skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I had a fraudulent charge on my debit card I went to the web portal, hit "Dispute/Chargeback" or whatever it said, it asked me for a reason, I answered "fraud" and it asked for details and blocked my card. Couple of hours later I had the money back in the account and a couple of days later I could pick up the card at the bank. Doesn't feel like a major hassle really.
> If Google really wanted they could have wrote one.

Which they did, but for Dart instead.
That was so funny that it felt scripted.
And what is your opinion about divinity?
Assuming a 16oz cup of coffee, most people are not drinking ~2.5 liters (5 cups) of orange juice daily for extended periods.
I've never seen it anywhere else either! It was one of the many things I loved about working at Netflix.
I really don’t like server side rendering.

I like my react apps to be static files served from a plain HTML server.
> 161 teragrams of nitrogen were applied to agricultural crops, but only 73 teragrams of nitrogen made it to the harvested crop

Getting ~half of the nitrogen from the fertilizer into the harvest seems awfully impressive to me. There are so many ways for nitrogen to escape - into runoff, broken down back into the atmosphere, used to grow weeds and non-productive parts of the plant, etc.
> The primary "ethical loophole" here is that there is no viable ethical alternative. Something can not be immoral if it is the best of a series of bad options, and if you want to exsist in the world and protect your privacy, the only real option is to create a persona.

There are simple ethical alternatives, just not disclose that information, or just avoid that questions. Lying in this case is clearly unacceptable.

It is also a signalling issue. There is a universal social contract not to lie. If someone is willing to lie in such minor issues, then such person is totally untrustworthy, because there is no reason to assume they would not lie or hold other social contracts in more serious cases when it does not suit them.
The First RISC-V Shot Across the Datacenter Bow
The argument against this is the cost of a user's bandwidth. If I have all the computation done on the server side, then I have to wait for the round trip every single time just to download the results. In this case, the browser's compute is more free, as the cost to send a remote request is more than likely higher.

Like most things, there is no simple right answer, and it depends on what you are doing. But blindly assuming the experience will be worse using CSR is as silly as assuming SSR will always be worse as well.
> Why can’t we just use public CDNs is beyond my understanding.

Privacy issues iirc. I think you can use the setup to introduce tracking/reveal information about your history.
What's the advantage of using multi-account containers and partitioned identities?
> The problem is that they've let people have access and build upon their free API and pulling the rug from under them is going to annoy them [..]

Yup, although we all know that Twitter just the latest example in a loooong line of companies to have pulled this stunt since, well, what feels like forever.

> and generate bad will towards Twitter

I'm fairly ambivalent about this aspect, and I doubt Musk cares much, it's not as though the haters weren't already hating before this latest incident.
That basically has already been well researched:

https://awasteof.coffee/how-to/mixing-water/

https://coffeeadastra.com/category/water-for-coffee/

https://www.scottrao.com/blog/lotus-water-drops

And is a functional requirement of a bunch Specialty Coffee Association stuff.
> debit card requires you to have the full amount available at the time of payment

Yes, and for many, this would be a benefit rather than a drawback, as it forces them to wait and acquire the funds for the purchase before doing the actual purchase. Purchasing things with credit and then not being able to pay it back would put you in a worse position, in most cases.
I agree with you and likewise am somewhat confused. My initial read suggests that author bemoans that he needs to scale down how open ( here meaning transparent ) he gets to be. I think it is just a realization that business is cut-throat and information is, indeed, power. Being open can put you at a disadvantage in such an environment.

I certainly don't think it was some sort of golden age. Best I can say about it is that it had benefits.
> There’s a lot of useful stuff on Reddit but you do have to be careful as “upvoted” stuff is sometimes wrong and “downvoted” stuff is sometimes right.

Default subs and big subs are by far the worst about this. Comments in threads on r/technology for example frequently perpetuates easily verifiable falsehoods that would quickly get shot down in smaller communities.
Or perhaps credit card popularity is increasing; spending that was previously done via cash and debit cards is shifting to credit cards. That would leave earnings constant.
Caching also works for client side rendering of course (you can usually cache the entire client side app so that the browser doesn't have to hit the network at all to start running client side code).
I've experimented a bit with adding some bicarbonate to very acidic espressos. It mutes the flavor a little bit but completely kills the harshness that made it unpleasant. It is not a fix for under-extraction though, it fixes beans that are just not good for espresso.

A tiny bit of salt works wonders for very bitter espressos from overly roasted beans.

