skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to you. Not according to the trans-men who have undergone c-sections. Whether that is happening or not is not debatable - there are people who identify as trans-men who have gotten c-sections. Just as the sky is blue.

The question then shifts to why you believe your interpretation of their identity is more valuable than their interpretation of their identity. This is where people really struggle to make their logic consistent. In my opinion, your interpretation is inherently less valuable because, well, you aren't them.

One may wish to look to some one true objective truth. It does not exist. Women and men is not clear-cut and has never been clear-cut. There are those who may have a uterus, ovaries, and XY chromosomes. Or testes and a vagina, with XX ovaries. Or maybe ovaries with XXY chromosomes.

We can hand-wave these people away, sure, but remember - you're competing with a perfectly inclusive term. If you hand-wave those people away then you admit your term isn't perfectly inclusive and is therefore worse, so we're back at square one.

Can you find one true external factor that determines a binary gender for every human who has existed, may exist, or is currently existing, with no exceptions? You may be tempted to answer - but I should warn you, it can, and will, be trivially disputed.

Or, you can skip all of this "pursuit of truth" nonsense and just say "pregnant people", which DOES encompass anyone who is pregnant and who has existed, or may exist, or is currently existing.
How do the long term low dose adderall and Ritalin people do?
That probably works in an article about actual speed bumps but not so much as a product name.

In German you don't really use any of the terms for "speed bump" outside the road context, so as an app name they feel "off".
The author also lives in a town called Scunthorpe. Can't catch a break.
Please tell me, have you found the mythical 4Chan lady?
Tailwind is one of those things you should use once you feel the pain that it solves. Start with CSS. Should be enough!
considering his public opinions have flip flopped entirely, it totally makes sense to turn your back on a dude who is speed running the hero to villain arc
Just to clarify. There is an important difference between unified memory, meaning accessible by both CPU and GPU, and regular RAM that is only accessible by CPU.
I love this idea... please keep this going!
Whisper does do text to speech but yes, nearly all just read off the subtitles. There's a video by f4mi on YouTube where she tricked the summarizing bots with off-screen captions filled with nonsense.
You’re absolutely incorrect. Would you like to know the impacts of the previous bills that passed? You probably wouldn’t know.
Truly, I will miss the days of goggling for tar commands when I can instead ask an llm.
I’m curious, we need more studies on meth.
https://github.com/Fimeg/NetworkChronicles/tree/main/docs/pi...
Missing screenshots: https://github.com/Fimeg/NetworkChronicles/tree/main/docs/pi...
I asked Claude if it would be appropriate to use it for localization of text during app development and it strongly recommended avoiding using itself.
I added it to the tracker:

https://doesioshavesideloadingyet.com/#which-countries-are-l...

Fingers crossed this enables true sideloading and not just third party app stores!
Former QA from Germany here - some international companies supposedly develop their UI in German first because after that most other translations will fit ;)

Though, that doesn't help with bad translations. I often had a hard time explaining to my American business colleagues that just because I'm a native German speaker doesn't mean I will be good at translate their strings at 5pm so they could get out their launch... +1 for a professional translations!
That's how exceptions work, and they come pretty handy in a lot of circumstances. In such languages, any operation might throw RuntimeException (or equivalent) and the caller must be ready to handle that - or not, in which case it behaves exactly like non-exception-supported language.

I know that a lot of people hate that idea, but I strongly disagree. In any large programs, there are thousands of possible errors, and only a small part of them we actually want to handle in a special way. The rest? They go to "other" category. Being able to handle "other" errors, what Rust calls "panic", significantly improves user experience:

For CLI, print explanation that this is an unexpected failure, mention where the logs were saved, mention where to get support (forum/issue/etc...), and exit.

For cron-like scheduled service, notify oncall of the crash, re-schedule the job with intelligent timeout, then exit.

For web, upload details to observability platform, return 500 to user, then when possible terminate the worker.

and so on... In practical world, unexpected errors are a thing, and good language should support them to make programmers' lives easier.

One unfortunate downside of this ability is that some programmers abuse it, and ignore all the unknown errors instead of handling them properly - this makes a terrible user UX and introduces many bugs.

Also, for my "web services" example, if the worker is not terminated, there is a chance the internal data structures will get corrupted, and further requests, even the ones which used to pass, will now fail. There are ways to mitigate this - ignore some exception groups but unconditionally fail on others; or use try/finally blocks and immutable data to reduce the chance of corruption even in case of unexpected exception. But this code is hard to argue about and hard to test for.

Still, if a feature is not a good idea in some specific circumstances, it's not a reason to remove it altogether.
my go to drink for pancreatic terrorism as of late is Dunkin Donut's Caramel Creme Frozen Coffee - Large at 172g of sugar per serving
Google should sell Chrome to Microsoft,

and Microsoft should sell Edge to Google.

