skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watch out, for row/record values, if a column in the row/record is NULL then IS NULL will be true! You want to use IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL, full stop.
Very good! Yes indeed, future fiction, which we are sort of living in. Thanks for contributing.
My personal favourite unit converter is here: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
Common law nominally already has some principles built into it that can answer that in a reasonable way. Contracts that are super lopsided are already nominally invalid. Contracts that are incomprehensible and signed under duress are already nominally invalid.

As you may guess from my phrasing, I am well aware that in the present environment, believing that that meant much would be a childish level of naivety. But the principles can still be used to answer your questions in a reasonable way.

It really wouldn't be that hard to lay down some principles that privacy violations are an expense above and beyond, say, "parking my car". It is unreasonable for a person to think that the price of parking my car is $1.25 an hour and also arbitrary privacy violations and also you gave up your right to privacy from the government and also in six years if you sue a related entity they'll cite your parking agreement as the reason why you're not allowed to sue them (see recent Disney wrongful death case). $1.25/hour was already a fair price, give or take a couple of multiplicative factors. Taking a whole whackload of additional rights in the fine print under what can reasonably be called duress relative to the claims being made, beyond what a "reasonable person" would expect to be necessary to just complete the basic transaction, is not that hard to write some principles around. This is why judges are still human.
The Harry Potter and comic book argument also works for paper newspapers, the same object contains good, informative articles, opinion pieces etc, but also the comics page.

I am arguing that thinking that the same object cannot be used in two contexts is incredibly reductive and essentialist. They are stacking the books (by double counting time listening to music etc) to prove the idea that they are insistent on, that computers (which the article generalizes from desktops to chromebooks to iPads to smart watches) are essentially bad for learning, when this is not necessarily the case.

Students will continue to learn using computers, just as I will, because they are ridiculously effective for doing so.
With all RDBMSes the rule is "normalize to the max, then denormalize till you get the performance that you need".
My understanding is that Tesla's approach is to not require hyper-detailed maps. So far it doesn't work well enough, but if they do manage to get it working, then I think it will actually be a "boom, suddenly it works everywhere" moment. Waymo One, by contrast, requires extremely detailed maps of the service area, which is why they can only slowly roll it out place by place.
Graduate Degrees Are Overrated
Tesla has the most fatalities resulting from the use of its advanced driving/self-driving systems. Literally, Tesla has more such fatalities than every other automaker in the world, combined. Based on data through 2023, Tesla's advanced driving/self-driving systems were involved in 40x more crashes resulting in death or serious injury than the next most dangerous advanced driving system (at the time, GM) and more than 100x than the least dangerous advanced driving system (at the time, Toyota).

And the numbers have just gotten worse for Tesla: FSD has been involved in at least 6 fatalities this year, and Autopilot in at least another dozen. Their competitors? Just 1, and that was several years ago.
The general rule is to normalize to the max, then denormalize till you get the performance that you need.
Breaking Down Digital Silos
Free will is not the only problem
IMO, if you're rerunning gating tests then there's no point in having the tests in the first place. The whole purpose of tests is to find value in their failing, so when you have flakes and rerun multiple times to pass, your tests have lost their value and you have no trust in your codebase.

also... rerunning is annoying when you have to figure out if the problem is the SUT or a brittle test (one upside for me is having spare time in the afternoons to make coffee while waiting for CI lol)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
To put a name on this, it's the Baumol effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect. Essentially, as productivity increases in most industries (from automation), it drives up labor costs in the industries that can't be automated (healthcare, education, performing arts, etc), which drives up the price of those services (healthcare), or drives down the quality to find a market clearing price (increasing student to teacher ratios).
We're talking T&Cs here. How would typing in your location invalidate you agreeing to (what a company would like to believe is legally binding) clickwrap T&Cs? Even if you deny individual permissions, apps will still slurp up your app list/hardware specs/any metadata they can get their grimy hands on, directly and indirectly through side channels. You're saying to give them 999 data points instead of 1000 and you think that's a solution?
From a technical perspective, its a combination of 3 things - memory, search (which implies recursion), and some prime directive.
Enforcing UTC inside the system and converting to the correct time zone for display purposes is fine though. Makes a lot of sense when the recorded time zone isn't relevant in itself, booking systems for example.
Amazing! Any articles on that school?
Gamescope does a lot more than scaling. HDR, better framerate limiting, non-rgb gamut handling, isolating "fullscreen" games, shader effect loading, and probably more I'm forgetting. Flatpak let's you run the Steam app itself correctly, nothing more. These "you only need to fiddle when" are exactly what add up and create frustration between users on different systems just wanting to play a game instead of read a manual/guide to find which "few tweaks" they each need to do to get the same experience as SteamOS would give them.
Anyone knows how to/if it's possible to setup c# 13 with the new semi-auto property (field) feature?

