skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand. Can you give some examples?

Let me make the theoretical claim clear first: Regardless of the sentiments of a creator, so long as there's SEO pumpers creating similar content, the creator will be crowded out unless they also play that game.

This theory explains why given say a new scientific finding, often a content factory's misreading of the results as opposed to the official statement from the research institute is what gets passed around.

Essentially there's a requisite to engage with "the game" to capture exposure and connect with those who you wish to communicate with which is reliant on increasing metrics instead of merit.

I've called it the "fast-fooding of content" in other writings on the topic.

Please engage with me if you have counterexamples, I'm not married to any particular idea.
Depending on the toilet (and esp with "water saving toilets"), floating remains left behind for the next person to discover?

The problem is that many toilets seems to be designed so that the flowing water is supposed to create a vacuum pull effect in the piping dragging with it water and the heavier materials from a toilet.

However with a closed lid the lower air pressure within the bowl is going to create a suction effect in the other direction thus lowering the flushing effect, leaving heavier brown materials still within the toilet ready for the next customer to discover.
What a great graphic. I can't imagine the battle it took to make this work.
anecdotally, this is where the famous lack of modern skills comes from in engineering culture. If you keep doing the same things you've been doing, you'll look around one day and see that everyone has moved on.

The market for simple SMB websites is a great example. This went from custom HTML+webservices, to Wordpress, and now to WIX/shopify/square. I'd bet the market for SMB marketing will similarly move to near plug+play google/FB offerings.

However if you started out making websites in 1993, then there are a vast array of products and services one could move into over the last 3 decades.
* "Respect the time of your readers, and respect your message!"

* "The Art of Writing Less and Saying Basically The Same Thing [sic - that's not even a complete sentence]"

* "Don't say anything more than you need to / Revision 1: Don't say more than needed / Revision 2: Say only what's needed"

* "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter"

* "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

* "When revising, pretend to be your own worst enemy. Is there anything that can be misunderstood? If so, change it so that it can’t!"

I'm confused about whether the author read this advice and chose to ignore it by repeating it 6 (or, 5 times, and alluded to it with a sentence fragment), or whether this is some self-aware-meta-I-know-the-rules-but-I'm-ignoring them, or what's going on here.
Significantly more common in British English than American English. See, e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a (under “abbreviations and acronyms”.)
I could see this also becoming useful with Smart TVs. I don't want my TV to be having Ethernet-over-HDMI or other non-video/audio connection to any hardware that I connect to it (EG laptops). I'm not sure how much of a concern this is, but I don't trust the security of them, nor do I trust the manufacturers intent.
Wouldn't dip switches be better than breaking circuit boards and cutting traces? After all, this can't protect against physically present attackers anyway, since they could just unplug it and plug directly in.
As established, it is not useless.
So summarize, are they more-or-less capping their APIs and charging for content they serve beyond that cap?
Oh, good. Glad to see this getting some attention.

Malicious HDMI (and VGA, and DisplayPort) devices can feed bogus i2c data into the video drivers, which are probably never security audited. With VCP / DDC-CI, the attack surface grows.
I have to know—are videos/content in the dev environment... placeholders? Or are features and other dev work done with actual porn videos? I realize sometimes one might need get the latest from prod for whatever reason, but surely day-to-day dev work isn't done with videos that—distracting?
I think it's a good opportunity for Meteor, which is a very interesting framework but with some technical debt, to jump ship on Deno and start fresh again. Maybe they could try replacing their in-house synchronization mechanisms by managed services such as AppSync. Randomly wondering :)
Maybe they see a chance of it but they cannot seriously expect it

EDIT: the comment I responded to was completely rewritten and replaced with a different one. Please don’t do this
There is open source alternative. It shouldn’t be hard to Google it
I may be wrong about this but I recall reading it on a book about the history of energy.

Anyway, supposedly around 99% (!) of the net energy of fuels gets lost from the source to your home. This due to energy conversion, loss in transmission lines, transformers, you own electrical installation, battery charging/discharging and other inefficiencies on the grid or the devices you use.
Related:

Derek Lowe: Had Enough, Eh? Come Back and Take What's Coming to You!
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/had-enough-eh

>It is hard to even begin to estimate the amount of time, effort, and money that has been spent on this idea. And this is just the antibodies! There are plenty of other whacks that have been taken at the amyloid hypothesis (secretase enzymes and more), and none of them have ever worked. Keep in mind that there are plenty of preclinical efforts over the past thirty years that never even saw the light of day (I was on some of those myself), and the reason you never heard about any of them is because they didn't work, either. Nothing has worked. Not once. The amyloid hypothesis has been targeted again and again and again from different directions with different drug candidates, and never, ever even once has it shown signs of truly helping Alzheimer's patients. I very much include Biogen's Aduhelm in that assessment. So I ask again: how long are we going to keep doing this?
the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for unexploded bombs

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-dash#Attributive_compounds
The point is that some countries have long dark winters, often with windless spells. Some are also lowland countries with little or no access to hydro.