Sounds like a plan only the DOJ would love.
> So even if they know my 1password username and password they still can't really do anything with it. And if they steal my device, they would need to know my login password. Or cut off a finger, I guess, but I've got bigger issues if that happens.

https://xkcd.com/538/
Or using dark mode. There are chrome extensions that force dark mode on every page.

I personally can't last 1 minute on a white screen, and bringing brightness too low isn't without its issues.
Hi - I have been emailing you for about 1.5 years now, have never heard back. Can you look into it?
Hyperlink + query parameters were a way to provide interactivity (with a server roundtrip of course)

For example, sorting a table could be achieved by having the column headers be a link to the same url with ?sort_by={colname}

And then the server sees that and sorts and returns.

Same with "dynamic" number of input fields. When the add field link is clicked you reload with ?num_fields=2
> But if someone gifted me an AI generated song I would ask why they didn't pay a few dollars -- honestly not much more -- to a real artist to do the same.

I literally made a Mountain Goats song about them playing a fantasy video game together with their daughter as we all sat on the couch. This did not rob any artist of any amount of money they ever would have seen. It was a novel moment accentuated and joyful for humans at zero cost to anyone else. The creative world is not zero-sum like you're presenting it to be
A blue light filter on my lenses helped reduce eye strain. Certainly worth considering and works better/less noticeably than the screen adjusting it's blue and red balance.

I also have caterscts that have made screen time progressively less fun for long periods of time. It's time that I took care of them.
Where I live, we do say Bodenschwelle. I‘m surprised it’s not a ubiquitous term. Granted, you never talk about these with people when traveling.
>Google and Microsoft may have some of the biggest C++ codebases on Earth, and they are currently busy investing elsewhere, with Rust, Go, Carbon, and more.

I think this is overstated, and may also be construed as an attempt to monopolize and destroy what is a very successful open technology spec. I know in the case of Google especially, there were many people who got into a spat with the rest of the committee because they had a different vision of what was appropriate for the language. That is a sign that the committee is functioning correctly. It's supposed to prevent a single actor from ignorantly breaking stuff for others. You might disagree with the particular decision that was made, but I think the committee is rarely given the benefit of the doubt that it deserves.

>The reason why inline assembly will never be standardized is because that's a relatively small problem, whereas the C++ world today is full of gaping holes that the standard is utterly failing at filling. From concepts to modules, it's a shit show.

Concepts are usable today. Modules are basically usable but immature. C++ needs to be cut some slack when it comes to bleeding edge features. Other languages definitely are, and they make little in the way of compatibility commitments like C++ does. I think C++ should publish the standards after the features have been implemented for a while, but that is just a naive outsider's opinion. Every decision that could be made for this stuff has tradeoffs.

As I said elsewhere, inline assembly syntax can't be standardized without an associated assembler, which is platform-dependent and often customizable. I also think the language spec should know as little about the architecture as it can, because each one has slightly different characteristics.
Or maybe CEOs make purchasing decisions and approvals
What you're advocating entails nuclear proliferation, thus increasing existential risk. This should give you pause and cause you to reflect upon how you arrived at your conclusions.
Let me know what you guys think! :)
The inferencing logic needs to sample the file, so (1) the file path must be determined at compile time and (2) the file must be available to be read at compile time. If neither condition is true---like the filename is a runtime parameter, for example---then the user must supply the type in advance.

There is no magic here. No language can guess the type of anything without seeing what the thing is.
You can verify who someone is without knowing specifically who "who" refers to. We do it all the time. I give a one-time code to service X and it knows I am who I say I am, but the code I gave is virtually worthless information. All it knows is that I have credentials, and I am the authorized person to have those credentials because I have physical access to some device, unknown, which is known to belong to said person.
Venture Capital's 'Blitzscaling' Obsession Is Warping the World
https://archive.today/Z1AVD
The whole thing runs inside of a terminal, it would be hard to open anything else
Wow...thank you for this phrase. I always thought it was impossible to find prescription lenses online, and there's a box with literally all of them...
I believe the stated goal of HTMX's developer was to integrate the functionality of HTMX into HTML.
Oh I thought the worst would be the brand gets even worse promotion and goes even more in the tank in the public’s eye. Somehow.
1Password is also significantly more polished and easy to use than LastPass.
Sure if you want to be too terse. I'd say most people would want

Start|Save|Settings|Info|Exit

At a minimum but given the style, both that and yours would be super cramped given the font size they wanted.

Further, the post is about German

Start|Speichern|Einstellungen|Info|Beenden

(no idea if those are correct)

Also, those buttons I made up. I what I remember something like 通信 being one button.
Nah. I’m fat (6’5”, 450lbs), and my A1C is excellent. Maybe it’s all the coffee I drink, though I do use artificial sweetener…
16-bit offsets doesn't limit you to 64K unless you require byte-alignment. 128K or 256K is usually trivial and even 512K or 1M is often viable.
How to improve DuckDB performance on Parquet
a u16 can address it, which is nice. it's also the minimum virtual address allocation on windows. not sure if either of those are the reason, in this case
Not in my experience. No user visible changes.

