skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
G&T was a great way for me to learn a smug sense of superiority over my classmates and believe that inherit ability is more important to success than hard work.

That being said - in most of my non honors classes kids would get made fun of for doing the work or knowing an answer. G&T was nice not because the curriculum was so much different, but rather because it created space where the kids who liked learning could be left in peace.
I like to do as much as possible in the type system so I can avoid writing tests.
> Sometimes there is a right answer.

Indeed. And when that "right answer" comes along, it tends to swipe away everything else. If it's universally better, why wouldn't it?

Except that, Rust does not do that. Which is a hint that it's not an "universally right answer", but a right answer for a subdomain of problems. That's basically what I was trying to say. That it does come with its own tradeoffs/downsides.

(maybe I'm wrong and it's only a matter of time until that happens; but I don't think so.. it's been a while, there was time for it to make the impact. Lifetime annotations are not yet adopted by any other mainstream language, AFAIK)
If you do please do it like PracticalEngineering with a full text transcript in article form.
Should be fairly obvious to any competent manager, or team member, who is contributing regardless of lines of code and who is simply doing nothing. Don’t need a fancy analysis tool for that.
We have reached peak touchscreen
https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13670

Created a PR to add this into the context.

Feel free to comment on it.

Also, calling other bystanders to add other missing pieces to the history.
Yes and you still get bit in the US but malaria is a thing of the past.

The point is not to get rid of all mosquitos, just the disease-carrying ones.
Yes, the child is unable to give consent in that scenario, so we have an alternative, because the benefit is worth it. (We could wait until people are adults before subjecting them to any vaccinations, but that would cost a lot of lives.)

It's possible an intervention like this one could also save a lot of lives, and therefore might also warrant an exception from individual consent. (Or not; it would depend on the specific expected benefits and risks.)
There was an article 3 days ago that said the oldest known writing system was from Syria: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224330
I read this paper and I still feel lost as to how can this even be possible. It seems to understand how to tokenize, merge lines, remove tokens etc for arbitrary programming languages. Is there another paper that explains this algorithm alone?
Deployment with Nomad should be pretty straightforward following https://github.com/keephq/keep/blob/main/docker-compose.yml or https://github.com/keephq/helm-charts
> the US has an out of control epidemic!

No argument on that one.
"the term transtextuality to refer to ‘all that
sets the text in a relationship, whether obvious or concealed, with other
texts’ "

Presumably he gets paid for this. He seems to have published reams of similar content.

Without being too harsh, it's now apparent to me that chatbots can replace entire categories of academics.
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Ask HN: How "passive" is your passive income from tech?
I see a lot of discussions about building passive revenue streams in tech (SaaS, digital products, courses, APIs, etc). But how passive are these income sources really?

For those who've succeeded: What's working for you? What failed? What's your actual monthly maintenance time? How much time do you spend maintaining your "passive" income sources?
They paid antirez and I'm sure compensated him for his efforts on redis. I haven't heard antirez being "kicked out". There may have been a separation of ways when redis inc. decided to not be truly open source, but I haven't heard of them being abusive or unethical with antirez.

So yes, antirez started it. He owned the trademark and gave it off to redis inc. and was compensated for it. I am not seeing why this has to be controversial.

I don't like what redis is doing. But they're within legal rights.
Developing X allows villians to use X to do Y.
> Because its coins and banknotes don’t leave a paper trail

Slightly off-topic, I've wondered whether serial numbers are captured on bills processed through an ATM. Bill are also put through machines when human tellers receive them at a bank. These days it wouldn't be that hard to track the currency flows, although intermediaries would not be visible.
Thank you, very insightful!
They lost me at, "And for the first time in two years, our DevOps team took uninterrupted vacations." which is an abject failure of leadership.
> As for eradicating host populations/mosquitoes, it's not the greatest idea...birds need to eat too

This is a false dichotomy. Malaria is transmitted by only specific and very small subset of mosquitoes. There would still be plenty of mosquitoes if you eliminate the ones that cause unimaginably massive population harm.
It looks quite interesting, that's said, I wish people would stop calling projects open source when they aren't and most if not all projects here in Show/Launch are open core - same with Keep. You have a proprietary license in the project, with parts of the code with an open source license.
Yes, paper straws are great.
Seems like I'm too late and it got hugged to death? Page is not loading for me.
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> And of course a few hours of skilled labour in a big city ...

