skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hyrum's law is specifically about how every change is a breaking change if you have enough users. So it's always a bit subjective. No sane person considers changing an error message a breaking change in context of semver. It's just go going above and beyond to take care of backward compatibility.
Thanks for the link, I didn't know that it was he who announced that. Thank you!
Synoptic subjects? Scope and methods of philosophy, geography and anthropology
>Burn the planet while making fun on of Prius drivers

Not defending status symbol trucks but he rear seats of compact cars aren't known for getting a lot of ass.
I mean this isn't a research article, it's some data crunching and musings on a blog. I would not expect this person to start conducting interviews for a blog post.
American art by the late 20th century depicted cows more realistically: https://shorturl.at/aqvDa
Will you also blame the telephone companies and mailman too?
I didn't know about this before, thanks :|

I thought he was much more of a moderate in Netanyahu cabinet.
It's sort of as if it's gone. TFA is about what I no longer recognize as what I used to mean when I talked about redis. Since the license change the project with the trademark no longer fits that concept. Valkey does. I'm not sure where I ca find something that fit my old context of MongoDB.
It's from https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/brother-may-i-have-some-oats (I only learned of the meme recently, not from the original)
We have lots of smooth infrastructure that I never noticed until various foreign experts on the internet expressed how wonderful it is.

There is an actual traffic light design I really like. It has a circle of small white leds that switch off one by one as a count down to green

https://www.maxvandaag.nl/sessies/themas/reizen-verkeer/hoe-...

These are absolutely wonderful on busy roads with tons of (car) traffic. Before they had the count down one would just stand there waiting for what seems forever. It can go green any moment, you have to pay attention. The entire state of mind is different. You can just zone out. I even pull out my phone knowing I have time to answer a message or look up at what time a store closes.

I just learn I've only seen the highly predictable ones, apparently in other locations they also have heat sensors to detect how many cyclists are standing there. It may speed up if there are enough. If 1% of the cyclists know what is really going on it would be a lot. Until now I was just happy it turns green when I'm the only traffic for as far as the eye can see.
So weird to think we share a ancestor with mushrooms, trees and jellyfish.
Sociometer Theory of Self Esteem
“No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.” Bezalel Smotrich

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel...
If you grew up in a 3rd world country, you know you could never afford access to any of the academic/training resources needed to get out of the cycle of poverty. So you did what you had to do. Now I'm addicted to buying books, some of which I'll never read past 2 chapters, probably because of the trauma.
I just don't get the obsession with eliminating the numpad. There are tons of interesting looking and innovative keyboards now and they all insist on making them as cramped as possible.

It makes sense on a laptop. But, if I already need to have a clear place on my desk for the keyboard and mouse, I'd rather just use an extra 2 inches to have the full size keyboard with the numpad and arrow keys that are not crammed against the rest of the keyboard.
Gliocidin is a nicotinamide-mimetic prodrug that targets glioblastoma
History is full of "winners" that who are seen as "bad guys."
I can actually tell you how to do this right now. Take a 10 day vipassana course and practice the recommended two hours a day. If you use only therapy, seriously follow the therapist, but do some meditation too.

Once you do this, you will soon develop Attention(Concentration) and Equanimity(Inner Calmness in the face of tremendous external circumstances).

Soon you start realizing some inescapable facts:

1. Your current moment is ever changing.

2. One attaches more of the self(the ego, I me and mine) with the past and tries to predict his state in the future and ends up miserable. Don't think with the I, you are bound to suffer. The right action is timeless and free of the I. This is the reduction of the ego.

3. There is tremendous joy in focusing on being present in the moment. If you are into running and all you are doing is taking joy in your feet, breath and posture all the time for 5,10 miles you know what I mean.

This is the key to everything. No amount of book reading on self improvement can get this to you
The same way a 17 year old, a 30 year old, or a 99 year old would in that hypothetical world: probably state media, or at least one with a loicense.
I always find this argument really funny because I wholeheartedly agree that taxes should be relative to the usage/damage of roads. But when you actually look at the numbers pretty much anywhere in the world it's always the cars and trucks being subsidised by the rest of the population.

YES, PLEASE let me pay for only bicycle infrastructure, I hate having to pay for your car.
If Netanyahu and Gallant declared as war criminals, does it also mean whoever helped them during the 2024 is complicit?

Wondering what happens to so many Western leaders who supported Netanyahu unconditionally.
> rotated shapes, slot machines, or origami

Or gears (like Seymour Papert), or abacus beads, or nomograms, or slide rules, etc etc. Anyone have any more, throw them out!

Is mathacademy good? I have been thinking of giving it a month of a try. You say "stressful", which I'm not sure is a mis-type or not.