There might be some fixes to bugs
Yeah, it seems like a pretty contrived example and theory.

I think what the OP is trying to articulate is that they are aware of more genres now? Maybe AI makes exploration of niche genres more exciting and participatory for them. They are finding new genres and "expanding them", but it's just bc they were ignorant of them (or unengaged with the content of the song style) before they could participate in this way. I dunno, just trying to think what they might have experienced that would make them think some new universal was coming true * shrug *
Except that the change in the impact also happened with artificial sweetener.
To me that feels like a technicality. It’s the same experience you’d get with a button + JS except with more latency.
> you're telling me it's possible to be functional enough to eat and sleep for a week, but not know that your wife is dead and the barking dog needs food and water

Absolutely, in late stages of Alzheimers you’re a vegetable, but basic bodily functions still work to some degree.
The entrenched are the ones deciding the features. This is their goal
This is called the 20/20/20 rule: every 20 minutes, look at someone 20ft away (or just close your eyes) for 20 seconds.

I wouldn't call it "the" solution: it's part of a complete breakfast.
I can't believe it's even legal to sell those. That seems simply insane.
Programmers don't care about things like "the real person using this program". They just want to complete some crappy function, mark a task as "done", and go on to the next one. If it annoys or hurts regular people, no big deal.

This is like government policies that hurt a minority of people. The bureaucrats don't care if it hurts a few people. And the minority is small enough that nobody else cares. They can't threaten the status quo, so they will just keep on suffering, and now that's just "how things are".
Among non-glass options, CR-39 is a good choice for computer glasses with prescriptions weaker than -5:

- high (58) Abbe number
- thick (1.5 index)
- cheapest

Thickness and weight can be mitigated with a smaller frame, e.g. vintage options.

Actually buying CR-39 lens might require solving a dark pattern maze of online or offline options, since the cost is so low.
Image diffusion doesn't suffer from this, does it? So why would text diffusion?
Question: In light of the article, is it fair to lump Bell Labs in with Xerox PARC like that? Bell invented a lot of stuff which directly improved the telephone system and communications in general. Possibly because they owned every problem from end-to-end. PARC invented some really great space-cadet stuff, which was semi-related to document production, but Xerox had no idea how to sell it, because it wasn't 'make copies'.
Also retired the turn signal and shifter stalks. But can they be hired back?
> The paper[0] is paywalled

For those in unblocked jurisdictions: https://sci-hub.st/10.1038/nature16059
You can get much more realistic results at a smaller scale for e.g. waterways using iterative methods -- simulating rainfall and erosion. I imagine the same would be true at mountain ranges using some model of your lateral forces to influence the heightmap.
The main issue with this will be the computation time, naturally. Not that that should stop anyone, but it's likely the reason you don't see it in shipped games.
As a German, I can tell you the problem is that none of these translations are common here, as the whole concept of a speed bump is something entirely ungerman. In fact the first time I've ever seen them was in Mexico, and we were joking that there isn't even a word for it in Germany.

Sure, you could translate it as Bremsschwelle, but I bet your metaphor would confuse most people.
This is part of what's referred to as "vision therapy". Optometrists would tell you to go to a paid expert---because purportedly some people do it wrong---but IMO you can just YouTube it.
> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended

No, but that just means NYC is a crappy place. I regularly see 8yr olds wandering Tokyo alone.
China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with US
I believe, it was pro-military, but not pro-war. The book idealizes the state and social system, and uses war only as a backdrop.
This is an exciting project. Few highlights:
- Query processor is DuckDB - as long as it translates PG type system to DuckDB typesystem well - it will be very fast.
- Data is stored on S3 in Parquet with Delta or Iceberg metadata. This is really cool. You don't need to push analytical data through WAL - only metadata goes into WAL. This mean fast loading at least in theory, and compatibility with all the Delta/Iceberg ecosystem.
- Once they build real-time ingest, you can just push timeseries into this system and you don't need a second system like Clickhouse
I built a CLI tool for experimenting with Mistral OCR here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/mistral-ocr/

Honestly, the vibes aren't great. Gemini is a lot more flexible for handling PDFs - you can prompt it to do a bunch of other things - and Mistral OCR appears to hallucinate if it can't correctly read handwriting, a common problem with vision LLM based OCR tools.

The way Mistral OCR handles images within the text is disappointing - it doesn't attempt to interpret them, just extracts them out as binary blobs. A vision LLM can usually do a great job of describing an image, but with Mistral OCR you have to manually run that as a separate step.
The term to Google for this is "vision therapy": there are several tried and true exercises.
This often comes up, but I never understood why.

