skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused on the reporting. The push from folks I'm seeing is definitely inline with social distancing and masking being the big wins.

I thought, during the time, it was also felt that different respiratory viruses effectively out compete each other? Not seeing that mentioned much, at the moment.

I'm also somewhat terrified that folks seem to be taking this in the anti-vaccine direction.
But I can't install safari on my Linux.
I don't know why you've got downvotes. If it's because your claim is false, I'd hope to see some evidence about why. If it's because your claim is uncomfortable... well I guess that's just another reflection the problem you're pointing out.
That makes sense when tools are as dumb as static notes and TI-84s.

But in the (hypothetical) limit where AI tools outperform all humans, what does this updated test look like? Are we even testing the humans at that point?
button "pornify" with prompt "rephrase this text as if it were in a 1970s erotic pulp novel" turned:

You can define your own "macros" - instructions for an LLM (like "summarize this text", "fix the grammar") and add them as buttons for easy access. You can also make one-time commands. Then, highlight the text you want to send to the LLM, and click the button!

into:

In the tantalizing world of seductive prose and forbidden texts, imagine crafting your own alluring "macros"—personalized whispers to your erotic muse, coaxing it into decadent actions such as "entice this passage with brevity" or "caress the syntax with meticulous finesse." Fashion these sultry commands into luscious buttons, waiting at your beck and call. With a mere flick of the wrist, highlight the prose that begs for attention, then surrender it to the willing buttons, igniting the LLM's desire to transform mundane words into tantalizing pleasures.
Yes, young men are twice as likely to get in an accident than young women. On top of that young men are 7 times more likely to get in an accident that all men. Unsurprisingly the data does support higher insurance premiums for young drivers.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8134...
> As long as you have enterprise products like zscaler, that do not support IPv6

ZScaler is a burning piece of privacy-violating garbage that as a developer rather get rid of than have.

Nice for non-IT collegues who were previously protected by the corporate proxy server while working in the office, now work at home or other places, and are prone to scamming and visiting forbidden [by the employer] sites.

As a developer a system-wide MITM SSL-decrypting proxy server is a major pain in the ass. Every runtime of developer tools, python, Node, .NET, Docker, Linux (WSL) flavors, etc have their own way to trust root certificates, and as a web developer you do tend to touch a lot of different tools.
Secondly, when you do a bit of devops, you can't even check basic things like checking if a website has the correct (valid) SSL certificate without RDP-ing to some server which doesn't have ZScaler installed.

Sorry for my rant. But I'm not allowed to disable ZScaler - but am forced to live with it.
You're confusing three things here.

Yes, sunglasses are necessary because the white cement is blinding. That situation is literally what sunglasses are for.

But polarized sunglasses are no better than regular sunglasses in this regard. Polarization does nothing extra for rough surfaces like cement.

And you're talking entirely about reflected sunlight, which is what sunglasses are designed for.

But the topic was direct sunlight straight into your eyeball while driving, and sunglasses provide no help or safety here. Polarized or not.
Cars are quite simply not a good basis for a societal transportation system, and this is yet another condemning data point.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has excellent data available on this and similar questions, start with Table 62: https://cdan.dot.gov/tsftables/tsfar.htm
I agree that in many cases there is a problem, and indeed, objects can be designed as too coarse.

I agree in many cases it leads to problems of composition. Some design principles have been devised to mitigate this, such as the "Single Responsibility Principle" (and others). Nothing is fool-proof however, and everything is further complicated by the fact no-one seems to agree on precise definitions of any principles.

God Objects are one such know problem of highly coupled, low cohesion functions grouped into arbitrary objects.

Objects naturally group related functions in some cases (when they truly conform to a coherent entity), so I guess I disagree they are always wrong. But when OOP became fashionable, designers started thinking everything must be an object, and this is obviously wrong -- but is it OOP's fault, or was it the fault of its adopters? The "everything is an object" mantra is indeed misguided when applied to every software system.

Functions can fall prey to the same faulty thinking. I've seen many times functions "in the wild" that do too many things, tweakeable through too many parameters. They usually must be refactored.

In fact, refactoring is where you split objects that have become too large or ill-defined for their own good, is it not?

In the end, I think this is more about good software engineering practices rather than "one must use/must not use OOP/FP" or whatever ?Programming style.
It's also fascinating how many developers got so burnt on IE11- compatibility issues and feel a need to use Babel as a comfort blanket still. Babel does so very little now with reasonable, up-to-date Browserlist defaults (but still takes a lot of time to do so very little), but the number of developers unwilling to drop Babel from their build pipelines is still to me so surprisingly high. Babel was a great tool for what it did in the "IE11 is still an allowed browser" era, but you most probably don't really need it today.
> The point at which we decide that a defect is serious enough to transfer liability is quite case-dependent. If you knew that the throttle was glitchy but hadn't done anything to fix it, yes. If it affected every car from the manufacturer, it's obviously their fault -- but if you ignore the recall then it might be your fault again?

