skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was noticing the big blue app doesn't let you report a fake profile unless the impersonated person has a real profile. What kind of narcissist designs a "report fake profile" feature that assumes everybody on earth has an account? Every time I report fake profiles I get the automated response that they looked into it and it's legit. Did it twice today.

As people move on to other apps, scams and fake content on "classic" fb seems to still be reaching boomers and people in other countries. As usual, I do not get the impression anyone at meta cares.

The standard techie response for how to solve this problem is to get someone internal at meta to escalate. Otherwise known as not a solution to the problem. My experience doing this is that internal people handling such tickets are actually not very bright and your internal contact needs to repeatedly push back at people who want to close tickets with no action.
interesting. i have about 1-2 cups most days but 5-6 over a few hours is fine and i still get ok (but poorer quality) sleep
I can get parsing job easily done without mental gymnastics.
Fountain pens are fun too in the places that did those
What a comment...

The person you responded to is right. If you start mixing in "they" you're just confusing the listener, because they will assume you're now talking about some different people. I wouldn't have the patience to listen to somebody who speaks in that matter and deliberately makes their words cryptic.
There's a difference between sponsoring an event and donating to the operations of the core project. I know nothing about the specifics on the event, but I've done events where $75,000 would almost cover the cost of the stage. I've also seen events where the cost of the event was covered by sponsors many times over.
I'm having trouble understanding how a breakup addresses the allegations in the case? Wasn't this all about Google paying Apple for search exclusivity on iPhones? How does a breakup address that?
First, things don't panic a lot in my experience writing Rust for the past three years.
Second, when things do panic, it indicates a defect in the code that needs to be fixed. Aborting the program with a stack dump is the perfect behavior for seeing the state and the invariant that was violated and then figuring out the fix. Contrast this to C or C++ "limping along", usually until a later invariant causes a crash and being further away from and obscuring the true root cause, and we see why C and C++ code is generally still so bug-ridden relatively speaking. Fail-fast is not just a buzz word and program bugs are not recoverable errors. See https://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/
Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations [video]
I didn't work with election data but I dealt with Data brokers and they worked both ways. They offered API as a service access or a single bulk download for special pricing. I was surprised how relatively cheap it was considering all the data they offered.
Is it? I don't know Matt, but it sounds just like Musk forcing his feeds to the top of everyone, or everyone forced to being Tom's friend.
How are people expected to know about the Shift key functionality?
Australian government has introduced new cyber security laws
I know it's common to say bandwidth casually, but I really wish a Blog trying to explain the difference between data rate and latency would not conflate bandwidth and data rate (one could also say throughput or capacity although the latter is also technically incorrect). The term bandwidth really denotes the spectral width occupied by a signal, and while it is related to the actual data rate, it is much less so nowadays where we use advanced modulation compared to back when everything was just OOK.

Coincidentally, the difference between latency and data rate is also much clearer using these two terms.
Thanks for the feedback. In the future I'll update it to allow you choose your own number of color weights.

In my systems, I often use 12 stops for neutral colors and 6 for all other colors.

Why 12? Dark mode! It's hard to depict elevation in Dark mode with shadows, so we use color instead. For that, you need stops 700, 800, 900 & 950 for various levels of elevation. I then added stops 025 and 050 so i can repeat the same in light mode.

In the past, I have gotten away with using only 10 for neutral & 4 for vibrant colors respectively in the past.
OpenWRT has SQM but you have to enable it. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/...
Another example: There’s a page in the iOS settings where you can remove people from your family group and change your password (or do other things you might do if someone was after you). It has a “quick exit” button that kicks you back to the Home Screen, but also completely kills the Settings app so said person wouldn’t know you were on that page if they yoinked your phone.

https://support.apple.com/guide/personal-safety/how-safety-c...
I sense some sarcasm. But you ought to know that the founders, along with Aristotle and other Greeks (basically, the inventors of democracy), were afraid of mobs and sought to temper the whims of the people.

States are given representation proportional to their populations, and also equal representation (in the Senate). The EC and House seats aren't just based on voter turnout, voter population, or even the actual number of citizens in the state (which is rather problematic). So this whole push for direct democracy in the presidential election is stupid. Yes, swing states are a thing, but only because the other states vote consistently in a particular way.

Another problem with using the popular vote to decide the presidential election is that it inventivizes fraud. If someone managed to corrupt a few populous states, they could generate extremely high numbers of fake votes to drown out every other state.
Accessibility is built into the algorithm by default
Repo2txt: Web-based tool converts GitHub repo contents into a single text file
I bounce back and forth between hang gliding and kiteboarding.
5 Strategies for Reliable Schema Migrations
Why are you so confident that Philosophy isn't the superclass to "science"? How could you hope to start on any science without philosophy, much less arrive at a definition for the term? I could maybe see mathematics without philosophy, as I mentioned above, but physical science/physics/"science" is inherently subjective. That doesn't mean truth doesn't exist, of course -- but I'd have to get into philosophy to explain why I think all of that ;). The best defense for philosophy by far is that you can't criticize it without engaging in it, and "it all seems obvious to me, just use common sense"-style citations are much less convincing than ones to long famous books.

