skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market has figured it out. The market has figured out, that tech bros will charge you as much as possible for that last dyeing grasp, seeking as much profit, while just glossing over mistakes and oversites that unalive you and your loved ones. The very best of luck with that. Hope you have an immediate and effective alternative.
Jet.jl: static type checker with type inference for Julia
Does that explain why children are being killed...?
Is it really decision making if the fungus moves to the nearest block of wood, then on to the next, and so on?
I worked for a financial company that had 29 day password rotation. One day I accidentally logged in as my colleague. Our user names differed by just one letter so I simply mistyped. It turned out we used the same password scheme to keep up with the rotation and stupid special character requirements.
The longer the delay, the more likely the process is to crash before the timer completes. Use a scheduler instead.
Glad to hear it! It’s a killer feature, for sure.
So what? That doesn't mean anything. The shareholders didn't say this, the management of the company did.
Neal Stephenson in 2024 on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, & AI Decades Ahead [video]
The story makes more sense if "How am I supposed to get home now?" was
asked by the suspect to Goosens, not the other way round.
Can anyone tell me what tool can i use to track website visit statistics?
I always thought the Nokia Python phone was a pretty neat idea.

https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=148064
A.k.a. the marketplace (the literal one) 50 years ago!
A bit more details

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175450482...
As far as what 'API' to use, please just coalesce around the OpenAI API for your client software. You can start up an OpenAI compatible endpoint with vLLM for example. Just stick with that. You can use LiteLLM as a proxy to convert your client side requests to whatever server side format is expected for e.g. Claude.
I wonder which option OP is implying is an issue. Either functionality is perfectly valid software engineering.

I for one prefer to keep asserts in production code to fail fast. Depending on the language and domain of the program you may or may not catch them with logging to keep the program running.
I think I saw recently that SpaceX is worth about 2x Boeing right now.
I don't quite understand why the authors consider their experiment a solid, novel evidence to alter safety standards, short for them imagining women shoving up Qi chargers into their uterus.

That said, I'm also unfamiliar with those mysterious "present safety standards" that "solely consider the thermal-effect of RM-EMF", so I can't even tell if that is actually true. The reason I'm even doubting that it is, because the field of photochemistry is like... pretty established. You'd think EM radiation resulting in heightened ROS production and other health effects are not missed by academia and regulation by now. Especially considering that this is the exact mechanism behind one of the most well known EM radiation health concerns, UV-radiation.
Kobo still has physical buttons, at least.
ChatGPT's Name Bias and Apple's Findings on AI's Lack of Reasoning
Boeing has (had?) more money than Musk ever did, so Boeing's failures are their own fault.

When an entire fucking conglomerate including a substantial portion of the military industrial complex loses to a lone man, the problem isn't the lone man.
My non-expert guesses:

- Investing capital for new manufacturing lines, retraining employees, hiring new employees, etc. means reduced profits and reduced short term returns for shareholders. The top level execs probably feel like their heads would be on the chopping block if investor returns were to be reduced in the short term for accelerating long term growth.

- A lot of entrenched mid-level and senior executives are simply protecting their turf. Similar to how Nadella completely turned around the mindset at Microsoft once Ballmer was ousted, I'd guess there are a lot of executives with fat paychecks that don't want to see their little empires diminished.

- Holding taxpayers hostage for government subsidies (to be fair, many electric startups did get the benefit). BMWs "threat" about reliance on the Chinese supply chain feels like a kind of strawman to get more subsidies.
That's an interesting take. My take is that SpaceX shows the enormous benefit of privatizing space activities, and of a vertically integrated provider.
I received one yesterday with what appears to be older firmware (i.e., no option for use of an external display with WinPE) and a newer image.

As is the case with nearly any Windows device I receive, I booted into Windows Audit Mode and exported all of the installed drivers to a thumbdrive.

That is when the fun began...the device failed to OOBE correctly, the restore image provided by Qualcomm doesn't work, and there's no display. Various workarounds with custom Windows arm64 images are fruitless, and there's no UEFI BIOS updater that would allow one to restore it to a known good state.

ThunderSoft (Qualcomm's partner in Thundercomm) has utterly failed to deliver a reliable working solution with the most basic Windows functionality, which makes me wonder if there is another factor at hand here. There are smaller, less-well-funded companies that can get these types of products built and shipped.

AND - the fact that they're issuing refunds for these devices (at least Arrow Electronics here in the States) REALLY makes me wonder.
Yes, between 26 and 31 civilians were killed on the Israeli side [1] (and at least 88 on the Lebanese side in Israeli counterstrikes) - during an entire year of daily rocket attacks.

Compare that to the death toll on October 7, or in Gaza or the West Bank or even just to a single(!) average Israeli airstrike.

