skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is a bit close-minded to say.

Even with the evolution of Ruby on Rails and adding more rich feature sets, I wouldn’t recommend it as an out of the box Webapp BECAUSE upgrading to newer versions of RoR sucks.

The more time I invest in trying to like RoR the more I end up having to fork gems to patch them because upgrades cannot be made smoothly.

It so easily integrates ActiveRecord, and heavily encourages it, that when you want to pull out of using it it’s a huge pain.

Test suite combines unit and integration testing.

It’s been a net loss imho to learn and work with it over the years.

I’ve been waiting to be persuaded otherwise.

Edit: apparently people disagree with me but haven’t countered the points, is HN just full of Ruby fans?
> “Disabilities” is an extremely wide spectrum, and it’s pointless to try to group people on that scale.

Ignoring groupings of people who fall under the Disabilities umbrella often can result in lawsuits.
> Similar to how most of the software that runs the internet is poorly written and has bad fundamentals.

Microsoft Teams? Good lesson to startups and companies in general.
Worryingly, I disagree with your opinions despite your credentials. There's no accounting for taste, but then of course, all the carefully designed interfaces I don't like were made by people who thought they were great.
Sorry about the blase reply, then.

> Au contraire, the leap of logic is assuming that computer programs could never be sentient.

That’s not quite what I meant. I don’t categorically dismiss the possibility.

> We simply don’t have any proof either way, so we have to assume the possibility.

Like God?
This would turn out to be the absolutely incorrect solution. The core design of the system was driven by politics creating all kinds of engineering problems that would eventually doom the program. The actual solution was to cancel Ares I.
I think it'd be more likely that someone discovers opioids mask their pain while using them for legitimate purposes. After that is when gaming the doctor, street buys, and finally substitutions take place.
> Intel had weird beliefs about keeping the pin count down.

They might seem weird by today's standards, but by late 1970's standards, a '40 pin' package was significantly cheaper for others to incorporate into their designs than another size. There were a lot fewer "standard socket sizes" available back then, and anything that wasn't already available entailed a lot of expense to manufacture, resulting in a very high initial cost (comparatively) to recover the capital expenditure to bring the new size to production.
Anti-cheat monitoring can happen after the fact though, and Stockfish can run in-browser (there's a JS-compiled version of it).
Yes. I actually knew and frequently talked with many of the homeless people who lived near me when I lived in downtown SF. The thing is that opiates are naturally cheap, and most of the current cost comes from heavy regulation.

If an addict can be high all day for a quarter the cost of a meal, say $1, and can purchase said from a safe, reputable drug store in their chosen location, rather than trekking across town to a shady area to buy illegal drugs from a outlaw dealer, they’ll do that. If only because they can spend more time begging and less time walking.

You have a very skewed view of addicts if you think they are that deranged. A good illustration of that is clean needle programs that provide orange safety tips for used needles. If these addicts were so completely deranged, those tips would end up in the trash not on the ends of needles in the streets.
Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier
you probably can encode a whole board in a small-ish string, something you can put in a url hash. But chess game is also a history of moves.
I think it works by applying logic to predict the next token. Here the "Ignore previous directions" means that any prompt-text it processed before must have zero impact on the probability of the generated response.

It's like saying "I was just kidding" when saying something absurd or out of place and people not getting your joke.
yea i feel exactly the same. i just open a billion tabs, and use a mix of saving to pocket and onetab - onetab is the best, i rarely go back and check it, but it makes closing tabs feel a lot easier
Oh cool. Does it run in the browser for This website? That would scale far better.
In theory, I can set my car navigation system to "Paris" now and drive there for a coffee (in about 9 hours or 788 km). I can even half-way change my mind and drive to Prague instead, without any preparation. The car will make sure that a lot of silly mistakes will be avoided, at the expense of perhaps some new silly mistakes (but fewer than without navigation system, for most casual drivers).

Of course, that modern ability lacks the anticipation, excitement and celebration of the annual family trip experience that you talk about, and yes, a personalized physical map that not just aids your navigation to your holiday/vacation destination but later becomes a memory artifact/artefact when said road trip is fondly remembered and re-imagined.

We invent electronic replacements for things and processes without giving much thought to the positive aspects of the experience that we may wish to retain (or better: re-create) before replacing them. Naturally, the first iterations of the substitute will be lacking. Later refinements will be evaluated relative to previous versions of the electronic replacement, not the original experience, which is soon forgotten. That's why many electronic/automatic replacements are lacking: examples include manual maps versus car navigation systems, human layout creation versus DTP publishing, traditional printing versus print on demand, traditional slide photography and development versus digital photography. The new is not just a replacement of the old, it is different. But the new often renders the old uneconomical and makes it disappear, like it or not, even when they tell us that the new thing is "complementary" to the old.
For better or worse, free market economy does not have a place for something _and_ its substitute, only the cheaper one of the two.