More provacatively: have you engaged with it? I know that's a big ask, but it's also a bit unfair IMO to write off a field without taking the time to understand it. For example, Aristotle founded multiple scientific fields, including the big two -- Physics and Biology -- and established a theory of mind that still has immense sway in the west to this day. Kant was a reknowned scientist before he started into philosophy (even having a good claim to "first to show the existence of galaxies"), and the quote above is from A Critique of Pure Reason (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4280/4280-h/4280-h.htm#chap1...) where he establishes cognitive science:

From all that has been said, there results the idea of a particular science, which may be called the Critique of Pure Reason.... Such a science must not be called a doctrine, but only a critique of pure reason; and its use, in regard to speculation, would be only negative, not to enlarge the bounds of, but to purify, our reason, and to shield it against error—which alone is no little gain.

Hegel built on this directly with his famous book The Phenomenology of Mind, of which I highly recommend the short preface titled On Scientific Cognition. I don't think there could be a more clear piece of evidence that these were the leading thinkers of their time on matters of systematic thought, aka science.

Without the academy, we'd have no Francis Bacon, no Newton or Liebniz, no Einstein or Bohr, and definitely no Popper, Kuhn, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, or any of the other amazing modern thinkers on how to improve our scientific endeavors. This one's less verifiable but I imagine it hits home the most: I don't even think we'd have Turing without Boole, Russell, and Whitehead to draw from.

...sorry, clearly I'm a bit sensitive ;) It's frustrating being valued for your puzzle solving abilities (aka SWE) much more highly than your engagement with science, as I'm sure you can relate to or imagine!
Not if you take "some societal good" to mean "some [marginal] societal good"
One thing which I've always not understood about Tcl/TK is why there isn't a standard graphical tool for laying out a GUI program.

For a long while, when I might have used Tcl/TK, I instead used Runtime Revolution/Livecode (a cross-platform HyperCard clone) which had a very nice system for interactively drawing programs.

I'd really like for there to be an agreed-upon standard option for graphical program development which was interactive and cross-platform.
We think in TCP/IP but use ISO layer names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
somebody really wants to cause digital scarcity in direct opposition to digital abundance

my guess is they are people who mistake the fact that scarcity amplifies value with the idiot idea that scarcity creates value

and also these are entities holding on to a way to do business, publishing, and media that made sense back when the internet wasn't around
Interesting that they go to Twitter to complain about censorship on other apps.
Why Are So Many Hockey Players Left-Handed?
Huh! I really was under the impression that you couldn't. It's been many years since I last checked though.

Thank you very much for correcting me!
These arguments get said a lot and they are all fine in theory, but in practice, all code over a certain size has a tremendous number of latent bugs, even Rust code. At a certain scale, you are virtually guaranteed to be running in a degraded mode of some kind. If the consequences of those latent bugs are operational nightmares, that's a problem. Most people would rather be able to roll in at 10 am to debug a minor issue from logs and traces than get a page at 1 am with 1000 stack traces in it.
it's at the very least an evil plot to stop users (and extension authors) from _making their own decisions_ about the efficiency trade-off.

which is really just absurd when you think about it. I don't care about another hour of battery life, but even if I did, I'd be perfectly happy if Chrome just told me "hey these extensions aren't very battery-efficient!" and I got to make my own decision about that.
They are the most inclined to think they can avoid politics. The other types just deal with it every day
I live for these satisfying moments of simple, pithy, indisputable proof/disproof.
Haxe is amazing, has macros etc. A force multiplier if you are a solo developer for sure. But damn, you feel kinda alone if you are using it. Not everything is an npm install away which negates your velocity gains from using a saner language.
You are using "survivorship bias" incorrectly: if it doesn't lead someone to an incorrect conclusion, then it is not survivorship bias.

What you describe is a selection pressure for right-handedness.
Calling a reverse HTTP proxy a Layer 7 proxy is misleading? Why?
But I feel like I've worked with massive systems with a lot going on where nothing has gone wrong that this sort of thing specifically would solve it. I think it would just increase learning curve and make people make other types of mistakes (business logic or otherwise) because it's so much less readable and understandable. I've seen similar libraries used in the past that have caused much more worse bugs because people misunderstand how they exactly work.
Same, the first time I ever had a cup of coffee I missed two nights sleep.

