skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If civil engineers could launch their dams in debug mode instead of flying out and crawling through a tube, I think they would. They just can't.

Though some would still prefer the tube. That's up to them.

Service tubes and jack points and JTAG and whatever ship in physically assembled artifacts because they have to, not because they should.
Can you inject into an elevated process from a non-elevated one?
All that plus they expect to run JavaScript on my computer to show any of this page content.
I wonder if smart TVs are even profitable if you buy them but then prevent them from ever placing a single ad...
Its a rehash of the old “but it works on my local machine”
Tipping is why you left the US? Really?
Buying Studio grants a lifetime license to the current major version only. It's just that DaVinci has been upgrading everyone for free with every major update. They can stop doing that at any moment.

Not that they'll ever do that. Resolve / Studio is their loss-leader product to pull people into their very premium camera ecosystem.
Not a chance that will happen, given the corn production of America. We have the most productive land in the world for growing maize, and Lord knows we’ll find shit to do with it.
What additives am I missing? I want to stay healthy.
I think you are drawing the wrong conclusions here. I have never worked at Apple, but know many people that have. Every team is different but the overarching theme is that they are very secretive internally, especially around hardware. They are so secretive that someone I know was working on a project that their own manager wasn’t allowed to know about.
There's a reason their TVs are basically free.
I find it almost unusable for anything with the slightest nuance in the search query.

Especially, for instance, trying to qualify a search such as (a real search I failed at recently): heated bathtubs without jets

The "without jets" part of my string was just totally ignored, and yet that semantic snippet is the kernel of what I'm looking for.

I just got pages of ads for whirlpool tubs with jets.

I'm not sure if this is related to using "AI" in parsing the search string, but basic semantic analysis just seems to not be performed.

This is definitely a regression from previous years.
Hmm I think the Trump criticism is the last kind of thing the border agents would make up as a coverup to be honest. It reflects poorly on the administration by reinforcing the amount of criticism it gets. I think any civil servant would keep their head down especially now that layoffs are left right and center. It's also not a valid reason to ban him anyway.

A simpler thing to make up would be a family matter, some unverifiable criminal record or whatever. Even noncooperation which is a valid reason to refuse entry. Or most likely: simply "no comment" would have done.

It doesn't help that we don't know the identity, no. But I'd keep my head down too if it happened to me. Science is a field where everyone knows everyone and it's not one where you want to be known as a troublemaker.

I agree we don't know the details and that there's probably more to the story but I don't think the criticism thing is made up.
Netflix lost money its first 13-years (in aggregate).

And wasn’t really until year 18-year, that the money it made became meaningful.

When you don’t have a catalog, creating content is expensive.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272561/netflix-net-incom...
Vibe Coding vs. AI Chat vs. Web Search vs. Thinking for Yourself
Related HN discussion linked in the article:

60 points by mfiguiere on Jan 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 49 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160956
Dentists are going to make a lot of money filling so many more cavities.
Couple of tips for getting this to launch (I don't have deep experience here, this is just what worked for me):

- install the Rust package rather than the Flatpak or COPR

- disable fractional scaling if you're using Wayland

- launch airshipper from a terminal rather than the Gnome app grid (and if you've already done the latter check for and kill any orphaned processes - they seem to get stuck sucking up a whole thread)
Esoteric emulators: CHIP-8 in Desmos
Orion: A Homomorphic Encryption Framework for Deep Learning [pdf]
> I like to think art is anything that speaks directly to us, moves us or inspires us.

Then that would include anything in the natural world that evokes such feelings and this clearly goes against the meaning that 'art' has had over millennia.
You got me thinking again about this (even days later) so I asked ChatGPT to get some insight and man, not only did it make your point clearer, it made MY point clearer TO ME. In lieu of me. While also teasing me lightly about it. LOL, that's extraordinary!

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e8ad11-86f0-8004-8194-1c631a2331...
(Only) the process is elevated, but the process has a window on a shared session, and the OS does not successfully protect processes that share a session (and user, and registry, and disk, etc., etc.) from controlling each other.

