skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not uncommon for elephants to be born without tusks, and this can be due to various factors, including genetics and environmental conditions. However, there have been reports of an increasing number of elephants being born without tusks in areas where poaching is common. Some experts believe that this may be an evolutionary response, as elephants without tusks are less likely to be targeted by poachers. This is an example of natural selection, where individuals with traits that are advantageous for survival are more likely to reproduce and pass on those traits to their offspring. Over time, this can lead to changes in the population, such as an increase in the number of elephants born without tusks.
Unrelated to the replacement of traditional ethics with a more hermetic system like EA…

Somewhere around the release of Clueless, people started interjecting “like” into spoken sentences. The quotes in this article show very educated people doing so. I remember one of the first explanations of this as a phenomenon; among many different multiverses or perceptions of reality, separating a sentence with “like” separated one part where you and I agree on a cause from another part where we’re trying to communicate about an effect.
And because I haven't heard of them, I'm taking as much of a risk as I am with Amazon and Newegg. The best part about hacker news is asking a genuine question often receives a genuine response, and it seems like "hundreds" boils down to separate people saying B&H.

I already use parts express for my audio equipment and probably always will because their customer service is incredible, but I rarely buy pc parts anymore. I want to do a new build in the coming year and having this conversation saves me the future research.
No it isn't. 40% of the US lives on the coast, which means well over 50% are within 100 miles of a coast.

It would be like going to most of Europe, and then someone complaining you didn't see the "real" Europe because you skipped Portugal and Croatia.
Here is my own favorite way of doing jam custard:

> I am not able to provide a recipe for meat jam custard as I do not have the ability to access information on specific recipes. However, I can provide some general guidelines on how you might go about making a meat jam custard.

> First, you will need to select a type of meat to use for the jam. This could be any type of meat that you enjoy and that is suitable for cooking and preserving. Some common options for meat jam include pork, beef, chicken, or lamb.

> Once you have selected your meat, you will need to cook it until it is tender and well-done. This can be done by boiling, roasting, or slow-cooking the meat, depending on your preference and the type of meat you are using.

> Once the meat is cooked, you will need to shred or finely chop it and mix it with a jamming or preserving agent, such as sugar, honey, or fruit juice. This will help to preserve the meat and give it a jam-like consistency.

> Next, you will need to prepare a custard base for the meat jam. This can be done by mixing together eggs, milk, and any desired flavorings, such as vanilla or spices.

> Finally, you will need to combine the meat jam and custard mixture and pour it into a baking dish. Bake the dish in the oven until the custard is set and the top is golden brown.

> Keep in mind that this is just a general idea of how you might go about making a meat jam custard, and the specific ingredients and cooking methods may vary depending on the recipe you are using. It is always best to follow a recipe carefully and make any necessary adjustments based on your personal preferences and the ingredients you have on hand.
Isn't it great that they recognize this failure and are attempting to fix it?
I really loved the Signals and Thread episode[0] on state machine replication. It basically said "you could do all of these fancy distributed systems techniques that assume a non total ordering of events, ooooorr you could have a main server that determines a total ordering for events and make your life infinitely easier"

[0]: https://signalsandthreads.com/state-machine-replication-and-...
That doesn't protect you since Amazon commingles merchandise.
> Causal graphs are only circular if you are sloppy with time! We do not know if LSD in 1968 caused hippies in 1969, but we can rule out that hippies in 1969 caused LSD in 1968. And it may seem trivial, but it's not.

I think you're missing most of the point of those diagrams, and the concept of feedback loops in general.

Yes, the cause cannot happen before the effect. But there was no singular "LSD" event in 1968 and no singular "hippies" event in 1969 - the two phenomena were feeding on each other over time. 1968 and 1969 are just years in which people now agree the phenomena crossed some notability thresholds.

Both here and in the general case, in such feedback loops you often won't know what the original cause was - the starting point has been lost to history, and the earliest records you can find are already from when the feedback loop already started. Did some random person ingest some LSD and, because of the experience, became the very first OG hippe? Or did the OG hippie do some LSD with their friends, and the shared experience made those friends more susceptible to the hippie ideas? Who knows?

Then there's an issue of boundaries. Even if you can point at some concrete events in time, like e.g. date of founding a company, it's probably not what you're looking for anyway. That decision itself is a discrete outcome of a different feedback system that's been running for some time, and that feedback system - not the singular signing of a document - provided the influences you're really looking for.
The definition of censorship certainly doesn't entail a small group of powerful and unaccountable people. Below are a couple of definitions I have found online.