For green energy, you'd need to literally store months' worth of energy somehow, and the cost of doing that via batteries is prohibitive too.

I guess the hope is that storing hydrogen, difficult and expensive that it is, could be made to be more like storing hydrocarbons, basically in a hole in the ground. Then you could produce it in the windy sunny months and use it in winter.

Maybe...
But then it isn’t planned obsolescence. It is planned obsolescence if the plastic gear wears and breaks down without a jam occurring. In your model it is a fail safe or circuit breaker. In the GP it a part designed to fail sooner (in wall clock time) to make sure you buy a new product.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31816715
The big automakers increasing their electric car output hit Tesla really hard in their huge regulatory credits business. Also considering the US is getting ever closer to recalling autopilot means they are going to need to save their pennies.
Rural Indexing Project
I would say that the Community version (free) covers most of what Active Admin does. The search is paid with Avo (and included in AA).

The Pro users are those who need to build upon Avo. They need custom content (fields, resource tools, custom pages), and they need to make it look the same as the rest of the app. Avo provides view components that help with that. This way you create a seamless UI for your users.

I think of Avo as more than just and admin panel framework (although power tool sounds great), but the place where you build your app. It becomes the app your users see.

Regarding API based apps, yeah, that's something I'd loke to support soon. Offer HTTP adapters where you coudl hook in your Stripe/Shopify/Intercom/Custom API endpoints.

Regarding complexity, I tried to cram as much as I could (whenever I push out a new feature, I add it) to the demo site[0].

One of the biggest apps I've seen has about 41 resources, 431 fields, and quite some complexity because it's a multi tenancy app that serves three marketplace platforms. There's a lot of complex scoping applied to the data to match the accounts and views.

But, yeah, I'd love to see an app that size. I think the project is still young (about two years. version 2.0 three months old) and these kinds of projects tend to get built out with time. I can't imagine there are a lot of teams with an app that size you mentioned that are in a hurry to rip out everything they have to replace it with Avo (or any other package or app) in such a short time. Even our customers above are slowly switching from their homegrown admin panel to Avo.

Right now, the UI customization wasn't our main concern. I do want it to look amazing so I work a lot (alongside the designer) to keep it looking excellent. This being Rails, you can always override the partials and view components to add your own and tweak Avo's. The first iteration of UI customization will be to enable the developer to change the colors of the UI.

Regarding general customization, you can already plug in Avo on multiple levels. One can add new fields, sections on resource pages, totally new custom pages, etc.

Avo is ready for customization complexity.

[0] https://avodemo.herokuapp.com/
Did someone see an API? I'm specifically looking for a way to get the repairability score for smartphones, via their codename.
definitely try clojure. try clojurescript with shadow-cljs and reagent as well!
To package software for my main hosts. I can avoid installing lots of compiletime dependencies in main hosts and leaving potential garbage of `make install`.
The neatest part of this is the editor[0]! It features incremental parsing, which is actually really cool! There's a tutorial here to get you started [1].

[0] https://ohmjs.org/editor/

[1] https://nextjournal.com/dubroy/ohm-parsing-made-easy
It seems like this space will open up all sorts of interesting novel legal questions.

It is possible to provide CoPilot with a sequence of inputs that produces some of the input, which was copyrighted. Let's say you want to help people violate copyright, so you as a third party distribute a script that provides that sequence of inputs. Who's violating the copyright there?

Alternatively -- it is apparently legal to produce a clean-room implementation that duplicates a copyright implementation. Supposing you were to use a tool like CoPilot, which has just been trained on that copyright implementation. Is your room still clean? You might even be able to get it to spit out identical functions!

Or, if you have a ML algorithm which has been trained on leaked closed source code, and it is sufficiently over-fitted as to just provide the source code given the filename or the original binary, who is violating copyright when this tool is used? If it is just the end user, then this seems like a really convenient way to launder leaked closed source code.
> I want my eyes to scan across the text rather than ratcheting from one word to the next word, which is both slow and exhausting.

An interesting experiment is to try reading a word at a time, but without moving the eyes. Here's [1] a command line program that takes text on standard input and displays it one word at a time in a fixed position on the screen, holding each word for N milliseconds (3N milliseconds if there is punctuation) where N defaults to 250 but can be set on the command line.

