skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money is the main driver, of course. I think this trend started in the UK.

Before the EPL, most English soccer clubs had one home, one away strip. It wasn’t that long ago that the only writing would be a single number on the back, a club crest over the front left chest (“near the heart”, you see).

Around the 1980s, it seems to me that European leagues started to experiment - England taking a bit of a lead - with shirt sponsorship. One side effect was that shirts suddenly aged. Show me an Everton shirt with “NEC” on the front, or a Manchester City shirt with “brother”, well, I know roughly what season that shirt is from.

And fans want to wear the current shirt, often. We can take the piss out of the “full kit wanker”, who turns up to a game in shirt, kit shorts and socks, waiting to be subbed in to his favourite team, but people like to show allegiance and they like to show they’re up to date - in the UK even your car number plate tells your neighbours how “with it”, and therefore how rich you are.

Each season a club changed its shirt it would see a boost in income as new shirts would replace the old. This was new. And it gave them ideas.

First, what about changing the kit when the sponsor doesn’t change? Some graphic design element, a neck line, maybe a subtle colour change?

Then the “third kit” came in. Often used in cup competitions, but occasionally an option for league games. Infamously one grey third kit had to get changed at half time at Old Trafford, as none of the Man Utd team could see each other.

And then as some non-domestic leagues took more prominence - European football in particular - some clubs decided to create home and away kits for those competitions specifically.

So now we have a situation where clubs like Man City have 3 “base” shirts, plus goalkeeper, plus fashion variants, plus the women’s team…

If other leagues can get away with this, they will. Most European leagues have a similar thing going on, and it surprised me that NBA took so long to catch up, and that NFL haven’t gone at this at full throttle.

And of course, it has created a collector’s secondary market, special editions, anniversary shirts, “retro editions”, and so on.

Sports teams sure know how to milk passion via the wallet.
The IARC monograph restricts its inquiry to carcinogenicity whereas I am more worried about glyphosate's potential to impair my gut microbiome, i.e., decrease the total number of microbes or decrease the ratio of beneficial microbes to harmful ones.
I think the community needs more browser options, sure, but I don't understand why Kagi needs Orion. It seems like a distraction to your core competencies. I'm curious if the writing is on the wall for search alone?
> The idea that phones should reboot periodically after an extended period with no network is absolutely brilliant

If this is brilliant I'm Einstein
> Pascal doesn't require case matching of enumerations to be exhaustive

Normally in Pascal you would not match on the enumeration at all, but rather on the sum types.

type
Foo = (Bar, Baz)

case foo:
Bar: ... // Matches type Bar
Baz: ... // Matches type Baz

The only reason for enumerations in Pascal (and other languages with similar constructs) is because under the hood the computer needs a binary representation to identify the type, and an incrementing number (an enum) is a convenient source for an identifier. In a theoretical world where the machine is magic you could have the sum types without enums, but in this reality...

Thus, yes, in practice it is possible to go around the type system and get the enumerated value out with Ord(foo), but at that point its just an integer and your chance at exhaustive matching is out the window. It is the type system that allows more flexibility in what the compiler can tell you, not the values generated by the enumeration.

> Go only has enums by convention

"Enums by convention" would be manually typing 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. into the code. Indeed, that too is an enumeration, but not as provided by the language. Go actually has enums as a first-class feature of the language[1]. You even say so yourself later on, so this statement is rather curious. I expect you are confusing enums with sum types again.

[1] Arguably Pascal doesn't even have that, only using enums as an implementation detail to support its sum types. Granted, the difference is inconsequential in practice.
Most people are using LoRAs as a solution for IP transfer.

Thing is Ideogram v2 has already achieved IP transfer without fine tuning or adapters. So we know those aren't needed.

Is Ideogram v2 an exotic architecture? No, I don't think so.

Are there exotic architectures that will solve IP transfer and other tasks? The Chameleon and OmniGen architectures. Lots of expertise went into SD3 and Flux dataset prep, but: the multimodal architectures are so much more flexible and expressive.

Flow matching models are maybe the last we will see before multi-modal goes big.

What to make of things in the community? How is it possible that random hyperparameters and 30 minute long fine tunings produce good results?

(1) Dreambooth effect: if it's like, a dog, you won't notice the flaws.

(2) Filing drawer problem. Nobody publishes the 99 things that didn't work.

(3) SD <3 struggled with IP transfer on image content that could not have possibly been in its datasets. But laypeople are not doing that. They don't have access to art content that Stability and BFL also don't have access to.

