skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Huge +1 to this, but I would also add walking _at least_ 8000 steps per day. I still had some minor, nagging pain until I started walking more. Turns out humans are not meant to sit all day!

I can highly recommend a book called _Built to Move_ [0]. It tells you to do a lot of things that many people consider common sense, like walk every day, eat vegetables, sleep 8 hours, etc. However, it also explains _why_ to do these things pretty concisely. The most impactful argument it made to me was you can't counteract sitting for 12 hours a day with any amount of exercise. You have to sit less and move around more.

[0] https://thereadystate.com/built-to-move/
For the bidding market, they will have to displace the existing cartels first. No kidding, these are often controlled by a superhobo, (in my hometown he now owns a house and a nice Tahoe) who “owns” all of the good corners in town. Idk what his take is, but by providing “protection” to corner operators, he seems to do quite well.

Still, Uber Hobo is still a great idea, you could overwhelm those small operators with flash mobs of hobos during the rollout phase and also accept in app payments so that UH could be assured its 35 percent. Also, as a value add, a BLE beacon that shows you already gave today and to not excessively harass you.
tl;dr: instead of distributing requests round-robin style they give fewer requests to servers with high CPU load and more to servers with low CPU load

Add some complexity for scale and crashing load balancers
Awesome. I am glad to see PeerTube growing. One of the most serious alternative to the centralized YouTube hegemony.
Taking away some amount of wages is very much a thing, as everyone who ever divorced can tell you. You better not ask how math works there, because it’s not fun.
Maybe I can help you:

You don´t have to whitewash one bad with some other bad.

The USA has lots of problems. Nancy would at least still respect the constitution and adheres to the democratic process. That still leaves you with a weak system, but you should prefer that over a group of people that won't respect the boundaries of the system.
My wife's korean family were dickensian level poor with no advanced education and all of them immigrated here successfully.
I think it's fair that you might think mostly about the military work overseas and not about it being licensed to local police or used to track citizens or so on.

Wasn't a lot of the Snowden stuff that tools intended to be used on foreign enemies would be used at home?
E.g. do you have an argument better than Penrose's "I can only do math because I'm a thetan?"
An encrypted phone, also known as a security phone, provides military-grade encryption. These devices are highly reliable and cannot be cracked or decoded. This secure phone is perfect for those who want to protect their privacy and keep data safe and secure: https://www.endoacustica.com/encrypted-phone.php
They exceed the minimum viable human driver. They're some combination of a teenager and grandma. They generally get where they're going safely but anyone who's not a minimum viable driver is cringing pretty often.

Nobody wants to let a minimum viable driver chauffeur them around every day. Accepting the reduced quality of performance and increased risk a short duration cab ride is another story.
But there is a legitimate public safety argument for some level of surveillance so it is a very tricky balance to get right.
Pixels don't give you ad-free access to other Google services. Not sure where that belief came from.

It DOES give you:

- A phone without crapware and bloat from other manufacturers

- Pretty darned good voice and text spam blocking (the robot answers for you and screens calls)

- Regular updates

- Decent cameras

- (On any Android) Adguard removes a lot of ads, though not in YouTube unless you "share" each video to its special player app.

If you don't care about those, don't get a Pixel. For me it's simply the lack of bloat and the spam blocking that keeps me on Pixel. I tried an iPhone for a month and the spam was so bad I had to switch back.
We can consider his non-compliance an investment in his audience. By refusing to comply, he signals his supporters that the lawsuit is unfair persecution. And they believe him.

His lawyer already stated “Finally, a judge followed the law.”.
Have you ridden in a waymo? I've found it to be about 95% as good as FSD, and FSD goes anywhere.

I've been very puzzled at people treating FSD as non-existent when it's very reliably good.
"no consequences."

This is basically going to be the United States for the immediate future, if you're connected to the right people.

