skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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VIM already basically does this and can be configured to do it automatically with folding as the default, while providing pretty fine grained manual control on folding.
That doesn't sound very E-friendly
https://bsky.app/profile/maggieastor.bsky.social/post/3la4qg...

From @maggieastor

NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts!

News coverage — including election coverage — is NOT behind the picket line. It’s okay to read and share that, though the site and app may very well have problems.
There's a fuzzy but very real distinction between caricature in general and frankly racist caricature. Quite a few of Crumb's drawings of black people have been clearly over that line, and (polite warning) it would be pretty rash to try to deny that.
Personalization of Large Language Models: A Survey
It's still too high.

Illegal immigration often ruins the idea of immigration in the minds of the native population.
Science isn't faith based for rejecting an absurd premise on its face.
iOS is accessible to blind people because of Voiceover, not because it has a touch screen. There really isn't a great alternative if you want access to all the mainstream apps. I used to have a Sony android phone with a tiny physical keyboard, and I still miss the keyboard even though Talkback on android in those days (Android 4) was unbelievably bad.

Before that, I could text quicker on a t9 keypad than I can with the qwerty keyboard on a touch screen.

The feedback from tactile keys also means you don't have to constantly listen exclusively to the phone while operating it. I find it impossible to use Voiceover in a noisy environment or when someone is talking to me.
In order to open a PR to a repository, you need to push the commit somewhere, usually your own fork. And since that fork already contains the same LICENSE as the upstream project (your project), the author of the PR has essentially already licensed the code under the same LICENSE you use.

So I'd get rid of the bot asking people to confirm the change is copyright-free (since it's already implicitly copyright-free, they've pushed it to GitHub already), and merge the PRs without making contributors jump through additional hoops.

But it seems like when corps like Microsoft et al does open source, they like to sprinkle in a bit of bureaucracy to the process for the sake of bureaucracy, should hardly come as a surprise to anyone.
We get supposed "anonymous" surveys where I work and I see the hash at the end of the URL, and we've confirmed amongst a few of us that they're unique, and so the assumption goes that it's actually not anonymous at all. I don't think I would ever trust an "anonymous survey" from an employer to actually be anonymous. Maybe if it was hand written.
Its oddly refreshing to see the word "immigrant" used here properly.

Political debates in the US keep tossing around their term "migrants" as though immigrants are legal and migrants are not. That has nothing to do with it, you can immigrate illegally and you can migrate legally (we have plenty of migrant workers in the US legally every year).

Chalk one up for lazy politics and an inept public education system I guess. If immigration is going to be such an important issue people should be taught how it even works in the first place.
> I’m assuming vscode has it also.

Sadly I believe this assumption is incorrect. VSCode supports folding, but not specifically method bodies (to my knowledge), and not by default (with or without a settings flag)
Oh no - the poor place will be inundated with the tech-adjacent insisting on their personal definitions of culinary terms. Sounds like it could be the setup for a modern Monty Python sketch, actually
My parents have one like this. My dad got it because it blends in with the cabinets. Purely an aesthetic choice. It absolutely sucks to use though because once the cycle is done it beeps extremely loudly until you open the door since it can't just indicate with a light that there are clean dishes ready inside.
You speak as if this is just an American issue. If you voted for the railway, whichever governor leads that charge will be part owner in the construction company, the rail company, and the law firm that defends them. And the only reason you'd know that it was possible to vote for him is because the rail company paid for his campaign.

That's business as usual everywhere in the world.
That’s completely fair, and I slightly edited my comment to include the word need, because I strongly believe what I said applies to both dynamics.
> The problem is that it doesn't matter.

This line of reasoning can be applied at any level: "my commute to the office? Oh, that doesn't matter, it's the big factories, the big coal-based power plants that pollute. It's the billionaires that pollute. Not me."

So either we all stop shifting the blame on somebody else and we all start cutting our carbon emissions or, we might as well enjoy polluting: we can still blame it on somebody else! (i'm being bitterly sarcastic here)
Scalable integrity framework for ABAC on AWS
> Can't it work like, writing this somewhere that says, by creating a pull request, you agree all your code and the discussions around the pull request is now copyright free?

It already does, implicitly. If Author A has a repository with a MIT LICENSE and Author B forks that to their own GitHub account (which they must do in order to open the PR), that fork already has a LICENSE file (usually) together with their change, so the change already been made copyright free.
It’s bullshit built on top of being able to solve the problem of bullshit. This really shouldn’t be surprising unless you expected them to work in the first place in which case I think that’s on you.
Did we read the same article?

