skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, as one might expect, quite a long history of such tools, since text-only interfaces were the norm in the olden days.

When I was a young one doing physics in the '80s, we used CERN's HBOOK[1] to do all our (statistical) plotting. Recently while working on a Common Lisp project I had a use for something similar, remembered HBOOK, and "rolled my own"[2] (much simpler version).

Yes, a nice clean graph in a GUI or PDF is cleaner, but if you're working at the terminal already or in a REPL, it can be nice to just see the output there.

At the risk of downvotes: I do wish this particular project didn't require a working Ruby / Gem installation -- nothing against Ruby, but I'd be curious if there was an equivalent stand-alone executable written in Go or similar... something like [3]?

[1] https://cds.cern.ch/record/307945/files/
[2] https://github.com/eigenhombre/hbook
[3] https://github.com/gizak/termui
I disagree and I think interest rates have a huge impact on these places. Just look at Affirm that used to offer 0% and is now offering 10% at minimum.

As far as "attractiveness", I really see two groups here. You have one that legit cannot afford the full price and are taking out this loan as a traditional loan, within that group "attractiveness" is in the eye of the beholder. However the other group is people that can very much afford the product but see the magic "0%" rate, for this group the only "attractive" rate is 0, any higher and they will not use the service.
Software getting cracked is just about as inevitable as death and taxes. There really isn't anything you can do about it.
The problem is that they isolate themselves from others, not that they deleted social media.
i would pay for a service that reads in articles with low quality, clickbait headlines that are designed to elicit fear and anxiety, and only recommend ones to me that are likely to actually impact my life.

as of now, i just assume most of these are not a big deal and written in bad faith and ignore then entirely, but i’d prefer not to miss important information if there’s an actionable change i should make in my life, and i would really prefer to be able to read interesting content without being bombarded by garbage.
The ultimate reckoning may be that the model of teaching people how to think is now deprecated, as the ability to think and reason can now be outsourced in a way that is much more direct and powerful compared to search engines and the internet.
Because most people on these kinds of forums proclaiming some great benefits from deleting their social media don't have those friends in the first place.
At the very least, it might teach more people the value of being skeptical (since ChatGPT is often wrong), and we'll see a reduction in the number of people falling for stupid internet scams and conspiracy theories.
> but I bear zero risk

You might be subject to lesser risks, especially in a country like Denmark, but many people have at least some of the following risks of a car breaking down in the middle of the road:

1) collision. Simply being on a high speed road outside of your vehicle is one of the riskier things you can do in many parts of the world.

2) not being able to work and/or getting terminated from job

3) being stranded with young children

4) needing to be somewhere to take care of your dependents

5) woman being stranded by herself

6) being stranded in too hot or too cold weather
Yup, debt is purposely setting you up to put you in exactly that bind, and then you owe the serious interest. Kind of a reverse lottery where you lose. It doesn't happen to everyone, but at scale, Life Happens, and a certain percentage of people will get behind and wind up paying huge interest, and there's the profit model.

Also, people are chronically up in arms about taxes, but here, they are signing up for voluntary taxes on everything. At least taxes buy something real, like roads, mostly reliably safe food supply, education, police, fire defense, etc., while interest just buys indulgence today then headaches tomorrow.

Interest is fine if you are creating an asset that create greater future value (e.g., building a business), or where the asset itself is a security (e.g., a house). But for transitory consumption, debt is a losing game. (I'm distinguishing debt from credit cards as a payment convenience paid every month - don't let them slide)
Consider the index-finger columns:

On the LHS, the index-finger RFV. The finger rests on the homing key F, with R to the left.

On the RHS, the index-finger column is UJM. The finger rests on the homing key F, with U also to the left of F.

I'd consider (say) a Katana keyboard to have a symmetrical row-stagger.
Facebook became totally unusable for me the minute they started to publicise your likes, comments and interactions all over the wall, broadcasted to everyone you know in your network.

