skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://x.com/StatisticUrban/status/1901124382996791747

“The DoD has removed the article on Charles Roger's Medal of Honor. He served in Vietnam, and despite being wounded three times in battle, rallied his troops and led them to victory in defense of Support Base Rita. Nixon presented his Medal.

The url is changed to "deimedal"”
For non technical people used to WYSIWYG, yes?
If the leaders of the DOJ commit federal crimes do they just get a pass? Of course not. The marshals must do their jobs and arrest people the courts lawfully order them to, regardless of their title. That’s not a coup, that’s the constitution working normally.

The coup already happened when the executive usurped the judicial branch’s authority.
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> For instance, males and females on average don't differ much on extraversion. However, at the narrow level, you can see that males on average are more assertive (an aspect of extraversion) whereas females on average are more sociable and friendly (another aspect of extraversion)

Interesting! I see myself in both some of the masculine traits (interested in things more than in people, don't feel a need for constant emotional connection with partners) and feminine traits (can't stand competitive friendships, risk-averse)

> In fact, observers can correctly determine sex from pictures with greater than 95% accuracy

Ah that's probably why I get clocked so much... I should have gotten FFS before the freaks got back in power.
HN is such a weird place. "Free speech" libertarianism when it comes to companies restricting hate speech on their platforms while simultaneously advocating for companies to ban sponsored content.
Many don't allow you to subscribe through Apple because Apple charges them a fee for doing so.

Even as an Apple fanboy I can understand why they would pull native sign ups through Apple.
> Android does provide a WiFi suggestion API [1], but it has several limitations and doesn’t behave quite as expected.

Can you expand on this? I read the linked doc, and it looked like a separate API should be used to used to "persist a network connection" (my words), but as someone with no Android dev experience there don't seem to be any obvious limitations.

You did mention in another reply that only certain root apps can do [what we expect]. Is there a link where I can learn more about that?
I have the opposite opinion. Most often, I'm looking for documentation that gets to the point. Just give me a straight answer so I can minimize time I spend reading docs and maximize time I spend using the thing. Tutorials tend to be annoying to read because there's a lot of information unrelated to the topic (setup, advice for beginner programmers) and important information that is missing because the tutorial inevitably chooses one use case and ignores the others.

If I had to pick, I'd rather a dev tell instead of teach. Other people will inevitably write their "how to do x in y" medium articles anyway. These days you can even get an LLM to write it for you, if there's docs that "tell".
To be fair quantum mechanics was invented by guessing that energy might be quantized. It just happened to model the universe well.
Hm. I was also thinking about the whole system, and I'm really not sure why a legal system needs to be able to answer such questions.

> What we don't have or can't have is a court case where the judge says, "The legality of this is indeterminate."

Why not? In reality judges can say "the legality of this is not for this court to decide" after all, can't they? And while (IIRC) the Supreme Court must use the law to establish new law, even then they can say "the law says nothing about this - go bug the legislative, not judicial". And then the legislative doesn't really need to use the existing law itself to codify new laws (as I get it, they can even pass laws that contradict the Constitution - it'll be up to the judicial to strike them down as such).

The way I understand how things are in real world, a legal system should be able to state if something is illegal, but it has no need to be able to universally state whenever something is legal or (and doesn't normally do so, save for doing it as a way to make exceptions from broader rules) or not. Kinda like how criminal law decrees one as "guilty" (proven to have done something illegal) or "not guilty" (not proven to have done something illegal) but never declares one innocent (and it doesn't need to - it works without it). Maybe this is where I'm possibly getting confused?

Can you please help me understand why do you think a legal system needs to be able to always answer that legality question, and particularly what's the use case for it (what does such property tries to achieve in practice)?
I don't hold this opinion, and don't claim to know what these people truly believe, but I think their rhetoric would respond by saying that grouping and featuring people on the website based on their gender/race is sexist/racist.

For instance, Colin Powell is still featured as a 'notable grave', but there is not a page that indexes him by his race.
No, it's been proven over and over that simply knowing invariants is not enough, in long-term projects built by large teams where team members change over time. Even the most experienced C developers are going to fail every so often. You need tooling that automates those invariants, and you need that tooling to fail closed.

I take a hard line on this stuff because we can either keep repeating the fundamental mistake of believing things like "willpower" to write correct code are real, or we can move on and adopt better tooling.
Too late. It's been flagged.
Agreed, but I believe that camera feeds and infrastructure changes could be enough.
if i can one day have a similar level of confidence in LLM output, as i do in a compiler, then i will also call it an abstraction. until then…i wait. :)

But i agree, it’s unrelated to devs being dumb.
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There's another app that makes Dithered Images that I wanted to use...but it costs money. So I made my own.

