they'll glom onto something that'll glow like a horrible pearl in their mind until they think that tampons in the boys' bathroom means that China is, uh, I don't know, turning the frogs gay with Bill Gates' vaccines? I'd wager almost everyone here can personally name one relative who's effectively lost their grip on factual reality in the past five years.
I feel like this is exactly what the title is conveying. What’s misleading about it?
Verifiability is part of it, but the other part is that calculators don’t provide a full end-to-end solution (unless you’re doing worksheets for homework).

Each calculation is just one step, it’s up to the user to figure out which steps to take and how to chain them together. they might even learn that the whole thing would be faster if they could do some of those calculations their head.

like if you’re trying to figure out how much wood to buy for a deck, you’d still need to break the big problem down into those individual computations to do in the calculator. Unlike an llm where you could just ask it and it’d jump straight to a final answer
Software That Changed Me
I suppose a headline that doesn't have much to do with the content is also such a technology?
except that the typical case is ... the charge is $1.01, I give you a $5 and a penny. A penny from the client to the house on top of a charge of $0.99 by the house, does xxxxxxxxx ... (edit) as pointed out below, a penny plus a $0.99 charge means that the cashier can return a whole number of bills, avoiding any coins..
> You have Anaconda packaging world vs PyPI

As I said, it's only because .so extensions were hard. If every package were pure Python, I would simply copy paste them in my source code `lib` path.

Don't laugh at me, this is called "vendoring" or "static linking" by other languages, and the "requests" famously included a version of urllib3 for quite a while