I'm talking about this one → https://musicaficionado.blog/2020/01/28/cheap-thrills-an-alb...

>an album cover for a band he does not care for

"I am going over to meet Janis Joplin tonight… CAN’T WAIT!"

"Janis asked me to do an album cover. I liked Janis OK and I did her cover."

>playing a music style he does not listen to

"She wasn’t nationally known yet. I remember going to see her at the Avalon Ballroom and you could tell right away that she had an exceptional voice and she would go far. She started out singing old time blues like Bessie Smith. She was kind of a folknik originally."

>appealing to an audience he does not connect with

"But within six months Zap comics caught on and Crumb became known for his talent as an underground comics artist."

"Janis, James (Gurley, guitar player) and I were all big fans of his work, we loved his cartoons which were appearing in the SF underground newspapers and Zap Comics."
remembered another one. They use the same code for VM and bare metal. Including the easy-login convenience hacks.

So now anyone wanting physical access to your host, just have to intercept plain-text communication with the BIOS (after secureboot did its thing), and reply with a new root password when the OS request bios key 11 or something. evil maids are living the dream.
Her mother is Peggy Lipton, aka Julie Barnes from the Mod Squad / Norma Jennings from Twin Peaks.
The data in this article is bullshit. For example, in Germany, there are no 15.8 Million immigrants. There are 15.8 M people with an immigration background, which have at least one parent who is an immigrant. Most of them are born in Germany. The actual number of immigrants is much smaller.

I don't know where they have a number of 680k illegal immigrants, but it is way too low. That's the number of people that needs to be expedited, but for a reason they are still there. The total number may be much higher once the slow German bureaucracy starts actually tackling the unknown bucket and sorting it in legal and illegal buckets.
We tend to overestimate the effect of technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term.

3D printers may radically transform all manufacturing eventually but it will take many iterations to get there. Right now it would theoretically be possible to 3D print quite a lot of what we make but traditional manufacturing methods are still cheaper and work fine, so there's no forcing function. If we tried to do something like build a self-sufficient settlement in space, that would be a place where you'd see 3D printing taken a lot further. You would not have large amounts of human labor or big supply chains, so you'd need portable self-contained versatile manufacturing.

LLMs are not going to replace human writers, programmers, etc. any time soon for anything but the most menial work. They will augment them. For programming they're basically a smarter more versatile version of autocomplete. I've also found them useful to look up concepts, do research, and summarize and document both code and text. None of those things replace me but they let me get more done a little faster.

In the very long term you could see LLMs becoming powerful enough to actually synthesize whole applications outside of contrived examples, but like 3D printing replacing all manufacturing it will take many iterations and may require a forcing function.
If the URLs had all been the same, then would you trust that it was anonymous?

Employees could lie about their own happiness, and satisfaction with their manager, to their own detriment. Employees could also lie about project progress and quality, also to their own detriment, because it looks bad if a team says "everything is on track, quality is great", and then the project runs long and is a buggy mess.

I just think a lot of what a manger does is give progress reports, and it's easy for one person to lie about progress reports, and then when it becomes clear that the progress reports were wrong all along, the manager somehow shifts blame to the workers. These surveys would give everyone a say in the progress reports.
The interface, look and feel, controls, color pallet, textures, animation, camera angles and movement, icons, branding, music, sfx, vfx... Those are all part of the experience and why it succeeded. Especially in games— people play games for the experience and the look and feel is a huge part of the experience.

Developers always think that these things have no value, yet as someone that's done a whole lot of work in both design and back-end development, the design and interface affect how people feel about the software far more than any technical underpinning. People play games because it makes them feel things, not because they want to interact with some novel game mechanic or use a technically superior engine.

And that is why pretty much the only open-source user-facing software with broad support— eg Firefox, blender, signal— are the ones that are foundation-backed with product managers that prioritize design. That's the core reason Mastodon failed to replace Twitter despite an incredible amount of momentum, the reason so few people use Linux desktops, and the reason that you'll have a hard time finding a professional photographer that's never tried gimp and an even harder time finding one that used it more than once. I've seen so many people pour thousands of collective hours into high-quality software with some cool conceptual ideas only for it to languish, unused. Developers know how much effort it takes to create software, and since they have a working mental model of how software works under the hood, they're far more tolerant to shitty interfaces. To most people, the interface IS the software. Developers, largely, have no clue what it takes to create high-quality design, and therefore undervalue it, and blame lack of FOSS adoption on commercial software marketing. User feedback doesn't support that assumption.