I really love the dithered image style and was reminded of the solar powered blog that uses dithered images to conserve resources. Plus, it just looks damn cool.

Hope you enjoy playing with it, you can get some cool results with the random button :-)
The embedding layer in an llm deals with much more than the meaning. It has to capture syntax, grammar, morphology, style and sentiment cues, phonetic and orthographic relationships and 500 other things that humans can't even reason about but exist in words combinations.
It is easy in a physical and technical sense, and it also probably be easy in the other senses if the power to make that decision was held by a different group of people than those who currently do.

Nobody is saying that it is "easy" to mean that there's no friction preventing it and that it's astounding that it hasn't been done. On the contrary--the fact that certain beneficial things are very easy in a logistical sense but incredibly difficult in a power/cultural/social structure sense is the core of the problem. And it's worth reminding people about.
> The autopilot of an airplane will not avoid any kind of stationary obstacle, not even a mountain

Well a core part of the flight is colliding with the ground at the end.

But also the hazard of a stationary object doesn’t exist - crew receive an IFR clearance and fly that route; that route won’t have stationary obstacles.

Aviation’s autopilots aren’t “eyes-off” in VFR so that’s a meaningless comparison.
Depends why you want/need to do a blood test in the first place. If the doctor requests it, ofc. Then its also very specific and only a few values are measured.

But when you do it as a preventive measure, they just send you the results. I do regular checkups and then seek professionals to interpret the stuff that I cannot.
The committee tends to also provide bounds checked interfaces ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span/at ). But that requires people read the documentation, and based on the number of people who I see write "std::endl" when they really want "'\n'", I don't have much hope for that ("std::endl" both sends '\n' to the stream, and flushes it; people are often surprised about the stream getting flushed).
Is anyone actually hiring, or succeeding in hiring? I see the hiring market being completely fucked for the past couple years with lots of fraud happening on both sides - whether it's ghost positions that are never intended to be filled, or monkeys LLM'ing (or I guess we call it "vibe coding" now) their way through interviews, which just makes the interviews even harder to a level even seasoned engineers now need to cheat or be left behind.

It's become a market for lemons, with no good solutions. The problem is that it fundamentally requires a lot of manpower to accurately assess someone's experience (whether you use LC or just an open-ended whiteboard exercise) and companies who hire have only so many engineer-hours to dedicate to interviewing and the amount of inbound candidates exceeds that by orders of magnitude.

The way I see it, a lot of companies realized they have the staff they need and hiring more through "normal" channels is impossible due to the above - so either they don't need to hire more, or they hire informally through back-channels and word of mouth (because the front door is being DDoS'd).

The only way to win is not to play - the "front door" and typical hiring process is no longer possible unless you are a big name and have somehow publicly demonstrated your skills (past product launch, etc) in a way that can be verified in 5 minutes. For the rest of us, it's mostly a sales and networking game, and leveraging human & in-person relationships that are (for now) still immune to LLMs and hordes of boiler rooms spamming every single job with fake (but plausible) resumes.
Haven't looked at the code, but enforcing mutual exclusion between writers but not readers can make sense for a single-writer lock-free algorithm.
If you say "I made basic image editor" it doesn't sound as impressive, of course. Not surprising given how it opens with:

>As I’m getting older I look back on all the things I’ve done as a creative developer, and I see so many cool projects!

Such modesty...
I can think of these reasons for this:

1) malicious compliance
2) overzealous compliance
3) temporary, while they rewrite materials from "Secretary Powell, a Black man" style that emphasizes immutable characteristics
4) intentional provocation
5) stupidity.

Given the proportion of BIPOC in the US military, I would be shocked if racism/sexism was the goal.

But I've been shocked before.
But they're grouping all the white men together by doing this.
While I'd welcome more studies, this has been on the research agenda for a while now[0]. It'll be up to implementing better technical stewardship on the developer side, renewed educational programs and revisiting our regulation. Or getting people to touch grass[1].

[0]: Leung, L. (2004). Net-generation attributes and seductive properties of the internet as predictors of online activities and internet addiction. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 7(3), 333-348.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660
There used to be a time I could tap on the Google Assistant button, say "Hey Google, navigate to xxx", and it would fire up maps and navigate to xxx. Then it stopped working.

A week or two ago I tapped on what was the Google Assistant button, and Gemini popped up. I thought what the hell, said "navigate to xxx", and it worked. Yippee!