Downvote all you want, but we see it with our own eyes.
We’re definitely going to need better benchmarks for agentic tasks, and not just code reasoning. Things that are needlessly painful that humans go through all the time
Maybe we do need a Engineer's Hippocratic Oath, and a means to police our own.

Go look at the latest "Ask HN" thread - there's two projects proudly trumpeting their ability to allow applicants to cheat on their interviews. On the FAQ of one of the apps, a common question apparently is if it will work during proctored exams.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375440

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42383928

With this kind of loose approach to morality, is it really any surprise that the world is filled with devs who build involuntarily telemetry, spyware, etc.?
Context: https://earthlycommunity.slack.com/archives/C01DL2928RM/p173...
Up next: let's get some Most Wanted posters of grifters, charlatans, liars, pundits, media personalities, and politicians to create an expression of life-endangering intent.
Correct, although a foreclosure of a property will be affected if the owner of said property undergoes bankruptcy. (For private individuals, such as Mr Jones, some or all of their primary residential property is exempt from bankruptcy, and the foreclosure itself will be stayed until the bankruptcy is adjudicated, and, generally speaking, foreclosure will be stopped if they resume making mortgage payments, regardless of prior delinquencies.)
That's nonsense, it's clearly (obviously!) possible that the math score of a country decreases because of immigrants having lower test scores and immigrant share increasing. Which makes it a valid hypothesis. Any problems with definitions are orthogonal to that.
The next chapter of the Gemini era for developers Blog
Auditing RubyGems
You’re going to have to define what you mean, because ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence with general problem solving capabilities.

So, yes OpenAI would make AGI available. They already did.
Several years ago I curated through all 52K presets, selected the very best presets, and then organized them into categories and subcategories. So I've been curious if an LLM could be fine-tuned on this dataset.

When the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model was released, it seemed like open-source models have matured to the point that it's worth trying out. I teamed up a InferenceIllusionist and started fine-tuning the model. The results have been exciting to play with and so we've released the model for anyone to experiment with.

What is MilkDrop? It’s a music visualization engine which reacts in real time to the music. MilkDrop has a long 23 year history, has been ported to numerous systems, and a robust community of users that have made tons of original presets.
I get that for the library. But I'm a bit puzzled about the optimizations done by a compiler based on this behavior.

E.g., suppose we patch GCC to preserve any conditional containing the string 'NULL' in it. Would that have a measurable performance impact on Linux/Chromium/Firefox?
> The precendent I was talking about is not legal. If they will be allowed to do this, then they will never be stopped.

They are allowed (by the constitution) to do this and they did do this. Your response is purely emotional and it will pass. I don't care about the candidate or about Lasconi, I personally would have had the same opinion about this decision if it was about any candidate.
If that's the case, I sure hope nobody finds my post history from my teen years, or the history of anyone who was a rebellious teen on the internet in the 2000s.
On my wish list, maybe for christmas! (I think I added another recent course too, compilers?). Obrigado!
How can a wrapper around selenium be lighter than it?

A wrapper around an API is by definition heavier (more code, more functions) than using the lower level api.

It’s not using less resources.

It’s not faster (it has implicit waiting).

It’s not less code; it’s literally a superset of selenium?

Feels like a “selenium framework” is more accurate than light weight web automation?

Anyway, there’s no fixing automation tests with fancy APIs.

No matter what you try to do, if people are only interested in writing quick dirty scripts, you’re doomed to a pile of stupid spaghetti no matter what system or framework you have.

If you want sustainable automation, you have to do Real Software Engineering and write actual composable modules; and you can do that in anything, even raw selenium.

So… I’d be more interested if this was pitched as “composable lego for building automation” …

…but, personally, as it stands all I can really see is “makes easy things easier with sensible defaults”.

That’s nice for getting started; but getting started is not the problem with automation tests.

It’s maintaining them.
> you have posited a theoretical framework for how a bankruptcy court theoretically should work. None of this is how bankruptcy court actually works

Literally started by saying I'm holding judgement until reading the opinion.

