skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it just stops working and demands more money

Now I start to understand that licensing models like JetBrains' "perpetual fallback license" are really fair. Of course, the "buy once and get all updates" licenses which were available back in the day when apps such as Sublime Text were called "shareware" (actually Sublime Text still has a similar license: if you buy it, you get 3 years of updates) were even better, but hey, software developers need to eat too...
Gmail and AOL mail-stealing browser ext SHARPEXT
Using midjourney, I'm fascinated with the geometric shapes it comes with. Just yesterday I was looking at a sort of a hexagon made with intersecting hearts. Not only was it aesthetically pleasing, it was such an unusual composition, that I think it would be extremely hard for an artist to come up with, maybe even a mathematician. So I think it's already capable of doing more sophisticated things than human artists.
Who would click the link if the title was "People bought a shitload of computers during the lockdowns and now they do not need a lot of them"? I surely wouldn't...
It's worth remembering that national pride (and the beating that pride took when the Soviet Union beat us to space) is what drove the US to make such fast progress.

That national pride does not exist as a driving force for addressing climate change. We, in many ways, don't even have a national consensus on the need to address climate change.
I think I am shadow banned, any idea why?
Unpopular opinion, but here goes ... The pictures are absolutely charming. This is because they distill the essential qualities of the object (from the child's POV), which is lost when you have perfect representation art. But turning them into real objects results in things that are often terrifying and grotesque, not charming. I don't believe the kids wanted their object to look like that in real life. They may be proud that their creation is realized, but I doubt their drawing is an expression of desire. They just have imperfect skills in representation. In contrast, there is imaginative art that kids excel at (e.g. a puppy with wings and a goatee). That's something that is really cool to see as a real object.
Good luck sueing Microsoft.
Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime
You know a lot more than that. You know that it eats, sleeps, runs, mates. You know that there are male and female giraffes and what that means. You know that it dies if it gets too hot, too cold, if it falls off a cliff. You know that it has legs, a head, neck, etc and you probably know that it has a heart, brain, lungs, kidneys, etc inside.

You know, vaguely, how it interacts with other things and what it's likely to do around a fruit tree, or a lion, or fire.

Even if you've never been close to a giraffe, you can probably imagine what it looks like from close enough to see individual hairs in its fur.

A lot of knowledge is still missing from ML systems that don't interact with the world.
I don't know why HN would label this link as [dupe] ? Maybe because for some readers, the article is paywalled?

Anyways, it's sad that so many women in tech (and in general) are still having their on #metoo moments and do not find people who will listen or even believe them.
This is requiring a subscription, and it mac/windows only.

Sublime-merge supports also Linux, is a very nice git ui, and you pay once for the licence.

If you like Sublime text, it's the same type of experience, but for git.
Road/fuel taxes almost nowhere cover road maintenance and increasing fuel taxes for environmental reasons is extremely common in Europe.
Not really true - depending on volume.

In almost all certainty they have volume commitments out months - and have for at least two years.

JIT stopped being a reality a while ago.

If you know you're sitting on 2 months of inventory, and you're getting shipments that are equal to 1 month of capacity every month, and it takes 3-5 weeks by sea, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do still.

Also, depending on their contracts, they may not pay the vendor until they receive the goods at their location, so the sea freight shipment doesn't have a cost for time value of money.

If you're sitting on a buffer, time value of money doesn't matter - and only gets worse by spending more money to get it sooner if you can only produce say 5k cars/week - doesn't matter if you get parts sooner you can't use.
I just turn off all the toggles for personalized suggestions from Siri and targeted advertising and don't worry about it? I don't receive anything targeted to me as far as I've seen.

I believe the toggles are fairly visible under Settings > Siri, and then I'd probably search for Privacy and Advertising and do toggles there too.

To be fair, I rarely have location services turned on either. Mostly just cause I enjoy looking at the maps more than I enjoy getting directions as opposed to a big concern about being tracked. I find I learn the areas I'm in better that way.
I think that's the right track. Tax them very high.

