skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is such a myopic, stupid take. How do you even know? Are you somehow deluded enough to believe that even in western countries nobody has to fight for basic human rights? Fuck, half of Americans’ basic human rights are in flux right now, have you been paying attention?
The IPs showing as German IPs is not really strange, as for routing through Germany, I can't reproduce at least using `ash.icmp.hetzner.com` and an online traceroute tool.
Google is a trillion dollar company. You'd need to have billions of dollars in Google stock before you opinion even mattered around the board room. The majority of the companies advertising on Google couldn't even dream of that and for those that could it's not exactly clear that this would be a wise investment.
Let us not forget the difference between the hakenkreuz and the swastika please.

Swastika is welcome, the nazi version of it isn't.

The better and most appropriate term is Hakenkreuz, that the Nazis themselves used.
Doesn’t that argue against Android being successful as a stand alone entity? Android had no business model.
Je suis Charlie.
As an outsider, I had a tough time getting through the article, but what's interesting to me is how modernization and the decline of Catholicism in the Republic seems to be dovetailing with the (especially acute) fiasco of Brexit in the North. Will this be the tipping point toward Irish reunification?
> You think the topic at hand is beneath you, or a waste of time? You’re absolutely wrong.

This article is absolutely wrong.

1. The correct leadership action if the meeting is insufficiently contentful or valuable isn't to double down on the time waste, it's to kill the meeting.

In addition to being absolutely wrong, it's also missing some useful meeting cases where multitasking is net positive. For instance:

2. There is a common mode of messy meeting (collaborative workshopping) where various people may know something tangential that the core participants might or might not need. Being ambiently available to to pull in or not can add value, and save everyone time versus having to stop and rebook if some occasional input becomes necessary. The tradeoff for the otherwise idle wait state is fine if the optional attendees are keeping up with busywork while being available for the interrupt. This mode enables ad hoc participation on as needed basis without participant-wide productivity loss.

Caveat: Both of these only work in a culture of mutual and non-hierarchical respect.
> Even so, because the total amount of indium in the Earth's crust is about 200 times less than that of gallium, and they are concentrated by similar geochemical processes, it is likely that the ratio between their exploitable reserves is about the same.

Ahh, reasoning ("likely that").

And yet, empirically, Gallium and Indium are found in similar porphyry-type mineral deposits at similar ppm concentrations .. despite being both rare and hard to find elsewhere (with indium being more or less as common as silver in the crust).

I get it - I have a strong math background and can understand your "reasoning" from the concentrations .. but then I spent a decade or so in exploration geophysics and then did the back end of a fairly authoritive global scale mineral resource database which changed my outlook on things somewhat.

I also have a shovel handling bob cat driving view of what it's like to mine in excess of 800 million tonnes of reserve depoit per annum and a production engineer level overview of various post processing circuits to extract concentrates for further processing.
> Note that Bitcoin has lost more value than the US dollar.

How does that make any sense? It's up more than 26,000% against the US for ten years now. What time frame are you working with?
To clarify, you should hear how they talk about you amongst themselves.
I think the point if you’re a small customer or vendor big companies don’t have to care about you and can treat their customers like shit. Airlines come to mind. Also, sellers on Amazon can be abused by the giant and have little recourse because Amazon controls so much internet commerce. The point I think is that monopolies can treat their customers like shit and get away with it.
Imagine the harm a group of those fanatics can achieve if one student can make a whole University comply to his intolerant whims. Karl Popper famously said that an open and tolerant society must manage carefully the intolerant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Lots of terrible things can happen with injections, people have died after getting vaccins, meanwhile nobody is dying from having car insurance.
Or it just would have copied Instagram’s feature set like it’s done dozens of times with other competitors.

Or it would have just hired all of its founders to recreate it.

