skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What is it that you have to hide?

An argument so cliche, it has its own Wikipedia page[1]. In the US, we currently have a presidential candidate from a major party threatening harm to people based on their political, social, and biological qualities, which outsiders often determine by inference from data such as who people are in contact with and where they travel. Further, I would argue the need for individual privacy is innate in humans; as every child matures they find a need to do things without their parents over their shoulder, even without their peers, no matter how innocent the activity and it is a need that does not vanish in adulthood. We generally agree that things like removing bedroom doors as punishment is abusive because it robs the person of privacy. The same goes for installing monitoring software on your partner's phone, or a GPS tracker on their car. Privacy means we are able to be ourselves without our lives being scrutinized, criticized, judged, rated, shamed, blamed, or defamed by every person on the street. I close the door when I defecate, I draw the blinds when I copulate, I don't tell people my passwords, and I don't scan my grocery receipt to earn points because there are some things other people don't need to know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument#Criti...
Which is just the government acting through proxies
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How long will Apple put forth, and customers support this charade of massively inflated storage prices?

Apple really does bend the reality field.
> might want to include three fields:

This has been studied multiple times on HN posts, most seem to have link-rotted. Web Archive them if looking for insights - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=best+time+to+post
This was one of the biggest "oh shit" moments I had when learning Remix: I could reuse the same validators across front and backend and they could even be right there in the same file.
It inspired Darker than Black which is quite good though not a book.
If you want to see the contaminants in your tapwater you can use the Environmental Working Group's tap water database here: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
That's one benefit of using ts on server. We share same zod validation on both end.
> Using one kind of unkeyed connector in a car may be a bad idea. Things can be plugged in wrong during repairs.

I tried to lower the window in a Ford shortly after leaving the dealer. It fried the lock. Somehow they were connected together by accident. I agree dumb wires should be hard to mix up like that - both via orientation and similarity.
There are more kinds of compensation than money
I do pretty “small scale” work that has a fairly outsized impact on folks.

The app I released in January, currently has a bit over 600 users. I get one or two a day (plus, the odd scammer). It may accelerate, in the future, but the demographic is small. There’s only so many people that can use it.

I tested with 12,000 fake users. I suspect we won’t ever see half that. To many folks here, 12K is a rounding error.

But the ones that do use the app, get a top-shelf experience.

On another note, I have family that used to run a group home for kids that were made wards of the state (many terrible stories). He’s really good with kids, but he’s been an EE for the last couple of decades. Running the group home was very stressful, and emotionally wrenching, so the engineering was a cakewalk.
apple notes on new iPadOS does this right now -- just cleans up your handwriting to be slightly neater but still look like you.
Agree .Balmer was a disaster. Microsoft stock basically languished from 2003-2013 as everything else went up.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona. Infamous for it's sprawl.

The solution to your problem is a bicycle. Phoenix is not walkable, but it is very bikable.
Sorry for this stupid tangential question. I had read that newer MacBooks with the M line of processors give a great battery life for a number of reasons like using ARM instruction set, the SoC architecture. I noticed that some Windows laptops now come with ARM processors too though they are touted as AI ready and not much else. Do these Windows laptop have improved battery life as well? Or have other manyfacturers not tried to catch up to Apple yet?
Sure. You're wrong and a cynic. The model does not connect to Google servers (unless you decide to use their colab, which is optional), you can use it offline without contributing anything back in data or code.
Yes, it can. The biggest failure in math education is that we spend an inordinate amount of time solving equations without understanding how to apply them to solve real-world problems. Thanks to the calculator we can now spend less time figuring out how to solve x+1=7 and put that time on how to understand when the equation is needed in the real world or how to create an equation that will help solve a real-world problem.

The same can be said about calculus. Given the abilities that computers give us, it's much better to teach applied calculus than to teach students how to solve equations by hand. Calculus is a tool, and it should be available to as many people as possible.

For most students, Calculus should be seen in the same light as drills. We understand when we need a drill so we get one and use it but we never have to go out and learn how to build one just because we have a need to use it. Calculus should be similar. We need to learn when we need it and then use a computer to get an answer that helps solve a problem that advances our needs.
Who does? Or should? What has he - the private citizen - done to earn our trust? Nothing. If it's not earned, it's not trust.
Or you could just find some lettering manuals and improve your handwriting. Practicing at a slow speed will improve your fast work, too.
My understanding is that Azure became an incredibly profitable cloud platform once it became open to Linux, which was something done after Ballmer had stepped down and Nadella became CEO.
Yep. This is great until you need a cross-browser date picker, at which point you need to implement a bunch of stuff yourself. It’s frustrating how primitive HTML forms are, after so many years.
What frugality? He was paying the full price that it was being sold at.
>if it can't get OCRing a screenshot right, what can it get right?