The odd thing is the very people who are trying to get the world to minimize hydrocarbon use are some of the people who most often use private jets --the Davos set and Hollywood crowd, among others. Can't they for the planet, travel economy on regular airlines? This tonedeafness can turn people off.
It’s just for a little while till we get fusion reactors up and running.

/s
The book Ministry for the Future has a melange of ideas in the plot, one of which is a world wide terrorist movement against environmental destruction that uses drones to crash every private plane with extremely rich people on one day to discourage their usage, it's sort of a variation on the Unabomber and 9/11. It seems like it would require wide ranging conspiracy that it would be infeasible, things would have to be really bad environment wise but at the same time there would be enough capital and people in the movement to support a large scale coordinated attack, there are so many ideas thrown in there that this part is not really explored that much in the book after building up the rationale behind the movement.
It got replaced with progressive taxation, which is much better defined than whatever "noblesse oblige" stood for.

> 1. Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly.

> 2. (Figuratively) One must act in a fashion that conforms to one's position and privileges with which one has been born, bestowed and/or has earned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige
Baserow user here, it's been impressive to see the roadmap come to life. I wish I could use it for work but our IT policies are from the stone age so I can't self host, and I don't want to risk putting sensitive information in a non approved vendor (even non sensitive but non public info can get security folks riled up) so I only use it for personal use.
The gap with big name providers is closing, and I hope the Baserow team can monetize well enough to stick around for the long haul.
Comprehension does not imply consciousness or vice versa...
I agree with the principle here, but worry that carbon offsets will always be a lossy abstraction. My prior is that any metric that is hard to measure, while having strong financial incentives to game, will be heavily gamed. Offsets are hard to track and measure accurately and we've already seen a lot of dishonest behavior in this area.

This is not to say that banning private jets is the answer, but I think the actual solution (if we get to one) will have to be a messy hodgepodge of approaches.
In some places they're a hazard. They get wet, people slip. Especially cyclists when the leaves get into the bike lane.
We will deliver your cheeseburger momentarily, but first we will flap this prostitute's filthy junk in your face.

How did the toxic apocalypse of ubiquitous advertising become so normal? I can only blame the slowly boiled frog.
The world population was 500 million in 1600. Humanity didn’t go extinct.

The whole hysteria over impending extinction due to ‘under population’ is cringey.

And slight PTSD sets in for those who have emigrated from overpopulated countries that struggled from resource crunch that crippled the struggling population due to the thin spread.

I unfollowed Elon Musk on Twitter. And Mike Solana, blocked me after I ‘corrected’ some of his gross childish tweets in the comments.

It is difficult not to factor in the race and colour of the alarmists. I hate bringing up ‘racism!!’ for every badly communicated frog-in-the-well pov, but I think in this case, everything points to anxiety of a certain well heeled pale minority.

For Elon Musk..a South African immigrant..to wring his hands and claiming that he is trying ‘to help with the underpopulation crisis’ while projections says that sub Saharan Africa is slated to single handedly prop up said impending extinction of our species is so offensive that even the ‘misunderstood genius with no social IQ’ trope doesn’t quite cut it. I was depressed for a week and then shrugged it off. There are all kinds out there, but the danger for our futures is not under population and/or extinction of human species due to anemic breeding efforts.
I think the issue is the number of permutations of the tasks.

i.e. you can program the use case "turn off the lights in 5 minutes" but that doesn't cover the use cases of "turn off the lights when i leave the house", "turn off the lights and turn on the tv" or "turn on the lights at 10pm tonight" - and there are so many potential scenarios here that it can quickly scale up.
They probably can uniquely identify your browser even if your IP changes... Firefox shares WAY too much information
In court of law, you should be innocent until proven guilty.

