skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying you never pull in dependencies? Why stop there, why not re-implement the std lib as well? Surely there is a sensible middle ground: If you only need a small part of a dependency, consider implementing it. If you make heavy use of a dependency and want to benefit of years if not decades of dedicated developers testing and maturing its code, with a large community who has already stepped in all pitfalls you might step into and collectively encountered all the edge cases, just use the dependency.
It is great that people are going out doing stuff, having fun and learning. But this project seems like a disaster in the making.

-Making your own fuel.

-Using inappropriate materials (e.g. PVC)

-Poor storage of motors.

-People are standing quite close to the rocket when it launches.

-There seem to be buildings quite close to the launch in one of the videos.

-Night launches. How are you going to get out of the way, if you can't see the rocket?

2 stage rockets are particularly dangerous, because as the second stage can launch horizontally or downward if the first stage tilts (as shown in one of the videos).

I think they are being irresponsible with the safety of themselves and anyone nearby. I would strongly recommend they learn a bit of safe practices and make a single stage rocket that works reliably, before even attempting 2 stage.
The judicial branch is meant only to provide clarify of laws on the books. I'm not sure what they would do with an enforcement agency, and I'd be worried about what that would do with regards to the types of people attracted to those judicial positions.

The legislative branch already has a lot of power. I'd be very concerned giving them the direct control, or even shared control, over enforcement. They should be controlling enforcement through legislation.

That leaves the executive, and personally I don't see a problem with enforcement living there. That is a very good reason to otherwise limit the authority of the executive branch though, and why executive orders as used today shouldn't be legal (they effectively are a legislative branch with the enforcement agencies).
It's grifting all the way down. The only solution I can envision is an internet liberated of commercial pressures. If you couldn't make money online, surely grifters would stop caring?
The Scientific 7-Minute Workout (2013)
Yep, can't get past it
I know Linux gets all the love usually, but it's cool seeing new stuff land in the more "classic" *nix OSs nowadays
Creating from scratch also creates hidden debt, it's just moved onto yourself. Especially when working with dates and timezones.
Reposts and source laundered articles are becoming increasingly popular in "new" section as of late. This place is sinking into it too.
Ideal use case seems like medical. Air taxi someone directly to the hospital as fast as possible.
I used to love Reddit, but the astroturfing has become unbearable, especially by political groups.

After this last election, I think political groups realized local subreddits were underutilized and have regrouped accordingly.

While I still trust some appended Reddit searches on Google, I'm losing faith there too. Product/service recommendation threads are really easy to manipulate.
You could do a lobotomized WebSockets implementation that was an extremely thin layer on top of http, similarly to this.

In this way SSE and WebSockets are exactly the same. They are HTTP requests that you keep open. To firewalls and other network equipment both look the same. They look like long lived http requests, because that is what they are.
I see why they do this, but man it almost feels like asking your boss for approval on where you go on vacation. Do people get dinged if their 20% time project doesn't pan out, or they lose interest later on?
More serious reply: us and Mojo have similar visions of where the world is going. The key difference between us is that Mojo is itself a new programming language. Sure, it supports Python, but it doesn't actually compile Python. It simply delegates all interactions with Python code to the CPython interpreter: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/why-mojo/#compatibility-with-p...

But beyond that, our goal is meeting devs where they are. This means that beyond just compiling Python code, we provide SDKs for different frameworks (JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, React Native, Unity, etc) that devs can use to run these functions within their applications, in as little as two lines of code.

We're very (very) focused on developers shipping products that use Function. We're already embedded in web apps, apps on the App Store, Play Store, and other places.
If I felt the need to drive 1000km without a break, I would be supremely glad to have technology that forced me to be more reasonable with my body.
From the demo video, they claim it has more rotors than needed. So presumably it could detect one of them breaking and just turn it off.
They aren’t sympathetic with the gaming market, which is the one place where they’re winning.

Meta products have me wondering what is up with them. I find the interface for uploading pictures to the unfounded Mastodon, of all places, it easier to use than Instagram [1] and less cringe.

Cringe is the least of the problems Horizon Worlds has [2]. No doubt VR needs authoring tools that make it accessible to the rest of us, but Horizon Worlds isn’t it. For one thing you have to build everything with awkward manual computational solid geography tools and can’t import resources from normal tools. I want to import my photos but they want to conserve texture space in the MQ3, never mind the MQ2 that the cheap consumer really wants to buy. McDonald’s has to be able to put a Coca-Cola logo on the cups and they probably have a PNG or a EPS or something but no dice. Maybe if people can import resources they can violate copyright or something.

The ‘social VR’ model fits with the OnlyFans business plan but any real business can’t afford to post real employees to serve visitors. Is the answer to create realistic NPCs like we see in science fiction VR games like Shangi-La Frontier or just something that doesn’t involve interacting with humanoids? Horizon Worlds isn’t it.