I know it's not part of "standard" c# 13 out-of-the-box
For WW2 visualizations, The Fallen of World War II (http://www.fallen.io/ww2/) is a masterpiece—well-researched, clearly visualized, and paired with excellent narration. It balances nuance with the big picture, and even though it addresses tens of millions of deaths, it reminds us that these are people, not mere statistics.
> How do you propose to address it [terms & conditions]such that end result is a net positive, instead of net negative?

* limit scope. It should not be possible to get people to sign away rights they have in order to e.g. stream a movie

* plain English.

* compulsory summary at the start

* more statutory rights that cannot be wived. E.g. it is not legal to have death a result of non compliance

It is not that hard.
How about: any terms that can be reasonably expected to be surprising to -- and negatively affect -- a reasonable person under its scope are unenforceable without the consent of all of those people.

(This is intended to be phrased on a way that includes e.g. cases where one party agrees to terms but another one is affects by it to their surprise, like your spouse when you buy a cell phone plan. So rephrase as needed.)
Terraform in this case has nothing to do with the product from Hashicorp, but just saying that would have been less informative.

Thank you for the link to the made up story!
It's been a hot minute since I saw the "real" logo and RAM files.
Yeah, Bazzite is probably the best alternative barring official support. It attempts to tackle most of the issues head on.
>also in six years if you sue a related entity they'll cite your parking agreement as the reason why you're not allowed to sue them (see recent Disney wrongful death case).

It's worth mentioning that in that case, Disney didn't operate the restaurant that allegedly caused the wrongful death, but got included in the suit because they had a website listing for that restaurant. In that case I think it's pretty reasonable that if Disney can be put on the hook for having a listing for a restaurant that caused the wrongful death, that they can be let off the hook for having a waiver in their website T&C.
I’ve always wondered if you could turn the tables on some of these people, perhaps by sending an email with t&c’s your own after they’ve sent you an email, the body of which would essentially invalidate their T&C’s and that by them continuing to send you emails they are consenting to the revised T&C’s…
Note that case handling is a place where postgres (which folds to lowercase) violates the standard (which folds to uppercase).

This is mostly irrelevant since you really shouldn't be mixing quoted with unquoted identifiers, and introspection largely isn't standardized.
> I remember going for a routine checkup at Kaiser, and the doctor was literally checking boxes on her computer terminal, rather than looking, talking, listening.

This is also a doctor issue, to be clear. My primary care physician has a program he uses on his laptop; I'm not sure what program it is, but he's been using it since I started going to him around 2009 so it's definitely not something new. He goes through and checks off boxes, as you described your doctor doing, but he also listens and makes suggestions.

When I have an issue, he asks all the questions and checks off the boxes, but he's also listening to the answers. When I over-explain something, he goes into detail about why that is or is not (or may or may not) be relevant to the issue. He makes suggestions based on the medicine but also on his experiences. Seasonal affective disorder? You can get a lamp, you can take vitamin D, or you can go snowboarding up above the clouds. Exercise and sunlight both.

For my psych checkups (ADHD meds and antidepressants) he goes through the standard score questionnaire (which every doctor I've seen uses), then fills in the scores I got into his app. Because of that he can easily see what my scores were the last time we spoke (about once every three months), so it's easy to see if something has changed dramatically or if things are relatively consistent.

It seems as though it saves a lot of time compared to, say, paper charting, and while I have seen people complain on review sites that he's just checking stuff off on a form, I don't don't feel that it's actually impacting the quality of care I get, and it's good to know that he's going through the same process each time, making notes each time, and having all that information easily accessible for my next appointment.

I should probably have prefaced all this by saying I'm in Canada, and so he's not being mandated by a private insurance company to follow a list just because the bureaucracy won't pay for your treatment if he doesn't. Maybe that makes it different.
The FIPS Series shows firmware 5.4: https://www.yubico.com/us/product/yubikey-5-fips-series/yubi...

