skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is currently feasible for anyone, with the right resources, to fly to Hong Kong.

It is not currently feasible for anyone to speed up or simulate nature in silico.

These are quite different positions, the idea that you would equivocate them frankly is bizarre
I’m not sure which keybinds you have enabled (possibly through VS Studio style?), but in PyCharm/Rider for me (IDEA keybinds) both completions and Copilot use tab to complete, which as the user you replied to has said, tends to get in the way and trip me up as often as the relevant suggestions provide something of benefit.
Excellent point! In the context of early electronic music (thinking of Varèse), there was a sort of resentment for the fact a composer was limited to working with the sort of sounds that can be "drawn from horse hair and catgut" or by an octave divided in twelve or any instrument other than the composer's imagination. That's how I understood the criticism (which was also voiced in an academic context).
I would love to try Deno deploy, but right now there are two deal breakers for me:

- why is the CPU time limit so low? 10ms (or even 50ms in Pro version) seems a limit very easy to blow for any sufficiently complex app

- why is there no data storage offering available? I'm not sure I see the point of edge deploys while data is still only accessible through a centralized database server. Having a way to deploy a sqlite database next to the running app seems like an easy way to realize the gains of edge deployments.

I'm currently trying Fly.io which seems to cover both of these issues, but I wonder if I'm missing something here - or perhaps this service is intended for very different use cases.
>and then turn into coke zombies who can't write anymore

They can also turn into coke zombies who are still able to write. Stephen King claimed that he was so out of it during that period of his life, he straight up doesn't remember writing Cujo at all[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cujo#Background
My eyes can tell they're the same.

If you look at the cars without bias you'll agree.

https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/60dd...

https://argentinareports.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/tito...

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/MINI-Smart-Electric-C...

The cars are exactly alike in size, shape, proportion, body, etc., except for some minor cosmetic changes in the front grill.
If GitHub charge money for a tool producing derivative works of other people's code (maybe without permission, OSS or not) perhaps they should be compensated.

To use a famous example: if an AI were taught to perform heart surgery by viewing footage of skilled surgeons ... would it not be fair that those surgeons earn an on-going amount for their input? An input that is essential to the AIs function.

I worry this is the pointed end of the data hoarding big Co Internet. Our data is used to train models that (potentially, in future) degrade _our_ value while giving nothing back despite being used, unwillingly, to train their models.
Yes, the parking meter example is an exact case I ran into in real life. But Microvium didn't exist back then.

But in general, an IoT solution may have some business logic or rules that transcends the specific device, and some may prefer to represent that logic in a high level language like JS, and some situations may benefit from being able to access that logic from multiple places -- e.g. front-end, back-end, and device.
The homeowner stuff is actually easier than it might seem - almost universally the main problem is cost. People with power lines across their property already have an easement and the connection to the pope/box is easy enough to run underground with a pig and little disturbance.

Our town has it because the town has its own town-owned power company and they don’t care for multiple callouts during winter. Other older, richer areas nearby don’t have it.

Homeowners are generally in favor of it - as it makes the area look nicer and if you do have an easement it’ll drop from like 40 ft to ten or so.
Just need to finish adding some more features to madmin.
In 6 years they’ve done the first 40 years of fuckups.
By 2032 we’ll be doing totally new sorts of banking.
Everyone follows the same rules, it’s called an emergent consensus from free and open source peer to peer software.

Miners in China shows you that ultimately the only way to stop it would be technologically enforced bans on arbitrary computation or disconnect the internet. Both of those ways will fail too, as general purpose computers exist and one can find a signal…
Voice Notes and Google Apps Script = Programmable Thoughts. Would Love Feedback
Hey! I've had an idea floating around in my head for a while and I recently decided to see if I could quickly put something together, mostly just because I felt it could possibly help with my fun personal combo of ADHD and anxiety.

I've been calling it "Programmable Thoughts" and the core concept is essentially "Thought to Inbox", relying on the ability to quickly offload thoughts so you can process them later in a place where you already spend time (your inbox). I realize it's not a particularly novel idea (just found out about Braintoss) but the way it's built provides near infinite customization on the backend. The frontend is an incredibly simple Android/iOS voice recording app that allows you to tag recordings with user-defined strings, and then synchronizes with Google Drive. The backend is where things get interesting, as it's built on a Google Apps Script framework and uses Google's Cloud Speech-to-Text API. While I did already publish to the app stores, I really could use some folks to help test the app and the backend script, as well as feedback on the entire concept. Anyone who helps test will have their name credited on the GitHub repo if they’d like.

If you're interested in helping out, just send an email to dustin@programmablethoughts.com and let me know if you'd like to test the Android or iOS app (or both) and I'll send you an internal test build invite.