In many/most places, these repair shops don't even exist any more, because the products have gotten too complicated/integrated/parts-unavailable, and the economics are nonsensical.
> I mean, I don't think they're lying but (given it doesn't use an LLM) I am bewildered.

I’m pretty sure (based on the last time I saw this) that this is just good old fashioned computer science.[1]

I really hope that HN hasn’t forgotten about good old fashioned computer science stuff already.

[1] All the algorithm and whatnot stuff, not the spooky machine learning stuff. Even things like Prolog-for-AI, although that has the slight downside of not working (for the purposes of making AI).
There's a whole host of GTM shucksters hanging out on LinkedIn - anyone in that space from FAANG or ex-FAANG would tick a lot of boxes.
He's speaking of research programs, not commercialized products. It's totally believable that some researchers would deploy a prototype somewhere, collect and tweak data to show it's effective then never check again. I worked in a field far from medicine and it was the same exact way of doing.

His description of funding theatre is also fitting what I've seen in academia. Your question is a cheap way to try to devaluate the credibility of the post (probably on an ideological background), but what is written is hundred percent credible for anyone with experience in research. I've a friend working on pathogens for her PhD, funded by the Gates foundation and when I asked a question about it the answer wasn't exactly positive.
Title should be "How the Ancient Sumerians Created the World’s First Writing System"
Oh, I thought it was about Memento the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)
People take actions every day that affect others, some negatively and some positively, and don't receive consent for each one. We don't need consent to put exhaust or other harmful chemicals into the air, and those are an explicit negative. Something like this could be a huge positive, potentially saving millions of lives. If the projected benefits to risks are sufficient (and I'm not saying they necessarily are, but if that turned out to be the case based on further testing), there is a point at which it would be worthwhile, despite it not being possible to get individual consent.
The problem is support. I am still shy of anything AMD. Pytorch is my primary toolkit and I still haven't seen many people say 'yeah, this is my daily compute and it is 100% able to hand off to a big NVIDIA GPU later'
> The root of all failure at the level of the society is ...

Or maybe the real root is our tendency to fixate on simplistic reductions.
Easy way to set it up to run as a wifi access point by default, not as a router.
The important part is the contract the company signs for you. Contacts generally are enforceable in court and lawyers know of standard provisions for weird situations (what if the company goes bankrupt)

QT has contracts with KDE around the open source version which gives KDE peace of mind. I use QT in a commercial product - we have some useful contract terms with QT that are not public and I can't talk about them.
> birds need to eat too

There's a big difference between eliminating all mosquitoes and eliminating just malaria-carrying mosquito species. IIRC studies show that if you eliminate malaria-carrying mosquito species that other mosquito species very quickly take over this ecological niche.
even if they were, you can't prove that the cash transfer was part of a taxable transaction
Maybe Cloudflare will even be profitable in the next year or two…
When people talk about mosquito eradication programs, they're talking about subspecies that suck blood and carry the major diseases like malaria. Not all mosquitos.
False equivalency, perhaps? Big assumption that all mosquito sub-species affect their environment in the same way.
Note that as recommended by John Regehr, author of C-Reduce, for this use case you might also want to try Shrinkray, a tool that was written to be format independent and works well for cases that C-Reduce dow not: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/113489759789563570
Your belief that no one has the right to privacy because you feel personally feel uncomfortable interacting with people you don't know is not a very convincing argument for the explicit support of a core tenet of fascism.

I could not begin to fathom what lead you to have this level of trust issue, even with unimportant conversation between complete strangers, but every anecdote you have described is a deeply personal issue of your own, not a justification for any change in society.
I found a post supposedly written by a Chinese supplier of Northvolt. Not sure how true it is though so you will have to find some insiders to validate the story. You will need some software to translate the picture into English/other languages.

https://imgur.com/AyQYtFj
Here's maybe a solution: don't trigger the app if the phone is unlocked via a hardware shortcut.