From an API point of view, only one process is elevated. From a security point of view, if one process is elevated they all are, due to a lack of any effective mechanism that actually stops them.
Another question is whether there's still evidence for continuing to fluoridate water with how common toothpaste use is now. If nothing else, if it isn't providing benefits over toothpaste use, then fluoridating water could just be a waste of public funds.
> because a lot of programmers aren't very good

I’ve had a long career and can tell you there is some very real truth here. I am not a very good programmer, but I am slightly better than average. I realized this early and moved on to other aspects of tech that don’t require me to be a good programmer. However, what that realization allows me is the ability to recognize the really good programmers and the average to below average ones, because I sit right in the middle of them.

For me that number of good developers is far smaller than people really realize (or…perhaps want to admit). This is why I am convinced that AI will eventually devastate the SWE vocation. When AI gets to the level of average (it’s maybe 5 years from that in my opinion), only the best of the best will survive because they plus the AI will become outrageously productive simply due to the speed that AI will be able to generate average code. The good devs will be able to take that and refactor it to great code quite quickly. There will be no room for average…they simply will never be productive.
If it's reverse osmosis based, yes. If it's some other kind of filter, likely no, and you should buy a TDS meter and use it, because in all likelihood it's not really filtering anything. I did exactly this. It turned out that my carbon based filter had more TDS than completely unfiltered water from a tap in the garden. RO water, even re-mineralized, had 1/15th the TDS IIRC.
Pretty much-was told by an insurance broker one of the biggest factors past history of weather and the obvious things (flooding possibility, dry trees) is my neighbors. Didn't get into specifics but I suspect drugs and gangs.
Since this website is pretty terrible (and broken, can't submit without a cloduflare error), our app Homechart is a one time purchase, self-hostable household management app. No ads, no gamification, just get-out-of-your-way organization:

https://homechart.app
How has the debate been solved by the rest of the world? My understanding is that many countries in Europe don't fluoridate the water supply.

I'm skeptical of results showing IQ loss but I also think fluoridation should be phased out as fluoride toothpaste and mouthwash are now widely available. Banning it seems like the wrong move to me...states should simply decide to continue adding it or not.
I've said it here before, but I wish a consumer focused org would create a 'DUMB' certification. "Don't Upload My Bits"
This is just a big affiliate marketing site. You have to pay to get listed.
I think it depends on how strict your criteria and evidence requirements are.

There are two Cochrane reviews that I saw on community water fluoridation:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26092033/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39362658/

There is limited modern evidence (ie. in a world where everyone is brushing their teeth with fluoride toothpaste) of some reduction in tooth decay in children. There were no studies on adults that met the review criteria.

Overall it seems like we just don't really know how much impact CWF currently has.
Genuine question because I try to avoid all the Trump and DOGE stuff. What’s the deal with all the Canadian and European border events? I thought all the focus was on Mexico and illegal immigrants? Of all things, who cares about Canada and Europe and why all the fuss? Why go through the trouble over these students? Someone actually remembered the student newspaper article they wrote and now have the opportunity to go after them?

Is it simply because the border agents feel empowered under Trump or is it bigger than that?
Any tools for a customizable trading dashboard (charts, order flow, news, etc.)?
I’m constantly switching tabs while trading—charts, order books, news, Twitter. It’s inefficient.
Is there a tool that lets you drag-and-drop these into one unified dashboard?
nes1.large instance class?
I simply don’t believe such a promise. Maybe that’s their intention now, but such companies subsequently change their minds all the time, and so not seem to feel any obligation to uphold former “promises”.

They even have a habit of blatting miscellaneous user preferences in updates by accident just because they’re careless.
One more time, I'm not arguing for the article's point -- as I wrote, I have absolutely no experience with video editing, so I have no idea what are the demands regarding hardware/software.