I'm really sorry I have to make this comparision and I really don't want to downplay those deaths. I strongly believe that you can't compare individual deaths - but I think you absolutely can compare the orders of magnitude of killing happening.

My point is that those numbers are an indicator that Hezbollah (and also Israel) followed a different strategy in the north (at least they did pre Northern Arrows). Hezbollah's officially claimed goals are "area denial" - they want to prevent the inhabitants of the northern towns from returning to put pressure on the Israeli government - and preventing the IDF from using its full military force in Gaza. From what I can glean from the media, their attacks were consistent with those goals.

(An additional indicator for me is that most of the rockets targeted communities that had already been evacuated shortly after the war began [2] - yet Hezbollah kept hitting them for months and months after that point [3]. If the goal is killing, this would make no sense, however it's logical if the goal is to prevent inhabitants from coming back.)

This is what I meant with them behaving "rational and predictable" and what media at some point started to call "the unwritten rules of engagement". It was clearly a long-term problem for Israel, but nothing that had required some urgent "self defense" actions to avoid immediate death. (Also, a clear path to de-escalation was available the whole time: make a deal.)

(They did change their targeting over time and chose targets that were increasingly southward [4], however that was a slow process over many months)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hezbollah_confl...

[2] https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-769567

[3] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-1...

[4] https://israel-alma.org/2024/09/02/the-northern-arena-and-th...
For others that, like me, do not know… a Mersenne prime is when the n is prime and the resulting M is also prime in the following equation.

M = 2ⁿ - 1
That would probably mean the end for Starliner.

The government deliberately chooses nore than one supplier for things with high risk to mitigate exactly these kind of issues. Merging them might not even be allowed
The C# experience already got rug-pulled with Dev Kit.

I'm not going to spend time working for free on tools that MS charges a subscription to use.
The main findings seems to be on how it stabilizes.

The blocks are pre-populated, so at the start there's the same amount of fungus in every blocks. But as time goes by, the fungus moves away from the central block to concentrate on the terminal ones in the X shaped configuration for instance.

Or we can see they don't grow towards the inner side of the circle to a degree that doesn't look accidental.
The shareholders are supposed to fire management when they are being stupid.
I had a mid-drive ebike and while it definitely shined on the extreme hills found in Seattle, i think my next ebike is gonna be a wheel hub motor type and just be really over-powered. Trying to change gears while under power or applying power too early after a shift was super annoying and constantly caused the chain to slip off and made terrible clunky noises.

I think front hub motor + internal geared hub on back + belt drive is the ideal bike for me. Only downside is not getting to do power wheelies :)
I don't know that that's in conflict with what this is saying.

Often, when I take on something that I don't have the knowledge or experience to complete, I don't know precisely what I'm lacking in advance. By doing, I discover my limitations and can explore them - starting often, but not randomly. Eventually, I can approach the original project with additional insight and do more, having brought up a pillar of a fundamental to a requisite height to build on.

If I only leaned into my strengths, I might not feel the need to grow. That doesn't mean I leave things undone, but I recognize that if I only work towards goals that are immediately attainable, I won't ever develop the capacity to do more.

Put another way, the "time to first coffee table" is a function of SOFA for tooling acquisition. From there, the time investment required to build subsequent coffee tables is reduced by prior knowledge.
All it takes to understand the relevance is the understanding that outcomes are coupled to incentives. You think it’s irrelevant to NIMBYism that people have incentives to protect their wealth? I…dont think many (any?) economists would agree with you.

To be generous so as not to think you just have a problem conceding a point, you seem hung up on the moral argument. I’m not making a moral argument. I’m explaining the how it is, and not making a claim about how it ought to be. FWIW I think it’s stupid that people have 70% of their wealth tied up in a non-liquid asset, but that’s the scenario we’re dealing with. People are incentivized to keep their wealth high, and especially home wealth because it gives them equity to borrow against. Likewise governments like having high property values because it gives them a larger tax base.

So there’s two salient aspects to the point: 1) people have a say in how they are governed in a democracy and 2) people/govts have economic incentives to protect their wealth/tax base. NIMBYism is the convergence of both. So which do you disagree with?
They get away with it because of their dominance in the market, that's why the gov't needs to take action. They're so huge there are no real competitors for customers to turn to.
And if you're a voter, don't let them pretend they contributed to society and allow them to clean up their image and grab power. There is a candidate in my local mayor race, Harrison Roday, that was touting "running a software company" before he started trying to do things that would make him electable. Turns out he was a finance bro, that used to the money to try and enshitify some Chrome extensions and small software that is already doing well. And all his backing is from out of state to run for mayor. Whats worse is that it actually took a decent amount of research to find out how crappy his previous life was. He was a big consideration for my vote until I dug because I was curious about what kind of software he worked on.

https://thirdsouth.capital/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisonroday/

https://cfreports.elections.virginia.gov/Committee/Index/eea...