Do you now also want to stop acquihires?
Not if you weren’t alive and voting in the 50s and 60s when main infrastructure in most cities was laid. It isn’t a tabula rasa for each generation!
DoNotPay's 'Robot Lawyer' Is Gearing Up for Its First U.S. Court Case
ChatGPT seems to reliably fail at generating domain hacks, which is surprising. If you ask it what a domain hack is, it understands the concept.
But every time I've asked it to generate a few business names and domain hacked domains for a fictional business, it outputs nonsense.
Even if you give it multiple examples of valid domain hacks, and you tell it to only use ICANN approved TLDs, it just can't do it.
And do you trust its answers to be accurate? I expect they often are, but how will you know when it comes up with a spurious one?
Witcher 3 shot CDPR from under a billion to over 8 billions market value. So yeah, that game single-handedly made that, up to the point when CDPR dropped the ball with the buggy release of Cyberpunk 2077 - but nowadays they released a nice update for CP2077 which is what should've been the actual game launch 2 years ago.
1.7% globally sounds pretty insane to me, honestly. In combination with many other similar numbers.
Well then it's funny to think we can build something we don't even have a good definition for? Sounds almost a bit insane?
Similar point if you’re on Southwest Airlines support. A true monopoly could close all support functions and people would have to deal with it because there’d be nowhere else to go
Why not both ;) - ESC when tapped, CTRL as a modifier key when pressed together with some other key.
It would be really interesting for me, to once see a kernel in a higher language than C. Would it be possible to write something like that in Rust, or am I missing something?
I monitor my TV and it attempts all sorts of dirty tricks, calling home via HTTP on different ports, large DNS packets to random AWS IPs, all sorts of things that might work on a captive portal network.
Yeah I think so. Often time it's invalid if you have periods without a job. So you paid too much in advance. Then you get it back.
I don't think this belongs on Hacker News. It's an issue worth discussion, but it's an a category of general controversial news that gets plenty of discussion elsewhere. Also there is no technical, scientific, or engineering context to it.
Whatever, none of them cares one second about what people in HN and similar think about using C/C++, instead of "C or C++" as writing style.
It's not even an ideology if you look at it that way but it is a state religion by design, that has various implementations depending on who's to benefit. It prescribes universal obligations which they have in common. Some other dogmas are subject to interpretation.

So the question needs to be cast in another light, sure. It's a hard problem that isn't solved by calling on an ideology.
There are places in the world where this is not true, particularly Zimbabwe and South Africa. By the western definition of "white," which includes Arabs and middle easterners, this is not true even in the most "tolerant" parts of the west.
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contmarks.html ?

Nope. But from what I see that's a dnfferent story, there you have support from the language runtime, if you have that the problem is trivial.
Not sure why it's a fireable offence since precautions were taken. Give a strike or whatever and debate it's relevance to the course of "art history".

I don't think the painting itself is significant, it could just be referenced. The context of why the painting is banned inside of Islam is relevant as previously there was a lot of idol worship and even nowadays figureheads like Jesus are now claimed to be God, stuff like "Jesus is Lord". But this moves more into theology than art history now.

Reminds me a bit of Kanye being banned on the new free speech platform Twitter and people saying it wasn't an actual Swastika, it was an UFO cult symbol, it being tied to the older peace symbol of Hinduism etc.
How can we get more signups for codehooks.io, a new bootstrapped BaaS?
Hi all,

we've recently bootstrapped and launched codehooks.io, an easy serverless backend service for Node.js developers (JavaScript/Typescript). It provides a simple way to create custom microservices and integrations without the need for complicated server setup.

The main pitch is:

Build APIs and microservices in no time with a database powered serverless Node.js backend with zero config

Some ideas we've had so far include:

Writing articles and tutorials about using codehooks.io
Participating in relevant online communities and forums
Reaching out to potential partners and collaborators
Posting on LinkedIn and Twitter

We know this space is really competitive and there's a ton of well funded startups there. Today, we are partly funded by our mother-company restdb.io and lots of non-paid voluntary work.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions on how we can get more attention from developers for codehooks.io?

