skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we really know this? For decades various government agencies shielded many companies from liability, and continued to make public statements that leaded gas was "safe".

in the 70s' public pressure, and outcry became large enough that companies started phasing out leaded gas as customers were demanded alternatives, it is at this point that government, working with industry developed the phase out plan that the public was demanded.

This is often how regulations go, technology advances (in this case alternative anti-knock additives), public pressure builds, and at a critical junction industry allows (yes allows) government to "pass" regulation outlining something they were already going to do anyway based on public pressure.

Now often the question is well if they were going to do it anyway why would they have government pass regulation. That is easy to answer because there is always some fear that some company will buck the trend, large companies hate competition but they can not coordinate on their own as that would be anti-trust violations, Thus government provides a nice avenue to ensure no competition on some matters or topics

This is why facebook is currently asking the government for regulation. This is why Amazon supports a national sales tax, and why Walmart now supports increasing the minimum wage...
Yeah, I agree.

Fair to say that second and third order effects of the legislation were the real focus for manufacturers?
Funny how everyone was mocking that judge for thinking that zooming might add data, yet here is an example showing that zooming reduces the age of someone's face and removes the aggression from a tiger's expression.

You might say "well of course we all know that this AI based super-resolution uses too much computing power to do in real time on an iPad, where they can only do sinc interpolation" but how long will that be true for? It's not really unreasonable for a judge not to know about technical details like that.

I was pretty shocked at how all of the comments on the Ars article about it were so misguided.
Yeah, it's interesting, humans already HAVE an incredibly complex sexual selection mechanism. There's all kinds of things that you are capable of selecting for without necessarily even realizing what you're doing. That selection pressure likely already includes the relevant things such a billionaire might care about, and many other things they can't even quantify, which likely includes genetic compatibility. The system we have has worked pretty well for a long time. It's hard to optimize such a complex and fuzzy thing.
B2 doesn't require any closed-source platform specific software to use, you can just use restic. And I'm not sure why should I care about either software and hardware on their end, they should be basically an external hard-drive to me, don't they?

About the "raspberry pi" thing... this is kind of answer you immediately regret you didn't preemptively dismiss in the question. I mean, it's hard to even decide if the person saying this is serious or not. Like, setting up a backup server at "your friends house"? Really? Is this seriously something that everybody but me does? Should I do that too? Is it considered normal practice in their cultures? Or is it just something that they say, because they like giving advice they don't follow? To me, that sounds just crazy.

Paying under $100/year to know that all of my junk is safely kept somewhere doesn't sound crazy at all, on the other hand. But which is the best option and if they really keep their promises I don't know, of course, that's exactly why I'm asking. Maybe there's some problem in disguise, maybe hardly anybody even uses their services and I shouldn't trust them. I don't know.
no such thing as billing limit in Azure, anyway.
> 100% agree. I tried running Pop OS as my main system a few years ago and got sucked into ricing, WMs, extensions and themes. Spent all my time customizing and fixing the bugs that arose, hated it and went back to Windows.

This is always my issue with Linux. Windows is boring and ugly - to the extent that I probably can't fix it - so I don't bother and I just get stuff done instead. But with Linux, I can imagine this perfectly configured workstation and I know it's possible because I've seen the things people do. So I spend hours tinkering until I break everything or get bored. Then I come back months later and the Nvidia kernel module fails to build after a kernel update or something and I have to start over from scratch. Not a recipe for productivity.

This isn't a problem with Linux, per se, more of a personal failing. I think I've almost got it out of my system.
The idea is to let users of a language, here CLOS, to be able to intercept meta-messages like instance creation, method call, property access, etc to provide their own implementations.

It's like the doesNotUnderstand in SmallTalk, method_missing in Ruby or more recently .Net Dynamic Language Runtime or invokedynamic in Java.
Thanks for your feedback.

Concerning the free version, I get your point I'll think about it!

Concerning the data : "The data is stored using 'chrome.storage'. So it's either stored locally if you aren't signed in to Chrome Browser or stored in the Google servers if you are signed in. So the sync happens using your Google account. (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/stora...)"

Thank you so much for the ideas :)
You won't find much support for an opinion like that on a site named "hacker" news, haha.

A lot of backup services (tarsnap comes to mind) prioritize scriptability, as I imagine many people run backups from cron or a systemd timer.
I have an asus g15 and I’m happy with it, and it has great graphics/gaming performance and doesn’t skimp on battery power at all. I would get a g16 w a webcam now though.

It is windows though, and I prefer not dealing w the file system differences when coding.
If you know the path, it would be

$ restic mount --repo /mnt/backupdrive/myrepo /mnt/backedup
$ echo /mnt/backedup/snapshots/*/path/to/file

And it would print which snapshots it is contained in.