In most American jurisdictions' liability law, the more usual thing is to expand liability, rather than transferring liability. The idea that exactly one -- or at most one -- person or entity should be liable for any given portion of any given harm is a common popular one in places like HN, but the law is much more accepting of the situation where lots of people may have overlapping liability for the same harm, with none relieving the others.

The liability of a driver for maintenance and operation within the law is not categorically mutually exclusive with the liability of the manufacturer (and, indeed, every party in the chain of commerce) for manufacturing defects.

If a car is driven in a way that violates the rules of the road and causes an accident and a manufacturing defect in a driver assistance system contributed to that, it is quite possible for the driver, manufacturer of the driver assistance system, manufacturer of the vehicle (if different from that of the assistance system) and seller of the vehicle to the driver (if different from the last two), among others, to all be fully liable to those injured for the harms.
Is custom DNS server a viable alternative?
It was made a couple of years ago, but Defuncland's "Disney's FastPass: A complicated history" is an incredible documentary that I watched this year. You don't need to know too much about Disney for it to absorb you in.

[Defunctland]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE
The maze did a good job visualizing the complexity of the laws. But failed hard on allowing users to just read the stories. They need to provide a shortcut to skipping the maze like press of spacebar to let users to just read the stories.
The key was the full scale combustion simulator software that SpaceX developed to design the Raptor.

This talk was given at NVIDIA GTC 2015 and inspired me to go into manufacturing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYA0f6R5KAI

title: "GPUs To Mars: Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine"
I think this makes a pretty good stereotype based on reality.

This is something of a dichotomy between engineering-based structures and sales-centric, with MBA's and designers as collateral players.

Everybody needs sales of some kind, but most businesses do not actually need "engineering", so there are not usually any engineers expected to in the chain-of-command. Even in an engineering company itself there may be only token members in the most critical decision-making positions.

A sales hierarchy sells from a select source of technology.

An engineering hierarchy selects a technology to be a source of.

They each have huge pallettes to choose from, but they are different.

I think many lifelong business operators are aware that it really takes far more years to truly learn their business than it would to enroll as a freshman and end up earning an MBA.

And that's not even engineering companies.

These are the kind of organizations that may have no worthwhile use for even the most talented decision-maker of any kind regardless of degree, until after their employment has been lengthy enough to have achieved the working acumen that is really necessary. In many cases taking far more years on active duty than in academic preparation, but it's worth it.

But even if you can do without MBA's forever, you still have to have Production, Sales, accountants, HR, Admin, security, IT, etc. You can only go so far with "engineers" only.

However, in one way to approach an ideal "engineering company" the entire chain-of-command consists of true technical leaders-by-consensus top-to-bottom in a Maslow-like way where by nature less consensus is needed toward the top where the individual vision finally becomes most powerful.

All the other departments report to this engineering backbone in one way or another so the buck always stops with somebody who can handle the engineering calculus and who always puts that kind of thing foremost from day one, without undue reliance on business calculus, which are two different pursuits to an extent.

Then if a gifted MBA or two have something to offer, they can do so while reporting to the appropriate engineers, never the other way around.

You need to get back to a more technically talented chain-of-command where they instinctively can make way more money through technology than any bean-counters would ever be able to save even if they laid everyone off.

No doubt you can accomplish a lot by having a completely non-technical chain-of-command, with engineering off to the side like other essentials such as accounting or HR. People do it all the time. But you can't really accomplish quite the same things after all.

Still it sounds like any customers who stumbled in to the "Engineering Restaurant" end up with the best as far as the food itself, although there is some "Artisan Dining" where the experience can be unforgettable too.

Sometimes you don't get much on your plate though, I wondered if they were in the back eating most of it themselves ;)
In the US, I would bet the proximate cause is difficulty getting Republican party support.
It's excellent! Sort of like chess but with mechs. And if chess had multiple classes of pieces with different movesets. I played well over 100 hours on switch. Each class requires a different strategy to use effectively, and it's fun feeling your way through them. Highly recommend!
Eco-activists in California have seriously engaged this for the last thirty years. Environmentalist burnout and despair are not even newsworthy somehow. Literally, dominant media is about how to invest in oil or "energy transition" every week, while smaller scale environmentalist media regularly fail due to lack of resources.