Or even better: some real feedback about the pitch and the positioning of the service.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Martin Tornes / co-founder and maker
>- Instead of introducing hierarchy, consider instead providing managers with experts in management as deputies. Recruit fresh MBAs or experienced HR professionals. This way they help instead of hindering.

Genuinely losing my mind at how good of an idea this is. Imagine the effectiveness boost if even half of some large tech company's managers were instead engineers with a manager deputy. They'd probably be the next letter shoved into FAANG.
https://www.redox-os.org/

There are many many small hobby OSes in all kinds of languages: https://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
How about "pro-competition"?
I would say that energy and rent are not very correlated, so if both are increasing rapidly at the same time, it is probably because of inflation.

And which one of my statements is not true? Definition of inflation or that scarcity of a product will cause that product to become more expensive?
I live in Nijmegen where I cycle a lot. I also lived in Arnhem where I was situated near some very steep hills, for some years I almost didn't cycle there and walked a lot. I guess walking is also good, but my point is: one needs enough flatness to make cycling attractive.

Cycling in cities like Amsterdam is totally not attractive to me, just too busy with bikes. ;)
Absent a radical retrenchment of reactionary-style teaching institutions, I don't see how "getting tenure" is a viable strategy going forward. The institutions have radically shifted their construction to be administration/student-centered rather than professor-centered. It may be that tenure as an institution could not survive the massive growth of the university system. Like any guild, membership growth must be limited. Tenure is a kind of life membership that simply cannot be conferred willy-nilly. Modern university economics simply will not support it. The trend is to disempower labor. Meanwhile, existing tenures are precious resources inspiring perverse behavior. In some ways, the tenure system has badly back-fired for professors, hastening their proletarianization (like doctors in the hospital system). It hasn't helped that most professors have been complicit in their own disenfranchisement, refusing to fight for their non-ideologically-aligned cohort, supporting the administrators in their anti-professor actions on behalf of student-customers. The whole thing is a mess but tenure is done. We may as well lament the loss of the guilds at this point. The barn is open, the cow is gone.
I'll bet the battery life is terrible with two screens, it would be amazing for working from a plug or big external battery though. The eink one seems very practical to me.
45% seems massive. What’s going on here? Are cars causing cancer? Or is it just that people with cancer are less likely to bike?
this is whataboutism. there's plenty of shit in the west too -- and plenty of people are protesting about it right now. do you give a free pass to a murderer just because there are plenty of murderers who never get caught?
You realize there are 2 million Muslims living in America without any problem right? Take your bigotry elsewhere, HN is typically more elevated than that.
Which is why I rooted my TV, install my CA on it and forced it through my squid proxy that does SSL bumping.

My network, my rules.
Likewise, freedom (blue) is made in multiple flavours, some uniquely (Northern) Californian vintage
haha. I had not seen that. Thank you.
Secure (i.e. capable of high assurance) enough for seL4 to recommend them.
I'm pretty sure everyone is aware that getting stabbed to death is "uncomfortable". I'd certainly not not "give a fuck" if it happened to me because I literally looked at somebody the wrong way.
Most of the worlds population is not in the US.
> This was the wrong decision.

It seems like it. It seems like the university didn’t even clearly understand that Muslims are divided on this topic before taking action.

> Liberal institutions in the west have begun to increasingly yield to the demands of extremist minority views and doing so only emboldens them. You are free to insult white people, Christianity, and non transexual heterosexual men in this country but everyone else is a protected class.

This, however, is just straight up alt-right talking points.
Well I'd argue Excel is more obviously deterministic and not at all a blackbox. Basically I can an give it an unlimited number of dates (or other calculations) and as long as my inputs are 'correct' (and I don't encounter any bugs) I can be essentially completely confident that Excel will provide a correct answers. Or even it if won't it will brake in a logical and fixable/workaroundable. With ChatGPT.. well it doesn't seems very consistent. Minor modifications to the question can produce wildly different results which are not at all obvious.