I think people may be more outraged by censorship if it is done by a small group of powerful and unaccountable people. But censorship that is approved of by the majority is still censorship. And it can still be wrong, for the majority is not always right.

Cambridge Dictionary: a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/censorsh...

ACLU: "the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive": https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
This is completely misleading. They didn’t end jack. The developer merely ended the automatic extension of the license and now requires you to stop, realize what a tightwad you’re being, and ask for the next extension, which the developer said he will grant as promised. I see absolutely nothing wrong with adding a speed bump in the license extension process after 10 years of automatic extension, and “email the developer to ask for the next key” doesn’t imply the ending of anything whatsoever.
There are many things to give a shit about today, and a small-time developer realizing that a promise made a decade ago isn't financially sustainable isn't one of them.
Interesting because this is how most other companies have handled it and I have yet to see any big news on court cases for it.
Exactly... feel like a lot of people have 0 perspective on how all encompassing the GDPR is

I've worked on plugin software for a super common enterprise ticketing application. The fact that we need to make sure one person can't see another person's data mean we need to record the user names or a unique identifier number of some sort. But these numbers can be related back to a living breathing human being, so that's processing personal data according to European law and makes selling to Europe seem almost insurmountable if you aren't venture capital funded happy to burn very large piles of cash.

Afaik exchanging business cards in Europe technically involves violating the GDPR if you pass them on to someone else at work without explicit permission. But contacting the person for permission also isn't allowed, Honda got HUGE fines for that iirc
Does it matter in practice? The OSP can restore the content and then immediately remove it again for a different reason, and I imagine that would honor the counter-notification.
How many developers can there be making and selling software to truck fleets? Makes me think these are small time operations ripe for disruption a la what Uber did to taxi companies. No offense meant of course! Just wondering :-)
I did something similar with very specific logic, incrementally added. It is definitely combining information from somewhere but it is giving output that is very specific to the prompt.

Often subtly wrong or different from what you meant but you can clarify or ask it to fix something and it usually does.
Oh yeah; this is a huge problem especially amongst us Latinos, but probably globally. Noticed this a lot when I was in India, for example, and there's plenty of this in small town USA.

Having grown up in this kind of environment (though not nearly as bad as some of the stories in this article), It definitely affected my ability to emote, though I only learned that after going to therapy for a few months.

Great article.
I was thinking about installing an air quality meter of some kind in my office because I suspect CO2 is high. Some of those other things (CO, PM1, etc...) may also be off.

If I install a meter and find CO2 is high, do the Ashrae guidelines give me any leverage against the building management?

Already it's often too hot because I'm on the top floor and I think they run the heat for the people on the bottom floor who are cold and the HVAC system doesn't seem to be able to deal with this.
Quality Assurance / Testing / Verification and Validation
Some people are intimidated by success of others, especially if they don't have much going on in their own lives. And some people get excited and motivated by it and want to do more. Those would be the caliber of people who end up working at Tesla or SpaceX or Apple, etc and join the fun.
Did you go to the same business school as Nathan Fielder? The people have paid for their license, but now the developer wants to put up manual roadblocks for you to actually get what you paid for... for the time being. No promise he'll continue answering these emails.

What if he puts a bunch of printed license keys on the top of a mountain, only to be granted after you answer his riddles three? It's still technically available, but not really.
These are basic, but free and will get you going quickly:

CBMPrgStudio is a solid free windows app.
I like cross-platform WinVICE for it's great monitor.

Once you get to be an expert, people seem to use C++ to synthesize their own 6502 routines.
I just went from, "not really", to most coding jobs could be gone in about 5 years after just trying it out.

It first made a basic admin interface in Html+Css i could copy paste into Codepen, then made it interactive with pure JS, then refactored it to Vue3, then refactored it into the now obscure Angular 1.4 just to test it, then back to Vue 3, then added Pinia for persistent state in the browser, and then converted the application to PHP Laravel+Livewire, and then to Python with Django+Htmx for backend

EDIT: Wow, then i had it make graph with Canvas showing a sinus wave that i could speed control via an input with the prompt "make a an application in JS and Html that shows a sinus curve that you can speed up or down via an input".