People buy things that look great just because they look great. When the pleasure of interaction is the whole point, technically or conceptually exceptional software with a substandard look and feel has no value.
This tool sounds promising—it could really simplify designing features. I’m also curious about the debugging agent, I haven’t seen it work that well in Copilot, so I’m interested to see how this one compares!
I use quantized LLMs in production and can't say I ever found the models to be less censored.

For unlearning reinforced behaviour, the abliteration [1] technique seems to be much more powerful.

1 https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
The closed part has full control over your system, so the released code is useless for privacy/ownership.
What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023)
I used Mylyn's focus feature quite a lot back in the day. And I think Mylyn was revived, I just tried and it still works. However, it only hides projects/files/folders in views, I don't think it was ever hiding code within a file (or I remember incorrectly). It is pretty cool until it is not. And if it is not helping, you are constantly manually resurfacing hidden parts, which is annoying. This made me turn off the part that hides items not used recently and only turn it on when really working on some isolated parts in a huge set of projects. The other cool thing about it is that it is coupled with issue management (which you could sync with your issue tracker) and you could store the "focus" (which items are currently visible) in the context of an issue. So if you switched working on issues, it would only show the items relevant to the issue again.

BTW: In Eclipse JDT you can configure what kind of Java elements should be folded by default. The default config is that leading comments and imports are folded. Would be nice to be able to configure something like that via LSP.
Safely Passing Ruby Variables to JavaScript in ERB
As far as Germany goes, what's the distinction? If you immigrate without legal status, didn't you immigrate illegally? Or do those who get status after enter as a visitor staying legally for less than 6 months?

I immigrated from the US to the Netherlands and entered as a visitor, mainly because we had to do all the paperwork in person once we got there. Got lucky too, the immigration service was shut down as part of the pandemic response a week after our papers went through.
Show HN: A Java library for creating web apps and APIs in Java
I created a java library for writing single page applications 100% in java. The library handles https requests and uses htmx to send responses. The project is general purpose such that it can be used to write different APIs such as JSON, etc. The library is still at an early stage but I have managed to write a few applications such as a Question Paper uploading web app for my university. The official website for the library is written using it as well. I would like feedback on what I can improve on this project. I tried posting it on r/java but got chewed to bits and my posts got removed.
The official website for this project is hosted here: https://blazingwebx.onrender.com/

Thank you for your time. :)
I hate this take because it's just doubling down.

Trying to legislate exactly what is and isn't in cars is exactly how we got touch screen everything in the first place.

I have less than zero faith that doubling down and adding another layer on top will not cause more perverse 2nd and 3rd order consequences.
These so-called perfluorochemicals are toxic to humans at single-digit parts per trillion.

If you live in the US, chances are your blood already contains these chemicals at 4,000 ppt or greater (four thousand parts per trillion is the nationwide average).
Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence
Fellow adult who also started late, also would recommend! Quite soothing activity. Using the abacus gets me in a similar way too, even though it's not a puzzle specifically. Something about the tactile focus and modest brain activity is pleasant.
I learned it for the first time from this[0] course; part of the course covers deal.ii[1] where you program the stuff you're learning in C++.

[0]: https://open.umich.edu/find/open-educational-resources/engin...

[1]: https://www.dealii.org/
Did you purchase Linux preinstalled?
Well spammers will probably skip the manual “ Rewrite in your own words” step.

So it’s still useful is reducing spam.
Sorry, but your flame bait is written from a point of ignorance. You don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes. Your Bible courses mean that you have perhaps brushed the surface, but not more. The standard track for priests is 5.5 years in Western European countries (same as for engineers) followed by one or more years of working as an adept. There are of course multiple courses about Koine Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. As I've learned, the quality of American institutions varies a lot, so perhaps you attended a particularly bad one?

Btw, it is a myth that the Council of Hippo established the Christian canon.
There is a taboo against constraining reproduction. Legally, medically or whatever.

Which is unreasonable of course, given that reproduction is arguably more destructive than bombs.

If you wanted to dial-down our incessant breeding without getting lynched, how would you do it?
Agreed, this is why I would get advice from a lawyer because a /24 is still a very specific location and GDPR uses vague language about location.
Or perf/TCO, or availability? :)
Assuming you're in the US, what is your opinion of the Statue of Liberty? Should we test it down as we no longer want the hungry, sick, and poor?

