skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you are mocking my near death experience? You must be a wonderful person.

Allow me to even further your disbelief. Nearly the same thing happened to me again years later. Except the second time was a motorcycle. I narrowly sidestepped a motorcycle on a mountain road that had taken the turn too fast while I was looking over a marked "scenic viewpoint". The driver in this case though I do not know if they lived. As they did go over the side of the ravine into very rough rocks and ground. They were alive when Ambulance took them away though.
Given its name, I was quite surprised not to hear it sounding like this: https://youtu.be/R5Q1yVLSR3I?t=17
Yeah so sorry but you’re not Rembrandt, bud. Have fun though.
> This is literally how Android already works today. An app can not read a random file from the system. It has to open a file selector and you have to select a file before an app is able to read it.

That's not implemented on the OS level.
TBH, I worry a lot more about this kind of thing in the case of Google, where they can afford to give away things that other companies would have made an entire business out of, which devalues those markets, then they lose interest and sunset it all— and only in a few cases (like Wave) does any of it end up open source.

But FB isn't really competing with other companies here. They're giving away frameworks, libraries, tools— this is building block stuff, and the fact that it's perhaps particularly optimized for FB's workloads is just their privilege, having been the ones to fund it.
In this article, I break down the top three lessons I learned from the founder of Advocat AI on how she built a $1M ARR legal tech platform. The secret: taking an outcome-focused approach rather than a solution-first approach to building an AI-powered product.
NeoCities is one option [1]

[1] - https://neocities.org/
There's no good reason to run git bash on Windows anymore either, since you can use WSL!
Absolutely agreed. Given how HN can be when complaining about back button breakage (so common that it had to be explicitly banned), I'm surprised so few people are talking about the implications here.
I hope that you're right but I don't think you are.

While we (you, me, most of HN) see smart TVs as an anti-feature, most of the public sees them as a huge feature.

"I can't buy a TV that doesn't support Netflix, I want to watch Netflix!"

"yes but you can just get a AppleTV and watch Netflix with that"

"I don't like the Apple TV service, it doesn't have as many good shows as Netflix!"

Even if you can convince them that AppleTV can show them netflix you need to get past such insurmountable obstacles as "needing an HDMI cable" and "having two remotes" and "which input does the TV need to be on?" and "which remote do I use for the volume?"

And, yes, CEC fixes some of this and 80% of the time when it works it's fantastic.

I think we'll see TVs which have "swappable" OSes before we see smart-free TVs but I don't think either one is gonna happen in my lifetime.

I'm just resigned to buy the least-shitty smart TV experience I can and to neuter it as much as I can. Currently I have a nice LG C9 OLED which doesn't bother me at all. If this dies before me, or, I feel compelled for an 8K/UltraHDR upgrade, I think LG will continue to offer reasonably non-shitty experiences on their top of the line TVs which I can block from the internet still.

When they stop doing that I'll just buy a projector.

When projectors become infested with this nonsense I'll just move to the woods and become a hermit.
It works well in the context of that quote: the Wednesday character is smart and competent, but not nearly as much as she thinks. There's nothing wrong with drip coffee but some people think it does because they skimped on the two things you mentioned or are getting diner coffee which has been on the burner for a couple of hours. At least in this case, that mistaken attribution doesn't have a body count.
> Why this and not some other objective?

You do both. Europeans are much more easily convinced that nuclear energy is scary.
Yes exactly. If the most common tools supported zstd then it would make it easier to store zstd FASTQ. At the moment I believe almost none of them do.
England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
The Dramatic Fall of Carvana, “The Amazon of Used Cars”
Another discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307921
You would think it would be a lot more straightforward and effective to just directly bribe policymakers than to crank out propaganda and hope 1% of it sticks.
It's quite odd, as I tried with a few devices from the local network, it seemed offline. Even a down detector[0] showed it to be offline, but I can access it via mobile date. ISP issue maybe?

[0]: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/microsoft.com.html
I just don't understand why every coffee method needs to be compared to espresso. Espresso is not a gold standard to achieve, it's just one tasty way to make coffee among other.

With that in mind, the aeropress marketing material uses espresso as a gold standard and because of that it is plain nonsense to me.

> But if you define espresso by the taste of the drink in the cup, certainly many people think AeroPress coffee makers can brew espresso.

That is just fantasy.

> Since coffee brewed by AeroPress coffee makers can be made into lattes, cappuccinos, and other espresso based drinks, we feel it is important to use the term "espresso" when describing what AeroPress coffee makers brew.

Ah yes, just like since lemonade can be used instead of rum to make a Mojito I feel it is important to use the term "alcohol" when describing lemonade.

Espresso is widely understood to be a percolation brew, about 2:1 coffee to water ratio, brewed at around 9 bars, in about 30 seconds.