Instead of stopping the sale of them, they're dumping old stock on unsuspecting customers.
Part of that is questionable, because the state gets to set the means by which the quality of education is measured. However, a more objective measure is the extent of education; certainly, the introduction of national education has always produced a much greater literacy rate.
amazing what can be built so quickly
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The photo also doesn't really do justice to how much stuff was going on at one time since it just makes it look like supplies are being delivered to a beach. You've got an an incredibly dense (in terms of participants per area or volume) naval battle, infantry engagements, air superiority operations, close air support and logistics operation all at the same time in roughly same place and even if you pick one aspect to focus on you'll find that the scale and tempo of operations in any one area exceeds what's "normal" even for a pitched battle.
Have you a reason for suggesting people don't do it?

If I may turn that back on you, how exactly does one avoid surveillance? Your phone is the most obvious culprit, so you'd need to get rid of that. Facial recognition software is getting better at recognizing people even if they are wearing a mask, and the cameras capturing that are everywhere; just look at traffic signals and the camera's on top.

In modern society, right now, it is pretty much unavoidable unless you got rid of most electronics and never set foot outside for many, many years.
Completely agree. I'm only calling it out because of the claim "perfectly conformant with the standard".
if only there was some kind of tool that allow producers to cross post to multiple social medias at once..
ahh, what'd you suggest?

Because the standard alphas that are submitted to other funds, they usually backtest it with years of data. And then let it paper trade for 3-6 months to make a decision on how much to bet upon.

would love to get your insights, since you've experience w hedge funds as well as algos
"It hallucinates facts and uses those to manufacture lies? How soon can we have it managing all of our customer interactions?"
How? Spouting off the name of a logical fallacy is not a good faith response
This depends on where you are.

Where I live in Seattle, they have rolled out significantly more 5-30 minute loading only zones on former street parking to deal with the uptick in rideshares and food/parcel deliveries, because the alternative is a bunch of illegal double parking.
Amazon hates Canada (no Amazon music store, no Household plan) so here the tool of last resort is iTunes Music Store (it still exists, apparently).
Bei Frauen und Mädchen zeigt sich ADHS oft anders. Häufig handelt es sich um den unaufmerksamen Typ, früher ADS genannt, bei dem Symptome vor allem innerlich wirken. Außen erscheinen Betroffene oft unauffällig, während die Unruhe eher im Inneren tobt
iOS 4 security flaw nostalgia
That’s really quite impactful and insightful.
Presidents have choices no one else has … how interesting
if teams start generating a significant portion of their codebase testing will become so much more difficult... I wonder how flaky copilot code & tests might be
In the context of sites like Göbleki Tepe and the sites of the Natufian culture, which reach back 15k years, Ancient Egypt (and their contemporaries in Mesopotamia) are very recent.

It's crazy how our perspective on the age of "civilization" has shifted so much recently.
Slow rollout? Waymo's growth has been insane the past year. Log graph: https://x.com/brianwilt/status/1851366713507344742/photo/1
The app stores want a monopoly, and the right to charge large fees from developers and consumers, to protect us

Then they do not

Liars
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
Hey HN! I built StretchMyTimeOff as a quick experiment using Cursor (Anysphere's AI code editor) and GPT-4o to see how far AI could go in building a simple, functional site.

What it does: The site helps you get the most out of your vacation by suggesting optimal days to take off around national holidays, maximizing long breaks with minimal vacation days, anywhere in the world and for any calendar year.

It's an idea I've had for a while, and building the algorithm with GPT was a fun challenge. Any feedback or ideas I'm all ears :)
Same as when you're in an uber?
Hey! Here’s one: ea-2e495d90-801

Invite codes are optional, but you do get an extra 69 points when you refer someone using them :p
Zing! Can’t lose if you don’t play ;)
They're not just banded into a range based on their grade. They're banded into a grade based on their age, even though "being within a year of the same age as somebody" becomes essentially meaningless as soon as you're out of school.
If I'm reading this right, they were able to build a certain kind of polyurethane that is easier for enzymes to break down. Neat, but won't do much to help recycle any plastic that has already been manufactured, I'm afraid.
Related:

Avremu: An AVR Emulator Written in Pure LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13126595 - Dec 2016 (29 comments)

