skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The free and open web, to the extent we have it, only exists today because Microsoft wasn’t allowed to force IE, Active X, Silverlight and the rest of their technologies down everyone’s throat. Oh, and JScript [1], their proprietary version of JavaScript would have been the industry standard

The justice department at no point stopped Microsoft from bundling IE with Windows.

Besides that, up until 2008-2010, the “free and open web” was littered with proprietary Flash apps. It wasn’t until Apple refused to support Flash on iPhones that anyone started worrying about standards.

> Microsoft been allowed to essentially turn the web into another Microsoft runtime environment.

Nothing that the FTC did prevented that. No part of the consent decree caused MS to behave any differently with respect to IE.

And if you don’t remember, the “modern web” as it exists today with Ajax was actually a Microsoft addition that everyone else added.

JScript was no more or less proprietary than Netscape’s “LiveScript” before Netscape jumped on the Java bandwagon and called it Javascript. It’s not like JS came from a standards body.
A couple companies sponsor “the internet bug bounty”: https://www.hackerone.com/internet-bug-bounty

IMHO, sha3 should be part of that bounty.
He's not in trouble for causing a recession cause he hasn't. The statement in the article is debatable even if you want to use a technical definition.

Real GDI, which is supposed to be the same thing as real GDP, hasn't decreased:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A261RX1Q020SBEA

Which suggests dips in GDP are actually due to measuring it incorrectly since the economy is so unusual right now.

Also, people dislike inflation more than they dislike the unemployment rate going up a little. That's because inflation hits everyone, while unemployment only applies to a few people. That's more or less why the Fed is trying to cause a minor recession in 2023.
No one can figure out what is wrong with San Francisco.

It's a complete mystery.
Agree to all points, haven’t been using one yet, even though it sounds quite powerful:

Automator. Do you have any good examples?
I'm told they're actually going after the bee larvae, but don't have a good source for that...
The opening line:
"To prevent future pandemics, it is important that we understand whether SARS-CoV-2 spilled over directly from animals to people, or indirectly in a laboratory accident."

Is that true? I mean I understand why people would be curious, but does it really matter, in terms of what we need to do? We know that viruses _can_ spillover from animals to people, and we know that viruses in a laboratory setting _could_ plausibly get released in an accident. In terms of what we need to do to prevent (as far as possible) it happening in the future, I don't know that I believe that the answer to which one happened in the case of covid-19, is all that important.

Again, I see why people would care. But as long as we know that both are realistic possibilities (and we do), it doesn't matter moving forward.
Things I did before app launch and what I wish I had done
I'm fine with admins being able to link accounts; I'm sure that's very useful for spam prevention. But ideally, I don't want members of the public to be able to link accounts. Maybe you're right; maybe it is hopeless against the most sophisticated actors.
For me, it suggested something that I have actually owned twice...no, wait, three times, over the years. Lol!
Interesting feature. Looks like they've built an ORM into the database.
I only recently learned that you can waive your right to a jury, and instead have your case decided by the judge.

I think this would be a very tempting option for me, if I ever found myself in serious legal trouble. I assume a judge would be less susceptible to emotional manipulation, and be intelligent enough to properly weigh the facts.

Of course, then you are at the mercy of one person.
I just use my brain and assume that the plastic 'candy' shell on the helmet doesn't do anything (other than moisture protection) and as long as the styrofoam innards are in-tact, then nothing materially changes.

Otherwise we'd also see warnings against stickers and artwork on the shell of helmets, but we don't. Or at least I didn't, but I don't really read manuals.
Lived there for many years, it's about as good as you'll get in the west coast (setting a terribly low bar here), but still not in the same league or even universe as Tokyo (where I've moved to and the commenter mentioned).

