skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you hosting or am I? The marketing implies that I’m hosting but your FAQ, at the bottom, says you are. Can you please clear up?
Compared to something like reddit? Its more like a subreddit of some sort
Why would you develop your economy like it was the 1800s?
I've been working on integrating GPT-3 into a clinical reference tool by "grounding" its responses using data from the NCBI StatPearls clinical handbook -- doing that seems to lead to accurate and relevant responses much of the time, but still occasionally returning partially-correct or irrelevant information.

[0] demo - https://labs.cactiml.com/medqa

[1] some screenshots and details - https://twitter.com/samarthrawal/status/1620545601296564228
> Maybe Gruber should just let people enjoy things?

How is his criticism not letting people enjoy things? You’re welcome to enjoy it and also welcome to not read John Gruber if reading him lessens your enjoyment. And he’s welcome to criticize. Maybe he enjoys criticizing. Maybe you should let John Gruber enjoy criticizing?

Some criticism is healthy. He’s criticizing dated UIs. You even agree with him. You said of the same app as him “…the UI looks dated…” Maybe this will spur some app developers to improve their UIs which will cause people to enjoy things even more.
> Do you realise that poor people all over the world rely on public transport to survive?

I will go out on a limb here and suggest most of them actually rely on their feet. Bicycle if they can afford it. Then a motorcycle as income permits. And as soon as their lifestyle supports it, a car.

The problem with public transit as a solution is that we've had a long time to prove that out. The US had better public transit in many cities ~100 years ago than today. Why did the car dominate? I don't buy into conspiracy theories. People buy, on average, whatever best meets their needs. Make the best public transit in the world today universally available, and a huge number of people will still choose cars because they are more useful. Note that the only places in which public transit dominates are places so dense that the pain of public transit is less than the pain of making a car work. This does not describe more than perhaps three cities in the United States (and only in their downtown cores) and it never will unless we put an artificial cap on creating new cities.
I apologize for making you feel offended. That was not my intent.

I wasn't trying to make light of the service of military members. I agree that it is wrong to try to obtain fake respect.

I was just recounting two specific tales from my memory about people being defensive against others disrespecting their social circles. I find the behavior interesting ... maybe because I have never felt that way before about something.

When I mentioned psychology, my curiosity was in the context of behavior psychology (what is the word used to describe the behavior), not in the context of a mental illness.

Incidentally, I did like the band's music, I just didn't own any of their albums.
At some point this attitude has to be given up. There's no reason traffic circles should cost millions to billions. I'd be willing to wager that this short sighted, quick and dirty meantime fix strategy has been employed too much and now we've arrived at this reality.
Yes, there are a slew of “content blockers” in the App Store. I use 1Blocker but plenty of people like Adguard.
> Debt-to-GDP ratios and the cost of servicing existing debt together mean that there are difficult budgeting decisions on the horizon for many western governments. Academic R&D just doesn't have the constituency needed to save it from cuts.

Wouldn't this be a plausible story immediately post-WWII?
Oh you would be surprised what people think. They think you will change your ability to pay almost just as frequently.
This is common in Judaism. I am not Jewish, so someone please correct me: I understand taking the name in vain or destroying the word once written are a no-go -- so if you never write it then there is not a big issue here.
It's not silly if all there's to argue from the other point of view is photons per square meter. Weather also plays a role.

I don't mean to say I have the absolute truth, I want to see if they've even considered sun availability for different regions. It seems solar proponents really haven't analyzed it from that point of view, AFAIK.
It's known as the malapropism.
Be very careful with third-party discord clients; they are officially against TOS and people have permanently lost their accounts over it.
perhaps the prosecution gets to further amass damning evidence by letting him misbehave while on bail?
Lack of hard work definitely isn't an hindrance for grow. Having the right family name, pleasant facial structure or just being very likeable and sociable are all possible replacements for hard work.
The State of Webassembly
yes there are Safari extensions you download from the app store. I like 1Blocker: https://1blocker.com
There's an old, vulgar, southern aphorism that answers almost all of these "why" questions.

It's in the form of a retorical question:

Question: Why does a dog lick his balls?

Answer: Because he can...

Why "can" chrome scan your disk? Because you installed it.