Book scans which is what it was designed for.

If you read the fine manual you would see that they suggest the _minimum_ resolution to run it over is an x-height of 20 pixels, screens have seldom have one higher than 10 pixels. With those settings I got the following out of OPs comment:

I've been really impressed with Tesseract - I used it last month to add invisible OCR text (1) to scanned PDFs I reference a lot. My scans
are quite good, but I was still impressed with the accuracy.

I also OCRed the TOC, playing with the page segmentation setting (2) in the terminal until I got output I could copy & paste to adda
navigable table of contents.

1: with the help of https://github.com/ocrmypdt/OCRmyPDF

2: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Command-Line-Usage.h..., “ Using different Page Segmentation Modes”
It's not really clear that functional style is easier/closer to proofs, tbh: https://hillelwayne.com/post/theorem-prover-showdown/ :-).

There's absolutely a constructivist form of unification, the description of a particular unification algorithm is typically a rewrite system (OP has one here: https://www.philipzucker.com/assets/traat/unify_rules.png) which qualifies as constructive imho (it builds an explicit solution, ie a substitution). But the imperative implementation of such a rewrite system can be readable too (especially if you still have pattern matching as in, say, Rust or OCaml).

I don't think there's any link to be had with the Curry Howard correspondence here. No types, no lambda calculus, nothing of the sort.
Html form validation is great. There's just one gigantic catch:

It doesn't work in Firefox for Android.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510450
That's right, but beware the relatively recent* legal innovation of trademark dilution: https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/trademark-dilution-intended.... This muddies the water.

*The US federal version of dilution law came into effect in the 1990s.
I have statistics about real team size behind open-source repositories, and it is exceedingly rare to be larger than 50: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHJlcG9fb...

For comparison, my open-source product has around 20..30 according to the monthly stats (I want these numbers to be higher, though): https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHRvU3Rhc...
You can get a court involved. Or you, the accused, could simply ask Github for the identity of the claimant. Publishing private details of everyone involved on some website, for everyone to see, is not a prerequisite for due legal process.
Not GP but I despise this argument because the definition of a criminal depends who you're asking: in some countries, doctors giving warnings about an impending pandemic could be criminals.

Edit: I was too fast on the comment button and didn't read until the end.
it's possible to tell
> Why hardware makers do not figure this out for themselves is a different topic

Have you _seen_ the typical software produced by hardware makers?
I wonder how many offended Apple employees and dedicated fans hang around this article, but seeing the number of grey comments being a bit sceptical about the overall efficiency of Apple environmentalism there most be more than one. ; )

Maybe people are just tired of the same old low-quality axe grinding that fills the HN comments section every time any story appears about Apple.

This whole page is filled with people rehashing 15-year-old complaints, moaning about computers other than the one in the article, and generally turning the whole thing into yet another off-topic bitch session.

You can put together a BINGO sheet for HN comments any time there is a story about Apple ("walled garden!"), Google ("graveyard!"), Microsoft ("Micro$oft!"), or Adobe ("subscription!").

It's old. It's boring. It's off-topic. It is rightly downvoted.
Ostensibly, the LA Times owner's daughter claims that the decision not to endorse is tied to the Biden-Harris administrations stance on Gaza. Not sure whether to take that at face value or just a cop-out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/los-angeles-times-endo...
Why is it being compared to an M1 rather than M2/M3? I think I can imagine the answer but it's disappointing.
XBox's irrelevance is thanks to Don Mattrick for ruining the XBox One release.

It is fair to point out that XBox continues to stagnate and despite many billions of dollars that Microsoft has pumped into gaming and acquiring numerous studios and publishers, they still have yet to succeed in that area.
Not the author, but this is unfortunately a bit more difficult than it sounds. Like for example, where do you get the name of the jar file to build? I guess you could use the name of the root directory, but that may not be ideal.

How do you figure out dependencies? Import statements in .java files give you the packages to import, but those package names could be provided by one or more .jar files and, regardless, the package names need not bear any relation to the jar name or its group/artifact IDs (if pulling from e.g. a maven-style repository, which basically everyone does).

For multi-module projects, how do you figure out the dependencies between the modules, even? Sure, you could probably figure that out by parsing all the .java files in all modules and figuring out what they provide and import, but that would be slower than maven, probably.

You could certainly do this for small, dependency-free programs, but it would be such a niche use case that I don't think it would be worth the time.
You are missing the point, that all of your points come from that book. What is the point of arguing point by point from the book if they are all self referential.