(4) Faces: of course SD family saw celebrity images. Faces are over-represented in its datasets. So yeah, it's going to be good at IP transfer of photographic faces. Most are in-sample.
IRV is also vulnerable to third-party spoilers; the squeezed middle is a well-known phenomenon in that system.
Google presents ReCapture a generative method for camera controls on your videos
My point is not the current size, it's the eventual size if bluesky succeeds. Facebook ingests 100TB/day. Self-hosting a bluesky relay isn't (won't be) a thing.
An interesting tidbit to add, for working in the industry:

The restricted process around buying pseudoephedrine is imposed by state governments and not the federal government. A number of the states coordinate their policies, so it looks like nation-wide action but really isn't (in a legal sense).

FDA doesn't have the legal authority to put medications "behind the counter" like you would see in Europe or Canada. So untangled this is a weird mess of overlapping jurisdictions.
But why is it required? Do you really need a copy of everyone's data locally? If the only way to self-host bluesky is to have an entire copy of the entire database, that seems like it's really bad from a scaling perspective.
And maybe finally there will be less focus on sex in the thematically unrelated movies. It's simply boring and predictable at this point, while taking valuable screen time out of 99 minute runtime. Same with forced old audience references in kids content and kid jokes and in the older audience content.

Movies shouldn't be a salad of all possible tropes, genres and references just to try catch widest possible audience.
Self-hosting/mirroring all these Bluesky components is currently a mixed bag as well though honestly the only outlier is the Relay, which is a beast. i currently have my copy of the PLC, a Jetstream with 2 days of data and a clone of the app on my laptop i play with sometimes and/or change things for an elaborate shitpost of Bluesky Nitro https://bsky.app/profile/alice.mosphere.at/post/3l7bpmmtiop2...

I don't self-host my PDS yet because there is no migration path back yet (but there will be). Though maybe I'll just yolo one day and do it anyways.
As reasonable as that sounds, I think this would fall into the GP's complained-of category of "making that road significantly slower and worse for cars", and does not meet their ask for "a separated infrastructure grid for pedestrians and bicycles".

I remain very curious to hear their vision!
Would you implement such a thing for the EU leadership?

Because the United States was meant to be more like that than it was a country like say France.
Either way, the person who wins the popular vote wins the election; what difference does it make how many electoral college votes they get (if the electoral votes are determined by a rule like that).
Homeopathic pills are usually literally sugar pills, essentially small crummy candy, so not really any water, despite the purported basis of the "technology".
Despite the very large recent decreases in the price of lab-grown meat (I have just seen an announce about a company that claims that they "can now produce 100 percent cultivated chicken (85 percent muscle and 15 percent fat) at $11.79 per pound on a large scale"), it is not yet proven that lab-grown meat can be produced at a lower price and by consuming less resources than traditional meat.

On the other hand, it is pretty certain that it is possible to produce high-quality animal proteins, like whey protein or egg white protein, in a sustainable way and at a lower cost, by cultures of genetically-modified fungi, which can be fed with cheap carbohydrates from cereals and with minerals, unlike the animal cells which require a very complex food.

The company that has achieved the low price quoted above has done this by replacing the animal food that was given previously by everybody to the cultivated cells (e.g. serum and albumin) with some mixture of substances extracted from various vegetables.

It is unlikely that it will be ever possible for the food given to cell cultures to be cheaper than the food given to real chicken. The only chance for lab-grown meat to become cheaper than real chicken meat is given by the fact that only the edible part of a chicken is grown, i.e. the equivalent of a breast or thigh, instead of growing the entire chicken body with many parts that have a low value.

While fungal cultures would be much more efficient than any lab-grown meat, they could provide only protein powder, which could enrich in proteins any vegetable food, but from which it would not be easy to make something resembling a steak.
This reminds me of Lysistrata, the ancient Greek play where the women boycotted their husbands in order to end the Peloponnesian war.

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

The misogynistic posts referenced in the NPR article are so sad. What have we become?
Yea, it seems like this would be easily verified, if true, by security experts. Watch the network traffic in a faraday cage. See some strange packets that don't make sense with currently used protocols, okay, maybe there is some truth. But if all you see are packets that arn't surprising (in this case, a ping to try to find a cell tower) and a reboot occurs, then there is no mystery, its probably as you suggest a bug or trying to self health from a failed watchdog check.

Its all happening over RF, its not like they can implement this so a signal opens a inter-dimensional portal and comes back out making it undetectable on the RF spectrum.
This site is extremely snappy. Good work.
Source article: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/man...
Can the Media Survive?
Dog People and Cat People
I hope to add a MIDI export soon. If you want audio, I think you could record the playback directly into a DAW.
That's why I said it isn't meant for desktop [where you would play games via proton].
Lol I guess you haven't met Mormons?
Game Theory of Michigan Muslims
The Supreme Court would probably strike this down once it threatens to activate.
It's not and that's the point.