Absolutely mind boggling! It means it can create already create a simple working application and transform it between most known stacks, even older ones.

I have no idea why some people here on HN say that it doesn't understand logic when it can refactor like that?

This is honestly making me reconsider being a developer as a career choice just a little.
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer.

As an American, it was the most enjoyable and interesting history book I ever read, was even laughing out loud at one point. Talks about the four major English cultures that planted the seeds of the United States. It's so cool to learn about these old cultures and how their values and folkways are still reflected in certain locales to this day.

It's not only an interesting history book, but it feels useful. I feel like I have a much stronger understanding and frame with which to look at modern American politics. You stop looking at things as Democrats vs Republicans and start looking at things as Puritans vs Borderers - these are the two prevailing English cultures of the four who founded the country.

Goes without saying that this Team A vs Team B is an oversimplification and there's nuance and it's complex, et cetera et cetera. But as a simplification, there's a lot more to learn and there's more depth in the Puritan vs Borderer frame than in the Democrat vs Republican frame. I've gained more respect and appreciation for these imposing cultures/factions who persist to this day.
The TSA and Department Of Homeland security have shown quite thoroughly that they are entirely unworthy of our trust. They aren't the good guys.
A perspective from a non-professional who has been teaching himself to code:

My knowledge of exact functions is poor. I might know that I can use Framer library to animate on-page elements, but I have little to no understanding of the exact function needed to animate an object from, say, left-to-right on hover.

My normal workflow was to either read the documentation or search StackOverflow for answers. I would then have to rework the function to fit my current use case.

Now, I've been asking chatGPT directly to build the exact function for me.

So far, it's been a massive timesaver. I'll probably learn more if I dig through the documentation, but since I'm a hobbyist, not a professional, it's much more convenient for me to just get the information I need, without digging through Stackoverflow or documentation.
How does an autonomous car not need to be parked?

It doesn't need to be parked because it basically can't park itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA
> Oh man, another "never" statement. An autonomous car that doesn't have a driver, doesn't need to take breaks to eat or sleep, that doesn't need to be parked, can in fact become cheaper than public transport. I invite you to do some research on that.

I love how you sideskipped my phsyics argument like it was nothing.

You're still moving 1.5 tons (and constantly increasing!) of metal everywhere, to move 1 human being weighing 80kg.

The physics just don't work.

> That's exactly my point, and why in presence of a price competitive option such as a self driving taxi, no one would want to catch a bus or a train with many people and dirty seats.

Price competitive how? It's impossible. The only way this works is by offloading a ton of externalities on everyone else, including people without cars. Roads, parking lots, highways, high capacity bridges, tunnels, charging infrastructure/gas stations, exhaust pollution, tire wear pollution, road degradation pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, manufacturing and construction pollution, ...

By what logic can't you clean a bus for 100 people but you can thoroughly clean a taxi for 1, AND make the taxi cost competitive?
We don't need AI for garbage, it make little difference in the garbage already put there since the invention of social media. Actually human made garbage existed since the beginning of time just did not escape the smaller groups that easily where the writer intends to send us back. It is only easier to share and distribute, dress up and decorate the garbage these modern times than earlier. I recall the '90 when a crapload of new books got mass produced with garbage in it making the filtering an essential thing. Not like garbage did not exist before in antient times and family dinners alike. We need to take our ability of filtering to the next level now. And the AI does not make it much worse, so far it is more obvious by AI "generated" (more like collected) garbage.
Wouldn't Amazon just cancel your account?
I've purchased items from Amazon since the days when they just sold books, but I've stopped doing business with them now that I can no longer trust that they will ship what I order.
So the interesting thing about these tools is that they don’t link to the sources or cite the sources but instead train on them to generate a new source.

I wonder if over time SEO spam becomes an invisible problem to us and instead the AIs have sort it out for us.
There’s a big difference between the two. What you mention is usually not called a lifetime license, while the mIRC one states "with current and future versions of mIRC"
That is Haskell but it's also an incorrect solution for the problem so it's not great proof.
> But don't confuse the visualization with the system.

I think this is where people have got it wrong in the past.

This tool is an example of something in the right direction: https://www.ilograph.com/

It's just completely disconnected from code.
Old timey or not, I didn't expect to get that joke here. Searching HN, it is pretty regularly used here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Updates about fighting against child sexual exploitation content on Twitter
> My big question is: What does that experience mean for the future? Buy a house outside of the city to be closer to green/woods? Take a job where I meet people less remote? Etc

I did exactly that!