Is it a case of e.g.

If "null" == null

With implicit conversion?

What language does this? I think perl might allow it by accident if you don't use strict/warnings pragmas, but it seems weird. Is it a PHPism perhaps?
Somebody should really put together a collection of best practices for—a sort of collection of advice for people with this sort of name.

They could call it Null pointers.
Absolutely fine if used for ADHD, but it’s not the same question because the effects on people without ADHD are different.
You see it as a benefit, I see it as ridiculously user hostile. Porting your code to a new platform isn’t just “implement new APIs” it’s also “adjust your usage of the language to the dialect this vendor understands“. There is no benefit whatsoever to the end user and ecosystem of the language to having multiple frontends to contend with.

I’m all for multiple backends but there should be only 1 frontend. That’s why I hope gccrs remains forever a research project - it’s useful to help the Rust language people find holes in the spec but if it ever escapes the lab expect Rust to pick up C++ disease. Rust with a gcc backend is fine for when you want gcc platform support - a duplicate frontend with its own quirks serves no purpose.

I also hope Rust never moves to an ISO standard for similar reasons. As someone who has participated in an ISO committee (not language) it was a complete and utter shitshow and a giant waste of time taking forever to get simple things done.
But wouldn’t you do that even if you had nothing to hide? I’ve always cleared why work machines to the best of my abilities
One thing you can do is take a DEM and match the distributions, then sample those distributions for new terrain. This can (in theory) reproduce any characteristic represented in the original signal. It can even be relatively efficient compared to things like erosion models if you constrain the number of octaves in the signal.
Not only that but they are happy to buy market share to expand their relative position against AWS
If any evil was done, why wasn't it raised as a defense at trial? We just had one. He was found guilty. The defense was actually "it wasn't me" with a bad cover up and his account was linked to the malware.

I don't understand this weird obsession with being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian or to raise hyperbolic examples that don't fit the facts. Sometimes, even most of the time, things are just what they appear to be. In this case: likely a shitty employer and a shitty job.

He then compounded his error by going to trial (Federal criminal cases have a 98-99% conviction rate at trial), paying possibly $100k in legal fees, going to prison for possibly years and being a convicted felon for the rest of his life with all that entails (loss of rights, more difficult to find work, lower earning potential, difficulty in getting visas, more difficult to rent and so on).

And for what? What's probably just a mild inconvenience for the company for a day or two. WAs it worth it?
Not in Central Louisiana. I can't remember the last tittilating billboard I saw.
pg_mooncake: Faster Analytics in Postgres
> If I was forced to guess, I would say that some (or maybe even all) of these folks who start talking about the computer glasses

Not all, because I'm one of them and I think progressive lenses are dumb and won't buy them, but I will buy top of the line distance correction and get it checked to make sure it's correct and then get top of the line computer glasses and make sure that they're correct too. I will get transition lenses though. Those are pretty great (except in a car I guess).

I don't need glasses that sacrifice fov for distance and also for my computer when I can just keep the right glasses with my computer.
Glad I missed it before bedtime! Watched it in the morning, absolutely spot on, thank you! We’re doomed indeed.
They're already working on 0.2

https://www.mooncake.dev/blog/pgmooncake-v02discussion
I feel like minors should be allowed to buy some stuff online as long as there is age verification for alcohol or whatever. They can go to a store and buy stuff in-person, so why not
That's why I rather keep HTML limited than embracing something like Svelt (which I haven't heard of before). Looking at it's inline syntax in the example, it is yet another something to learn. Yet another thing with peculiarities to keep track of, solving one kind of problem but introducing more complexity by spreading logic out (taking logic from one place and putting in another creates an additional relationship which is a relationship with that from which the logic was taken: Svelt and JS has to coexist and may for example overlap).

My favorite experience of shifting logic is writing a template engine in PHP. PHP is a template engine. I soon discovered I tried to replicate more and more PHP feestures, like control flow etc. I realize PHP did a way better job being a template engine. (This does not disqualify all use of said things, just that all seemingly good use cases aren't motivated, and may not turn out as expected.)
> To enhance query execution speed, we embedded DuckDB as the execution engine for columnstore queries

So is it Postgres or DuckDB that cracked the analytics top ?
If you're writing something for a bunch of nerdy engineers, discussing the mood/feelings/rationale about things is wasted effort. If you're writing for literature people, then all of the extra prose makes a difference and is nuanced. This board is made up of the former, and not the latter.

As a counter, readers of this board love some Tolkien, yet that writing goes on and on and on and on with so much extra text
Re; EDIT: AHAHAHAHAH! Matrix / Terminator world here we come! :)
> even AI doesn’t work well

Why would you think it would?! Do people actually expect AI to be accurate now? Jesus christ...