[1] Ok, Insta has filters and stuff I don’t use because I have DxO — all I need is speed, drag-and-drop and many little affordances that Bluesky and Mastodon have because those sites don’t think “we’re number one, why try harder?”

[2] Does Instagram’s mainstreaming of cringe (the blond girls who wear the same slinky dress and stand by the same squat rack at the same gym but might really hail from Russia, Ukraine or Myanmar) make them cringe-blind?
Show HN: WebAbility – Free AI-Powered Website Accessibility Checker
I agree, but in this banking apps (around me) use the Integrity API anyway.
The only thing that changed was Context and its support in networking and other libraries to do asynchronous cancellation. It made managing network connections with channels somewhat easier.

But in general the conclusion still stands. Channels brings unnecessarily complexity. In practice message passing with one queue per goroutine and support for priority message delivery (which one cannot implement with channels) gives better designs with less issues.
Actually day and a half :). I'm all for it but unfortunately I have pretty old hardware.
I've found the smartest go engineer in the room is usually the one NOT using channels.
I took it as a poor-quality local model. I suppose it is possible, but it seems...unlikely... that one of the three responses to that post was a person who was so upset by the idea of serving junk content to scraper bots that they registered for an account, wrote their criticism, and then disappeared from the site.

At that time, there were a whole bunch of flagged-dead comments from newly-created accounts that had compound-word usernames (such as the text I linked to above from 'earlydeveloper'.) So, if these are people manually writing those posts, I understand the behavior even less than the bot hypothesis.
Is the Dire Wolf Back from the Dead?
Can AI agents truly replace human judgment in web accessibility compliance, or will we always need manual auditing?
The same thing happened to my extremely old account (17+ years). A few weeks ago I noticed I stopped getting replies and taking a look in incognito mode verified my suspicion. I had stopped existing. I think it was because I had started the habit of deleting my older comments. Oddly enough, the hundreds of comments I had deleted had returned (only visible to me of course...other uses clicking on my profile would see an "account doesn't exist" message). At that point I just deleted the account in disgust.
I see it as a drawback of a poorly structured society that one has to know these topics at all. In in ideal society, money would manage itself, people wouldn't have to dress differently for an interview, and shirts wouldn't tear or need ironing. Those with such skills have been strongly conditioned into thinking that their skills are the only way, when in reality they are the ones holding us back.
Naive question, can't you just have a player count alongside the best score and leave when that reaches 0?
Way ahead of you: https://github.com/olokobayusuf/python-vs-rust/blob/main/Car...

I've clarified that this is not designed to be a rigorous benchmark. We've got rigorous benchmarks coming for image processing and CNN inference. I'll reply with the image processing example benchmark this week.
I've been using Go since 2011. One year less than the author. Channels are bad. No prioritization. No combining with other synchronisation primitives without extra goroutines. In Go, no way to select on a variable number of channels (without more goroutines). The poor type system doesn't let you improve abstractions. Basically anywhere I see a channel in most people's code particular in the public interface, I know it's going to be buggy. And I've seen so many bugs. Lots of abandoned projects are because they started with channels and never dug themselves out.

The lure to use channels is too strong for new users.

The nil and various strange shapes of channel methods aren't really a problem they're just hard for newbs.

Channels in Go should really only be used for signalling, and only if you intend to use a select. They can also act as reducers, fan out in certain cases. Very often in those cases you have a very specific buffer size, and you're still only using them to avoid adding extra goroutines and reverting to pure signalling.
I would say the exact opposite. The latest Pixel phones are "pretty much iPhones" in terms of hardware (and looks too). It seems smartphones have arrived at an agreed upon form factor and design in general.

What I noticed though is that Google often tries to upsell based on software features alone. For example, there is really no point in buying a Pixel 9 Pro instead of a base Pixel 9 as the hardware is practically the same except certain things. But Google markets the Pro model with more software based AI features. When installing GOS this really doesn't make a difference so one can always opt for the more inexpensive models.
The posthuman.blog domain name was registered yesterday on April 12, right when this post was written - https://www.whois.com/whois/posthuman.blog.

And this is the second of only two posts there, with the first supposedly being written in July of 2022.

All of this leads me to a reasonable suspicion that this person is actually the one who made the post they're complaining about.
Except he didn't announce anything. He said "a good time to buy" which may be code language that his friends understand.
The cone over the drain, and/or the spiked mats (both inside the urinal) seem to have stopped all splashing and be widely used in UK without need to change the urinal itself.

What one does find now is dyson-style hands dryers leave a massive area of spray. They seem to spray the water from your hands - and the water retained on the device - up into the air and across a wide area.

At our work place there are bench style sinks that spray water everywhere too.

