skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zotero is probably not the best example here. Its not a information/knowledge managment software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
Windows Services for Unix
> For example, though we were provided with practice problems to prepare for our exams, we were never given solutions. My class consistently begged my professor for these, yet all he could say was that not providing them was departmental policy, and it was out of his control.

Wild.

EDIT: A response (and +1) to other comments: of course, there are many solutions to different problems on the internet.

But IMO, a big advantage of taking a class is to have shared context with a group of people, and thus interactive help (from other students, TAs, etc) working through specific problems together.

Being able to know if you were "right" seems to be an important part of this process. So having solutions to the shared problems you're all looking at seems important. (Withholding solutions seems like a method for instructors to reuse questions instead of having to write more every semester.)
Personally: Focused time for non-work projects.

Professionally: unblocking between busy teams of individuals. Sometimes things just stall for the want of 5 minutes on a busy person's calendar.
OCR is relatively easy, but the accessibility information is not only that. There are the types of elements, the possible interactions and the changes on the screen. Also, it gives the ability to skip unnecessary information. Using ml for all of that is taxing and probably not very practical until the invention of AGI.
He donated his kidney and received a $13,064 bill in return
Of all the qualities described in this article, I think the most important is being able to live with not knowing things, as described by Feynman:

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit and if I can’t figure it out, then I go on to something else, but I don’t have to know an answer"

We humans are generally not wired to accept not knowing things; we are wired to believe some answer to any question we can think to ask, whether we actually have any real basis for an answer or not. But giving in to that temptation just means our beliefs are out of sync with reality.
I Can Haz Dad Joke API
This kind of procedural array-based numerical code, would be easier to rewrite in Fortran than in Rust. Fortran syntax is closer to the original Python syntax, than Rust is. And Fortran is easier to learn than Rust. But the author already knows Rust, so.
I live much closer to the tropics, how big of a problem are termites in Europe?
My kids already debate if it is wrong to tell OK Google to shutup.
Is it sponsored by Zombo?
Isn't Parker Solar Probe much faster than that? It's supposed to be going hundreds of thousands of km/h. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
C is a pig of a language, so tools that show just how horrible it is, how many bugs are unwittingly written, and how hard it is to make its code safe, could also help pushing people towards better languages.

These tools are more like putting on X-ray glasses and seeing how your fast-food nuggets are made. You will still eat them if you have to, or if you're in a hurry, but you'll be more inclined to take the time to learn cooking, so you can eat healthier food later.
An inaccessible toolkit itself wouldn’t be illegal in the EU, but producing an end-user facing interface under the scope of the EU directive[1] (which as you mentioned is rambling but pretty wide ranging – “consumer terminal equipment with interactive computing capability, used for electronic communications services” could apply to most things that HN people work on) using that inaccessible toolkit would be.

But that’s just the EU. In the AODA[2] for example (which is already law), “barrier” is defined as “anything that prevents a person with a disability from fully participating in all aspects of society because of his or her disability, including a physical barrier, an architectural barrier, an information or communications barrier, an attitudinal barrier, a technological barrier, a policy or a practice” and sets out a process for the development / adoption of standards (the aforementioned WCAG 2.0 double-AA) and binds public and private sector to meet those standards to remove the barriers. Use of an inaccessible toolkit would certainly constitute “a technological barrier”.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%...

[2] https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/05a11
Tesla Recall over Boombox, Half Million Models S,X,Y Affected
> By this logic, a file system is a perfect key value store, because ya know, the key is the full path and the file is the value.

They're not wrong.

I'm still waiting for people to rediscover (fast)cgi as the "worker" interface.
What does Ashby actually do as a company? It might be my locked down corporate network but I can't find a description anywhere.
Can bass be fixed to remove this design flaw?

Is xkas/asar worse than bass? A lot of SMW-adjacent romhacking tools use xkas/asar which preceded bass (the author discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11720057).

Some alternatives I've come across include macro packs for ca65 to make it assemble for instruction sets it doesn't understand natively, and I hear tass64 has macro packs too.
It seems we are all fighting a losing war, each year Governments of world take away some of our liberty in name of protecting us. And worse part is this is happening across political lines. Pretty grim picture worldwide really.
For what it's worth, I've gotten a response to an application to Stripe specifically from applying through their website. No experience at FAANG or other high-profile companies. And I had previously applied for a different role (with no response) and the recruiter was aware of that.