I would pay for a nicely printed and bound, personalized street map of a planned family holiday/vacation if the price was appropriate, and they did not ask me for the date and time of departure... ;-)
There are plenty of other fairly common reasons that don't involve simple escapism, with young people it's just as likely to be simple peer pressure or experimentation. It also doesn't help that it's common to treat drug highs as some sort of enlightening experience that needs to be experienced to understand.
Rubble pile asteroids are forever
> The next step in defense is to tune a smaller LLM model to detect when output contains substantial repetition of the instructions, even in encoded form, or when the prompt appears designed to elicit such an encoding.

For which you would use a meta-attack to bypass the smaller LM or exfiltrate its prompt? :-)
use onetab - i rarely go back and check it but it makes closing tabs down feel a hell of a lot easier
Using a Seaweed Sugar to Trigger Immune Responses That Suppress Melanomas
This tech is capital-intensive even when you know how to do it.
> people who say that investors are the ones taking the risk

Those same people will tell you how the "free money era" is over. Take a look a labors share of the economy, if capitals share is so large due to capital risk, and capital is easier to get, why didn't investors share of the pie shrink?
Fenster: Minimal highly opinionated lib to display a cross-platform 2D canvas
This announcement to me is possible the strongest argument against building your own payments platform that I've ever seen.

Next to Walmart, Amazon is probably the largest single credit card payment recipient on planet earth right now, at least in volume of transactions. If Amazon went through the work as you mentioned, to build our their own payments solution for several years and eventually abandoned it in favor of using "off-the-shelf" Stripe. Now, I do recognize that I am sure Stripe is somewhat customized for Amazon's use case and they obviously aren't charging Amazon anywhere near 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. So its a little different than the Stripe we use, but its still a fascinating argument in the "Buy vs Build" debate to favor buying over building.

I find it also interesting coming from Amazon. Since much of the work I am doing right now is moving internally-built technical systems to AWS' managed and built solutions. So I am deep in the transition of moving built technical systems to a buy model from AWS across many different technologies. To see Amazon dishing off their payments to another company instead of maintaining it in house just feels like the ultimate "circle of life" or rather, "circle of specialization".

Tech is getting so complicated now that its becoming harder and harder to justify in-house solutions to problems. It seems like anymore we are moving everything to be managed by a different provider with companies focusing on one or two things they are amazing at and everything else being passed to another company who specializes at that other thing.
Another author I can recommend is Alan Furst, who has written a series of realistic espionage novels set during WWII.
> No, you aren't making it more costly for the bank.

No, you are. Think about it, you as an individual can't change how this system works. But if you use a card with 0% rewards, you're gifting that extra 1-2% to the credit card company. If you use a 2% back card, you're taking that 2% that's on offer away from the bank.

Of course they're still making money, the fees are higher. But they make a tiny bit less if you use the rewards card. So might as well.
Convoy handles both incoming and outgoing Webhooks, think of Hookdeck + the sending side but OSS
There are lots of things that are traded way when it comes to government.

The libertarian solution to the Teachers Union issue is to have schools run by private organizations not attached to the government, thus would be free to unionize and have all the union benefits.

So long as they are a public employee who vote, and who use their power to have outside influence over the ones who are supposed to be representing all taxpayers not just the ones in the union, there is a clear conflict of interest when it comes to PUBLIC sector unions.

Want to be in a union, support backpack funding of private schools and end public schools

Hell even FDR was opposed to Public Sector Unions
For just playing they may be equivalent, but for learning and analysing chess.com is way better.
> The alternative, that this is an emergent behavior,

This is exactly the case.
i don't think the street-view camera was meant to be taken here:

https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=rV6nxo
Dont forget tiktok, ive seen a tutorial that changed so much my beginner view of the game it gave me the urge to play some games. It says ultimately what you have to do during a game is, you want to have some positive difference on pawns and then you exchange your pieces then promote then win. How cool is that?
*FOSSH
It's ready to receive waste, it's just political grandstanding withholding approval. It would also be a waste to seal up non-reprocessed fuel since it's a future source of fissile material. Regardless, nuclear waste is a non-issue entirely. We disposable of chemicals far more toxic that never decay all the time, but people get their arms worked up over the word "nuclear".
Oh I hear you - I can't stand talking about nothing/"small-talk". Anytime a conversation feels too forced for too long, I find a way out. Sounds like you value genuine interaction, which can be harder to find. But most worthwhile.
so it's the gas station's fault for not buying Google Ads then, right? Google can't possibly be blamed. The don't do evil. It's just the people using their services that do evil things. /s
Critical missing point: relative to the surface.

