skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's the lead singer of Big Thief, who's popular and well-promoted among the type of people who like the kind of music she makes. Not quite as hyped as Boygenius/Phoebe Bridgers, but not too far below that. If you've shown interest in indie folk or indie singer-songwriter music, Big Thief is an obvious recommendation.
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This is what I generally mean by taking an "heuristic approach."

I feel that we need to have a "fuzzy logic" approach to our work.

However, that works best, when the engineer is somewhat experienced.

If they are inexperienced (even if very skilled and intelligent), we need to be a lot more dictatorial.
Unfortunately for those of us who like space (the idea of being an early Martian seller is appealing to me), Everything Else Musk is hurting the reputation of the other two. Not enough to totally prevent success, but enough to be concerned about investments.
Once again, the point of having the program is to get people to stay later. For $25.

There's no scenario where paying attention to this money helps more than having people put in more hours at work, so what's the goal of this exercise?
Man, this idea of visualizing all possible furniture configurations in a room is genius! need to build this
Well, kind of. It's also a physical thing that you stand in front of to give up a bunch of biometric information to go in some database somewhere for...some reason that is unspecified. The fact that they're doing it "for free" suggests to me that there is some purpose to it that makes it profitable in spite of the costs. Given how much everyone's data is actually worth, I suspect that the reason it's free is because the biometric data has a bunch of intrinsic value such that it's worth building a bunch of hardware and giving away monopoly money.
I realise that it is most improper to read the articles on this here website, but:

> “One-third of Americans (34%) say that immigrants entering the country illegally today are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’, including six in 10 Republicans (61%), 30% of independents, and only 13% of Democrats,” a summary of the annual poll stated, which surveyed more than 5,000 individuals from 16 August to 4 September.

A little under _two_ thirds of Republicans believe it, but a third of Americans overall.
Hard to say, but a good governance system must guard against the inevitable abuses of all in power (really at all levels)
The "just" a hypothesis-generating step is THE HYPOTHESIS.

Generating THE HYPOTHESIS is THE non-scientific step in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. To not undersell this: where the actual fuck does a hypothesis come from? Particularly one that works out?

Looking at your profile (now), you have a PhD in computation biology and you have 29k+ karma, but: what? I don't understand your objection, man.

A good hypothesis is hard to come by.

Can you help me out?
And Trump himself is the grandson of immigrants. Presumably the ol’ blood poisoning doesn’t last very long?
Not in real estate. There is technically no difference between leasing and renting, other than the things that are colloquially associated with. A lease agreement (or rental agreement) may or may not have a clause offering the borrower an opportunity to take ownership.

Rent might also refer to the price portion of a leasing agreement (or rental agreement). So in shorthand usage, “the lease” might encompass all terms of borrowing something, including the price, but “the rent” might just refer to the price.
Was that ever a goal?
I'm sure there's already a plan to monetize and privatize what's soon to be the most valuable biometric database on earth.

Plus it's cute how they developed the problem [reaction] solution in parallel. [1]

> Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [that you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not. I think that's certainly going to happen with the progress in AI.

Par for the course for the Davos types.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/10/an-or...
Signing under the yucky and bloaty corporate part! I try to keep the landing page clean as well, it was quite important for me, as I want to use a tool, rather than a shiny toy.
That is why I prefer simple text editors to Notion; it is a must-have for the my app to be compatible with outside software and not a vendor lock-in.
Thinking in Bets has been one of the most useful books to how I approach software engineering. It’s not even about code, just how to make decisions effectively in limited information environments.
They must be using Kubernetes.
> some reason that is unspecified.

Their end goal is for you to need this to use the internet.

> something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [that you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not. I think that's certainly going to happen with the progress in AI.

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/07/10/an-or...
I've only ever used the method syntax for LINQ. I'm not a fan of having another "embedded" language inside my host language, especially since what is returned eventually needs to go back to C#. When I'm not using an ORM like Entity Framework or Dapper, I still prefer to place my data access logic with SQL into a separate abstracted project so it doesn't spill across my application (and can be replaced if I were to require a different RDBMS, although this has only happened to me once in 20 years).

For more junior devs using LINQ, setting them up with a profiler and the debugger I believe helps makes more sense about what is going on behind the scenes. Sometimes it's helpful to have them code using for-loops and standard C# logic, and then compare to how you'd implement in LINQ, to see the positive and negative of both approaches.
> Roughly 2.4 million Teslas in question, with "Full Self Driving" software after 4 reported collisions and one fatality.

45000 people die yearly just in the US in auto accidents. Those numbers and timeline you quoted seem insignificant at first glance magnified by people with an axe to grind like that guy running anti Tesla superbowl ads, who makes self driving software like you.
> This is even before desired properties, like strong identity binding, which PGP cannot offer in its current form.