There is no argument, if you believe in the book, then your points make sense to you. If someone doesn't believe in the book, then all of the other points are based on nothing.

You can't argue with someone's beliefs. If you believe the sun revolves around the earth, and all you can see is the sunrise and sunset, how do I argue with you. You'll believe what you want.

People reply this way

"many people reply that way to Christians. Christ predicted it, too."

Yes of course. Because people thinking with logic can come to these same conclusions, and respond this same way. I am sure you have heard this before.

And, Christ predicted it? I'm sure he did. A lot of religious leaders say others will respond this way. It is a common trope to keep cult members in line, "ignore the infidels, they will question your true faith, they will cloud your mind with logic, but ours is beyond logic".

Sorry.
I've been down all of these arguments. I've stopped trying to argue with the true believers. Logic isn't going to win any battles with someone living in a dream world.
Depends on the situation, but posix_spawn is really fast on Linux (much faster than the traditional fork/exec), and independent processes provide fault isolation boundaries.
Dutch National Police Disrupt Redline and Meta Malware Operations
Scientists attempt to ease nightmares by manipulating emotions in dreams
The electrostatic world of insects
As someone who has slowly been writing Dart/Flutter bindings for Filament[0] over the last couple of years, I agree the internal 3D engine was a bit of a strange choice of priorities.

[0] https://github.com/nmfisher/thermion
What the hell back-end team relies on their front-end teams to tell them to do input checking?

Nothing my front-end people could possibly do would trick me into trusting user input.
Greenhouse gases surged to new highs in 2023, warns UN weather agency
My question is why can’t we pay someone to get that 2 years of medical education to help with broken bones and stitches.

In other words, there should be less expensive and less sophisticated care providers for less complex needs.

Only in the US is there such a cartel on medical care.
Can you give any details of the driver board or possibly a link? Thanks in advance.
This! It could also have a cool, youthful design, to match the iMacs. Why not round, like a hockey puck.
iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project (43/54 games preserved)
If Flutter is a car, Python is at least four different models of car, plus three models of light truck and one airplane.

The scope of Python's standard library is just enormous.
A better way to sell Coldplay tickets
When Coldplay decided to play two shows in Mumbai early next year, they vastly underestimated how many Indians desperately wanted to see them live.
They aren’t taking a principled stand for open platforms, they’re trying to create a landscape in which more European tech unicorns can flourish. The best outcome to them is for European companies to gain significant market share in digital payments, app distribution, social media, text messaging, etc. The M is for Markets for a reason.
If a takedown notice is sent, maybe it is because someone's rights are being infringed, or maybe someone is just trying to censor something they don't like, or falsely claim authorship. You seem to be assuming that the fact that the notice was sent means that the sender is definitely a victim and the owner of the repository is definitely the perpetrator. Not always.

The notice and takedown part of DMCA was a reasonable attempt to address a real problem. The main flaw seems to be that bogus takedown notices are never prosecuted, so there's a lot of abuse.
This is Steven Levitt's whole schtick IMO. He finds contrarian results, strips out any nuance, and presents them as if they cover a much broader domain than they really do. After listening to freakenomics and his personal podcast for years, I have come to the conclusion he is more misleading than educational unless people follow up and read the actual papers.
> if everyone had access to this capability then society and civilization would grind to a halt

No it wouldn't. The scenario is not an actual one.

Passive income comes from someone benefiting from something you own and paying for it. It must still be benefiting for them to pay for it. If things had ground to a halt, no one would be getting anything, so they wouldn't pay for it.

It's like if I said that people running faster and faster would eventually result in them running faster than the speed of light. No it wouldn't: I'm just extrapolating a model out of its domain of applicability.

> Or maybe only if you couple it with the categorical imperitive.

It also requires taking 'collecting passive income' as a moral act. If I took 'being a car mechanic' as a moral act, I could explain how awful it would be if everyone became car mechanics: there would be no farmers or nurses. But that's a poor analysis of the morality of occupation. This application is absurd and your application is not, but there is a decision on your part that wasn't among your premises.
Interesting that he would pay by cash
I used to maintain the internal (single) version of numpy and scipy and honestly I think the one-version rule was awesome. It greatly reduced noise and churn. It meant far less breakage, and it was easy to find and fix all the breaking tests when I was updating to a new version. I guess the only downside is sometimes an older version of numpy would prevent deepmind from making some sort of ML advance until I upgraded to get some new feature they wanted.
The {4} is being applied to the whole group which includes a .*

Isn't that correct?
> The state is ideally suited to manufacture public goods, more efficiently

The government does not provide a more efficient military or education. It compels individuals to pay for something which is in the collective good, but not their personal interest.
Crebs on security - I think he is the Matt Levine of the cyber security.

