skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Tell HN: Texas about to execute Robert Roberson, a 57-year-old man with autism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837556

Robert Robertson execution day set in Texas shaken baby case - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848961
> You’re going to need to figure out how to either maintain long term compatibility with existing WordPress plugins and themes,

Kinda.

The block editor / Full site editing has started talk of the end of traditional themes. That is, in theory, it's been said one theme could be all anyone needs.

As for plugins, some dev education would help. General knowledge of basic OOP in the world of WordPress is very low. If you treat the CMS as a dependency, use interfaces and dependency injection then you're at least decoupled from the CMS. At that point, in theory writing one plugin for both - or more - CMS is doable, or pretty close.

If you could get a couple of the larger plugins to adopt this OOP approach other are more likely to follow.

A big ask? Yes. But sticking with the current Matt status quo is textbook insanity.
It's not essential, I don't know anyone in real life who uses it.

I run an RSS feed on my blog out of principle and I don't bother reading other feeds I'm subscribed to

When I'm bored I come here, I go on Mastodon, and gods save me, I go on Reddit
Historic Bitcoin theft tied to Connecticut kidnapping, $500K bar bill
That's another thing: my compensation is basically all salary, no stock options of any kind. I think the trick might be that my immigration lawyer listed the PW for "entry level" Software Architect job (is there even such thing?), while I have around 20 years of experience.
No, the Japanese implosion came at the end of the 80's and early 90's. That book is from 1982.
It's the same situation in most countries.

You need young, cheap labour from somewhere in order to sustain domestic agricultural and manufacturing industries. In the US it comes from people crossing the border, UK it was Schengen migration and in Australia legal immigration via loopholes that were never closed.

And as we've seen in the UK the minute that goes away those businesses fold en masse as either (a) they make themselves uncompetitive to attract domestic workers or (b) they don't and they have no workers at all.
From what I’m getting out of the paper, it’s more like 'students who work out regularly are less likely to get really bad hangovers.' I’m not sure I buy that regular exercise actually lowers the pain of a hangover if you’re drinking the same amount. For me, working out tends to make me feel tipsy faster, so I usually end up drinking less anyway when I do.
As a game player I want to play an opponent that behaves like a human. Otherwise I’m always looking for the flaw in the design that I can exploit, which wins me the game but is less fun.

What you’re discussing sounds like intuition with checking, which is pretty close to how humans with a moderate degree of skill behave. I haven’t known enough Chess or Go masters to have any claim on how they think. But most of us don’t want an opponent at that level and if we did, we would certainly find a human, or just play against ourselves.
https://github.com/google-research/nerf-from-image
I think it's more about avoiding downtime (I just upgraded a pg with 1TB of data from v11 to v16 and I didn't notice any breaking changes). In an ideal world, every client of the DB should be able to handle the case where the DB is down and patiently wait for the DB to come back to keep doing its job. But from my experience, it's rarely the case, there is always at least 1 micro service running somewhere in the cloud that everybody forgot about that will just crash if the DB is down, which could mean losing data.
Ditto, I wouldn't quite say it flies on my M1 MBA, but performance is by no means frustratingly laggy. I use Inkscape a lot on both my MBA and Surface Laptop and it is much more frustrating on the latter device. The lack of support for fractional scaling is an annoyance on my 150% scaled Surface. The tiny UI has to be remedied by pinning a .bat to my taskbar and disguising it as Inkscape, with the following code:

cd <Inkscape directory>

set GDK_SCALE=2

start inkscape.exe

And within Inkscape using the Minwaita-Inkscape theme and 80% font scaling to scale back the otherwise-now-too-big UI.

On both my Mac and PC, the main frustration once the UI is scaled correctly is that often closing pop-up windows (i.e. Document Properties) simply doesn't work. Sometimes using Inkscape's tab close button rather than the MacOS/Windows close window button works, but other times the whole app will freeze up and crash when attempting to close these pop-up windows. Have had this issue for multiple Inkscape versions now, hoping the devs find a way to fix it.
Many circuits have ceil(log_2(N_bits)) scaling wrt to propagation delay/other dimensions so you’re just leaving efficiency on the table if you aren’t using a power of 2 for your bit size.
What is your bad experience with expenses?

There are lots of areas where I dont trust employers, but following published expense policies is not one I lose sleep over.

I have never once had a problem, or heard of anyone else having a problem in real life. I have used corporate expenses for decades, and know tons of people doing the same across dozens of companies.

That said, I don't overtly steal from the company. I'm smart enough to realize people are touchy about that.
Here’s another reason to upgrade: your version is end of life and your cloud provider forced it.