I was simply clarifying "what's the point of the article". Your quote fragment ("These editors aren't working on Macs") makes it look like the article is saying something it's obviously not (as it's clear from the very next sentence).
I think there should be "pull out the cord" step somewhere
The transcript of the video doesn't really work that well as the intro text in GitHub. The tone of it feels haughty, before even it has entered into the main details of the project. My suggestion is to rewrite it toning down the things that work on video but not as standalone text.
Modern transformer-based language models fundamentally lack structures and functions for "thinking ahead." And I don't believe that LLMs have emergently developed human-like thinking abilities. This phenomenon appears because language model performance has improved, and I see it as a reflection of future output token probabilities being incorporated into the probability distribution of the next token set in order to generate meaningful longer sentences.
Humans have similar experiences. Everyone has experienced thinking about what to say next while speaking. However, in artificial intelligence language models, this phenomenon occurs mechanically and statistically. What I'm trying to say is that while this phenomenon may appear similar to human thought processes and mechanisms, I'm concerned about the potential anthropomorphic error of assuming machines have consciousness or thoughts.
The ACTION_MAIN loophole has been written about before: https://commonsware.com/blog/2020/04/05/android-r-package-vi...

Google refuses to patch this. I wonder what would happen if you submit it to the Android VDP as a permission bypass.

There’s also this SO question by the author about the bypass: https://stackoverflow.com/q/79527331
I'm not sure you can use personal anecdotes to come to any conclusions about broad trends. To look at some actual data, I took the 2008 and 2024 election results and compared them with fluoridation rates. The split is pretty even:

The top 10 most fluoridated states went 5/5 Rep/Dem in 2008 and 6/4 Rep/Dem in 2024. These were Kentucky, Minnesota, Illinois, North Dakota, Virginia, Georgia, South Dakota, Maryland, Ohio, and South Carolina. Hardly a blue wall.

The bottom 10 least fluoridated states with 6/4 Rep/Dem in 2008 and 6/4 Rep/Dem in 2024. These were Hawaii, New Jersey, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Louisiana, Alaska, Utah, New Hampshire, and Mississippi. Hardly a red wall.

The bottom three least fluoridated states are all hardcore blue: Hawaii, New Jersey, and Oregon.

I just don't see any evidence here that this has been a left-right polarized issue until this year. The distribution of fluoride by political leanings is just too random.
Utah has naturally occurring fluoride in their water and some water systems its more than double(2.0mg/l) what they add to prevent dental issues. Why were they fluorinating their water?

https://cascadefamily.com/images/WaterFluoridationLevelsUtah...
LSU may be bought, but what about Berzerkley? $154M in 10 years!

Damnit Janet!
Honestly 1.5mg is not that different than 0.7mg..is there some reason to believe a 2X factor makes a big deal? I was expecting to hear of 10x differences or something, but 2x is not much of a factor in these kind of gradient effects.
I understand the sentiment but software needs ongoing revenue.

I don’t resent paying a subscription for software.
To be honest, this is part of why TVs can be offered for so cheap these days. Same reason really cheap phones are stuffed with bloatware.

Luckily with TVs you can freeload: just never connect it to the internet and only apply updates via USB. Stick an Apple TV / Chromecast / console into it for playback. This might even become standard operating procedure considering Samsung is getting into the ad game, and LG and Sony likely to follow.
Fun anecdote: Utah's Republicans actually rejected the MAGA candidates in the Republican primary for both Senator and Governer by a wide margin, despite the MAGA candidates having Trump's endorsement. If nothing else, Utah doesn't vote MAGA-or-bust like some other states have been.
Pedantic, but the naivete of spelling it as "naivety" (diacritics dropped when anglicized, for those even more pedantic)? I'm pretty sure that (mis)spelling did not exist (or was certainly not commonly used) 10 years ago.
> Surely you already know the history of professional engineers, then? How it's only a little over 118 years old? Mostly originating from the fact that it was charlatans claiming to be engineers, building things that ended up killing people, that inspired the need for a professional license?