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a way to choose the president by popular vote without the overhead of removing the electoral college.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
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ORAL phenylephrine is useless, Nasal is not.
My recent workflow is to use a great program called mise. You have a config file in your directory and hey presto, python venvs work, they install themselves if they don't already exist, and it will install the exact version of python you specify in your config. On top of that is will set environment variables for you and unload them when you change directory. If you combine this with uv (just tell mise you want uv installed in the config) you can run uv pip sync and instantly reflect any changes in your requirements file directly into your venv very quickly.
8TB WD CMR is like $99, 2x48GB of DDR5 is ~$250. Memory and storage are currently way cheaper than many think it is.
>was famously blasted by Linus for not having industry experience.

I answered my own question (where to read more about this), and found the relevant information from https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
(Re)Patenting issue – brick layers [video]
This seem like another level of trolling or ignorance - for one - patenting again something that was already patented and expired. I'm personally also amused that patents can be issued for something so simple and almost obvious.
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What Should Our Priors Be?
As I said, I don't use extensions, so why are you discounting experiences like mine?
>It cannot do the same for BLE; my phone can still talk to the HVAC controller from inside.

That's surprising, you'd think those boxes would be better at blocking signals since that's what they're designed to do.
Git Pulse – AI Summaries of 1M+ Open Source Commits
Just get rid of it. Either go full on popular vote like everyone else with a president or go parlamentarian like everyone else with a prime minister. This system isn't truly democratic and should be abolished yesterday.
Neat writeup.

I did a very similar thing in Rust, but to solve a different problem. I wanted to be able to easily make nice rich command line arguments for bash scripts without cluttering up the script too much. My minimal demo is:

$ cat demo.sh
eval "$(argparse-sh --string text -- "$@")";
echo "$TEXT"

$ ./demo.sh "Hello world"
Hello World

I always think it's valuable to build these things for yourself; maybe not always valuable to ship them. It de-magic-ifies the libraries you use and can only help you grow as a programmer.

I'm still learning as a Rust developer, and I'm sure there are terrible things in my code. The hard part for me is finding ways to make things more idiomatic in isolation. I don't have a code review feedback loop I can use to speed up improvement.

https://github.com/Hounshell/argparse-sh
How to find exploits in video games
I wrote a short blog post about my thought process on how I reverse engineer video games and build tools that enable me to do security testing on them.
It’s a bit brief on purpose, as reading the code is expected.
Let me know your thoughts and what would make it better.
I wouldn't call it desktop-friendly. Yeah, you could install and develop for QNX on it, but that was pretty much all you could do on it? Definitely won't be playing any video games on it.
I set up Qubes OS for and with technical, less-technical and non-technical people and I very much disagree. It only works well for those who are prepared and motivated to learn, and even then, it sometimes can be frustrating.

The copy-pasting between VMs, mentioned in a sibling, requires four steps: (1) copying to the source VM's clipboard, (2) copying to the global clipboard, (3) copying to the destination VM's clipboard, and (4) pasting to the destination. The shortcuts become part of your muscle memory after some use, but until they are, that is just one way in which Qubes gets in the way of productivity.

There are a bunch of minor quirks, often specific to the hardware, which the user needs to learn about and find workarounds for. But if they do, Qubes is probably the most seamless way to work with tons of (well-isolated) VMs. For example, SecureDrop [0] is based on Qubes and does seem to work well for journalists for securely receiving and working with documents from anonymous sources.

[0]: https://securedrop.org/
Cool! -- using the Spectroid Android app, you can see the same image of your music in the waterfall of the spectrogram!

https://schematix.com/~devenson/spectroid.png
Thanks! Its code is available at https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/whtwnd-blog, I intend to turn this into the template as the posts are stored on my PDS, on ATProto, using WhtWnd https://whtwnd.com/

(And all of this is a fork of my friend's Samuel's blog, https://mozzius.dev, see https://github.com/mozzius/mozzius.dev)
It isn't supposed to be "truly democratic".
You are, I believe, correct.

States can pick any means of selecting their electors that doesn’t conflict with other provisions of the Constitution. Obviously, a state imposing a requirement that electors be white or male would not fly.

OK, so they choose to have a state election. It must be a fair election, affording due process to all the voters as that is Constitutionally understood (one person, one vote, for example).

“We’ll have an election, but if national results go a different way, we’ll throw out the votes of the ‘wrong’ voters,” is … not that.

An analogy: Could the southern states agree to a compact to elect their governors by party slate? I doubt that would pass muster, and neither would the popular vote compact.
>I'm curious how one ends up with such ahistorical sequence.

they are all actively in-use.. if gp is earlier in their career, it could all be in last 10 years.
My understanding[1] is that distros prefer GNOME as the default due to it's release cycle being significantly easier to package then KDE's.