Show HN: Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8448322 - Oct 2014 (18 comments)
I can never justify it to myself if the shipping cost is more than 25% of the product price.
Yeah! I used Dragon Box in my high school math class back in 2015. Loved it!
They filed the dispute after the show and after showing their ID at the door which matched then name on the tickets. I can't submit that proof to Stripe as the show is in a different country would literally involve me asking for security cam footage, which is beyond a small business's bandwidth.
For Rust, yes, we do have that and that'd be great to generalize it. That was a C++ code base using custom lock types that I used a regex linter for. Glad to not be touching it anymore for many reasons.
This is similar to what I’ve done with my sass where most of the logic lives in Postgres. I went through much of the logic and refactored it with GPT a while back and improved it significantly. It’s soooo good with SQL. Like insanely good. And these days I'm using Claude for all things code, which is significantly better than GPT.
Thanks for posting a link to the site; their Grafana dashboard was cool to see.
As someone that has gamed an equal amount on Windows 10 and Linux, I think you're blowing things a little out of proportion. Windows is a tinker timesink too if you want to uninstall Candy Crush and Xbox Game Bar, disable all telemetry and ads, or even just get a good version of Java installed for Minecraft. Windows can "just work" for some games, but for others it's a nightmare to get running. Another good example is the Fallout games, which have a decades-old bug that crashes the game if you alt-tab away from it. On WINE this bug can be fixed by simply running the game fullscreen in a virtual window. The flexibility is excellent and saves me from trying to inject a DLL file just to get proper borderless fullscreen to work the way it should.

My big takeaway is this; if you are comfortable using the Steam Deck to play games and install software, you will not struggle to get Linux to run games. Pretty much anything that isn't a gaming laptop is going to have some form of support, and even the famously crappy Nvidia drivers were recently updated to support Wayland and other new Linux protocols. Now more than ever before, using Linux to game is probably easier than getting the equivalent experience on Windows.
"This one weird trick" doesn't work because it the end, it comes down to who has more money to spend on lawyers.
that's interesting, so track the mouse events and then apply it on top of the video? that's brilliant
Switching to nonsense with physical books is as easy as having two books in your bag/desk, or reading a physical newspaper with a comics section. Treating the ability to switch context quickly as essentially bad for learning is reductive, especially when the ability to add more context (searching unknown words, useful videos, articles etc) can obviously be incredibly useful.

Stopping the ability to do ctrl+T+reddit.com also prevents the huge amount of info the rest of the informative internet can provide.

The article also includes smart watches as computers, and personally as a Apple Watch user, the amount that this device can distract is incredibly low, and obvious to viewers like a teacher.
There are concrete objectives for educating a voting public in a democracy that would be entirely unserved by this proposal.
They're still selling the FIPS series with firmware 5.4: https://www.yubico.com/us/product/yubikey-5-fips-series/yubi...
I've recently been down this path and its a messy place thats really the most user unfriendly experience. But at a high level you have two staples models. Stable Diffusion 3 XL and FLux.

There are two main tools ( think ollama ) - Automatic1111 ( gradio like UI ) which only works with stable diffusion models... and ComfyUI ( NodeRed like UI ), where comfy ui supports all models but is harder to set up and learn.
So even if some Canon cameras do use the format, that does not negate my comment. The EOS line of Cameras like the 1D, 5D, 7D, etc definitely do. I'm looking at content from them now. If they have changed that with their mirrorless line, that still does not invalidate my comment.
Thank you for the feedback.

Usually users search a specific unit conversion, such as “convert meters to feet”. They will be redirected by a search engine to a dedicated page with detailed units descriptions down below the category page, example https://www.betaconvert.com/length/meters/feet , do their conversion and leave. For the case when a user begins navigation from top-bottom, we will consider to load a proper unit description on unit change as you have suggested.
It freaks out at you if you open the door while it's moving, but it only drives on city streets (for now), so it's not like you have to try it at speed.

The "pullover now" button takes a while to kick in, it doesn't just stop in the middle of traffic so opening the door is sometimes more effective.
I'm not even sure it's a good classroom tool, but rather is a useful _supplement_

We may soon get to a point where, for certain subjects, edtech is the classroom tool, and the teacher/coach is the supplement.

I don't mind sitting down with him and books (he's 2 grades ahead).

My son is also 2 grades ahead in math. He skipped Kindergarten and now, in 3rd grade, he does math with the 4th grade class (which is currently working through the Singapore Math 4A book).

At home, he's just over half way through Math Academy's 5th grade curriculum (which is roughly equivalent to 5th grade common core standards). He still comes to me with questions. Sometimes, I can give a great, personalized explanation just because I know him well, we have shared context etc.
But usually he's just been too aggressive at skipping past the explanations or worked examples in the MA lesson, and I just tell him to scroll up and read. He does that and says 'oooh, now I get it...' and then he can continue on his own.

What I'm trying to say is: I also don't mind sitting down with my son with math books. But it's more effective for MA to be the core experience, and for me to be an on-call coach (i.e. for me to the supplement).
I remember learning about strides 10 years ago. Never gotten into gpu parallel programming, but that course informed a lot of my understanding about how GPUs worked.
Making my own custom text notification tones