skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* I have a (very) low traffic blog [0]

It is indexed by most search engines and alas by SEO companies. They sometimes index my site several times a day, yet there are only 200 to 500 real users per day (verified with Google, Apache's logs and Cloudflare). I use Google [2] and Bing console webmaster tools (which results sometimes in a lot of work because Google has weird requests). It is probably a waste of time for a low traffic blog but as I use my own code, I don't want to make mistakes. I have 500 to 900 clicks per month on Google.

The best thing I find for traffic is to insert my blog URL in my signature when I post on very specific websites. (see @dazc comment).

* One on my daughters has a small shop selling weighted blankets for France and possibly western Europe. She has also ~400 visitors per day, does not care of any form of SEO (even low hanging fruits), but once per week she makes a Twitter post [3] about her cat which is also her site's mascot.

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/News/

[1] https://sistercatblankets.com

[2] https://search.google.com/search-console

[3] https://twitter.com/SCBlankets/status/1598316934528991233
The folks on this side of the argument believe that money is speech. Therefore using money to suppress opponent’s speech is itself an expression of free speech. I don’t agree; this is a steelman argument
cheaper fares is a really big deal. if you can deliver the same service 30% cheaper with 20% higher profit margins, that's massive. driver pay is a significant component of cost so cutting it is pretty massive.
License it to who? If they prove the model then investors will be lining up to give them the capital to expand.
Hopefully by then all the hybrids will have ultrathin panels on the roof and you might not even need as much fixed solar!
There’s also resident goose populations — some states have seasons specifically for resident geese (dates when migratory birds are for the most part absent). Bag limits in those seasons are significantly higher. Unfortunately resident geese have vermin status around northeast US. Do you know if many hunters take advantage of resident geese seasons?
This is why the Wayback Machine is valuable.
So why are education levels going down? Why is health so expensive?
Sounds to me that a "soft expire" is just shifting the problem slightly. If things continue to work, then people will ignore the soft expiration until it becomes a hard expiration. If things stop working, then there's no point in having the soft expiration.

I'm sold on the LetsEncrypt philosophy of having short expiration dates so that organisations are more or less forced to properly automate their renewal processes.
I reject the idea that I'm burying my head in the sand, if that's your reaction to my post. I'm wary of expanding on it on HN. The short version is that there were genuine policy reasons to dislike him (even from a POV left of Blair), overwhelmed by the media and the Labour party disinformation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62226042

Do you know who the article is saying should try harder?
Are you able to just turn off the notifications?
And there were a few more boards for the disk controller, and another couple for the display controller…
There are a dozen competitors, and the price of the actual hardware is a few thousand dollars. I don’t imagine this will be a high margin business. A $1000/car markup over hardware cost seems about right to me.
These days, and probably for the last 50 or 60 years, anything involving a snorter and rolled up bill would be associated with something other than signatures.
So if someone can afford a security detail, it's okay to stalk and attempt to harm them?

As to publicly available information... if it's so readily available, what is the point of (re)publishing live data if not to cause harm?
Car manufacturers and trucking companies.
At what point are “rigorous specs” just another, higher-level programming language? We’ve already moved the needle on language “high-level”-ness without AI. The Kotlin and Java I write today is orders of magnitude more expressive than the C of the 70s.

What about AI is going to change how programming languages climb the abstraction ladder?
There's no putting this genie back in the bottle. No way no how, don't even try.

Concentration of power is the real issue here. This tech can either work for all of us, or just the above-the-law class.

Making such tech illegal, as you seem to be sort-of advocating for, would just lead to more concentration of power.

So from my perspective, the people working on this openly are doing an incredible service by making it more equally available and equitable.

Finally, think of the real potential of this tech - it isn't just a bomb. It can be a teacher's aide on a global scale; a great leveler; an explosion in creative capability something like the Cambrian Explosion.
I remember this exact issue in the last HN front-page article about optical gates, weeks ago...
Low quality sensor photographs are all but impossible to compress because they're filled with compressions worst nightmare: random noise.

Lossless compression of random noise isn't possible and lossy compression of it requires content aware algorithms (e.g. AI) to get results.

Even if you don't readily see the random noise, it's there. Subtly changing the hues of pixels just slightly enough to be incompressible.
If anyone bothers to RTFA, there's a blurb in there about the 2004 UVA rape case and a hint that a former victim of the false accusation (now an investment banker) bought the archive, DMCA'd links to the archive, and then took it all down.
Dare I say, dangerously based.
Don't give him any ideas.
Price wise, that's China, and most countries rightly don't want to have an ongoing absolute dependence on China for their energy.