You can see my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490128, but we did the exactly that. We bought a house, we signed the contract in the first lockdown day, which was kind of awkward, using gloves and masks for the first time, together with the people from the bank.. we were all too uncomfortable with a situation that would become a routine for the next 3 years.

Regarding the job, I'm remote since 2010, but I have now a working place in the (now empty office). My team visit the office once every 15 days to do our retrospective, lunch and get some beers together..
> If governments can collaborate to engineer and build airplanes for example, why can't they do the same for edu software?

Airplanes are a good example on just how utterly bad this can become - we have a lot of issues there. Both the EU and US sued each other over unfair subsidies, both Boeing and Airbus have massive structural issues because they are also expected to distribute pork over election districts...

At the core, the problem is anti-competition laws. Governments have enough firepower to simply muscle every free market competition to its knees - the private competitors would simply sue any too effective effort by the government away, and I cannot even claim that this would be without reason.
It should be noted that the Microsoft Office license doesn't say anything about supporting future versions, while the mIRC license does.
If that were true, Kanye wouldn't have been banned. It's stupid and evil to post Nazi and swastika shit, but it is certainly legal.
I had a similar problem, where my AMD server kept freezing up about once a month. It was my critical mail server, and used by other people, so not good.

Unfortunately I just kept reacting to it by rebooting, instead of writing to Hetzner support.

When I did eventually write to them, they scheduled a date for complete replacement of the main hardware transferring over the SSDs without any fuss, and the problems have never reoccurred, so that was great.

The reason I didn't write to them for a long time is I'd heard stories like yours, and I thought I'd have to gather lots of evidence to prove the server was unreliable. I did that and presented it, but I was still surprised at how instantly they just proposed a date for replacement without any discussion.
How many people do you need in an apartment for CO2 to become a problem? AFAIK some carbon dioxide is even necessary for oxygen to be utilized in your body and for parasympathetic nervous system to work.
I'm not sure how ability to learn Emacs and ability to construct a good knowledge base are more than weakly correlated.

I know dozens of people who use Emacs and dozens of people who have well-organized knowledge bases and while a few people have both that's about what I might expect based on random chance.
Oh no, it has happened - it has replaced me at my side gig; writing comments on HN, YouTube and Reddit.
This is an interesting idea but I do wonder if it can be applied to generic collaborative editing "as is". The approach for synchronized ticks (I think most RTS games do something similar to the Blizzard approach) does require each participant to "ack" the tick. You can see this when one participant is lagging in that the simulation freezes for all players until they acknowledge. The online gaming approach is to let other players vote to kick someone who is lagging the game but that probably wouldn't be considered suitable in something like enterprise content management.

Can some variation of the approach be taken without the strict requirement that:
- There is a known set of participants at any time
- The list of participants has a reasonable well-bounded size
- Peers can communicate with each other directly (WebRTC is available but there are sharp corners)
- It's acceptable to freeze all players based on one lagging player
- Need an unambiguous way to handle simultaneous player actions against shared state

Most likely the "fix" for the friction is that you just slow the ticks down a lot compared to what you would do in a multi-player game.
I’m not sure if reading this response made me feel better or worse.

Clearly if you are rejecting legitimate customers for arbitrary reasons there’s still some work to do on your approval process.

I mean, I get that there are bad actors, and that it’s rationally better for Hetzner to have false positives than false negatives. But it just feels wrong. Legitimate customers shouldn’t be rejected until they prove they’re malicious.
Just because you downvoted my comment doesn't mean it's not valid. Downvotes are a subjective measure of agreement and they do not necessarily reflect the accuracy or usefulness of a comment. Others may find value in my personal experience with Linux and Mac, and it's not up to you to decide whether my comment is relevant or not.

While it's true that every device can have problems, my experience with Linux was that the problems I encountered were frequent and time-consuming to fix. In contrast, my experience with Mac has been much smoother and I have had fewer issues to deal with.
Not sure about the "no one else has", but maybe you can connect with these people and have a look here and contribute your views to the offline-first movement:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html

https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/

https://medium.com/offline-camp/offline-first-resources-2acc...

https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/in-search-of-a-local-first-da...

https://rxdb.info/offline-first.html

(Greetings from a guy running an offline-first B2C app with boring CouchDB for 4 years now :))