skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those should be for licenses with an end date. "Subscribe" and "license" don't really imply there being a definite end date to your access, but nevertheless informs you that your access is contingent upon the continued existence of the business in question, unlike things you "buy".
Thanks for sharing. One argument Postman makes that I find compelling (if not wholly convincing) is that advertising has increasingly replaced "propositions" (testable statements of truth) with images and emotional claims (attractive celebrities, nice sound effects). Since liberal capitalism is built atop the assumption that buyers and sellers are informed and logical (or at least equally ignorant), Postman argues that "the television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital."

It would be interesting to see actual data on this. A team of researchers might take a representative sample of adverts from across the past century and code them for the degree to which they make refutable/provable statements. I'm not so sure you'd see a clear decrease in propsition-ness.
I never use string concat to generate SQL in Go - isn’t it normal to use placeholders? ie,

db.QueryRow(“select $1”, n)

Looking at squirrel, I really don’t see how this

sql, args, err := sq.Insert("users").Columns("name", "age").
Values("moe", 13).Values("larry", sq.Expr("? + 5", 12)).
ToSql()

Is better than this

sql == "INSERT INTO users (name,age) VALUES (?,?),(?,? + 5)"

That said, I will happily agree that that SQL statement composition is not the same as an ORM, and I can see the benefit of Squirrel for those rare times you do need to conditionally build SQL statements.
I thought I was good at scrabble but then I realized that playing against my parents does not count. Experts just memorize dictionaries. Just anther example of a game that has been optimized. Would not surprise me if we see a cheating scandal similar to professional chess.
Mandatory "... in mice" notice.
There's an ultimate justice machine with absolute laws though: the universe itself.
Interested in rebuttals to this. Why don't we see constant exploits of all these problems? Or do we in fact?
This is also me to the dot. I am also trailing ADHD pills to mitigate the bad organizatio part. I am 33, and i am looking forward in my agenda planning for a week or 2. Before this would be 2 hours.

I also feel that the wildcard person is like this because of some specific characteristics, like to never want to quitte before working etc, which comes with huge downsides, couple relationships on my end.

My saying is that I can fix anything if you give me enough time.

To all the wildcards, shield yourself from abuse by your employer.
You can do a master’s part time while working with the right schedule. I did that as a full time software engineer working 40-50 hrs/week still. I’d rather this then all our representatives being ex law school or econ degree types trying to make decisions for a world that’s changing fast and not related to their fields.
Care to expand on the unwanted factors? This is an interesting post and I want to hear more.
> But this is HN, and, from an optimization / constraint satisfaction problem perspective / scale perspective, it’s really not a very large problem.

i can't even begin to imagine what the utility function _alone_ must look like.

the solver can't just produce a blank slate solution every time, it's got to optimize... something, subject to some constraints about not changing too much from the previous plan it came up with. and it's probably got to do this every time there's new real world input.

> The “going home” problem is a standard programming contest problem.

the hubris and handwaving on here is hitting epic levels.
For a meltdown the stock is back to where is was in October, tracking other airlines and the overall market, which keeps falling. I think people have become so accustomed this sort of stuff that it does not affect business long term. After Covid, people are accustomed to major inconvenience when traveling.
But isn't this exactly the mindset that the original comment in this thread was criticizing?

It might be fair to say, as a sibling comment does, that one needs younger politicians so they can better represent one's constituents.

But to dismiss them just because they're old amounts to shutting off an economically productive segment of the population. More importantly, by discriminating against individuals because of their class membership rather than because of their abilities amounts to prejudice, no?
It's criminal to evade sanctions for a reason. As a Russian can tell you that oligarchs being able to convert dirty money into cool western lifestyle is probably the what keeps this thieving and oppressing regime going. If they were cut off from this, the regime would fall because very few insane people would associate with Putin for reasons other than personal gain. But they are not cut off cold turkey and they still have avenues where sanctions are not applied, like crypto, so they have time to sort things out.

Note that it's not illegal to provide humanitarian aid or help in other ways. It's not even illegal AFAIK to transact, as long as you make sure you are not involving anything or anyone sanctioned. (But I'm not a lawyer)
I'm familiar with SimCity and Raymond Chen. So familiar to know that SimCity was one of the top-selling Windows (not DOS) games. So while you and I and everyone loved SimCity, Microsoft had the economic motivation to make it work. They also certainly put more effort into obscure business software nobody remembers.