Second best is Russia, a bunch of countries did this and now a big chunk of Europe depends on a hostile power for half of their nuclear fuel and for parts.

Third best is South Korea and they just charged Saudi Arabia $5/W with an extra $4/W in mandatory service fees (no labour included). Their plants at home are also not great reliability wise and their nuclear industry keeps getting caught forging documents.

Fourth by price or tied first by effectiveness is the US, they can't do it for under $10 and they're famously good sports about controlling other countries' energy infrastructure.

Then there's Japan and France, and they're in the news a bunch for some reason lately. Finland and UK bought the latest French model and they are going just peachy. Taishan (another EPR) was also pretty dismal for a Chinese plant, but was at least mostly on time when it started leaking.

Alternatively buy renewables which are generally below the (much smaller) budget and on time from China, South Korea, USA or many places in Europe. The whole intermittency thing is largely just a scare campaign from coal, and the emissions avoided per dollar are far better.
Their top 3 revenue sources are ads, ads, and ads. (Respectively ads on their own properties, "Google Network" ads, and YouTube ads.) That's more than 80% of their revenue. GCP is 7.5% of their total revenue. Details here: https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/how-does-google-make-money

One of the interesting questions for me is where the profits come in. Android definitely started as a loss leader so that they didn't get shut out of the mobile advertising market. But I could believe that it's in the black now due to the Apple-like model of charging a slice of everything that goes through the phone. Google Cloud is definitely not profitable yet, but they claim they will get there: https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud-wars/google-cloud-has-...
If I may ask: How did your journey as a voice actor start, and how did you happen to make a living off of it?

I love to read aloud for decades, do a bit of different voices per character... And people seem to like my voice when I moderate our daily rounds or do presentations. I just learned that in the last 12 months, so maybe there is a hidden talent that needs to be unveiled.
Maybe you should be sickened by actual real problems that AI might be able to fix. Starvation, disease, dangerous manual labor. These are just some of the things AI will help us get past.

We are already drowning in writing because we have billions of people on this planet.

I don't share your concerns at all.
I've taken to pack-ratting information on private infrastructure, the constant editing of history was making me question my own memory.
> If I could ask Tech Santa for something this Christmas, it would be a batteries-included TypeScript web framework that will be adopted massively.

I'm not really a fan of Typescript as a backend language and I think I'd lose a lot of the niceties I get from things like Go, Java, and Rust if this happened.

I took would love a world where I could write Go sensibly and get a fully functioning frontend. This is done rather nicely in TUIs, which follow a lot of the same rules as CSS. It's the part that JavaScript fulfills on the user side that's cumbersome to replicate.

I'm also not sure I'd call frontend deps "unstable" as much as "rapidly evolving", which gets weird when you're constantly playing catch up in that domain of knowledge.
2ch.net payment system was operated by Jim Watkins rather than Nishimura
The point is they now run at several GHz, so their comparison is off by orders of magnitude.
> When I see something like this

Where do you see something like this? It's rather unusual for app developers to write code like this; such code tends to be abstracted into libraries.

> Honestly, WTF is that?

A nested partial, as the name of the type helpfully suggests. I.e. a type that will check whether a deeply nested object, which has just a subset of the fields of a parent type, still has fields that are compatible with the parent. Should be useful if you want to deep-merge such a fragment with the full object, thus overwriting a subset of full object's fields.
I admire your strength of feeling on this topic but you’ve really mistaken my point.

My point: countries with economic interdependence are less likely to go to war, which is a fact to consider when advocating for reduction of interdependence among nuclear powers.

I think you took that to be a claim that any economic interdependence absolutely eliminates any chance of war.

I’m not arguing that China is great or any of the other things you seem yo have read into my relatively straightforward point.
Radically User-Centered Design
The information shared was not from an obscure source nor was it from a site that wasn’t easily accessible. It was the mirroring of 1 piece of information from 1 location to another location.
QOI will be pretty bad with exceptionally noisy images. that said, if you denoise first, you aren't degrading image quality.
And after his family was endangered his opinion changed. Are you suggesting that it's not possible for someone to have a real life, personal experience that changes their opinion on a specific talking point? Are you so stubborn that your opinions never change?
I think a lot of people thought it would be exactly as hard as it has turned out to be but were dismissed as being luddites or lacking imagination.

I think it’s always been apparent that self driving is one of those problems where the first 90% is hard but solvable, but where the difficulty just keeps increasing in the last 10%.

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s I was constantly seeing coverage of cars driving themselves around circuits and even handling skids in a skid pan better than any human. I fully expected to never have to drive. Sadly I was very wrong.