I have only done 23andme not a WGS like you, but I have at least one liver enzyme SNP that dramatically slows down caffeine metabolism. It took me quite a while to realize that the advice of "no caffeine after 5pm" or whatever needed to be something more like - no more than one cup of coffee before dawn.
That's what I wondered. Presumably services implementing it will add info about using the button before starting the journey, but I'm surprised there's no design system guidance about this. Without that information the button is far less useful.
Ah, ok. the text extraction is manageable enough, I will carve out a smaller subset so I can give your platform a go. The use case is professional services contract creation and redlining based on reference documents.
How we can mine asteroids for space food
Unfortunately, no. Wealth data is usually very coarse (quartiles or quintiles) or one data point, which makes it hard to do most of the analysis that I'd like to do.
You're right!

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas....
It's very likely it's some library but at this point, I'm over caring. It's 20 seconds, everyone can cope with deployment rollout in Kubernetes taking 3 minutes.
Damn, I had no idea about this. Definitely would've changed some things had I known that emails were public.

This honestly seems like a bit of a design flaw.
As they say, if you’re getting impatient for your baby to arrive, just get more pregnant ladies together! The cluster of pregnant women make the process move along quicker!

/s
Making a natural looking color generator algorithm
I created a simple monochromatic color palette generator inspired by the colors of nature, designed to align with how our eyes perceive color.

In the future, I plan to enhance the algorithm to include the generation of neutral (low saturation) palettes, for your design system.
Wimbledon to replace line judges with AI technology from 2025
I’m feeling extremely conflicted on all of this with IA right now.

On one hand, I love IA

On the other hand…I’m in a long thread with their support right now on removing old snapshots of a social media account I have. Creeps are actively using the old snapshots to dox me and send me death threats using my PII.

It’s incredibly frustrating and IA keeps insisting they cannot do anything about it.

A small part of me hoped IA didn’t recover from today because I knew my info would be finally deleted :/
I have literally never used a doubly-linked list in my life, and I'm pretty sure that most programmers can say the same thing.

As for the example... yeah, Python is pretty terrible (for writing production codebases, I think its a great language for short-lived, one-person projects). Interesting that you mention Python because if you're considering Python and Rust for the same use case that's pretty bonkers, for anything that you might possibly have used Python to do there are many more natural choices than Rust. If you wouldn't have done it in C/C++ ten years ago, you probably shouldn't be doing it in Rust today.
Wading in here a little bit, and I know you've thought about this --- I think it's reasonable to say that there are problem domains where it's a very good thing, and problem domains where it isn't.

I think a subtextual problem for Rust advocacy is that the places where it's a clear win are a small subset of all software problems, and that space is shrinking. Rust would, in that view of the world, be a victim of its success: it's the best replacement we have for C/C++ today, but the industry has moved sharply away from solving problems that way, and sharply towards solving them with Javascript.

(Deno is doing something smart here.)
Ripgrep is written in Rust while the original grep in C. So it doesn't make sense to try to combine them. Ripgrep is rather the modern rewrite, and we keep the old grep around for backwards compatibility.
I do know that it's possible, but when people complain about this --- as with this tweet, from a PL theorist:

https://x.com/LParreaux/status/1839706950688555086

... this is what they're talking about.

(I know the tweet is about the "idiomatic" answer to this problem, which is to replace references with indices into flat data structures).
I just saw Rancid, Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day. All on the same tour. It was amazing to have that much of the first half of my life in one stadium.

Green Day are still in their prime in terms of a live show. Yeah it’s not 3 kids packing a basement anymore, but they absolutely crushed Dookie in their 50s. I felt not old for a couple of hours.
I understand that they couldn't use the Escape key, and so having an alternative makes sense, but I'm not sure as a user how I would ever discover the behavior of pressing "shift" three times.
I regret using it. Recruiting risk. Smaller ecosystem. I should have gone for Python.
You also have lsd: https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd
> ...or when the warranty runs out.

Do people really replace their drives when the warranty runs out? Hard drive manufacturers won't provide data recovery on drives that fail under warranty[1]. It makes more economical sense to just run a drive until it dies. You'll end up paying the price for a new drive either way, but less often if you ignore the warranty expiring.

1: I discovered this myself when a Seagate drive containing some important data failed under warranty. If you're foolish enough to send them a failed drive with data you need recovered (like I was), all they'll do is throw it in the bin and send you a replacement drive.
You're right, of course about the UK. It seems that maybe the most accurate (and/or historically appropriate) label for England, Wales, Scotland, and I suppose Northern Ireland, are "non-sovereign countries", or more sloppily I guess the UK and England can both be called countries ("a country within a country") with the distinction implied.
I think @wkyleg meant that an Elixir dev can be as productive as multiple js devs because of the specificity of the language and the beam virtual machine. Complicated things are trivial in Elixir, dependency management is a breather, and all in all, a really simple and productive environment as the mental model is pretty simple once it clicks.
>android has a huge market share on mobile.