All of SoMA is dominated by huge, high-speed pedestrian hostile thoroughfares; trains only go through one corridor so most of the city is excluded from connectivity (Muni is horribly slow and unreliable so you can't actually depend on it in daily life), not to mention the slow frequency, ear-splitting volume and noxious odors; affordability is downright awful so anyone middle-class couldn't experience it; and the whole city is filthy and dangerous so if you aren't a 20-something able-bodied large male walking in the middle of the day who ideally isn't a minority, you can't really make use of the freedom anyway (and even if you are crazy people will still try to pick fights with you for no reason... yeah never again). In SF's defense the bike-share more or less works given how tiny the city is. But don't ride your own bike or it'll be stolen in a week...
Do most horoscopes have targeted advertising hidden in them?
There was this song a few years ago...

https://youtu.be/9yv_rl3MYKA

> everything is fine if you are a straight white male muggle
It’s more of a issue with childcare being unreliable and unavailable. Like there are no available spots in some areas for after school care. It’s very expensive if you find a spot and the care is pretty meh. The tax breaks for kids are tiny so you end up paying for their expenses in post tax money that adds another 24% to the cost.

Then you have schools that only provide 180 days of service, plus only 6.5 hrs plus random half days plus random days of plus they your kid is bored because we have to teach to the lowest student.

All these things wear you down, and don’t get me wrong you can deal with them when your household earns 200k/year but you probably need a solid 350/400k as a family to truly buy your way out of these problems. If both parents are making less then 6 figures dual income living sucks
Question:
Any suggestions on some easy ways to make a web page which displays a status value, where the status is updated by a simple shell command? You mention pinging a URL with sensor values, which seems similar to what I want to do (which is to see if a remote location has power and internet connectivity or not, so I don't bother driving to work if the power is out).
This is not at all unusual behavior for 4Chan users.
Models that are trained on data under open source licenses (such as Creative Commons) would likely be much safer from copyright claims. I like to use the Debian Deep Learning Team's Machine Learning Policy to evaluate the openness of ML work.

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
My Hacker News one was pretty good right up until "outdoorsy" which I most certainly am not.

My Reddit one never seems to populate. I'm on mobile right now so it's hard to say if there's some console error. I'll check on PC later.
No reason to want that in the absence of inflation. A country is not a household and a budget surplus is the same thing as the money supply getting smaller, which is bad business if the number of people in the world who want to use your currency is increasing.
I loved rct and rct2 but Parkitect has been a worthy spiritual successor for me
I should have linked these for you in the first place. They have a whole ecosystem of sensors that are all wireless.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-S2105-LoRaWAN-Soil-Temp...
It’s fine to disagree, it’s not unreasonable to have the take that making users pay a cost in terms of extra cpu usage is worth it for the benefits of AV1. But it would be better if you could make that argument without the hostility.

Anyhow, I will also point out that there is plenty of non Apple hardware in use that also doesn’t have dedicated AV1 decoders. I realize that’s changing, but it’s still got to be a low % of devices at the moment with dedicated AV1 support. I think a more user friendly posture from Google would be to only report AV1 capability in WebRTC negotiation or video tag source selection where it can be done energy efficiently. Happy to be shown to be wrong on that, but my understanding is they don’t do that today.
For idle power consumption, watt usage from wall is better measurement.
I'm curious, did it say anything negative about anyone? I feel like it's just throwing a bunch of stuff at me to stroke my ego, and none of it felt particularly spot on (although none of it was outright wrong either).

I'd be much more impressed if it worked out my character flaws, instead it just told me I like tech, building things, and the outdoors (heavily paraphrased).
Like, https://getbootstrap.com/ ?
Just did this based on my Reddit profile. Few observations:

a) Fairly accurate. A lot of it sounds like Horoscope-type language but it was overall fun. I'd still recommend it just for the fun aspect.

b) Eerily accurate description of what I'd like to buy. Some things are easy to deduce for a person stalking my reddit but this one actually stumped me even!

c) Some results seemed like just spitballing for me:

- "You have probably debated smashing your phone or at least deleting your social media profile.": Strong no for first one. Sort of yes for second one. First one is an extreme detachment and digital detox, second one is but I'm fairly sure this is true for majority of people between 18-50.

