skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is fun to point out that the VB.NET compiler is still at least 3 versions ahead. As far as I am aware VB.NET hasn't had a major version number bump since 16.0 (around .NET Core 3.x or .NET 5, as I recall), but the VB.NET compiler still also claims the 6 versions before .NET.

C#'s (lucky) 13.0 in .NET 9 is also just partly related to the non-linear version numbering of .NET itself with the long shadow if .NET 4's many minor releases that were also "major", the Core divide, and the eventual "unfork" at 5.0. F#'s 9.0 matching .NET 9 is a fun coincidence, and also just because F# is younger and missed some of the .NET fun like 4.x "minor number is as important as major number" years.
way tangential

but why, oh why, does 12 but not 12*1 nor 6+6, not even 5+7 but precisely as 2+2+1+2+2+2+1=12 is so important for music !?

how can we make a general object that describes such a "folded" structure?

this strtucture arises naturally from repeating 3^1 all the way to 3^12 and inserting the appropriate 2^n (where n is negative integer) to keep all between 1 and 2 (or 2 and 4)

is 2212221 a group?

if we stop at 3^7 instead of going all the way to 12 we have a diatonic major, if we stop after 5 iterations of multiplying 3*3 it's a pentatonic.
Rescaling the axis is egregious. Normalizing the max to 1 is fine, we're investigating trends not comparing frequencies, but dropping the min to 0 is not. A frequency of zero is meaningful, and it's removal destroys pretty much anything these charts could tell us. If a word occurred 199 times in 1970 and 200 times in 2022 it can look exactly the same as a word that was never used in 1970 and spiked in 2022.

Edit: To expand a bit, some of this info can be gleamed from context cues, such as usage hovering close to the bottom line for many charts implying that's the zero point. But half the charts look like "bigotry," "upsetting," "discrimination," or "duties." Are these strong trends or statistical noise? Who knows!
One nice side effect of having GUI builders in the IDE was standarized, optimized and "follow best practices" GUIs. No wonder we reached peak UI in the 90's-2000.

Then came the web and everyone and their mom had an opinion on how a button should look (for games that's fine) and we ended up here.
Same, personally, I couldn't even finish reading the landing page before I found the buy button and purchased.

This is an absolutely phenomenal use of the espressif esp32s3 in a hardware that I will likely use daily for the rest of my life.

Kudos!
TB is almost the archetypal disease of poverty.

Living on top of each other, especially in childhood & adolescence, combined with other environmental and health factors explains almost all of it. If you’re malnourished and your immune system is in bad shape, you’re at risk. If you have HIV, you’re at risk and so on.
This is "build one to throw away" writ small.
Has any compared national/international media outlets?

Is there an automated LLM comparing word usage, phrasing, maybe even cultural/class-driven subtext in context of time/events in print/TV or a project comparing national/international news outlets that target specific population segments/demographics?

One could analyse the same in advertisement/social media/even 'Hollywood' and data science all of that stuff together. Create a chain or rather 'graph of thought'. See what the ministry of truth has been up to in recent decades ... I'm joking, of course, it's a complex world and people cooperate so what the hell, but it would be interesting nevertheless.

Sadly, I can't even scrape websites that have a robots.txt.

I remember reading a book about above topic a decade ago where multiple authors did something like that to analyse cooptation in media (German: "Gleichschaltung").
Apple will let you share AirTag locations with others
For the past several years there was a movement in the US called "Defund The Police" whose whole premise was the police did more harm than good to minority communities.
If you started at the problem and worked in the other direction, maybe there are half a dozen ideas for solutions that are cheaper and more likely to work than "engineer mammoths." Like, is the engineering project even likely to work, if it works will they actually be bred in any number, if they are will anyone be willing to let them roam free, if they roam free are they likely to survive and breed more, if they do are they likely to have a positive impact, etc.
> I’d like to use spatial sorting more and in regular folders, but that’s very fragile and second-thought in most UIs.

I've heard that the "spatial Finder" from the old Mac OS worked like that: from what I understood from reading a couple of classic Ars Technica articles about it, there was a direct one-to-one correspondence between each folder and the window which represented it on the screen, and each of these windows always preserved its size and position. Quoting from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

"[...] There was no such thing as a "Finder window" that "displayed the contents of a folder." Double-clicking a folder opened it. The resulting window was the folder. When scrolling, moving, or resizing that window, there was no doubt about which folder was being affected. And the stability of the interface was such that there was no doubt about what that folder would look like the next time it was opened."
I do! I genuinely find it much more comfortable than any office chair I ever had.
I'm pretty sure there was a more comprehensive study than the rivers video that showed it wasn't the wolves, but rather the fencing put up to prevent grazing that restored the forests and therefore beaver materials in Yellowstone park.
Please share the names!
Not quite. I'm imagining two independent arms, probably placed at opposite corners. They'd have one servo for rotation along a 90 degree angle, and another mechanism for extending or retracting it. I can't really draw something at the moment to illustrate what I mean.