At the default 250 msec per word I found it very easy to read the material I tested with (random extracts from a Project Gutenberg edition of"The Valley of Fear", by Arthur Conan Doyle). That works out to around 160-180 wpm. (Not the 240 wpm you would expect from 250 msec/word because of the delays for punctuation).

At 200 msec/word, it still feels like a very slow read. Rate was around 270 wpm.

150 msec/word gave around 320 wpm. Still not a problem keeping up.

120 msec/word pushed it up to around 380 wpm and it starts to get hard for me. If I don't quite catch a word and have to think a little to figure out what it was I can get distracted enough to miss more words unless some punctuation comes up soon to give me a little break.

100 msec/word, around 480 wpm, is still reasonably comprehensible but at that point requires a lot of focus and feels tiring even though my eyes don't have to move. Sometimes not moving can be as tiring as moving when you are trying to not move for a long time.

I would not want to read a lot this way, but there are some places I wish it were offered. Many music players for example if the title does not fit in the space available autoscroll it back and forth. It can be very hard to read it while it is scrolling. A word flash display might work better there.

[1] https://pastebin.com/70eYTDkk
Those improvements are important for enthusiasts as well since they all take their toll during long sessions.
I look forward to having more amazing experiences at my finger tips during the long, dark winter months. There’s not much else to do here except drink and go snowmobiling.
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening as a solution to Fermi paradox?
Does anything actually use Ethernet over HDMI?
Yeah, I think this is spot on. The version of WMF Enterprise being described here is formalizing / codifying an informal relationship that already existed (Google using Wikipedia content all over the place, and making various one-off donations to WMF), and as you say, formalizing has benefits for both parties! Certainly ways this could have some long-term negative impacts, but WMF is obviously thinking pretty hard about mitigations, it seems.

The discussion linked in a comment above (https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Essay...) also provides a pretty nice FAQ to the negative responses.
The whole point of critics celebrating the inevitable crash is to try and prevent more people being drawn into the bullshit. Yes, there will be other opportunities for people to be swindled, but that's kinda beside the point.

The classic hedge against inflation is stuff with indisputable value, aka commodities. Second-best is real-estate, since the time frame for that "Greater Fool" situation plays out over approximately a lifetime. Critics are super angry that people are being swindled into throwing their money into crypto in much the same way that critics are super angry that people get swindled into throwing their money into lotto tickets.

Has absolutely fuck-all to do with "moral objection" or "buying a GPU," and 100% to do with not wanting to see people pouring MORE of their life savings down the drain for the benefit of assholes playing media-campaign pump-and-dump games. The sooner it crashes and burns, the sooner we can hope to prevent more pointless financial deaths.
You’re right. The line to draw here is really non-commercial vs commercial, personal vs business. Though I can’t think of a simple way about it that does not rely on some trust (e.g., a business self-identifying itself as a business and paying up, despite it being easy to lie and freeload).
Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit to prove a point, but even so, each nip and tuck is an new sentence fragment written and an old sentence fragment discarded. The more you edit, the smaller the ratio of what you publish to what you wrote.
Curious and interesting.

Not to be the party pooper: didn't Docker work well for your Haskell use-case?
https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/ - an API to access Wikimedia content:

* Snapshots of a Wikimedia project - updated daily

* On-demand access to articles

* Hook into a stream of changes to articles
In the dev environment we had custom videos uploaded, and I often uploaded my own. Nice kittens and puppy videos and such. Still, the mindgeek office life was mostly the same as any office, except for the porn on half the screens.

As with anything else at one point you get desensitized by the same content, since it was all test data and not live production stuff, it didn't get updated often.
Cool, but why can't the device just automatically copy the EDID from the monitor?
as someone who's interested in UK, am curious whether you are speaking from experience or is there anything to back up the statement?
there's a little [-] icon at the end of every comment header, that's for collapsing comments (and their children) that take up too much space
And yet at most companies, you are not allowed to even contemplate such a crazy idea. Need for absolute certainty and stability generate conservative committees ( and committee members ), who loathe but to say anything definitive.

Granted, I mostly saw it in banking, but I assume it is not that uncommon.
This horse has been beaten to death a million times already.

Microsoft can't open source Windows since it's full of third party code they licensed and don't have the rights to open source. Probably also why apple couldn't open source MacOS.
And so how does that not apply to Netflix or The New York Times?

You said[0]:

"But that entirely vanishes with most internet-based subscriptions. If I stop watching Netflix, they stop experiencing marginal costs for me. If I get excited about a NYT subscription but then stop reading, it's the same deal. Nobody went out and bought another server just because I signed up. I could cancel at any time and they'd have to let me go. If they keep charging me when I'm not getting any value, then it's not a mutually beneficial relationship; they're just exploiting me. And indeed, maybe they were exploiting me from the get-go if their intent was to just get my money in without regard for whether I was going to get anything out of it."