- "You could be happy in a semi-rural setting. You want to be able to afford to travel, and be able to live in a large city if that's where you want to be.". No for first one; true for the second part. Very generic.

- There were a few other observations which are not exactly accurate ("good listener" - I am fairly sure I am not a good listener; and few other traits that are quite personal to share that it could be true if we stretch the definition but weren't true on first look)

- All in all, great work. Kudos!
By a new house do you mean "a new house on land you own", "an old house and the land it's on", or "a new house and the land it's on"?
What I said was true. I challenge any1 to say a more true statement. And I commented it bc he said "we'll all likely eventually be exposed to the virus". That isnt useful information.
It reflects San Francisco values
SF is a little chilly for my taste, and who really likes fog?
The authors of this paper are confused about the technology they're using... it's not a good sign about their conclusions..

https://twitter.com/matias_kaplan/status/1583235087067336704

https://twitter.com/NoahOlsman/status/1583275862442807299
> Assume for a moment Hans did not cheat (aside from the times he admitted to cheating). In the scenario where he did not cheat - how amazing is his performance? ...In the scenario where he did not cheat, is he really on a Bobby Fischer-like ascendance?

I think so, yes, and even considerably moreso.

According to Yosha Iglesias[1] and her anonymous mathematician friend, for 5 tournaments in a row starting at the Philadelphia Open in July 2021 Hans Niemann played at an average engine correlation of 73%, beating Bobby Fischer's average engine correlation of 72% during his 20 game winning streak between 2 Dec. 1970 and 30 Sept. 1971. Fischer's peak rating was 2895 in October 1971 at 27yo. Niemann's peak rating was 2699 this month, October 2022, at 19yo.

Also according to Yosha, in three years Niemann has played 10 games with a perfect 100% engine correlation and 23 games with engine correlations above 90%.[2]

My own chess layman analysis of the experts' analyses is that the best chess players in the world right now generally play games with engine correlations ranging game to game from the mid-60%s to the high-80%s, with much rarer games in the 90%s, and games 100% engine correlated being a once or twice in a lifetime event. Magnus Carlson at his best has an engine correlation of 70%.[1]

Unless he cheated, it is quite clear to me, at least, that Hans Niemann is the singular greatest chess player of all time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfPzUgzrOcQ&t=15m11s

[2] https://twitter.com/iglesiasyosha/status/1574374153997647874
Even expensive lawyers and experts do not always overcome the court of opinion.
At anyone in Texas and they will tell you that the government in Austin is too powerful and too corrupt...
Gamers love BIG RGB TOWER on the desk, isn't it?
Depending on how the legislation plays out, I can foresee a "pirate bay for ML models" popping up.
This isn't very good. It reads like an AI written horoscope. The themes aren't even cohesive one sentence to the next, for example, the below. It feels like unrelated sentences jammed together...

--

You are compassionate and have a soft spot for the underdog. You are often the life of the party. You are a free spirit, and you like to be comfortable. Love is in your heart and your soul. You are a romantic at heart. You are often confused about love. You are often misunderstood. You like to be liked and to feel appreciated. You are attracted to the arts and people who are creative.
Yea, we've been telling ourselves this and let's do more of the same for another 2 decades and completely destroy the fabric of society.

Put it the other way, if crime rates would increase hypothetically in Japan, you'd see a proportinal increase in incarcination rate. May be, that there are cultural differences and the crime rates are vastly different between Japan and USA. Disincitivization from hard-on-crime policies could be a non-linear function that we're just glossing over. Highly functional at low crime rates.

But the answer shouldn't be to throw the baby with the bath water and turn public parks into heroine shooting sites. Progressives have been doing this consistently, destroying our nation for last 3 decades of lies and misunderstandings of criminal justice system. Experiments like CHOP and CHAZ, which abandon all law & order are the epitome of the progressive dysfunction.
whataboutism!

