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n8ta··on Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken
You don't think it's reasonable to think the training set comes from the real world? Why not? Seems like a reasonable assumption to me.

The alternative is they are carefully curating a training set (google historically unwilling to do anything manually) or writing one themselves???

n8ta··on Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
Example.

ImageA: ubuntu + apache + yourPhpApplication ImageB: ubuntu + apache

To deploy ImageA all you need to do is run the image. To deploy image B you need to run ImageB along with a copy of your application

Above I was describing ImageA.

n8ta··on Ask HN: MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days
If we're doing anecdotes. I was hit by a car with my laptop and it has a 1/4 inch dent in the corner of the case. The screen on the bottom right is somewhat off color but it's been running fine for last 7 years. I've swapped out SSDs too for more room.
n8ta··on Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
Sounds like having an actual non-ephemeral computer with extra steps...
n8ta··on Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
If the app itself is part of the image you need to rebuild the image every time a dev wants to test their change.
n8ta··on Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene (2020)
“This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, " -Paul Thibado, professor, physics.

Title is awful ofc but the actual scientist of course never claimed this.

n8ta··on Arizona moves to ban recording video of police
"Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and **protects against self-incrimination.**" https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment

Being barred from recording (presumably to show your innocence) is not obviously protected by the 5th amendment.

n8ta··on NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
Maybe you want the radio going? Maybe you want your music to stay on? Lots of reasons people would unthinkingly not do this. My goal was to point out that for many this is an unconscious decision.
n8ta··on NYC allows citizens to report idling vehicles in exchange for a cut of the fines
Do you turn your car off when you are waiting outside a house to pick someone up? Most people don't. They just aren't thinking about it.
n8ta··on Arizona moves to ban recording video of police
Self incrimination??? Not being able to present evidence of your innocence is not the same as being forced to present evidence of your guilt.
n8ta··on A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Middle Class
2004 referring to the victory of George W. Bush over John Kerry? Or something else?
n8ta··on A Look at the Slow, Silent Death of America’s Middle Class
1,041,570 people became legal permanent residents in 1910 and 1,031,765 did the same in 2019. What are you talking about 'flood gates' ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...

n8ta··on Why not hire part-time developers?
Hr setup/issues, all company meetings, team meetings, onboarding to company specific tooling, keeping up to date with team strategic direction, manager 1on1; none of these scale with responsibility.
n8ta··on Results Without All of the Brackets
Writing a lot of rust recently and having support for enum destructuring (Result<T> Option<T>) really makes this a moot point. Will be nice to see similar features land elsewhere.
n8ta··on Crafting a Lox Interpreter in Rust, Part 1
The implementation recommended in the book involves allocating a new compiler struct for each function with a pointer to the enclosing compiler. I found this very awkward in rust. Additionally the nested compiler needs to share the lexer (which is lazy thus mutable).
n8ta··on Crafting a Lox Interpreter in Rust, Part 1
Interested to see how you handle the nested compilers in the bytecode compiler once you hit functions. I still haven't gotten my rust-lox compiler handling this in an elegant way.
n8ta··on Facebook loses users for the first time
https://archive.md/PPaDg
n8ta··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
The highlight being the chorus: "mon-san-to let our farmers grow"
n8ta··on Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car
Or be a live-in maid. It seems unlikely more than half the people have a live-n maid.
n8ta··on Make Your Python CLI Tools Pop with Rich
Anyone else immediately thinking of that post about harvesting credit card numbers with js packages? That used some fun color package as an example for an entrypoint into your codebase.

https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...

n8ta··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
https://myprivacy.equifax.com/personal-info
n8ta··on AWKGo, an Awk-to-Go Compiler
Neat! How about go to awk next? (:
n8ta··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
Ion is already a little too complex for my taste. It'd be a shame to see it go the same way as yaml where it's so complex that most major implementations are not safely interoperable.
n8ta··on Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
I recently implemented a similar (simpler) format https://baremessages.org/ in ruby.

First thoughts are:

ION pros: - easy to skip around while reading a file - no need to write a schema - backed by amazon so major langs will have impls - good date support - better concatenation, probably better suited to logging than bare

ION cons - what's the text format even for?

BARE pros: - schemas keep things tightly versioned - smaller binaries (not self describing like ion) - simpler to implement so tons of devs have impl'ed for their favorite lang - better suited to small messages (think REST json api)

BARE cons: - no skip read - no date support

I might do an ion ruby implementation too, to really feel out the difference.

n8ta··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)
Link doesn't work? I'm not seeing any A records for matthall15.codes.
n8ta··on YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
Chuck E. is not the dominant platform for sharing video online. As the internet has replaced the town square people have come to expect a higher duty from the dominant internet companies than profit motive. The law hasn't kept pace with our expectations of these new quasi-public spaces.
n8ta··on YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
I had this exact thought. It's obviously impossible for youtube to verify music was licensed since that licensing happens off platform. Clearly the next step is for them to vertically integrate and handle the licensing themselves.
n8ta··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
You can email them and they'll fix it. I've done this twice. It takes about a month but they do get to it.
n8ta··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
First exciting laptop I've seen in a very long time!

Would love to see ethernet (if it's even possible with this thinness) and a regular SD port.

n8ta··on Show HN: Remap keys on windows without installing anything
I wasn't super happy with all of the windows remapping software available as all of it boiled down to installing an application that edited the registry, and then lived on your system forever doing who knows what.

You don't need any software to edit the registry! Just a .reg file and call it a day.

So that's what I made. A web based tool that'll generate any re-mappings you need and send you a .reg file.

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