And the sit-down toilets are terrible. I'm not an especially large man but it's almost impossible to use them without unnecessary contact. Sit-down toilets seem to be 'designed' by people who have no idea about their use by men.
> How well known is Murphy?

He's the senator from the state I live in, so I know him and think he's excellent.

> much more electable than Biden or harris.

He represents a northeast blue state. It's difficult for those types of Democrats to carry non-coastal states in a presidential election, no matter how good they may be.

I suspect Bill Clinton tacked rightward to carry some southern states in 1992 and 1996, which led to his election.

Christ, Al Gore (2000 election) couldn't even carry his home state of Tennessee, so you can see how difficult it is to elect a Democrat to the presidency.

John Kerry (Dem from a northeast blue state) got smoked by George Bush in 2004.

I'm still trying to understand how Obama won twice, but I think it boils down to the fact that he invigorated the African-American vote in some key southern states.

tldr: Chris Murphy is great--unfortunately, he's the kind of Democratic presidential candidate who'd probably lose outside of the coastal states.

* edit: I would have been 'happy' with either outcome in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. McCain and Romney are/were decent and serious people. In fact, Romney was roundly mocked by the Dems in 2012 for saying that Russia was the US's greatest external threat. In retrospect ...
I've used ChatGPT enough that I can almost immediately tell when a post is a bot. It has such a familiar cadence and style. The em dash is a pretty good giveaway too, but just the overall writing style is so easy to identify. And it sucks how many of these highly upvoted "clearly written by AI" posts there are.
Both application programs and libraries, all distributed by the OS vendor.
The _only_ thing I don't like about this is the automatic prefixing of '#' in header tags. Everything about this is freaking awesome.
Bruce Sterling's take on this story is still a classic:

"The Spearhead of Cognition", 1987, https://germanponte.com/txt/catscan/sterling.html#ym2
There are people who make a new account for every comment they post. To avoid getting tracked, or something like that.
You are spot on in regards to consideration of adversarial context; however, it is instructive to review the nuanced difference between the RFC761 (1980) statement, viz. "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" and the substitution of "send" for "do" in RFC1122 (1989). The latter is, with hindsight, an error, since it refocused the attention of some rigid thinkers entirely onto protocol mechanics and away from implementation behaviour, despite the commentary beneath that admonishes such a mindset and concurs wholly with your point.

Or to put it otherwise, Postel was right to begin with, albeit perhaps just a little too cryptic, and has been frequently misquoted and misinterpreted ever since.
Like any kind of copyright law?
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NextJS came to save us all, until it became a mess. The front-end framework drama has been going on for at least a decade. Theoretically, could we even have some sane resolution with clear choices within the next 5 years? What can it look like?
I disagree with this analogy. Fearing all tattoos is mostly built on prejudice. If you knew the tattoos were gang tattoos, there might be reason for caution.

Choosing to engage with the attention economy and optimizing for engagement/rage as Sabine does undermines the validity of what she says because the incentive structures in the media environment she’s chosen to embrace.

I think it’s more like Sabine joined a gang, and while it’s possible that she has useful things to say, it’s also difficult to know where her allegiances lie, and which things she says are to keep the gang leaders happy.

Audience capture is real, and she’s been on that path for awhile now I think.
Basically. Last year spaceX had fleet of 18 F9s doing more than 50% of global launches, 80% including starlink.

SpaceX stans wank over 50% and 80%, but ignore that 18 is rookie numbers.

7/145 US space launches in 2024 was Non SpaceX.

That means US in aggregate build 25 rockets.

Versus PRC 68 (wanted 100 which was kind of reach).

Next 5-10 year projection need to account for # launch vehicles once PRC figures out reusable. Bearing in mind that PRC already producing ~2.5x launch vehicles, just not reusable.

To add, PRC didn't take reusable seriously until UKR war, and now they likely have multiple viable candidates due end of year. "Seriously" as in they proposed years prior to squat megaconstellation orbital rights but development wasn't urgent. Frankly no reason PRC won't have 50-100 reusables fleet _IF_ demand justifies it. And then like with all PRC catchup, they'll put more than SpaceX lifetime aggregate payload in a few years, and then it won't even be close.

The fundemental reality is, despite having ~10 year headstart, SpaceX is still an American company operating at American scale. US space launch lead is not particularly durable / sustainable.

If future of space is anything like EV, there's potential for several PRC rivals with fleets larger than SpaceX if there's demand for it. TBH only short/medium term demand is militarization of space (including isr megaconstellations). I expected PRC to only modestly eclipse SpaceX by factor of 2 in medium term. But with US murmuring about Brilliant Swarm, probably more and quicker, because technically it going to be faster for PRC to build 1000s of rival space interceptors than proliferate 1000s of nukes for parity (enrichment limitations > launch tempo).
So your projects end up with their own "lib" of scattered time functions, possibly with new small bugs. I'd then rather have a proper well-tested and maintained library.
> I work in healthcare. If I have a choice between "reading docs/changelogs carefully, implementing functions", and "adding an extra dependency", I'm taking the dependency every single time.