(But practically, yeah, what you linked is probably what would be required, otherwise I don't know if it could support it own weight.)
we should call them parcels at all layers and then everyone will be equally annoyed.
Man sfgate is a scummy web site. Traps you so back button does not work and litters the page w obnoxious ads. Note to self, don't follow sfgate links.
We have been working on a better solution to this the last few years and have a good answer if extended desk work focus is integral to your work.

The fundamental conflict is one of movement vs. focus (and health vs. career sadly), and we have found a way to introduce significant posture changes while doing work. https://www.movably.com/

We, also unlike basically every other chair company sadly, also put this to an independent research group. Our protocol was a simple sit-stand transition every 3 minutes, and the seems to be the first study to show a chair preventing pain without interrupting productivity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...
There needs to be a term for the cognitive fallacy that, just because two endeavors are conceptually adjacent in your mind, that puts them in competition for resources in any real way.

That isn't how it works. Conserving megafauna and de-extincting the mammoth aren't competing with each other except in the very general sense that both are in competition with every other endeavour which is not explicitly engaged in profit seeking.

But if you were to say "I'm unconvinced the value we expect to gain from preserving old computers in working condition is worth it, relative to efforts to reduce child mortality in West Africa" it would obviously be a weak argument which few would entertain. But the situation is much more like that than you make it look here.
I love jupyter notebooks. And, I'm amazed that a company like Microsoft would put a notebook front and center that starts off with a bunch of errors. Not a good look. I really think you can improve your AI marketing by a lot by creating compelling jupyter notebooks. Unsloth is a great example of the right way.

https://github.com/microsoft/TinyTroupe/blob/main/examples/a...
Large, charismatic megafauna have many uses. Their coats, their tusks, their meat can be extremely valuable. It's debatable whether humans are responsible for the deaths of most of the large megafauna that died out over the past million years. There were probably many factors.

There don't need to be any other reasons other than, "it's interesting and will make money".
There is some kind of trope that goes “my $location has the shittiest drivers in the world”. The actual reality is all drivers suck everywhere in the world. Except me and you of course. We are obviously above average. (And there is some urban lore floating around that says “most” people surveyed report they are “above average” drivers)

I also think the same formula holds for shipping companies, cellphone carriers, and airlines. All airlines suck, all cellphone providers suck and all shipping companies suck too. Oh and banks too.
We can also prep them up with good times economy money in some reservation and then have them poached off when bad times roll around.
And to do it from the other direction, you can open a tun (virtual IP) or tap (virtual Ethernet) interface just as easily. This adds a virtual interface to the network stack (e.g. a VPN interface), while a packet socket does the opposite and lets you communicate directly through with a real interface.
Appreciate sharing that experience. I’d wondered about the pros and cons of AWS Professional Services especially; almost went there once…

I have recent experience. It’s definitely slower in the last 2.5 years. I see that as a different issue. If the hiring market is soft, then a recruiter can still be working hard for you if your offers aren’t as good. Some of that sorts out earlier in the process when you pitch yourself to the recruiter to be worth presenting to the employer.

What I personally did in early conversations is express my comfort with a longer search process and focus on the right mutual fit. That let them know that they may be overlapping with other applications, and also that they were competing with my job at the time. I realize I was fortunate to have a job to use as a motivator.
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> maybe

What is this, National Argument By Insinuation Day? :-\

I don't even have a dog in this fight one way or another, I just call out terrible and weak logical arguments when I see them. This thread is rife with bad arguments.

It seems people here thought "Jurassic Park bad," then twisted themselves into knots to come up with something to complain about. Bad form guys.

If you want to fool people (in a durable way that's immune to logic), write a book or movie they watch as a kid.
„That is an incredibly precise perfectly balanced aerospace grade turbine. It can be used in long range attack drones.“

https://x.com/epiphanylattice/status/1855722772112310362
super helpful, thank you!
Side gig
> Could one create a proof of pseudo-science, by injecting a faked fundamental corner stone paper, that becomes proof by inheritance that a full field is rotten?

I don't think there's any doubt that pseudoscience exists, even amongst the most optimistic of scientists.

The problem is identifying what is bad science vs what is good. The fact that I can send this from a small phone from a parking lot is proof that someone did good science at some point in time. Or that I've seen therapies like CBT turn someone who was struggling mentally on a daily basis to thrive, or that I've seen valve replacement surgery give someone years of great life after a "six months to live diagnosis" -- all show that there is good science.

I think we almost need a "discipline" of people who validate scientific results, and people should be held accountable for results that validate or don't.

