skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in the market for a new or used car, and I can confirm that it is absolute bonkers right now. New cars are 10-20% over MSRP and 30-90 days lead time, and some dealers are further price gouging by making buyers purchase a 'bundle' of accessories to have the privilege of buying a car at a markup. Used cars are absolutely going for more than a comparable new car, and I've considered it because the used car at least exists and is something I could drive home the same day. Worst part is the only reason I'm in the car market is that my actual vehicle that I own is in the shop after a minor collision waiting for parts since the beginning of October. All around the car market is terrible. For the time being I'm renting a car on a monthly basis, as it seems to be the least bad solution, and it's fairly bad.
One past thread. Others?

Phantom OS, a Russian OS where “everything is an object” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672610 - April 2019 (23 comments)
Haskell is quite OK for images: decoding QOI
In what European country specifically is there no way to ever get citizenship?
Your 'civil liberties' are arguing for positive rights, which are fundamentally different than advocating for existing negative rights.

Positive rights are your assertion that you have the right to action from another group. In general, medicine is one area where positive and negative rights conflict regularly. For example, imagine abortion, assisted suicide, or emergency care during a pandemic. Some of these are solved by employment contracts -- as an ER doctor you are accepting to be bound by people's positive right to emergency medical care.

However, your assertion is that society et large should be bound by your positive right.

You should have a very strong case for this. Do you?
> I am extraordinarily skeptical of essentially the whole comment except this.

You and me both!
Two things spring to mind:

The first is that how we think is deeply intertwined with language. There's tons of evidence of this, not the least of which is Helen Keller's description of her world before she learned language. We'll probably never know what language existed 50,000+ years ago, how sophisticated or simple it was and how it affected how our ancestors thought.

The second is the evidence we have from the ancient world, which was a mere 2,000 years ago. We have written records going back another 3,000-4,000 years before that. I find this period fascinating for many reasons but a big one is how alien we would find the ethics and how societies worked. So would we even be able to relate to Homo Sapiens (or Neanderthals for that matter).

Some things we'd be able to related to (eg the earliest burial rites we've found evidence were from ~75,000 years ago) but I imagine a lot we simply couldn't.

Some Neanderthal DNA exists in the modern gene pool. That itself raises many questions. Was this violent? How was it viewed? Were these people viewed the same? How dominant were large family/tribal groups?
I love YAML as much as I like treading on a rake.
> Ads are the only model widely usable to overcome this. No other successful model has emerged. Nobody wants to run ads, they have to, because the "customers" are in fact the immoral ones.

This is why I don't think the ethics are worth considering - this isn't a failing on individual users making personal choices. The ad industry has essentially made parts of the economy anticompetitive. Facebook and Google pick winners and losers via the ad market (whether intentionally or not), subsidized by private equity, which most of the actual producers of games do not want to participate in, but have no choice. Consumers may or may not be getting the best products, they are getting the products promoted by the ad industry.

I don't see how any reasonable legislator or regulator can look at that situation as healthy, competitive or sustainable.
Bill missed an opportunity here. Instead of "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic" he should have gone with

1 Pandemic Ought to be Enough for Anyone
>I would guess that if costs is an issue then it must also be balanced compared to the potential profits. If your current $200 solution only allowed you to have US customers, while a $300 solution would allow you to have both US and EU customers, which one would you choose?

Whichever one let me pay rent at the end of the month
Tell the hundreds laid off this week at Peloton that asset prices don't matter. This stuff is a lot more interrelated than theorists with simple solutions like to think.
Won't this effectively prevent an application to start if it cannot reach the internet? I haven't done much development with Node, but I've seen similar patterns with Java applications that attempt to pull in an XSD at start up, only to fail to boot completely, because the application server doesn't have direct internet access.

It's a bit of a weird feature, which should only be used for a very limited number of project, in a niche which I'm not completely able to identify.
"They made the mistake of hiring people that were not capable of surfacing risks."

Exactly the problem we always deal with: Business tends to distrust Tech because we always seem unable to stay on top of things we build ourselves
I don't see the run specific part either. It seems to work whether he went for a run or drive to the store. But using a device on the WiFi to sniff that the phone has reconnected and therefor the garage should open was better than putting the logic on the phone. For one thing, it makes it so he can trivially add/remove devices with this functionality.

Frankly, if he wanted to do something with GPS on his phone, timing anything to the reconnection of WiFi is just worse than sending a signal to a public facing web server when he crosses a geofence.

I wonder if this will continue to work, as some phones (I believe all iPhones by default now, for instance) cycle MAC addresses.
is this a generational thing?