But on the end buying beans I like is easier and makes even better coffee than those hacks.
Client-side rendering needs to rebrand as local-first. Then the cycle will start anew.
> no reduction in total work

This does not 100% track with observed client-side performance. Another poster mentioned caching, which obviously reduces total work. I would also add shifting the work via pre-computation as another commonplace way to improve performance.

> It takes less code to build a string in a datacenter than it does in a browser?

The string build in a datacenter might be happening in a warmed-up JIT of some language, on a machine with enough capacity to do this effectively. By contrast, the browser is possibly the slowest CPU under the most outside constraints (throttling due to power, low RAM, multitasking, etc.). It is generally going to be better to do the work in the datacenter if possible.
> On the other hand, Wikipedia's image changed largely due to the transparency behind its editorial processes- both the edit history and the discussions regarding editorial decisions are available in public.

That was still true early on when people were making fun of the idea. Like with many things, the public perception changed when it got popular and the people who had been laughing at it realized they also had a use for it.

I also can't agree that the production of Wikipedia articles isn't opaque. In fact, I would say that the perception of reliability of Wikipedia (as noted in many of these comments) makes it more likely to lead people astray .

Do Wikipedia articles often list sources? Sure. Do most people not bother checking the sources, and simply rely on a third-party to accurately summarize them? Also true. Do the few who actually check the sources often find it impossible, because the source is simply an academic book that most people don't have available? True as well. Even if it was available to them, the source is often (though not always) give as the entire book, so tracking down the source for a particular claim means you're searching for a needle in a haystack (and that's for just one claim).

I say this as someone who's actually interested in the source for the claims in Wikipedia articles, and have spent a lot of time trying to track them down. Often to no avail (and when I do manage to track them down, it's not uncommon to find the summary on Wikipedia misleading).

For instance, it takes me all of 30 seconds to write:

> Lincoln was actually in favor of subdividing Texas into four different states, and had the support of Congress to do so. It probably would have happened if he had lived. Source: Harris, William C. (2011). Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.

The source exists, but I have never read the book. Almost no one that reads this comment has easy access to the book, and even if they did I doubt anyone would go through it to fact check me (and by the time anyone did, this conversation would have been long over).

Does ChatGPT sometimes give inaccurate answers? Certainly. But at the moment more of its users seem to be more aware of the potential issues with the platform than the users of Wikipedia, AskHistorians, The New York Times, etc. are.
On the contrary, commonly used Rust crates tend to be well written and well optimized (source: I have done security audits of hundreds of deps and I curate https://lib.rs).

Rust has a culture of splitting dependencies into small packages. This helps pull in only focused, tailored functionality that you need rather than depending on multi-purpose large monoliths. Ahead-of-time compilation + generics + LTO means there's no extra overhead to using code from 3rd party dependency vs your own (unlike interpreted or VM languages where loading code costs, or C with dynamic libraries where you depend on the whole library no matter how little you use from it).

I assume people scarred by low-quailty dependencies have been burned by npm. Unlike JS, Rust has a strong type system, with rules that make it hard to cut corners and break things. Rust also ships with a good linter, built-in unit testing, and standard documentation generator. These features raise the quality of average code.

Use of dependencies can improve efficiency of the whole application. Shared dependencies-of-dependencies increase code reuse, instead of each library rolling its own NIH basics like loggers or base64 decode, you can have one shared copy.

You can also easily use very optimized implementations of common tasks like JSON, hashmaps, regexes, cryptography, or channels. Rust has some world-class crates for these tasks.
Great work. Just set it up with my API key. Not sure how often I'll be asking siri complex questions, but useful to have either way. Thanks for publishing this on HN!
I mean, Do you think is there any messenger from God?
Non-Paywall link: http://archive.today/v14s3
I dare to want better tools. And I build them when I can. Like ripgrep. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The whole lure with Whatsapp was that it was cheaper than sms. And now sms cost nothing extra.
So lets say a resume generator website, or a document converter, etc.

You trust uploading your personal information to a server to generate the pdf/image/whatever vs doing it in solely in the browser?

Doing more on the server would lead to more tracking, not less.
Sounds like legislation has failed then, when credit card companies are effectively forcing people to use credit cards because otherwise they'll have to pay this fee. And if they do use credit cards, they get a fee too.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Current battery storage costs are $143/kWh.

The LCOE of solar is <$0.04 now.

A hydrogen powered combined cycle peaker plant would have ~60% efficiency.

Meaning, you should be able to produce solar-hydrogen fuel for $0.04/0.6/(33.6/39) = <$0.08 per kWh.

Why isn't anyone doing this?

Natural gas costs >$3.45/MMBTU = $0.01 per kWh.

That sounds like it's 8x more expensive.