> We attribute this "confident" adjective to the result, not because it outputs a confidence interval, but because it uses language and we associate that with human traits.

I'm not sure. I mean externally/superficially that's true. But internally it's still a statistical model which can't really be totally accurate by definition. It has a huge number of inputs scrapped from the internet etc. While those inputs are generated by humans language can be more or less perfectly logical as long as we follow a consistent set of rules. It's not obvious ChatGPT is capable of that due to the quality of inputs and it's nature.

Even if it's accurate 98%+ of the time that's still problematic (in many but not all applications). I mean would you use a calculator that (seemingly) randomly produces an obviously incorrect answer 2 times of out a hundred?
There are two main examples:

- I use first.last and get email for firstlast

- I use <initial>last and get email for <initial>.last

Then there are some really weird ones where the dot is just _randomly_ added or moved around, or where I get e-mails with multiple dots in the middle of the address (a.b.cde), etc.

None of these would be accepted by a normal e-mail service unless there was a _real_ matching mailbox or alias.

And this does not happen on a single mailbox, nor targeted at a specific alias. Sometimes it's as if someone were shotgunning various combinations, and I have no clue how some of those e-mails are considered valid by the senders, since _I think_ all the validation codes come into my inboxes.

This also raises some questions as to whether mail addressed to me actually makes it to its destination...
I’m biased but I think game devs are some of the smartest out there. The bar is high.
This is one of the most interesting part of the whole post for me:

Through intense digging I found a researcher who left a notebook public including tweet counts from many years of Twitter’s 10% sampled “Decahose” API and discovered the surprising fact that tweet rate today is around the same as or lower than 2013! Tweet rate peaked in 2014 and then declined before reaching new peaks in the pandemic. Elon recently tweeted the same 500M/day number which matches the Decahose notebook and 2013 blog post, so this seems to be true! Twitter’s active users grew the whole time so I think this reflects a shift from a “posting about your life to your friends” platform to an algorithmic content-consumption platform.

So, the number of writes has been the same for a good long while.
Wow, another crazy silly idea that requires huge behavior change.

Did you know there are only 8500 coal power plants in the entire world, and they produce 20% of CO2 emissions?

In fact it’s only a subset of those that are really bad.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-percent-power...

Decades and decades of “don’t eat meat”, “don’t fly”, …

And all we had to do was stop using coal a couple decades ago.
It's really common for percussionists to have fitted "musician's earplugs"

https://www.etymotic.com/product/custom-musicians-earplugs-w...

If you see much live music, it's worth picking up a pair too. If you rarely go, a pair of universal-fit plugs costs a tenth as much.
If you think that the math part of game engines is interesting but aren't that interested in promoting an indie project, then you should look for jobs in robotics or computer vision applications. There isn't a large supply of jobs for replicating what can be handled by Unity or Unreal Engine.
Web programming is incredibly easy in general, and gets even easier every year. Game programming is much harder in my experience. Game Engine programming is not even comparable.
Not currently hiring and we only hire local to Los Angeles, CA
True. But you can still argue with most humans and possibly succeed in proving your case. Arguing with ChatGPT is seemingly the same as arguing with a (extremely advanced and 'intelligent') calculator.
I cycle to and from work. It's also wet and windy here, but it's not remotely flat. It's hard work. So yeah being flat is an extreme advantage.

Also Ebikes are more expensive to buy, maintain, and run. I doubt they last even half as long too. I'm still using a hybrid buy I bought 10 years ago for 200 (exdisplay).
Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT: 11 Ways AI Can Streamline Your Workflow
Noticed this as well. Just like you can ask it for showing `uname -a` and others. The results tend to vary given the temperature of the result and just seem to invent realistic bits of data from the one it noticed in training (e.g., Stack Overflow ?).