Who wants to get involved in a political discussion, or have their more quirky hobbies and interests silently judged from afar by the work colleagues or elderly relatives among your facebook friends?
NYTimes Accidentally Leaked Phone Numbers of Russian Soldiers Criticizing War
Avoiding Constraint violations while migrating Oracle to PostgreSQL
I am not sure this is particular to std::optional. There is an awful lot to grasp about values in C++ before you can intuit the right thing to do in every situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH0Z2OvHAd8
Talking about personal carbon footprints gets in the way of the narrative that fossil fuel companies were the main beneficaries of the fossil fuel era and they were the ones who'd lose out if fossil fuels weren't available, that much is true. The trouble is, the "personal carbon footprint" narrative is much closer to the truth than the "fossil fuel companies benefit" narrative. I actually had a look at some of the leaked internal documents and even internally they couldn't figure out a way to meet consumer energy demand without fossil fuels on the timescales needed if global warming was as bad as forecast - renewables would take about as long to be in widespread use as they ended up taking in the real world, and the only feasible alternative was nuclear which ran headlong into a bunch of difficulties in reality. (I also read the press release by the showboating US prosecutor characterising this as proof they secretly knew the world needed to switch to renewables much sooner in order to prevent global warming.)
Not automatically, as they dont meet the turnover/market cap requirement - but the EC can still label them as one following market investigation.
The author’s name is shown at the top of the article as well.
> indicating that teachers view ChatGPT as a threat.

Not what they meant, but it may be somewhat of an existential threat to the profession of teaching, the thing is a killer tutor in subjects that it is confident in. It is a perfect fit for language, especially, since it can carry a full conversation with you and correct every single one of your mistakes.

Obviously it has major issues with inventing things out of whole cloth and accuracy problems, but human teachers also aren't 100% reliable or knowledgeable about everything, so it's not like it has to be perfect.
Remove the bg of selected objects from an image and crop it
I built this tool to remove the background of a selected object in an image and crop it. Most background removal tools require a brush to manually fix an image for multiple foreground elements. I wanted to make this easier. What do you think about my approach?
Turning Images of Earth into Abstract Art
> “Predatory apps that expose users to financial fraud, data theft and a number of other dangers abound on the internet, both from India and other countries. While Google holds itself accountable for the apps on Play Store and scans for malware as well compliance with local laws, the same checks may not be in place for apps sideloaded from other sources,”

In other words, unless Google can act as a private police force, our security is threatened.

But it's strange Google referred to national security - surely it is not in India's interest to have a foreign corporation police their digital landscape?
Examples of floating point problems
I have come to really like Nocodb pointed at your database as a catch-all first approximation of an admin layer. It takes very little to setup and gives you an Airtable like interface to your system.

The obvious downside is in the wrong hands you can wreak utter havoc with it…
I think you are forgetting that Gen Z are not literally kids, they are just forced to live as such by the fact that being an adult with its own house and family has become prohibitively expensive.
> however most of the mass seems have already shot way out to the edges, as if it passed right through everything. It's pretty hard to explain with anything else other than that there's something there that has mass yet can't interact with anything else that passed through everything when the collision happened.

It is my understanding that dark matter does interact gravitationally, so I am confused by this.
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if you can get a loan at 0% interest it's definitely in your best interest to pay that loan back as slowly as possible. The longer you wait the less you effectively owe as inflation does its thing. I'm 46 and still paying on my student loan, the interest rate is so low that (even in normal times) inflation outpaces it. I'm making money by paying it back over decades.
We were always at war with Gasstovia.
Mmh no SyQuest EZDrive in there, maybe I could send mine.
The only thing I can say is this is an old situation that goes right back to the copyright protection wars to protect the software sold on floppies.

Present time the solution for many is the phone home route with the idea that their client's system is online always. The other goto was to contract a service that specialises in tracking down any unauthorised versions and contacting site admins - but IMO the web is so diverse these days it's simply not worth the money.

I would say if software is intriguing and works well, more often there will be a 'cracked' version on the web somewhere. I know many people see the pirating as lost profit, but more often there's a stark reality, they were never going to afford it in the first place - in which case it's not money lost but software getting exposure which might lead to more sales by those who've seen it in action. I've also seen absolute rubbish that had more money and time spent on protecting the ever so precious contents, that's been cracked only to allow curious users to see what a lemon it was.
It's an immediate red flag to see `T::T(T)` used anywhere for non-trivial objects or PODs or something not word-size.

Typically C++ requires a lot of plumbing to use value semantics with `std::move` everywhere and `std::forward`.

I don't have patience for it anymore, so I just use Rust which is move by default.
Actually, they are laying out their model quite clear in the sign-up form:

- Always available (no blackout windows)

- Fast responses from ChatGPT (i.e. no throttling)

- As many messages as you need (at least 2X regular daily limit)

So I guess this is basically the Netflix style you are asking for.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCVqahRmA5OxQXbRln...
Cellular automaton animations based on the content of Neovim buffer
I'll be honest with you, it sounds like you've lead a pretty sheltered life. Living in poverty is fucking hard. All around you are parasites looking to take what little you have and kick you back to the floor.