I’ve never wanted more to be wrong about my cynicism about a technology than with self driving.
Why Did Japan Attack the Pearl Harbor
Wish there was an ESP64 with just enough RAM to run a Debian distro, even slowly, so we could stop waiting for Zeros to get cheaper.
Indeed - one of the more annoying things for me is Google and friends giving me UK-centric results because my browser language is set to en-GB despite being logged in, with a US billing address and a US IP address.

United Airlines is actually the worst offender for this - they constantly revert pricing to GBP. They somehow manage to know which home airport to set though.
I was the founder and creative director of TouchPress, so I had a hand in all those apps. For Disney Animated I wrote the text and directed the production. Sadly the business model of $10 interactive eBooks did not work out (unlike $10 static text eBooks, which seem to be much more popular?), and TouchPress was sold (apps and the name) to a company called Story Toys out of Ireland. About a year ago they were bought out by a larger Japanese company, and we were able to buy back The Elements, Molecules, and a few of the other apps, so they are now back to being published by myself and my partners on a low-key maintenance basis.
> Seems like they need to license this tech to have it payoff.

Seems like that's the plan. Volvo and some other car OEMs are using Android on the dashboard. A total package of infotainment, autonation, and the cloud services behind the in-vehicle systems is a likely destination for this and other products than can be sold into cars at the OEM or end-user level.
Nobody verifies certificate policies anyway, you can't rely on it. So point 1 is moot.
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I think it is based on id Software's Commander Keen[0] game.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen
The statement is "[4chan] is linked to massacres". This is simply a statement of fact, and it doesn't mean NYT isn't.

(I'll be the first to call the NYT a rag, as a leftist, but it's factually correct to say 4chan is linked with massacres.)
From title it's supposed to be explaining samplers. It did everything but. Can someone explain samplers in context of model.

If model is the main thing, what is the role of sampler? Is this the nosing/denoising algorithm? How can one sampler give better results than other while using same model?
> And remember, these are rules they agreed to.

IIRC, the rules were changed the day the account was banned, which means that the people who were banned never actually agreed to them, merely to a standard rules agreement that has a clause "we can change our rules at any moment and you can do jack-shit about that."
It is still the same framework, and most stuff still works.

Web Forms is deprecated since around 2010, while 12 years old MVC is a matter of creating a new .NET Core project, even WCF is now mostly supported on CoreWCF as Microsoft has forced to support it.

Windows developers don't like Python 2 vs Python 3 experiences, and have voted multiple times when Microsoft tries to play Apple.

This is hardly like FE frameworks having been doing since jQuery.

Comment last week during a PR, why are we still using webpack instead of XYZ.
> look of Windows 98 -> Vista

I find that one ugly and inconvenient (I think around XP was the time I tried alternate window managers because the default look was so ugly). The modern look with the icons and icon-actions is perfect for a vertical taskbar
Interested in the state on shooting away rather than shooing.
I am pretty sure the big sticking point is Carmack thinks they should be doing the opposite of putting out $1500 headsets.

He was pretty much taking shots at people during his Meta Connect talk this year. There is nothing shocking about him leaving.
It might not decentralize economic power but it decentralizes how many places a terrorist needs to hit to take down the grid, which is the big reliability concern.

Plus, even if the supply chain went away we'd have decades to build plants before existing panels became unusable.

It's a problem not to have our own panel factories, but that's a problem we can fix.

Technically so is protecting substations, but it doesn't seem like there's that much interest in it, nor is there much research on hardening against another Carrington event.
Interesting. I do think being in shape helps as well, though.
You should be able to choose with your wallet or whatever you're paying with - your self in this case - but for communication classic server-client structure does not offer that option because you have to rely on the choices of the rest of your contacts. That alone is enough to support alternative solutions.

Yet, it's really funny how so many on HN, the vanguard of startups among news aggregators, rather continue to fanboy Musk than engage in brainstorming opportunities the Fediverse and ActivityPub offer.
>you can extend VS Code (and similiar), but it's a lot of work and boilerplate to create a plugin whose actual functionality is 3 lines of code (let's say toLowercase()). In emacs, you can just write those 3 lines of code and that's it, that's your plugin.

This right here is the main reason I'm still using Emacs.

Another thing that makes it easy to extend Emacs is that the (freely downloadable) documentation on how to extend Emacs is very well written and organized -- much more so than the documentation on how to extend vscode for example.

And it is easy to obtain a local, offline copy of all the documentation I need to extend Emacs by installing a couple of packages in my package manager of choice (namely, one package containing Emacs's source code and one package consisting of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual).