In court of public opinion, you're always guilty until proven innocent — whether that's right or not.
it may not be a personally acceptable, but there is a real world divide where a large subset of people pretty much only accept frequentism. This is often the same group publishing under powered, low n, studies.

The biggest issue with frequentism is the assumptions. I can't rattle them off like I used to be able to, but almost every real world scenario where statistics are useful are going to violate some of them, and yet frequentists will simply carry on.

It's really a cultural issue around 'correctness', and frequentism is often reduced to an appeal to authority.
It matters, because your insecure device will be sending data to outside servers without your control, possibly with buggy software interceptable by hackers. So your 2FA codes could be technically intercepted before you know it.
Putting users first by making un-serviceable laptops?

Putting users first by removing headphone jacks?

Putting users first by crippling competing web browsers on iOS?
It seems pretty obvious that you were downvoted primarily for the entire entirely unnecessary "5 year olds copy-pasting from stack overflow" bit. "Actually, this isn't true anymore, a few years ago [afaik OPAQUE is from only 2018?) they found a protocol that solves this:" would've been a much more productive start to that comment.
>Who cares if you're a global jet setter generating hundreds of tons of co2, if you're properly sequestering them

"Sequestering" carbon is, right now, complete science fiction. Nobody can actually do it. The most that can be done is paying to maybe prevent other people from emitting -- but the emissions always go up. So if one day proper carbon capture technologies exist, this argument can be made. Right now, it can't.
"Opportunity for growth" is the corporate equivalent of "luxury". They can't pursue every possible opportunity for growth, they have to pick and choose. When times are good, they pursue more; when times are bad, they pursue less.
> A Microsoft team racing to catch bugs before they happen

Is there a Microsoft team "racing to catch bugs after they happen" ? Because there are a lot of ugly bugs not fixed for years.
My fuel tax is called a “CO2 tax” (and VAT) which together is around half the cost, or about $1/L or $3.8/gal. This isn’t earmarked for anything in particular but I think the naming “CO2 tax” smells a bit like a sin/environment tax.

And it’s strange I pay more of this “CO2 tax” when filling up my car to drive 10h, perhaps $50 in CO2 tax alone, than all 100 of us in the cabin of a 737 pay together when taking one hour flight the same distance.

My my car tax ($1.5k/yr regardless of distance driven) sounds more like a road maintenance fee collection but also not earmarked for any purpose. I suspect this latter tax will need to skyrocket for EVs once fuel doesn’t bring in enough road maintenance money.

A bus is an example of a “better” method of transportation that uses taxed fuel and has to compete with planes flying on tax free fuel.
As a gay individual, I have genuinely no idea how you're conflating an openly gay CEO with a responsibility to create private products.
For anyone curious, the name could be translated to “All Ways”.
I vehemently agree with this. It's the OP's "stop learning frequentist statistics" that I vehemently disagree with.
You're most likely right about what Dunkin' Donuts know. I'm less confident about what Apple themselves know. Apple have people talented enough that they can build a privacy-preserving back-end too so that their operators and staff have no way to know where I was. I hope that is how it works, but I've never seen it explained that way. If Apple end up on the wrong end of broad subpoenas to find out who was near abortion clinics ... getting better recommendations for donuts wasn't worth it.
China's missiles 'imitating North Korea' – Taiwan
Great answer.

Better question: "When is it OK to light your farts on fire in company?" Not everybody can do it, some might see it as bragging.
I've actually stopped using third party delivery services all together - the food is routinely cold, there are hidden fees everywhere, drivers are severely underpaid, many times you can't even order from the full menu.

Pizza and Chinese food delivery has been a thing long before doordash, and the quality of directly employed delivery seems to be much higher.

If a restaurant doesn't have delivery I'll just making a to-go order and go pick it up.
Ask HN: Do You Use Spinnaker?
The project (https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker) seems kinda dead. It's supposed to be a CD system, but if one is using something like GitLab (with its own CI/CD) does it make sense?