In th 80s and early 90s I subscribed to several computer magazines "Creative Computing", "Byte", "Compute", "Wired" and a few others. I also subscribed to gaming magazines like "Computer Gaming World", "Electronic Gaming Monthly", "Joystik", "Edge", "Game Developer Magazine". I and everyone else bought them in part for the ads. It was how we found out what new games and products where available.

I don't like ads spying on me and I don't like intrusive ads but ad in general are not evil to me.

Another example, I actually enjoy reading ads in public transportation. I'd find out about museums, festivals, and even various interesting services and products I didn't know about.
Because I should pay money to a college dropout who became a software billionaire by monetizing what was the commons . . . to tell me about public health?

I need more convincing than a friendly arrow avoiding a COVID ball for me to buy that.
In the massive, bubble, err, stock market rally
Yes it's simple in dreams and an economic theory stuck in an era where a potato is a potato and it doesn't matter much whose potato you buy. Unfortunately the free market tends to be a race to the bottom, for complicated reasons. The market is also not effective nor is it rational, nor is it good at displacing entrenched players and natural monopolies, least of all ones that don't give a crap about ethics. It's not effective against deliberate lock-in and network effects, nor against externalities and exploitation. It's not effective where effect requires individual sacrifice multiplied by millions.

If free market were effective, we wouldn't have needed labour laws to keep people from dying in factories where they work 16 hours a day, we wouldn't need laws to make vehicles safe, we wouldn't be desperately looking for agreements to curb pollution and climate change, we wouldn't need laws to protect minorities against discrimination.. hell, I don't think we'd need laws at all because everyone would just rationally and effectively choose good actors & displace bad actors.

It's a nice fantasy, but it's not one we live in.
It is a pity that Apple decides to castrate Safari's API in such a way that uBlock Origin won't function.

It is the best AdBlock out there in my opinion. Works especially well for certain dirty pages with nasty ads.
But this is exactly why the Federal Reserve is detached from the rest of the government.

While they might coordinate with the executive branch, ultimately the Federal Reserve is supposed to follow their mandate and leave fiscal policy to Congress.
thanks for your feedback! yeah, as someone would transfer x amount of crypto, the receiver would get a message on the phone number.. once he'd make an account with that number he'd be able to access that amount. :)

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I believe they are refering to the 4chan technology posting board. https://boards.4channel.org/g/
I am surprised that the paper does not even cite the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635, https://eng.uber.com/deconstructing-lottery-tickets/).

In the LTH paper (IMHO the most fundamental deep learning publication in the last few years), the number of tickets goes as layer_size^n_layers.
It would be easier to dismiss online commenters as "armchair" if the experts at the wheel, with all the data, the models, and the PhDs at their command, were making more accurate predictions than them.
Modern adult humans would absolutely score higher on all tests of human intelligence that we use today. We're not smarter, intelligence is context specific and it's not possible to objectively compare two brains that developed to survive in vastly different worlds.
> You don't think, there are limits to the things I should be allowed to say about you?

No.

The only concession I would consider is a call to violence if there is an real and immediate threat. Not internet death threats.

The second I may concede would be defamation under a very strict standard e.g. You were claiming someone broke a law.

> Or about the things I think other people should do to you?

People can say anything they like to me or about me. What they cannot do is vandalise my property, take my property or assault me.

> (are you aware, that there is a difference btw. between literally killing people and people dying of starvation because of incompetence? Apparently not.)

If you are talking about the Communists. The communists killed and imprisoned a huge number of people. Also some of the famines were entirely predictable and in some cases were deliberate.
Advertising is a tax on the economy.

Economy is like the forest. Companies are the trees and advertising they buy are the tree trunks.

If they somehow cooperatively agreed to grow shorter trunks they would save so much nutrients. But since they compete with each other they need to grow as tall as it is physically possible, to avoid being overshadowed by others.

Whole advertising industry should be nationalized and scaled back to non-profit that would mainly keep online and up to date a catalog of goods and services with dry data and test results.
The current FTC and DoJ leadership are the most anti-trust since the (first) Roosevelt administration, it seems (nevermind that they were established after the fact, I'm being hyperbolic)
She explains it nicely. She mentions "Quantum Mechanics" several times, physicsts like to talk about these tehories as if they were a single intelligible theory, but they are not, there are as many Quantum Mechanics as there are physicsts. At the end of the talk she mentions an experiment, but in physics the meaning of the word "experiment" has changed too, if the experiment contradicts existing Quantum Mechanics, physicists will simply create a new flavor of it.
> Call a shoe store and ask?

He just went into a shoe store. How would he know which shoe store to call? (I remember this, it was pre-Internet and it was awful.)

> Google (in a world in which it didn't have ads)?

