skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so you know, you don't have to mention that you upvoted, it's actually recommended that people don't do that here, so that we don't get tons of comments like "thanks" which can make it frustrating for others to wade through such comments for the value added ones, as you mention.
Should people live in an area with no water?

It feels like we have so many problems caused by people just not living in the locations in the USA where there is lots of rainfall and water. I have tons of water, my state just uses lakes filled by rainwater. We make electricity with it too.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Average_precipitat...

I always find it interesting that people keep cramming into the western and specifically southwestern part of the USA. Like the original settlers just kept going that way due to the human natural urge to keep going further and hope things would be better over the horizon. I often wonder what America would be like if the western US was settled first. I imagine people would have noticed how awful and non-conducive to human life it is and kept on trucking to the promised land in the East.
> It is good to be inquisitive, this is HN, being curious is in our nature :)

Yeah, but as I see it, if you wonder does this test work or not, you'd better try to play by its rules, which are: just relax and answer questions. Then you need to find a description of those dimensions, how authors of test define them, what do they mean. And the last step is to interpret results and to compare with the reality. Then you'll find something about this test. At the very least you'll know does it work for you.

> Is it not a multiple-choice with a vector given to each answer, add them up and you get an x,y?

It is easy to do math of a test, but it is hard to make a good test.
I am still surprised how relatively few people have a set of rabbit ears wired to their "streaming" TVs for basic news or whatever in the current year considering how cheap they are.
It was quite short-sighted for the owners of hundreds of billions in commercial real estate to sit idly while almost all work turned into sitting in front of a personal screen. You used to have drafting rooms, map rooms, operation centers, and other types of collaborative environment. Now you have your own screen. Think of the boost to their property values if there were commercially available roomscale software, or some kind of hologram table.
Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI
In my exploration of OpenAI, I just created a domain-name search that takes business description as an input, and generates interesting domain names for it. It then uses DNSimple API to check if .com is available.

In my view it is a much easier way to find a suitable domain, as the AI thinks of a much large pool of possible names than my own brain. SmartyNames found its own name, using the tool itself.

Hope you enjoy it! https://smartynames.com/
If you have 3 year olds, get ready for more baby shark and let it go.
“Sublists must have surrounding blank lines” and “HTML has to be wrapped” is enough to be annoying IMO. Again, not insurmountable but just the sort of thing that I’d find weird looking every time I authored a djot doc.

Especially the blank lines around lists restriction. The syntax goes to explain how “tight” lists do not have their elements wrapped in paragraphs, while “loose” lists do. This admits that lists in the rendered output will want to use whitespace to achieve a particular layout. But for the case of a Markdown list like this, which will be rendered with no whitespace between items:

- top
- inner
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- inner
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In djot this must become:

- top

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- top

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which has way more whitespace in source form than the rendered output will have. This makes it harder to judge the visual weight of a piece of text by simply glancing at the source, and would require spending more time looking at the rendered output while drafting.

And to go further, a loose list would require even more whitespace:

- top

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If there were a way to relax this constraint about new lines for list sub elements, I might even consider switching to this for some documents today, but absent that it’ll have to be once I bang into a few more markdown ambiguity problems.
It's true, but despite that I think they are plausibly in the ballpark of a useful idea.

I'm anti-UBI. I've been open about that for years.

I would like to bring back SROs* in walkable, mixed-used neighborhoods and improve public transit and cycling infrastructure, and make food stamps more or less a "You want them? Just ask." kind of thing. I think if we had sufficiently cheap housing where you could comfortably live without a car and you could be guaranteed to eat, that would be a better means to provide the social stability and social mobility that UBI proponents seem to be shooting for with what is, in my opinion, a thoroughly broken mental model for a long list of reasons.

There are already programs to grant "geniuses" money. I'm cool with that. Those programs generally seem to have a thorough selection process, something this article very much lacks.

If you are picking "the best of the best" from Harvard to give money to, you already know just about anyone at Harvard will do something useful with that money and not spend it on the oft joked about "hookers and cocaine" that some lottery winners more or less actually do spend their money on.

We are awash in vast societal wealth. We need to find better ways to put in a floor for "everybody" (while recognizing that no matter what you do, some people will be "problem children" and you will need to find ways to cut them out so as to try to force them to behave) while making sure we aren't destroying society in the process.

I do not believe this idea of just passing out cash for supposed "genius" based on IQ tests has any merit at all. The historical examples cited in the article as things that worked well for that place and time were not examples of passing out cash for "smarts." It was passing out cash to smart people who did things.

Yes, on the one hand, people gotta eat and yadda. On the other hand, there is the Duke Nukem Forever phenomenon where seemingly endless cash meant that they didn't ship until the company was nearly broke again.