Peer review is great. It's not a farce (I've gotten some incredible feedback on papers from it), but it is also extremely limited by design. We need more.
You can put it on an SD card and boot from it, if that counts :)
> And where is this HN simping for ruthless capitalist that lay you off you the moment you get sick coming from?

Sounds like you made some experiences with the wrong people.

The process is faster than in other european countries, true, but we're still far away from a short process... unemployment benefits, social healthcare, sick leave, holidays etc. A shorter process can open up good opportunities, but demands some security to enjoy the risks. I think we're mostly balancing this act and it's a good thing when it makes Austria more attractive to employers. Competition against Germany, Belgium, Sweden, or the Netherlands is in my own interest.

Especially in the case of software engineering it can be beneficial to join unstable employments and be ready to change frequently. I'm mostly seeing it as grateful (depending on market), as you can only see so many system designs fail in your lifetime. :D
Surprised you were the only one to pick up on the pun on the title of George Lakoff’s seminal book from 40+ years ago :)
Oh No, My RAN: Breaking into an O-RAN 5G Indoor Base Station [video]
Mexican Repatriation
I don't think visual UI builders were ever the way forward. These work well for static UIs, but once you try to express dynamic constraints, they fall apart.

Figma shows this: I find it useful to absolutely position elements (and maybe work with symbols) for a quick prototype, but once I bring in autolayout, I end up dealing with exactly the same issues as with CSS-flexbox and grids - except in a vastly inferior system, where I don't have version control, refactoring tools and chatGPT. Also, subjectively, I find it much easier to work directly with XML-structure, than to double-click (or cmd-click) through 15 groups in order to select a specific component, and then modify its properties in a textual form.

I'm guessing that's why Apple and Android deprecated their interface builders in favor of DSLs.
Does Pulumi still use Terraform under the hood?
That’s still not an explanation. Kids in the US spend a lot of time with other kids at daycare and school. It’s a transmittable bacterial disease. Why aren’t people in the US getting it more? Are you saying you have to be mal/undernourished to get it?
Refactoring Barrel Files with Codemods
I think making your tech company staff make furniture is about as sensible as if the people who make furniture were also building their own software.

But as to open source furniture design ... I thought furniture was basically in the same position as fashion, where you can protect trademarks etc and particular patentable innovations, but that designs in general are not protected.
The National Guard is a branch of the military though, unlike the police.
I really chewed up my original comment. "a mudslide or a storm" was supposed to bind to the bit about organic fossils, not the bit about inorganic artifacts.

I think "rapid" might be a relative term (I'm thinking of the Mary Rose and the Vasa). When you get to the more durable artifacts that come with a technological civilization we really should be thinking in decades, maybe centuries.
These opportunities exist due to an inefficient illiquid market, widely sharing them will ruin that.
Assuming that you would not eat the difference because you are more hungry.
This lecture from John Green is a great full summary on the history of TB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gxaie6UI

He's also publishing a book about it
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312472/everything-i...

Recently, John Green lobbied to get certain pharma companies to lower the price of tests and vaccines

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-advocates-pus...

Tuberculosis is not a medical problem, it's an inequality and access problem. Tuberculosis is fully solved in advanced countries yet less developed countries still suffer from it. Pakistan has 260 death per 100k capita, the US has 2.6. The highest 5 countries have at least 600 per 100k capita.
The point is that when someone comes up with an expensive vanity project with a promise that it's really about climate change, you don't have to believe them.

Maybe they are coincidentally right and it will work, but they definitely seem less interested in rigorously investigating whether it will work than investigating the cool parts of engineering a mammoth.
Strategic and cruise missiles are meant to operate in doomsday scenarios without active guidance and instead use a combination of inertial navigation, celestial navigation and terrain matching.
Save yourself a ton of grief and don't use things like dynamodb unless you really have to.
TIL of Postgres’ pg_logical_emit_message function. Very useful.
Can results of mathematical computation without any artist's control be copyrigtable?
As a pedestrian that “walk before green” light is super rad. What I imagine it is targeting is letting pedestrians “win” and get into the street where they are more visible so they don’t get ran over by people making left or right turns into them. If you let the cars light “win” then people will immediately turn right and “cut off” the pedestrian.

Dunno, just a guess. My city started doing this pattern a few years ago and I am very curious about the research backing it up. It does make me feel “safer” crossing streets at busy intersections. But I’d be curious what the actual rationale says about it.
Have not seen any scientific backing for this Cornell recommendation 20m sit duration.