This kinda sums up the sorry state of software engineering. People can't even be bothered to read docs but will just blindly install a package just because someone was able to package it and upload it to PyPI.

Taking on a dependency does not relieve you of reading docs, but it also adds a further burden as you now need to trust the code. The stdlib is much more heavily tested and documented than any 3rd party library will be.
The whole insurance system is a scam. Britain does it better.

For non emergencies, I would much prefer we go back to patients paying cash, and getting medical loans when they need. For emergencies I would prefer the government cover them directly without any intermediary. Because of the insurance system, things cost 10x more than they should, which makes it an actively harmful system. If it were to go away, competition and efficiencies would drive down prices 10x.
> An AI-powered bot pretending to be a human, lamenting AI-powered bots who pretend to be human, to gain human trust, so that it can covertly market AI-illustrated books

It’s a typical get rich quick scheme on Amazon. Generate garbage books or “illustrate” classics. I keep seeing adds about it on youtube.

One of the more engaging themes today is alienation, AI, society being fractured, etc. so they figured to use that. I’d give them some points for “cleverness”, but even that is LLM generated most likely.
I meant to say article pages not comment pages, but ack.
The Path Between the Seas
Unless that typo was inserted intentionally to make it look like it was written by a fallible human.
As people have mentioned, people are still against legally-sourced generative AI systems like Adobe's, so concern over IP rights isn't the only, or I suspect, major, objection to generative AI that people have.
Kind of interesting that I spend way too much time on Reddit but have not seen this. This is likely because I mostly read small and specialized subreddits and avoid junk like I am allergic to it or something. I would never have found the fake book link in the article, for example. Just a contrast, but given that some are saying the Internet is gone and it is necessary to leave it is potentially interesting to note that it isn't that way for all. Possibly some psychosocial equivalent of buoyancy and swimming ability?
Are you a PKD fan too? The two you mentioned are amongst Lem's most Dick-ian stories. Also note, there is a newer English language translation of Solaris. I liked it better than the one I read years ago.
Wow this reads like the plot of a bad romcom! I can totally imagine Dick sitting angry in his study getting all worked up over how badly Lem hated US SF and how mean that is, not realizing Lem actually loved his work. All this lacks is the grand finale where the misunderstanding is revealed and they kiss & make out.
I've been using GrapheneOS since the Pixel 3a and this is the first time I'm hearing of such an issue. To me, the ability to relock the bootloader and rely on verified boot is a big security advantage compared to other custom ROMs. I would not want to give that up lightly.
I tried something like that 2 decades ago with a 640x480 monocular strapped to my sunglasses, with interpolation i could use a 1024x768 resolution in combination with a arm based pocketpc with host usb and compactflash video-out.
I used it for reading and 'fast' offline wikipedia/tr3 database search with both frogpad and twiddler2 and some voice commands.

The problem is that you can see the foreground and depth ok as the monocular screen on my left eye 'merged' semi-transparently due to brain processing. I assume this is a bit worse on the XReal.
The main issue was that when walking you make a slight sinus wave up and down compared to the foreground. You don't notice this usually, but with a paragraph of text or code positioned in front of your eyes it becomes very distracting.

One solution, using a mode of transport that doesn't involve moving up and down slightly, for example using a bicycle or car for transportation.
In both circumstances, the latter being the most problematic, it's not advisable safety wise (or even illegal) and a screenreader solution is better. I had the idea of using Emacsspeak for this, or do a smart speakup echo from the commandline.

Another solution is using RSVP, or using both RSVP and text to speech.
Samsung DeX is great though, Motorola, Huawai and recent Android have support for desktop mode too (if the phone supports video-out).
Funny how back in the 90s/00s, we used to say 49% of the internet was porn. And now we say it's bots. Something curious about both being fake human interactions.
It was some time ago, so I unfortunately can't remember all the details. It occured during a normal system update that ran without problems at first, but when I rebooted the phone to finish the update it couldn't boot anymore (I can't remember the error messages). I don't know what exactly went wrong or was corrupted during the update. I definetly rebooted the phone multiple times and tried to fix the issue, but after some time I realized it was futile.

Maybe there still was a way to salvage it, but I really can't tell in hindsight.
Florida is passing laws to make that easier, yes
Isn’t what you call a "sharp name" just a brand-able name? These kind of domain names aren’t parked that often as they are typically some kind of fantasy names or combinations of two or even more words. So no, I don’t think they’re undervalued.
Unclear if they can actually beat GPUs in training throughout with 4D parallelism
All I ever hear about Facebook any more is just its marketplace. It's gotten to the point where I might make an account just so I can easily sell stuff locally.