Money can be very useful stuff. Lots of problems don't budge merely because you throw money at them.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

Isn't it weird that we complain endlessly about poor results, and yet hardly anyone has strong feelings about doing things differently (if not outright scoff at the very idea)? I've read your posts for many years, please tell me that you can see this phenomenon all around us?

I don't actually understand what you are asking. You would need to clarify.
I agree with you 100% and am not afraid of vocalizing similar things to a hyper capitalist audience.

However, I don’t see the way out unless the social safety net is strengthened (not gonna happen) or we just ban rich people from starting companies (lol, lmao even)

Edit: maybe there shouldn’t be a way out. Maybe the solution is just to educate and make transparent that rich founders have better odds and less to lose and bust conceptions around successful at business == higher quality individual.
I'm not sure what service you're using, so this might or might not apply to you:
Consider that some password managers use MFA to allow you to connect to their online service that will download a synced, encrypted copy of your password vault, but the vault itself is only wrapped with a key derived from your master password.

If someone was to obtain a copy of your vault, decrypting it would be trivial with a weak or compromised master password in that case.

CTAP supports an extension called hmac-secret that would allow you encrypt your vault, which would mitigate this issue (While introducing others potentially -- for instance, hmac-secret does not require user verification so anyone with your yubikey could decrypt it). Of course there are other mechanisms to encrypt a vault other than a key derived from a password that you can use with a Yubikey, like PGP, but I don't know of any commercial password manager that does it that way.
Open-source hospital price transparency
Yeah, sorry, the border betweeen indy and open source comunities are very blurry. Often times games released on steams might be even available in less polished versions on github or just stolen gpl versions of them, that nobody persecutes.

Its really not that clear of a distinctions as it used to be.
The first two points can be said about cryptography
I think he’s more likely to end up with „suicide” than like SFB
This comment is a lie.

They literally do not say "kids are empowered to explore their sexuality."

Kids grow up into adults.

xd is the one that brought up sexualizing children. No reasonable person here would assume anyone is talking about sexualizing children unless they explicitly said as much.

Somehow you and xd are thinking "people are feeling empowered to explore their sexuality" explicitly means "kids" in this context. Why you are thinking that, I don't know.
That's actually a potentially really good use for it.

"Write me a chapter where Bob does this thing and Suzy responds and then a cat walks in"

And then you go to town on it, because it's always easier to rewrite than to write.
In my opinion, the fundamental difference between an architect and a staff/principal engineer is that architects are more generalists and principal engineers are more specialised. It does not mean, of course, that architects don't or can't have deep knowledge of specific areas or that principals can't have a wide understanding of their ecosystems, but an architect absolutely must understand the ecosystem they work in and a principal engineer absolutely must understand the specific technology stack of their choice. Understanding that every choice is a trade-off and comes at a price, that someone at some point will have to pay.

You chose the latest and greatest web framework? Great! How many developers at your company will know how to use it? How long will it take for them to learn it? How big is the talent pool you can hire from? How much time will it take to migrate your products to it? Who will support it, is it "wild west" open-source or does it come with commercial support? How does it fit with your deployment model? Has it gone through rigorous threat modelling? There are about a billion factors that may affect your choices and finding the right solution will always be a central part of the problem.

To actually answer your question about how I deal with this, this is why I do research. Let's say our product people come up with a brilliant new product idea that we don't have an existing solution for, then I'll spend some time on finding information about the available options and take notes on the benefits and drawbacks. I will try to find people who are experts in the subject and get their opinions.

What I can not do, is to actually go and gain a deep understanding of every single language/platform/framework/library there is, I'm just a human after all.
I think Feynman would be pleased with question. He was well grounded in the real world of doing science with incomplete datasets. For researchers who gather data with surveys, this is a frequently encountered problem, so it is legitimate to discuss it an statistics course.

If there is a problem, it is the multiple choice format. This issue of handling incomplete datasets would be make a good essay question.

That said, it is perfectly reasonable to choose D and work with the information you have. That is what real world clinic studies do when they report the number of people who dropped out of a study.

It is also reasonable to choose A and attempt to get better coverage. That is what real world election pollsters do.
"Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die"

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-...
The U.S. factory farm system has killed 120+ million pigs and over 7 million sheep this year (hopefully not many monkeys).
I am quite sure most of those pigs were subjected to torturous conditions before they were put out of their misery.

TBH, I think any outrage is hypocritical from anyone one who is not already outraged and boycotting the global meat industry.
Think it’s disgusting to try and claim someone having the chance at no longer being a prisoner in their own body is morally in the wrong just because they might be ok with some animals suffering to make it happen.