My impression is that the main issue is stale listings - you probably applied for an opening that they were effectively done reviewing applications for but hadn't taken down from their website. One recent user-hostile trend I've noticed in job application platforms (including Stripe's) is that they don't tell you when a listing was posted or updated. So you can't distinguish between an opening posted yesterday (that they're probably actively reviewing applications for) and one posted six months ago (that's almost certainly a black hole).
I think "cellphone addiction" isn't really a thing, the phone is just a means to an end. It's going to be what's happening on the phone, be it games or social media.
When someone else fails, it's due to them being an idiot. When I fail, it's obviously someone else's fault.
Can you invert a binary tree on a whiteboard though?
Hah, i am working on a near identical app. How did you deal with pulling content from the web without reinventing wheels?

I was thinking about reusing an existing store of scraping instructions, InstantView by Telegram (iirc that's the name). Looks fairly straight forward to write a parser for that spec. However, i wanted to be able to store some in a repo on my own as well, but i fear DMCA strikes on a repo that stores instructions to scrape pages.

How did you solve this?
HN used to be strict about its "no self promotion" and "it must be interesting" rules. Dang probably got tired of constantly fighting about it. Now everyone with a blog treats HN like a dumping ground.

Edit: note that this is the CEO of the site. His account was inactive since 2012, and then in the past 7 months started dumping an ad every month here.
The treadmill incidents were absolutely terrible but without knowing Peloton's internal design process I don't want to assign blame. Any physical product with powerful motors and moving parts is inherently dangerous, and the best we can do as hardware engineers is to follow the standards as best we can and do a thorough hazard analysis and try to mitigate as much as possible.

Now, if it turns out Peloton did NOT do those things, then they absolutely deserve more blame for the accidents with their treadmills. I know they didn't have a shield behind the belt, but my treadmill doesn't have that either so I am not sure what the standard is without paying for it.
I know BMW turn signals are a meme (with good reason...), but I've noticed the exact same behavioral trend with Lexus drivers as well. It's really just those two makes in particular.
Do you really think there's any just lying around? The other reactors continued operating at Chernobyl after the accident - the last one didn't close until 2000. I seriously doubt there's piles of usable ready to go enriched uranium just lying there for the exclusion zone visitors to trip over.
Well, why not? We also talk to each other for free, giving advice, information, lots of things of some kind of value, and mostly it's free. People organize on platforms to help each other with info, for free, for example you can ask people on Reddit to identify a bug or stone for you. Now I know hosting Reddit isn't free, but this is for another time I think. Now I just want to say that what you pointed out is not really something that's purely illogical or entitled.
They are, as are most pushing for bike helmets, seat belts, food safety, etc.

Are seat belts a global conspiracy?
Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
Of course it's true. And the people getting shipped are only too happy to go. The climate here is much better for living on the street than in some other city where it snows in winter.
Traditional finance theory says that the world's worst stock picker is just as valuable as the word's best stock picker.
> Hope you guys over there are not drifting to a surveillance dystopian.

that's not a local problem but a global one. Many EU countries are well on their way into dystopia. The dystopia is an unavoidable side-effect[1] of having technology and categorizing everything in systems (and systems of systems). This argument gets attacked by "BUT everything can be used for good or bad". But Technology is not neutral.

We just pretend it's neutral because we wouldn't know who to hold accountable when dealing with cause/effect in complex systems of systems (emergence). Consider the following[2]:

> In a society such as ours, it is almost impossible for a person to be responsible. A simple example: a dam has been built somewhere, and it bursts. Who is responsible for that? Geologists worked out. They examined the terrain. Engineers drew up the construction plans. Workmen constructed it. And the politicians decided that the dam had to be in that spot. Who is responsible? No one. There is never anyone responsible. Anywhere. In the whole of our technological society the work is so fragmented and broken up into small pieces that no one is responsible. But no one is free either. Everyone has his own, specific task. And that's all he has to do.

> Just consider, for example, that atrocious excuse… It was one of the most horrible things I have ever heard. The director of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was asked at the Nuremburg trials, “But didn’t you find it horrible? All those corpses?” He replied, “What could I do? I couldn’t process all those corpses. The capacity of the ovens was too small. It caused me many problems. I had no time to think about these people. I was too busy with the technical problem of my ovens.” That is the classic example of an irresponsible person. He carries out his technical task and isn’t interested in anything else.

[1] The Technological Society, by Jacques Ellul https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci...

[2] The Betrayal by Technology, by Jacques Ellul (1993 film), 06:51: https://youtu.be/BOCtu-rXfPk?t=411
In videos with sponsors, YouTube adds a small notice when the video starts that says the video has sponsored content. It doesn't tell you where/when.
each game should have an id that can be retrieved, so a link can be shared for that particular word...
I think the concern here is about congested peerings to certain providers, not uptime.