Per wiki, they released "SimCity Deluxe CD-ROM" for Windows 95, so the game was obviously still selling well even then.
About a decade ago, I was part of a startup trying to disrupt crew scheduling. It's a non-trivial operations problem when you aim to honor crew preferences, union-negotiated affordances, FAA legalities, etc. We were only involved in the pre-planned schedules. At that time, the airlines we were courting had entirely different human-hravybsystem to resolve real time issues. There was some level of reserve redundancy baked in so the human planners had some wiggle room to work with... but redundancy is expensive to maintain. As a relatively new engineer at the time it was a pretty neat domain with big $$$ at stake. As it turns out, pretty much nobody wanted to take the risk on a new system even if it had provably better schedules for all parties. All it takes is one snafu for the whole thing to turn into a major regret.
My Mrs is an Astrophysicist and she is exactly the same. In her case she is terrified that Apple will move stuff around and break her paths rendering her EMacs setup unusable. Curious to know how to manage all her pipelines, iraf, python, R, Fortran and general fits processing and sundry as well without it breaking every. Single. MacOS. Upgrade. She only upgrades OS’s every time her funding gets her a new machine. Which is infrequently. Like every three years or so. She uses MacPorts.
> stomach is the current only accepted behaviour to react to being laid off by being grateful to such a wonderful company to have given me opportunity to learn and blah, blah, blah.

No. You have missed the point.

Nobody wants you to e grateful when you're not. But you do not have to say what you think just because you think it
To underscore this comment: by simply enabling GitHub pages on a GitHub repo, it will automatically render Markdown to HTML as soon as you push the repo.

If you want, you can layer on Jekyll and a custom theme down the road—but if you know how to write Markdown in a GitHub repo, you can have a blog live in 2 minutes, and then get started on those articles you mention are already in your head.
This is why I love HN. I'm actually working on a lightweight metrics system right now. This accurate little tool (and the author's article) is exactly what I needed right now.
Both can be true?
This may be good for his personal development or growth and understanding but wouldn't his constituents rather he dedicate his time to representing them and their interests in the house of representatives?
Maybe it has something to do with my location, but my experience has been that SWA is normally much cheaper than other airlines. I recently cut 70% off a trip I'm planning in May by switching from Delta to SWA. That's probably a uniquely extreme case, but I'll happily risk a delay of even a day or two if it saves me litterally thousands of dollars.
Actually, Doyle made fun of phrenology in "the case of the 3 Garridebs", if memory serves?
I'm glad you got a solution implemented out of it. Nice to see reason win the day.
Given that the publicly accepted view of aging is that we are all living longer; the math does not support your view.
upwork.com for full timers?
How do you figure regarding hardly any training? Humans are constantly training on a never ending stream of sensory information from the time their brains form in the womb, not to mention whatever subconscious and conscious processes are reconciling that data with memory, or whatever training has been built into our minds over eons of evolution.

An 18 year old will have been training for ~160,000 hours on a volume of raw data that is probably far beyond our ability to currently store let alone train an AI with.

As far as training for a specific task, all that training on other matters kicks in to help the human learn or accomplish a “novel” task more rapidly, for example, knowing how to read and interpret the instructions for that task, knowing how to move your appendages and the expected consequences of your physical interactions with a material object. You’re certainly not taking a fetus with a blank slate and getting it to accomplish much at all.
The option to "avoid difficult intersections" should get you most of the way there

https://www.pcmag.com/news/waze-wants-to-help-you-avoid-diff...
A Russian author quoted by Kissinger in Diplomacy claims that Russia is the continuation of The Roman Empire, not sure this is just nationalism or a grounded thesis.
Gen 10 was announced at Jan 5th, 2022, but my fully spec-ed model with OLED display, was anounced only at the end of June. Then it took me 3 months to get delivered with all the current supply chain problems. But now it's available in stock.

The post[1] says it will be launched in April 2023.
I guess it will take at least 3-6 months until Gen 11 with good specs will be generaly available. And maybe 9-12 months until it will be in suppliers' stock in my country.

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[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen...
IMO the killer feature of Medium/Substack is that they've already built up an audience willing to read long-form content, and they're happy to immediately start recommending your content to interested sections of that audience. Search engines too are happy to surface content from those sites.

Self-hosting is ok if you're not writing for an audience, or the legwork of promoting yourself, building up an audience from scratch, and doing SEO doesn't put you off.
You can’t include “all” the context due to the prompt token length limitations. You have to use techniques for surfacing the right context that would fit in the limited context window and sending that along. There are techniques that keep a running and continuously compressed summary, and techniques that use embeddings to hone in on relevant chunks of past conversation and context and send that along based on some ranking and the size limitations.
This is a false premise.
> 72 years old shouldn't be remarkable, but the norm.

Having neither of my parents even make it to 72, I’m pessimistic. I hope I will be lucky that my health allows me to keep learning and doing cool stuff at that age (and that I’m actually alive), but the sad reality is that health and genetics can be against us, and being in a healthy thriving state at 72 is more an exception than the norm.
I mean I'm nearing 40 and pondering if the investment of going back to school would actually be worth the effort given the say roughly 20 years I'd have to enjoy it, especially given how the last 20 years have completely flown by.

