skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most Dutch don't even bother with a bakfiets for children (bakfietsen are actually kind of top of the market and mostly used by more affluent parents). Just a (safe!) seat on the Dutch style rear carrier.

Yes, this seems ideal to me. A bakfiets seems like it wouldn't handle that well, especially around the tight 180 degree corners that many paths near me have. Also they are probably too wide to ride in our narrow bike lanes, especially the two-way cycletracks where it would be a nuisance for cyclists going the opposite direction.

> (The perks of living in the Netherlands I guess.)

Undoubtedly. My city in the US is constantly hailed as one of the most bikeable in the country, which is probably true by many metrics, but I think you'd have to be mad to let a child under, say, 14 years old, ride further than a friend's house a couple blocks away here, and certainly not across any major roads. The actual bike infrastructure, such as it is, is pretty scary for most adults who aren't hardcore cyclists. Well, as a hardcore cyclist, it is often still pretty scary for me, but I'm also a hardcore ideologue so I have to do it. In contrast, in my suburban childhood, it was possible to bike to places miles away safely, though that was only because they had accidentally built sidewalks that nobody ever used, so we just used those as our bike lanes. Here in the city, actual pedestrians are trying to use the too-narrow sidewalks, so they can't be relied on for burgeoning cyclists who aren't yet strong and savvy enough to brave the roads.
$79 would not have gotten you any of those premium content providers. That collection of content would have easily hit 120+/month, plus a bunch of bs service charges for devices. They also did not give you the ability to drop the content you didn't want. So much of it came as packages and bundles.
How in the world was Tlaloc not named the leader of the cloud!?

But I enjoyed it. Even as a descendent of the Tarascans!
You think blaming poor furniture sales in 19th century England on the popularity of bicycles is related to present day drivers running down cyclists?
You can use the "hand" controllers to click on things. It's a bit of a hassle though, since you don't SEE them on the table when you need to pick them up :)
Copyright, as the name implies, is mostly for restricting copying (as in printing copies of a book), but also restricts distribution, adaptation, display, and public performance of that work. In the case of AI, it’s the “adaptation” part which is up for debate. If a person uses an image as part of a training set for an AI image generator, and then uses said AI to generate new images, are those images “adaptations” of the images in the training set? I would suggest that the answer is yes, but current behavior by AI vendors are not in concordance with that view.
Here in NSW Australia it is almost the exact opposite now. You are permitted to cross the centre lane to overtake a bicycle (if it is safe) and need to keep a 1 to 1.5 metre gap to the bike. https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-s....
> I would like to avoid bikes too, but they use the pavement I'm walking on 'because roads aren't safe', like their right to defend their safety overrides my right to not be bothered where only pedestrian should walk.

Pretty telling that you think that but at the same time defend drivers squeezing past cyclists at high speed.
For a more modern approach (that's one of those rare cases where things have gotten more powerful while getting simpler over the years): https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhysics/videos (by basically the inventor of PBD, which he barely even mentions/brags about).
> I'd pay extra not to have Fox News, for instance, even more for nobody within a 10 mile radius not to have it

nobody stops you from buying big land

I am happy with my subscription to these streaming services:
Reminds me I need to delete my Plex account, moved to Emby years ago and it works perfectly.
Who is subscribing to all of them really? It is actually mentionned in the article that typical streaming spending is around 20-30$ per house.

Also, despite not being allowed by terms of service most accounts are widely shared accross families and friends which mean most of us pay for only one service.
Unlike other species, we have optimised our ability to create losing conditions for some.
I guess this will not absorb low frequency vibrations transmitted through walls, generated by neighbor living above me? :)
Bizarre Quirk of Janet Jackson’s Video Crashed Certain Laptops, Says Microsoft
https://maggieappleton.com/ for her take on a digital garden. She also compiled more below [0] if opening your thought process to the public is your thing (adopting the concept actually got me to add more structure to my serious notes and actually post more)

https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects.

https://wattenberger.com/ for its reactivity/place for her d3.js experiments.

and here is a general collection of dope blog additions: https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-w...