I did not qualify with "professional" as you have, which is disingenuous. If the historical record of what can be considered "engineering" is of import, consider:

The first recorded engineer

Hey, why not ask? Surely it’s related to understanding the
origin of the word engineering? Right? Whatever we’ve asked
the question now. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the
first recorded “engineer” was Imhotep. He happened to be
the builder of the Step Pyramid at Ṣaqqārah, Egypt.

This is thought to have been erected around 2550 BC. Of
course, that is recorded history but we know from
archeological evidence that humans have been
making/building stuff, fires, buildings and all sorts of
things for a very long time.

The importance of Imhotep is that he is the first
“recorded” engineer if you like.[0]

> But these are not the people who made modern life people[sic]. Lots, and lots, and lots of people made modern life possible.

Of course this is the case. No one skill category can claim credit for all societal advancement.

But all of this is a distraction from what you originally wrote:

Engineering started out as just some dudes who built things
from gut feeling.

After a whole lot of people died from poorly built things,
they decided to figure out how to know ahead of time if it
would kill people or not.

These are your words, not mine. And to which I replied:

This is such an unbelievably dismissive assertion ...

What I wrote has nothing to do with "Engineers don't deserve any more credit than anyone else ..."

It has everything to do with categorizing efforts to solve difficult problems as unserious haphazard undertakings which ultimately led to; "they decided to figure out how to know ahead of time if it would kill people or not" (again, your words not mine).

0 - https://interestingengineering.com/culture/the-origin-of-the...
I agree with you and think you should reread. My response was not an argument, it was a response of requested information that I had compiled.
Plenty of companies need junior/intermediate devs still.
Literally the first piece of software I looked at there does not have any option I could find for paying once, just one and three year subscription plans. (NanoCAD.)

So it looks like they'll list anyone who pays the fee, making the whole exercise a waste of time.
Yes. They do have subscription cloud services, but you don't need it.

Something quite amazing is that it's written in Delphi. I love Fl Studio. It's possibly the best commercial software I've ever seen.
Makes sense, thanks! I love reading about how other cultures do software.
MegaThread: Truth, Sanity, and History
What exactly is the definition of "underpay" here? Back when my wife was a server, it seemed like a cheat code to the service industry - she was making way more money waiting tables for $2.65/hr + tips than she had made at any other job she'd had (something like $18-20/hr 15 years ago)
You don't know, but it is not. Feel free not to read it.
You're claiming that the web began to be useful with the introduction of Facebook, rather than that being its downfall?

It not being lucrative was a *feature*, not a defect.
That's generous of you to say and I respect it. No harm done. It's the times.
There isn’t any! GP doesn’t have that authority! Well done!

On the other hand, the society you live in probably has some sort of document establishing who does have the authority, and how it devolves to the actual policy-makers. Google “$YOUR_LOCATION government” and you’ll have some good starting points. If you’re lucky, you might even get to participate in the process; “$YOUR_LOCATION elections” will give you good pointers in that case.
> Does this mean that on other or older distros, they might not work

Yep exactly. While Vulkan API is well defined and mostly stable, there is no guarantee in Linux implementation will also be stable. Moreover Khronos graphics APIs only deal with the stuff after you allocated a buffer and did all the handshakes with the OS and GPU drivers. On Linux none of those have API / ABI / runtime configuration stability guarantees. Basically it works until only one of the libraries in the chain breaks the compatibility.
Okay I played Veloren for a bit a few years ago and I'm really impressed with the improvement, will need to give it another go.

One serious question I have, is there a reason with voxels we still need to have block based stuff? Like back when voxel tech first started taking off I kind of thought we'd get to the place where like you have so many voxels and we get so good at calcing the physics interactions it would just look like a normal game.

What are the bottlenecks there? Or is this intentionally stylistic still these days?

From looking at some of the bosses I can tell that's getting closer but we're still further than I'd think
What does this have to do with childhood dental outcomes?