If you don't know the path, I don't know how long `find -type f` takes so you might be right about that being inefficient. It is certainly not a use-case that I think restic ever had in mind.

I also don't know of "backup" software to solve this, it seems a bit out of scope for most of them (they are meant to have a backup copy of your disk, not be a file manager with history). You might have more luck with tools like rsync (or Toucan, from the good old days where I used Windows and Portable Apps), those can certainly create only new files and never delete deleted files, but then you typically don't get encryption and deduplication.
Early Modern English used “nay” to reply to positive questions, and “no” to negative questions, too. And I think in French you answer a negative question positively with “si” rather than “oui”.
If you want to copy in such cases in Rust, you need to copy to dummy variables that are then moved into the closure, a common pattern in Gtk-rs that even deserves a macro to simplify the boilerplate.
Somes tools will parse it as a file extension
Why do the tunnels need to be above any possible flooding? With the waste contain the way you described it being submerged in a flood doesn’t seem like it would cause problems.
> Cheating will always be a problem.

Ahh, and see, there's the problem. You're operating under the assumption that cheating is a problem with the student and not the test. That's incorrect. We're talking about knowledge and correctness. If I present you with a problem, can you find a solution. Humans, correctly, will prefer the easiest solution. If your "test" has solutions that you don't want to accept (like cheating) that's a problem with your test, not with the solution.

As an example; if I write a password function called `check_password()` and in it, it uses C `if (strcmp(test_password, known_password)) goto fail;` and someone sends in the string "\0" is the password test good, or bad? Sure someone is cheating, but is the test good, or is the test bad?

> Easy and cheap prevention methods are key, because your average education system is cheap and badly organized.

So the average education system is broken, the best solution we have, and the one we should implement is to break other things that are working as intended?
Ask HN: Tool to convert JavaScript code comments into Markdown?
I would like a tool which takes code in a javascript project and generates markdown where the comments are taken as direct markdown and the code is wrapped in triple backticks. This would allow me to make a blog post from a javascript project without maintaining two separate files and updating the code in both.

For example if I have this in a javascript file:

/*
# Tutorial Title

Welcome to the codebase tutorial.

## Add Function

This function is used to add numbers. `1+2=3` is an example of some backquoted text.
*/
function add(a,b) {
return a + b;
}

/*
## Subtract Function

This function is used to subtract! ***Use at your own risk***
*/
function subtract(a,b) {
return a - b;
}

I would like the resulting markdown to be:

# Tutorial Title

Welcome to the codebase tutorial.

## Add Function

This function is used to add numbers. `1+2=3` is an example of some backquoted text.
```
function add(a,b) {
return a + b;
}
```

## Subtract Function

This function is used to subtract! ***Use at your own risk***
```
function subtract(a,b) {
return a - b;
}
```

Does anyone know of a tool which will do this?
Perhaps they aren't wrong, but being right vs. wrong is orthogonal to the site guidelines. We don't ban people for being wrong, and being right (if that's what this is) isn't a carte blanche to break the rules. Certainly if someone wants to post a substantive, thoughtful critique of those things, or different things, that's no problem. That's not what this was.

Keep in mind also that when an account has been in the habit of violating the guidelines, being right (or feeling that they are) doesn't make that ok.
Certainly even 50/500, or 100/500 would be a better split.
A lot of people have been fooled into believing that traditional universities are places that brainwash their children to become marxists. These people are then unwilling to send their children to these institutions and instead seek out places like Liberty that market themselves as alternatives. Liberty bills itself as explicitly conservative. This one markets itself as focusing on "free speech", but that means something very clear to the target audience.
If you're still looking for a TWM for Windows 11, I ended up developing my own this year which has been received fairly well by people who have migrated from Linux and macOS to Windows: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
I think you’re underestimating the cost of manufacturing two separate devices. It wasn’t the crypto itself, it was that manufactures had to solve for export controls and they chose to manufacture a single product overseas instead of two domestically.

I don’t think “crypto” was front of mind. Suspect it was “let’s build a computer” and the lawyers said “you can’t sell that in x market if you make it in the U.S.” so they didn’t.
Just takes your teacher much longer to grade and eats precious preparation time.
I used to run the servers for a popular website. It was common to get DDoSed targeting our servers (or more frequently, just a single one out of the group) for exactly 90 seconds (plus or minus a few systems that had poor ntp synchronization). Whether or not that took my servers down, the attack would stop.