Luckily I’m not one of those people so I’ll happily say the suffering happens once, the benefit lasts for the rest of humanity.
From my marketing knowledge, IoT is NOW very special thing, You must do widely used hardware to make additional services for it. Or You could stay on shoulders of somebody, who have very successful hardware, but in this case, your business will be depend on them.

I know very few examples of successful IoT businesses, and they all working with model I said: Ring (now Amazon Ring), Ajax (home security).

May it will change in nearest future, but now I know lot of unsuccessful IoT businesses, who tried to use others hardware as foundations.

I'm electronics and software dev with lot of experience, if you wish to talk about hardware, I'm open. Thanks.
How are those things sociopathic?
The slide deck seems like a pitch for more funding to create a CMake replacement, rather than a description of that replacement, right? It ends with "A $1M+ investment in a new CMake language(s) and translation tools could avoid a future massively expensive transition of ASC [Advanced Simulation and Computing, at Sandia National labes] codes to another tool like Meson that could easily cost more than $10M across the ASC program and negatively impact developer productivity while the transition is taking place."

I'm curious: is there any way to estimate how much US taxpayer support went into creating CMake? Would CMake exist were it not for the DOE and/or NSF grants that Kitware got?

Getting that kind of support isn't a fault of CMake, but I think it's a meaningful property in considering and comparing different software development projects, and evaluating their long-term health.
Except for essential journeys.

And this is only in extremis.
But DF has the same thing minecraft did. A story to tell.
Giving free money to most geniuses I know would result in morbid obesity of both them and their Steam libraries.

Genius doesn't produce much when motivation is lacking, and most geniuses I know just aren't very motivated. Many expend much of their energy wrestling various mental health challenges including anxiety, OCD, ADHD, sensory issues, etc, etc.
IQ tests are already extremely useful for upward mobility, but they haven't reverted to whiteness testing. White people, who invented most of the tests, aren't even the demographic that does the best on them.
Interesting read, thanks.

> C++ is the obvious choice but the syntax and endless features overwhelm me. I’m not a fan of OOP for game development - class-heavy C++ was not the right move

You can well use C++ with a very modest style, even completely without OO if needed; C++ has many advantages over C for large projects; the type system is more mature and it offers very useful features for modularization and memory management (which were already present in C++98, so it's easy to get a working compiler on virtually all platforms where there is a C compiler).
Founderless companies are the real future. Having to divide profits
with founders, shareholders and other meat beings only weakens a
company. Surely nobody supposes business knowledge is somehow immune
to encoding in AI? And mistakes won't really matter when you can spawn
a swarm of 300,000 "subsidiaries" from a single shellscript and have
them coordinate via a darknet protocol to underwrite each other's
losses.
Someone else can register `nailer.eth` and promote that address as being associated with me too. Also personally, people that send me money (using the first example of utility from the article) want to send it to Mike MacCana.
ChatGPT is completely incorrect, almost like it has no actual insight into the question... The 90 that did respond may or may not be representative of the rest of the students.

Example:

I send out a questionaire about plans post incarceration to 120 ex inmates. I get 90 responses that are very positive, and conclude that 100% of inmates have positive outcomes after prison. In reality 30 ex inmates didn't respond because they had committed suicide, or been murdered, or were back in prison.
The NFT imposes an obligation on the SPV. This obligation can move around many times.

The NFT owner can then, at their option, pull the land out of the SPV (and the NFT is burned in the process!) to take ownership via the land register being updated.

The NFT purchase is still the transfer of the interest in the land, and the point where stamp duty is paid to the UK government. That's where the value transfer happens.
Nice! Thank you for sharing.

It's probably not something you'd want to prioritize, and you mentioned releasing it quickly influenced some of your decisions. But a way to pay outside of the PlayStore would be nice for those of us who chose to or cannot use it for payment.
The end is the same in both cases:

Oculus and Bitcoin in their "indie" phases were both insignificant, i.e. not adopted enough to cause problems for the wider world.

Once both were co-opted by parties with enormous amounts of capital, both diverted heavily from their original missions. Oculus is now a tool for Zuck's Second Life clone, and Bitcoin has never been further away from being used as an actual currency.
There are at least a few of us that view unions as just a smaller extra government entity, and would prefer we rather had stronger governments. To wit, I don't want folks dependent on their job. Period. And unions often do give workers better conditions, but only so long as they are workers.

That said, I typically fall on the pro-union side of most debates. Often is a better alternative than where we are.
>consult with actual parents for what it’s really like to have kids.