For example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6169031/pdf/10.1177...

Which finds that fluoridated water likely conservatively prevents about 30% of childhood dental caries.
Because if adding fluoride to water isn't additionally preventative beyond the use of toothpaste, then adding the fluoride to the public water system is just wasting public funds.
I'd really like to hear your take
In addition to infosample's comment, it also gives Apple a presence in the news that's unambiguously positive over, say, the AI company du jour. (After all, Apple's financials won't tell you about flops.)
> dubious blobs

I think you are just suggesting to replace binary blobs with other binary blobs e.g. CLR/.NET assemblies/executables or WebAssembly files.

Or do it the JavaScript way: distribute compressed minified (kinda compiled) source code and the runtime JIT compiles it at runtime (e.g. V8 engine Turbofan compiler).
She got stuck saying "Got it, let's implement a new rule." over and over. But before that she did a good job when I asked to see a demo of SugarCRM vs salesforce. She told me she knew about Sugar but thinks salesforce is the better option.
Sony and Samsung were the two TV manufacturers that first introduced this technology of automatic content recognition to my knowledge.
Were I hacker, I would say thank you for the invitation...
It is trivial today to get whatever level of fluoride is recommended for dental health, via toothpaste. So there is no compelling need to fluoridate as there exist viable alternatives to achieve the same that fluoridation is for any other purpose than dental health.

In the USA, dental care is not covered by public insurance, and is an optional add-on to insurance through one’s employer.

So without addressing at all whether fluoridation is effective or safe, there doesn’t seem to be any compelling need to fluoridate public water, and there’s no economic down side for the public if governments choose not to do so.

Given this, why not just leave people alone to make their own choices? If the citizens in a city or state want to fluoridate the public water supply, then do so; if they choose not to, then leave them alone. It’s a free country and voters are grownups; let them choose for themselves.

If you live in a place that chooses the choice you dislike but for some reason fluoridated public water supply is a critical issue for you, either campaign to change it or vote with your feet.

This issue just doesn’t seem important enough to me to spend any effort arguing either way.
You can turn it off. This is just a poorly worded FAQ.

At the beginning, there is an FAQ that says you can't turn off ads in scenic mode.

Q: Can I turn Scenic Mode ads off?
A: No, not at this time...

But in fact you can turn the Scenic mode off completely, but it buried later in the content of an FAQ about settings.

Q: Can I change any settings for Scenic Mode?
A: Yes. To use Scenic Mode with or without volume, navigate to the left side menu on the VIZIO Home screen, click Settings > Extras > Home Page Settings > Scenic Mode. Once you’re in the Scenic Mode section of Settings, scroll down and select either Volume On or Volume Off. You will see a checkmark appear, noting that you’ve correctly selected your setting. If you want to turn off Scenic Mode completely, follow the same instructions to get to the Scenic Mode section of Settings and select Disable.
Something else about FLStudio - you can run it on multiple machines with a single license. So ImageLine don't charge you for each computer you use it with.
From the page:

"Why do this?

Through these reads and writes, we can get glimpses into the internal operation of the chip. Now for the 6502 this is a bit unnecessary, as the internal operations of the chip are already well known.

But there are many systems for which the inner workings are not well understood. This chiplab, initially tested with the 6502, should provide a way to learn and build models for these less well understood chips."

So, this is pretty much useless at its current state, a placeholder for introspecting more advanced, less known chips in the future. It's pretty much a "because we can" kind of system. And that's a darn fine excuse for building this.

Awesome work.
I think it absolutely works in practice. You have to pick the right libraries though. I would start with https://github.com/com-lihaoyi which basically follows that style.

> But you're right that the same can be said of the OO focus of Kotlin.

The difference is that Scala focuses on immutability, which makes the experience much closer to Rust than to Java. Whereas Kotlin does it exactly like Java does. Were Kotlin to focus on immutability like Scala does, than I would recommend Kotlin over Scala for what OP asked for.
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