Check out the GitHub repo for more info - https://github.com/MomentCaptureInc/ProgrammableThoughts

Thanks in advance.

-Dustin
I recommend getting the actual book. Most of the summaries get some gist of it but miss the mark.
Ex-lover?

Sounds like one hell of a story that, oddly, I would probably nod along with in solidarity and a general sense of “yep, mine was like that, too”. Came out of that relationship a much more grateful and humble person even if it didn’t work out between us, and every now and then I look over at my bookshelf and smile.

First round’s on me ;)
To add to your comment. It is more fundamental. Modern protocols and standards -- from WebAssembly to TLS 1.3, to QUIC are FAANG controlled, we like it or not.

There was a post recently on hackernews about forcing client support of SNI being problematic according to some people.

So the effect of FAANG is far more fundamental; beyond ads and content that is.
Unnecessary Mastectomy Math
I just looked into crime rates and they're actually close to historical lows.

But that's not really a measure for rather we're "desensitized", and maybe that's the wrong word for what I feel about this.

Basically, I can't imagine how consuming violent movies, games, images, music, does not affect oneself. I don't necessarily think that makes one prone to violence, but I do feel it may move them towards depression.
Ah, this is why iCloud Private Relay wasn't working this morning.
There is not such thing as an excess carbon in tinder. The normal way is that this tinder will became soil, soaked in water. The more older the forests, the more humid the place, unless we reset it removing the water and the soil, by frequent deliberate burning.
Case in point: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/TVC-DXY/
International Banking Recommendations
I live in EU, and I have been looking for a good bank to hold and manage my money from my startups, mostly in USD.

As most of the things today, the banking system is outdated and unnecessary complicated. The opposite of crypto and freedom of money.

Don't recommend me middleware services like Revolut, Wise, Mercury, etc. They are not useful for companies, and just put another layer of complication on top of the current one.

So what is a good bank that you can trust, works great for international payments, and has an easy application process for foreigners?
You see these sort of correlations a lot and I have to wonder, is this a wealth predictor? That is, is it that someone who is more likely to get their TDAP is also likely has a more stable life.

You see these sorts of things a lot in health studies. For example, someone that goes to church often is more likely to live longer. Yet, if you look at what's happening, someone that isn't going to church is more likely doing that because they can't (IE, they are bed ridden) which in and of itself is a strong predictor for whether or not you are going to die soon.

Disentangling these sorts of cause and effects seems like something medical journalism does poorly.
Do you think you learn as well or deeply?

Is the act of finding a help for learning?

Do you retain as much? Do you need to? Is that important?

I hope this whole thing ends up like a space saving tool like Google did. I don't need to memorise that API because I can Google the docs. Now maybe that goes a level higher.
This resonates strongly with me. It seems to be a kind of vicious cycle. By over-idealizing successful individuals and completely discarding the unsuccessful ones, society is going to keep offering more opportunities to those successful individuals and thus make it easier for them to keep succeeding (while retaining their blindspots) and fewer opportunities will be given to unsuccessful individuals who have learned to see the world in the highest resolution.

But really, who is the better player after 10 years? The person who keeps losing while playing the game in 'impossible mode' or the person who keeps winning while playing in 'easy mode'?

It may be that we've reached a point where the people who are running the world today are among those who least understand it (they certainly seem to be missing all the details and nuance). That might explain why a lot of what's currently happening in society comes across as ridiculous, nonsensical or hypocritical to the majority. Clown world.
Medication causing dementia symptoms is also not psychosis. Psychosis is a very specific state of mind, not something to just describe general mental illness
After they acquired Revue this seemed inevitable.

Not only Twitter is competing with Substack but its users are already creating threads which would be better suited to long form writing. The need is already there and they already have millions of users that want it.

A couple of years ago I started working on a writing platform and pulled the plug mid dev. One reason was that I actually feared Twitter would get into long form writing, and here we are.
scientists should be humble, but it's not enshrined or institutionalized. The incentive structures took care of that a while ago.
Some tools are more prone to human error than others.

Another canonical example is C++. Some tools make it easy to blow your leg off. Some tools provide safety mechanisms to stop the saw from cutting off your finger.
With the advertised range and top speed it fits more as a small utility vehicle for city street driving only.

And, the car is the Tit-o, the truck is the Tit-a, and the SUV version should naturally be called the Tit-e. I'll bet it would be the most popular if the Argentine market is anything like the US market.
These database records can be accessed using languages such as SQRL.
I guess there's still not much to report on.

A lot of sob-stories of people locking up their life savings in this crap, but no explanations how or why Celsius lost its ability to guarantee the funds of its customers.