Yeah, of course parents tell their kids to do better in life. But it feels like the world is conspiring against you at every step of the way. The only time anything good happens, it's due to the kindness of someone else, and kindness is not something you see often.
Marketing is one thing, astroturfing is another. Companies are free to do it, of course, but others are also free to call it out as the deceptive practice it is.
I always see articles like this and wonder what the big deal is... I frequently use PayPal Credit, store credit cards, and Affirm on larger purchases because I like being that much more liquid. Then I realize that I always use the 0% APR option and that I've paid exactly $0 of interest to all of these services. I couldn't imagine paying 12% APR for the privilege of owning a $1400 synthesizer much less for a delivery order of sandwiches at a house party (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread).

Side question: how are these services able to offer lower APRs than credit cards without collateral? Do they evaluate your creditworthiness on the basis of paying equal installments as opposed to revolving credit with a minimum payment? If so then how are they different from an old-fashioned personal loan from a bank?
The downside of all-you-can-eat is that it doesn't really work for occasional use.
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I totally hear you.

The interesting thing about this moment in AI, it seems, it’s not how good the AIs are, but how bad the lower end of human work and ability is relative to the AI.

In this case, how much SEO-farm rubbish content has been put out by salary-slave-humans and is it really better than being tricked into reading AI content?

Two evils I know. But maybe there are deeper issues than the met existence of decent non-general-AIs …?
It really reads like a marketing psyop to convince people to not ditch the cash cows that are social media doom scrolling sites.
>Someone who is financially disciplined is leaving money on the table when not using CCs.

The trick is knowing whether or not you're financially disciplined. And usually one finds out the hard way. It often involves a credit card or credit facility of some nature.
There's definitely some on here that are a waste of resources... https://killedbymozilla.com/

Here's something done badly - Firefox View's Tab Pickup. Because as we know, no one ever opens more than 3 tabs. So that isn't used by many because of that and unless it's implemented into a proper list with actions against it then it will die a death of underuse.

I'd absolutely love to see Mitchell Baker do a Reddit AMA and actually answer inconvenient questions because there would be plenty of them.
I imagine as more people adopt induction it'll get cheaper. I think most folks just assume it's an over-priced electric stove, so there's a learning curve to adoption.

Anecdotally, I love my induction. It saves me so much time! When I first bought it a few years back, I was razzed quite a bit by co-workers whose only personality trait was they liked food. "You can't char peppers!" they'd exclaim. It's so funny to me to see so much passion for gas stoves.
They don’t have to appease anyone, they are one of them and subscribe to the same values.
It's one thing doing this for sport; but guarantee AP don't do this for editorial stories.

source: shared an office with them
As long as you can process it in a productive and skeptical way, and not accept it with the same confidence it is presented, it can be a powerful learning tool. However, if it teaches kids to no longer need to structure sentences or logical arguments, and to trust whatever it says. That seems bad in general.

I found ChatGPT to be very useful in two areas:

1. where the problems are simple, and the question requires rudimentary knowledge, but of something very domain specific. Where, I would be 100% able to find a better answer myself by reading up on it, but I can get there 90% of the way, and figure out the 10% that is missing or wrong out of context.

If you don't have the ability to fix or identify that last 10%, you might suffer more for it. You'll get there more quickly, but you end up at slightly the wrong place.

2. When the questions are creative in nature. Suggest an imaginary setting, character, describe properties associated with, etc.
Before my friends and i deleted all social media, we opened a pigeon-club, thats how we communicate today, also we exchange backups that way.

Remember before you delete the bird on your phone buy some real ones.

BTW: Don't use the pigeons around the us/mexican border.
Actually, no, it doesnt apply to twitter right now (turnover and market cap is too low). But EC can assign status anyway following market investigation.

It absolutely does apply to Youtube (finally some way to challenge youtube!), but im not sure how that affects the use of youtube-dl.

The DMA covers ten core platform services:

- online intermediation services;
- online search engines;
- online social networking services;
- video-sharing platform services;
- number-independent interpersonal communication services;
- operating systems;
- cloud computing services;
- advertising services;
- web browsers;
- virtual assistants.
Show HN: I made Macaron – Type-safe CSS-in-JS with zero-runtime and colocation
Hey HN, my name is Mokshit and I'm really interested in web-performance and web-development. At the time of writing this, I'm a junior in high school.

Macaron is a typesafe CSS-in-JS library with zero runtime, colocation, maximum safety and productivity.

The motivation behind it is that runtime CSS-in-JS libraries, that is most of the CSS-in-JS libs, add alot of bloat to web apps and have a considerable performance drop with a bundle size increase. Alot of them also don't support more performant ways of building web apps like streaming markup. Most of the current compile-time CSS-in-JS libraries try to fix this, but have some or the other drawback like not offering colocation, or not being type-safe.