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/meet-the-candidates-har...
It's not that easy with such a big company. Look at Tesla and Musk. A management-aligned board can put a stop to many things the shareholders would like to do.
The most efficient system would be direct payments only.

The downside is only the very roch can afford expensive medical emergencies.

But with insurance individuals get to pull the value of future premium payments forward to pay for large expenses in the present. There’s also a degree of socialization.

The downside is there will always be an overhead.

Government health care is insurance writ large and has the same tradeoffs, just on a larger scale.
https://artinfiction.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/roald-dahl-ski...

It's very Roald Dahl. Great tale
If the balls were improperly weighted at the lottery commission, then maybe you'd have unwittingly discovered the bias in the game. That's certainly possible.
Google Play has also recently started requiring this, and I know someone affected by it. It is very problematic for small developers because they may have to publish their home address, which opens them up to the possibility of harassment and so on. I don't think it's a good change.
Fun Fact: The Stanford Computer Science Department was (mostly) housed in Margaret Jacks Hall from 1980 - 1996, and if you went down to the basement where the department's mainframes and Arpanet IMP and phototypesetters lived, just around the corner were the "cells" where the Prison Experiment took place. Creepy.
> visiting the ER in the U.S. is sloooow. The average time to see a doctor, in our experience, is about an hour.

This is such a bizarre couple of statements for me. First, I would consider an hour very, very fast. If I show up for an appointment on time, I still don't see the doctor for about an hour.

And for a non-emergency emergency room visit (even a fairly serious one like a broken bone, abscessed tooth, etc) I've had family give up after 8-12 hours of waiting in the lobby without being admitted to see a doctor, often in relatively empty lobbies. (The hospital is hoping for this, I'm sure)
As sibling comments have said, wide availability of parts and specialists is a big part of it. Big time ops can have people on staff, but most mom and pops will lean on the service shops. Either way though, you need to have parts physically nearby so you can be back up and running in hours rather than days. When your hay is down and rain is in the forecast, waiting days instead of hours can be the difference between a great harvest and a field full of ass grass. In the north american west, when your irrigation is broken and it's July/August, you may only have a day or two before crops start drying and wilting. If you're lucky, you'll get it back up before permanent damage starts.

In many rural areas, John Deere is the closest and/or only option, so you have to choose between freedom and inconvenience, or technological slavery and safety. As we've seen with the general public, most people will go with the latter. Your insurance premiums are certainly cheaper that way.
Interesting point, though would you agree that an individuals budget for healthcare is unique? The budget for healthy vs not, tends to be 'all of it.' Hence, excessive healthcare costs.
Total nuclear annihilation. They consider their restraint against doing the temptation laudable
Great idea, it is very inspiration
Thankfully the exclusivity clause was finally dropped Nov of last year. Amazon has invested a lot of money into Rivian and if they want to recoup that investment it’s in their best interest not to needlessly hinder them.

Still hoping the R2 launch gets them into the mainstream and profitable.
The original way you built an e-bike was with a motor hub, wires, some sort of speed controller, and a battery pack. You had to figure out what that all meant in practice for your frame of choice but there were several forums for bikes that could help. I’m sure all that is on Reddit now as well.

Framework is solving the “I’d like something modular but slicker than a Clevo and with a support line that is willing to go a bit further than selling an ODM unit to a middle man like Sager.”

If you don’t know who Clevo is but you know who Framework is, that means Framework’s plan is winning.

For E Bikes there are a couple big brands with good support and some boutiques that will take care of you. The big box store stuff using Bosch parts are more of a Wild West.
Who and how is that going to be monitored and enforced? What's the punishment? Cost-of-doing-business fines that the market only ends up paying anyway?

I'm not disagreeing w/ the theory of your proposal. I haven't - yet? - seen how it can actually work.
I would say it's crazy to debate the broad strokes of morality. The mother goose like stuff. Remember we started this discussion by saying:

""Healthy family relationships and rich circle of diverse friends" is an objectively better definition than "Money and companies with high stock prices""

Pretty broad principles we're comparing there.

When you get into specific cases, that's where you really need the debate and often there's no right answer, depending on the case. This is why we want judges who have a strong moral compass.

These values are bundled up in a person and they should even counterbalance each other. "Be Kind" should be balanced with "Be Strong". "Be Generous" should be balanced with "Be thrifty" and so on. The combination of these things is what we mean when we say someone has a moral compass.

I would argue it's immoral in some sense to sacrifice your mother for 5 other strangers. But these are fantasy cases that almost never happen.

A more realistic scenario is self defense or war.
I would considering Firebase for database (best effort/cost ratio I found) or self-hosting the db.
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> But it must also be useful. We don't do science just to enumerate trivial true statements, after all.

Sure it can be useful. Think of it like a mathematical theorem. What’s the point of the theorem unless it’s useful? Why would a book define a theorem if it wasn’t useful?