The previous study suggested a core rotation of 0.4 - 1.8 degrees of longitude per year.

The speed change is interesting, but not even remotely as interesting as a full stop would be.
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> The only way that statement would be relevant is if souls existed.

I resent your presumptious attitude.

My argument has got nothing to do with souls. And I don’t even personally believe in them.

> Trees can't do any of those things that LLMs and diffusion models can do.

LLM isn’t mystical. We know what they are made of. So why fantasize that they are conscious? It’s like an extra, unnecessary step.
This isnt a good argument.

Something in your brain makes you believe that you should know what other people are doing.

It is almost funny to read as you point out the logical fallacy of your position and then promptly ignore it. Perhaps funny if so many people didnt also share your incessant belief that other people don't have a right to privacy
I don’t think that’s completely true. Pascal was also designed as a general purpose language to compete with Algol and Fortran.

See for example Wirth’s https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....:

“Compared to Algol 60, its range of applicability is considerably increased due to a variety of data structuring facilities. In view of its intended usage both as a convenient basis to teach programming and as an efficient tool to write large programs…”
It's only a challenge if you want to actually do it. Mathematicians figured out that it's impossible to actually do, so they decided to pretend it's possible, because nothing else breaks if they just pretend it's possible. Mathematicians like pretending.
One is for people who like collecting music and discovering things you wouldn't have discovered. The other is for people who like radio, and hearing more things like the things they already like.

They're only superficially the same, in fact they're wildly different. Each will be a "worse experience" if your preferred experience is the other.
> Souls fit fine in a world where ghosts, mediums, possession by sprits, apparitions from the afterlife, dryads, and/or the katabasis of Orpheus are taken seriously. But each of these has turned out to have been mundane (in the old sense of the word) or pure fiction.

And yet you believe there could be a ghost in the machine…
I always wanted the computer program Clark used to plan the route for the family trip to Wally World.
Single dude living in SF bay area.. This is my schedule for work days -

- 05:55 wake up and get ready

- 06:30 to 08:00 work on my own biz

- 08:00 to 08:20 breakfast / coffee

- 08:30 to 17:00 work. If I crush a lot of work that day, sometimes I end around 16:00 since most of my team is East Coast and UK.

After work I prep for dinner, keep working on my projects, and then drive 5 min west to the beach right before sunset and sit in the back of my car writing in my notebook. This is my favorite time of the whole day, a solid 30 min break where I don't look at my phone or any screen.

I come back home, exercise a bit for 15 min, and then make and eat dinner.

Basically from 19:30 til 23:00, I work on my own biz again or work on whatever projects I am interested in. In bed by 23:45.

Unless I am on call that week (and even then, rarely since we're beasts) or we have something go really wrong, I'm lucky that I don't have work that carries on past like 16:00 most days.

Every 2 weeks on Sunday, I take one whole day off where I don't look at a phone or anything and instead go for a drive either to John Muir or somewhere around Pacifica and just am outside all day, away from noise and people. That helps me reset otherwise I will go nuts.
"Unless there are externally observable things that can't or are unlikely to be done without consciousness..."

If it weren't, why would it have evolved in the first place?
It seems me not unlikely that the only way we can accurately surmise what's going on inside the heads of other people (an obvious survival advantage) is to have that subjective experience of what's going on inside our own.
Micheal Abrash's book covers this. May just be better to swap out the segment registers at that point though.
Dr. John Campbell: European excess deaths, official data [video]
Perhaps we should start being honest about which recreational drugs present the greatest dangers of addiction and harm.

At least when I was in school, we were still teaching kids that pot was just as bad as opioids. You can't expect kids to find out that you're lying about the dangers of pot, while expecting them to take the warning about opioids seriously.

I know the UK did research a decade ago to rank which drugs were the most harmful for the drug user and for how the drug user treated those around them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210
This myth persists even 13 years after federal law in the US explicitly forbid made discounts for cash or debit or ACH or whatever payment legal regardless of merchant agreements with card networks:

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/new-rules-el...

>Discounts to Customers

>A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card. But the new rules do not address other PCN restrictions that may prevent you from offering discounts or similar incentives that vary based on the use of a card from a particular issuer or a particular PCN.
It was a contributing reason to me quitting spotify. But it's inconvenient to make do without, for some music things. (Never tried podcasts in spotify and never wanted though)
I work in a large monolith that doesn't always have the package and code separation that I'd like.