Not in the US they don't; it's a minority share, split across many different manufacturers who all have their own flavor of Android, their own (crappy) app stores and pre-loaded crapware apps, etc. Apple has a clear majority of the US smartphone market (and it's a vertical monopoly, with Apple controlling the phone hardware and the app store and not allowing any alternatives), but no one's looking at breaking them up.

>I think these two being open source is a major reason why they have been so successfully adopted.

iOS isn't open-source, and it has a commanding majority of the US smartphone market.
There's some examples (and a pretty sad graph on _when_ users are looking at these resources) on the user research summary: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/discussions/...
Just like how some people think GitHub is git.
Hey there - I work on the Amplitude product team, and it sounds like we could help. Amplitude is a self-serve product analytics solution that also handles marketing and subscription analytics. We just launched a new update Amplitude Made Easy (https://www.amplitude.com/easy) that offers expert templates, out-of-the-box insights, and the ability to use AI to ask analytics questions in plain English. You can also self-serve answer questions using our charts without needing to use SQL.

You can bring data in lots of ways without heavy data engineering—you can use one snippet of code to get started with our SDKs, connect directly to your data warehouse, batch upload data—it's flexible based on how your company works :)
> This shows a lot in the government as well as its services like BBC and NHS, and the academia

Salaries play a significant role.

Unlike a lot of other countries, private sector salaries for SWEs suck in much of the UK, and gov.uk (in reality part of the Civil Service), GCHQ+MoD, and BBC can pay fairly competitively and give a fairly decent pension compared to private sector gigs.

That said, I'd disagree with NHS IT - it's almost entirely outsourced to regional MSPs who suck (and I say this as a former vendor who's helped sell products those guys use in NHS environments)
Everything after it was kind of a disaster though. Although I do have a soft spot for Indestructible.
> There should be a right to opt out of ads.

What does that even look like, practically speaking? Is sponsored segment an ad? Is wearing branded apparel an ad? Is doing a press junket for a new movie an ad?
Hadn't even considered that. I think that confirms "waters edge" can be grammatically correct. (random example: "as rain falls, flood waters edge closer")
https://archive.ph/2024.10.09-235022/https://www.wsj.com/pol...
>I don't care about another hour of battery life

If you're stuck having to run a ton of shitty JS code with ad malware in it, because your web browser doesn't allow you to effectively block it, that's probably going to cost you more in battery life than the overhead needed by MV2 to block that stuff.
This entire conversation is about tradeoffs, but I would note that some of my favorite engineers that I've had the pleasure of knowing are: 1) very fast and 2) know exactly what the binary code of the thing they are trying to do looks like

There's a (3) where they'll quickly confirm their hypothesis using godbolt (or similar) if in doubt or they want to actually think in binary.

Fortunately for the programming community, many of us are able to create useful or interesting things without that kind of depth
Is this also using the levels.fyi salary data?

If that data is submitted by individuals to a particular company, is it possible to see a lot more detailed heatmap, perhaps down to each address of each company?
Yes please, we need this lunatic out of our life, not the other way around
That's a good point. Maybe it could be handled like the Geneva conventions?
speedtest.net added support for tracking latency under load a few years ago. they show ping during up/dl now. That's the number to show your colleague.

However they tend to use something like the 75th percentile and throw out real data. The waveform bufferbloat test does 95% and supplies whisker charts. cloudflare also.

No web test tests up + down at the same time, which is the worst scenario. crusader and flent.org's rrul test do.

Rathan than argue with your colleague, why not just slap an OpenWrt box as a transparent bridge inline and configure CAKE SQM?
Just Make Things
It's not so much about the neurons, but the systems they connect to. And how they're organized. And how many of them (relatively) are in each component of the brain. And the feedback between motor control and sensory apparatus. I doubt you'll ever get to "intelligence" by building a really fast "brain in a box", even if it has super great transistors.
Just imagine what it's like to spend three years doing technical drawing in high school using Rotring pens [1], not to mention practicing calligraphy based on IRAM/ISO standards [2][3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotring

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Argentino_de_Normali...

[3] https://youtu.be/znrD1DjYqrE?si=Z7RsTatVCw3OKTdT&t=169
Given we have an election in less than a month hardly surprised that their moderation systems are erring on the side of caution.

Especially with so many well-funded, state sponsored actors using LLMs to sow division as we've seen so often on Twitter recently.
Its being done by pro Palestine Islamic hacktivists.

They stated on twitter because IA is controlled by "the US" and is "pro Israel".

could also just be RU larping under another flag. They have done this in the past with groups like Anonymous Sudan.