skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned to drive before in-car GPS was widely available, at least where I lived.

Going to some new place meant getting a map, looking at it, making a plan, following the plan, keeping track on the map, that sort of thing.

Then I traveled somewhere new, for the first time, with GPS and a navigation sofware. It was quite impressive, and rather easier. I got to my destination the first time, without any problems. And each time after that.

But I did remark that I did not learn the route. The 10th time, the 50th time, I still needed the GPS to guide me. And without it, I would have to start the whole thing from scratch: get a map, make a plan, and so on.

Having done the "manual" navigation with maps lots of times before, it never worries me what I would do without a GPS. But if you're "born" with the GPS, I wonder what you do when it fails.

Are you not worried how you would manage your apps if for some reason the AIs were unavailable?
Securing Cascading Style Sheets Cheat Sheet
when i discovered angularjs i thought it was a revelation. finally i could write webapps without having to track UI state in the backend, only treat the backend like a database. all the UI logic was dramatically simplified. it went so far as making my backend so reusable that i don't have to do any backend coding at all anymore. creating a complex webapp is now as simple as writing a desktop client.

sure, i could do the same thing with a traditional fullstack framework. with discipline i would be able to keep frontend and backend code separate. but i have yet to work on a project where that is the case.

i don't build SPAs because the industry demands it. i build SPAs since before the industry even heard about it. and i build them because they make for a cleaner architecture and give me more flexibility than any fullstack framework would.
> Depends. How many square feet of roof are they doing? At $10 per sq ft, thats 10M sq feet.

It’s a 5 year long contract and buildings need to be reroofed every ~30 years, several million square feet sounds about right.

> Also, what "small business" is doing those kinds of numbers, especially in a single contract?

You were linked to an example. A “small business” construction firm can easily administer a $99M contract if they subcontract all of the work out and act as construction manager. One dedicated project manager could do it, honestly.

Performance and payment bonds ensure the work is completed.

Certain types of businesses have a bidding advantage on public work, depending on the funding source: minority owned businesses (MBE), women owned businesses (WBE), service disabled veteran businesses, (SDVOSB, which DoD and VA contracts often target), and others. The advantage can be as high as 12%, which can lead to the construction manager situation I described above.

My post is only relevant to construction procurement, no clue how it works outside of that.
It's interesting when the common wisdom is that you cannot do X without Y.
It's basically the same thing, except the initial charges in each cell are created through the photoelectric effect when the sensor is exposed to light. After that, it's the same conveyor-belt-style readout proces as for the BBD.

It's also why CCDs tended to have problem horizontal or vertical halos around bright lights. Nowadays, most cameras use CMOS sensors, where the amplification and readout circuitry is integrated directly into each photosensitive cell.
Mind the Fragmentation Gap
Which would be a lot better than knowingly releasing in production code with important defects.
using the adverb at all is weak, as either it contains a critical idea or it doesn't, and I'd never use one in a business context because it's bargaining. the aesthetic qualities of a masculine voice aren't zero sum either, and we know it when we read it. many men write and speak effeminately or like boys, and some women use a more masculine voice beautifully. sex absolutely yields an aesthetic value. people can't draw a little heart above it when they dot an 'i' anymore so they use an exclamation point. instead of bubble letters they use rote phrases that signal their in-group status. e.g. someone who uses the word problematic may be nominally, but is probably not persuasively a heterosexual man as the jargon is an artifact of academic polari. these are aesthetic effects that are downstream of the writers experience.

otherwise, I agree with you for anything that isn't fictional or witful.
Against government waste maybe
New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/rob...
Depends on when u buy ...bought my first one in 2019 and sold it in 2022 ..making a $215k profit in Pennsylvania.

You could get very lucky and buy before a boom tho they don't happen often. Historical Low interest rates drove that boom. I Am missing my three percent rate I had on my first house.
I think this might also be a case of a phenomena i see frequently especially in chess and searching for vulnerabilities. If someone gives you a chess puzzle and tells you to find the solution its often much easier to do than finding tactics in your own game. i think if you gave a developer who had some understanding of CSS and asked them what the performance problem was they would be able to identify the `matches?` method as the culprit. but if you wrote this code or reviewed this code and you didn't know there was a problem then i think identifying the `matches?` method as a problem would be more difficult. i've been thinking it might even be free to just assume there is a tactic in a chess position or a problem in some piece of code and use that to change your frame of mind to spot these issues. but i don't think this works out in practice because you might be able to change your frame of mind but this comes at a cost of spending more time and focus on the task.
> ECUs are connected together [...] doesn’t hear from another ECU it needs to talk to [...] there is an ECU that controls the lights

This is very unusual terminology. Most vehicles have exactly 1 ECU (occasionally 2, and addresses are allocated for ~4 depending on the gateway) which controls exclusively the engine parameters. The BCM, the HVAC, the ABS, the MIB, etc. are all other modules (nodes on the network) which go by names other than ECU. For example, TCU for the transmission.