To my knowledge, we never got any communication from the people behind the attack, seemed like people just kicking the tires on DDoS as a service. Ocassionally, we'd get a longer interval, sometimes 60 minutes.
A selfhosted communication app for your privacy
This is a new low, even for you dang. A huge part of the Nazi's rise to total power in Germany was because of barring the opposition from voting in the Reichstag. The comment you are admonishing is relevant and exactly on the nose considering the headline.
Write Thin to Write Fast
>Children gathered much more evidence than the adults and were much better at learning. Most of the children did figure out the right rule. However, they earned fewer stars than the grown-ups.

For me, this sentence at the end breaks the whole argument down - so the adult strategy was indeed more effective at the the thing being optimized for!

The question then is - could they set this up such that kids actually perform better than adults?
I am working mostly in Swift these days, and some Metal C for GPU and GPGPU. If Swift and SwiftUI both also ran in the browser, that would meet my needs.

I need to break out of that Apple silo though for an important project of mine, so I am looking for alternatives. I was looking at zig, too! It seems very promising, and comptime seems like a great idea. I am considering both Rust and Zig for generating libraries in WebAssembly.

I think I will mostly go with TypeScript for my project, it seems undogmatic and highly productive, and Turbo Pascal was my second language after Quick Basic, so I like its origins :-)
I think of it in terms of the brain's pattern-recognition capacity:

As we experience more of the world over time, the model of the world we build internally gets more and more elaborate. Eventually, we experience enough we can start noticing metapatterns. Something like, "if something is bad, it usually doesn't get better" is an example of a metapattern which seems like it could be in play in this study.

Of course, we lose out on some experiences, because that heuristic is quite prone to false negatives. I think that's basically what the experiment in the article illustrates, this "lossy filter" in our brain's future-planner.

(I am making no claims about the physical structure of the brain.)
Not sure what you're implying with this link, will you share more of what you mean?
+1 this.
Sadly people fall for long cons.
>It's pretty weird to me someone would found a company in Michigan.

That just demonstrated your ignorance. I advise companies in Australia, Asia and Europe. Also, I am establishing new facilities in Maryland to help international companies establish in America.

Costs matter...Baltimore is about 1/2 the price of Boston with a similar employment pool. Almost all B2B is easier if you are physically closer to your customers. in Life Science, FinTech or GovTech is a necessary.

Location matters but so does employee lifestyles. Affordable housing and family support is more important.
If you have that much computing power at your disposal, you might as well just mine cryptocurrency, right?
Not unless the Westphalian model is deconstructed.
Based on my somewhat recent high school experience, mandatory computer science classes will not happen at a high school level on a consistent basis between schools, at least not without massive systemic change.

What "computer" class is these days is "MS Office" class. Except actually it's "MS Word and Excel class, except the teacher only ever calls it "the typing thing".

And even if there were sanctioned hacker competitions, they would become classwork and therefore boring. The fact that it is against the rules is part of the draw.

For what it's worth, I think there's something to be said for leaving a situation like this inherently insecure. Yes it's manipulative, but somebody learning something from their own drive is a lot better than standardized testing beating it into the infodump section of the brain.

Your "inspirations" sound quite enjoyable! You were definitely much more skilled than me or anyone I knew.
Your list excludes most of well-known open-source AutoML tools such as auto-sklearn, AutoGluon, LightAutoML, MLJarSupervised, etc. These tools have been very extensively benchmarked by the OpenML AutoML Benchmark (https://github.com/openml/automlbenchmark) and have papers published, so they are pretty well-known to the AutoML community.

Regarding H2O.ai: Frankly, you don't seem to understand H2O.ai's AutoML offerings.

I'm the creator of H2O AutoML, which is open source, and there's no "enterprise version" of H2O AutoML. The interface is simple -- all you need to specify is the training data and target. We have included DNNs in our set of models since the first release of the tool in 2017. Read more here: https://docs.h2o.ai/h2o/latest-stable/h2o-docs/automl.html We also offer full explainability for our models: https://docs.h2o.ai/h2o/latest-stable/h2o-docs/explain.html

H2O.ai develops another AutoML tool called Driverless AI, which is proprietary. You might be conflating the two. Neither of these tools need to be used on the H2O AI Cloud. Both tools pre-date our cloud by many years and can be used on a user's own laptop/server very easily.

Your Features & Roadmap list in the README indicates that your tool does not yet offer DNNs, so either you should update your post here or update your README if it's incorrect: https://github.com/blobcity/autoai/blob/main/README.md#featu...

Lastly, I thought I would mention that there's already an AutoML tool called "AutoAI" by IBM. Generally, it's not a good idea to have name collisions in a small space like the AutoML community. https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/...
I’ve been in this boat but it was a bit worse than what you’ve described.

Your next step will be extremely individual. I took some time to evaluate all my options and go with what I felt would give me the most joy.