But the wholesale cost of Natural Gas electricity is $0.18 per kWh - meaning going to Hydrogen shouldn't even increase that by 40%. But in the EU, it's already higher than that!
Yeah I did a few years in finance on a c++98 code base for my sins. (My colleagues were great, but the code was not optimal to say the least. Then again I really loved making it better and faster.) My intention above was just to say experiences with c++ vary with circumstances and if you are lucky legacy isn’t part of your day to day :)

I’m lucky ;)
I'm not mixing them. Both are good to have foundations for why things are the way they are. Completely bypassing them is asinine. There's a reason in computer science a computer organization class is still teaches about assembly instructions going through pipelines.
It does. “I don’t want telemetry” and “I don’t want tracking” are two overlapping sets of people. Whether or not you care about the distinction, others do.
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal-union-wants-4...

You tell us, is a 47% increase in pay "normal"?

why did the body intended to help with the negotiations write this:

The union’s proposals “do not appear realistic for what should be a fairly advanced stage of negotiations. The numerous proposals are not focused and they would result in an increase to compensation far beyond what is reasonable,” reads the unanimous report signed by three commissioners.
Cool mashup! For anyone interested, I found this codepen from Google where you can play with Mediapipe in your browser: https://codepen.io/mediapipe/pen/RwGWYJw
Is this Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing?
You think bonds yielding 2-4.5% APR over the past 12 months are causing 6%+ inflation?
Why do you ask that question on HN of all forums?
Yes, personally I believe He was real, and all that implies. The whole story is too complicated and fantastic to be fictional.
> Historically this has been true, but many people think we are at an inflection point and historical trends might no longer be true. This time is different is certainly often said and rarely correct, but ... this time is different, maybe?

During the Great Recession we were told that the time of outsized market returns were over. We should expect to no longer see 10% YoY increases and plan around a more modest 3%–4% return for the foreseeable future. Between Jan 1, 2009 and Jan 1, 2023, the market went up like 450%. Including the recent market "bloodbath", we've had a 11%+ annualized return on investment in the stock market since the GR.

The moral of the story? Stop listening to people who claim to know what the market is going to do. Even if one of them does, the odds that you'll be able to pick that specific soothsayer out of a lineup is near zero.
Jan. 1st 2020 was more than three years ago. Prices are absolutely not up only 15% vs. 2020, which was the claim I was responding to. That's so wildly wrong it's in piss-on-my-leg-and-tell-me-it's-raining territory.

> only butter/margarine, eggs

But those are cooking staples... sure, you can reduce use to save money, but you can also switch to an all rice and beans diet to save money. It's not like if specifically pork, say, had gone up—sub beef, sub chicken, whatever, cool, not a big deal. Butter and eggs, though?
Controlling Your Own Destiny
A trillion-dollar platinum coin could defuse the debt-ceiling standoff
Ask HN: How did you improve your sleep quality?
Anothet bug, Thank you!!
Fixing it tomorrow :))
Yes you still receive your coupon. My point was that existing bonds coupons don't change.
Who are you?

This may be true but without evidence is sounds like exactly what the OP is complaining about.

His LinkedIn doesn't even claim any business building before 2.5 years ago. https://www.linkedin.com/in/damengchen
It only claims he built 2 things.
"allowing bacteria to transport electrons over 100 times their size"

Have electrons have gotten a lot larger since I studied physics? I'm almost leaning to believe this poorly written article is random AI-generated text.
You are mischaracterizing the article.

The article analyzes the encoded bias of ChatGPT. The system allows you to, for example, make fun of conservatives, but not liberals. It allows you to write negative stories about Republicans, but not Democrats.

The people that created the system have also encoded who is worse off than whom based on what someone looks like. That seems like a bad idea to me.

Using it to write code... that's probably OK. Using it to express ideas? That seems problematic when the system is designed to favor a particular ideology. It is not that the system should output hateful things. It is that it specifically endorses some hateful things as being just fine.

If you extend that into untested biases, what the system favors, you're left with a generator that constantly applies an ideology in favor of some things and against others, regardless of the reason for talking about those things.

"There are no unhappy people in Oceania..." "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Playing Long Games: Focus on Companies with Moats and Relevant Products
A lot of people in EA have poor social skills and a lot of people in the community become friends and lovers. That probably explains most of this phenomenon.
Because it requires some kind of fat binaries.

Some C and C++ compilers offer this and it requires some infrastructure to make it happen (simd attribute in GCC), or explicitly loading different kinds of dynamic libraries.
We compile with msvc so we use those built in analysis tools and also the Xcode analysis tools, and clang-tidy! And of course checking with ASan.