In a world without ads, Google would be a bulletin board (no meaningful revenue means no petabyte-sized index). You can replicate this experience on Craigslist today. Good luck!

> Ask a podiatrist?

In the USA, this adds a time tax (many people need to go to their primary doctor first to get a referral, then would have to be seen by the podiatrist to get to ask the question) and a money tax (all those doctors have to get paid).

Which of these is better than clicking an ad?
I wouldn’t worry too much about AWS or Azure. When AWS realised how much money the European Public Sector spends on the public cloud a good few years back they went from being behind Azure in terms of complaisance to now being ahead.

I’m Danish and as we’re a notorious Microsoft country I have the most experience with everything Azure, but the fact that Amazon was so quick to ensure that 100% of the workers who ever come near the services they sell within the EU are EU citizens is something that we still looks somewhat envious toward. It’s actually an area where Microsoft might eventually run into some trouble if they don’t work on their compliance but I can certainly understand how it’s hard when one of their key selling points to Enterprise is that we can call Redmund.

I don’t think the EU will get into much trouble over this, however, and I don’t think it will have too much of an impact on our tech industry. I do agree that it’s not likely to help European alternatives to Microsoft or Amazon, but that’s not exactly the point or the legalisation is it? It’s there to prevent EU citizens and our personal information from becoming the primary commodity that is sold between giant companies.

Advertisement companies like Google will no doubt struggle with this going forward, but is that really a loss for anyone?
Wow.. toxic.. You people? My words and thoughts are my own. Never said you should haul sheets on your roof. That's your words. Have a nice day.
I believe they are refering to the 4chan technology posting board.

https://boards.4channel.org/g/
If we wanted to divide two populations by Covid burden why would you pick vaccination as the only worthwhile proxy? Isn't that the misalignment here?
Does debug.fly.dev work? Can you run `curl -v https://fly.io/blog/ -sS -o /dev/null -D-` and post what you see?
> Why limit it to the EU? Shouldn't every country have their own AWS, Azure and Google Cloud?

Careful, there is such a thing as network effect for knowledge. More fractured systems mean more different approaches means less aftermarket documentation means less people being able to work for you.
In my observation, Data Engineering leadership is the hardest skill to find recently. There is a good amount of entry-mid level individual contributors in the market, but at the Manager+ level the market is insanely competitive .
For people interested in hosting their own Plausible analytics instance. Use this Ansible bundle[0] against your Debian 11 server.

It takes a few minutes to complete and you can start tracking visits in a privacy friendly manner quickly.

[0]https://github.com/confuzeus/ansible-plausible
Invisible 3D-Printed Machine-Readable Labels That Identify and Track Objects
this is what git already does?
I imagine there is a huge backlog after the lumber price spike in 2020 has trickled back down
Yeah, but in practice... the iPhone/Apple represents an example par excellence:
Planned obsolescence, dated features, software deprecation, false narrative (e.g. privacy).
The plan is to always provide that fulfillment until it is time for you to renew your subscription. Then the fulfillment reward is attached to a new product and the consumer must acquiesce.
Consumerism is this forest. Stepping any deeper into the waters, keep this outdoorsy pun rolling, is an arbitrary excersize. "What does it mean to 'be'?" Abstraction does not undo the real harm caused by corporations.
If they can say no and can still use the website, you are definitely in the clear.
We use Liveview exclusively for our app (https://www.grilla.gg/) and I'm happy every day we can build stuff like this with very minimal javascript. Happy to answer any questions about what it's like to run a startup using liveview.
I bought into the shadowstats guy for a long time, until he admitted he makes up his numbers. It's all bogus.
This looks interesting.

Can the designs be exported or are they locked-in to your platform? I looked at some of the demo pages on your website and they all seem to pull website content only through JavaScript.

In fact, I didn't see anything inside <body> tags at all. But maybe I am looking at it wrong?
Opinions on it are definitely mixed. It's an all stock deal that was made at a very reasonable price, but 1.5 years on they are overpaying by a huge amount. Xilinx has been doing very well compared to Intel's FPGA division, so you can try to justify it, but from a shareholder perspective it's very dilutive.
> This isn't a new phenomenon either; here's a song advertising a paid TV service from the 1960's that list no advertisements as one of the reasons to pay for the service.

And how many have actually bothered to? The problem is that you're treating it as a black-and-white thing which is not true at all. It is true that there's a percentage of people who do prefer advertising, 17% in current online advertising (which shows that majority hate online advertising) and 54% in traditional advertising (both are for the US only, data tend to fluctuate but in general this holds nearly everywhere but Asia where they tend to view advertising as more favourable).