If the strong identity binding is OIDC then I disagree. It's convenient but no more evidence of identity than being able to unlock a private key.

> ... one that PyPI doesn't control in order for the threat model to be coherent.

This doesn't make sense unless the author key material was only ever published on the PyPI keyserver.

> PyPI does not need to pull any material from anywhere besides what the uploader is providing

> in "normal" X.509 PKI fashion.

What about checking for revocation?
Yep, it was very obviously going to produce landgrab dynamics. Like... it would be utterly astounding for someone not to see that from day one.
CERN plans giant underground experiment site between France and Switzerland
Michael Bloomberg: NASA's Artemis Moon Mission Is a Waste
You seem to have adopted a very convenient definition of “resistance movement”. In almost all colonial warfare throughout history, the colonized received international support. Sometimes this was just weapons and aid, sometimes these were international volunteer bridges, and sometimes whole armies of a supporting nation. For example, in Rhodesian bush war, not only were the main Zimbabwe resistance groups armed and supplied by China and the Soviet Union, but they also had fighters and armed groups coming from Mozambique, ANC (South Africa) and Zambia.

During the Gaza genocide Hezbollah has been one of only two international groups who have fought with the Palestinian resistance (the other being the Huthis). Not even Iran has fought to help Palestine (they merely sent a nominal amount of missiles for reasons other than the liberation of Palestine). The ANC, and Mozambique fighters surely were armed and supplied by e.g. the Soviet Union, who probably event gave them intelligence, military advice, etc. But at no point were they a vessel or otherwise integrated into any military unit of the Soviet Union. And they fought the Rhodesian Government on ideological grounds and in solidarity with their colonized partners on the continent, but also of self preservation as e.g. the Mozambique resistance probably saw an independent Rhodesian Government would be a thread to their own liberation.

To claim e.g. that the ANC were evidence of a Soviet occupation in Africa would be very ahistorical (and I don’t thing anybody would do that), but still (and I haven’t checked, so I may be wrong) it wouldn’t surprise me that many contemporary apologists of African apartheid did just that.
Agree with this. I do come from a family of farmers and they could do anything it seemed! Phone line repair, diesel repair, welding/fabrication, plumbing, hydraulic repairs (very dangerous), all manner of home repairs, light vet work, and the list goes on and on. BTW, the description I just gave was for a specific guy that dropped out of school in sixth grade.
> I think what you're focusing on is just syntax sugar. Those examples with the 'describe'/'it' pattern are just another way to provide names to test cases, and their goal is exactly the same.

The goal may be the same/similar, but one of the approaches is clearly superior to the other for multiple reasons (as stated by me and other many times in this comment tree). Also, I don't think you quite understand what 'syntactic sugar' means.

> If you didn't have this syntactic support, you'd write the function names representing this.

It's not any kind of 'syntactic support'. Pretty much every modern language/testing framework supports adding free-form test descriptions and names through various means.

> It's exactly the same thing: documenting the test case in the code (so not a separate document), with its name.

It's very clearly not the same at all lmao. And a test name, test description, other useful test documentation/metadata are also not the same.

> The distinction between "comment" and "function name" becomes less relevant once one realizes a function's name is just another comment.

Huge differences between a function name, a comment, and an annotation. HUGE. Read the other comments in this thread to understand why. If you actually worked in an environment where stuffing a test description into a test name is the preferred approach for a non-trivial amount of time, you'd know that once you get past a certain level of complexity your test names explode to 100+ character monsters, if only to differentiate them from the other tests, testing a different combination of states/inputs and outputs, etc.
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I get good mileage out of this as well. Sometimes you know that a bug is dumb and you still don't see it right away. LLMs are good at dumb bugs, and I would much prefer to spare my effort for the not-dumb ones.

That, and a head start on scripts, or well-defined functions which are just fiddly enough that I'd have to think about them, are most of the work I get out of our new chatbot junior developers. I still find them broadly useless for deep work, but no one said they have to be.
It's endemic to urban areas of the US, where "rural" has the connotation of ignorant, backwards, stupid, inbred, etc., and "farmer" is the epitome of rural. Bog-standard xenophobia and classism.
I imagine you'd end up with lots of leaded bullets in the water, over time. Naturally lead + water = bad.

