skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's semi-replaced Google and StackOverflow for me. It's like having an interactive rubber duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
It is economically rational for ambitious women to try to be thin
https://archive.ph/hoVqk#selection-599.0-599.85
This feels like a mid-November take that feels extremely out of date in mid-December. That’s the problem right now. Things are moving so fast that quick reads don’t hold up to scrutiny after seeing how things actually play out.
Explains the PAL region epithet for NTSC - Never Twice the Same Color
For someone inexperienced it's really not. They don't have the intuition to know when it's time to cut your losses and move on from a dead end, and they don't know when to ask someone else for input. A full week without supervision on an open ended problem is likely to get them extremely tangled up in a bad solution.
LoRaWAN is so awesome. It's the sweet spot between Wifi and ZigBee/Z-Wave. Has phenomenal range and networking options. I've got a few devices around 1/4 mile from the base station and they're highly reliable. I wish the home automation market would have adopted it earlier. There are a few brands out there that are decent but it's unfortunate the market is so fragmented. At least with Z-Wave you're not tied to a specific vendor and interop is relatively good these days. LoRa is pretty immature in the market but, at least, it seems to be progressing.

The downside to LoRaWAN is the implementation of mesh. It, generally, requires far more planning currently - but I'll be curious to see how it evolves with more mainstream applications.
> We cannot move our post history.

At the moment. There's good reasons why not[1] but those can be worked around if people come to consensus[2].

[1] Because it's a push system, you'd have to re-push all those posts from the new account and that's not even necessarily the same set of people they were pushed to in the first place, etc.

[2] e.g the re-pushing can be obviated by having servers rewrite their local copies of statuses to the new account ID on receipt of an "A is now B" message.
Obviously you'd need to make this unspoofable, etc., but the theory seems sound.
You may disagree but the history of the Office of Inspector General crapping on sub-200 headcount biotech and pharma startups doesn't mesh with any of that. Keep in mind smaller firms don't put up anywhere near the fight a multinational like Pfizer is capable of, and the OIG knows this.
Data URLs have a limit, but from what I read online it is browser and platform specific.

But before you hit that limit, your browser may kill the tab because it looks like it's using too many resources. Again hardware/browser/platform specific.

All in all, I'm glad this cannot be used as-is for pirate movies. That would have kept me from releasing it.
$100T: Unfunded entitlements are twice as large as the national debt
Enigmatic canal-filled ruins may have been above water when built
Yeah, pretty much. Bicycle frames are basically completely rigid vertically, as far as the forces that are normally encountered is concerned. The only possible source of vertical compliance are the tires and the suspension, if there is any. Some frames may be more or less laterally or torsionally compliant, but I'm skeptic that either makes much of a difference while riding.
> If we had a cashless society

No idea what cashless has to do with anything ...

70 years of bad urban planning really did hurt the poor and the only way to fix it is to actually fix those issues systematically. Not sure how this is moving the goal post. This is the exact topic we are discussing 'Why it costs so much to be poor'.

And it doesn't actually take that much, a few changes to zoneing law, different usage patterns for existing infrastructure, some extra bus lines and so on. Nothing that is actually crazy or that expensive. These things could have a huge impact already.

Obsessing over minor issues like food bulk buy vs smaller shopping when housing and transportation is the true issue is actually the exact problem.
A bit like how CVS closed 6 stores in San Francisco in Jan. 2022 because of unstopable crime.
They made pyright which is pretty rad
Why would I use this? I don't know this guy from Adam. (laughing)
You're arguing two separate points as if they're the same thing.

Point 1: the TSA in particular is not at fault for the modern state of airport security

Point 2: airport security is better than it has been since the 60s

You spent most of your first post arguing point 2, which is counter to my own experience, and which GP contradicted. Rather than address their points, you've ignored their argument and switched to point 1, which they didn't even challenge.

My summary of the situation: the culture of fear that arose in the wake of 9/11 has resulted in a slough of changes that as a whole have made the experience of getting on a plane materially worse than it was prior to 9/11. One of those changes was the establishment of the TSA. While the TSA does not itself bear much if any of the responsibility for the problems with the security process, they do serve as a figurehead for all of those changes. And yes, I agree with GP that airport security is much more inconvenient than it was in the 90s.