Any module can throw a DTC, but only a DTC from the ECU will illuminate the MIL (check engine light).
This sounds nice, but in my experience public unions invariably capture politicians, engage in corruption, cripple the department they work for, and make life worse for the people who have to deal with that department. I think we do have a right to say no when people want to make our lives worse.
The entire article's advice strikes me as biased towards one type of reader at the expense of all others.
Thanks to PR debacle, Recall now encrypts the data in a VM, https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/wind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZTIAfaNr8
This ultimately why I believe Microsoft and Apple will be the big winners. I suspect a lot of companies will want Microsoft and Apple to sign off on things and Microsoft and Apple are going to make sure they get their cut. We may need a new layer above existing operating systems in the future, to safeguard things.
They have nothing to do with Twitter anymore. Last round was funded by Blockchain Capital

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
If anyone reads this and thinks "hmm, this sounds like me" -- don't do anything about it! Stay exactly the way you are.
If you view your house as an investment first and a place to live second, then yeah, it probably will be a bad investment especially with interest rates, maintenance costs, and insurance rates remaining high.

That being said, I do enjoy being a homeowner more than a renter. No shared walls, no waiting for maintenance, no worrying about whether the landlord will increase my rent by a lot, and I have a back yard for plants and a fire pit. Never got that while renting.
How Tcmalloc Works (2013)
My feeling nowadays (i.e. since around a decade maybe) is that there is a lot of technical complexity going on which should imho be either an internal part of the browser itself, or should not be used that widely.

It's probably all good for something... But I would love to just make my web app out of what the browser itself can do, without a tech stack as high as a skyscraper for me to handle.

I know, this way the ecosystem can develop more rapidly (compared to waiting for improvements in the official web standards), and it's also fun to play with toys, and everyone can raise his/her value by learning more and more of these tools.

On the other hand, the web was imho in a better shape before all that began. From user perspective and from developer perspective.

I could be wrong... I'm not primarily a web developer at all...
You have to temper your ambitions. Choose languages it understands really well (typescript or python). Choose easier deployment solutions (vercel over docker). Be specific about the versions you’re using (“I’m using nextjs 14 with app router”)
Good job, I suppose, but the existence of all of these, and the fact you're able to pump them out so quickly, is genuinely depressing.
But test against what? This only makes sense for the property based testing, but then random sampling should give the same result up to a statistical margin of error (unless there's some specific pathological case). I suppose this is good for extremely critical routines, kind of like the modified condition/decision coverage safe critical flight software has to undergo.
This would be (and essentially has been) a good sci fi premise.
I don't love Rc as a cure for borrow checker woes. When Rust programs need cyclic, graph-y things like back references, I almost always suggest moving to indexes: https://jacko.io/object_soup.html. You can get fancy and reach for a SlotMap or a whole ECS, but a lot of simple cases can get away with just Vec. (And even complex cases can use HashMap if performance isn't critical.)
Regardless of that, I don't find discussing software engineering topics productive anymore. Whether you go all the way with "boring tech" (php, ansible, mysql) or cool cloud (k8s, go, whatever), it's all the same at the end of the day: we are there to make some CEOs rich.

Take pride of your skills in personal projects.
I'd love to go back to 1974 to experience the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)
The consequences of robots.txt misuse can also be disastrous for a regular site. For example, I've seen instances where multiple warnings of 'page indexed but blocked by robots.txt' have led to sites being severely down-ranked as a consequence.

My assumption being that search engines don't want to be listing too many pages that everyone can read and they can not.
I recommend using biocmanager to install all R packages- it is very good at automatically resolving dependency issues. The built in R stuff just isn’t great… but there are a few extremely good 3rd party systems

Ultimately there is no good solution- really in any language- that I know of for using old unmaintained packages on a modern version of the language.
Great writing style on the README. It’s always nice when a corporate tool has docs that were obviously written by people who are having fun at their jobs.
If there are complaints who is going to fix it? :-)
Isn't scheme with close to zero syntax so easy to learn?

Why did someone think it was a good idea to switch to JavaScript?

I think the person who'll get value out of SICP will not have any problem picking up scheme syntax on the fly.
We need updated board games that replicate the function of a CPU.
The Baric lab developed 'no-see-um' technology for cutting and pasting sequences into bat coronaviruses, and the Wuhan lab scientists had been collaborating with them since about 2012 or so. There are a dozen or so papers detailing all this. Their gain-of-function research involved introducing sequences that would be targeted by the human version of the furin enzyme. This would have allowed wild-type bat coronaviruses to gain access to the interior of human cells, where the DNA-RNA machinery is more indistinguishable.

