skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this quite a bit. I'd consider using something like this if only because it doesn't have ads at the top (it's a low bar).

Some comments:

- it seems like the order of the columns is not consistent across searches?

- I'm on the laptop and the columns extend past the edge vertically - I can scroll but it's not ideal. I expect this isn't a problem on a bigger screen.

- personally I don't care much for the Amazon and Instagram streams, although that might depend on the user. It certainly depends on what the search target is (any way to figure out if there's a near-perfect match with an Amazon product?)

- In general I think I'd like to see Wikipedia results first, but again, depends on what kind of search it is.

- (on laptop at least) it felt a little bit too dense, IMO, but I like pretty minimalist UIs.

Nice work!
Chicago SS Eastland documentary removed for “violating community guidelines”
We use Google because a VP has a hardon for Google. It’s not good. Threading is garbage, there are limited text formatting options, and some of them don’t work right all the time (code blocks don’t work if you’re copy/pasting text that has a format applied, like bold or colored text, for instance). I like the Google video calls for the simple interface, but I dislike that the chat doesn’t save.
On the Security of Thread Networks (WiSec 2022)
> controlled vocabulary

Are you using English? English words can almost mean whatever you want them to. Perhaps design your own language that removes ambiguity. Probably requires a knowledge of philosophy to distinguish between say concrete and abstract, good luck.

Maybe start with correcting the ontology of: https://cuberule.com/ (which takes a geometric approach to defining food types).

Also perhaps decide whether you want to work top-down like a directory tree (or Dewey Decimal?): resulting in standard book classification issues. Or bottom up: resulting in conflicts and discrepancies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254025
It’s better than learning it tomorrow.
We use teams, which is less than ideal. I'd like to suggest we transition to matrix, but I'm not sure how to broach the subject.
It's an entire book, based on a massive research project, of which that was one small result. The clickbait title of the book is because that is what sells books.

"good managers are good because they're good managers"

LOL thanks. I guess all these books are pointless because you figured it out! Thank god you solved the problem!
I don't understand? What is not perfect? What should Copilot suggest given the funtion name?

Fwiw, afaik, CP isn't trained to make moral decisions about right or wrong. That's not its mission. Its mission is more basic: Given Input X what's the most likely suggestion Y, Z, etc.

Try eatShitAndDie(),or even iHateCopilot(). See what happens.
I agree with you. But people don't care about democracy and freedom anymore. Not like they used to, anyway.
Nostr-storage, the remoteStorage dream fulfilled
When I imagine taking kids to the park, or camping or reading to them, or playing with them it just seems like a chore. Is that something that magically becomes different if it's _your_ kid?

With my niece and nephew I enjoyed playing with them for an hour or so, then I wanted to be left alone. I get the feeling parenting is a bad idea in general for people who love being alone for extended periods of time.
You can f right off with this post! Dude, really? Like you couldn't do the whole spoiler make the text black unless I highlight it thing? This friggin guy making all us old dads cry. But seriously, hits right in the feels.
It's usual to investigate after a disaster, to seek the cause and try to prevent future similar disasters; we do it after plane crashes, or building collapses, or nuclear reactor explosions. A pandemic seems to me like the same basic category. If wildlife traffickers are taking actions that we know have caused past pandemics, then I believe those should be restricted. Likewise, if virologists are taking actions that we know have caused past pandemics, then those should also be restricted. This is true regardless of whether the mechanism is simple (like a researcher infected in the field) or complex (like genetic engineering).

The DEFUSE proposal was described in this Intercept article:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

For the previous two coronaviruses that emerged in humans (SARS-1 and MERS), animal hosts (civet cats and camels) were found within about a year. That's pretty good evidence of natural origin. For SARS-CoV-2, no such animal has yet been found, excluding animals known to be infected by humans like housecats or mink. That's not proof of unnatural origin--for example, Ebola is unquestionably natural but its zoonotic hosts remain mysterious. That's not what anyone expected, though.

For overall background, Alina Chan has a book. I haven't read it myself, but I've found her comments elsewhere to be cautious and reasonable.
If I rode my bike to work, it would be 3 hours a day. Plus the 2 showers after each ride, packing extra clothes to change into, etc.
I enjoy being a parent but my advice to people who ask if they should have kids is that you really have to want to have kids because all the benefits are intangible and all the drawbacks are tangible.

People who say they don't want kids, usually mean it - whether they've identified their real reason or not.
It's already there - as a Google docs, Wikis and other forms of collaborative editing. This is what makes text great - feedback from others and maybe even their input.
That is clearly only true for people who for some irrational and detached reason hand their children over to the strangers of the indoctrination camps we still call schools.
No Logic on iPad and the sunsetting of Music Memos... I sometimes feel like Apple is becoming hostile to musicians.
libslirp: user-mode networking library for virtual machines and containers
YES! Hugely important point.