Most relevant study I have found is that sitting harm (average sedentary bout lenght & all cause mortality) actually begins at ~10-11m, and increases from that point. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28892811/

"A marked increase in mortality risk was observed at ~10 min/bout; suggestive of a threshold effect."
And it seems like Apple and the courier company have managed to externalize this risk to the customer (assuming the OP's story is true).
My understanding is that TB doesn't spread while latent, it needs to develop into active TB to spread.

The US healthcare system is tuned into TB cases and will alert local health officials to do contact tracing, outreach, and follow up with confirmed cases when they pop up.

Healthcare and childcare workers are routinely tested for TB in areas with recent spread.

Doing screening on the general population doesn't seem necessary, given the low estimated % of people with latent infections and the low estimated % of latent infections that will develop into active infections. It may make sense to screen more people that have a higher risk if they develop active TB or are at a higher risk of exposure.

Certainly, increased screening or vaccination would result in improved outcomes for people whose TB infection was averted. But those have to be weighed against the negative outcomes from side effects of screening/treatment and vaccination.
i have "no purple prose" in my custom instructions
"You are the one claiming that OpenFile(OF_EXIST) does not open the file."

I never said any such thing.

Yet another trivially verified false statement. Fits the pattern.
...and you don't have to disbelieve that it will work either. It gives you no evidence either way.

"Really about" climate change is a different issue from whether or not it works. You're again trying to change the subject to the distraction issue of original intent, not actual efficacy (for which you clearly have no evidence, only insinuation).
I was playing Cities: Skylines on my old desktop PC a couple of years ago and the frame rate was really low. Windows was running sluggishly but mostly fine. I downloaded CpuZ to figure out what was going on with Skylines, and noticed that the core frequency was way lower than it should have been. I poked around in software for a while but couldn't figure out what was going on ... until I opened my case and realised that my CPU heatsink was dangling off the CPU, the top mounting pins having come loose.

So, yep, CPUs - at least 2014-vintage Intel Core i5s - can run surprisingly well without cooling!
You need a very stable clock for that, which was also called out as a thing. With some PLLs you could lower the needed frequency. I think you're really looking for a small FPGA though.
The non-commercial QNX Everywhere license is always free and perpetual -- no renewals. Fully self-service and includes access to the full QNX SDP 8.0 for development & QNX targets.
It's built on top of pulumi, and their docs have some comparison against both CDK and pulumi in their FAQ section: https://sst.dev/docs/#faq
Props for using Nix.
I don’t think this is really true. Kitchen supply is an example with stores that are open to regular people and there are still deals compared to consumer cookware.
Nope.

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/...
While in most cases I fully agree with this, I think there are some key examples that were simply lost to over-hunting/poaching. Ones that comes to mind are the various white rhino species, Dodos, some Mega turtles of Galapagos mentioned in the article. In the case of the Rhinos, there has been a concerted effort to maintain their habitat, but that also makes protecting against poachers near impossible. In the case of artificial repopulation efforts like these, they are protected by the breeding program, with a lofty goal of producing enough specimen to return to their original habitat.

I do think returning the Quagga or Whooly Mammoth is probably pointless, but they are high profile proof of concept.
Lmaoo this is hilarious to picture in my head. I wanna see a video of Zoidberg doing his dance.
I had the same thing happen with an iPhone ordered from AT&T. I have Ring video of the delivery guy placing the empty box near my gate. You can see from the way he waves the box around that it has very low inertia, and could not possibly have had a phone in it. Fortunately, I had no trouble with my claim.
Just because you feel it is and you want it to be true, doesn't make it so. It's important to learn to separate advocacy of a position from your analysis of facts. Work-related communications are generally at the decision of the employer, not the employee.

https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/...
It isn’t calls, only texts. And you have to manually orient the phone so it is pointing at the satellite. You can’t just hold it like you normally do.
I wonder if we could get this running again!
Written by George Hotz?
Oh thank you. And the image explains the tail thing more fully. They lick saltwater from their tail.
Thank you for a good answer that doesn't make me feel dumb. I appreciate it
They're about to get loaded with a bunch of furniture from all the biotech firms downsizing
This cool. I grew up about a mile from one of these plants and it is wild to see the old photos. A story from my grandfather (probably not true) is that the week after Pearl Harbor Jack Warner had someone paint on the roof of the Warner Bros Studio something like “Hirohito, Northrop is over there”. When Jack Northrop heard this he was furious and gave Mr Warner one of the rare verbal lashings of his life. As a token of remorse Warner offered to lend the studio’s staff to help camouflage the aircraft plant.
If it works it works and the original motivations don't really matter then. Now whether it would actually work is something else ofc.
Studies say that you should walk if you get stuck
Buying them off eBay is one thing, but for my own money I've had just stellar success with Apple's Refurbished selection, which comes with a warranty and one can purchase Apple Care for them <https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished> Regrettably I don't know if they're compatible with Apple's MDM but I couldn't imagine why not