My indicator is how early you're advised to arrive before a flight. In the 80s and 90s, the common wisdom was to show up an hour early, or an hour and a half to two hours for international flights. After 9/11, that bumped up to an hour and a half for domestic, and now after COVID, they recommend 2 hours or more for a domestic flight, 3 during holidays.
Ruby Gems: Introducing Hardware Security Token and Passkey Support
Interesting, first I hear Obsidian coming out with Canvas, then LogSeq with Whiteboards, now this. Has any other party come to the bandwagon of "Infinite Canvases"?
The HTML is self contained and works offline.
See above clarification about the bad writing.
The problem is that the municipality is a subordinate gov't within the county. They have no leverage over people outside the municipality, and basically had to have a court fight for every uncollected fee/fine, which rapidly ate all the money that could be collected... if the person living almost tax free on unincorporated land in a mobile home had the money to be collected.
No. I got a full refund, though. Most importantly, I'm so extremely happy I'm still alive, I don't care about anything else.
Do you recommend any resources in particular for learning more about improving WiFi range and reliability, or should I just google some of those terms?

I briefly dug into it but had the sense that it might be a bit over my head. I’m not great with hardware — I just goof around with it a bit and make fun stuff for hobbies. Making WiFi work better would be really useful for some things, though.
Standardized web APIs are very rarely removed. Backwards compatibility is a huge priority for web APIs, and cases where they're broken are rare. It's very hard for me to even think of a web API like this that browsers have ever made incompatible changes to.

The parts of the web that get incompatible changes are generally stuff like nonstandard plugins (Flash being discontinued) and TLS (which isn't relevant if you're keeping some HTML file saved locally). Browsers bend over backwards to keep existing HTML/JS content working.
There are road bikes for fitness rides and touring, and there are racing geometry road bikes. Most people are better off with an endurance geometry road bike or a gravel bike.

My point is that more people buy racing equipment for cycling than do skiers for skiing. It is more obvious that a straight sidecut on a long stiff ski won't be fun, than it is that a low stack height and high seat will hurt your neck. You'll see a loot of kludges to fix these decisions: adjustable stems, steering tube extenders, etc.
Whilst that's true, it ignores their GPU and, crucially, their fixed function blocks - TPU, ISP, hw decode/encode etc.

So it's amazing to see the bread and butter catch up, what we really need are those other blocks available under license from someone akin to ARM.
Interesting... on 2022-12-13 the bounty has been claimed! Just a few hours after mprime1 shared the project in a comment on HackerNews, someone managed to drain the BTC.

https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret/commit/3b22d2b42ba...

I'd love to hear more about this.
I proposed a solution to both have more relaxed rules for personal profiles and have dedicated and highly regulated places for discussion. Seems like you just want to call things dumb
There's an entire paragraph about why generalist instances are bad, but no reflection about how each of those faults exists in a worse way in any centralized social network.
It's "real" because it exists in the real world. It's naturally scarce as a result since two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. There's only so much land available.

It's a completely different matter compared to imaginary artificially scarce cultural property which boils down to ownership of unique numbers. That's what's ridiculous.
500 coincidentally is around the word limit for a chatgpt response.
Creative destruction. If ChatGPT interfaces become the new search engines that disrupt traditional Google search, better for Google that Google captures the revenue that is available.

They could maybe train their models to serve relevant and non-malicious ads.
I should have clarified - I mean I was wondering if any browsers block fetch to remote URLs from local files

I do vaguely recall encountering some problem I didn't expect when I was making a tool contained in a local html file, but I dont remember which browser I was using at the time
I try to use it like this sometimes but then I realise I now have two problems. I have to debug my own code and its code.
They were all too busy asking if they could, to bother asking if anybody cares.
This all in one super app existed before and it was called America Online. They sent floppy disks and CD-ROMs to every household in the country.

The problem is once everyone is there, it becomes uncool and people start to look elsewhere.
> So, either they are all convinced that religions are false - or they are hardly the most impartial deciders, and are great at making sure any newcomers don’t get different ideas.

If some news article suggested that biologists are not impartial because most are men of European descent, there will be pitchforks and bonfires in the ensuing HN thread.

Religious affiliation is just as irrelevant.
I used to use Whiteboard a little bit, but it was always "meh".
that's right, it's unrelated to steve dekorte's io, which is also kind of cool but not in the same fundamental way

levien's io is maybe less practical, though it's hard to tell since nobody's done the work of putting together an implementation with batteries

my notes on it from sometime in 02007–02009 are at https://dercuano.github.io/notes/raph-io.html but i didn't have a copy of the actual paper at the time, just some badly ocred code and quotes from the paper, plus some commentary
didn't read the article

its regulation on centralized popup companies and letting onchain activity and constructs operate as they are
It's market distortion because it competes with companies who charge a fee for maintaining and developing their application, by entering their market entirely cross-financed from a immensely profitable product of a completely different industry.