So theorems in math need to be useful. But such a quality is human and fuzzy in nature. What does it mean to be useful? And everyone has a different definition of useful. That’s why the definition of a theorem doesn’t include the term useful Even though generally speaking it’s a bit of a requirement if an author were to define a theorem in a book.

The definition for hypothesis that I use follows the exact same process. It is a rigorous technical definition that we are using for rigorous and detailed categorization of another term: “Theoretical computer science”.

Thus in the face of such a task I use the most rigorous definition of hypothesis available. I discard fuzzy terms like usefulness or expositions into “why” to determine categorization.

The statistical hypothesis which defines the term hypothesis in a very technical way. In fact, in statistics, hypothesis testing is basically the technical definition of the scientific method. Following this definition we can clearly see the boundaries of things more clearly.

Theoretical computer science does not involve hypothesis testing. It is mathematics because it involves axioms and theorems.
But... that's the model of the US space program from the get go. We're just trading one private company for another. Apollo 11 was contracted out to Boeing, Rockwell, and Grumman. The Space Shuttle was the United Space Alliance (Rockwell / Lockheed Martin), the engines were made by Rocketdyne...

The only change right now is that NASA is no longer the only party designing missions, because entities such as SpaceX have enough integrated expertise to run their own show start to finish.

It's also the most successful space program in the world, so what's the benchmark we're comparing it to? The failings of the US space program had relatively little to do with private contractors, and a lot to do with politics and the voting public not liking risk.
Also the escaping uses "~" as the escape character, and it escapes "~" and "/" as "~0" and "~1" instead of "~~" and "~/". This whole spec feels like it was written by aliens.
Nothing makes sense.

One prescription I get is $1.30, another is $85.

My son goes to a specialist and all $395 is paid by insurance, while my wife goes to a different one and we pay $86 out of pocket after a $14 "insurance discount", insurance pays nothing.

They're both in-network. I save my old antibiotics and such because it takes so long to get into urgent care, and it's expensive, and I can't go to my regular doctor for a sinus infection because it takes two weeks to get in.

Thankfully I pay $0 out of my check for Blue Cross since my employer pays for it. I just have co-pays, deductibles, etc
> there is no big commitment if you sell some software for $10 or $20

This ends up not being true. It creates headaches and contracts both explicit and implied. It creates legal requirements and a for-consideration nexus that is far too complicated to contemplate at this level. Also moral obligation, tax liability, _customers_ to serve. No thank you.

Money changes everything. I don't need that overhead in my life. I've done it before (accepting donations only), and I won't do it again.

> Would you pick up litter that a mega-corp is dumping

If a megacorp was diminishing my enjoyment of the park by their litter, then yes sure, if it was of a magnitude that I could solve myself.

I'd also encourage the application of whatever legal and financial penalties might be available -- just like conflicting use of open source. If a license is violated, then pursue for damages. If the license allows the use in question (e.g. BSD, MIT), then that's a decision made by the licensor.
Boeing, Union reach wage deal to end strike
Is anyone interested in building embeddable version of Gecko, like Chromium, so it could be used and reused in other browsers? I remember way back ago there was some browser that allowed switching between several versions of browser engines, one of those was Trident (Internet Explorer), as Windows made it embeddable at the time. Having a solid base anyone or any team could build up UI and features to their liking more easily and keep up with security updates too.
> Genesis is a bit of a chronological hand-wave

What do you mean? Genesis is not remotely a historically accurate narrative at all
20th Century Social Clubs Should Influence Co-Working Spaces
You would need to somehow differentiate between absolute and relative paths, though.
Not sure why this has been voted down - X.ai has a 100K H100 cluster in Memphis, and Meta either has (by now) or is in process of acquiring 350K H100s!

Unlike the hyperscalers (i.e. cloud providers), Meta has a use for these themselves for inference to run their business on.
I suppose this might be a joke? But it would be a ludicrously anti-competitive move that the government (as one of the main customers) would certainly block.
a lot of software needs to work offline.
It is a phone. It’s not a cell phone.
The Rivian delivery vehicles are super cool and futuristic.

Rivian is making some of the best looking EVs on the market.
Monitoring in Slussen's New Fishway
What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi?
There is an advantage of having this as syntax, which is a difference in semantics, which you couldn't get if this would just be an expression, namely:

x = func1() if something else func2()

In this example, only func1() or func2() is being called, but not both.
Yes but its something that can disappear with the stroke if a pen, which is the critical difference, the durability.
Apricot phone? ;)
Typst 0.12 is just... better
I would think if they're so smart, and the TSA is so useless, we'd be seeing a lot more terrorist attacks happen on/with planes.
Wasn't it also supposed to go to the moon station for Artemis? Or is that also a non-starter if Starship works out?