My point is simply that if the reason the judge raised for re-starting the process is solely around the bids being sealed, they're wrong in a provable way.
Severe revisionism here from my perspective. AMD was a respected vendor of CPUs and other complex chips since the 1970s. Intel was known to be flaky since their exit of the memory business. The Intel "brand" is a figment of Intel's marketing department's imagination.
Alex has not been abandoned. Tucker Carlson is a frequent guest on his show, and they toured together recently.

More to the point he has Roger Stone and Steve Bannon on the show constantly, who in turn have direct access to Trump.

Alex is firmly within the mainstream of the right wing.
Beats Gemini 1.5 Pro at all but two of the listed benchmarks. Google DeepMind is starting to get their bearings in the LLM era. These are the minds behind AlphaGo/Zero/Fold. They control their own hardware destiny with TPUs. Bullish.
I am not sure what is going on with k:v stores and I do not understand how to hell we ended up with Redis. Using Redis in production for some time I am not impressed.

Redis does not natively scale across multiple cores in a traditional multi-threaded sense, you can still scale it horizontally (across multiple machines or instances).

This horizontal scaling is also problematic. Some of the cloud solutions we used would die during a scaling event.

I went on the hunt to find an alternative but not sure what to replace it with. At this stage the interface has to be Redis compatible because devs really like it.

I found this so far: https://medium.com/@shafreeck/titan-a-distributed-redis-prot...

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No, K&R's book was the standard.
I did some work for a client who wanted to build an app for it. After that I ended up building a few apps just for fun, and once they started bringing in some ad money, I just ended up building more.

I think their ecosystem is still small enough that good apps do well, whereas with iOS/Android you really have to build super polished apps and market them to thrive.

KaiOS is just HTML/JavaScript, I ended up using Vue and building my own component library that I could re-use in every app.
> And I think the idea that "nobody gives a shit what the law says" is a statement that is... very, very incorrect.

I would say almost the entire body of social science and moral philosophy (setting aside the replication crisis for the moment) more or less proves the correctness of saying "nobody gives a shit what the law says". Society is bound by social mores, not by laws, laws are intended to encode social mores and give a vehicle to systematically enforce those mores without relying on vigilantes. Without the law, we'd have more direct culture clashes around topics like immigration, because people try to bring their cultural values and social mores with them, the law encodes and enforces whatever social mores exist, as much as the people of a society can control its laws.

It's not the law people care about, it's the social mores. And the social mores extend from the collective consensus of morality. People don't generally kill other people, not because it's illegal, but because it's wrong. But sometimes, killing other people isn't wrong, such in the case of self-defense or protecting your family. Sometimes the law even convicts and punishes people for committing crimes, because the law has a narrower interpretation at the margins than wider social mores. This is exactly what you're observing here. There is a moral equivalence between murdering thousands of people via a bureaucratic decision and pulling the trigger on the gun, but the law treats them differently, society does not. /This/ is why so many people condone the shooter's actions.

You aren't getting it. The law does not matter. The law is a reflection of society, society is not a reflection of the law. The law is a tool of language to try to explain, communicate, and enforce something that exists outside of it, but the thing which gives law power is the thing which exists outside of it. Morals are way more important than laws.

For all situations that actually matter, nobody gives a shit what the law says, and they never will. They only care about what other people will think of them, what they will think of themselves, and how their moral compass and social mores guide their decision-making process. This is exactly why we generally think of people who murder as being sociopaths, lacking a moral compass, because it's the moral compass and not the law that prevents most people from being murderers.

You think I'm being flip, I'm actually making an incredibly cogent point that you continue to miss, just as you missed the point of the person you replied to originally.
Haven’t clicked so fast on anything in a while. Excited to use this on desktop
Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It's Making Italians Angry
Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website)
Gemini in search is answering so many of my search questions wrong.

If I ask natural language yes/no questions, Gemini sometimes tells me outright lies with confidence.