Today, Macaron does all this with a compiler that extracts all the style declarations at compile-time and converts them to static css files while also letting you author the type-safe styles in the same file as your application code. It supports both - a vanilla styling API and a styled-component API with support for multiple frameworks like SolidJS and React and build tools like Vite and Esbuild. Macaron is currently missing a webpack plugin, but that will also be published soon, making it compatible with almost all bundlers.

There's a ton of room for improvement in this space, and I feel like macaron is a step in that direction.

Github - https://github.com/macaron-css/macaron
Wouldn’t that require a different approach to paying for computation? From OpenAI perspective there is no difference in spent resources whether you are still tinkering or know exactly what to generate in DALL-E. Which seems fair.
> with disabled watermarking

What does that mean in this context?
We're entering a strange time in the history of written media. Most articles will be written by the AI, and the AI will be trained by the articles that was written by AI. I wouldn't be surprised to see a badge similar to "Organic" to be created for any written content, to certify that it was written by a human.
Very large animals usually have lower neuron densities than smaller ones, as I understand. Whereas birds in particular have to have very light brains so that they can fly. So I'm skeptical that a dinosaur had birdlike neuron densities.
The Costs of ‘Free’ Internal Developer Portals
Wow, that's a lot of tropes.
Semis weigh almost 10 times what the heaviest personal EVs do. Why is everyone so unconcerned about the former but pretending that the latter is the end of the world?
I googled Troodon and the first result says it's "a dubious small bird-like Theropod". Is 'dubious' a technical term in this context?
If you ever cooked both on gas an electric, electric is workable, but gas is much more controllable in terms of temperature transfer.

Specially when there's no direct contact between the pan and stove.

It also produces way more heat faster if you need to.

My experience with electric stoves is that you have to coax them into cooking things right.

Most of the particulate problems could probably be solved with better forced ventilation and air filters.

For example, where I live, commercial kitchens have an electric gas valve connected to the forced extraction systems of the kitchen, so you cannot turn on the stove unless the ventilation is on.
> Invariably...

Hate to throw a variable into it, but I usually spend less than 50% of my income (after savings and retirment), and I still use BNPL and payment plans when I can get interest rates and fees for under 10%.
I am a huge fan of the trilogy but it's because I accept it for what it is. Most of the characters are not that well written and do not have satisfying arcs; instead, they are merely there to push the plot in a certain direction at the required moment.

I also didn't think that the technologies got too fantastical until Death's End, where everybody inside the solar system as well as outside of it are experiencing new things every 25 pages or so.

I still think back to the trilogy as different events over the last few years. Looking back at the actions and habits some people started during the early weeks of the pandemic (washing groceries) feels a lot like humans at the end of the Dark Forest looked back at the early years of the Crisis Era - a lot of grasping at straws and trying to give the appearance of doing something. And it's very easy to see how people would turn against Escapism in the end.
Draft: Velocity Project: Setting the stage on discontent
A Russian Story Antedating John Searle's Chinese Room
So unsurprisingly within 72 hours of my comment highlighting about the first part of my prediction on OpenAI certainly getting more investment as the first phase [0], now they have made the second phase of my prediction becoming true:

> ChatGPT by then will become a paid service [1]

For the third phase, we'll see how the startups building their entire business on top of OpenAI will last even when OpenAI can also compete against their own partners.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321066

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34201706
> Educating people on these topics and getting more doctors to offer the necessary blood and stool tests to rule out pathogenic causes before commencing psychiatric treatment could potentially help millions of people.

Are there even accurate tests for many of these? Take long Covid as a modern challenge. Most people already have antibodies of some kind and a fraction still struggle with mental challenges post infection that repurposed SSRIs can significantly help with. Just the other day there was even an article about people being overprescribed SSRIs.

If I were to summarize the article in a few words it would be:

Stress caused by pathogens can lead to chronic illness.

You can say the same about most stresses in life too though and their similar correlations as made in this article.
I've been using you.com's chat feature a lot recently, which is a ChatGPT-like conversational AI.

It's so good that I have now switched over my default search engine to you.com, as of last week. First change to my default in over 15 years.
I don’t disapprove of your stickers. Do you disapprove of my sticker-free laptop? I was simply giving you a truthful counterpoint.

Those boring people may not be boring. And those stickers that you use as a signal may just be part of a persona you are trying to project. But we don’t really know because we are staring at each other’s laptops across a void and judging based on that. :-)