Maybe my comment isn’t the most useful but I wish you so much success and happiness. Good luck!
>>Because people are cheap and they don't like spending money and as soon as coal and oil are expensive they'll stop using it just like when you tell them they're fired if they don't get vaccinated most of them get vaccinated

While true, it does not make these actions ethical. Using threats of violence( and yes the mandates are threats of violence) to obtain a result you desire is unethical no matter how much you believe that action to be necessary. Once you use coercion via state violence to get your way you have lost all moral and ethical authority.

>>And by people I mean the 0.1 percenters

The problem here is the comment you were replying to asked about the poor, who if their heat bill goes up by 20% will have to choose between food and heat, will have to tell their kids "no Christmas for you this year" etc.

You seemly have no concern for these people.

To be clear, I am on your side when it comes to ending subsidies, though all subsidies including though on "green" energy as well

I just do not think your argumentation is valid or going to win the hearts and minds of anyone
> B2 doesn't require any closed-source platform specific software to use

I never said it did, unless you are confusing Backblaze (the name of their backup solution, https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html) with their separate and much newer B2 service.

> this is kind of answer you immediately regret you didn't preemptively dismiss in the question

Well I'm sorry.

For what it's worth, this is literally the solution I use so I thought I could be helpful by at least including that as a base price point.

> which is the best option and if they really keep their promises I don't know, of course, that's exactly why I'm asking.

I don't understand, has anyone shared stories of paying Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Backblaze/Dropbox for X amount of storage and them not keeping their end of the contract? I understand your question even less now than I thought I did before.
I was excited when I found this utility a few months back. I've used it to migrate all the files of two old machines to multiple cloud backups pretty easily.

I plan to set up cron jobs to use it for simple cross-cloud syncing.
Tell HN: A simple method to regain your attention around cellphones
There’s the usual discussion about how easy it is to continuously and mindlessly browse HN, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

It often starts with a simple checking out what’s new and devolves into longer periods of browsing. I noticed that this begins almost subconsciously, as an impulse.

What I started doing is that every time that I feel the impulse, the urge of checking the cellphone, I stop for 10 seconds and bring that urge to consciousness.

This is related to Kahneman’s thesis of two separate systems. After 10 seconds, I ask myself if I really want to check that page, that app. Usually, I do not and avoid it completely.

It can be useful to log all these urges throughout the day. You should see that the number per day will decrease.

Have you tried anything similar? With what results?
Yes if they don't speak english they will want to use non ASCII identifiers because that's what non english words use.
"If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and other times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion." - DNA
Join a more established or successful startup in the same space.

Understand what separates the successful startup from the failed one you're in, was it the product, sales pipeline, marketing, org structure?

Essentially perform a diff between the two companies and root cause what you'd improve on and other structural things you'd change the next time around.

I'm sure you've acquired experience in the vertical that your startup was in, recoup of the time and energy investments made there.

Lastly all the best, this happens to many early employees and founders.
Could you please link to the truck story? I can’t find it.
> This is not user hostile. In this case the user is the teacher not the kid.

Then what is the kid? And who is *using* the computer to take the test? And who is *using* the browser? And who is *using* Chromium that would like to learn something about the source, that now has view-source disabled? Are they not users, just because someone else wrote the test?

> Man, do they really have to deploy iPads in kiosk mode for shitty tests so you don't shit on them? Teachers do their best to optimize and digitize teaching under the worst circumstances. If this litte bugfix helps them I am happy.

I'm happy to help teachers too, but this helps them by hurting others. That's *not* ok!

> Please note that this feature is part of managed Chrome which can be restricted in many other ways. The exam workstation itself of course too.

Sure, but that's still wrong. Just because bad thing is bad, or closer to how you put it, there's other things you can't do with this software. Doesn't mean that adding more restrictions is a good thing.
So they're the MFJ of the audio world?

I'm fine with that.
>a PM signal will have little frequency change if the modulation is slow

This was one of the programming tricks on the DX7. If you set the final carrier to a low frequency you got a nice drifty chorus-like effect.
The Rise of 'Antiwork'
It's a lot like the SR-71 speed check story for me.
Substack is great. Anti-free speech authoritarians hate it. Wired most likey hates free speech because their ideas can't compete in the free market of information. It's intellectual snake oil sold by well scripted carnival barkers.
I can’t comment on the legality, but when I was in a penny-pinching org in a big US company we just did these things outside the US because it was cheaper. COVID notwithstanding, UK might be a good option for you.
So we should... preserve this exploit (since without the answers being in the HTML, said friend won't have reason to point it out) forever and let people cheat, so we get more web developers? What exactly are you saying?