I think there's a valid "why?" here. Obviously it comes down to some people being driven to knowledge purely for knowledge sake, and that's wonderful. That's what makes them happy.

I think for a lot of us though, knowledge is a more practical commodity. It's just one of a number of tools that allow us to build better.
The Calgary public library (downtown) is like this as well: unique architecture and lots of "non-book" things. I wish they did a better job with the drug users in and around it though.
The Fed hasn’t been near reality for Quite Some Time, and have no intention of heading that direction any time soon from the looks of it.
So those making the decisions will live as long or longer with them than their average constituent.
Let it take years, then. Leaving it disabled in the bios by default is one thing, and a rather reasonable one at that. Fusing it off is quite another.
I sold some collectibles on Steam to a guy for euros, pretty sure that the only reason it wasn't a taxable was because it was a one-off and under the reporting minimum.
It is not because it is morally wrong that you should not lie. It is because it is very bad for you. Lies beget lies and no one trusts a liar.

It is morally wrong to lie. You should not do it

The fact that they do it, when they face different incentives, is not a reason for you to
I identify myself with the wildcard person. I would adjust my resume to lean more towards the hiring position. After hirin they get to know the swiss army knife.
Its basically too late, as soon as one rich person decides to train a model and dump it, it's game over. I feel we might actually be experiencing the last months of an internet where you can expect to be talking to a real human on the internet.

Every year the cost of training these models drops so they won't be out of reach for long.
You can also mute certain words which is incredibly helpful. eg. Muting “trump” “Elon” “Tesla” “nft” “bitcoin” made my timeline readable again.
I have struggled with this myself for a long time. I feel gratefull for having stumbled upon this article.

What i just want to share here is this quote which I heard a couple of years ago and will never forget.

Did you know the saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? Apparently this quote is only half of the full quote, which is.

"A Jack of all trades is a master of none, but better then a master of one"

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I also think that a lot of people have a misconception about this kind of person. It is not someone with a big skillset but likely someone with ADHD, this trait, for me comes with HUGE downsides, as in, my biggest wish is to start a startup, but this trait is preventing me to finish almost anything. I have a huge backlog of unfinished side projects, i work on them day/night until I know i got it (meaning i have figured it out, it works, it is possible), and then I lose my interest and start exploring new ideas and testing if these are feasible.

I am currently trailing ADHD pills to litterly NOT be this person. And it feels amazing to look forward in planning, be prepared and structured.
DaVinci Dc100 electric sport bike is compelling, has 250mi range
Maybe they don't mind him spending a few hours on it each day after he's done with work and would rather he have this more knowledgeable take on relevant legislation.
Then, maybe, don’t fucking remove standard things like “SIM card slots”. That canceled my desire to upgrade at all, and I’ve been doing it annually.

I don’t trust the carriers not to start in on “$x for eSIM” (i.e. utter bullshit for software provisioning), nor do I want to be unable to travel and get a SIM elsewhere in the world.
my neighborhood store in the SF Bay area has a 50% hardcover sale.

the store is full of people.

people standing and reading magazines (i could hardly elbow to my aviation mag).

kids are playing.

folks sipping starbucks.

my hands hurted after checkout.
It's 2022 and it's time we give really look into why teeth are crooked, jawlines are receding and the number of people with obstructive sleep apnea is rising. Google Orthotropics|Mike Mew|Mewing. Evolutionary Dentistry is a thing.
I generally agree. But it's worth pointing out that continued learning is more important than continued accreditation. There's probably not much economic value in a new formal degree past 70 years of age.

I'm a little frustrated with how many people seem to treat learning like an activity exclusive to schools. Self-guided learning is extremely valuable.
Something worth pointing out here is that according to levels.fyi, a tech lead there who has worked for 20 years has a TC of 174K. It’s unlikely their technical talent would be up to what you propose which is related to the apparent decision at Southwest to underinvest - by their own reckoning - in technology.
Sen. Wyden from Ore. frequently speaks at DefCon and when he answers Q's he also asks lots of Q's. He talks with that odd (IMHO cringey) politician cadence, but he's a smart dude when it comes to tech, especially privacy.
Ask HN: Is there a ChatGPT “in a box” for private data?
For example, say I want to upload a few gigabytes of proprietary text from business and have it be a knowledge database or private knowledge.

An example of this is: https://huberman.rile.yt/ which is for Huberman lab podcast.

The developer describes it here: https://twitter.com/rileytomasek/status/1603854647575384067

As a non-programmer I'm not sure how this was done, but wondering if there is a open source or no-code / turn key solution available.
Same for me, I don't see that high responsibility amoung a lot of my colleagues. I am about to get promoted, and I am durning down the offer since I am currently doing all those wildcard jobs, even outside working hours, because I enjoy them.