Immigration causes financial issues for welfare programs for sure. But you're abandoning how the US became what we are today if you want to gate entry based on merit or similar metrics.
Could fungi cause a zombie apocalypse?
It was this one. I glossed over the description of the exact change above, given the issue is broader than just the PR in question.
If you're making money, you're burning carbon (either directly or indirectly).
This could be two people, but would normally be written with a different separator: "Betty, a maid; and a cook" (just removing the comma doesn't help because then Betty could be a maid and a cook). As-is, the implication is that this is three people. If you would like to make that more explicit, you would instead re-structure the sentence†, so it's not highly relevant to the serial-comma-vs-no issue.

†For example:

Betty, one maid, and one cook.

Betty, and a maid and a cook (a little awkward)

A maid, a cook, and Betty (depends on how you want Betty's inclusion to land for the reader)
/? parameter-free network:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Parameter-free%20networ...

"Ask HN: Parameter-free neural network models: Limits, Challenges, Opportunities?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41794249 :

> Why should experts bias NN architectural parameters if there are "Parameter-free" neural network graphical models?

Do these GAs for (hyper)parameter estimation converge given different random seeds?
The "VC value trap" and how to do VC correctly
> Until such questions are answered, a God is still quite reasonable.

I'm sorry, what is the monkey typewriter supposed to prove or disprove about God?

The original post isn't even about evolution, its related to textual and historical analysis, so I don't see how this is related.

Even worse, even if evolution disappeared as a theory, that wouldn't change the truthiness of specifically the claims / myths in the bible, and wouldn't in anyway make the existence of the Christian god any more likely.
Depending on your language you might be able to have it both ways - summary at the top, and implementation details down below. And it's just in the text itself, so it's as readable in Github as it is in an IDE.

-- Top of file:

data Indexer =
Indexer { indexDocuments :: !(CollectionName -> [Doc] -> IO (Either String Int))
, indexLocalWarcFile :: !(CollectionName -> FilePath -> IO (Either String ()))
, deleteDocument :: !(CollectionName -> String -> IO (Either String ()))
, isDocDeleted :: !(CollectionName -> String -> IO (Either String (Map Text Int)))
}

-- Further down:

indexDocumentsImpl env writer metadataApi compactor registry collectionName unsortedDocs = do
let ds = sort unsortedDocs
let nDocs = length ds
...

newLocalWarcFileIndex env warcFileReader writer metadataApi compactor registry collectionName warcFile =
batchedRead warcFileReader
warcFile
newIndexify
where
newIndexify :: Vector WarcEntry -> IO ()
newIndexify ds = do
...

etc.
Raku (https://raku.org) supports the same design as Python3 ...

0 < 5 < 100; #True
10 == 10 == 10; #True

The Chaining Binary Precedence is specified for this https://docs.raku.org/language/operators#Chaining_binary_pre...

That means you can make your own chaining comparison ops (or overload the current ones) with something like:

multi infix:<~=>(Rat $l, Rat $r) { ($l-$r) < 0.1 ?? True !! False }
is equivalent('<');

Much of Raku such as the default use of Rationals (Rat) is intended to make the language more approachable for non CS experts, so yes:

0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3 # True
Reevaluating Google's Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement (AlphaChip)
We had previous discussions on HN about the Alphachip paper (https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transfor...)
for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672110

Short video from the ACM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7u4MbXonwA
> the article doesn't make clear what the issues with it are?

What is not clear? The article tells that the issues are contention around return to office policies (as your quote tells, change is planned for July) and wanting a “just cause” provision.
Not only that, but screen space was really limited back then; it was not uncommon to develop on terminals with as low as 80 columns and 24 lines. Having shorter names meant more of the code could fit on the screen at the same time.
> Also the recovery it had when it failed to insert one of the objects.

You mean the unnecessarily violent jerking motion it does for no great reason at 1:22 instead of gently trying again?
That didn't happen.

No? Ever hear of inflation?

25% tariffs on Chinese goods helped promote it. The plan being proposed now is to tariff *everything*.

This can only kick inflation into high gear. Considering that the USA imports *a lot*, this will most likely trigger a recession for the world's most successful economy.

What should we do then?

Doing "anything" is an act of desperation --- and not necessarily better than doing nothing.

Not shooting ourselves in the foot for no good reason would be a better start.