I ordered Mathematica at my local library by the way, and can now forget about it until I get an SMS one day informing me of its arrival. Thank you for confirming that it's worth it!
> Hamas is a terrorist group that was elected by Gaza’s residents.

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that a strong Hamas (but not too strong) would keep the peace and reduce pressure for a Palestinian state." - From "Buying Quiet: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas", NYTimes [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
I wrestled in high school and college, my friend. If you don't eat and work out a lot, you will lose weight, guaranteed. It's the nature of the human body; it's thermodynamics and biochemistry and hard as hell as we get older, especially when poor.

But sure, it's not effective but only because people have a hard time fending off our cravings. It requires breaking our cycles and learning how to eat better and eat less and do something other than lay around watching tv.

As to policy: if we curbed the corps' ability to profit off our ill-health, then we'd surely be doing something positive for society. It would also be very helpful to have cleaner air and more and larger parks that are safe for one and all. What can I say, I dream big.

Personally, I recommend everyone avoid any and all refined sugar and alcohol, as they mess with our hormones and gut biome. And that's very difficult for 2024 America, evidently.
I don't think Israel controlled the Rafah border in the start of the war which is when they made their declaration of not allowing aid.
Do you prefer a click or a quiet tactile bump? The MX browns you describe are a light quiet tactile switch.

Most of these Hall effect keyboards are all running linear switches - no tactility whatsoever. I’ve seen a handful of switches which are HE and tactile, but I’ve not tried them. Glorious Panda HE are a notable model - if the name is consistent with their past efforts these should be significantly more tactile than the MX Browns you currently use.
Yeah, that's the same structure. For simple comparisons, I would expect a conditional move, 0 branch except for the data-independent loop.
Made a cool Bluesky bot (easier than I thought)
I made a Bluesky bot that lists expensive new homes from Zillow.

Turned out pretty cool imho!
Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body
Are you driving around with actual summer tires (not all-season or all-weather)? By winter tires do you mean winter tires or studded?

If you do mean summer tires that seems almost unbelievable to me. I have some experience both on the roads as well as skidpans with both.

With actual summer tires on even non-icy light snow cover you:

- have almost no braking

- get nothing but wheelspin on any sort of hill

- start spinning out in corners if you go >10mph.

The worse the winter weather gets, the more stuck you become if there has been no salting for an hour.

Meanwhile with winter tires you can safely go up to 60mph on compacted snow and actually get to a stop within a mile.

Hell, even just the fact that summer tires are hard as rocks in cold temps would make me wanna at least buy all-seasons.

Just how aggressively and how often do they salt in WI, considering the climate?

disclaimer: grew up in a country with mild-ish winters where winter tires are mandatory, never spent much time in the parts of NA that do get winters.
It's kind of like how Java still exists but doesn't commonly run in browsers in the form of a Java Applet. It exists behind the scenes and I'm sure many who used to use it now use it indirectly.
Andrew Gelman is not the science police because there is no science police
> Keep in mind the conviction rate at ICC is pretty low.

My understanding is that's because it's usually difficult to show intent. However, in this case, not only do we have an incredible amount of video evidence of war crimes, but we also have a huge catalogue of Israeli politicians explicitly calling for the genocide of Gaza.

My biggest concern over this is what the US and/or Mossad will do...
I'd like to suggest the idea that had they been able to operate it "well" without tilting, they wouldn't have added the mass for it.

There's clearly a huge advantage somewhere.
> Australia launches 'landmark' bill to ban social media for children under 16

Wow, would they alow porn on social media then ?
Building a Lidar Hat to Become a Robotaxi [video]
“Ideal” is a nice word for arbitrary fashion, literally a herd mentality.

This mirrors what happens with muscle cars, women’s handbags, JavaScript frameworks, and so many other things. The purpose remains ostensibly functional but the real driver is peer group status, to the point that function is totally compromised but the peer group loves it.
>I wrestled in high school and college, my friend. If you don't eat and work out a lot, you will lose weight, guaranteed. It's the nature of the human body

That is like dismissing a bug report because "it works fine on my machine", though.
And in turn, thanks to orgs like AIPAC.
Trump is heavily funded by Zionist extremists, but he isn't one himself. As soon as the ship really starts sinking (which could be induced by a Netanyahu arrest), he will attempt to jump ship and save himself.
Scantily clad women have also found their way to the social network.
Come on, get real. If people had all of their needs covered a lot more of them would sit around getting high and playing video games than perfecting their art.
Many of the reasons for wanting a hall-effect keyboard are reasons I wouldn't want one, others I find no value in. I feel like the only people who would enjoy a hall effect keyboard are people using the tactile-less cherry red switches, which is only small fraction of keyboard users

If the tactile feedback both existed and was adjustable, and didn't cost more than like 5-10% over a mechanical switch, it might take off more. But for now as neat as it is, it feels extremely niche. If someone wants different activation pressures and distances, they can buy different mechanical switches and would be missing out on basically nothing.
Switzerland's system is the kind of system Obamacare was modeled after (i.e. requiring private health insurance, and providing subsidies to those who can't afford it).