It also presents information as authoritative - locations, science facts, corporate ownership, geography - even when it's pure hallucination.

Right at the top of Google search.

edit:

I can't find the most obnoxious offending queries, but here was one I performed today: "how many islands does georgia have?".

Compare that with "how many islands does georgia have? Skidaway Island".

This is an extremely mild case, but I've seen some wildly wrong results, where Google has claimed companies were founded in the wrong states, that towns were located in the wrong states, etc.
That would restrict C to memory models with a linear address space. That is usually the case nowadays for C implementations, but maybe we don’t want to set that in stone, because it would be virtually impossible to revert such a guarantee.

There’s also cases like memory address ranges that map to non-memory hardware (i.e. that don’t behave like “dumb” memory), and how would you have the C standard define behavior for those?

Lastly, CPU caches require some sort of abstract model as soon as you have multi-threading.
Yeah, but nobody ever argues conservative values when adhering to those gives a disadvantage to the one arguing. Proper conservative argument should make my life easier and predictable at the expense of other.
Is this the gemini-exp model on LMArena?
This is a "millions of dollars" lawsuit. Not a 10 billion dollar lawsuit. Alex Jones owes what Reddit as a platform is worth. That is insane.
> that as long as I'm satisfied with my income I don't need to change that.

That is the key thing. I was a 1 person consulting/contracting shop for years and it 100% put limits on my income. But they were limits I was happy to accept.

If you are interested in trying to grow, I'd think of 1-2 tasks you can cleave off and hire someone to do part time. Have them be:

- not critical path

- async

- checklist oriented

You'd be surprised at the number of folks that would be willing to help you out. And you'd learn something about whether you feel comfortable outsourcing such tasks.
Nobody is crushing their ICE and dumping it in the lake when they replace their existing and working ICE with an EV. They're selling/trading in their ICE which someone else will buy and use until it's not worth servicing anymore.
Yes, that's why the @DBOS.Transaction is just for database operations, which (hopefully!) you've already optimized to not take unreasonable time. These are guaranteed to execute exactly-once. For other, potentially longer-running operations, use @DBOS.step, which is at-least-once. Documentation:

Transactions: https://docs.dbos.dev/python/tutorials/transaction-tutorial

Steps: https://docs.dbos.dev/python/tutorials/step-tutorial
Some dreams were only ever meant to be dreams
Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're running Firefox
NULL == NULL was already defined -- but NULL <= NULL wasn't :)
I think that's mainly because PeerTube itself is software, not a platform. It'd be like complaining "The Thunderbird website doesn't show me how to get an e-mail account."

Granted, they can and should do a bit better here by giving people who searched "PeerTube" some directions to go in (including, clearly, adding app downloads.) That said, it's somewhat understandable that it's not a focus: I reckon 9 times out of 10 when someone finds PeerTube in the wild, it's from a PeerTube instance itself. Besides that, having a specific place to go defeats the purpose of federation somewhat.
I imagine cooling would be the main issue in scaling this.
This sounds like an argument for a custom DSL designed for the purpose of expressing constraints and for querying statiatical data.

Perhaps there are cases where DSL is the right answer. Not sure if this is one though.

I see some parallels to the arguments around using a ML derived language instead of adding types to python3 and giving it 90% of the capabilities.

There are other factors like: open vs closed development model, number of implementations (Wolfram language has exactly 1?) etc.

From my perspective, the problem to solve is that the python ecosystem isn't even trying. Would love to see stats about the adoption of the match statement introduced 3 yrs ago.
Don't forget the added latency.
TBH that sounds a lot more similar to the average public than most charters I've heard employees discuss.