Stop using that shit...
The suburbs around Boston are effectively dense cities because they predate railroads, nevermind cars. You don't need skyscrapers to claim "density".
its almost like it's an extremely apple centric blog with a ton of bias

/s

for real - i'd rather have a 'brutalist' mastadon client that cannot be removed by Google than 100 pretty mastadon clients that will be blocked permanently from the iOS store the next time a mass shooting occurs.
Because the people publishing them love to pack them with ads, and long-windedness causes more ad impressions.
We could have another "Erlang Day" here on HN[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919897
Ask HN: What is the best technical book you have read?
By technical book I mean books that are not fiction. Can be of any topic under the sun that you were interested to study; so you picked up the book.
Submit it as a top level post. It’s a good article.
> The very premise of modern environmentalism necessitates human extinction by logical extension.

No. At best that's a position held only by a tiny and extreme minority.

Consider "Permaculture", a school of applied ecology that's become popular all over the world since it was started by a government-employed ecologist and co. in the late 1970's. The explicit goal of this design school is to create and maintain agriculturally productive ecosystems that improve soil fertility and volume over time (the "permanent" part of "Permanent Agriculture".)

With applied ecology we could probably increase the carrying capacity of the Earth to the point of having, say, 20B people while also increasing biodiversity and climate and long-term stability and all that good stuff.
Isn't that pretty much fraud?
maybe on this forum it is.

I'm sure there's tons of folks who just click "maybe later" and forget entirely.
Guess no QUIC/HTTP3 support until 3.1
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"Declarative language" does not mean "free of computation". It does mean the language generally specifies an output. HTML does have computation in the form of <script> tags. What makes HTML and SQL declarative instead of imperative is that in both SQL and HTML the document specifies an specific output that is wanted from the browser (in HTMLs case) or database (in SQLs case). Your earlier example of SELECT (1+3); is something that can be done in HTML (many different ways), too. Reality is that declarative languages would be little more than file formats without access to computation. For example, it would be impossible to write a query that always returned results for the interval of last week, without having to change the query every time you run it without the now and interval commands.
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Agreed and I’d go a step further and say that this was inevitable with the advent of JavaScript.

Humans are lazy (efficient?) and will always gravitate to the easiest tool for the job. If “the job” is just to make a functional chat app, it becomes wildly efficient to simply wrap your web app in electron.

I’ve done it to an existing web app and it took less than a day to suddenly have “native” .dmg and .exe to distribute.

So when we yarn for the days of IRC, I think we should also yarn for the days when JavaScript was not the de facto language for everything which lowers the bar for development so incredibly low that you are ending up with truly garbage desktop apps that should be written in native windows SDK using C++.
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>> I don't think that reduction is the reason for an increase in crime

I don't have anything empirical but in my experience the frequency and brazenness of the shoplifting (in SF) increased in a very noticeable way soon after the passage of Prop 47.
This just in - competitive people in competitive fields compete.

The only way to fix this is to make rules about how hard anyone is allowed to work. By definition this is a denial of freedom and stifles progress.

The real solution for an individual is to be satsfied with less. Just don’t expect that of anyone else lest you tread on the thin ice of communim, which is ironic considering the birthplace of the author.
> and the typical citizen of a single-payer system has less income after factoring in health care than in the US

Do you have an article or paper to confirm that please?
> The very premise of modern environmentalism necessitates human extinction by logical extension. You can't act or believe as if humans can or should have no impact on the environment without entertaining humanity's gradual demise as part of the process of "saving the earth" when all other known options are exhausted.

This is mostly a straw man argument. It's always a mistake to represent diverse groups like "environmentalists" as holding a homogeneous belief. There are certainly some environmentalists who believe what you just said, but as an environmentalist, I don't believe that, and I think the environmentalists who do believe that are the minority of environmentalists.

On the contrary, for me, environmentalism isn't about saving the planet, it's about saving humans. The planet doesn't need saving: if we turn the planet into a barren wasteland it will uncaringly continue hurtling through space without us, but we'll be dead. The environment is a necessary component to human survival and thriving. I don't believe that means we should have no impact on the environment--that's not possible--but that we need to be careful about when we change our impact on the environment, because we risk breaking the fragile ecosystems that have supported our existence.
This is exactly how it was taught to me at a public speaking class
The url it generates is fantastic. It didn't work when putting into the address bar.
> The effective engagement range will be lower than against a less-stealthy aircraft though.

It should depend on its operation. If the missile is receiving guidance updates in the beginning phase from a sensor network, and only relying on its own sensors in the final phase (if at all), then spectral stealth will make less of a difference. But older missiles and platforms can not do this.

This is the gamble of the F-35; compromise the non-updatable specs in order to achieve safety from present day known threats.
I think there's a concern also that smaller companies can gain a competitive edge via resistance to reputational damage. As Yann LeCun recently tweeted:

'By releasing public demos that, as impressive & useful as they may be, have major flaws, established companies have less to gain & more to lose than cash-hungry startups.