The aeropress is almost the exact opposite, it's an immersion brew, usually at much higher ratio, with almost no pressure and much longer brew time.

Both are awesome and none is superior to the other. It's fine to enjoy aeropress-lattes or aeropress-americanos.
> Google is not a monolithic entity.

It is, and claiming that a single corporate entity cannot manage itself isn't an excuse, it's an admission of further guilt.
My local rite aid keeps the ice cream fridge and soaps (among other things) locked. There's no way this actually helps them. It might make more sense to just not carry these products if they're being stolen so much.
Having been in this space since back when a bitcoin was a fraction of a dollar...

"Rejection of the traditional banking system" was mostly a symptom of "Doing things the traditional system would label 'illegal'".

In which case the upsides of crypto are clear - You can pass money around online without regulation.

And the downsides are WELL understood - the "system" does not have your back if/when things go wrong. Just like most black market trades.

The problem happened when the "finance" crowd started seeing bitcoin's value increase at a large rate (and particularly how little media coverage was needed to temporarily spike the value), and essentially turned the entire thing into a ponzi scheme.

They weren't interested in using it as anything other than a pump and dump investment vehicle, and its lack of regulation was a magnet for the worst sort of folks.

As a tool for online dark exchanges, or other government forbidden actives (ex: fleeing the country with ill-gotten gains, or holding businesses hostage with malware) - there is a small niche for digital currency. I'm pretty well convinced there is NO other use case where your national currency does not serve as a better alternative.

Even the semi-plausible use cases (ex: preserve value during times of high inflation) have proven to be utterly meaningless if you're holding US dollars, and the vast majority of cases you would be better holding onto shiny metal instead.
If you're into music podcasts, it's worth listening to The Soundtrack Show (can't find the episode number but it was released Aug 28th 2019) where he talks about the music of Raiders.
The discussion of how the music reflects Indy's morally ambiguous character and his struggles is really enlightening. (Although I've heard the opposite argued[0], so maybe this is partly a kind of post-facto reasoning!)

[0]https://filmmusicnotes.com/2013/03/23/john-williams-themes-p...
consider going through "Introductions to Elements of statistical learning"

Was that supposed to be An Introduction to Statistical Learning[1]
or maybe Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning[2]? I don't think there is a book titled Introduction to Elements of Statistical Learning?

[1]: https://www.statlearning.com/

[2]: https://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/
We agree, I think!

And certainly, if you're one of those people who can pull it off, studying ML from first principles is probably an advantage. I just wince every time since I wouldn't have gotten into ML in the first place if I had to start with a big Calculus tome. There are probably a lot of people like me out there.
We should remember the reason why it was created - to replace decisions for approvals on loans, mortgages, apartment rentals etc being made by low-level individuals for a variety of arbitrary reasons. Many places made such decisions based on personal connections, class, race, and other such things. AFAIK most other places still use such systems. Replacing that with a system where everybody's worthiness and terms for such things is determined algorithmically based on numeric data is a great move towards equality.
When people complain about the cost of excessive logging, they are almost certainly not thinking in terms of how much a drive costs.

Services like CloudWatch are an excellent way to burn through money, though it's usually the time series storage and ingestion costs that balloon out of control.
I wonder if this is due to the language that whatever large immigrant populations in Minnesota spoke. I know Minnesota had a lot of Northern European immigrants, and another commenter in this thread says German doesn't distinguish borrow/lend.
While I share that sentiment, I also appreciate that his current movies are at least his singular vision. Not a lot of original IP currently where the director gets control over the end product.
I think we already had a biological singularity! Many of them in fact! I think it's just likely that we were the final biological singularity.

I think a lot of the time we think of singularity as 'the point at which the rules break because evolution of some parameter is infinite" but I think really what this term means is the point at which current rules are incapable of predicting the evolution of the system, resulting in an apparent infinity. That infinity probably is not physically meaningful, but it might as well be from the point of view of an actor before the new rules are known.

When we evolved from ape-ish things capable of only the most primitive communication into things capable of transmitting complex information about our world across generations we hit a rate of technological growth that might as well have been a vertical line compared to the previous history of life on earth.

When single-cellular life managed to capture mitochondria and unlock incredible chemical energy reserves that was another similarly vertical line in the complexity of life.

I'd say our history is a series of singularities that only look like gradual progress from the point of view of our own pseudo-infinity. We are a step in the process of the universe understanding itself but we aren't the last step, it would be silly to think so, given what we know about past leaps in the entropy creation rate of life.
Yeah, I thought about that case, but I still think the grammar pedants would mark the answer wrong. Not that I was there when they invented the word "bring," but I imagine they decided the specific word for movement toward the speaker was useful to make the statement more precise. I feel like allowing "bring" here just because the speaker happened to be at the destination where the listener was planning to go would let the exception swallow the rule. (To be clear, that's already happened in common English; I'd even venture that "don't forget to take your umbrella" sounds a little bit stiff, even though it's more correct.)
Wow, so on-shore wind is better than Nuclear. I would not have guessed that. Even more surprising is that Natural gas is only 490 g/kWh
> Society starts failing when the answer to every problem is call mommy and daddy (the police) and stops enforcing basic societal norms by itself.