The larger issue we need to think about is that there are hundreds of mammalian viruses out in natural systems that don't infect humans but which could all be altered to become human pathogens by this kind of technological approach. That's why so many people who have detailed knowledge of these systems (but who are not affiliated with the guilty parties in the Chinese and American virology funding system) want to see global agreements to ban this kind of research and institute significant penalties for those who pursue it.
I was about to say this but isn't the #then method close enough to the pipe operator?
It is true there are some downsides to home ownership. But if owning a home is such a horrible investment then why are so many buying up single family homes to turn into rentals? Personally our home has doubled in value over the past ten years. Of course that fluctuates but it is real.
LG stretchable display expands by 50 percent
Thank you for sharing these. So many people talk in superlative terms about the stuff they did with AI and give no details. It's very hard to gauge what they actually achieved.
I've got myself a Framework 13 at launch and it has lasted well so far. Repairability isn't as big of a deal though. Chips have been good enough for a long time such that an upgrade will only ever be necessary once in maybe 10 years
But why use tape storage in this day and age?
Tbh this sounds like a skill issue.
They sued to stop that acquisition and lost the case while Microsoft was forced to make concessions elsewhere. Given that the acquisition was cleared in several countries I don't think you can lay the blame at the FTC's feet.
In a vacuum, sure it's a bad investment. A house as described in the article is basically one that you buy and neither live in nor rent out. An empty and unused house is indeed a bad investment.

When people say a house is a good investment they mean, "Given that people need someplace to live and will be paying the cost and maintenance for lodging, a house is a good investment since that cost benefits an asset you own".
Show HN: 64, a Fast-Paced 2048
Cynical archeologists say King Arthur did not exist but looking for him is now you get funding to find the history that did once exist.
This is really cool, and within the first 5 seconds gave me a phrase that will be stuck in my head for a long time: arrogance is not a substitute for intelligence, Sebastian. IDK who Sebastian is, but I will be sure to let him know if ever I meet him.
> many important aspects of the myth

I am of course open to hear what these aspects are. But let's be clear that lucid understanding and humour are the best parts of civilisation.
> It just feels wrong to go around hiding everything that's going on from the borrow checker and moving the errors to runtime. But maybe that's what you need to do to prototype things in Rust without a lot of pain?

There's some truth to that, but I think the real problem is when some part of the state of your program looks like a graph with loops and cycles (not a tree). It's possible that it only looks that way during prototyping, but I think it's more likely that once it starts looking that way, it's gonna stay that way. In that case, "hiding" your lifetimes from the borrow checker is really about making your borrows shorter, which is how you can manage a graph without violating the no-mutable-aliasing rule.

https://jacko.io/object_soup.html
I am trying my best to read this site on Safari for iPhone but god the ads on this page are something. I get it, I am not against ads but sites like this are why I begin to get annoyed so much so than I’d rather not learn the content than dealing with distraction of ads and the accidental clicks on the page. Sorry, I hate to say it but if you this your page, do better.
How much time did you spend on getting it working especially for playbookfm?
You're right, I haven't been.
I’ve noticed the same with YouTube.

Yes, these are obviously separate properties - I’m moreso noting that it’s absurd that multiple large separate properties with well compensated engineering teams have shipped messed up basic back/forwards functionality in 2024.

I typically try to find the most charitable take on something but this kind of thing is consistently blowing my mind.
This flocking behaviour is indeed an annoying trait of most humans.

As a nice counter example in this context, Zalando has tuned the quadrant categories to their specific way of working. Their categories are: Datastores, Data Management, Infrastructure, and Languages.

https://opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar/
GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher
How long do you stay at the top of a transplant list?

My spouse recently had a kidney removed due to cancer (she's fine, caught it early).

If she ever needs a new kidney I've been hoping I'm compatible, we share the same blood type. However, if I can give up my kidney to move her permanently up the list, that's worth considering for me.
With PicTrix.ai you get 10 free image generations per day, produce visuals up to 2.0 megapixels, and enjoy the flexibility of an API. Need something specific? Choose from over 100 predefined styles or create your own! Plus, with support for color SVGs and text in images, the possibilities are endless. You can even guide the AI with your own image inputs for the perfect outcome.
Docmost founder here.

Thanks for reporting the mobile table issue. I will have a look at it.

The fullwidth issue on mobile was recently reported. It will be fixed soon.

I appreciate your feedback.
> There’s not one line in the Amazon code-base written by Jeff Bezos. There’s not one iota of iron-phosphate in Tesla batteries mined by Elon. Hell, he didn’t even dream up the idea for that company. Another guy did, but Elon pushed him aside and got the villagers to focus on him instead. Similarly, Trump didn’t lay one brick in the Trump Tower. Thousands of workers did, like they’ve done throughout history.

