skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The utter stupidity of that idea is along the sames lines as rhetoric, also present in OP, that Russia "weaponized" its gas pipelines

Cutting off energy a nation's energy supply in violation of an established trade agreement, as a response to an escalating conflict between nations, is economic warfare. The term "weaponized" is used correctly in this sense and the author was not engaging in hyperbole.

Modern hybridized warfare is fought across a number of spaces: legal, political, economic, ecological, informational, 'cyber', etc, etc.
We no longer have the luxury of believing the warfare only involves weapons with purely kinetic effects. This is not the way Russia conducts war anymore nor has it been for the last few decades if not more. Conventional military action is always the last resort or the culminating event in modern campaigns.

>I'm going to just go out on a limb here and say that I won't take seriously anything that doesn't immediately address how insane those initial accusations, of Russian sabotage of its own pipelines, were.

Can you honestly justify any actions that Russia has taken openly over the last few years as sane? Countries run by viscous autocrats who have consolidated power often make decisions which suit their personal interests more than the those of the nation. Many in Europe and the US have made the mistake of assessing Putin's strategies as being 'Russia's strategy' and therefore unlikely because it would be bad for Russia. When in fact Putin's strategies serve him just fine because he doesn't give a shit about Russians.
California wildfires are driving up home prices, gentrifying the state
> Models don’t understand anything

Are people really so unaware of themselves? What is understanding? I'm not going to even attempt to define that, but I will posit that the only way we have of verifying understanding, regardless of what definition you use, is validating the correct output for a given input. For instance, when we teach children, we validate their understanding by giving them a test. Are we able to look into their brain and pinpoint exactly where that understanding comes from? No. So why do we apply a different standard for an algorithm? Clearly LLMs understand a lot. That doesn't mean the algorithm is conscious or sentient, but it has understanding.
Are you sure you're paying attention? Those items fall way down the list of problems people will typically raise here. As others have said we're simply tired of being nagged and made to feel like cash cows, and this is doing serious harm to your brand.

Want to repair some of that damage right now? Stop prompting me to sign in when I try to read an article on Medium.
How would you do df.T in sql?
I went to buy some specific keyboard switches last night. Ended up using one of the myriad small random vendors that the industry is full of, clearly on a Shopify cart. The checkout process had a tip button. For physical goods that will arrive in my mailbox in several weeks. Skippable and 1 to 3 percent, but still, this completely undemines any model of how a purchase transaction works to me.
There are a bunch of services like this out there.

One unfortunate unintended consequence of these is that people from Twitter often get the impression that Mastodon is full of impersonator accounts!

Try a search for "web3isgreat" on any popular instance to see an example of the problem - here's a screenshot: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109835687372186227

It's not a huge deal, but I've certainly seen people get upset because they don't understand Mastodon yet and they think it's already full of people impersonating them.
This would be really cool for formatting images for social. Maybe you could add an option to export in different dimensions?
Methane has a decent amount of lift, it's relatively cheap, and it stays in the envelope.
Babysitting rates surged nearly 10% last year
I've never used these commercial blogging platforms, so the answer to this question may be obvious.

Do these platforms provide something useful compared to something like write.as which is based on an open source solution? Is their tools so much better than the open source alternatives?
> You can have run a company for zero profit and it can still be a benefit to society, so no the "purpose of a company is to make profit" is not necessarily true.

On one hand, fair. Technically correct.

On the other hand basically all laymen use the word "company" to mean for-profit corporation, and pretty much everyone who wants to talk about corporations that are designed not to make a profit use the term "non-profit".

I think you've ignored the context in which the comment was made.
In Australia we use hydrogen in our weather balloons. It’s essentially a safety/cost trade-off.
I use Apollo (paid version) after Alien Blue got unusable and I still have the problem that sometimes links go to the mobile site in a browser within Apollo where I get bombarded with "download the Reddit app".

I wouldn't be surprised to see Reddit kill their API in the future.
When you do not look at the coin result that gets recorded, your knowledge of the state of the recorder (the record inside) is not "exactly the same as before". You lack information on the state of the recorder that you would have if you looked.

Yes, knowledge of details of how the recorder works is indeed largely irrelevant, but that was obvious. The point was that being successful with predictions or retrodictions of some system is correlated with having enough information on its state and the laws it obeys. This difference of success for predicting playback vs predicting result of a future experiment sensitive to unknown conditions is due to sufficient information vs insufficient information. I don't see anything in your responses that shows some universal asymmetry between past and future that would explain why your original argument does not work for past macrostates, but does work for future ones.
I've been in the industry over 20 years, and in my experience agile steers everything to be MVP in the pursuit of velocity, even on projects where they are replacing an existing platform and there is no time to market benefits to rush it.

And it looks great at the start, the project is making great progress until people start to leave and the tech debt starts to kick in. By that stage all the "high performance" agile rock stars have pissed off to another company and left behind their legacy.