My overall advice is unless you're a designer flexing your skills is to focus less on the design and more on the actual writing! The internet is littered with the emaciated husks of nice good looking sites hosting nary an entry beyond "How I Made My New Blog With X"

[0] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
As the article states, the scanning only occurred if you had iCloud Photos enabled. From what I recall, it worked like:

1. Use on device ML to scan for child porn before iCloud Photos upload.

2. If not found, issue a cryptographic ticket for iCloud upload and include in upload request.

…the whole point of Apple’s scheme as far as I know was to keep as much of the processing on device as possible while also keeping illegal content off of their cloud servers.
Even then Midjourney is more high-quality :)

See https://imgur.com/gallery/U5zJMcU

Comparison of two prompts, "poorly futuristic landscape by a 5 year-old" and "poorly drawnn highly detailed futuristic landscape dotted by mahcinery and tall buildings by a 5 year-old"

Also, https://imgur.com/gallery/jvEClos

Comparison of "poorly drawn red sports car in the street of a city by a 5 year-old"

Edit: forgot about crayons :D
Yes, see https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
Cemu Emulator for the Wii U Now Open-Source, Building on Linux
There might be a huge wave of people just ignoring online news and deleting social media(ie. disconnecting). That could very well be the end state for many people. In the above example, if the tweet authors had restricted their account visibility to people only they know, then possibly the articles would never have been written. If enough people get burned out they might just walk away.

Ironically the white female actress who plays the assassin in the film: Mary Elizabeth Winstead was herself a victim of massive online targeting and harassment.

She had already once deleted her public accounts in protest after the famous iCloud hacks in the early 10s because people were ogling her private nude photos and then harassing her about it after she scolded "the internet". She came back a few years later only to delete everything all over again in 2017 when she got non stop barrage after she went through a bad divorce. Its tough for actors who are in the business of selling themselves to just walk away from all public social media.

I think people who weren't into tech and who came of age before the internet became mainstream might be the first people to disconnect from this social media nonsense. She was early 80s and homeschooled to focus all her waking moments on becoming an actress. Gen-Z/Alpha might never disconnect. Have they ever known anything different? It will be interesting to see what happens.
EU regulations now forbid SMS-based authentication. I tried explaining to the bank clerk several times how I am not using the Google Play Store but it was only when I held my Nokia "dumb phone" in their face that they gave me a hardware token generator (for free actually!).

For context, I use a Nokia 8110 and a LineageOS device.
Wasn't it obvious that if you want all shows/services, you will still pay at least the same amount? The cost of producing content is not going down just because there are more content providers. As long as the same amount of content is being produced, consumers still need to pay the same amount of money to see it all. If consumers decide to pay less, there will be less content.
> I suspect more people are burned alive in housefires from shoddy construction in India, than die in the US to guns

ChEcKmAtE!
it's not even pirating in EU if you use DDL (or torrent without uploading), check question 8 and 11 for instance in Czechia, Slovakia, Spain, too lazy to check other countries, but these are well known for allowing streaming/downloading unauthorized uploads

https://euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/en/web/observatory/faq-cs...
https://www.jakobmaier.at/
Are you sure that that context is similar to this one? I understand "Be nice then" there as "if you don't want to be deplatformed, then don't say things that people may find horrible".
Is command language the ultimate interface? I doubt it. Similar to how GUI supersedes CLI in most use cases, we should be able to indicate "warmer" / "colder" preference to generate new images from previous attempts.
Whilst that's good, the TS documents should document this. Google searching and stackoverflow is not a valid replacement for actual documentation, IMO.
It was a bug, and is now fixed.
But that's the point! If the road was bicycles only, the traffic planning would be entirely different, most likely either no traffic light at all, or a small roundabout.

Traffic signals only exist to accelerate car traffic. They slow down everyone else.

The most dangerous thing you can do as bicyclist is stopping, because the first ~10 meters after you’ve just started cycling again your balance won’t be perfect yet. And it happens that these few meters are almost always right in an intersection, in a conflict zone with cars.
While you're right about Zig being a step back from Rust, a lot of people are not willing to make the large step to go from C to Rust (maybe from C++, the step is much smaller, but Zig is in the C league, not C++).

I think it will be successful despite that, because we've seen this happen before in other ecosystems... e.g. Scala was a large step away from Java, while Kotlin is a much smaller one, and in a way, you could also describe it as a step back from Scala. Yet, despite being younger, Kotlin has already surpassed Scala according to some rankings and has some major projects already (maybe more than Scala) investing heavily on it, like Android and Gradle.

Perhaps, another example is Elm... much simpler than Haskell or PureScript, but it seems to be by far the most popular functional language on the frontend.

Finally, I've written some Zig and definitely didn't feel like I have to debug a lot of segfaults... the tools to avoid that problem are already pretty good (the debug memory allocator is almost as strict as the Rust borrow checker and will keep you on check!) and even having little experience manually managing memory, I was able to get stuff done quite easily (unlike with C which I do find extremely dangerous on my own hands).
cryptocurrency is the scam train.
You pay for services where there isn't a network effect (streaming) or where the market isn't super competitive (telecom). Social is an incredibly competitive market with a huge network effect - if Facebook or Twitter charged money, young users would migrate somewhere else and would continue using that network when they got older. So that would be the end of any social network that decided to charge, unless it was trying to be a small niche network for adults to have more intellectual conversations (metafilter?)
Would you consider a body builder on gear to be biopunk?