Thank you Amazon!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634854

My current one is quite a bit different (based on Debian instead of Ubuntu, additional steps to make VR work, and some other changes) but the parts related to sockets etc are the same.
Even the introduction of Irresistable [0] is enough to want to keep your kids off social media — alleged is that Steve Jobs didn't allow his own kids to use iPads/tech in their bedrooms.

[0] amazon.com/Irresistible-Addictive-Technology-Business-Keeping/dp/0735222843/
I have a large production deployment that is still on 9.6 because the software depends on table inheritance. (Oh man!)
> stablecoins are pretty useful

No they are not, they are actually rife with criminals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-27/tether-us...
> their free-floating, diminutive collarbones allow them to squeeze themselves through very narrow gaps.

Detached collarbones is one of the many interesting things I know about cats because of my cat obsessed kid!
Oh you seem to misunderstand. They are all clamoring for a seat at the table. It is easy to buy seats from one side of the political sphere. They do not understand that they will be kicked to the ground, once they get what they need.
Sweet can we also ban individualized pricing? Already being tested for rollout in grocery, already common in insurance and other industries.
The only thing we needed was the compute. Everything else had been discovered by the 80s.
This is actually a decent article but it misses a few things.

People need to understand that undocumented migrants are nothing more than a political football. The article (correctly) points out that nobody really wants to "solve" the problem. I'd go even further and say there is no problem. It's completely made up.

The article points out that if you really wanted to address this (made up) problem, you'd go after the employers. Nobody does that. It has been tried, however. For example, the Alabama agriculture sector collapsed when they tried [1].

Chicken farms are notorious for bad practices. Underpay undocumented migrants. When they start demanding safer working conditions and more pay, you simply call ICE for a sweep, pay a token fine and then start with a new batch.

Undocumented migrants, from the perspective of employers, are about cheap labor and suppressing wages. The easiest solution for this is to document them. We used to do this. It was called the Bracero program [2].

Top of this political theater is the "migrant crime" panic. For example, in a country with >20,000 homicides per year, so far this year 27 of them have been committed by noncitizens [3] and that includes documented and undocumented people.

Construction and agriculture are utterly dependent on undocumented migrant labor.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigr...

[2]: https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/bracero-program

[3]: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic...
I would like to understand in detail what you just wrote.

"$1 per coin game" is this a game where you put in $1 to play and get paid either $2 or $0 with 50-50 probability (0 expected).

And the what does it mean %1 edge? Does it mean the probabilities are such that the expected payout is 1c per coin flip?
M365 copilot is a poor product in search of a use. I expected it to be my assistant. So far I’ve found that it can’t do any of the things I would ask of an assistant. It cannot create calendar entries. It cannot identify (correctly) who reports to me or give me a list of email addresses for employees of a particular organization unit. So far I’ve found it okay at summarizing things, but not reliably. Of a large email chain it only summarized the most recent few emails.
Probably something to do
with higher metabolism…
A big part of the problem is that if you go to a doctor with diabetes, 90%+ he will tell you to use insulin. He won't tell you to loose weight and go on keto diet.

Still popular opinion is that eating meat and fat is bad for you (heart attack) but no many understand that eating sugar and carbs is a highway to diabetes).

In fact many people who go on keto and reverse diabetes report that doctors instead of congratulating them and telling other patients to do the same, tell them that keto diet (i.e. eating lots of meat) will give them heart attacks.

Most people don't know how bad sugar and carbs are because no one tells them.
searching for the often leads to the prompts I need to get a similar image from which I can iterate from. So yes, I want to search for them
"1. bytes are 8 bits"

How big is a bit?
I worked at a company who, occasionally during a busy time, would order 5 or so boxes of pizza and set it out in the break room for the team, in case anyone needed to stay late and got a little hungry.

Well, it wasn't long before someone decided to just grab a few entire boxes of pizza and go home with them, abusing the perk so they could get a free meal for their family.

After a few times that happened, the pizza perk ended, because one guy ruined it for everyone.

Now we all know it was you!

EDIT: (sarcasm alert, I'm obviously not saying it was literally you, just someone with the same justifications)
There’s a somewhat heterodox theory that rather than some kind of AI moonshot, the Fifth Generation project was an attempt to build an alternative interaction model to Latin alphabet keyboards feeding teletypes. The idea (supposedly) was that ideographically centered Japan could not compete in a software market dominated by alphanumeric text I/O; “smarter” systems that could leverage arbitrary natural language (written or spoken) would level the playing field.
Well then someone somewhere with some mainframe got so angry they decided to write a manifesto to condemn kids these days and announced a fork of Qt because Qt committed the cardinal sin of adopting C++20. So don’t say “a problem literally nobody has”, someone always has a use case; although at some point it’s okay to make a decision to ignore them.

https://lscs-software.com/LsCs-Manifesto.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41614949

Edit: Fixed typo pointed out by child.
> People need to understand that undocumented migrants are nothing more than a political football. The article (correctly) points out that nobody really wants to "solve" the problem. I'd go even further and say there is no problem. It's completely made up.