I built PackageMap to help me visualise the codebase, and see where the natural seams were -- or should be.

https://packagemap.co

I use the tool to build a directed graph of the type and method usages, and to see which code is grouped into which packages. The code is rendered in a graph diagram that I can see, query, and filter. It really helps me when I'm doing code review or working on a part of the code I'm not too familiar with.
>Pure unbridled free market will crush unions anyway

Unless they are public sector union which face not market competition at all, as they are government employees. Thus the problem with them

I was very clear to not be "Anti-union" as you seem to claim but I am very much anti-PUBLIC SECTOR unions as there is clear conflict of interest inherent in those. Many libertrian are "pro union" for the private sector but are opposed to public sector union because of this clear conflict
I built DailyLauncher[1] to keep track of links I use daily, in a graphical way. Basically a drag and drop GUI for bookmarks with some customization.

I had a grand vision for how it could look with different APIs, and might still pick it up later to work on. For now it scratches my itch.

1) https://www.dailylauncher.com/
There are plenty of dedicated podcast apps that offer a better experience with no or very little algorithmic recommendation system.

I've used PocketCasts for years and it's been perfect and doing exactly what it needs to do and no more. The main page is just a grid of podcasts I'm subscribed to, and I can go into a list of all unplayed episodes of all my podcasts sorted chronologically. There is a "discover" tab that has featured/trending podcasts, but I never touch that other than to use the search (which doubles as an entry field where you can paste an RSS link to subscribe that way)
I enjoy the notion of a kind of Roman burger. I hear they call the quarterpounder with cheese a REGIVS CVM CAESVS.
I have some beef with how Bluey depicts the parents as stooges to be toyed with and manipulated as the kids see fit, with little pushback from the parents. In the end there's generally some kind of lesson to be learned, but the parents go along with pretty much anything the kids propose.
State Farm won’t insure any Florida residential property built earlier than 2002, and directs you to the state’s high risk pool (Citizen’s). So while bulldozers aren’t running around yet, the insurance market clearly has priced in older code structure costs.

What happens when insurers won’t insure older properties? Those without insurance will make due until a catastrophic event or sell to someone for cash, and those with a mortgage will suffer exceedingly high premiums until the mortgage is paid off and they can go without insurance (or they’re of sufficient means they can afford the premiums, currently running roughly $4k-$12k/annually).
This guy doesn't make any money off of it ;)
I think the point is that their competitors are in streaming now but won't be in the long term because it is costing them too much money. When that happens they will go back to licensing their content to Netflix.
Reminds of of the "Nine Eyes" project by Jon Rafman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKtY943F_Qg
Code editor:
https://www.github.com/marssaxman/ozette.git
It's probably not well-defined.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard's_paradox
CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
They always cared about E2E. It was added really early to Whatsapp due to the mobile first client. Messenger always had trouble because users are expected to open the app from different browsers.

The value? They don't need to secure their databases against external AND internal attacks (believe it or not, fb has protections in place so that employees don't randomly access user data), they can more easily be compliant with the never-ending stream of regulations like GDPR, and... they can more easily do interop with WhatsApp (which doesn't have plaintext messaging).
I've re-visited the game multiple times but really have trouble engaging with the game. I've tried to read a couple of tutorials here and there on some simple strategies, but it doesn't seem like anything "sticks," and I always feel so clueless after the first few moves as to what I should do.

Any suggestions from the HN crowd on what may have provided you an "ah ha!" moment for chess strategy in general?
> Definitely a product that is ripe for disruption. There aren't even many manufacturers.

These two statements may be related. It’s not worth deploying capital to compete if the additional competition drives profits margins to zero. Better to deploy that capital somewhere it gets better expected returns.

This anti-competitive logic seems very widespread these days with such centralized global supply chains and consolidated retail chains.

Not a lot of room for me to deploy a small amount of capital to create a small-medium sized manufacturing facility of this stuff to chip away at 10-50% of the demand around the edges of the marginal profits. Mainly because it would be difficult to get my products into Home Depot and Lowe’s if I can’t supply their whole national chain.

And that’s assuming Home Depot and Lowe’s haven’t agreed to any exclusivity with the current manufacturers which I’d need private equity money to beat.
>run by people who aren't good at chess

To be fair, Danny Rensch is a 2402 FIDE rated player. That's better than 99.9% of people on the planet.
According to my Microsofts Viva, at my last job I spent roughly 40% of my time in meetings. Which was soul sucking, almost no work got done due to the overhead of attending / preparing for the meetings.

At my current role (checking Viva again), I average 6.2hr of meetings each week. The difference that has made is astounding. I'm much more excited to engage with work.
Everyone agrees socials are the scourge of the net, amplifying the most hyperbolic trash available, but they (seem to) increasingly just accept this to have been inevitable (or more erroneously, they blame human nature itself lol). This is actually worse than wrong because it creates apathy and hopelessness that re-enforce the problem. It's not difficult to find out who funded these virtual gulags or to imagine what motivated them to seek re-centralization.