Worse yet, not only will the 'in-painting' obscure the writer's meaning, or even whether they even had meaning, it will ALSO render that meaning more generic, and eliminate the most information-dense surprising bits.

All of these tools are merely synthesizing new text/images/code/etc. from millions of existing examples. When there is any doubt about the intent or the output, it fills in the MOST EXPECTED output. It does NOT fill in the possibly intended but unique image, phrase, code that would be the output of a unique insight. Real brilliance will be simply lost in the sauce.

Ugh. I won't be using these, and I'll shun those who do.
Hallelujah!

I finally have a reason to update my tokens that GitHub has been bugging me about. Each time I would read all their perfectly good suggestions and then not change my tokens.
> we rely on multiple non-governmental and non-political organizations that specialize in objectively assessing journalistic standards.

This is a vaguely worded workaround for applying censorship, especially without giving a specific list of organizations that they consult. The use of the term "objective" is very sneaky here, even manipulative. I didn't realize DuckDuckGo did this - how disappointing.

Time to start trying other search engines, perhaps a proxied or self-hosted one like SearXNG as GP suggested.

https://docs.searxng.org/
As far as I'm aware the US has treaty obligations with Japan which would require a full military intervention should Japan be attacked. Building a Fab in Japan is effectively a hedge against everything except a world war.
Where I live, fossil fuels are heavily taxed, while renewables fuel virtually all electricity and heating and more than 50% (and growing) of new cars.
I had a fantastic home life growing up so it was a no-brainer. Very much a "how am I supposed to have my rebellious teenage phase if you keep supporting me" kind of experience.

My heart goes out to the people who had to do it out of necessity rather than choice.
Seems reasonable so long as there’s a check so you can pay your lawyer to review it and possibly negotiate its terms.

If that’s deemed unreasonable, it might be a tell regarding how the company views employees since they expect something for nothing.

Good luck.
"forever" is very relative. If you have one kid, and a partner to raise them, then what you describe is very accurate. But if you have two kids spread out over a few years, then you can pretty much assume 15+ years of your life are going to be very kid focused.

This is not a BAD thing! But go in with open eyes!

And, most importantly, results will vary significantly. All kids are different. And factors like if you live close to family, are comfortable financially, etc will have a huge impact.
Isn't that Canva?
Possibly? Is that so incomprehensible? It's based on a relationship between drugs that only ever existed to justify a racist sentencing policy. Not a strong basis for an effective metaphor imo, but I'm not your editor.
Dwarf Fortress Creator Interview
It may or may not be a 1:1 image, but I think it's significant that in both cases, with different seeds, what is directly behind / right of the watermark is a pretty similar building with different distortions applied to it. I'm not sure what the difference is between "learning" from a particular image and encoding that image with a lot of compression, when in either case the usage more or less reliably reconstructs the image algorithmically.

If I have a photographic memory and I memorize the Coca Cola logo and then draw it into a commercial work by decoding the firing of my neurons into muscle movements, the storage and retrieval method I used has no bearing on whether I infringed on their copyright.
I'm surprised that 30 people have gone for it already. Apparently patriotism is for sale for $270k or less.

Paying their way through it is a clever way for China to defeat information security measures.
All my friends have guided their parenting based on this song. It has had a tremendous effect on me.
One can always keep using the old iPad. By the time you decide to upgrade devices, yeah, you probably will need to "buy more stuff". This has been true, along varying timelines, for all computers at least since USB was released.
It is a stepping stone language in the sense that nobody has ever done anything like it before but you could adapt some of its principles to a language where you don't have to care quite so much about the stack. (Things you could not jettison along the way include ownership and explicit lifetime annotations.) But the language has absolutely nothing I'd call an issue. Only things that could be made even better, and coincidentally always are.
That’s true. But then supply, demand, and price are irrelevant. The challenge is making optimal decisions about investment. Markets tend to be brutal to producers who aren’t efficient, and that leads to a Darwinian process favoring the momentarily optimal producers. Production by fiat leads to weird outcomes. DPA mandated and funded fab facilities will probably in the future be wildly out of date with private producers ensuring we can only produce antiquated processes or using extraordinarily inefficient processes.

I’m no libertarian market wacko, and I think it’s important to have decentralized production and as a planet we probably jumped the shark with centralizing Asia as the production hub for manufacturing and fabrication. But I’m dubious DPA etc are sufficient measures.

My point though was low prices and softening demand is NOT helpful as the prior poster asserted. It hurts the effort because the lack of margin and scale means only fiat production is possible, with poor long term outcomes.
> Also had they followed established safety standards the incident focused on would not have happened.

Exactly.