I'm not sure that self medication is a safe concept to be promoting.
I love this book. I often tell people it’s my favorite non fiction. My lack of sleep lately wants me to read it again.
Specifically regarding geothermal energy, this is available due to the gravity that formed the Earth.
crypto = cryptocurrency
A lot of the docs don’t explain what a module does - for example:

> dns.providers.azure wraps the provider implementation as a Caddy module.

Well great what does the provider implementation do? It’s the same for all DNS and not so useful if I’m coming from Apache or Nginx. At least explain what I’ll be able to do with this module.

From http.handlers.push:

> http.handlers.push is a middleware for manipulating the request body.

That’s a bit generic - any examples? There’s a lot of ways to modify the request body so what can I do with this?

There are 2 http.authentication.providers.jwt - both unofficial and both with 0 documentation. There has to be some standards here, why link to blank docs from your site?

All-in-all it just feels meh. I like to read docs that’ll give me the technical ins and outs of every function with some examples ideally.

Microsoft does a decent job of this as does Postgres (and others but these two come to mind immediately). Envoy is pretty nice here too and Nginx close.
I wouldn't dismiss them so outright. Probably true if you're planning to be a full-time commercial pilot, but people wanting to fly recreationally, it can give them a headstart.

I only have my own anecdote when I was out flying for the first time in a small Cessna. I have no formal pilot training, and when we were in the air, pilot friend asked me if I wanted to fly for a minute or two.

After controlling it for a bit and being able to perfectly follow her commands, she was surprised when I told her that I have no proper training, I had only been "flying" with X-Plane for some years before.

After that, I did something that probably I wouldn't do again unless there was an emergency (and my friend would probably lose her license if it was known), but she offered me to land the plane and so I did, without any hiccups.

Keep in mind, this was on a small airfield out in the middle of nowhere, with no houses or even proper roads around.
I wish I had the flexibility to ditch Prime Video whilst keeping the rest of Prime at a discount.
Writing a Physics Engine from Scratch
just beware service discovery via DNS in AWS will return up to 8 addresses. so if you have more than 8 nodes you will get a random subsample for each request. depending on how your clustering works this may or may not be a problem. you can use the web api if you need to handle more than 8 hosts.
I really like how the side notes and references line up on the right.

https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory
One every 25 seconds here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Ask HN: Mature tools for availability when app shutdown outside of buisness hour
Hello,

I just joined a new company in the observability team. We used Datadog for observability. Datadog support computing app availability based on unsuccessful monitoring checks that can happen. However as i learned when joining the company, this won't work in our case.

Why? : The vast majority ( 500+) of the company app don't run 24*7, they have different business hours ( like 9-5) but outside of these business hours, apps are shutdown. So for example for a 9-5 , app will be shutdown at 5 and restart tomorrow at 9. And Datadog don't support that. It has maintenance window but they can not be scheduled, the same is valid for monitoring mute.

So the team ( I was not there at this moment) tried to code a scheduler to send through API maintenance windows each day but the datadog availability computation was not correct.They decided to build their own tool which took as sources: datadog unsuccessful checks + table of business hours per app and allow to calculate app availability. The results were correct.

However as I joined the team, I found that this code will be very difficult to maintain at longer term. So if someone knows a tool ( preferably opensource but i am open) that can help, i am interested.
PS: The tool can't be a datadog alternative because the observability platform can be changed.
but the network antennae are usually located at or near the top of the front of the phone. for this reason I place mine upright, screen facing outwards. headphone socket orientation comes secondary to this
Is there some substance that X. The answer is always yes, because he universe is a huuuuuge place. That you fact that you haven't heard of X means precisely zero unless this is your expertise.

Dymethylmercury immediately that pops into my mind

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury
I originally was making a list of every driver that came close to killing me, noting down their license plate and making a police report.

After a single day with over a dozen, I've stopped counting. Now I only note down the drivers that, when turning a corner or passing me, threw me off the bicycle and/or drove over the bicycle, damaging parts of it.

The list currently contains 2 events this month alone.
I said "writing code to generate node graphs". If you have some example of nice code for this I'd like to see it. Everything I've seen is opaque (unclear what the node graph will look like), basically write-once, and has trouble getting the placement of the nodes correct enough even to not overlap, let alone look nice.

(Also it doesn't eliminate type errors, sockets have a type after all.)
There is the network effect where to make it worthwhile, you need to have pretty much all of your friends on it, if not, it doesn't work. Most people won't pay for anything they don't have to pay for.