Or as my mom told me, two wrongs do not make a right
You don't have to have a monopoly for the FTC to come after you. You just have to have a sizeable portion of a market.
> IMO the AGPL goes a long way to solving that problem.

The AGPL is easy to comply with in a way that still earns a company profit while the software authors get nothing.

Agreed that non-commercial public source or just closed source is what these people should be doing.
I was told I value financial independence, but doesn’t that apply to pretty much everyone? Seems like generic horoscope language overall. But definitely provocative and made me want to write a comment to complain, ironic. +1
> If the team hasn't been very disciplined in updating and removing all transitive dependencies through the upgrades, you will inevitably end up with a ton of stuff (is `react-date-wrangler-jobber` used? I still see references to it, but is that page live? who knows!?) in your bundle hanging around and cluttering up your build.

Ah yep - last week I removed 25 (!) completely unused libraries from a package.json file.

> the React / npm stuff often ends up in a rats nest of conflicting dependencies

At a previous job we started with Webpack 3, right before Webpack 4 was released, and even months later a bunch of stuff still didn't work with Webpack 4.
Thank you, I think this is the root of everything: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y9ga5s/com...

>We want to crush any chance of CP. If folks use it for that entire generative AI space will go radioactive and yes there are some things that can be done to make it much much harder for folks to abuse and we are working with THORN and others right now to make it a reality.
In your opinion, why was overcoming the hardware-software hurdle that you described not enough?

What is it about the nature of data that makes this different (and harder to overcome) from a typical software problem for businesses?
The amount of times I accidentally opened developer tools in the browser or started a call to a group chat in teams because my mind was stuck in ctrl+shift+ mode from using the terminal..
Nobody making or studying AI wants to hear "your model is being used to generate copious amounts of CSAM". That's basically a death sentence for the technology - even moreso than "your model is just an unattributed search index of stolen art and code". The easiest way to avoid this is to just ensure the model refuses to generate anything NSFW.
Show HN: It's 2022 and sharing files from Android to Mac is still a pain
I always found sharing files from my Android phone to my Mac a pain. I wanted to have a way to share my photos, videos, documents etc from my phone directly to my MBP, without having to upload anything to the 'cloud' or some messaging app. Those ways tend to be less secure and fairly slow.

Because of this I made this little app you see on the video that enables you to share the files directly from your phone to your laptop. I have been using it for a while now for personal use and it works really well!

The app was recently made available to everyone. You can try it out for free via https://ubidrop.com

Happy to answer any questions you might have.
AI-Powered Writing?
I've seen this kind of AI-powered writing these days. I've heard, LEX, CopyAI, JasperAI, this, etc.
Are they just using GPT-3?
> You have a knack for bringing out the best in others

Hah, I have a knack for throwing out the best in others
I'm talking about 1803-1808 Lewis and Clark expedition. He had aged 30 years and experienced new things. There's no need for sarcasm here we can just discuss things you know. It's not reddit.
Americas navy dwarfs chinas from what I’ve heard. I believe the majority of chinas ships are smaller to medium range and lack any ability to sail any meaningful distance which is a major tactical Achilles
Update: I just checked this on the basis of another old Reddit account and HN and it was quite generic and far less accurate there. (not that I expect it to be very accurate in the first place but still)
Benchmark with same power limit like this is what I'd like to know. I also want to know wall watt usage for them, to verify it's limited correctly, and how much chipset/other components uses power.
Reminds me of a remark made about Michael Jordan by one of his coaches in his "Relentless" book:

> For all of Michael’s amazing moves and unforgettable moments, he knew none of that could happen without the fundamentals. Those basic moves he had practiced over and over and over since he was a kid made everything else possible. He didn’t work on being flashy, he worked on being consistent, and he worked on it relentlessly. Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification; they invest in the long-term payoff.

I also recognize something Bruce Lee said about martial arts techniques, that the techniques that are pleasing to the eye are not very good, that the best stuff that works is boring and simple, and one has to develop that taste, not unlike developing a taste for wines.