Joel Spolsky's blog (Joel on Software) was also very pleasant read on software back in the day
I'm curious, which parts of my post come across as entitled? The fact that coffee bars have tip jars? I'd say it's a rather objective story.
WinXP was developed mostly during Gates' tenure. Ballmer is responsible for the disastrous Windows Vista, Microsoft phone operating systems, and Windows 8.
Code Generator for Bit Permutations
I am Perry Sim. The combination in that story between calculating the future in simulation and the outcomes of the project were chilling.
You also have to think about your target audience.

Are you hiring developers that are 100% fully conscious of concurrency and starvation or people that are only concerned with rest and vest and TC?

For either case Go is better.

* For people that are aware of concurrency, they will select Go because they appreciate its out-of-the-box preemptive concurrency model with work stealing.

* For people that are not aware of concurrency, then you should definitely use Go because they are not qualified to safely use anything else.
Yeah, would have been more useful to spend relatively more time on numerical approximations.
Maybe what he really wanted was a super duper whipped cream topped pumpkin spiced coffee and sprinkles but thought he'd save you guys the hassle and just order something that can be poured out of a jug

Poor misunderstood Ballmer :(
because they said "where it looks like they're flying their spaceships through a raging river of rocks dodging one every second.
Unfair thing to measure him by in my opinion. Steve Ballmer inherited Microsoft when the stock traded at a P/E of 60. When he left it was 14, in line with many other tech stocks during that time. (Even Apple was lower)

He took earnings per share from $0.70 to $2.63 during his tenure. A CAGR of 10.5% across 13 years in one of the world's biggest companies. He couldn't control multiple compression following the dotcom bust.
As a daily Firefox on Android user, not catching up on standards is what hurts the most. Most painfully to me, all the WebGL stuff like [1] and some minor annoyances like [2]. Still, having uBlock origin among other extensions is a killer feature.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1884282

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1897707
For sure Bess was the GOAT, db wasn’t the same after she left
Rescue Party (1946)
Firefox for Android has a smaller user base than Samsung Internet and Opera. It's 0.5%. It's a waste of time working on supporting it. Especially considering how little time people put into making sure their sites work for people using accessibility software. I don't think it's worth mentioning in these issues unless you're also ready to talk about UC Browser.
If you're learning to read it, I recommend listening as well. A quick Kagi search turned up a fantastic production read by Левашёв В. (1).

I can't go without mentioning my favorite reader in Russian. Listening to Peter Markin read is unforgettable; his performance of Stanislav's "The Invincible" brought the massive machinery and energies to life before my eyes (2); Markin also read Hyperion by Dan Simmons and Frank Herbert's Dune (3).

1: https://youtu.be/IAD-ANTvs9Y

2: https://youtu.be/Ad32oH6Cg4Q

3: I've nearly memorized Dune in Russian because I love his narration so much. He also read The Lord of the Rings - as close as we'll get to a Russian Rob Englis, I expect.
Are you suggesting that a newspaper making an endorsement is "malicious election interference", or that there was "malicious election interference" involved in them deciding not to publish the endorsement?
The standard library alone has a huge scope which includes a (mediocre) GUI toolkit.
Are you suggesting there is no provider of high quality nails at industrial scale?

That’s ridiculous. Many people just prefer to pay for cheap nails because they are good enough for the application, and that’s a good thing because this option did not previously exist. But the high end still exists and is higher quality than ever.

Capitalism has problems, but providing low complexity commodity improvements at scale and quality is not one of them.
Inflation adjusted bonds are a thing in the US (though at least with TIPS, the real return has occasionally been negative).
-48VDC was standard for powering telephone equipment, and is also common standard for direct current datacenter connections.

Signaling on POTS easily hit over 100V, btw.
Mdsh also works great in CI-like context[1], but I don't think it can eval per block. Definitely trying out medieval for those odd "I want to run this one thing from a README but I don't wanna leave vim" cases.

[1]: https://github.com/zimbatm/mdsh
>> We'd even have it ready for him before he showed up so he never had to wait!

> Man, your entitlement just makes me want to never tip.

Urban legend has it that the word "tips" is an acronym for "to insure prompt service." Whether or not this is true, the OP's optimization for "prompt service", as defined above, makes an assessment of same qualifying as entitlement puzzling.

> Just because someone has the ability to pay you money doesn’t mean you earned it.

See again the effort of having the drink ready before the customer was on premise.