For example Deutsche Telekom: They don't accept free direct peerings. Sending data to them indirectly frequently runs into congestion issues. For a while Hetzner offered a paid option for better connectivity to DTAG. It looks like Hetzner added a direct peering in 2020.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200205014018/https://wiki.hetz...

https://www.hetzner.com/news/03-20-dtag/
It's interesting, in the forums for the beta program there have been already been a few people making posts where they're convinced that the AI is conscious. That's never really been something I've thought about much since I know a little about how it works, but I could totally see how someone who didn't have as much context for how GPT-3 works could see it as some sort of sentience.

https://community.openai.com/t/a-conversation-with-alec-a-co...
https://community.openai.com/t/creepy-ai-behavior/10195
https://community.openai.com/t/where-to-watch-what-the-ai-wa...
`vd` is amazing; I used to fire a Notebook + pandas any time i had to deal with a CSV/excel file. Now, I can do most of it just from `vd`.
There are many (!) types of medical treatments. Some require multiple visits. A medical practitioner needs some way to ensure that progress is maintained across multiple visits.

The internet has multiple visits too. They're just called packets instead.
I used mozilla's Readability.js as the base. So didn't reinvent anything really :D
I vote graphs, this sounds really interesting!
This makes me wonder about a variant of the Turing test that I don't think I've seen explored. How would a conversational AI prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is an AI?
HN adblocker when?
And the story "Far Centaurus" by A.E. Van Vogt.
That's a terrible idea in English. It's fine in languages with more consistent accents, but in English I can do that for my accent, and then americans can't read it at all. It doesn't even work within Britain
Do you expect traveling multiple light years to an alien world to be easier or less hostile? You have to start somewhere, and the selection is pretty thin.
Music is about discipline. "Talent" is more or less a multiplier, but is useless without discipline in the first place. Needing "talent" (to be very good at it) is a myth. You don't have to be the best in the world to be very good at something.

There is no secret. It just takes time and work to get good at an instrument or producing.

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> Addiction can be defined as a persistent, compulsive need to use a substance, despite the negative consequences to you or others.

This is a really poor definition, because you can be addicted to things that have no negative consequences to you, and you still don't want to do them.

"An inability to stop" is probably more succinct.
I’m 53,000 words into a Harry Potter fanfic that fixed some issues I had with the seventh book. Basically, I object to how little the main characters ‘play to win.’

Example: Team Voldemort taboos his name, so that if you say it, his goons show up to arrest you. So everyone tries to stop saying his name. But here’s another idea. One person says his name while another hides nearby. After saying the name, the first person disappears, and then whoever shows up, the second person shoots them. Like, with a gun — a magical gun, if you want! Do that as many times as it takes until there are no more Death Eaters.

You get a very different book with characters who think like that, and it’s been a lot of fun to write.

EDIT: link, in case this is your thing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8180098 caveat that I have very uneven abilities as a fiction writer
Booking.com employees are bound by non-compete clauses so you will never get anyone directly from Booking.com in your company.
I discovered something like this in real-world usage. I’ve have GitHub Copilot running in VSCode and I’ve been experimenting with how it works when doing plain text accounting (using ledger / hledger).

The ledger files are somewhat “code”-like so it’s been super interesting to see how it works. The short answer: it works really quite well! ..except for the math part :)

I have a long ledger of transactions, and I can now give Copilot a comment like: “Jan 1, 2022 +100 from consulting income” and it (GPT-3) will generate a nearly perfect ledger entry, debiting from income and crediting the right bank account.

But the arithmetic is always wrong (ledger has an option for you to keep a running balance as a check). There’s the occasional moment where it gets the balance adjustment correct, but almost every time the results are similar to this post.
The problem is that this definition does not help with the identification process. For instance, any use of drug is arguably not compulsive as the effect often brings pleasure/reward and is often premeditated. "I'm tired, let me get a coffee". So, by simple rationalization, any addict can come to the conclusion that their behavior is not compulsive. Anyone who has the wherewithal to introspect and realize where this need for coffee came from does not need this definition as they already have the ability to differentiate addiction versus genuine desire/want.
For example, the site argues that for the first test, you don't need to flip the yellow card.

Your goal, is to test the application of the rule, not, the card itself. This is specified at:

"You have to ensure that cards have been produced in accordance with the following rule"

The rule is "If a card has a circle on one side, then it has the colour yellow on the other side."

Given a card that is yellow on the other side, you must flip it to confirm that the first half of the statement is true. Why? Because the challenge isn't to test the card, it's to test application of the rule. You can't simply assume that the rule has always worked, otherwise there is no need to test.