I found the quote:

> “Some martial arts are very popular, real crowd pleasers, because they look good, have smooth techniques. but beware.They are like a wine that has been watered. A diluted wine is not a real wine, nto a good wine, hardly the genuine article. Some martial arts don’t look so good, but you know that they have a kick, a tang, a genuine taste. They are like olives. The taste may be strong and bittersweet. The flavour lasts. You cultivate a taste for them. NO one ever developed a taste for diluted wine”

In response to;

> The former shows restraint in relation to his appetites and is able to build a relationship and raise a family, while the latter is a mess who never achieves anything of value, slavishly indulging his appetites that lead nowhere but his own misery and mediocrity

I don't agree with your example by the way. There are many variables. For example, the former may be lazy and undisciplined with his life in general, but is faithful regardless for whatever reason (it's also easy to imagine that monk-like discipline is not necessarily always the only factor that keeps men in committed relationships from cheating). The latter may just consider polygamy as a lifestyle choice for a certain period of time but be very disciplined with his life nevertheless. It's not correct to derive assumptions about one's discipline purely based on the type of relationships one engages.
Orion for iOS allows the installation of Firefox addons (albeit with lots of beta bugs).
Reddit accounts are not working for me either.

There are no errors in the console - or responses either: this is crazily using a WebSocket connection to the server to fetch the results. And so sending off a Reddit request never returns a matching response.
I'm probably missing some subtlety. I'd think you could have some "debug mode" layer where the Clojure runtime catches exceptions. Basically wrapping every exception in Clojure with a try/catch, and doing a try/catch on every interop call

It's not ideal having two different modes (like a C++ Release/Debug) - but it'd be better than the current situation

Maybe this is what CIDER's debug macro is actually doing - I always forget to play around with it :) I'll need to try it in the future.

btw, thanks for your work. I really appreciate the stuff you've shared and it's nice to know someone else also uses thing/geom :))

Has the highly decoupled "mini-library" thing/geom architecture influenced Clerk? I'm been meaning to try it out - but notebooks always feel like they come with some ecosystem lock-in (esp if it's a company trying to make money - ie. Nextjournal). It'd guess it's part of why everyone reverts back to plain text. With thing/geom I just pick and choose and tweak the pieces I need - and then swap them out when I want to change to something else entirely (mostly for building GUI applications in CLJFX)
You don't have to have an actual monopoly for the government to act on anti-trust practices.
I think it's interesting to compare Pullman to another company town just 15 miles to the east: Gary, Indiana. It makes me wonder how different Gary would be today if it had been annexed by Chicago like Pullman was.
"You may feel like we've lost our way. You're tired. You have no energy."

Ok that's true as of creation of my new HN account about a year ago. But when I ran it for my old account the top result had this sentence: "You have a lot of energy." Which was true back then.

Does this algo weight comment based on its age ? It seems like it should otherwise what would it conclude given personalities change somewhat based on on-going challenges.
> For land use, as I said in my other comments, the energy density is a red herring — the mass (and the area) aren't what we're limited by anyway.

My point is, even if we accept the broken premise then the conclusion is still to plan and fund as much solar and wind as possible until we've provisioned about 80% of net energy. At that point you consider the tradeoff between LCOS of whatever battery tech can be scaled and the cost of nuclear (or if we're still operating under the faulty premise, the extra land and mass the reactor will consume).

Just the fuel and storage cask of nuclear fuel weighs almost as much a solar panel for the same energy content -- the discarded depleted uranium weighs more.

If you look at low concentration Uranium mines like Inkai (which are already close to a majority and will be comparatively high yield if nuclear is expanded) you have hundreds of square kilometers of poisoned and unusable land and poisoned ground water that will probably never be properly remediated producing about 15W/m^2 . Even Husab which is open pit only produces about 180W/m^2 from the currently occupied land and 30W/m^2 from the whole strike.