For a few years recently I didn't have a net connection in my apartment. (I still had access to the net by walking to a community room in my apartment building.) During those years, I spent hundreds of hours in my apartment modifying Emacs -- often quite complicated modifications -- but only a few times did I feel the need during one of those Emacs-modification sessions to leave my apartment to look something up on the net.

In contrast, while extending vscode, a coder needs to be connected to the net because all the documentation is on the net, with no easy or even medium-difficulty way of obtaining an offline copy that I have been able to find.
You’ve absolutely illustrated my two points: 1) nothing is ever 100%, and 2) everyone thinks their personal choices are the ideal; anything less secure is playing with fire, anything more secure is unnecessary overkill.
There's literally a wikipedia page on it with dozens of live references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure...

Add to that the fact that all the court cases resulting from enforcement actions are public and... I don't understand your point at all. This is very well documented and understood from the perspective of a historian.

I think you're confusing "very hard to find details" with "People Don't Agree With Me That This is Important". I mean, it's a technical and boring financial scandal which was mostly victimless at the level of individuals (the "victims" got big mortgages they otherwise couldn't qualify for!). It's just not surprising that this fades from public memory. But that's on all of us, not the recordkeeping.
MIcrosoft is well known, and one of the first which did extensive user-testing of UIs, video tapped, experts analyzing through one-way mirrors, questioning, ...

I doubt that they removed the side taskbar option without very extensive testing and discussions. In fact, it's a well repeated criticism of Microsoft, that they have TOO MANY options, not too few:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/11/21/choices-headaches/
Standard domains (com/net/org) are super cheap, around $1 per month.
It's really awful that Nishimura is now popular and encouraged by major companies and local govs, but I should correct that LINE had never listed on board him.
Sweeney enhanced the information with estimates of carbon emissions.
I wonder if an account will be allowed to unmute/unblock an account, in order to downvote (block) it again in later posts. Otherwise you're looking at using a lot of blue checks to silence articles from say, NYT.
He's actually not coming across as that much more competent. He seems to be running Twitter into the ground, rather than improving it.
If it's public it can be googled, and if it can be googled it's not obscure.

Argument is invalid.

This is absolutely not doxxing.
On the VIC20 you had to make the video chip change the address of the character ROM so part of it pointed to RAM. Then you alter that memory to change the pixels in a character (8x8). Then anywhere that character was drawn on screen the altered graphics would show. In order to draw graphics like a bitmap screen you had to use multiple characters in a grid like.

ABCDEF

GHIJKL

MNOPQR

Then you had to calculate the which character held which pixels and then alter the bytes inside that character to alter the exact pixel you wanted. So a pixel at 7,7 would be inside the A but a pixel at 10,10 would be inside the H.
In a clean room humidity is also controlled.
I guess, but if I'm getting a taxi, replacing a human with a computer is not a huge benefit to me, as I'm already not driving. If I'm driving myself to work every day, replacing that repetitive and boring task with a computer is a huge user benefit and thus I'd be more willing to pay and at a higher price for the tech.

I just think that's the only real way to make this thing pay off. Also potentially it might work for long haul trucking.
Steve Yegge – Compilers, why learn them?
Ludacris collaborated with Google to empower the 3rd annual Black-owned Friday
This definitely isn’t true. Like the other poster said, I’ve used this to generate complex regular expressions and it gave me sample Python code.

I’ve also used it to create simple Python scripts to automate AWS stuff.

I would definitely pay a monthly subscription for it.
I do wonder what human existence looks like in a world where all meaningful intellectual tasks are handled better by AI. I don’t think we’re at that world yet, but it sure seems like a depressing place to be. I worry about this even in a future where we pursue the post-scarcity path and don’t turn it into an excuse for a new form of serfdom, which we surely will attempt to do.
Imagine moving to a different country/state just before this app becomes popular. All your friends & family are now far away.

Most of the people I've become friends with since my 30s have moved long distances to be where I happened to meet them. Melting pot cities like Los Angeles consist largely of people who moved there from other states!

This seems like a silly design, adding a huge barrier to getting started.
For anyone unsure, it's a Star Wars reference (Sand People).
Does anybody know how much this is currently backed with human intervention? My understanding is that Waymo is bridging the gap between their current level and full automation with having humans on tap via the network. But I'd love to know more about the frequency and circumstances of remote interventions.
I really like this website design. Everything's visible running NoScript in Firefox with Privacy Badger (blocks one tracker) enabled, because it's all HTML/CSS. Whatever jsdelvir.net is doing, it's not needed and blocking it doesn't do what happens on many other sites, i.e. no content at all.

Very educational content as well, the section on how pseudoterminals can be used to build terminal emulators was good, and on how ssh creates a remote terminal connection.