A square on one side, with a yellow flip side would violate the rule and thus show a defect.

I get that it's going to be a linguistics argument all the way down> For me, this is a perfect example of "works for me" engineer response vs QA doing actual testing.
It might be ad like, but there’s a pretty handy diagram explaining Kafka to beginners in there.

I’ve been working to grok Kafka the past little while and that diagram, if accurate stands out from most of the blabber on extended YouTube videos going for ad revenue.
and generally short term and as such fairly well observable

Vaccine ingredients which stay in the body for a long time could cause long term effects but as far as I know the current wide spread vaccines do not have that.
Almost as bad is when they blink at the contract table and move some franchise to another streaming provider while you're in the middle of watching it.
Just be cautious with nominatim's rate limiting: you'll get banned pretty quickly if you ever put such queries in a script without a delay between different queries, a dozen of queries run in parallel or close together is enough. (been there, done that)
I'm working on a similar project for a similar concept that involves spacing reading material called Incremental Reading[1] so it was a pleasant surprise seeing your project, great work.

For exporting to Anki, I suggest you look at Anki-Connect[2] if you haven't already.

[1]: http://super-memory.com/help/read.htm

[2]: https://foosoft.net/projects/anki-connect/
Again, what you consider "Judeo-Christian" was there before Christianity. Look no further than ancient Greece. Christianity was very successful in hijacking existing ideas and customs (Christmas, Easter) to be more easily adopted, and now claims to be the origin and cause of all (the good) that comes with it - which is the topic in this thread.

>Well, this isn’t exactly an unpopular theory among Atheists either.

What part? You think Atheists cannot see that religion exists and that people derive their 'morals' from that? Dogmatic faith? That's absurd, and sounds again like Christianity imposing their worldview onto others when faced with different worldviews. It's the same 'Atheists=Satanists' again, in which Atheists are only understood in the framework of Christianity.

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I'm dumb and ask stupid questions. My curiosity has only hurt me.
> It would be much more economically sensible to just rejuvenate everyone regularly instead of doing what we do today — try, and eventually fail, to manage all the conditions related to old age.

In the US, we just will do neither for the majority of Americans. If you're too poor to afford rejuvenation, you'll be too poor to afford other treatments. And you'll just die.

Sure the cost of each treatment might be pennies (although it probably will cost a lot and not have those economies of scale) but total profit is not maximized by a smaller markup. Better to get Gates/Bezos/Musk/other billionaires to give you 90% of their fortunes.
This is true in everything competitive though. How do non-pros enjoy sports, or competitive video games, or anything. The action itself can be fun. The improvement itself can be fun.

> As GM Ben Finegold said, when you show a sub-2000 player what he did wrong he's not surprised; he just didn't see it, didn't calculate it.

I don't see why the reaction should be different between an amateur or a pro here. In either case they just didn't see, or know the existence of, the move. The only reason it may be surprising to a higher level player is because the ego has lead them to believe they should have seen it.
Not going to curtail jack shit if you haven't left your homeworld. There's a large Universe out there, it's absurd to imagine muscling other races out without a wide-reaching presence, and that demands colonization.
To me, deciding to outsource customer support and hiring are huge red flags.

People / Customers are not at the center of the company any more, but behind a wall. Incentives get shifted, and core business becomes a service.

Not a good news.
In the UK student loan interest rates are contractually pegged to measures of inflation+some margin.

Most mobile phone contracts and home rental agreements also have built on clauses on measures of inflation.
Hey, we also got a weird signal from this area not too long ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC1
Unless you had to drive over broken car windshields to get there, unless you were greeted at the barbed wire festooned gate by a man in a string vest with a hole in it from where he perpetually picked his bellybutton, unless the room had a bucket of decomposing semen and condom soup in the corner, unless you got up in the morning to find two pimps taking turns to beat a girl on the hood of your car, I promise you you have not stayed in the worst hotel room on earth.

Mind, it was only 500 tenge for the night, which wasn’t bad for the only hotel in a 200km radius.
> For example, even if there is a MRI machine, will there be surgeons?

100% yes, there will be surgeon(s). Likely cotasked with other roles (medical studies etc?) until the population would get significantly larger. Antarctic missions have performed surgery (and everyone gets their appendix removed before going on an overwinter).
That's known as the Net Promoter Score.

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

In summary: 1-6 are demoters (will talk negatively of their experience to others), 7-8 passive (probably won't talk about their experience), 9-10 promoters (will talk positively about their experience).
I would have thought I had to go to a phone store. Thx. Interesting.
> 25 000 kilometres per hour

252 792 km/h