[1] Going off comments from one dev behind the Aeon distro on why it uses GNOME and not KDE, despite being an OpenSUSE spin-off.
India's ban on 'The Satanic Verses' may end thanks to missing paperwork
I wish these sorts of suggestions were less on the end of "here's what would be better" and more on the end of "here's how it would be possible". Anything that requires a magic wand to enact is a bit of a waste of energy. Would love to see more actual action plans on how to enact the change though.
Absolute Length Units
I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).
> Why isn't the usual Markdown (or the like) approach enough?

Because you can't use markdown to design CSS or SVG animations. I want to be able to design an animation with code that describes how the elements move/interact and then compile that down into CSS or SVG keyframes so that I don't have to manually declare however many arbitrarily complex keyframes.

I understand the purpose of a static site generator and I'm not looking for anything to replace that. Rather I want to be able to write the templates for my static sites without 1. writing exceptionally tedious HTML & CSS and without 2. relying on client side JS to do those tedious things.
Is it? I'm no history buff, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the main way the founders attempted to avoid the tyranny of the majority was by having the Senate be two representatives per state regardless of size.
This approach, unlike the one in the OP, removes the per-state quarantining effect that the electoral college has on voter fraud. That makes it a non-starter for red states: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/california-gover...
Wow, so notepad++ and vscode quickly change the cwd after opening a file via a win dialog?

It makes sense since 10 or so years ago it was often the case that one file explorer had a lock on a folder and another file explorer couldn't delete that folder. Then tools like processviewer.exe gave some insight.
Let's say you have a running program on a computer, and you figure out a way to swap out parts of its instructions / state in RAM while it is running. What are the odds of your swap causing problems? Now, what if the program is 100 - 1000x more complex than anything you have ever managed to create.
The picture this article paints does not allign with what I personally observe. I would say the majority of developers do not have such a breadth of knowledge across the stack. And this is a bad thing.

I believe the industry is historically extremely young and has many decades ahead to start settling a bit. I believe platform engineering is not the reason. K8s didn't even exist 10 years ago.
I've tried going down this route myself by using libraries like fp-go[1]. I think this particular project has done a great job, but I ultimately opted not to pursue functional programming in Go for a few reasons:

- Ergonomics weren't the greatest when working with monads such as options and results. I think pattern matching is needed here, but concepts like those go against Go's core design philosophy.

- I suspect there are several cases where runtime performance is an issue, but admittedly did not investigate this.

- Perhaps most importantly, it deviates from the way most people read and write Go, and less importantly, LLMs struggle too.

Because of these reasons, I came to the conclusion that the advantages were not worth the trade-offs.

Perhaps somebody will create a garbage-collected Rust-like language in the future and bridge the gap between the two languages.

[1] - https://github.com/IBM/fp-go
Theres actually a whole website about it! I found it useful when I was doing deeper research into ElasticSearch: https://roaringbitmap.org
Would love to hear a bit about the tech stack or engine you used (if any)!
There used to loads of magazines like this. 'Everyday Practical Electronics' was from the merger of Everday Electronics and Practical Electronics IIRC, separately just in the UK there was Practical Wireless, Wireless World, Electronics International and many others (I may be getting the names a bit wrong here, but I have Practical Wireless dating back to 1963 or so - mostly valves then of course!). Elektor [0] is still around (online), also see things like the ARRL Handbook and associated publications (plus RSGB [2] in the UK, plentyof others out there).

[0] https://www.elektor.com/collections/magazines

[1] https://www.arrl.org/

[2] https://rsgb.org/
from the 2020 presidential election, Forbes has a 4-part series about the billionaires that donated to Biden and Trump.

Part 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/02/15/biden...

Four months later, when the campaign ended, Trump finished with 133 billionaire backers who collectively gave him $37.8 million. Biden, meanwhile, had 230 donors who contributed $39.1 million.

Those sums only tell part of the story, though. Many of the biggest donors to the campaigns also funneled huge amounts into super-PACs supporting the two candidates. Super-PACs cannot coordinate with campaigns, which is why Forbes did not count those funds as part of the totals raised by Biden or Trump. But the groups, which are allowed to raise unlimited sums, can nonetheless plow money into television ads that support a candidate.
Depending who is in office, one party will never go for this. The reason is states like California and maybe Florida/Texas will never allow this, it removes their advantage in the current electoral collage. Also it does not fix the population skewing for smaller states. Per voter, Wyoming voters have more power that people in Calif and Texas.

The better options is this, which will bring back the original intent of the US Constitution:

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

or the States Compact Option suggested by litoE above.