But when you expect me to do them, it is different and you need to compensate!
How does "learning in maturity" change from regular learning? Why do you need a book? Just go find something and learn it...the system couldn't be simpler.
Cultural genocide isn't the same as actual genocide. Pretending they are in order to make a comparison with Nazi Germany isn't going to pass muster.
Here’s a video testing if mixing Corona and Disaronno will taste like dr pepper. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmGb10DpWFE/?igshid=MWI4MTIyM...
Time to invest into Facebook where users are clearly identified.

How can HN and its open registration survive?
Sorry, allow me to elaborate. I have a 34 inch UWQHD curved monitor, and to make the best use of the space available I want to split apps between that real estate. E.g. i might want VS Code to take half or 1/3 of the screen, or split evenly between two apps, or split into 4 zones. Windows and Gnome/KDE come with some basic shortcuts that allow you to do this, to an extent (e.g. Win/Super+Left/Right arrow will split the screen in half and send the app you're currently on to the left/right of it). On macOS there's nothing out of the box, so you have to download third party tools, the vast majority of which are paid (tankfully Rectangle isn't)
The reality is that most people's mental abilities have started to decline by this age, particularly the capacity to learn new things. That makes this story all the more remarkable. Part of that I think is certainly as you suggest, that the brain is a muscle, you need to use it to keep it fit. But you can't escape nature either. To keep the muscle analogy, you won’t compete as an athlete at 72 no matter how fit you remain.
Would 45C be ±1 or ±10?

You can't provide a scaled ranges with the digits alone like that.

Just use ± or a hyphenated range, and take it in context with adjacent measurements.
No.

Being a Congressman not only means attending to his local issues and policies.

It also means helping create federal and state policies, regulations, being member of national committees, etc.

And there are going to be more such bodies in the near future centered around technology and AI.

It's laudable that he is keeping himself updated and informed.

Remember the judge who learned Java? It's like that.
> You’ll just expect that most of the users on discord are bots unless you know them irl.

Maybe if all you ever exchanged with someone was a few sentences about inconsequential stuff. ChatGPT isn't even close to being able to consistently act like a single human being with interests, plenty of long term memory, and a life outside a chat room.

Right now the performance of ChatGPT in your average discord chat room would be absolutely awful. Nobody is bothering to write their messages as proper prompts a state-of-the-art AI could understand. People don't even just talk about one thing at a time - having multiple threads of conversation interspersed with each other is quite common and would absolutely confuse any current AI. There's also in-jokes and subtle references to things said days ago. People try to only use minimal information to convey what they mean, and often make figuring that out a small puzzle/joke to keep the conversation interesting.
Fraudsters’ working patterns have changed in recent years
Unfortunately large number of people seem to be more concerned about feeding their already made up bias then authenticity of content. So not sure they will start logging off.
Helsinki has a nice new library https://www.oodihelsinki.fi/en/
Ask HN: How to detect if a user is using VPN?
Hi everyone,

I'm looking for the easiest solution to detect if a user is using VPN using javascript.
Yeah I think that's a summary of parent point. I remember taking multiple classes at my Community College as a 17 year old to knock out College GEs. It was interesting mix. There were people like me, people that were slightly older trying to learn and find a Direction, and there were 60 some odds who are learning for the fun of learning.

Now that I'm older, I increasingly value the last category of continuous learning. It's one of the greatest privileges of being in a developed Society with access to information. It is one of the cheapest and most enjoyable forms of entertainment available to human beings, and something that it seems that people the frequently undervalue.
Little St. James
I've said this over and over (not on HN, though)... Blockbuster would have survived if they leaned into the recommendations business. People want to go somewhere to look at whatever it is they're looking at, and find something novel and interesting.

It is so much more pleasant to go somewhere, and feel like you're being served a good selection of recommendations, new and old. Even better if you can talk to someone at the store and get their feedback and ideas. But in Blockbusters' end days, all they hired were teenagers not even old enough to rent from their Mature section.

There was no way they were going to compete with digital streaming services on sheer volume. But at the time of its collapse, every time I would step inside a Blockbuster - all I would see is non-movie related stuff being peddled at me. Posters, plush, popcorn, toys, etc.

The "new releases" movies were in the back, the best quality films hard to find, jumbled in with all the rest. The rest of the store just seemed to be wasted space. I always thought if they dedicated less space to the new releases and spent more time curating valuable films from all eras, they'd make a return to form.. especially with their name.

Movie and gaming deals ruined Blockbuster. And at the end, their $15/month ala carte plan just put them in the hole. They had such a good price before.. it was something like $3/night to rent. Then they raised the price to $7/2 night. It seems about the same price but no one really wants to rent it for 2 nights and the $7 priced most of the movie-goers out of the market. Then they tried the ala carte "Silver" or "Platinum" plan or whatever it was (it was probably a regional thing).

It's the same principle here with B&N.