So, do you use Spinnaker? If not, what do you use instead?
It WILL move into recession? I think we finally found the world's first one handed economist. Someone let Harry Truman know!
Been using Fork for several years at this point and it’s treated me very well. Out of the clients I’ve tried, Fork and Sublime Merge are by far the best in terms of feeling lightweight, responsive, and stable without skimping on features, and Fork’s UI is built in the way that makes most sense to me.
I think it broadly is, yes. For example the text is available by an "ALT" button in the bottom-left of the image on Twitter, https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970

The name most likely comes from the "alt" attribute for "img" tags in HTML, if I were to guess.
That sounds like a location-based app suggestion, not an ad. iOS will suggest an app that is used a lot at your current location. (Edit: Siri uses other signals as well to suggest apps. You can turn off the whole thing by removing “Siri App Suggestions” from your lock screen.)
Couple years back I built a service called SheetUI that turns your google spreadsheet into a beautiful webpage, and posted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23760846

It slowly started racking up votes and made its way to the front page, and that's when it really exploded! A few good outcomes came out of it: a famous online Japanese publication wrote about it, it got featured on Stackshare top five new trending tools, and tons of backlinks because a lot of people used it (when I still had the free version available). It now generates a small amount of passive income for me.
Alternate idea (which could be enabled by tele-op trucks) - make trucks go slower. Make them stick in the right couple lanes and give them a lower speed limit.
I, for one, would welcome an Apple attempt to create a better digital advertising paradigm focused on users and that respects/protects privacy as much as possible.

As an optimistic college freshman in 2000 (dating myself, I know), I had the privilege of taking a class where once a week, a successful business entrepreneur would come in and expand our minds about a company/product/vision they had created.

Being the height of dot com frenzy, I still remember one class where a guy described how the Internet offered the potential to revolutionize advertising in a way that would be a win-win for everyone. He described a world where ads might even be enjoyable to watch because of the Internet’s potential to show each viewer/user ads relevant to them: because every beard trimmer ad shown to a woman was wasted time for her and money for the advertiser.

So far, his predictions have broadly become true, but stick with me.

The coolest part of his vision to my 18yo self was that each of us would have a personal ad software agent running on our PC/TV (the most personal devices at the time) that learned our desires and went out and found ads for stuff we might want. It was a completely different paradigm to the ad model of the day and one that was potentially privacy protecting because your personal ad agent would be the automated broker for your time and attention, and everyone would want this because a good agent would delight you with new services and products that you found useful and maybe didn’t know you wanted. There would be a healthy market of personal agents to choose from, too, because the costs of switching were minimal and companies would complete to create the best personal agents.

Alas, the optimism of the early Internet morphed into magic Google and Facebook/Meta pixels, and we got personal ad agents, but they are oligopolies with extreme network effects that are incompatible with privacy.

The Brave browser has come closest to the vision described by the dot com entrepreneur who spoke to my class, but I’ve always wondered whether anyone else would create personal ad agents, and of all the candidates, Apple is probably best positioned. I’m curious to see how they do it.
Or maybe this job listing is a coy to throw off the competition. Am I to believe that Apple would post a job listing for such an important position instead of using their vast professional network to hire the right person for the job in-person?
Working Copy has got it right: a purchase unlocks all features to date, plus any new Pro features for the next year. After that point, you don't get any new Pro features -- but you don't lose the ones you paid for. The app is under continuous development and there is a constant stream of new free features.

There's great alignment between the developer and the users: dev gets people who pay more than once, and is strongly incentivised to add reasons to upgrade; users never get stuck with an out-of-date app and get to choose when to stump up more cash.

I wish more apps and services would adopt this model.
In case anyone from Facebook thinks people are leaving their platform for TikTok, I'd just like to offer that everybody I know who's quit over the past 6 months or so has quit because of 30-day bans for posting obvious satire.