A subscription with them provides access to the services they sell all the time as long as your subscription is current, in exactly the same way as as insurance provides risk mitigation.

You appear to be arguing that it's the subscription model that's the problem and not those who use it in an exploitative manner.

I'm not a fan of subscription models myself, which can be used in exploitative ways, but the fault isn't in the model, but in those who implement/administer it.

N.B.: I do have insurance, but not Netflix or NYT subscriptions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31818397

Edit: Fixed formatting, typo.
I haven't used Avo, but if it works well, I think it's an appropriate claim.

I've worked in the industry for a while and admin pages / reports usually being at least 50% of the effort. Sometimes, it's more like 90%.

So, there's a lot of potential impact there.
I really like copilot, but my outside of the content being generated it still feels a bit slow and somewhat hacked into vscode. It sometimes interferes with regular "intellisense suggestions" as well.

I've been in the beta since almost the beginning I have not really seen much improvement on the frontend side. Since its release, the changelog only mentions 10 small (or so it seems) improvements

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/GitHub.copilot-ni...

On the backend side, I feel like I've started to "figure out" copilot a little bit. One thing I'd like to see is inline completion which I think gpt3 can do now but copilot which I believe it's based on cannot.

I think I will pay to continue, but I'd like to see some frontend improvements and maybe some backend alternatives. Ideally I'd love this to be open source but compute power doesn't seem feasible (?) unless we start magically crowd sourcing our computers to run a model somehow.
whenever someone says "the media" has a single monolithic view, it seems to be that person demonstrating a persecution complex

I've seen tons of "the media" contradicting your point, but I guess if you said "some people say this, others don't", your point wouldn't be as compelling
> However the R in RISC revers to the how many instruction you have to implement to get a job done.

right, the way i always understood it was, in many situations there are different riscs that are appropriate (e.g i only need 32-bit integer and atomic instructions for job x) so instead of accumulating larger and larger single spec, you can pick and choose whats needed:

you can have still have your risc (fewer, simpler, efficient instruction) cake and eat it (deploy it in various divergent situations and still be standard) too
Dark text on light background is objectively better. Light text bleeds into the background, making it harder to discern letter shapes.
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/solve
Sure. I was def exaggerating for effect — there does need to be an org running this project and as that org Wikimedia also does good things. But as with Mozilla, the decision-makers are too distracted by flavor-of-the-week bullshit.
A déjà vu of the 90s: getting rid of the mainframe (now with “the cloud” help)
You know that if you want a more arcade oriented flight sim there's flight simulator right?

That's not Laminar's goal, and that's not the market they're in. You can see that in the post, it's by the founder of Laminar. It's pages upon pages of gushing over flight modelling.
Probably not much worse than staring at a monitor for 9+ hours a day.
If you're a man and you don't have self esteem issues trying online dating is an excellent way to develop them. I tried it for maybe half a year. I'm decent looking, I have a good career, I'm tall enough that I get through most of the filters a lot of women put on height, I put effort into my profile and pictures. After all that I was ecstatic if I got even one match a week (and this was across three different apps). Maybe 25% of those resulted in conversations, none of those resulted in meeting up in real life.

Outside of online dating where are you even supposed to meet women now? I see women saying all the time they don't want to be approached in public. COVID decimated my already fairly meager pool of friends that I see regularly so opportunities to meet people through friends are few and far between. On top of that most women near my age (mid 30s) are already in long term relationships. At this point I've mostly given up, now I'm trying to accept that I'll likely spend the rest of my life alone. It sucks.
I would say that we are in a golden age of simracing games too, and we practically are, but one company that isn't doing so well (Motorsport games) owns a lot of them and could go under.
Please note that Javascript works well (no JIT but fine otherwise) in Firefox on PowerPC 64, things like ProtonMail, GMail, YouTube, diverse online maps etc. work fine, even WebGL (Shadertoy, Three.js etc.). It’s just WebAssembly which doesn’t.
I tried most of the existing editors and worked with some of them a lot.
Lexical have a nice declarative API; so far, enjoying using it. Even without proper docs, I quickly got an idea of what it is and how to develop.
React ecosystem lacked a proper text editor and lexical is really promising.
I worked on Hermes and I would say it's absolutely an actual JavaScript engine, targeting the ES spec. Its focus on startup performance means it makes different tradeoffs than other engines.
I can almost envision a future where human devs write tests, code generating frameworks build code from a spec.
I guess that makes some sense. Still feels like it would be a weird thing to aim for, but maybe that's the state of the industry
FYI: It seems strange to use branches to differentiate between entirely different projects. Normally different projects have different branches; a branch is used to make a change in isolation and is then merged back into master.