Note: I know about this because there's a gun range near where I live by the lake, and the lake is now permanently off limits for swimming due to lead pollution.
(computers generating hypotheses beat non-computer aided humans generating hypotheses should adequately engage a large class of arguments that your comment seems to suggest that you'd like to make)
> the multi-table pipeline write pattern

WITH new_order AS (
INSERT INTO order (po_number, bill_to, ship_to)
VALUES ('ABCD1234', 42, 64)
RETURNING order_id
)
INSERT INTO order_item (order_id, product_id, quantity)
SELECT new_order.order_id, vals.product_id, vals.quantity
FROM (VALUES (10, 1), (11, 5), (12, 3)) AS vals(product_id, quantity)
CROSS JOIN new_order
;

Not super pretty, but it illustrates the point. A single statement that creates an order, gets its autogenerated id (bigint, uuid, whatever), and applies that id to the order items that follow. No network round trip necessary to get the order id before you add the items, which translates into a shorter duration for the transaction to remain open.
7 years ago: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/1060

3 years ago: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/main/meetings/2021...

I've given up submitting to csharplang now. It seemed like a positive when it was first open-sourced, but the proposals/issues are often just circular discussions that go nowhere. It doesn't feel like (at least from the outside) any proposal by a non-MS employee would make it thru the process unless MS needed it themselves. Which is what I was alluding to in my original post.

I may well be wrong and maybe some proposals have made it through, but it feels like an illusion of community collaboration rather than actual community collaboration imho. I don't expect preferential treatment or anything like that, but it would be good if one of the most standout features of C# got some proper attention after a decade of neglect.

There has been a lot of effort on performance in many areas of the framework and the language. Leveraging that work for LINQ (the language feature) would be very welcome.
Ditto. I don't like making decisions at work. I like the tech; not politics.

Not to deride things too much. I'm trying to get better about it, surrounded by good suggestions... I'm just categorically exhausted
17.3? That doesn't exist (yet).
Quick word of advice when dealing with deep parent/child reloationships:

Do not use lazy loading feature. That way lies madness.
Curiously, it still isn't `latest`:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/express?activeTab=versions
A "black start" of a power grid is a completely different situation than restoring a partial grid failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
I went through this hell just last week with their terrible website. Jetblue has fallen a gew notches over the years.
This is probably one of many different types of surveys and other activities that DNR(or DNR adjacent departments) coordinates, it's fairly common to have volunteer lead programs like this for surveys or other activities. As others mentioned there's no shortage of work in understanding and managing a regional ecosystem, the people who take these jobs usually care deeply about the ecosystems and are not doing the job for financial reasons.

Rather than being cynical maybe it would be worth your time to consider volunteering and better understanding how these things are managed. You might be surprised to find it's usually fairly educated folks who care about making sure what we have today is around for the next generation.
They've built it wrong. You need JavaScript to call an API many times to get the data to build the HTML of each page.
Clockwise with the Vernal Equinox at 9 o'clock. I suspect that's the most common case.
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Alt Email?
Are there any other companies that offer news and email service like google new or yahoo news
Because they make money from being the best place to buy the kind of stuff they sell, rather than from trapping enormous numbers of people into viewing enormous numbers of advertisements.

Mcmaster doesn't have the best prices, they don't have every part imaginable. Their value-add is the shopping experience, so it's unsurprising that they do it very well.
To add on to what you wrote, it amazes me the number of developers that don't understand you can use .Select() to construct named object instances. I'm probably using bad terminology, but something like:

.Select(x => new Employee { Name = x.Name, DepartmentName = x.Department.Name }).ToList();
Saying 'stuffing a test description into the function name improves test quality because it improves test quality' is a cyclical, useless statement.

> The article is discussing the quality of the tests, not quality in general and not the quality of the resulting software.

All of my comments in this thread are about unit tests and test quality, not general software quality.

> That was my point.

I still don't see any valid point being made.
> Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [that you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not. I think that's certainly going to happen with the progress in AI.

No thanks. I would prefer to just opt out.
> In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

How long is long?
> It's ironic that farmers (traditionally thought of as less technical people

I see you’ve never met a farmer. The exact opposite of what you claim is reality.

Farmers are highly technical and have come up with plenty of ingenious solutions to problems on their farms, any labor saving device they can dream up can save them lots of time and money. Repairing equipment quickly is an important skill to have when something shits out during harvest, the weather isn’t going to wait..

A farmer can work miracles with a welder, hammer, wrench, and pliers since they’re generally put in the middle of nowhere and need to keep equipment operational.
At one end are the chip designers and manufacturers like Nvidia. At another end are the end user products like Cursor (ChatGPT was actually OpenAI's breakthrough and it was just an end-user product innovation. GPT-3.5 models had actually already been around)