Do you have pull out programs, self contained classrooms, etc.? How common is it to have manifestation hearings for the kids your wife thinks are risky in the classroom?
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Maybe 0,00000001% of the general population. And 90% of posters here.
Show HN: Jp3g: a fast private bulk image to JPEG/WebP converter
Kubernetes Monitoring Data Collection with Vector
Yes, picking the same license is at least some security against a backdoor of some crafty IP lawyer.
Is this a cheaper alternative to browserbase? I am a bit confused since you mention creating endpoints for scraping many times, I just want to do browser automation. Is that a use case you support?
Chris: So, I talked to him.

Mitch: You did?

Chris: Yeah, and he used to be the number one stud around here in the 70’s. (whispers) Smarter than you and me put together.

Mitch: So what happened? Did he crack?

Chris: Yes, Mitch. He cracked, severely.

Mitch: Why?

Chris: He loved his work.

Mitch: Well what’s wrong with that.

Chris: There’s nothing wrong with that, but that’s all he did. He loved solving problems, he loved coming up with the answers. But, he thought that the answers were the answer for everything. Wrong. All Science no Philosophy. So then one day someone tells him that the stuff he’s making was killing people.

Mitch: So what’s your point? Are you saying I’m going to end up in a steam tunnel?

Chris: Yeah, I am.
Studios were making special features before DVD with LD. Not to the same extent, of course, but it wasn't a new thing by the time DVD came around.
This has happened to me zero times. :shrug:
It does really appear that America's getting her own, homegrown oligarchs.
The author talks about thinking about consequences, implying bad consequences, but there are also good ones. Making the Internet faster, say, makes it possible for bad actors to do bad things more quickly. But also the opposite. Tracking phones more accurately can help the military find targets, but could also find a man down, someone who is being protected, or a criminal.

I applaud anyone who imbues their work with a sense of ethics and responsibility, but most tasks, inventions and creations arise in an environment filled with muddy grays, rather than being clearly good or evil.
Is Tauri and Dioxus similar projects, or those are made for different purposes?
The vast majority of people can't make copies of books. Just because you could make a copy of something doesn't mean you had the right to. In fact, the small print stated that you could not for the purpose of redistributing it. If you bought a CD but only had a cassette player in your car, nobody cared that you made a tape for your own use. If you gave that cassette away, then that's in the no-go zone.
In my opinion, Pixel phones don't have system-wide ads. You should compare them to iOS or other Android systems. iOS also doesn't have system ads, but if you use Xiaomi or Huawei in China, you'll find plenty of ads in built-in apps like the browser or weather app. They might even add ads to apps that were originally ad-free, and that's what I'd call system ads.

As for YouTube, it's not a built-in part of the operating system. It's like using Spotify: if you want an ad-free experience, you need a premium subscription or a modified version.
Pardon me another story.

In the early 2000s, I wrote software for a startup where the founders and initial equity-holders had pledged 10% of the founding stock to a certain charity. This was part of the marketing approach for the company- help us succeed and it benefits others (without affecting the competitiveness of our cost/pricing structure of our services in any particular tangible way.)

There were some weaknesses in the model of mixing charity with startup-mindset (the model later changed to 10% of profits and we actually brought the charity work in-house eventually), but as a lead engineer, I actually found it quite helpful in pushing back on questionable (in my eyes) things the CEO was otherwise tempted to pursue and asking me to build (the CEO not being initially a technical guy and having any developed sense of technical ethics around spam, dark web practices, etc). If we did something really unethical (and were caught), it would actually hurt the charity we were also all trying to help and undermine part of our company's core differentiation.

If you are a technical founder and bake this sort of charity commitment into your startup and its marketing on day 1, you can help people at all levels of the firm develop a more ethical culture than the average startup which faces all sorts of (often stupid) temptations.
My favourite is connecting to some piece of embedded hardware’s USB service port and finding it’s a bog standard FTDI chipset… complete with the vendor’s drivers being a repackaged version of ftdibus.sys

And for even more fun, multiple vendors with multiple, incompatible versions of the FTDI drivers required.
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> What recourse is left when the legal system is this broken?

Exactly. The lawfare must stop.