There's an interesting wrinkle into the answer you get, however. If you ask parents in one environment (say, at the workplace) about their thoughts on children they will often be different than asking about them in the act of raising those children. There is often an irreconcilable difference between our experience in the moment and how we later remember that experience. It's possible to be quite miserable raising children and still think back on it fondly.

I'm not sure what that implies on the advice of consulting actual parents unless you know which you would prefer optimizing for.
I would really like to believe this is not some sort of cynical attempt to circumvent current-and-future "right to repair" laws.

On the one hand: yes, this does allow third parties to carry out repairs on Apple equipment. On the other hand: no, this is so costly and inconvenient that it effectively locks out everyone but Apple anyway.

So, what would it take to enable cost-effective repair of Apple equipment? A relaxation of "parts DRM", even if it weakens overall ecosystem security? A mandate to enable side-loaded OSes to extend hardware lifetime and perhaps enable certain kinds of (security-sensitive) repairs?

I truly don't know...
I don't know, @hamburglar -- judging by just the comments in this thread, it wasn't so obvious to others.

And "real-time lyrics" is _already_ in Apple Music.

In your/Apple's defense, the photo they included is pretty clear what's going on. Important to note the footnote on the page -- this isn't even full-fledged karaoke: "The vocal slider adjusts vocal volume, but does not fully remove vocals."

I'm being nitpicky for sure, but that's kind of what HN and similar forums are for. Especially when it's Apple, which I hold to a pretty high standard for product marketing.
These are not open source games.
1010 still gets the job done ages later, shame they changed all the sounds to more generic ones though.
> I haven't proposed any porn regulations whatsover... You seem to be confusing me with someone else.

Well, that's embarrassing and I apologize.

> Take a look at

Yes, to the extent being cited for an single infraction will stop horny people from filming themselves having sex and sharing the video, that is very relevant.

However, most (all?) jurisdictions treat repeated infractions as misdemeanors. When it comes to the hypothetical of "regulating" porn, there are two possible outcomes: 1) porn producers who ignore infractions and any resulting fine are not prosecuted, and the regulation is meaningless, or 2) punishments for repeatedly ignoring the regulation are severe enough to deter repeat offense.

I just don't see how you get (2) without jail. Therefore, I stand by the assertion that any regulation of porn that is going to be effective is going to have to be prepared to jail people.
> if the investors had hired any independent experts

Maybe they did? The ones that actually did invest are the ones that also are waiting for a Nigerian prince to finally do his bank transfer.
In the UK that could be 50 years.

Easily.
I'd love to hear the backroom conversations that lit a fire under them to launch this in the EU. I wager that right-to-repair is getting close over there and forcing Apple devices to use USB-C was a bellweather.

Their programs haven't been great so far, but _some_ repairability is better than none, and eventually this will build a taste for non-disposable devices in consumers' minds.
So you put this becoming more or less mandatory in the future at roughly the same odds that wearing pink unitards will become mandatory? Any system like this that provides the capacity for heavy centralized control and censorship will at the very least have people attempting to leverage it to their own ends right? Not saying they will succeed but I think it rises above the level of "any random shit might become mandatory" right?
Cities can revive and thrive if they open up zoning to allow for mass office to residential conversion.

Imagine what converting 50% of NYC offices to residential would do to foot traffic and rents. City living has the potential to be far cheaper than suburban due to economies of scale. They only weren’t prior due to the concentration of high paying jobs, which presumably are going to shift to remote/global and have far less of a concentrated impact on local economies

Before people say it’s not cost viable, it is in many cases, and was already being done precovid.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/11/14/dc-area-leads-the-w...
Including the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63866869
Has SBF ever written a line of code?
Ask HN: Have you ever set up two-way data syncs? What did you use?
Hey HN, asking for help from my fellow data engineering community! Between what two systems have you ever needed a two-way data sync?

For example, I’ve seen some devs wanting it to connect databases to tools like Airtable. But are there other tools / use cases that you’ve seen? I’ve heard of Mulesoft and Piesync but those seem overly expensive for these use cases
> a lot of my queries that would go to google can go straight to chatGPT.

Really? I played 10 minutes with it, but lot of answers were wrong and I didn't have the option to easily verify them. I found this tool intriguing, but not useful in this form.
Every car I've ever owned, from multiple brands, has had a recall. Some even had multiple recalls addressing different issues. So on the face of it 25% doesn't seem that bad to me.
or if you have something, the response is "must be nice"

I feel like this accelerates class segregation. like, going from talking about the new condo in a nice neighborhood changes from "must be nice" to "my friend lives there and says the Tesla charging stations are broken but I'll talk to the leasing office about it tomorrow", just immediately more depth that some groups of people can't contribute to and are dismissive about.
It’s SBF not SFB. That’s embarrassing.