There is also the fact that it can be hard to see the overall gain when each interaction is very marginal. For example, updating your timeline with a photo and a status by itself doesn't seem worth paying for even if the cummulative effect over an entire year could be very beneficial for your networks.
Another reason is that being really respectful around cyclists is an important part of driving lessons in The Netherlands. And I think you can fail your driving test if you pass a bike too close, open your door without looking if a cyclists is coming from behind, or passing over a bike lane at an intersection without looking.

I am from The Netherlands and I only realized since moving to Canada that my home country is such a safe place for cyclists. I find it interesting that no one in The Netherlands wears a helmet when cycling and yet serious cycling injuries don’t seem to be a common thing, whereas here in Canada I know of multiple people that got “doored” or otherwise have been in a bike related accident.
> Something about systems evolving to a level of complexity/sophistication until they collapse under its own weight...

To my knowledge the nginx config hasn't gotten more complex.

I don't know caddy but I suspect it's just simpler.
Powerful People Tell Us Things
I got my EU passport last year and my wife should have hers in a few months. We're thinking next summer is a good time to move. Our kids will still be young enough to pick up the language easily enough I think (3 and 5).

Shame it's going to get miserable summers thanks to climate change...

Edit: I agree re: not wanting to go back to any other country, except that we're also looking at somewhere like Odense (Denmark).
What? You're the one who is trying to say Apple is only paying a pittance to ARM for it! You're making no sense.
Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex
I've published the sources for the code generation and the code that was generated on GitHub: https://github.com/sturdy-dev/codeball-todo-mvc

I've been experimenting with merging prompts together, with a goal to write the full backend in a single prompt.

On the form:

> 1. Setup a flask web server

> 2. Add a /add endpoint

It works reasonably well, but it seems like it's loosing some precision in the prompts... The person that coined the term "prompt engineering" was right, it's really important to learn what words to use to get the AI to do exactly what you want it to do.
They wrote another article about how they went about building a $1M ARR open-source SaaS [1]. This details some of their approach to building the product in public as a form of marketing. The building in public approach works, if you already have a platform to stand on in my opinion. As someone who also has an open-source SaaS they're trying to market, I sometimes think if I should have also taken this approach, despite not having any reach at all.

[1] - https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas
> They could give users the option to opt-in to data collection. This would help the public feel like they’re giving consent

Would we get paid? I'd care a lot less about OpenAI profiting from my work if I was getting commission every time my work was hit in the training data.
Most of these issues require a malicious user, right? I think none of them really are a problem for a friends-and-family instance (as long as they don't get their creds stolen obv). For a single-user usage, none of these really are issues, are they?
What if we realize consciousness is non-binary?

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Integrated_information_t...

Though, the loss of magic is most likely more correlated with approaching this mostly rationally and analytically, than our scientific progress as a species.

You seem to be confusing your personal semantics with fundamental truth (we're all slaves to this tendency, I think). If you're looking for magic you need to look inward, not outward. And see if you can make that voice of reasoning be quiet for some extended time.
I'm finding it amusing that everyone immediately assumes infringement, OpenAI is a company that will not be inviting lawsuits.

We can't assume any licensing behind closed doors, my guess is that OpenAI has an agreement with Getty, take a look at the licensing in this Observer piece, it's been licensed by Getty, this would indicate that Getty are happy with scraping.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/20/ai-art...

Besides, this is not infringement in principle, the AI has been trained to think that high-quality news images have watermarks.
Big props to Matthias Müller-Fischer for his seminal work in physical simulation.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HZwexAQAAAAJ
I don't get the ownership bit. Does it include copyright and IP, or it's just a template¹, and HTML/CSS/JS code?

Also I think Wix already has the marketplace² were one can hire web designers/developers. Does Webflow have something similar?

--

1. it's 3rd party anyways, but the license needs to be re-assigned

2. https://www.wix.com/marketplace
I am an Nginx user and I really do not want to go away from here. It's too performant and too mature. It has a terrible UI problem. I don't want to learn a new tool.

All I ask is a Caddy style JSON configuration format for Nginx. And don't just implement some random JSON schema either, please create a well designed schema that is extensible. Take Prometheus [1] or Alertmanager [2] as examples of well designed and extensible schemas.

Just give me some basic features first, easy HTTPS, easy reverse proxy, easy rate limiting. You can release the rest of the advanced features in your own time.

[1] https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/c...

[2] https://prometheus.io/docs/alerting/latest/configuration/
I would like to see a similar study with data about the type of medicine drivers were on when they struck pedestrians/cyclists. I've always got the impression that there is more people driving under the influence of those drugs than alcohol.
every configuration format has it's quirks, and nginx certainly has a couple.

but coming from apache it was the freshest breath of air possible. i still prefer it to any yaml/json alternatives newer products like envoy use. a pure ymmv point.

i don't think that having a manual or reference open while doing more involved setups is a sign of bad design. some things are simply complicated...