If it's NOT market distortion, it means it is possible to create and operate a cloud-based multi-platform collaboration application, free of charge for corporate and private use, without the need of any direct revenue stream within that market. I'm not even talking profit, I mean no need for any revenue whatsoever.
Definitely read the potential hazards section. Dangerous as hell these things.
Just some general thoughts, so please understand I am not prescribing one over the other. The ride quality of a bike is largely dependent on frame geometry and manufacturing process. With a good layup, and geometry, carbon can be more stiff then steel. This is actually the promise of carbon, to be stiffer then steel while being lighter. However a good quality aluminum bike can also be lighter, and more stiff, then a carbon bike with a low quality layup. Steel tubing also comes in a variety of different qualities.

https://gravelcycling.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/steel-the-dif....

The obvious benefit to steel for me is the reliability and repairability. Ride quality can also be different depending on surface, steel is better at dampening vibrations then aluminum on gravel surfaces. Although carbon can obviously be quite nice, and you are seeing it used in tough ultra distance rides like the GDMBR. That said your wheel choice, and seatpost, will have a bigger impact on ride quality then frame material as far as vibration. Generally speaking the weight of your bike is going to be most noticable on climbs. How noticable will also depend on your gear range.

This video about titanium bike myths discusses some of the points I outlined above in further detail.

https://youtu.be/1CTjg1TFHDc
Ironically, Backstage is an even more appropriate name for it.
To be clear: I use gpg too.

But I can't expect my mom or girlfriend to learn how to use it.

With PortableSecret I can communicate privately with them, without installing or learning anything new.
Twitter has communities just like the other platforms, however, it's follow/follower model is a fatal flaw that encourages toxicity.

Every single community that flourishes on Twitter eventually devolves into a set of people who spend all their energy complaining about something. You can choose to ignore the complaints, but after a while it just becomes too much. Once you've followed enough people to be part of a Twitter community, it's annoyingly difficult to undo that.

People will be people and the same toxic crap happens on Reddit and Discord. These other platforms just provide an easy way to leave an entire community if you unhappy with the moderation policies and/or general group dynamics.
I suspect you'd like the grid system in Sapporo, Japan, where every address has Cartesian grid coordinates in the form "North 3, West 5":

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sapporo#Get_around

Kyoto is similar, but unfortunately the rest of Japan is a mess: most streets have no name at all and house numbers are in construction order.
This seems backwards to me. Docker is built on Linux process controls and requires the Linux kernel. I believe Docker on MacOS/Windows requires a Linux VM.

> Unfortunately, one of the challenges of running Docker on macOS or Windows is that these Linux primitives are unavailable. Docker Desktop goes to great lengths to emulate them without modifying the user experience of running containers. It runs a (light) Linux VM to host the Docker daemon with additional "glue" helpers to connect the Docker client, running on the host, to that VM.

https://mirage.io/blog/2022-04-06.vpnkit

WASM and WASI would actually be a cross compatibility story because you could compile to an architecture and syscall interface that is platform agnostic.
So you extrapolated a single quote from the post when the rest of the article describes exactly how to have highly personalized communities without the burden of binding your personal profile to them?
Right. They could make it, but they couldn’t necessarily get people to come or stay.
This just gave me chills knowing at some point in the future, Children will be able to dream up their perfect fantasy land and program their surroundings by just asking for it. Then these children will become adults. The future is (undefined)
You can pull this trick with academic books, too. If you find such a work in some niche subfield you know little about, but aren't sure that book's a good place to start, odds are good the author will name-drop most of the really important books & authors in the introduction. If you do this with two or three and cross-reference, any mentioned in more than one is probably something you ought to look at.
> Maybe we should talk about what specific things you want to copy that you feel should be legal?

Anything older than 5-10 years should be in the public domain. That means music, movies, games, books, literally anything copyrighted.

Nintendo should not be selling the same NES Mario game to people for the 100th time. They've already made their money like a billion times over. Let it go. This is honestly shameful.
First time commenter but I wanted to say I really, really enjoyed the podcast. I loved hearing the thought process of what programming language, frameworks and tools were used and how helpful they became to the person you interviewed.
Also you reclaim the energy on the downhill. Mass doesn't matter as much as people used to think. (Hence no modern bikes being made out of drillium.)

The one thing where I suspect mass might matter is in the wheels. It's a huge difference between getting a heavy wheel spinning and a light one, and at least for commuting/recreational usage, most of that will be bled off as heat anyway.
Thanks for sharing that! I hadn't heard of LangChain. That looks super cool. I really hope ChatGPT gets turned into a proper API because fighting OpenAI's bot countermeasures is a real time sink.
In Australia a couple of years ago Telstra, which I believe is required by the government to provide public phones. They have discovered that it's cheaper to just provide the phones free rather than have to continuously repair them after people try to jack the coin hopper or deal with support for refunding card payments when the payment succeeds but the call does not go through.

https://exchange.telstra.com.au/why-were-making-payphones-fr...
Where'd you get your mapo tofu? I like what I get from S.H. Spicy Garden, but I'm open to trying somewhere new.
Your comment tells me you have preached this a few times that you've memorised it. I say this because you added "just" when I actually didn't have that in my comment. Read again. "Evolution is a theory and not observable" is not the same as "evolution is JUST a theory". Theory, scientific theory, whatever, it's not fact, is it? The "scientific" community have been so desperate about labelling it as fact that they've redefined what a scientific theory means and are trying to pretend that it's actually a fact, completely disregarding observability and repeatability of the hypothesis.

