skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Color "exists only in our brains".

"It is common to say that certain wave lengths of the electromagnetic spectrum are a given color, but in truth, it is more correct to say that those stimuli are perceived to be of a certain color when viewed under specific conditions. So without the human observer, there is really no color, and practical standards for color must take this factor of human perception into account."

"Charting Color from the Eye of the Beholder" 2005

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/charting-color-fro...
Js trivia, no need to know this stuff.
I am leaving Canada
Technically even Russia has a federal minimum wage, pension system and universal healthcare. They even have laws against child labour.

No America goes even lower...
Maximizing reduces the variations, but there's still quite a bit of variation because of different display resolution + scaling settings + OS configuration (eg. short or tall taskbars).
There is. Just as the GP was responding to a comment about meat availability and not just wanting to end meat consumption.

>That's part of the problem. You wanting the burger has all these negative consequences for humans, animals and nature.
I agree the pervasiveness of at-will employment and the gig economy, when combined with the way our economy is set up to require employment for survival, are a problem.
In the linked article, Hejlsberg considers adding a new checked exception a breaking change (true), but adding a new thrown exception to not be, because "in a lot of cases, people don't care." I think this is obviously open to debate.

You're conflating "incorrect" with "mistake," no one is saying the C# team forgot to add checked exceptions.
CUDA was born from C and C++

It would be nice if they actually implemented a C variant of CUDA instead of extending C++ and calling it CUDA C.
> In challenge of the idea

This was technically correct but missed out on a viral app and millions of revenue?
I think any system language going forward really needs three things:

1. Generics / templates

2. Destructors

3. Ownership

It is unfortunate that this only has the first one. There was a language called clay that had all three and kept easy integration with the C ABI, but it seems like that design has been lost.
> The source is open. It can be seen, edited, run yourself.

I can also take and eat food from the supermarket without paying. I just have to pay later in multiples, get jailed, or both. Or not.
I actually went over this recently with someone who wanted to build something similar. The conclusion was this is a very difficult problem to solve, probably intractable to some extent. You can't see the complete composition of the food with a standard camera. E.g. I make a salad which is maybe 300 calories. Then I sprinkle some croutons and bacon on top, which will mostly be in the middle. Then I put dressing on it, which is hard to estimate. That dressing hides the bacon and croutons and, since it contains a lot of oil, could seriously skew the measurement one way or the other. Now I mix it all around and the AI can't tell how much dressing was used at all.

I pick this example because I've seen specifically this cause problems for people trying to lose weight. They think their eating a salad, not realizing they've thrown an extra 500 calories on top.

Another case: I sit down to breakfast, having made myself eggs and toast. One of if not the largest contributor to my calorie intake will be the amount of butter on my toast. If I use four pats that will probably exceed my calorie intake from eggs. If I use one, not as much. I sincerely doubt it's realistic to tell the difference with any sort of precision.
Yeah but in the end when it comes down to it, one would have to specify the exact details, especially for very intricate systems. And the more and more you would abstract and specialize that language for the LLM, you end up going a very long round about way to re-inventing code basically.
Well, whats the difference between Vibe Coding in 5 - 10 years vs coding in C 5 - 10 years after compilers came out?
CT is basically just pressing A for 5-10 hours though. The characters are pretty well done (albeit pretty hardcore 90s archetypes) and the artwork is gorgeous, but, given the shallowness of the dialogue and the gameplay, it doesn’t hit me like it used to.
I think government regulation probably only advanced the inevitable. Synthetic substitutes were developed for performance (temperature tolerance and service life). It was likely only a matter of time until said substitutes made their way back into older specifications for oil due to natural economic incentives.

Perhaps there would still be some niche whaling if not for the ban, but it would be for a niche use, not because literally every automatic transmission in the country needs a cup of the stuff.
I think the key insight here is that actually counting calories is not needed by the app's demographic. Possibly just getting them to pay attention to what they are eating is enough for them to see progress or at least feel like they are doing something.
Not really a defense of this clown ideology, but Rand would be acting rationally (if a bit hypocritically) by accepting the Government's check. In her views, it's the State that's acting irrationally by offering support in the first place.

On a similar subject, she believed disabled people (or more generally, people unable to work) should not receive any help other than from "voluntary charity" [1], a fact I find absolutely disgusting and should discredit this ideology to any sane person.

