skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You completely skipped over the first part: "Two pointers compare equal if and only if both are null pointers"

Maybe he elided it in an optimisation pass?
Google is on fire lately, stock went up considerably in the last few days and rightly so; besides the usual cash cows (search, youtube) they made huge progress with GCP, Gemini and quite possibly Waymo. They have a fantastic momentum imo.
The way this works: by resigning, his successor must be confirmed by the Senate. Otherwise (Wray being fired in Jan) Trump could avoid that spectacle and the possibility that the Republican Party denies his picks. Avoiding Congress is the innovation here.

Sounds like Wray will likely be brought before Congress to answer for deep investigations by the FBI into Congresspeople themselves. The FBI director has historically tried to obtain leverage on everyone.

Patel won’t escape hearings, and has no obvious strengths. Republicans who want “reform” will need to accept the kind of reform Patel is capable of, within the confines Trump allows. Imagine shutting down investigations in the name of Law & Order.
That's just in the public model/on chatgpt.com? Run it in Azure, and you get:

Who is Jonathan Zittrain? <

> Jonathan Zittrain is a prominent legal scholar, computer science professor, and technology policy expert. He holds several academic positions and is recognized for his work in the intersection of law, technology, and public policy. Here are some key points about him: [...]
It’s definitely not rude to call someone without asking first. If you don’t want to answer the call then don’t and if it’s important I’ll text or leave a voicemail.
How long would it take for people to accept this as the ground truth fighting and dying for this, starting the next cult/religion?
Very sorry about your wife. I think MAID is great, not perfect and going to have some kinks but it means well and hopefully those who want it can access it.
As the parent of a deaf baby, should I give her an implant to help her hear?
Did you post this before or after taking the 10 seconds necessary to look up the Pentagon and White House responses to this, or the FBI's?
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It had a vary suspicions statement.
They stated that they see specifically a lot of Mullvad ads.
Not general VPN ads. That is what makes is sound malicious.
Mullvad is not even close to being in the group of biggest marketing spenders.

You need a minute on their website to see that they have a very simple approach to funding their business. No "life time subscription" exclusive offers, no BS privacy claims...

Also this is HN, not a comment section on something like Yahoo news, really hard to consider people commenting here as being detached from tech trends and news.
Irony detectors malfunctioning perhaps?
These are being extensively tested in the area. PteroDynamics XP-4 https://pterodynamics.com/

They look like airliners, drones, and helicopters depending on when you see them. They are large, noisy, and carry FAA compliant lights.

They aren’t secret, per se, but the military is more interested in understanding the perception of their use than it is in sharing exactly what it is they are up to, as usual.

This is a gigantic nothing burger.
Technically, it depends on the language. I.e. python doesn't have anything like a semicolon to combine multiple statements and assignments per line

But yeah, for C the LOC metric can be gamed to a silly degree
Some people work night shifts
Well that's good enough for clients. When it actually matters, which apparently means lawsuits, they realize they have no real control and have to put actual code in that just abort the whole process if it matches a string.

And even that doesn't work very well.

Not very reassuring.
These are being extensively tested in the area: https://pterodynamics.com/
Native HTML component for adding sorting and filtering functionality to tables
This re3?

https://github.com/halpz/re3
Sad they're dropping openvpn - at least it's a year away.

It works much better and more reliabily as a site-to-site VPN on my router for some reason.
also known as due diligence. that’s the users of open source burden, not the developers
I had now idea REXX still exists. I played a lot with REXX while being a trainee at IBM in 1987/88. I have not used it since and remeber very little. Would there be any reason to prefer it over let's say Python?
> Enforcement action is likely driven by

That's speculation. I know what is written in the notices and orders. The orders do not cite either complaints or determinations about interference. The notices do. Some of these document complaints with the formula: "in response to complaints." Others do not, such as this[1].

[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-09A1.pdf

My inference is that when actual complaints exist they are documented, for evidentiary reasons. Thus, when the existence of complaints is omitted, no such complaints exist.
I want something that is small, May be Mini-CD size but with TeraByte of storage. That is able to fit that whole LOTR and all the Extra, in 4K Ultra High Quality in one disc.

It took a really really long time for Vinyl to make a come back. I hope we could one day innovate enough and bring physical media to the market again.
Mullvad has a small number of well targeted ads in my experience.