You 'believe' in evolution, I believe in a supernatural creator. We're both believers.
Github Copilot can do this too.
Micron to Cut 10% of Workforce as Demand for Computer Chips Slumps
> If he was poor, he’d be crazy.

Plenty of poor people say messed up things, alienate people around them, and screw up their employment. They generally don't end up with involuntary mental treatment. Even if the root cause is because of mania or something.

> I don’t see anything even hinting at a justification for 5150 WIC, even without considering the de-facto loosening of when it’s applied, which is I’m guessing what you’re referring to.

Well, the whole context we're talking about things in is in the context of involuntary treatment.
> In a prediction market, I'd bet on this proof being right.

Let's create a question on Metaculus!
Book – Data Science: Theories, Models, Algorithms, and Analytics [pdf]
Right, all commuter bikes are made
of solid steel and steel bikes never break. Got it.
... yes, that's what they say about titanium, why I decided to pay the price, but turns out it's not true.
I would love for this to become robust enough to give to kids and see what they dream up. Unlike adults, kids are far less inhibited at coming up with fun prompts, but that also means they would break this admittedly brittle prototype :D
It has nothing to do with "style". DALL-E 2 consistently astonishes with its composition, framing, variety of visual elements, and so on, which tend to also be good in oil paintings and professional photographs, but not at all in the sort of content which predominates on art sharing apps with user-generated content.
Right I'd love a post-mortem on it!
Digital Dollar Is a Long Way from Reality, US Treasury Official Says
https://archive.vn/LUBaz
Can $MSFT still buy them? The money from the sale could hire engineers.
Turbo Pascal had a lot of good ideas back in the late 80s and early 90s which were ridiculed back then and are now considered best practices… modules, safe strings, safe arrays, Delphi added quite nice objects. Alas, it was never popular in the Internet age. Just imagine if we had pascalscript instead of JavaScript - a decade of wasted developer time saved…
Not the same thing at all, that only works with compile-time known sizes.
Tesla Bears Are Sitting on $15B in Gains This Year
As a casual nim user, there's plenty I probably don't appreciate enough in there, but thing I'm most looking forward to are the default values for objects.
It worked reliably for me when other video conference software didn't work properly (Jitsi, Skype, Gtalk…). Also, it was easy for my dad to install and use, after I told him about the unique identifier to keep around to use on another device. With a previous version though, I encountered a situation when my text messages wouldn't be received by my friend :/ (using the desktop version) Annoying. Hope this is fixed in the latest releases.
ChatGPT has been amazing for all kinds of programming-adjacent things, even in my line of work where I asked it for help modifying the config file for a selfhosted gitlab instance.

> But [Bash] fucking sucks. Like, it’s truly awful to write [...]

As an aside, considering how basic the shell script actually was, I think this is a great example of being so intimidated by something that you don't actually try and use it - until you do, and discover it wasn't actually that bad. The hardest part was just discovering the incantations for interacting with Chrome - which was a fantastic demo of the power of ChatGPT.
I just look into the gitolite but it doesn't have API. To clarify, what I mean is REST style API via http.
They can pivot to stable diffusion accelerators.
I wondered if LoRa is a little immature still, but I wasn’t sure. For how easy it is to get going with, it still requires quite a bit of playing around, non-standard libraries, etc.

I was totally content to accept that once I saw how well it solved my problem. WiFi has a clear cut path to getting what you want accomplished which seems great from the outset, but is totally useless if it’s not reliable. I’ve found that WiFi-based projects generally need to be really, really close to an access point to be properly reliable.

As another comment mentioned though there are probably plenty of ways I could mitigate these problems, so it’s as much an issue with me trying to use a technology wrong as it is a hard limitation of WiFi.
I ride daily, to commute and workout and just for joy on a Sunday. In a city.

I've never considered anything but a steel frame (most common), in the realm of $1000 or less fully built.

Sure, I desire more. But we're talking about 10% satisfaction improvement for my (our) needs.
And I definitely will splurge on a new bike soon, but only because I have money to burn.

I am contemplating a $3-500ish fitting with all the latest tech and a trained expert. That feels honestly worth it for anyone because it will likely save you injury.
Fedora has it bundled by default. I've used it once, recently, to report a pipewire crash with bluetooth headphones.
Computational Complexity Year in Review 2022
It is still supported though. This issue only happens if you refuse to update from ios 9