I cannot emphasize this enough. There is no amount of police presence that will make society work if enough members choose to violate the law and each other, and that "enough" is a smaller percentage than most people think.
The lesson is: be somewhere safe when we hit the wall.
When's the last time you actually went to check if they are on the shelf?
There are. We just have a high bar. I wrote this, but others have also pointed to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
Doesn't mention how ChatGPT is always 'faking it'. That is, writing of things outside its knowledge with complete confidence. It'll spew some complicated discussion about a topic that is self-contradictory or just plain wrong, and not realize it.

Because, it's not a person with a logical filter on what it says. It's saying whatever seems right to it, without any real thought. Like that blowhard relative that will start talking on any subject if they have even a rudimentary familiarity with it.
Until a bigger wave will hit the dry rock.
It's too bad Pixel Qi displays never got popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi
Benn Jordan: Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail [video]
So just skip Breakfast?
>Yup, humans are generally awful at understanding and managing risk,

Normal humans are normal at understanding and managing risk because normal is defined by typical human behavior.

It is your expectations that deviate from the norm.

(the above applies to pretty much all "people suck" type gripes)
Once you've already given up on human-readability, it probably doesn't much matter how long/gross the result is. Rather than spending effort and adding complexity, just provide a built in URL shortener.
Is there a strategy for avoiding companies that will respond to small changes in the macroeconomy by instantly throwing thousands of people onto the street in a country with third-world (and even below some of those) social safety nets?

I know I'll catch some flack for referring to the central bank of the world reserve currency saying "WE'RE GOING TO CAUSE A RECESSION AND IF YOU RESIST WE WILL MAKE IT 2 RECESSIONS" a "minor" change but I mean really, the US is still a nuclear power and the world reserve currency, there's not even any clear threat to US hegemony and one of the major opponents of it is currently being beaten by a combination of old NATO surplus and consumer drones. Etc etc broadly speaking the US seems like it's not going anywhere.

So to my question - do I just need to avoid public companies, because they'll whiplash hiring and layoffs to overreact to quarterly time horizons? Do I need to avoid big companies who will just be able to lay off 3000 employees no big deal because at that size any individual employee isn't a lynchpin anymore? Do I just need to look for owners who can ignore the next 12 months and focus on multi-year success and not over correct in the short term?

Or is it just impossible and I need to go canvas and support political change that will give us stronger worker protections?
> and that fire extends to the hallway, then you’re dead, right?

The point is that this can't happen for a number of reasons. The landings in my building are quite small, four doors and a stairwell, it's literally two meters from my apartment door to the stairwell, there are no long corridors. And there's nothing that can burn in the stairwell, it's all concrete and stone and steel. And all the apartment doors are steel as well.

The dangers of apartment fires are mitigated differently, so that there is no need for a second stairwell or fire escape.

And this is something I didn't see on the site, and which is probably where they're a bit wrong and misguided. Just because actual fire statistics are better in Europe than in North America despite allowing single stairwells, it doesn't mean you can remove the requirement from the Ontario building code and everything will be fine and dandy. You have to add all the other things that mitigate fire hazards.
hCaptcha has completely passive score-only modes. When to challenge and how hard is up to the site.
Thanks for sharing, never heard of OnlyOffice...I will be investigating as part of a goal to manage shared access to ~30K MS Office files.
My HN username is what I use for lots of other things, including for older email providers. You'd be surprised how many reset emails I get to that username at various webmails. It's not exactly John Smith.
Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to 'salmon' (2021)
Data Binding in React
Show HN: FixScript, an embedded/standalone language with custom syntax additions
Hello, I want to introduce you to a programming language that I've been working on for a few years and is ready to be shared with a broader community.

Feel free to ask any question about it, it's hard to describe what it is all about in a single blog post. For examples of a more complex code I recommend looking into to the "src" directory in the SDK. And here are some documentation links:

https://www.fixscript.org/docs/sdk/fixscript/index.html

https://www.fixscript.org/docs
Such a made up object would not be accepted by other parts of a capability secure system as it would lack the actual capability (which is unforgeable).