If the person above frequents certain torrent trackers, reads Torrent Freak, or travels in other small VPN adjacent circles then it's no stretch to imagine they have seen Mullvad mentioned a great deal, both through ads and through unsponsered forum members ranking Mullvad high on their HOWTO safely do {X} guides.
https://archive.ph/CQuOl
The article suggests the drones appear during nighttime with which cameras will struggle. "low" is relative and can mean 200 meters which would be very difficult even for regular cameras (without a tripod), let alone a smartphone.
Or just use Docker Compose?
All hail the 4 bird
This is just a practical approximation to the actual mathematical definition of GELU, which is `GELU(x) := x * Φ(x)` where Φ(x) is the CDF of the Gaussian distribution.
If you (the service you are signing up to) use a good auth solution it will prevent that and give you the option to merge the 2 identities (matching on the email address)

sadly most don’t care about how bad their authN is which is mind boggling to me but reality
> We don't need yet another way of doing AF sound card injection into shitty walkie talkies, we need an open, accessible, quality SDR transmitter that can handle digital inputs directly.

You might want to look into the ADALM-PLUTO [1]. The ham club I'm in uses it together with a beefy PA to make TV broadcasts to the QO-100 amsat.

[1] https://www.analog.com/en/resources/evaluation-hardware-and-...
Never heard of Jart - who or what is it?
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This article links photos from a Sony full frame camera and 600mm lens but it clearly struggles:

https://eu.app.com/picture-gallery/news/2024/12/10/drones-in...
Sure.
That's the fascinating aspect of WeSQL database - its compute-storage separation allows you to run the database anywhere while data persists in S3.

You can shut down the compute service and restart it anywhere else - the data will simply restore from S3.
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Gemini 2.0 Live real time voice and video, for free
> In September 2024, Srinivasan started The Network School, a school for people interested in developing "network nations" and "decentralized countries." Located in Forest City, Johor, Malaysia, the school had an initial enrollment of 150. Students are required to have an admiration of “Western values,” to believe Bitcoin is the successor to the US Federal Reserve, and to trust AI over human courts and judges.[21]

From Wikipedia. Quite interesting. Will make sure to visit next time am in Malaysia.
Easily preventable. Ask the user to supply a credential before linking the accounts or only allow account linking if the email is verified at the idp (as someone else noted this is not possible for all idps but for google it is)
YouTube’s best interest is ad, and having more content to retain you, the consumer, on the platform as long as possible would be their main goal.

Every single online content platform operates in the same way. Their KPI is number of hours spent on their platform, because the longer you spend there the more ads they can shove down your throat.
> As an English speaker, I'd interpret 2k4 as 2004, not 2400.

Whereas as an English speaker, I'd interpret 2k4 as 2400 because, well, that's just how it's always been in my orbits (cf resistor labelling, for example.)
Sure, but not all "foods" are equal. Eating 300 calories from some broccoli, eggs, and steak won't leave you with the same cravings as eating 300 calories from Snickers bars.

I also think we're not all the same when it comes to these addictions. For example, I never had a smoking problem, although I do smoke. I must have smoked 10 cigarettes in 2024, even though I almost always have cigarettes on hand (I sometimes enjoy one or two when out drinking with people who smoke). Didn't smoke once during covid, when "going out" wasn't really allowed. Now, if you let a pack of Snickers bars in my house, there won't be any left one hour later.

So if the marketing and messaging for getting people to stop smoking is simple, it can be so for food, too: don't ever eat "junk food". At all. Haven't had a Snickers bar in years, and I seem to be doing fine. I've found it's orders of magnitude easier to not start eating at all than to attempt to "only have one" and hope I won't overindulge.
I don't understand how cold emails can work.

I get a handful of cold emails with offers ranging from website/app developer (I'm a SWE myself, and never indicated that I need a website/app) all the way to "link exchange" (I have a SWE blog) with completely irrelevant content. I remember the most absurd one was when I got an email starting "I really liked your article about underwater welding" which was a response to my article about SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. I mean, even GPT wouldn't hallucinate that hard.

So the majority of cold emails are pure garbage, and this logically leads to the realization that good cold emails are ones that are very personal and targeted. Writing personal and targeted emails take a lot of time, and my understanding that cold emails are a number's game, hence you can't really personalize (beyond addressing the recipient by their name, which even this many fail to do).

So how cold emailing still a thing?
This sounds really interesting, but the article motivation is test databases.

Edit: suggest looking at this other post https://wesql.io/blog/every-database-will-be-rearchitectured...
Amazon says developers spend 'just one hour per day' on actual coding
I am not demanding anything, I am merely exploring if the "license rug pull" problem has a better solution. Redis paid dearly for it (justifiably or not) so if we can find a less costly option, wouldn't it be a good thing? I guess to put it another way, you are trying to change people's attitude towards open source while I am trying to see if there is a way around it.
GBATemp is not known for good reporting, it's just normal users who copy paste news reports together and get "promoted".
> The problem is that a lot of people are doing OSS to get work, or to get better work. Almost all of them really, lately.