I like to dump on Musk, but people disobey safety regulations all the time, and sometimes it bites them:

"Three Dead After Falling Into Molten Steel Pit"
https://apnews.com/3c42c98020afcd458f1f49a861d0d87b

In this instance, the main culprit was the fact that they didn't dry out the mold properly which then cracked and leaked molten steel everywhere. However, people were not supposed to be standing on top of the cover plates during centrifugal caster operation.

There is a reason why you obey the safety regulations every single time.
Tell HN: NameCheap Private Email does not delete folders ever
A while back, when Google had announced the end of their free G Suite (aka Google Workspace, aka Gmail for Business) tier, I researched options for an email host that was inexpensive, but supported custom domain names, and catch-all email accounts. Since I already have web hosting with NameCheap, and the prices and features were good, I began to use PrivateEmail.

In recent months, when Hacker News users have asked for suggestions, I've recommended them. However, I cannot in good faith do that at this time, because I've discovered a flaw that could be quite problematic. For me, it's mostly just really annoying.

The issue was discovered because Outlook for Android does not give you options for which folders you see when connected via IMAP. So after I had inadvertently created an Archive folder, and subsequently deleted it, it continued to show up in Outlook, and I could not (and still cannot) find a way to hide it.

What I discovered via the WebMail that NameCheap Private Email provides is that they do not delete folders, ever. Worse, the emails inside of "deleted" folders are also not deleted. For the sake of convenience, I took 4 screenshots, and uploaded them to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/4RdzQjY

1. A folder with an email in it is deleted

2. I empty the trash

3. Going over to settings > mail > change imap subscriptions, I can see any deleted folders still exist and are merely unsubscribed by NameCheap Private Email's webmail client. I re-subscribe and save.

4. The folder is back, along with the email inside.

I've reached out to support, but so far have only been able to reach a level of support that attempts to walk me through how to use their webmail, including deleted folders and emptying the trash. I'm hoping I can escalate it further so that an issue can be opened and resolved.

One more note - while I demonstrated above using their webmail, the same happens if I use Thunderbird, and delete folders. They are not deleted, but merely hidden from some clients. However, other clients, like Outlook for Android, continue to see these hidden folders.
Yeah I am not a fan of the login walls and all that either but there is a reason that we should try to use free and open source software and currently matrix is the option that is convincing enough to use.

Datalisp.is the web of trust / semantic web / whatever. It doesn't exist outside my head currently but it also exists in lots of other heads (at least bits and pieces) so I believe we should manifest it.
Being public domain I guess they're leaving that up to interested parties to implement. Perhaps you'd like to have a crack!
Well, it's Kansas.
better than the one that came just before it ...
We did that with rocketchat/slackbridge before we just made a full switch to mattermost. The slackbridge was a wonderful tool and I wish that functionality existed for mattermost..
They were originally only allowed buy in from Samsung , other phone makers, and users because of their fictitious claim that it would be open source.
I'm just finishing up Nick's 'Gnomon', and it has blown my mind. It's been quite a while since a book has enthralled me just as as this.
How are they compensating you for this service (your non-disclosure)?

If they want to bind you to a contract then they should pay for it.
I and a group of friends built a yurt. It took a day, and copious amounts of beer. That was about a decade and a half ago and it is still in use, so they're pretty reliable. Of course it has needed maintenance etc, but that goes without saying.
Huh. I had completely written off that use-case because literally any time I've wanted to do anything at all, I've found that whatever movie editing software I'm trying at the time can't do it. So instead of wasting time by trying to edit on iOS, regardless of how simple what I want to do is, I always just copy it to my laptop or desktop and do the editing with real software on a real computer.

But maybe there exists better options. I can't say I have invested in expensive video editing software on iOS. (Not that I've ever had to on macOS or Linux though.)
I hope you’re being Reddit brained, but the short answer is no, I do not see anything nearly like actually doing that. The trajectory is clearly towards the shadow of authoritarian control flowing over the whole of humanity. Don’t worry, you’ll realize it too once it’s far past way too late.
The basic gist is that our tooling has stagnated (and even regressed) but that there is some great work happening outside of the mainstream.
https://archive.ph/neAYI
Ah, sorry man. In my defense, you went on this long exposition that assumed implicitly that everyone at Microsoft has no idea what they're doing. I can appreciate that sentiment, but I got really frustrated trying to parse your "conceptually simple" idea.

Anyway, didn't mean to start a flame war, I was just hoping to make sense of what you were trying to say
I can attest to this, I worked in IT back in 2011 at a school where teachers loved the idea of iPad's over their clunky laptops.

However, in time, they all needed their laptops back and either gave the iPad back or worked 50/50 across both devices.