It’s been a long time since I last read such a ridiculous article.
Could you recommend a thinkpad model you feel is built like a tank?

I bought a used t540p 5 years ago and it's been the crappiest laptop I've ever used. Terrible display with about 15deg of visibility. Flimsy plastic parts that broke in multiple places during replacements. Display randomly got damaged while in my bag, keys constantly falling off, even after fully replacing the kb when keys just stopped functioning, worst trackpad ever, RAM just started failing.

Honestly the framework is practically macbook-quality in comparison to a used thinkpad IME but maybe I'm looking at the wrong series or era?
Check out the datasheet for this single row CCD sensor[1]. Look at pages 2 and 6, which show the block diagram and control signal waveforms. There is a single analog output pin. To read the device the "analog shift register" is used, which is a bucket brigade device to move the charge from the photo diode to the output buffer.

[1] https://www.spectralproducts.com/pdf/ToshibaTCD1304.pdf
high end CAD design software, the kind used to design SpaceX rocket engines, costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat per year.
If this is very important, I suppose I will implement encryption for stored data in future versions.

However, I still have a question about this: it seems that lots of hard disk is already encrypted. After all, I also store a large amount of personal photos, documents, bills, and other important information on my computer, and I haven’t meticulously encrypted all this data again. Should I be doing that?
Which just means there’s no closed form solution. You can simulate these bodies fine provided you have sufficient numerical accuracy and very accurate measurements of initial conditions (this is the part that’s practically impossible)
Can anyone explain how this is possible when most other providers charge huge costs for egress? Is Cloudflare operating at a loss here?
A lot of the aesthetic of "abs" is determined by factors independent of diet and exercise. Not everyone has the configuration of connective tissue needed for the "six pack" look. Some have extremely stubborn love handles or a "shelf" of lower abdominal fat that remain to some extent even at extremely low body fat levels, for reasons that don't seem to really be understood (everyone I've seen who claims to have an explanation is selling something).
Most modern backend frameworks provide components, types, and validation.

Laravel, Dotnet, Rails, etc.
Is it like a hybrid drive, where there's no special hardware, just a controller trying to cache better than the host device would?
"Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi is my favourite.
Anecdotally, a manufacturer of car headlights told an an acquaintance, a few years ago, that some cars would be written off solely if headlights were damaged due to increasing cost.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was becoming true, today?
I was told a similar thing when a mentor discovered I didn’t know how to wire-wrap my own CPU from scratch.
Cheap and very very reliable archival storage (essentially no failure modes other than the magnetic media itself), weight and volume wise pretty much still the best density you can get 18TB (up to 45 with compression) in a small 200g package is hard to beat when you need to move peta bytes around.

Also tape is much cheaper to produce than platters especially at large volumes.
James Webb Confirms Hubble's Calculation of Hubble's Constant
Only if you already suspect that this tool caused the problem.
Correct! We never wear headsets at LAN parties because it defeats the purpose.

Each computer has a sound bar and everyone just uses that. Yeah, that means everyone's sound gets mixed up and you don't get positional audio, but in practice it's fine and we'd rather be able to yell at each other.
I believe that’s shortsighted. I’ve been adjacent to any number of Microsoft rugpulls over the years (Visual FoxPro.NET any day now, promise!). Their are enough non-MS languages that C#’s never tempted me. I don’t think it’s a bad language and don’t think poorly of you for using it, but I feel much better about the long-term prospects of Rust and wouldn’t likely build a new business on C# today.
A neuroscientist who taught rats to drive
I've been unemployed for 3 months now. Building a swiftui app and applying to several Sr Engineer roles a week. Lots of recruiters reach out out and then ghost after 1-2 meetings. Been in the industry for almost 16 years now, have never struggled to find new role like this. Seems like everywhere is looking for unicorns with very specific criteria instead of problem solvers with a proven history of learning and using the correct tool for a job. Running weekdays and working on side project helps with mental health, hopefully can find something before I run out of savings.
Best of luck to OP and everyone else in this challenging market.
New study challenges social media's mental health impact
Okay, big DS9 fan happy to see the name and all - but this tool seems really unnecessary.

LLM Security is hilariously "here be dragons" levels of poorly understood. The fact that this tool doesn't even touch any of the really juicy types of attacks, i.e. attacks relying on structured/controlled generation, or attention/representation/adapter engineering, or exposing/manipulating logprobs, implies that using this is not a lot more than security theater.

Also, where the hell are the old school computer security/antivirus companies in the LLM security space? I expected Avast, Kaspersky, Norton, etc to jump on this stuff since they've been talking about ML based heuristic detection for years now. Why are they all asleep at the wheel?