If Google & Meta haven't released chatGPT-like things, it's not because they can't. It's because they won't.' (https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1617908306420600833)
Porsche, Ferrari?
It's a pretty serious red flag. You should address and explain it in your cover letter.
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Also see this crowdsourced alternative. If there are cooks on HN you can send a pull request to add your receipe.

https://based.cooking/
> Pretty much all buyers of the F-35 have been offered different sorts of kick-back deals, where they get to produce parts of the plane or handle maintenance, so the deal props up the national arms industry in some way or another.

What? This is pretty much standard practice across the board in military procurements. For example, as part of SAAB's Gripen bid for Canada, they would arrange for the aircraft to be produced, assembled, and maintained in Canada if the Gripen were selected. Countries do this for a variety of reasons -- yes, to bolster local industry, but also to give them a leg-up on sovereign sustainment of the platform, and so that they can ramp up manufacture to meet their own needs in the event of a war.
This is a very risky approach.

Taking no for no, and moving on with a smile to other women can show confidence, and maybe she will reconsider and take steps to get back into your social life.

In general, asking over and over again hoping for a different answer can signal desperation.

So it turns out in this situation, the spectrumy response of just taking a response at face value, can also be the best strategy for the "sexual marketplace".

That is in addition to it just being the right and decent thing to do, of course.
Writing is itself a technical skill

With ai taking over technical skills, it seems clear to me that they will be values less. Instead, the soft skills will be the valued ones
The dude has a great point about the need to verify carbon offsets.

Where he loses me is this whole idea of 'reparative justice'. That will never happen. We can't even get everyone to agree to meet targets that will keep the world at 1.5c. The idea that we'll get powerful countries and corporations to fork over trillions to right past wrongs is laughable. It's a bad faith poison pill. If I didn't know any better, I'd bet this guy is funded by fossil fuel companies to ensure nothing gets done.
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LLM-powered customer support can also be useless and wrong. Even in an ideal case, you're still retaining some customer support employees and only displacing the pitifully-paid call-center workers that staff the current Chat-As-A-Service offerings.

Until I see something like this rolled out with widespread success, I'm gonna doubt it. The second someone puts an AI agent on their website, it's a race to get the brand to endorse the most abhorrent thing possible. Then what?
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An iPhone from 2019 (which my wife has) still scrolls very smoothly. I assume he isn’t talking about refresh rate, he is talking About jerkily scrolling because the developer is making blocking calls on the main thread or re-rendering already visible elements. I also experience this on my Android test device.
Hmm interesting, haven't heard of those yet. Though seems like I was a bit off, DigitalOcean has a 512MB instance for $4 and Scaleway a 2 GB one for $6.5. But then again Scaleway will also nickle and dime you separately for the IP, the HDD and anything else that they can possibly think of.
Yes I'm using AdGuard Pro and you can use custom filters > same as uBlock Origin on desktop. Works flawlessly.
Your competitor's stack isn't your compliment.
The missing piece here is the platform APIs. It’s less effort in UIKit to do swipe gestures and contextual menus than it is in the traditional Android APIs, so more developers do it. This equation may change with Jetpack Compose vs SwiftUI but I don’t have enough experience with Compose to say.
Telephoto and low light

Also, the camera, lenses, and sensors don't all update every year. Early on in Apple's tick-tock approach to design iteration, camera updates were the "s" models ("tock") in release cycle.

Now they seem to be just incrementing the number and you have to pay attention to what if any changes they make. This time they did 4x pixels and do pixel binning for regular shots and low light.
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The open source community work in ML tends to be terrible at the science and rigor parts of it. You see tons of lazy “we recreated an open version of X” that fails to be remotely as well done as the peer reviewed version, even from the larger community groups.
> If it didn't satisfy anyones desire, it was pointless.

I dunno.

There's a lot of PHBs who have petty tyrant syndrome. They desire their employees in the office.

Then there's a lot of people in the CBD who desire to continue selling their wares to the people working in the CBD.

There's letting companies who desire income from the letting arrangements, landlords who desire income enough to pay the city tax ...

On the whole, I agree with WFH; I just don't think it's a good exercise to justify anything based on what people desire.
> All the "rules" are there for a reason!

Except in this case, you've made up the rule. It is not an axiomatic rule like gravity. I want different rules. So unless we work together, your rules don't apply to me.