I would bet on either side, but not in the middle on the model providers.
Strava already sells heatmap data to municipalities for urban planning purposes, and AFAIK anyone with a free account can see the public heatmap data (though it is probably against the ToS to incorporate it in another map without paying). It’s even tagged by modality and surface type.
There is always a limit. The realistic constraints of physical and social opportunities available to a given person are limitations irrespective of the person's quantity of motivation, which speaks to asset availability and social enabling. But none of this is relevant. The person to whom I replied is self-motivated to terminate their addictive patterns.
Turborepo 2.2
When I was in college, the local news was interviewing a comp sec professor of mine in the computer lab. The cameraman was taking B-roll footage (blinking lights from racks, cables going everywhere, that sort of thing). He asked if he could film a few of our screens to show what we were diligently working on, which is how we got hacker typer onto the nightly news.
I get that this solution is distasteful. But verifying humanity on the Internet is a real problem that is getting harder and more important very quickly. CAPTCHAs aren't going to work much longer. What is a solution that people can live with?
Well, yeah, putting thousands of pedestrians in a spot that was designed for, essentially, zero pedestrians is a good way to get them killed. The fatality was a dude was hit by a motorist(who was found not at fault) as he walked in the darkness across a street. It's not like John Deere called the Pinkertons in to bust heads and the fatality happened that way.
Can't help but think half of hacker news lives through the story of founder. Might be why "founder mode" cut so deep.
I use GitHub to host my markdown files. A bit more information is in this article I wrote about it. I actually have 4 or 5 similar articles with various thoughts on this. I'm trying to find a way to make it simpler, maybe even for non-technical users, but I'm not there yet.

https://joeldare.com/using-neat-css-on-github-pages
Clearly they are web scale.
+1

Could you share a link to that full PDF? I assume it's from the recently published documents from Smith?

Edit: Found it! https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25238371-chutkan-ord...
That SM64 port is incredible, thank you for sharing it!
Any thoughts on the fact that some vendors basically don't offer a C compiler now? E.g. MSVC has essentially forced C++ limitations back onto the C language to reduce C++ vs C maintance costs?
I am interested that the idea of consumption tax is not more widely touted

Consumption taxes are paid by the very wealthy, and are very difficult to avoid

They are regressive, but that can be fixed by universal citizens' dividends.

Take from the rich and give to everybody
There's no similar context because the Apartheid system that existed in South Africa has no resemblance to today's Israel.

In particular:

- There's no racial segregation laws; an Arab-Israeli can travel anywhere a Jewish-Israeli can. In fact, Arabic is an officially recognized language by the state of Israel, and throughout the country, every public service has signs in Arabic alongside Hebrew.

- Jews are not a minority in Israel, they comprise 78% of the population.
That's mine! :-)

I still play fairly frequently.

Just this week we had a gathering of 7 people, playing MMv3 all on one big screen, with modified levels burned to a CDROM, using a PS2 with the sticky tape hack. It was awesome!

AMA
>The problem is that they have no moat, and Sam Altman is no visionary.

In his defense he is trying to fuck us all by feverishly lobbying the US Congress about the fact that "AI is waaay to dangerous" for newbs and possibly terrorists to get their hands on. If that eventually pays off, then there will be 3-4 companies that control all of any LLMs that matter.
Good point. That's why I listed voting and jury duty, I was summoned to serve on a jury multiple times, and I always feel weirdly excluded when I have to explain that I'm not eligible. I know it can be a burden though..

At the airport, citizens and legal residents always share a line, in my experience. We tried to maintain Global Entry for the whole family for a while, but as the entry process got streamlined for citizens and GC holders over the years, the advantages of that vanished.
Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
Even after reading the entire article, I don't understand. Mind clarifying?
It kinda is. The FDA regulates food and drugs - the FTC does the same thing for unhealthy market configurations. You can claim up and down that other options exist in both cases ("don't want to eat rat feces? buy something else!") but the regulation of unhealthy practices overall improves the quality of market options while also making businesses (rightfully) fear exploiting their customers.

In this instance, it's not like John Deere is using their position to improve the status quo of their product for everyone involved. They are explicitly demanding money for nothing - not only is it anticompetitive, but it's not promoting healthy market development. Deliberately designing malnutritional formula is really not that different from deliberately designing a tractor it's owners can't own. The mechanism for regulating both issues is pretty similar as well.
May I ask how often and in what situations you deal with data import tasks like these? This would help me better understand the issue and make the product more user-friendly. I would appreciate your input.
I've not researched how this works, but this definitely feels like one of those things where if you dig deep enough into it, it boils down to "we verify your 'humanness' by checking that there's your biometric data signed by our private key, for which the public key is hardcoded everywhere, so trust us please".
This website get the HN hug of death? Can not load from mobile or desktop browser for last few hours...
I don’t have aphantasia but I visualize nothing when I code. Only words, verbs, and sentences (classes, variables, statements).

I also visualize me smiting the previous programmer who wrote the awful code that I have to work on but that’s another story.
the origin of money, vs what money is now, are not necessarily one and the same.