But I'm coming to the conclusion that you're only trolling. You refuse to look at the facts and definitions, and just repeat the same nonsense over and over. I'm done here as I obviously can't help you understand this topic.
Sure, but add mobile to that and it pales in comparison. Around 80% of revenue is split between console and mobile: https://www.statista.com/forecasts/456595/video-games-revenu...
This appears to be a dumb joke but the opposite of gentrification is "disinvestment".
> My experience working on this problem led me to the same conclusion as Mike Pall, which is that compilers do not do well with this pattern

Note that that message is from twelve years ago. A lot's changed since then, not just in compilers but in CPUs. Branch prediction is a lot better now.
I don't have a particularly high opinion of John D. Cook but I still wouldn't call him a 'beginner'.
This is great, I just hope that stock gets better for the pi and stays that way. I have a few projects I'm waiting to start.
Heh I think about this with the recent popularity of critiques of "cancel culture." You used to be able to say all kinds of shit without long-term social consequences, or risk to your employment. But you also might eat a beer bottle for it if you misread your audience. I'm not sure what we have now is better but I don't think it's strictly worse either.
What if you turned it from a solitary activity to a pair activity. e.g. ask a trusted peer to take notes as you explain the design of your system with whiteboard. Then clean up the notes and drawings. The peer could also point out issues or common questions in real time allowing your doc to address them proactively.

Just an idea.
Diamond Battery
Fabra: Product analytics on your data warehouse
Sure, but the movies they’re being compared to were also the exceptions of their day. We remember them precisely because they were good, but tons of dross was also being released at the same time.

The market economics were also vastly different at the time, streaming really has changed the industry, and the quality of tv shows has improved dramatically.
Others in comments have (rightly) called out the similarity to "Do Nothing Scripting", so I'll instead post a broader (but complementary) article on automation, perhaps my favourite technical "position paper" of all time - "Manual Work Is A Bug": https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
Thank you, I missed that. I assumed it was humans.
Not sure if foundational (quite a tall order in such a fast-moving field), but for sure a nice introduction into neural networks, and even mathematics in general (for a teenager, because it's nice to see numbers in action beyond school-level algebra):

→ Harrison Kinsley, Daniel Kukiela, Neural Networks from Scratch, https://nnfs.io, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5dMEP_BbI&list=PLQVvvaa0Qu...

Somewhat foundational, if not in actuality, then in the intention to actually build a theory as in theory of gravitation, although not necessarily an introductory text:

→ Daniel A. Roberts, Sho Yaida, The Principles of Deep Learning Theory, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10165
Well... even if some version of ChatGPT is able to write a better ChatGPT2, there's no particular reason ChatGPT2 should be able to write a better ChatGPT3.

And if it can, there's no guarantee ChatGPT3 would be able to write a better ChatGPT4, and so on.

Exponential phenomena tend to need the right environment to sustain, and, by their nature, quickly outgrow, disturb/ruin, or consume their environment.

Not that there couldn't be an AI explosion (as far as I know), but there's really no particular reason to think one is imminent -- especially since we haven't seen step 1 yet.
> ("The Office will not prosecute the following charges...")

It's absurd that a sitting DA can just choose not to prosecute whole sections of the law. I get that prosecutorial discretion is a thing, but that has to be on a case-by-case basis, and not declared outright that a whole class of crimes is unilaterally decided by the DA to no longer be a crime.
> This is even lazier than Russiagate.

What do you mean by Russiagate exactly? (As in, which one?)
No, farmers are being granted permission to repair their equipment, and absent a legal mandate, it can be revoked at any time.
The quotes around 'pro' were as written though right, I read OP as saying 'this thing was sold to the home user as 'pro', it's expensive for the market'. I don't think someone quoting their own 'pro' is under any disillusions about how much it's used in a commercial setting...

I have a Rancilio Silvia that was I think £400 (so, uh, about $400..) and it's a good thing I don't run an espresso bar. The queue out of the door would only ever shrink by people giving up and leaving.

For me, it's great, but a machine that needs to make however many shots an hour all day, and peak at say 10x that, is just in a different class. Not even necessarily 'better', it just has different/extra problems to solve which would be engineering gone to waste at home; tank capacity never used, reliability never called upon.
> But because a lot of people in North America have those (unfounded) fears, the second stairwell is part of the building code, and as a result an entire class of buildings don't get built because the economics don't work out.

I don't believe the fears are unfounded, and frankly I don't see why anyone should buy what this Zeidler guy is selling -- if what he is saying is true, all it means is that European buildings should also be changed to have multiple egress options for every unit!

Seriously, would you be willing to live on the 6th floor of a building where the only way out in a fire is a single staircase? Don't look at statistics to decide this: even if you would be safe most of the time, it only takes one outlier incident to kill you, so why put yourself in that situation?
Alas, in Dagster's current form, you need to write Python.
> Can't be just any device, because the chain of custody is as strong as its weakest link

I don't quite understand what you mean. We already trust phones and computers not to be compromised for things like online banking, so why not allow these devices to sign recordings using keys lent to them by the main trust device? You could allow revocation of these keys.