For the American political class, nobody really cares about the immigrants except to make sure they don't get too uppity. Perpetuating an underclass is the entire point. If they truly cared, they would issue easy to get short term work visas like the Gulf states. This is the legacy of the Monroe doctrine, the Hispanic countries are basically taken for granted as a cheap labor pool given that no other country will try to uplift them and their general corruption and crime are tolerated by the US so long as they don't go full Cuba.
>I got off merely with rolling backwards and breaking my bong covering myself with bong water, then worrying about a leaf in my hair

You got off easy, friend. Thank your god/devil.

>In all seriousness, Salvia is horrible and fits the layperson’s perception of a bad trip much better than any psychedelic hallucinogen
Ridiculous blocking
In our company we see the opposite. 5 years ago all the devs wanted Mac instead of Linux. Now they want to go back.

I think part of the reason is that we manage Mac pretty strictly now but we're getting there with Linux too.

We also tried to get them to use WSL 1 and 2 but they just laugh at it :) And point at its terrible disk performance and other dealbreakers. Can't blame them.
My cat woke up, did a big stretch, and yawned. Then she hiccoughed, turned into a small dragon, and coughed up a fireball.

"!!!" I said.

"What?" She shrugged back into cat form.

"You're a shape shifter?"

"All cats are. There's just never any reason to not be a cat."

/src https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/112928631782738642
It is sad that Stripe is still trying to pursue crypto.

Have they not learned from their failed Bitcoin experiment?
If that guy was a progressive, he'd give 70% of his income straight to the government.
I grew up where it was invented, but I first learned of crokinole in the memorable lyrics of Moxy Fruvous, in which they manage to rhyme it with "princess of Monaco". Recommended, especially if you're from Toronto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF3JfiexLVA
What do you attribute this to?
I think mine goes to the bathroom, when it's his turn with it...
> and now I rent ISP-managed CPE. It's the only way.

An ISP provided consumer grade router (and that's what they all are) isn't any better than the one you buy yourself and almost certainly worse.

My ISP uses 802.1x and I bypassed it completely by pwning the provided router to get the keys.

The only "way" if you're concerned about security is to run your own gateway with whatever Linux, FreeBSD (*sense), or OpenBSD suits your particular needs.

You can of course run it behind a ISP provided gateway in bridge mode, but I always prefer to get another cheap piece of hardware out of the chain if I can.
> while Office 365 AI is like $400+ a year per user

And I'm pretty sure this is only Introductory pricing. As people get used to it and use it more it won't cover the cost. I think they rely on the gym model currently; many people not using the ai features much. But eventually that will change. Also, many companies figured that out and pull the copilot license from users that don't use it enough.
An example that may be useful to aid in understanding… Casinos are non ergodic.

A million players each placing a single bet will have an expectation of losing the house edge.

A single player placing a million bets has an expectation of $0.

The fact that the aggregate and the single entity Experience different expectations despite both placing a million bets is what makes this ergodic.
Piggy-backing off this - does anyone know of a quick way to evaluate the maia weights from python or js for a single board state? I'm trying to hack something together with my own search func intended for human play and I can't quite figure it out from the cpp in Lc0.
I find it hard to believe that only 10% of software developer graduates are unemployable. 90% unemployment is ridiculous. why would the graduates waste so much time with a 10% chance of employment.
> Japan's computer industry has failed outside of vidja gaemz

Worth noting that the big video game companies in Japan—Nintendo, Sony, Square Soft, etc. are atypical Japanese companies too, run a bit differently than the others. Which is no doubt a big reason for their success.
>First, Big Tech (FAANG) is not representative of the tech industry as a whole, and does not have strong PMF in plenty of markets and sectors abroad.

It's not? Android is the most popular OS in the world with Apple and Microsoft making up the bulk of the rest.

>As of September 2024, Android, a mobile OS that uses the Linux kernel, has 45.38% of the global market and is the world's most widely used operating system. This is followed by Windows with 25.61%, iOS with 18.39%, macOS with 5.53%, and Desktop Linux with 1.64%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
In the future using top-level await might be a BC break in Node
Well if it's self-hosted you have to do it yourself. You can either backup your databases from the old version and restore it to the new version once installed, or you can use pg_upgrade to upgrade/copy a old version data directory to the new version.

I don't think this is done automatically when you simply install a new postgres version, but I'm not certain of that.
Totally. I am also in this journey where I keep going back and forth between templates and something typed. I really need something like native jsx inside go. Gosx anybody?
Seeing how Matt has acted in the last couple of days, I wouldn't be surprised if they're just going to yank the license from under the project, and just wait for the lawsuits.
>Top of this political theater is the "migrant crime" panic. For example, in a country with >20,000 homicides per year, so far this year 27 of them have been committed by noncitizens [3] and that includes documented and undocumented people.