And then its death by 1000 cuts, things aren't logged correctly, no proper exception handling rather just do a print(e) and falling over, any integrations with 3rd parties aren't documented when they break and its just a mess.
You could do all that, or you could just collect like powers on one side and set the collected coefficients equal to zero, like a mathematician would.
Few years back a certain Redmond company shipped C++ compiler update that was producing actual binaries with telemetry. IIRC it got reverted after an outcry.
You can't divine the value of experience, except from experience.
https://ko.surveymonkey.com/r/6LTPQFS
The 6s is still supported using last year's iOS version 15. It can totally run all of the latest apps still. Why would it have a problem loading anything. She needs to sign?
I was an author on this, and I have a kid :) That kid uses my old iPad.

I'm glad you are reusing your smartphones.
This guy launches lots of balloons with homemade taking beacons.

https://ham-tv.com/balloon/
Weren't they gonna install an territory wide AR network
Netflix has more subscribers and revenue now then it ever did when there was less competition, so unclear what “happened”
Regarding security, I would expect the Acrobat viewer to be in a different process, just like every browser tab is in a separate process. I would also expect it to run in Protected Mode and Protected View [0].

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/reader/using/protected-mode-windows....
Discogs.com
I'm pretty sure that ChatGPT doesn't "understand" things as humans do.

But does it mean that it has no ability to understand things? For example, assume there is an alien species that can only see ultraviolet, but not any other lightwave in human's visual spectrum. They don't "see" things as humans do. But we'll still consider they to have ability to see things.
I'm sure you know exactly what shady thing you did to get yourself banned.
apple just fires continuously rather than letting dead weight stay at the company until a layoff gives management a way to finally let them go.
You're a PM who's been replaced by scrum masters 11 times? Please don't read into tone here, I'm not in the industry so this sounds mindblowing to me.
I hear they even named one varietal of apple the "Macintosh"... someone must be a fan I guess.

(/s)
As separation of concerns, this sounds reasonable and efficient: why should it be the financial sector's job to weigh whether someone is good or bad?

Better to make finance focus on ensuring there are quality, documented links where legally required... and then perform the judging elsewhere (e.g. legal system, FBI, journalism).

That the US (and especially certain states) permits opaque corporate structures is a different problem.
"The pandemic-era need for "configurable care" — perhaps a babysitter two days a week, and other arrangements for the rest — has waned as employers yank folks back into the workplace"
Made clear by your own list, you seem to think Medium has a content issue.

The issue is how annoying it is to experience the content, not the content itself.

And wow, quite a claim to say that creators are too busy to have lives worth writing about.

Reconsider what went wrong with Medium so you can get on the right track.
That’s great info thanks!
https://archive.is/Wr4bw
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/04/27/body-app... they fire people or grind them to dust.
How do you get weblinks to open in that app?
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival game in post-apocalyptic world
I don't quite get the bug, that is what exactly makes the fox follow regions of denser triangles?
I read some of your comment history and I’m impressed: you’re an SEO expert. I’ll take your advice seriously.

What do you think about using AI to create a lot of niche websites - carefully, crafting a few dozen pages around search intent, w a real tool like SEMRush or Ahrefs - and then releasing them on the world, letting Google penalize some but making it up on volume?

To me it seems like it could work.
How could flex work without the ability to deform anything not explicitly nailed down? You need to specify the relative sizes of things, some of those things might be rigid, and the division of how much each item is deformed is dynamic. You would need all new flexi-units like fpx, fem, f% or you could just say everything in flex is now flexi- unless you say it’s rigid and use the same units which is more sane to me.
Google went from searching when you click the search button, to searching as you type, which increased compute spend per search, and they kind of just did it. I don't think it's cost of compute per search that's holding things back.
> You basically get into a situation where you need to be able to read and comprehend math-like lines of code. Which doesn’t seem to mesh well with the structure of nature language.

"The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" has a few paragraphs about this. He points out that language has some intentional redundancy, because humans are unreliable and require it. But programming language designers are often skilled in logic, and prefer that to verbose "human" communication.

The language referenced is APL, but it made me think of functional languages which have a lot of custom infix operators, etc.
Planet Money did a story about the "very weird, very broken market for day care"

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/02/1153931108/day-care-market-ex...
1. FreeCAD. I am not 100% sure what you are trying to do, but FreeCAD most probably con do it. And the forum is there to help you if needed.

2. 3DExperience Solidworks for Makers. It's something like $100/year.
I don't think that is legal in many US states. It is clearly not allowed in my state:

https://www.lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/wages/tips-and-service...
No, it’s still convincing. I’m just more consistent than you are. Intellectual “property” should not have special legal protections. You don’t have the right to prevent me from copying your art or code unless i voluntarily signed a contract agreeing to it. Repeat after me, force is only justified in response to force.