About 20 years ago, wealthy environmentalist groups (poster-child Sierra Club and others) suffered infighting and lost public prominence. A very small number of very large environmentalist groups continue to engage in serious and long-term work to their credit (World Wildlife Fund and others)
Oh, so it wasn't to be taken seriously. Well that's good, because if taken seriously you'd be talking about taking food out of my children's mouths to pay for your fantasy transportation infrastructure that wouldn't pay for itself due to population density, likely be poorly implemented while restricting my freedom of movement, and I make enough that I could eat those costs better than most. I'm annoyed at the terminally-online "I just discovered NotJustBikes and I'm "radicalized"" nature of the idea but there are tens of millions of people for whom it would be an existential issue.

How about we eminent-domain wherever you live to build a train line? Oh that wouldn't be a problem for you? Congrats on being in the top 10% at least.
What architectures would it not be 04 on?
I'd say software is deeply integrated with all forms of engineering at this point because of modeling.
How old are you? And, for that matter, how old is the person you're responding to? In 1998, at least up to a TI-81 was allowed on the AP Calculus Exam (possibly higher than that, but you couldn't use anything that was programmable). I have to think it's been a very long time since no calculators at all were allowed for math exams unless you're talking arithmetic exams in elementary school where the entire point is to test how well you've memorized times tables or can perform manual long division.
I think the best test for a Junior is to ask them to submit some of their OSS or personal fun projects they've worked on. From my perspective, especially with Juniors who aren't expected to be extremely knowledgeable, displaying a sense of curiosity and a willingness to learn is much more important.

If, hypothetically, there's two candidates, one who is more knowledgeable but has no personal projects versus someone who has less knowledge but has worked on different side projects in various languages/domains, I'm always going to pick the latter candidate since they clearly have a passion, and that passion will drive them to pick up the knowledge more than someone who's just doing it for a paycheck and could care less about expanding their own knowledge.

To go one step forward, you can ask them to go into detail about their side project, interesting problems they faced, how they overcame them, etc. Even introverts who are generally worse at small talk are on a much more balanced playing field when talking about something they're passionate about.
Another Morse code learning resource, for those the seriously want to learn and build Morse code skills, is the CW Academy run by CW Ops. https://cwops.org/ Basically a friendly crew of skilled CW operators that want to invite more people to the party, and do online classes and mentoring.
It doesn't really matter if you disincentivise it if there isn't an alternative, or the alternatives are even worse, as is currently the case in many parts of the US.
> which at $5,101 per computer at that time equated to about $684 billion in revenue. The number of global internet users was about 361 million in 2000, which at $113 a month equals about $489 billion in revenue ($850 billion in 2024 dollars).

I have never spent $5101 on a computer or $113 a month for internet access so far.

And is it reasonable to count computer hardware spending as internet revenue?
Bela Tar’s film Werkmeister Harmonies is a masterpiece and this article makes me think its title would be more precisely translated as Werkmeister Temperments.
I still don't care about cookies

Decentraleyes

Temporary containers

Clean URLs

Stylus
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Piracy also is not unique to torrents, and yet that was what GP used.

The average person, in my experience, can barely work a non-cellphone filesystem and actively stresses when a terminal is in front of them, especially for a brief moment. Education went out the window a decade ago.
> Humanism and environmentalism are at odds more often than they are not.

It gets less surprising when people realize that nature is red in tooth and claw, an uncaring shithole we're evolutionary conditioned to find pretty - at least the parts we see. Beautiful meadows and happy animals and careless people are just propaganda - in reality, the people are sick and busy with back-breaking work, and animals are all on the verge of starvation, and that doesn't even touch the microbiological scale. Ecological balance is achieved by means that, when applied to balance between humans, we'd call unending war of attrition.

Humanism and environmentalism are at odds because nature doesn't care about humans anymore than it cares about anything else. Brutal death and constant suffering are hallmarks of nature.
> But because we were recording data, it qualified as a study; because it qualified as a study, we needed to go through the IRB.

I'm not sure when Scott did his work, but this reasoning (at least after 2019) would have been wrong. IRB review only considers "generalizable" research, and is exempted from IRB review according to federal regulations and as encoded into specific institutional procedure. [1] Federally binding standards about specific exempt categories exist, but they aren't exhausitive. [2] Part of the point of IRB training – well, human subjects research training specifically – is to get drilled into you what's within and not within the scope of IRB.

[1]
https://ori.hhs.gov/content/chapter-3-The-Protection-of-Huma...

[2] https://irb.ucsf.edu/sites/hrpp.ucsf.edu/files/exempt%20cate...
The current test for freedom of speech in the U.S. is "Imminent Lawless Action," which is a refinement of the previous "Clear and Present Danger" standard.