There's a bit of history about where this Celsius company came from in 2018 that tickled my curiosity, but nothing about the fundamental issue at play here.

Then again, with Celsius keeping their lips shut, I guess there's no story until investigators force it out of them.
Ask HN: Does FDA public comment make a difference?
Was taking a look at the FDA comment section for the new menthol cigarette ban, there's like 90k comments.

Does anyone actually read all of these? Most of them seem to be like facebook esque in terms of quality, I assume the admin in charge doesn't care either way and afaik there's no penalty for ignoring them.

Maybe there's a kind of data analysis tool here? Anyone in govt know?

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2021-N-1349-0001
Listen to the World’s Smallest Rotary Engine Scream at 30,000 RPM
Show HN: A simple website to show how NFTs are stored
But what about intent? Do you believe he believed he was offering material support?

Or are you just saying you don't care and it doesn't matter, because he's an "influencer"?
Surprisingly large amounts of people are lazy, and copying whatever was done before and changing up the words a bit covers most everything most of the time.
So where's 40% from?
Writing the code is the hard part mainly inasmuch as it forces you to concretize and clarify previously vague notions. In that sense, it's hard to separate "conceiving the solution" from "writing the code," unless you're perhaps one of those rare geniuses who are simply able to dictate ideas fully formed in their head (I'm thinking of the scene in Amadeus when Salieri examines some clean, uncorrected sheet music and is then shocked to discover that Mozart doesn't make copies and he's holding originals).
Correct.

The problem with existing research is that it simply isn't that open to new ideas, particularly once funding streams are in place (because shifts in funding mean job losses, institutional impacts etc).

As you are pointing out, VC's often see monpolies as something to disrupt. So you'll take the taxi industry for example. A govt sanctioned monpoly with horrible service and low insurance limits. They'll make a play with something like uber.

Hotels -> airbnb / VRBO

And the list goes on.

You point out how VC's don't focus on short term profits. While I would agree, some however would argue that VC's should focus MORE on short term profits. I personally think too many money losing businesses are subsidized for way too long with VC money. In biotech that may be a good or necessary thing, but personally think this longer view is a bit of a negative.
Kellogg's to separate into 3 public companies
yes, apparently it did…
OK but the analog hole on a Powerpoint slide is large enough that it's never going to get plugged. DRM kind of makes sense when there is 60 high resolution images a second, not when everyone has 5 minutes to jot down a single slide of text.
I agree but at the same time: Inter-process communication is also faster when a process is allowed to write to or read from another process's memory. Doesn't make it a good idea, though.
Why Computers Can't Generate Randomness
Good thing your politics aren't showing in your post.
Well, that's the problem. There is no "science" as a separate entity from the humans who practice it. So, science can't acknowledge these problems and fix them, only people can. For that reason, I don't think it's useful to distinguish the abstract concept of Science from the actual human activity of science in this case.
> I like Deno in principle, but I'd love to see how Slack, Github and Netlify are using it.

Slack: "Run on Slack"

Netlify: "Netlify Edge Functions"

They're both listed in the Showcase: https://deno.land/showcase
Passing the visual Turing test [Meta]
After looking at lots of these new models, I've come to the conclusion that they're all basically weighted gibberish generators that produce output not entirely dissimilar to old fashioned hidden markov chains -- just more sophisticated. The corpus is larger and the weighting scheme is much more sophisticated (i.e. you can use prompts), but at the end of the day they're sort of just barfing out nonsense that does a better job at tricking humans into thinking they're doing something smart. These models have really just introduced the concept of differing "qualities" of gibberish on a sliding scale from

random words ---> markov models ---> transformer ---> human writer

Inevitably, users of these kinds of models want them to produce more and more specific output to the point that they really don't want what the models produce and instead are just trying to get a computer to write stuff for them that they want. Eventually all the tuning and filtering and whatnot turns into more work than just producing the output the user wants in the first place.

It's just a room of monkeys banging on typewriters at the end of the day.
Tangential personal anecdote.

I am autistic and I have two unusual informational input traits.

I would consider myself a good reader. A sizeable chunk of my life has been dedicated to reading (and absorbing other forms of media). I can't read at a 950 wpm (that figure is immediately raising suspicions for me) but I'm still fairly fast.

The first weird thing:

I taught myself how to read and I've been reading since I was 3 years old. Apparently this freaked out my aunt when I was in her car reading street signs aloud. I still have memories of being far ahead of my peers in early childhood. School was unable to challenge me and this led to me having a lax study attitude and I became lazy. As an adult I'm still lazy, but I've been able to turn this into a strength as a programmer. (See Bill Gate's quote on "a lazy person").