A few days ago I did same thing, Gemini popped up, accurately listed the spoken command, and did nothing. Just like the Google Assistant it replaced. I guess they noticed they weren't bug for bug compatible, and fixed it.

Even more infuriatingly, yesterday I tapped the "Power Off" button expecting to be presented with the power menu. Instead I got Gemini. Come on guys, give me a break. Why in gods name would I want Gemini when I hit the power button? You already have given yourself a dedicated button on the home screen.
> You did mention in another reply that only certain root apps can do [what we expect]. Is there a link where I can learn more about that?

Actually in the same comment I replied to, but there doesn't seem to be a way to edit posts in my mobile client.
You could, Xanga as well, but it was still less connected. People complain about recommendation systems on YouTube and Facebook and Reddit, but one thing that they do well is give people more reach that they probably wouldn't have gotten before.

I've found so many interesting YouTube videos from people that I haven't ever heard of, just because of YouTube recommending them to me. Stuff like that didn't really exist for quite awhile; for a long time the best you had was aggregator sites like ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com or similar sites.
According to one of my local pharmacies (that closed in the last year), there are laws in some states preventing brick and mortar stores from imposing additional fees over online pharmacies. Reference in a sibling comment.
Is that hypercapitalism or .. too much state control?

A private industry would be able to maintain the records for next to nothing by advertising or offering related services.

The govt could restrict themselves to ensuring no monopoly.
Mark posted a video on X showing him getting up to speed, engaging autopilot 4 seconds before the wall, and autopilot disengaging 1 second before hitting the wall.

https://x.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

Did he do the same with LiDAR only turning it on 4 seconds before an impact?
I wouldn't do that, still. If you fail, it forces a review and better automatism because it pushes you to be faster. I think best results come from just leaving it as-is.
Hydrogen Sulfide is highly corrosive (big problem in sewers and associated infrastructure) I highly doubt you would choose to introduce it to gas pipelines on purpose.
I wonder if he knows he posted a compliant about walled gardens behind a paywall.... Another form of walled garden.
>> They very well could make their case to the modern end user that their approach is better than closed source SaaS solutions, or other freeware.

Lots of people benefit from Free Software, yes. But asking the consumer to understand licensing and the implications thereof would be a fantastically ambitious and expensive project.

Ultimately yes, FOSS outreach is targeted, because the first-order benefits are targeted. Outside the internet itself (where the message is there for anyone to find) only very narrow groups would get any value from a discussion on licenses.

For example, say I make software for small-town bakers. My software might be open source, or closed source. My bakers couldn't care less. They care only about the first order benefits - does the planner work etc.

Ironically "no-one" chooses Linux because of the license. They choose it because of the price. And consequently they dominate where "number of machines" is the key issue (aka servers).

Consumers choose Windows or Android because of the first order benefits there. They are better than Linux Desktop or Linux on the phone.

(And yes, I'm aware Android uses the Linux kernel, but Linux is not sufficient.)

The whole "year of the Linux desktop" argument is for Joe public to care about License. 25 years in, and I think it's safe to assume that approach has failed.

>> to industry groups, academic groups, hobbyists, and other professional or professional-adjacent groups.

FOSS exists today precisely because these are yhe groups that matter. And they are, I think, the groups that will continue to matter.
When deciding whether to pull the trigger on such a thing, what matters is whether it will make things worse, regardless of whether that worsening counts as correct behavior or not.

Also, not being in Serbia myself I'm reluctant to make judgements from afar about what degree of hooliganism is justified in this case.
Which is crazy. Where I live, even upper-middle class can't afford a house, so what is going on? Who is actually participating in the market to keep prices so high, and who ultimately benefits from all this imaginary value on non-productive asset speculation?
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It’s only 12% of women of childbearing age on the pill - under 10 million. Another smaller chunk uses depo or norplant, but the CDC figures lump those in with IUDs so it’s hard to tell exactly.

Either way a small number compared to e.g. statins.
Granted that for many Elixir devs, knowing (and learning) Erlang happens during such debugging efforts.
One big part I've noticed when working in rust is that, because the compilation and analysis checks you're given are so much stronger than in C or C++, and because the ecosystem of crates is so easy to make use of, I'll generally be able to make use of more advanced algorithms and methods.

I'm currently working with ~150 dependencies in my current project which I know would be a major hurdle in previous C or C++ projects.
https://libfn.org/ also is worth a look.
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If it's a campaign, I fell for it, and regret nothing. I've been doing it for about a week now, but it really hits the sweet spot with my needs for brushing up my math. I finally feel it's within my grasp to get to the level I want. And it's incredibly convenient, you feel you're actuy making progress and it keeps the challenge at the juuuust right level(I've noticed this is incredibly important).
One comment here called out content junk food, another called out the complexity of the replacement. It's both. People generally don't want thoughtful, quality content, and they certainly don't want to pay for it.