There is, of course, a balance where the majority of people will be fine. For example, European television and radio stations do have limits on advertising: it definitely helped a lot that it allowed them to know what new services and products are available. Coincidently, they have strong consumer protection - lies in advertising are actively patrolled and most people do get angry when the advertisement is misleading. Unfortunately, the US - which tends to have low-quality, clickbaity commercials - never saw a better alternative, and concluded that all advertising is bad. I'm not surprised that there's a backlash against advertising - they indeed lost the trust in people. Unfortunately, the American model served as the global model online, so here we are.
Not my area of expertise, but the quoted "fact" seems at best incompletely stated: surely for it to hold there must be some constraints on the number of points (likely as a function of the diameter)?
Sorry, you're the second person to say this, so clearly I didn't phrase my comment very well. I meant that it's the interpreter which has undergone the most optimisation, or alternatively which has had the most brainpower dedicated to optimising it.

I don't mean that the resulting interpreter is the most performant interpreter in some given benchmark. Like I said in my other reply, I don't think that can possibly be a meaningful benchmark, given different languages have different grammars and semantics which have a huge effect on the possibility of writing a performant interpreter (see: Python).

I can see that you preempt this point in your comment, but, I mean, what on earth does "roughly comparable languages" mean? Comparable how? Even superficially similar languages can have semantic differences which have a deep impact on optimisability. (For instance Python's C ABI, invisible to most end users, which notoriously limits interpreter implementations. Or its bytecode dispatch. Or its attribute dynamism, precluding memoisation of lookups. The possibility of `eval` is an enormous one too, which also applies to JS.)
Ask HN: Is today's AI good enough to prevent dogs from feeling lonely?
Oh yes, the problem are the ads.

Even subtitle ads break your focus from the content, give bad incentives, unfair leverage, etc.

If ads were not here, most junk content in the internet would not exist because people would not pay 20 cents to see it. They pay to see it with ads, because it's a price they don't pay consciously, nor can they assess the consequences clearly.

I'm for the total and complete ban of ads. A content can't exist without it? Ask people to pay. If they don't, it means it didn't have real value. Let it die.

Worse, ads create a huge asymmetry of power in the favor of those who already have it. If you can throw a lot of money to ads, you can gain on the competition. Local small shops can't do that, so ads promotes way more coca cola than organic carrots.

Besides, the people publishing ads have an agenda that almost never align with the customers interest. People say there are ads they want to see, but the reality is that even those ads are not trying to make you more knowledgeable. They try to sell you something.

We have thousands of communities of experts in stuff, testers, consumers, bloggers, than can inform you. You don't need ads to know about something.

Society as a whole would be better without it.

Newspaper would be more objective, streets would be more beautiful, content would be more qualitative.

What about all those youtubers that couldn't exist without ads ?

99.99999% of them are crap. The youtube frontpage is a trash can.

A minority is good, but in the new adsless society, some of them would survive in a different way. Some would not, but the benefits are more important. Just like the US didn't keep thralls because "think of the economy".

Finally, the ads lead to websites to promote engagement at all cost, which fuels fake news, outrages, and tribalism on social medias. Ads are a burden to the human species.

And I say that... as a person who gets a lot of revenue from ads.
I'm not an expert here, but truly interested to hear responses to this question.

To say that 1+1=2 is "true", does that not require a corollary in "reality" to something fundamental that can be called a "one" object? I believe this is called mathematical constructivism.

Imagine, hypothetically, that we cannot identify something that is physically fundamental and individual. My question is whether any mathematics in that scenario could be considered "true" without such constructivism, in other words, without a physical correspondence to an unquestionably, physically fundamental "one" object.
But Gates is not "every billionaire, politician, celebrity, and crackpot on the planet" on this issue. He stepped away from day to day involvement in Microsoft in 2008, and it seems that since then his major focus has been his foundation. Global health is one of the main focuses of that organization.

That's a bit different from some random celebrity weighing in.

It should also be clear to everyone now that pandemics are not solely an infectious diseases issue. Presumably Gates could bring a valuable perspective on science-adjacent issues like governance, financing and global cooperation.

You can absolutely disagree with his views on this topic (and maybe should), but it's unfair to write him off as some dilettante.

(edit: Also you should absolutely question how he came to have this level of wealth and influence in global health.)
I am utilizing a Tor hidden service to access LAN services from the internet.

It is free, runs on my hardware (Raspi Zero) and I do not have to open ports.

With client authentification, only clients with a certain key can access the service.
Yes, thank you. Sorry I am on mobile, traveling and could not post the full link.
Sougen: Web-first Metaverse. Coming soon to the browser
You can try wasm based approaches. Some related frameworks:
https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-python