[1] https://youtu.be/rM4HqlqQYwo
Is that really a contradiction? We all have our ideals, and we all fail to live up to them sometimes, because life can be brutal.
While not for the faint of heart, there is a fix for T480's broken Thunderbolt:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200318130144/https://posts.nadi...
The article ends with...

> Does the growth of AI have to bring with it the tacit or even explicit encouragement of intellectual theft?

And like, yes, 100% - what else is AI but a tool for taking other people's work and reassembling it into a product for you without needing to pay someone. Do you want an awesome studio ghibli'd version of yourself? There are thousands of artists online that you could commission for a few bucks to do it that'd probably make something actually interesting - but no, we go to AI because we want to avoid paying a human.
Yes, and Germany considers protests against anything Israel does in Gaza to be support for Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization in Germany.

That's why I told you: officially, protesting is legal, but they still arrest and deport people for protesting.

This newspaper may not think they're the same thing, but the police do.
that’s hilarious
Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote something like below in this book Skin in the Game. It looks to me that there is a lot of inequality and unfairness hidden in the Europe.

"Consider that about ten percent of Americans will spend at least a year in the top one percent and more than half of all Americans will spent a year in the top ten percent[1]. This is visibly not the same for the more static –but nominally more equal –Europe. For instance, only ten percent of the wealthiest five hundred American people or dynasties were so thirty years ago; more than sixty percent of those on the French list were heirs and a third of the richest Europeans were the richest centuries ago. In Florence, it was just revealed that things are really even worse: the same handful of families have kept the wealth for five centuries."

And there is more quoted here: https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...
100% efficient everything is an unimaginable dystopia. All that's nice, and good, all kindness and love and happiness, all that exists within economic inefficiencies. It's the slack that lets us be human.

That said, of the four examples you mentioned, only one has the distinction of being a metaphorical cancer on modern society, entrapping everything it touches in negative-sum games until it burns out all value and metastasizes to the next fertile ground. It's what ruined medium after medium, from phones through over-the-air TV, cable, web, video streaming, news, social media - and it just keeps going.

I wrote this over 5 years ago, and since then, the cancer analogy only felt ever more accurate to me: https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
> nobody will ever need to use Grub again.

I mean, I replaced Grub with systemd-boot awhile back...
In addition to growing pages using VirtualAlloc, it's also possible to have the same memory pages mapped at different locations by using memory mapped 'files' (even when the backing file is just the paging file). This means that if your new block isn't contiguous, you can remap the existing memory without a copy.

However, system calls also have overhead (thanks Meltdown/Spectre mitigations), and you might not come ahead by avoiding memory copies.
Who wants to be hired

Location: Denver, Colorado
Remote: Yes, or hybrid
Willing to relocate: Depending on which target state, YES
Technologies: Clojure, TypeScript
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vncz/
Email: vnczes@icloud.com

For the last 10 years I have been working primarily for companies building tools for developers involved with large HTTP APIs (Apiary, Stoplight to name a few). Some of the open source tools you currently use when dealing with OpenAPI might have been written by me.

Currently I work as API Architect where I help design and ship big APIs, work in internal tools and help with the giant API Gateway that serves billions of requests per day and coordinates the various services for ${bit-company}

I can help in architecting very big systems, on the cloud or not, building tools for internal and external developer productivity and I am particularly good when thrown in codebases with a lot of technical debt and bring them back on a path to excellence.
> buys a $7 oat milk latte

Well no wonder you're poor. If you bought an espresso machine it would pay for itself in less than a month.
Perhaps that partly because 90% of the training data used to teach LLMs to code is made by junior engineers?
It's a microbenchmark (if even that), take it with a grain of salt. You'd probably see a bigger difference with bigger/more/more complicated tasks,
In general I would agree, but with RFK in charge of that stuff I hope he is able to enact some change
there's 70% less wild animals than there were 30 years ago
> we were close

Maybe. In my microcosm even before big AI, 100% of my tech acquaintances were against IP laws, 0% of my art acquaintances were, and authors I know had varied opinions based on their other backgrounds.

Artists do seem to have had a mindset shift. Previously they supported IP protection because it was "right" (or they'd at least concede that in practice it's not helping them personally), but with the AI boom most of them are pro-IP laws because of more visceral livelihood fears.
I don't think all artists are leftists, but I do believe that all art that has a broad impact is progressive in character, if not in intent.