The training technique doesn't require internet access as well, it's not going to give you the IP it used during training.

Very funny tho.
What does any of that have to do with my private home network? I don't run a country - democratic or not, nor an ISP trying to beat out competitors. This is my network that I designed for my purposes.
> Is Islam at all compatible with secular values in the same country?

It is. There are plenty of more or less practising Muslims who behave perfectly well and are strongly opposed to theocracy. In the same way that there are plenty of white Christians who don’t feel the urge to take a gun and mow down blasphemers.

> And second won't work because Shariah law gives very concrete directions on dealing with non-believers.

It’s a false dichotomy. Lots of Muslims do not believe that Shariah law should be applied. On the Christian side there have been debates for centuries about this sort of issue, and pretty much nobody believes that the laws in the Old Testament should be applied or have any relevance nowadays. By painting the whole of Islam as being one simple shade of fundamentalism, we contribute to making the situation worse. People need to realise that there are old Muslim traditions that don’t advocate for stoning people, and that what we take for standard Islam is the creed of a particular cult and not universal.
Impressive idea. Hope they get a better efficiency factor.

On a side node, you can already add Hydrogen to your home. There is a startup in Berlin, DE which sells complete systems for home: solar roof, heat pump, electrolysis device, bottles and ventilation system.

During summer you fill the bottles with H2 and during winter you consume it.

I'm not affiliated with them. The price before Corona for the whole system was around 65k Euro and now around 100k Euro.

https://www.homepowersolutions.de/en/product/ Picea is the name
I agree with the two ways in general

What if, the second way is easy? So long as you can understand and interface with the world effectively, which the first provides. From there what if it was just act and observe and a fitness function
Plus $12 billion Google pays Apple every year to be default search on safari.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-search-deal-doj...
This comment makes little sense, does not negate the fact Islam is an ideology, and does nothing to contribute to this discussion.
What exactly is nuts about the approach? Would you argue that we should have stuck to high RAM and low RAM because that was necessary on some computers, a long time ago? You can barely boot Firefox on anything less than a 1990 supercomputer, much less use gmail.
Just from the name of it, Vulkan Video sounds like something that will be supported cross-platforms, windows, linux, android I'd say. that it makes much more worthwhile to implement than 30% of Linux.
We are OK with missing out on some people because we cannot clearly evaluate their ability

I don’t care how long it took. Longer would demonstrate a sustained interest. Shorter would demonstrate efficiency. Both are valuable
As I just said elsewhere it's not going to "run curl commands" in training time. it's trained on a corpus of public data, it's not running commands at all
Thank you for your work on i3-gaps, Airblader.

I've been using it for years now. Started with plain i3 but quickly wanted something a bit more elegant and nicer to look at. I had 2 hi-res monitors so I was willing to sacrifice few pixels for an eye-candy. I spend most of my day looking at the thing after all :-)

Honestly it baffled me for a long time that i3 did not have such a "simple" thing as gaps. I could understand the anti-pattern theory in the good ol' era of 1024x768 but nowdays?

Anyway it is good to hear that it is merged. Thank you and Michael for the i3 experience, it is truly addictive. I was on MacOS for ~3 years and I missed it every single day there.
And in doing so, they get to make a public argument for the moral justification of monetary damages. The cynic in me expects Puritanical groups in America want those damages to reflect a judgement on deviance or pronouns.
> This, however, is just straight up alt-right talking points.

I beg to differ, this is exactly my impression, too.
Really? If you speak ill of "white people, Christianity, and non transexual heterosexual men" will you lose your job? Will you lose your job in liberal universities if you speak ill of Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, African Americans? In case of perceived bias, I'm a swing voting (95% Dem) Jew.
The ones I know would be, yes. They’d also think it’s odd some people feel the existential need to do it.
You can do this with recursion schemes:

Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/recursion-schemes

Scala: https://github.com/precog/matryoshka