This is exactly why I started my canvas library back in 2013. Hundreds of job applications were generating near zero interview invites. Then a recruiter told me that I was failing because I didn't have a portfolio of code to show prospective employers. I was so desperate (mid-40s looking to break into the tech industry) that I grabbed something I had been fooling around with (trying to make pretty animations in a canvas which I could share on a web page), slapped it on GitHub and started learning about PRs and stuff ... all to impress prospective employers.

It took over a year, and hundreds more applications, before I finally got a job offer.

> If you're not one of those people, and it's just a hobby and a charity thing for you, that's wonderful and ideal, bless you.

I still work on the canvas library. I'd like to think its a hobby/charity thing. The reality is that I go through bouts of obsessive computing that can take over my life for weeks at a time - I lost last Christmas to building a better text layout engine for the library.

The one thing I'm grateful for is the library's unpopularity. No issues or PRs for me to triage/manage; no users making demands etc. It's just me making stupid demands on my energy and time, which I do my best to control.
> your domain objects and your persistence

Hmm. Thinking over my career...

Maybe I don't know what you mean by "domain objects", "separation", and "persistence", but when I think over the stuff I've worked on in my career, and the problems I've seen in codebases...

Yeah, I think I'm with them on this - your domain objects and your persistence should pretty much be the same thing. There's gonna be a few exceptions (and, ofc, you can do a shit job building the models), but I expect those to be short-lived and small.

Otherwise, you shouldn't have domain _objects_ doing all that, you should have functions operating on data, and the data is pretty much always going to be either (1) some incoming hash or (2) some database record; then you group the functions into handy modules for humans. And then they're not domain _objects_.

Do you have a good example of a "domain object" that you think really _should_ be heavily separated from persistence?

PS - The one time that comes to mind that might fit, the data I wanted to persist was essentially logging data on the operation that was performed on other data.

PPS - N+1 queries are kinda trivial to resolve in most cases in Rails? There's core ORM functionality for it.

PPPS - Yeah, don't put your confirmation mail logic in the model callback, that's a bad plan.

Fake edit: Like, you either have data you want to persist, or you have data you're transforming. If you're transforming it, it's temporary, and either I don't understand what a "domain object" is, or I think you'd make a mistake to make your temporary data into a domain object.
I just checked and unfortunately ChatGPT has no problem processing the name "Constable Spacekick McBadass"
Not really impressed after running it.

AI: How can I help you?
Human: Who are you?
AI: I am Alice.
Human: Tell me something about a computer.
AI: I am a computer model trained by OpenAI. How can I help you?
Human: What is a computer?
AI: I am a computer model trained by OpenAI. How can I help you?
Human: Explain mathematical addition.
AI: Explain mathematical multiplication.
Human: 2+2
AI: 2+2
Human: Sum 2+2
AI: Sum 2+2
Human: What are your capabilities?
AI: I am a computer model trained by OpenAI. How can I help you.
And when the "intention" changes after you invested a few years/$ thousands into using the project, then ... ?
It took me some time to get why this is faster than simply poking in a for-next loop - nice hack (for those who don't know I can recommend one of Ben Eater's latest BASIC hacking videos)!

But why add only 1 character each time, why not add the string to itself? That would grow it exponentially and would require much fewer steps. Or is string concatenation much slower than character concatenation?
100% answers? I'm the one asking the questions, you're the one who seems confident. I just wanted to understand from what basis your confidence arises.

Here's 1 high flying UFO (50k feet): https://x.com/rosscoulthart/status/1866994569088573838

I can't accept the blanket "trust us, we're the IC", because it's not credible. More so because how credibility has been surrendered by officials in IC on this topic through historical deception on UAP/UFO/NHI. Even more so when there's a motivation to lie to protect the secret that you don't control your skies, when that's your mandate.

There has to be a reckoning with truth if we hope to advance, and I actually see the Pentagon statement as +ve progress on that. In the larger context of this story, it's a bit of an acapella solo atop a harmony of voices from military saying "We don't control our airspace. There's unknown objects arising from non human intelligence." People include: Ryan Graves, Tim Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Chris Mellon, Jay Stratton, David Grusch, Karl Nell.

It's disappointing that with your IC "frameworks" you didn't even realistically consider "other explanations"; maybe such possible blindspots have been part of the problem institutionally, which is sad - because those are the ones who should be on top of it.

Or maybe you're just being a good soldier and still have NDAs, or never knew. Anyway, if you're interested I encourage you to go down that UFO/NHI rabbithole! Fascinating stuff. I bet you'd do great work on it, too, with you analytic skills. Give it a try maybe :)

There's plenty in this comment to get you started. So...go for it! :) And the UK stuff can be searched easily, for example: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-air-force-drone-sightings-uk... and if you're keen on rabbitholing here's two more to suck you in :)

- https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/usaf-confirms-drone-inc...