Did the Renaissance painters who used single-point-perspective do so in service of seizing the means of production? Obviously not. But they did do so knowing full well that it was a break from the previous art styles, and that such a break was a good thing. Likewise for the rise of the novel, the fall of meter in poetry, digital and electronic art, etc etc

At the end of the day, one of the better (although still incomplete) differentiators between art and simply craft is the deliberate pursuit of novelty of expression. That is, an artist is always trying to say something new, or say something in a new way. You can be exceptionally good at producing the exact same painting, but that doesn't make you an artist, simply a craftsman (and there is nothing wrong with being a craftsman).
I think this is an astute observation. Taking any extreme position will inevitably put someone in the position where they find it difficult or impossible to live up to their own ideals. At the far ends of the spectrum everything starts to look alike.

Ayn Rand herself died while collecting Social Security and Medicare.
NIH Data Archives under review for changes to comply with Trump Executive Orders
Thunder Compute (YC S24) is hiring a GPU systems engineer
I'm generally in favor of giving people a chance and not just judging them based on the law regardless of morality.

But there's only one POTUS. There are multiple people out there who could do a decent job of being POTUS. Many of them are not convicted felons. We wouldn't lose much if we filtered out the entire convicted-felon category from this particular job.
Chancy dev here.

I've intentionally chosen simple over performance when the choice is there. Chancy still happily handles millions of jobs and workflows a day with dynamic concurrency and global rate limits, even in low-resource environments. But it would never scale horizontally to the same level you could achieve with RabbitMQ, and it's not meant for massive multi-tenant cloud hosting. It's just not the project's goal.

Chancy's aim is to be the low dependency, low infrastructure option that's "good enough" for the vast majority of projects. It has 1 required package dependency (the postgres driver) and 1 required infrastructure dependency (postgres) while bundling everything inside a single ASGI-embeddable process (no need for separate processes like flower or beat). It's used in many of my self-hosted projects, and in a couple of commercial projects to add ETL workflows, rate limiting, and observability to projects that were previously on Celery. Going from Celery to Chancy is typically just replacing your `delay()/apply_async()` with `push()` and swapping `@shared_task()` with `@job()`.

If you have hundreds of employees and need to run hundreds of millions of jobs a day, it's never going to be the right choice - go with something like Hatchet. Chancy's for teams of one to dozens that need a simple option while still getting things like global rate limits and workflows.
Just a minor nitpick.

> For example, European regulation prohibits GMO

GMO is not forbidden. It just has to get approved case by case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_in_t... (section "Approach" shows what is required)

There is a large per-country component too.

> The EU uses the precautionary principle, demanding a pre-market authorisation for any GMO to enter the market and a post-market environmental monitoring.

Alternative link (EU site): https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/projects-and-acti...

Much of the monitoring is to avoid or trace cross-contamination between fields, and ultimately the reason for that is significant consumer demand for non-GMO food, so that farmers who are non-GMO don't want their crops contaminated by a neighboring field that has GMO plants.
Uh, no, it's a group plan so it's cheaper.
Sure, you have my permission. However, in my own case, I'm not currently looking for a job, and never in my life did it take more than 2 weeks to FIND a job, when looking. Been coding 24x7x365 since 1981. :)

...however I'm absolutely certain there are many interviews I've aced and not gotten the job, primarily for being in an several undesirable categories that Silicon Valley progressive wokesters despise with a passion: 1) Over 40. 2) White 3) Male 4) Straight 5) Handsome 6) Rich 7) American, speaking perfect English.

All 7 of those demographic stats about me are absolutely despicable to Silicon Valley hiring managers, and any one alone is enough for them to pass by a candidate over a different one lacking the trait.

You can also quote, this post about Silicon Valley too, and there was even a time when such rants like this would've been CENSORED immediately by HackerNews. Thankfully they've lightened up a bit.
"New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria" until we freely give the recipe to developing country pharmaceutical companies with no requirement to control distribution so now this antibiotic is given for a simple cough and we're back where we started.

Antibiotic resistance is as much a political problem as a biology one.
Ireland feels the same. A lot of the green spaces have absolutely no indigenous species. You can only find them in places that are being rewilded.
I have the pleasure of living in a pretty "red" part of the country, and everyone I know who is a self-described libertarian (or otherwise worships at the altar of self-sufficiency) lives utterly dependent on societal systems. They're on Medicare, Disability or Social Security, live in neighborhoods with solid public services, rely on the rule of law for protection from crime, and enjoy clean air and drinking water, safe food and medicine, that they only have access to due to strong environmental and safety regulations. They were the first ones to freak out on Social Media during COVID when they had to actually rely on themselves for a bit.