I slowly forgot about it once they required the Messenger app (which had its own data/privacy issues). I seem to recall that coinciding with a WhatsApp exodus among friends with family overseas, but I forget the deal. Anyway, it just ceased to be relevant one day, and we just text or use any of the 93024832048932 other apps now.

It's not a bad platform for viewing ads, though, I guess.
Covid-19: Unprecedented levels of chronic absence in schools
MLOps is a good way for someone with a Cloud Engineering or DevOps skills set to join a team and start learning from within
I'm using love2d, which is good if you want to see only code, no graphical interface.
Wanna ban stuff based on noise pollution? Fine, I'll give up my gas mower as long as I never have to hear some jerk on a motorcycle blast through my neighborhood ever again.
For a decade or so my preferred method of flight for several million line kilometers about the planet was at 70 m/s 120 odd feet above the ground in a STOL high wing prop airframe.

Climate wise that cost was amortised from metals consumption by the developed world.

If I'm going to consume vast quantities of resources then I do like to see benefits flow to as many others as possible.

Now that I'm in a rural area I see large quantities of fuel consumed by tractors to put grain into the mouths of millions.
Battery-powered lawn equipment is definitely getting better. I find less runtime and a bit less performance a good tradeoff for my interchangeable head weedwhacker vs. a temperamental two-stroke engine that I use once a month or so.

However, electric isn't going to do the job for a sit on top mower as far as I know and, in general, professionals who are using their equipment all day long are mostly not going to find electric's tradeoffs reasonable.
I've driven big rigs. I've driven up mountains fully loaded (80,000lbs total). MOST trucks will struggle to drive up a moderate incline at that weight.

I've been in the Smokey Mountains and crawling up a hill at under 20mph.
Thanks, I should be fine then. It's been so long since I had chef made carbonara I wasn't sure.
The real problem with <fossil fuel powered thing> is actually <the thing that removing the fossil fuels doesn't affect> is a popular lie with no basis in fact. If something is burning fossil fuels then that's almost certainly the fix with the most bang-per-buck. Especially 2-stroke engines. Electrify everything.

But yeah, protective equipment for workers is still required with electric blowers and air quality matters.
It was topic about showing your side projects, or something similar.

I had small website just like [1] but with ads (I sold it later). It gave me lot of traffic, more visibility, eventually better Google rank and more money from ads.

Such small/fun sites can get you real money!

1: https://randomcountrygenerator.com/
For data hoarding a good file manager is still key. When you're managing your own data without todays abstraction layers provided by all those walled gardens (Google Photos, Spotify, Netflix), you will copy, rename and structure a lot of that data: Downloaded content often times packed away in countless partial rar files, sometimes wrongly named or structured.

Long story short, I still depend on:

- Advanced regex bulk renaming of totalcommander (but less so since Windows 11 + PowerToy's Renaming)

- Fast two panel navigation, for all that pirated content (Audio/Software piracy is legal under certain circumstances in Switzerland, for example for sharing within the family)

- Fast two panel folder diffing for my Photography/Videography backup into Google Drive using Google Filestream as a virtual drive (but less so, since using WinDiff for folder and file merging)
There were also roughly 50% fewer people on Earth 40 years ago. The population is expected to peak and then decline in much less than 2000 years.
Stop that, please. Some things are genuinely better left as is.

Is it just me, or is anyone else upset that mystery just can't exist anymore. Everything has to have a connection. It's just depressing.
UK Parliament closes TikTok account after China data warning
If we meet someone identifying as a frequentest then we probably met someone who has thought deeply about philosophy of statistics. By contrast, if we meet someone who identifies as Bayesian, we probably met someone who read a blog post. Bayes theorem tells us, that this doesn't tell us anything about the underlying positions on philosophy of statistics.
I presume that you are an American. In many cultures the idea of making frie. In many cultures the idea of making friends at work is frowned upon because
One or two minutes of use should be enough to get those spots. The real issue is people who run things things for an hour. A time limit per day would be ideal.