No doubt, Switzerland's healthcare is cheaper (American doctors and hospitals are some of the most expensive in the world), but the data I linked to is already adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP).
> If he runs it will be by ignoring the Constitution

He's already done that—section 3 of the 14th amendment should have prohibited him from becoming president. It went to the Supreme Court, and they decided they didn't care. If the 14th amendment could be ignored, why not the 22nd?
Thanks.

> art same as entertainment

Could you volunteer me how much time you spend on it? And how is your day job?

> my pursuit of other things like cryptography, better algorithms, and understanding physics is limited by my primitive understanding of mathematics.

Could you volunteer why you would want to learn these subjects? Is it your day job or is it something you would like to pursue in the future.

> If I was a multi-millionaire, learning lots of math on my free time would be one of the things I would pursue while chilling at my beach house.

I said UBI
There's a large attempt to pin all of this on Netanyahu and his closest cabinet but what he's saying is pretty much supported by nearly all of Israeli society down to individual citizens. I encourage everyone to find people who live in Israel on X and translate their tweets so they can see for themselves.
> criminal conviction related to the profession is not a proxy,

Yes, it is a proxy. Some people commit crimes but aren't charged or convicted. Some people are falsely convicted. Convictions of crimes absolutely are a proxy for committing crimes.
I'm an immigrant to the UK and I agree with you. This sort of thing gets said about a lot of countries, you will hear the same thing said from British people who move to Australia or NZ.

I've been in the UK 20 years now and I don't have a lot of British friends, even now. I moved when I was 27 years old. The friends I have are from common interests and work. I was lucky enough to meet one great friend at a workplace who loved rugby and skiing and socialising, like I do. We spent a lot of after work nights getting drunk in pubs, and we played rugby and went on skiing holidays. I then met a few of his friends, some of whom I've now become very good friends with, all these years we're still friends. But I can count these on one hand.

I don't resent it, though I do lament it. It's just that bonds tend to form early in your life and it becomes a lot more difficult later.

On the other hand, it was easy to make friends with people from my home country because you have something in common and you are all looking to make friends. And it's easy to network, because you just need one connection to get into a social circle.
If the article is in any way representative of the book, then I'm not sure what there is to be learned from the book. That mathematical skills can be honed through practice? That it happens at an intuitive, pre-rigorous level before it is ready to be written down on paper? How surprising. And I doubt he can disprove the genetical component of intelligence, only show that there are other components to mathematical productivity as well.

At least I know that David Bessis's mathematical work is not as shallow as this. His twitter thread on the process https://x.com/davidbessis/status/1849442592519286899 is actually quite insightful. I would guess this also made it into the book in some longform version, but I don't know whether I would buy the book just for that.
I think that'd be the huge differentiator - you need that feedback loop that there's actual results/outcomes from your work.

If you just sit 8 hours a day effectively solving the world's most gruesome captcha, I wouldn't last long.
Go errors cannot be string-typed, since they need to implement the error interface. The reason testing error types sometimes won't work is that the error types themselves may be private to the package where they are defined or that the error is just a generic error created by errors.New().

In this case the Error has an easy-to-check public type (*MaxBytesError) and the documentation clearly indicates that. But that has not always been the case. The original sin is that the API returned a generic error and the only way to test that error was to use a string comparison.

This is an important context to have when you need to make balanced decisions about Hyrum's law. As some commentators already mentioned, you should be wary of taking the extreme version of the law, which suggest that every single observable behavior of the API becomes part of the API itself and needs to be preserved. If you follow this extreme version, every error or exception message in every language must be left be left unchanged forever. But most client code doesn't just go around happily comparing exception messages to strings if there is another method to detect the exception.
You don't like magic? /s
OpenTopoMap is what solves that issue for me. The contrast on that map is excellent.

It's a mostly a style for OSM with hillshading applied. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is hosting a web-based "preview" of it at https://opentopomap.org. https://brouter.de/brouter-web and https://bikerouter.de also have it as a selectable map layer, and it can also be added to OsmAnd.
> [0] - https://cyclers.app/

This looks interesting and the mobile app seems well made, I like that it suggests multiple routes. Currently I just use Google Maps and it sucks here as well.
On the other hand, the reduction in cars due to people switching to cycling makes the infrastructure incredibly cheap.