As someone else put it on Twitter, they are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.
All true, but language changes. And today, open source in this context is universally understood to mean software released under a license complying with the OSD.

Free software doesn't have to mean "software released under the GPL, MIT, BSD, or other FSF-approved license". And yet, in this context, it universally does.
> While the protests are per se not illegal, the people arrested aren't accused of just protesting, they are accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. The right to free speech isn't as all-encompassing in Germany as it is in the USA, so shouting the wrong slogans can very well get you in trouble.

Yes, that's correct. Anyone who protests and grabs the attention of the police is accused of supporting a terrorist organisation. That's why I added the information that although they protest completely legally, they still get arrested and deported. The pretense for the arrest and deportation is that protesting to stop the carpet bombing of Gaza supports Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation.
This was like 2004. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox all had getElementById in their first versions in like 2003, Opera had it in version 7, Internet Explorer was the odd one out.

This was IE6 days, the real bad old days. Remember that we were still mostly constrained to XMLHTTPRequests for calls to APIs

Anything actually important to be done in a web browser didn't use javascript, it used an ActiveX Component/extension, a java applet, or Flash or Shockwave (by Macromedia at the time!)
If you do it right, no one will know.
I also disagree. Porting VMS to x86-64 was a huge endeavor. They wouldn't have bothered unless there were at least a few big customers to make it worth it. Otherwise, why not go with emulation? There are commercially supported Alpha and VAX emulators for x86.
I agree with you that the most consistent theory for explaining the current GOP going off the rails is a lack of compassion and empathy for their fellow human beings, replaced by a hope that Trump will smile upon them and be compassionate to them. It's a vicious cycle of signaling, since Reagan, that your government is not compassionate towards you therefore you should not empathize with your government and instead trust corporations (but don't think about their need to make money).

I don't know how to promote empathy and compassion without relying on religious arguments. I usually find the strictly secular and over atheists are very compassionate and empathetic, but the mildly religious and definitely the evangelists in my life and the absolute _least_ compassionate people to those outside their tribe.
Opensource.org doesn't get to redefine what words mean to the rest of us. They should have chosen words that weren't already being used with common meanings if they wanted to be the say in what those words meant.
Note Banner that I see: https://i.imgur.com/2vXqXBH.png
Oh yes. The destruction of trust in public democratic institutions is part of the plan.
We define normal by what is common and familiar. But that has no bearing on what ought to be.

It's normal for half of all babies to die in the first year of their life. It's normal for an infected limb to commonly lead to death. Etc.
You are not required to rewrite everything if you exceed $1million in annual revenue. You are required to get a commercial license from them, which costs money.

That's not the same thing. And quite frankly, if you're making over $1 million in annual revenue you should be able to afford the license fee for the most important part of your company.
> Under some interpretations, the case also affirmed that the business judgment rule that directors may exercise is expansive, leaving Ford and other businesses a wide latitude about how to run the company, if management decisions can point to any rational link to benefiting the corporation as a whole.
link please? I want to see this
If your productivity is up 1% due to AI, that only means one of two things 1) You're not a developer, or 2) Your prompts are 99% poorly written, so that's a you problem not an AI problem.
> Given the speeds at which EVs charge, at least every other parking spot at the stop would need a charger to make it viable for the average consumer

This is not based in reality.

My car visits many dozens of parking spots in an average week. Only one of them needs a charger.

When I leave the house, its fully charged with >200mi of range. I drop the kids off at school, I don't need to charge. I go to the office, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I go to a restaurant for lunch, I don't need to charge. I go to the pharmacy, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I go to hardware store, I don't need to charge. I go to grocer, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I pick up the kids from school, I don't need to charge. We go to the city park, I don't need to charge (although there are chargers available). I get home, and plug in. Finally, it charges, even though it didn't use 25% of its capacity. It can charge slowly over several hours, imparting about the same load on the grid than my air conditioner or pool pump.

I am absolutely an average American car consumer. Maybe only slightly less, as I don't own a pickup truck.

I do agree, an EV today probably isn't for everyone. People who routinely do very long road trips might not have a great experience depending on where they are. People who absolutely can't charge at home and there aren't many chargers around their grocery stores or office probably shouldn't get an EV. Currently EV pickup trucks are stupid expensive and aren't great for towing, so if you're the kind of person putting his boat in the lake every weekend its probably not right for you today.

But most Americans live in single-family homes, which generally speaking can easily get a several kW charger installed pretty cheap. And it wouldn't put much more load on the grid as any other appliance in their house.