I have no doubt that today the iPad is more useful for students and teachers, but if you don't have a defined workflow that easily allows for the use of iPads teachers won't use them. We're all too familiar with the way in which Windows works and it integrates well with the networks companies use.
> sanctimonious helmet wearing crowd

First of all: What an absolutely ridiculous statement.

> Did anyone notice that __no one__ is wearing a helmet in any of those pictures?

Yes, because they all have separate roads and pathways for bicycles. Helmets save lives and reduce injury significantly, but the biggest way to avoid accidents on bicycles is to separate them from cars.

By the way, the lack of helmets is almost exclusively a Dutch thing. In France, another country with a love for bicycles, the attitude is quite different.
HuggingFace
If I ever work at a company that uses Teams again, I will quit that company. How much I hate Teams can in no way be overstated. For a chat program it shouldn't cause so much anger, but its so bad at everything it does.
GCC has an extension for nested functions: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html#Nes...

Not as nice as anonymous blocks but helps put the function closer to where it's used, which is nice.
Are they wearing masks?

I look around where I am and wonder why aren't more of us wearing masks?
People go jogging and ride bicycles, even though cars exist, because they enjoy it and to tone their bodies. It's more effort, but it does things for them the car does not do, including provide thrills or promote well-being.

That is to say, these tools will exist and they will be used. But people will still write and make art - often perhaps using these tools in some way - because they'll have the time and find it rewarding to do so. And others will also assign some value to this. We might briefly get addicted, and then have a society-wide discourse on what healthy use is, similar to social media.

Isn't it compelling to wonder what humanity will decide to do with technology when technology were to be limitless? As in, what essentially human choices will we make in what, when and how to use technology? (Singularity-themed scifi tries to provide some answers since the 90s.)
I never wanted kids and I ended up being a stay-at-home parent... messed up my life pretty good...
AI taps data to make ecommerce more dynamic
Back when ICE cars first came along, owners bought cans of gasoline from their local general store and stored them in their stables (now garages). They recharged their cars at home. This seems like the era we are now in with respect to electric vehicles.

There are some EV fleets for which charging downtime is not palatable (taxis in busy cities, for example). Swappable batteries have been developed and are being used by some of those fleets.

The next step is standardization of swappable batteries, and divestment of battery swapping and maintenance into a separate company from fleet operation. The third step is the separate company offering services to the public.

As vehicles built for these fleets are sold used, they will spread to households.

Then we are back to "gas" stations/service stations.

The logic seems sound. Rather than having to build charging complexity into every vehicle, and supply tens of millions or hundreds of millions of chargers, charging can be done at merely hundreds of thousands of charging stations, with the customer having a three minute trip through something like a car wash booth.
> As far as I know, the latter was extinct in the wild by the time the former emerged.

Omicron isn't a descendant of Delta. It has an odd lineage that couldn't be explained and (unless new info has come up since I last looked) it was likely a descendant of either Wuhan or Alpha that mutated hidden from most of the world - one of the theories was that Wuhan/Alpha jumped to rats, then back to humans after becoming Omicron.
iAnnotate handles my PDFs that are 100s of MBs with absolutely zero lag.
Yeah a lot of the video apps really seem to go out of their way to support old iOS versions in a way that other apps don't.

Presumably precisely because a lot of people keep using 10-year-old iPads as a dedicated video player.
For what it's worth, ExifTool (and by extension, PhotoStructure) support 0 for month and day. The problem is that most all other applications won't see this as a valid date.

And I've struggled with how to covert this "fuzzy" date into something that sorts with other assets that _do_ have an exact date. Should they all live on the first of the month? In the middle of the fuzzy date range? Midnight? Noon?
All of this with 207 kB over the network. The two slowest requests were to google analytics.
This article is short-sighted. Meta is taking a great risk, but they are creating their own world. Starting something new is risky, but the reward can be great. The bigger risk is to do nothing.
Right now, people don't feel like there's a need, but a need can be manufactured. The manufactured need that always comes to mind is the American breakfast. Why are eggs, bacon, and orange juice so closely linked as a breakfast food? There's absolutely no natural reason. We can have them throughout the day, yet people mostly have them in the morning. It's a manufactured need by businesses and advertising.

I bet that in time, Meta will find a way to get people to use the metaverse. One use that comes to mind is spectator sports. Switching from television to virtual reality could be amazing. And it will be 100% owned by them. Zuckerberg is thinking for the long term. Taking chances and looking ahead is what's made him successful. Thanks to his majority share in Meta, he can take the initiative without anyone stopping him and he's young enough to see it thru.

Only time will tell.
Zombo.com is way better. Firefox could make it the default start page.
Being a parent is much more than being with them until they reach 18.
Is this the Jack Dorsey thing?
With a 486 processor?

I don't think so.

The only way they're using it is the same way they're using a Commodore 64, as an antique.
I'm sure it's within a +/-25% error range.