At least in my last 2 phones, I got them configured such that a double press on the power button wakes the camera app immediately (great for quick photos), while the rest of the system is still locked (need the unlock pin when trying to navigate away from the camera app)

So in that situation the app could choose not to interrupt.
China's emissions peak in sight as solar and electric cars boom
3D in what sense? You think they're doing actual mesh generation?
I love the lens effect at the bottom of the viewport and design of the site overall, really cool. Do you have a post about that effect - or is the best way to learn about it in the developer tools?
Ah okay, it seems to work because errors are pointers, and errors.Is just checks for equality.
Is card counting still possible, or have casinos implemented enough countermeasures to defeat its advantage?
Greenland Surface Temperatures Fall for 20 Years
Wait, you give up civil rights to be in the military? Is this outlined to people when they sign up?
There are degrees of infamy: clearly Larry Summers is the highest profile person who is universally loathed, but people are starting to know the other key players. It’s on TV.
By setting a levy or negative interest rate of 5 to 10 percent per year on high-denomination notes (there are various ways to do this), the government would be able to earn a large-enough stream of revenue to help offset the shortfall created by cash-using tax evaders. The effect would be a lower tax bill for all non-cheaters, both for those who generally do not use cash and those who use only small-denomination notes ($1 and €5s). In effect, the anonymity provided by $100s and €200s would now be directly paid for by the users of those $100s and €200s. Unlike an all-out ban on banknotes, financial anonymity would still be provided.

This is what inflation accomplishes, unless I am misreading something obvious? Keeping money out of financial system and hence anonymized means losing purchasing power to inflation.
no specific scale request, but id focus on getting the 7 main modes covered to start.

then id suggest taking a look at what other sites suggest for, "10 most useful guitar scales" or whatever for some fun variants you haven't covered yet.

oh, and it might be cool to have a mute button too — maybe i want the visual reference of the site but to put on my own music in a different genre or something.
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We know that they share predators. We know that they share environments. We know that they share impact patterns. We also know that more than half a million people die from malaria every year.
This site is lagging a bit, maybe turn down the blur effects on every single element
Recession Since 2022: US Economic Income and Output Have Fallen Overall
I found a post supposedly written by a Chinese supplier of Northvolt. Not sure how true it is though so you need to find some insiders to validate the story. You will need some software to translate the picture into English/other languages.

https://imgur.com/AyQYtFj
How many of these are there? I also pointed out htpy elsewhere in the thread.
Thank you. You can investigate progressive blur.
I mean, Indonesia has 280 million people living in a tropical rainforest climate ... that's 80% of the US population, on a a bunch of tropical islands.

Deforestation is an issue, as those 280 million people do need to be fed. Mosquitoes don't really get in the way of deforestation. Insect repellents and pesticides do work. And when an area is deforested and either converted to urban or agricultural land, mosquitoes don't really linger in that area anymore.
Oh, However Will We "Survive" the Holidays?
Why Australia Is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating a Social Media Account
I've understood that capacitors can be used for timing, or smoothing a voltage after a power regulator (I think).

How/what does adding capacitance help with?
How does Göbekli Tepe change our understanding on the rise of civilizations, including Mesopotamia?
Infinite Loops, The Economist, Gut Feelings
Right, but that's recent information. When talking about deep history, "that we know of" is effectively a given. There will never be true certainty.
Apologies, re-reading this - which is literally false -, in view of a quick re-read of some salient paragraphs:

the Architect in Leibniz is omnipotent, and his project is regarded as the best possible; only, the project involves a limited humanity that cannot understand it.

(In the original writing above I meant 'omnipotent' in an oblique way (including "clarity" and "satisfying all" as "perfections"), which is too stretched and rhetoric not to mislead.)
It’s actually fine on my phone. I’ve got the latest and greatest though.
Isn't that potentially unsafe though? Random permutations can reduce arbitrary programs to destructive programs, in particular any program can be mutated to `rm -rf /` given enough time. Also even the problem of finding syntactically valid programs is combinatoric, it's pretty surprising that it can go toward a local optima in such a short time without having any understanding of the function or its derivatives.
Anyone here ever read The Urantia Book? IMO, it's truly fascinating, and brushes up against this post
There's several bugs from some 8+ years ago that I remember fairly well, because they were truly interesting.