Look at the video in [0]: how much space would you need if every single cyclist was driving a large SUV? Look how smooth the traffic flows through the intersection, how many flyovers would you need to achieve this with cars?

Yes, cycle infrastructure does indeed take up a nonzero amount of space. But it easily pays for itself by reducing the need for far more space-consuming car infrastructure.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RQrKP9a0XE
Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2115/
> An Open Source Analog Keyboard with Adaptive Typing AI.

So the keyboard learns your current mistakes and fixes them in the future. This sounds excellent except once you get used to having your mistakes fixed for you, you become dependent to this type of keyboard. Personally I'm not ready for AI keyboards, I like the control I have over what I type, mistakes and all.

I hope it works out for you and get your moneys worth... How much did you pay for yours?
What you should do is reduce the degree of bombast and aggro in your comments which trash the discussion no matter what side of the various issues you happen to fall on. It's especially against your own interests to argue like that when you're arguing for an unpopular or contrarian viewpoint - it's not going to get heard if you yell it at everyone.
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How to use Claude Artifacts to build simple prototypes
And how far would that get one doing that? 1, 5, 10, 40 years?
if you have your left hand on WSAD and right hand on the mouse then having the numpad in the way makes the sitting posture less natural

that's the reason
I want the option of having the numpad at the left side of the keyboard.

The asymmetric nature of having it at the right side drives me crazy.

I want my hands at the middle of the keyboard, not cramped to the left side, with so much space at the right, for keys I almost never use.

Having said that, my current keyboard has no numpad.
Chinese-Registered Ship Is Held in Baltic Sea Sabotage Investigation
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/chinese-registered-ship-is-...

Archive link: https://archive.ph/VresD
That gif says it all.

I was reading this article on an Iphone some hours ago. But gave up because of the ads.
It is interesting that the wording specifies “the useful arts.” Perhaps implying the existence of non-useful arts. I wonder what they meant there.

I would include a lot of media as non-useful arts. Like maybe someone could argue that really thoughtful movies are useful as works of philosophy or education. But most movies, especially most blockbusters are basically non-useful, right? They are just for fun. And so shouldn’t be covered by copyright.
The anti-trust issues are related to the iOS marketspace. MacBooks has nothing to do with this. Please stop injecting your conjecture to move the goalposts of the discussion.
> German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins

It is amazing what a bomb does to the surounding landscape. /s
Oh there are lots more axes than just the 3 aliasing, sharpness, and locality ones. Those are the main tradeoffs for a pixel sampling or convolution filter choice, when downscaling an image, say between nearest neighbor vs bilinear vs Mitchell (bicubic). But the antialiasing methods in this article have many tradeoffs that aren’t on the aliasing-sharpness-locality spectrum. Other issues with real time AA methods include bias, correctness, noise, quality, temporal effects, compositing/blending issues, etc. And the topic gets much wider when we start talking about DLSS, we don’t even have established terminology for the many different kinds of tradeoffs neural networks give us. Anyway just noting that the main highlights of discussion in the article, which are MSAA and AAA (and references to TAA and others), don’t fit in the aliasing-sharpness-locality space. MSAA’s tradeoffs include it only running on geometry & texture edges, and its ‘wrong order’ samples or ‘double edges’ noted in the article. TAA has a temporal aspect and is most known for ghosting. AAA as described here doesn’t necessarily blend correctly and in general it can’t handle multiple arbitrary sub-pixel events, it really only works well if there’s one edge crossing a pixel.
Cutting staff is a dumb move, they make up like 5% of the Federal budget [0]. I've seen it in large companies where they target some layoff percentage and then realize a little later they need some people and they come back as contractors and it costs more. I don't see how thinking about government services with a startup or entrepreneurial mindset will be helpful.

There does need to be about $1800 billion cut to just get to a balanced budget, but cutting 1% (say 20% of workforce) by laying off people will get you maybe $65B. Where will the other $1735 billion needed come from then?

[0] a quick google/gemini result: In 2022, 4.3% of the US federal budget was spent on pay and benefits for federal workers
I don't like moving across the numerical keypad area with my right hand every time I switch from typing to mousing. That extra few inches adds up over a long coding session.
I don't get the tiny keyboard obsession either, I've got a tenkeyless so no numpad but an area for arrow keys, page up/down etc. and it's a good compromise. For me, the numpad would conflict with what I already put next to my keyboard--my trackpad.
If you're right handed and use the mouse right handed, the increase in angle of your right arm is a lot harder on your shoulder over time.