Also funny to see the article behind the FT paywall, but that's an audience that actually does pay for quality content.
I said NOT(rule in "fundamental restrictions") AND (rule is XXX). You showed (XXX in "restrictions"). It would have been sufficient to prove my statement false if "fundamental restrictions" === "restrictions", but it is not.
Maybe I also didn't phrase the description in a good way...
The app does not send "worry" or "not worry". Its more like your second suggestion.

I do like the first suggestion tho, need to think about that one a bit more.

If you are interested, here is an example I got:

"Your blood results are generally within normal ranges. Hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red blood cell count are at the higher end of the spectrum, but they do not appear to be at a concerning level without symptoms or additional context such as high altitude living or dehydration. Iron and ferritin levels are normal, and CRP is low, indicating no significant inflammation. Lipoprotein(a) is elevated, which can be a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but this would typically require additional context or family history to warrant concern."

"Continue maintaining a balanced diet, regular exercise, and monitor any potential cardiovascular risk factors. Consider discussing Lipoprotein(a) levels with a healthcare provider to evaluate the need for potential lifestyle modifications or further testing. Regular check-ups are advised to ensure any future changes in blood parameters are monitored."

In any case, thanks again for the feedback, appreciate it!
Hippocratic AI is doing medical work. They contact patients to confirm proper preparation for medical procedures and then follow up afterwards. It's not just call center administrative stuff. And it's not a generic voice chat service for answering random medical questions. Whether patients will accept it remains to be seen, although they may not really have a choice.
> Free Software is "for hackers" because, quite frankly, most other people just don't care about the goals of the movement

Sure. But, like, the world wide web. There is a playbook for making this work. Where Silicon Valley's mythmaking bites hackers in the ass is in pretending to write out the government's role out of the history of the internet.

Free software is a public good. Public goods have basically one good funding model.
To get pedantic, wine is not a product of distillation.
Journalism, sure. But most people are happy with entertainment news.

I'm a FT subscriber. I just know 99% of people aren't, and lots aren't even aware it exists or its reputation.
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Fair questions from a Tesla Fan Boy...

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1901481711789109259

>I have some questions:

1) Your video "Can You Fool a Self-Driving Car?" uses Luminar’s latest tech but not Tesla’s latest FSD software. Why?

2) Autopilot was turned on at 42 MPH in your YouTube video but you turned it on at 39/40 MPH in your clip above. Why? Multiple takes?

3) In the clip above, Autopilot was activated MUCH closer to the wall than in the YouTube video clip. Why?

4) In your video above, you turned on Autopilot 3.8 seconds before hitting the wall, but it appears you gave Luminar a much longer head start with their tech "activated." Why? Am I wrong in my assumption?

5) Why was putting a child dummy/doll behind the wall a useful thing to do? What car would possibly see or react to a kid through a wall after crashing into that wall?
Hm, it says the observer-at-the-slit experiment hasn't been performed because it would absorb the photons. But it also says the experiment can be done with larger particles, so that shouldn't be a problem ...
We almost got there with TikTok. Almost...
> the EU to start regulating social media like a utility.

They could just actually enforce the existing GDPR which already makes most of these addiction-based models unsustainable.
Well, there's a category difference between a crash as in a panic and a crash as in a CPU exception. Usually, "safe" programming limits crashes to language-level error handling, which allows you to easily reason about the nature of crashes: if the type system is sound and your program doesn't use unsafe, the only way it should crash is by panic, and panics are recoverable and leave your program in a well-defined state. By the time you get to a signal handler, you're too late. Admittedly, there are some cases where this is less important than others... misaligned load/store wouldn't lead to a potential RCE, but if it can bring down a program it still is a potential DoS vector.

Of course, in practice, even in Rust, it isn't strictly true that programs without unsafe can't crash with fatal runtime errors. There's always stack overflows, which will crash you with a SIGABRT or equivalent operating system error.
That is not in the latest Boston Globe article on the case. https://archive.is/tvXUn

EDIT: OK I see the confusion. The Globe article from Friday quotes the organ program medical director as saying the court order "apparently" didn't arrive in time. But over the weekend, her lawyers provided a detailed timeline to the court saying that they provided the order to CBP at Logan Airport before the plane took off. So I think the claim you're referencing here is just outdated and incomplete.
https://archive.is/IgnTA