I may have exaggerated with the “nearly every” sorry!

But we do use sufficiently enough tools to avoid most of the pain of c++
Another comment says "From what I understood is that it requires a manual over-ride on R2/ Workers because the thing that checks for the 2.8 TOS violation is not able to see the difference between Workers/ R2 and the standard CDN service. If you go to the R2 Discord channel you see this happening every other week"

Is that at all plausible?
> It turns out that the number 6 is a lucky number in Chinese. It has the meaning of being “auspicious”.

isn't that number 8? (not number 6)
I said 'transport', not 'buying a car'. Many people take the bus or other transport to work, especially when coming off a period of joblessness.
Owning Your Unique Experience
Actually just getting a job helps immensely. Look for intro jobs like Help/Service desk positions and do the IT/programming on the side.
It Feels to Have Inattentive-Type ADHD
> damnit, fine we'll pretend to be a tape library

IIRC, they may not be pretending. It's not public knowledge what storage medium AWS glacier is built on, but many speculate it is actually tape.
I asked it to write some simple code do do a task. It confidently told me to use a library and use some functions in it.

Couldn’t get it to work. Couldn’t get any examples out of google of it being sued that way. Eventually looked through the code of the library and found that while some functions worked int he way chatgpt was trying, the functions it had selected didn’t work, didn’t support those arguments, and never had.
To be clear, Rust has an "incremental" compilation feature, and I believe it is enabled by default for debug builds.

I don't think it's enabled by default in release builds (because it might sacrifice perf too much?) and it doesn't make linking incremental.

Making the entire pipeline incremental, including release builds, probably requires some very fundamental changes to how our compilers function. I think Cranelift is making inroads in this direction by caching the results of compiling individual functions, but I know very little about it and might even be describing it incorrectly here in this comment.
I think I’m in the minority here, but I understand and support this decision. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like it: this move is bad for the internet and freedom of information.

However, this company is close to bankruptcy and is sitting on a wealth of interesting data. Ads can provide revenue only up to a certain point, after which UX will be affected. If I were Twitter’s CEO, I would’ve done the same.
The context is China imports 90% from Russia and India is at 40% imports from Russia and the deep sea ports Russia uses shippers will not ship from as they are north of Black Sea for obvious reasons.

To complicate matters Russia currently is using all available train cars and thus has no compacity to increase rail traffic to ship fertilizer.
> 3. Extensions ecosystem is thriving . I was glad to find my old favorite: Dark Reader. But I have also found a new favorite - Tab Stash. I also found an extension to download Youtube videos - Video Downloader, something I didn't find in Chrome

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

About 2.5 years ago, extensions came back in Firefox mobile Nightly and it is still a hidden feature in mainstream Firefox?

I just had to reinstall Firefox Mobile, and tried to re-add my addon collection and I get the following error messages "No addons here", "Failed to query addons" ... Why are cumbersome collections required to access the addons that you love?
Some are missing, for example, Telegu and some other languages spoken on the Indian sub-continent.
People use a browser, overload it with extensions, then try a new one and are impressed by how fast it is lol

On benchmarks, both Firefox and Chrome have their advantages and disadvantages. One thing about Firefox is it has a richer extension ecosystem so you're probably even more likely to fall into the trap of overloading your browser with extensions

However since real adblocking is threatened in Chrome's future and adblockers can significantly improve performance on some sites, I wouldn't be surprised if eventually this works to Firefox's benefit
Ukraine’s Coming Electricity Crisis: How to Protect the Grid from Russian Attack
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I've lived in 3 cities recently. 2 day shipping every time for years.
And there’s no recourse if there’s a serious problem. When people found melamine in the toothpaste at Walmart, lawsuits were filed and things were recalled. If that happens from EBANEZCR, NKAM, or PLCEM, who are real sellers I just looked up, they disappear and Amazon isn’t held liable. Then the same contaminated fake product continues to be sold under a dozen other sellers.
I've stopped believing sensational stories about North Korea after one too many stories about someone official getting executed only for them to show up alive and well a few weeks later.

Hepatitis B is a STD; presumably they meant Hepatitis A? There was an outbreak of that just last year in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/outbreaks/2022/hav-contaminate... that appear to have come from Mexican strawberries; 'the Mexicans must be using night soil' is not the first conclusion I would have jumped to. Same for Hepatitis C, in 2020 there were 107k newly identified chronic infections in the US.

Regarding the worm, a quick google suggests that the largest roundworm parasite of humans is Ascaris lumbercoides, about which wiki tells me that males are up to 12 inches long and females up to 19 inches long; an 11 incher doesn't seem that remarkable in comparison.