One I didn't work on, but was the sort of stuff legends are made of. A very specific revision of Blink that was never shipped as a Chrome release but got shipped as BlackberryOS's default browser had a bug around one of the bitshift operators (can't recall which), which would give a wrong result around once in a million operations. The desktop build of that particular revision would only trigger that bug semi-reliably, but the Blackberry build would trigger it deterministically. Bitshifts are not particularly common in most JS codebases, but this was a bitcoin wallet, and bitshifts are used by the thousands as part of e.g. key derivations. "Key derivation" is exactly where this bug triggered for a user, and he lost a whole bunch of BTC to that bug. We were almost 100% sure the guy was trying to defraud us with that bug report but something made us itchy and we had somebody keep digging until we found the bug. The good news is that, because the Blackberry version was deterministic, we managed to reproduce the bug to the point of recreating the badly-generated keys and successfully recovered the guy's BTC.

One I worked on myself, diagnosing it involved attaching both IntelliJ's debugger and GDB to a running Java application, so I could set breakpoints both in Java land and in the C++/JNI component of a JDBC driver. My colleague tracked it down to an NPE at that boundary, and was stuck on how to proceed from there.

A fun one from a couple of years involved a script that ran fine on Firefox but failed on Chrome. This was around the time when fat arrow notation was introduced for JS functions. Introducing that involved changes to the parser, of course, and a vendor's minified scripts triggered a bug in the Chrome's JS parser such that it was seeing a fat arrow where there wasn't one. We solved that one by re-minifying the vendor's minified script with a different minifier that wouldn't generate the offending pattern.
That's the earliest alphabetic writing system. The Sumerian writing system started out pictographic (like hieroglyphs), and predates that Syrian find by about 800 years.

It became less pictographic over time, and that Syrian site is only 500 miles from the Sumerian empire. My amateur speculation would be that trade with Sumer brought writing to Syria and they developed the idea in a different direction, arriving at this alphabetic system.
that was about the oldest alphabet, not writing system
Why? It seems like a lot of effort if you need to dev on an iOS device use the Cloud9 equivalent of your choice
And what happens if a genetically modified parasite mutates again in the wild?
Does anyone know of a precedent for this? I've never heard of a social (or other) network claiming to own account identifiers, then again I don't read their ToS with a magnifying glass either.
By "confiscatory" I mean any policies that amount to taking your money or preventing you from using it as money. With physical paper money bills, making them outright illegal to hold is actually surprisingly effective - you don't need 100% enforcement rates, just high enough to make it impractical for most people. One historical example of such a society was the USSR.
Wouldn't it be hard as soon as people exchange that money in non traceable areas?

E.g. people gift money on birthdays, people buy things in private sales, etc.

Edit: overlooked your last part about intermediates you are right
Riot's kernel-anticheat: $100k bounty to solve DDoS affecting T1&other pro teams
> That's just something people do because they feel like it, are bored, enjoy it in their spare time?

It's an emerging technology and platform. There are economic advantages to having early access to learn what it can do.

Furthermore, this specific colunteer program appears to have an associated contest that pays creators who win. Thus you have a lot of volunteers, limited under NDA, being pushed to compete for vert limited renumeration for their efforts. I doubt most of the volunteers are bored people doing it as a hobby.
> Except then some years later some assholes point out that mortality didn't actually drop in that targeted population. All that happened is the pathogen mutated to the point neither the test nor the immune system recognize it

Seems the incentives are such that you would want to make a virus PCR test using a narrow range of epitopes that you were targeting with the vaccine. That way, if/when you get breakthrough infections you can just say "well I don't see any virus!"

See bug, create unit test, fix unit test, no more bug. User complains bug still happens, you ignore because your unit tests still pass.
Yes? You didn’t know enough to be able to recognize that an answer was applicable to your specific scenario, but then had someone let you know that it was. If they were a jerk about it then that’s a problem, but otherwise I don’t understand what your issue is?
I got Mark Watney putting on a space suit
IIRC OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows was a version before Rhapsody and was actually an official release. I had this on CD-ROM, I might actually still have it somewhere.

There was also a OPENSTEP Solaris for Sparc, but I think this was a bit more obscure, don’t have any firsthand experience with that.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96579068@N05/13061732584/

I was working for a bank around that time and we used a trading system which was initially running on NeXT boxes, but we had it also running on NT 4.0 later on.

Edit: I think I even found some screenshots of that trading application:

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8d154655f6713bc112d178164e4ffe51...

This seems to be running on Windows XP, so that was quite a bit later. But if you look at the toolbar icons, the heritage is quite clear ;)
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