For anyone else who has or knows someone who is experiencing this: HealthyGamerGG's video: "Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs" can give some great information to help understand this.

The second weird thing:

I regularly watch informational/tutorial/conference/etc... videos on youtube between 2-4 times their standard speed. I do this in the browser's console with the following command:

$('video').playbackRate = x;

Where x is a number. (e.g. 1, 3, 2.75, etc...)

After you've already typed it once, a simple press of the Up key will bring it back as if you had just typed it.

I've been told there are extensions that do this while avoiding the terminal, but this is already ingrained in my muscle memory. (F12 -> Up -> Delete -> type number -> Enter -> F12.)

Understanding sped-up talking is a skill I've built up over time. To other people around me who have tried to follow along it sounds like gibberish. I've heard of deaf developers who commonly develop this skill so that they're listening 600-800%+ standard speed but I don't think the upper range is possible on videos with different voices and accents using a wider vocabulary.
I think Tom Hanks was in a film where he believed a volleyball was a person at some point in his journey where things weren't going so well. He would talk to it and it talked back (in his mind). We knew it was a volleyball and not a person. We know everything is not a person. If we said everything was a person, then it kind of doesn't make sense at that point to use that word. We should just use the word "everything". We would have to have another name for person that meant a person. It's just easier to call it "person".

What I mean by consciousness is more like how some chatbots (fake it) and animals demonstrate it (like us and dogs etc). Person's in a brain-lock situation even have activity that can be sensed by machinery and produce cursor movements on a screen where they can answer questions so they can demonstrate consciousness. That's more what I mean. Maybe I need to call it...sentience?

So far, rocks and sticks can't do that, but if this text is also conscious as its some magnetic charges on some discs somewhere, then I may be offending it.
They've been losing support of Republicans due to their increasingly lefty posture, so their power over congress may be waning. Guess we'll see.
I'd suggest logging to sqlite to provide later replays and speed estimations at keypoints. It might be nice to also add some cascading signature of the timestamps for tamper evidence (ex: merkle tree)

Usecase: storing timestamped proof of execution, automating metrics history

User story: "after feature X got implemented, deployment became twice as slow as we can see from the viddy logs".
She may not "understand it" in the same way we do but in terms of how we experience and are shaped by it as a culture I think she's very astute. I read goon squad recently and was surprised it's more than a decade old so rather than engaging with recent changes from technology she was more predicting them.

I think it would have read as very cynical to me in 2011 but reading it now it's clear that was warranted.
From the post:

> For example, it is integrated with GitHub in such a way that on every push it will provision a new server running specifically that code, deployed to the edge, worldwide, and persisted permanently. Want to access the code your app was running a month ago at commit f7c5e19? It will be served up instantly at a moment's notice. It costs you nothing to have that bit of JavaScript responding to requests indefinitely.

These things sound great and almost a dream come true but how realistic is it to consider being able to do this in most web apps? As soon as your application uses a SQL database and you have database migrations then you're out of luck because a commit from 2 months ago might expect a different database schema than the current version and while it's common to migrate in backwards compatible ways, the backwards compatibility is usually only temporary until you finish migrating from A to B.

Long story short, this sounds cool but in practice is really only applicable to static sites or dynamic sites where you plan to keep a version of your database and code base backwards compatible from day 1 to current day (which I've never seen done in any app developed over the last ~20 years of freelancing for many different companies). The post mentions "The open source Deno runtime shows how clean and productive a modern, batteries-included, programming environment can be" so it sounds like they expect you'll be running database backed apps and not only static sites.
It's relatively easy to live without WhatsApp.
There are various discussions here on HN about this. Use search and product name (busy now).

https://mattermost.com/

https://zulip.com/
This article is one Big Lie. Cancel culture is a right-wing myth. It spreads fascism.
This is a limitation of the controller, not the simulation software. In real life, there'd be feedback on the flight stick or yoke due to all the air hitting the control surface. Most controllers lack force-feedback and so the sim treats controller deflection as "force against the stick", which yields different amounts of deflection at different speeds.
w3w fails at this, because it uses words that sound similar (recede reseed, innocence innocents, and many others: https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/why-what3words-is-not-su...). Good luck playing spelling bee of "clairvoyants" in emergency.

Some words may also be difficult to pronounce/hear/spell by non-native speakers. Unlike regular sentences, there's no context to disambiguate.
History has proved the first-mover advantage. Many unreasonable places in the history of human evolution have been preserved because they did not affect survival. The best may not be widely used. Ecosystems that are large enough are easier to live to the end. The future is the future of the survivors. Js is like this.