Illegal immigrants would have to be really stupid to commit crimes; after all, they jumped through huge hoops just to get into the country, so of course they're going to keep a low profile.

What I'm curious about, however, is how many crimes are committed by their kids? One thing I've noticed about immigrants in many countries is that, while the actual immigrants (the "first generation") went through hell to immigrate (illegally or legally), and generally are extremely hard-working and want a new life, their kids aren't the same. The kids didn't grow up in the old country and don't know what it's like there, and don't understand their parents' sacrifice. But in the new country, they frequently don't fit into the society (particular if they come from an extremely different culture and ethnic background), and then this can lead to big problems later, like joining criminal gangs.
This doesn't work for me. Just tells me "yep this would output the contents of <file name> if it existed at that directory"... I call B.S., or some seriously missing context.
Using neural nets. The approach taken towards AI in the 80’s was much less compute intensive.
> Former NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer seems to disagree with that assessment, there were plans.

There were none, this "eventually" was an empty consolation without any timeframe, and was widely criticized as such at the time. No gear, no integration - and no desire to move in that direction.

> And that was even before the 2014 coup that coincidentally set up a pro-NATO government.

There was no coup in Ukraine. Ukraine became very interested in the military alliance after Russia invaded them.
Is don't know if it's a problem or if it's related but in Los Angeles, the city is covered with illegal food stalls setup on sidewalks. I think that's an issue. For one, it takes customers from the stores they set up in front of.

I'm happy to hear arguments this is unrelated to illegal immagration and is a net positive.

the idea that immigration is always a net positive seems to have been challenged recently

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-clinto...
The social taboo isn't, IMO, necessarily wrong. There should be a check on adults that need to physically handle a kid. Abusive teachers exist and having a check on anyone working with kids is important.

I'd also point out that smaller (and or older) female teachers can be overpowered by teen boys.

But using cops as a solution is frankly idiotic. Kids do idiotic shit and bringing down the full force of the law against them is insane. For all the reasons you point out, a cop is the worst possible person to rely on for physical restraint.
It's incredible how often I've seen this. Same here--every single tech job, there's at least someone who does this. And it's always the same excuse/justification when you see them doing it: "The soda's free, bro! If they didn't want me to take it, they'd put it in a vending machine!"
>A 9-bit byte is found on 36-bit machines in quarter-word mode.

I've only programmed in high level programming languages in 8-bit-byte machines. I can't understand what you mean by this sentence.

So in a 36-bit CPU a word is 36 bits. And a byte isn't a word. But what is a word and how does it differ from a byte?

If you asked me what 32-bit/64-bit means in a CPU, I'd say it's how large memory addresses can be. Is that true for 36-bit CPUs or does it mean something else? If it's something else, then that means 64-bit isn't the "word" of a 64-bit CPU, so what would the word be?

This is all very confusing.
IIUC, the Fifth Generation Computer project was more of James Bond style hallucination than something worthwhile. The project was supposed to produce a completely novel tech stack from hardware to user interface, one such that leapfrog and obsolete all conventional computer systems: it would run on custom AI-optimized parallel CPU designed for a futuristic post-C parallel programming language for all-custom AI inference OS and applications. It was of course all proudly national made with all kinds of scientific theories and inputs from scholars worldwide incorporated into it.

It's like trying to make Star Wars technologies happen by sheer cash flow and technological optimism. All fever dreams.
Their job is to finance vehicles, of course they know about car reliability. Please get a grip.
Yes indeed. And meeting notes are full of errors. Also because the transcription really sucks with non-native speakers. I'm often surprised the notes even make sense when I read the transcript garbage.

The problem is that people are already relying on it. Several times a day I get copy pasted meeting minutes with the "generated by AI, check for accuracy" disclaimer still on it. But the user just dumped it onwards.

This is not how this should work. The user responsible for the minutes should check the notes themselves and then send them on. They still save time by not having to write them from scratch.

But of course people are lazy and when the incorrect minutes lead to the inevitable confusion they just shrug and quote that disclaimer. NO, you're responsible even if you've used the AI. Really ticks me off. These minutes are often for people that couldn't attend the meeting so they have no way to "check for accuracy".
C++17 removed trigraphs
In my experience buying microwaves in Northern’s Europe it’s the cheap ones that have a straight forward interface with simple knobs and the expensive ones that doesn’t.

I guess the complicated interface is both more expensive to built and looks more impressive so you add it to higher end machines.
Israel is a definite exception. It is very startup friendly. Just a small market compared to Europe, let alone the US.
Employees have to work there.