The threats do not qualify under the current test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
I think the idea is it would look a bit like daylight, but only if you're in the area being lit (e.g. standing next to the solar farm), otherwise you wouldn't see it at all. But in practice, I'm not sure. I could imagine light leakage being an issue.
I'm pretty sure I got prompted once or twice before updating to app with new permissions added.
> And Chomskian linguistics have more or less collapsed with the huge success of statistical methods.

People have been saying this for decades. But the hype around large language models is finally starting to wane and I wouldn't be surprised if in another 10 years we hear again that we "finally disproved generative linguistics" (again?)

Also, how many R's are in "racecar"?
Even with extensive notes and prep-time in a one-on-one?

Can you communicate it in real-time through writing? Maybe that's an accommodation that could be done?
It is a popular choice for apps made with cross-platform frameworks like Tauri and Electron. It even powers a big POS device in Brasil.
Ballistics.
Show HN: Screenshot Holmes – rename your screenshots with useful names
My first public repo intended to be used by others. While I am curious on how you'd use it, I'd love feedback on the code/setup/pythonic nature of it all. I am on a career break and just experimenting a lot, especially on ways to make AI useful for everyday things. I've coded more in the past 6 weeks than the past 6 years and don't know a lot of python devs. Python was never big language at my previous companies, but something I used a lot for tools and projects going back to college compiler days. Old habits die hard.

Are there tools that do this as you screenshot? Probably... I've about about 10k screenshots from over the years, and it's nice to scroll back through them with contextual filenames. Seemed like a good use case to use 4o mini vision and I was surprised at the results.
Children do get ~6000 hours a year of stimulus. Spoken, unspoken, written, and body language. Even then they aren't able to form language proficiently until 5 or 6 years old. Does the internet contain 30,000 hours of stimulus?
> a single bit change would result in a 4096 byte write

On (most) SSD hardware, regardless of what software you are using to do the writes.

At least that's how I read their comment.
I'll admit that while I run dual-stack for the public internet, I still haven't figured out a good way to manage my LAN with ipv6.

For ipv4, I have a DHCP server on the same machine as my DNSH server, which lets me configure my network in a single place. With IPv6 I'm still not sure exactly how to configure this. It seems like if I use SLAAC for a ULA, at least some hosts will still apply RFC 4941 (or maybe 8981; I'm not sure), which makes DNS unfeasible. So I guess maybe DHCPv6 is the answer (short of manually configuring each host)?
This article complains a lot about previous-generation, cancelled projects, but doesn't really investigate what's going on with the current surveillance towers or investigate anything at all, really. The linked NBC article explains that the FAA (WTF... yes, the airplane FAA) administer some surveillance towers, and that border patrol agents are mad that there's a big ticket backlog of broken ones to fix. That's pretty much it.

Nobody investigated enough to figure out things like:

* Why the FAA administer the towers and what the actual hold-up is towards getting a fix? Certainly at least the backstory should be public information.

* Why the towers are broken. This is probably sensitive information but I'm sure some of the disgruntled border patrol agents would be willing to have a chat about it.

* Is it a specific generation of tower that's broken? Is it some kind of backend issue, or just rot from deploying electronics into a hostile desert environment full of people trying to destroy them?

* How do the new "AI" towers work? They're probably just drawing boxes around people and items, no?

This is a disappointing and silly article, in my opinion. It doesn't convince me at all that border surveillance overall is a bad idea or a waste of money, just that some old programs turned into pork-barrel debacles. There's no fresh information or anything that would convince me either way on this issue.
I guess I didn't realize insurance for kids was now that expensive. That's insane! I have a few years til mine is able to drive, that's going to be a fun conversation...
I mean it's not like we don't spend $100B+ per year on infrastructure, much of it for roads and other car based transport methods [1]. We could instead invest it in subway and other public transit infrastructure, rather than on exceptionally inefficient, expensive, and environmentally costly modes of transport.

[1] https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/transportation-infra... -- note that rail expenditure isn't all public transport, the majority of US rail infrastructure is freight transport.
Driving is in fact very efficient! It has increased to 100% the likelihood of me NOT accidentally sitting in a homeless person's piss!
And it penalizes in many ways. Focusing too much on grades can be detrimental in graduate studies, despite graduate admissions focusing on GPA and test scores. I remember seeing 4.0 undergrads really struggle with research in grad school, sometimes to the point of dropping out. Certainly not always the case, but for the ones that did I think it speaks to your point about different skillsets.

Maybe worse was seeing the undergrads who passed on research opportunities out of fear it would distract them from keeping a high GPA.
Automated Feature Flag Cleanup for Multi-Language Codebases
gratz. im more of a Rimworld guy myself though