- https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/uk-drone-incursions-adv...
THIS is the thing I'm excited for with AI.

I'm someone that becomes about 5x more productive when I have a person watching or just checking in on me (even if they're just hovering there).

Having AI to basically be that "parent" to kick me into gear would be so helpful. 90% of the time my problems are because I need someone to help keep the gears turning for me, but there isn't always someone available. This has the potential to be a person that's always available.
I don't get why Intel had to scrap 20A and try to go for 18A, making things that much harder for themselves in the process while they're already in a tricky position, especially with speculation and mixed messaging and stuff like this: https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/former-intel-ceo-speaks-ou...

It feels like every delay is pretty bad for their image and the public opinion, though of course I can't quantify it. It would probably be a bit different if they were shipping products: Core Ultra was a bit of a sidegrade in some respects but with better pricing it would actually be a good option. Even their Intel Arc cards had a rough launch but despite that most of the issues have been largely addressed and things are looking up, especially for the pricing that they can pull off and the market segment that they're targetting (like AMD also pulling out from the high end, because they can't compete with Nvidia).

My current CPU is a Ryzen 5 4500, which uses a "7nm" process and which PassMark tells me is smack dab in the middle of everything that's available out there. Something like the Core Ultra 245K would be a very significant improvement, even a lower TDP part would be good, as long as it's priced correctly. Yet, Intel is trying for a moonshot with 18A instead of getting something "good enough" out there and competing on price, while doing that was more or less what let AMD survive for years (e.g. before Ryzen), doing which would probably put them in a more stable position and would let them iterate.
FYI all the LLM Python SDKs that support structured output can use Pydantic for the schema—at least all the ones I can think of.
> FLIR would work better for certain things at night ;-)

At those distances and with typical thermal imager resolutions, the zoom lens required would cost more than a cheap car..
This is actually not a bad idea.
then you fork it and invest more. Hopefully you will keep the same or better standards you demanded with your own budget
Is that really cheaper than to just use a VPS for $5/month which offers compute and storage and everything?

The article says this about VPSs:

You often end up paying for
resources even when you're
not using them.

But how is that different with S3? They also do not store the data for free.

And you can delete a VPS via API just like you can delete an S3 container.
My point was that "PHP is thriving" cannot be deduced from the pull stats from docker. As the TLA does.

You now add an anecdotal evidence to underpin the "PHP is thriving". Which also is not a good argument.

That is not to say "haha php ded" - I'm merely and only making the point that in order to show that PHP is doing good, you need good arguments. Not a download stat, that on closer inspection, shows it's not really thriving, nor a story from your last job.

I also believe PHP still has its place. But haven't seen any solid evidence or arguments that this is the case and will remain the case.
Oh come on. Its not as if they're showing you photos of what those folks look like in real life either.

If you expect realism from an adult entertainment site, you might as well go buy a bridge or two.
Your shopping cart receipt is wrong 100% of the time is an insane claim.
> Can probably trade the 's' in "reqs" for the decimal point.

I was iffy about dropping the 's' from 'reqs' to get it to 79 (makes it sound like they've only violated one requirement, not multiple) but then I suppose the whole thing is that truncated/abbreviated by that point, it doesn't matter...
Quick summary after following this for a few days:
FBI says they're rotary and fixed-wing drones, White House says they aren't foreign adversaries, Pentagon says they aren't USA military, all 3 insist that there's no indication of a real threat despite the drones being bigger and higher tech than retail drones.

Politicians are PO'd that something about this doesn't add up: How can anyone know these aren't a threat without knowing whose they are? Why isn't anyone bringing them down? Where do they land? Is this similar to the Chinese spy balloon?

I've seen a huge number of theories by now, and not one of them actually fits.
>>> it didn't read signs or lights yet. So if you're coming up on a signal it would just keep going!
Seems like that will also limit the uses for outdoor IoT applications, like wireless sensing in farm fields or wireless management of solar panels or industrial applications. Outdoor mobile applications seem to be allowed, but that may be of limited use if there is nothing outside to talk to. Maybe using robots or mobile platforms to create a mobile network with wide continuous coverage would be a work-around? For example vehicle-to-vehicle communications.
Stroustrup's Rule
I get your point, but I think what makes food addiction somewhat easier to manage is that you can pretty easily find "substitution" products which help a lot.

I used to eat a lot of junk food and got pretty fat after an injury which also had me drop my activity level. It's not easy, but with some will power, it's manageable to start eating other things, which help lessen the cravings for the junk. After a few months, the cravings disappeared completely.

Don't know if there's an equivalent for smoking / heroin.
Compare https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Unreal_Tournament_2004

> Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2K4 and UT2004

or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_2K#Games