Artists are free to protect their work the same way a software developer might: just keep it private.
I think you mean to say, some parties in government have discussed the idea. It’s not set in stone that it will happen.
I paid for a Udacity nanodegree, had a medical problem and literally didn't log into the platform for months. Meanwhile I was getting charged thousands of dollars and when I finally emailed them about it they wouldn't refund me even though I literally didn't take the class. I hope they fail.
They do exist, as I said above, I’ve signed one. Derp.
For something that’s useless, I get an incredible amount of use out of it. Honestly a pro is probably overkill for me, but I use my iPad a ton every day. I use multitasking a fair bit. I’m actually typing this in a floating browser panel on top of Teams. iPads last seemingly forever, my hand me down iPad 2 was being used by a relative and got retired a few months ago. So I go for the best experience because multiplied by the use I get out of it, it’s worth it.
This was a very interesting video. Thank you for sharing it.

I'm not launching anything anytime in the upcoming future, but I often dabble on side projects for fun with a dream of "launching something, someday", and I thought this was helpful / encouraging, especially early in the video where founders-wanting-to-be-perfect-to-launch was discussed!

I think suggestions like this are great to be sharing with the community. Thanks YC!
If you ask the AI to do that, is the AI doing the infringement - or are you the human doing the infringement?

Was the creator of the BitTorrent protocol liable? or the person transmitting the file?

Is Xerox liable for the copy made? or the person using the copier?
Microsoft vs. Google: The Endgame
The whole "is Rust relevant" feels like that needs the Ousterhout "A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept" graph[1] stapled to the same.

I'm not sure what the y-intercept of Rust is, but its slope seems to be pointed towards more code being written in it than ever before. For example, the wasm compilation is probably the clincher for my toy projects because I like to build stuff to run on a website, but I don't always like writing in JS.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/e83ed02eac6cc8d7e185
> OS X has gotten buggier and slower over the years. I traded “it just works” for the speed and customization of linux years ago

If you have been using Linux for years, how come you've been experiencing increasing number of OS X bugs and performance degradation? I thought you've been running Linux for years?
I’ve been doing WHM for years, and it has been life changing, but I agree with everything he wrote here.

WHM basically teaches you to stop the stress and anxiety process by creating a controlled amount of additional stress, either by cold or low oxygen for a short period of time, and then learning the skill of calming your body down on purpose. Long term this helps eliminate stress and anxiety, but I agree it is dangerous if you are, e.g. already on the verge of a panic attack.

The calming part is also in his courses, and he also teaches calming breath techniques. It’s important to take his actual course and not just do the breathing exercise by itself.
Ask HN: Measurements of Code Quality?
Hi HN community! A friend of mine recently inherited a large Javascript codebase that’s not in great shape. We were brainstorming ways to measure “progress” towards cleaning it up to help others understand what’s going on - some ideas include P90 file & function length, looking at import statements to determine the spaghetti-factor, and looking at the frequency of repeated chunks of code and general low effort code (poor variable names, n^2 loops, etc). We tried a few static analysis tools out there and didn't find the thousands of "errors" they detected very helpful.

I’m curious how you intuitively judge the goodness of code, and whether that could be measured. Let me know if you’d like to see this as an open-source tool too, though the last thing I would want is yet another way to “measure developer productivity”.
Made by the same people who maintain elm. So there is always a chance of similar mismanagement
people always doubt Hersh but he's rarely wrong, and he has incredible sources.

Btw, the US/NATO sabotaging that pipeline isn't exactly a crazy idea.
I’d been wondering why I’d been getting so many crypto spam emails recently, but then I saw an email from them about the breach.

All makes sense now, since I made an account with them a few years ago but forgot about it.
I think anyone sending stuff into the sky with a go-pro has to be reconciled that the chance of loss is pretty high. And if they got footage of the F-22, it's probably worth a lot more than their go-pro.
> no spyware

What spyware is on your modern Mac?
Oddly enough, most people aren't willing to believe piles of made up bullshit just so they can get angry at women standing up for their rights.
This was true in WA before it was true in CA. All west coast states (including Alaska) do not allow tips to go towards minimum wage. Throw in Minnesota, Montana, Nevada as the other states that do this.
Each one of those sidewinder rockets is half a million dollars.

Think about how much healthcare, food, housing, we are burning up with this nonsense.
apple's bluetooth experience is so refined it's practically revolutionary in general. I used to fight bluetooth mouse/keyboard problems all the damn time, I'd have keyboards that suddenly stopped responding or would repeat a key over and over again, mice that would suddenly scroll like an inch at a time, etc. The best experiences were on an Intel NUC that might only have an issue once a day or a couple times a week, but it still was occasionally temperamental and barring that every single other platform I've used ranged somewhere between "highly flaky" and "completely unusable". When it's happening multiple times per day it's just not acceptable.

even a dell latitude business laptop is something else I'd consider that should probably be close to the intel nuc level of "mostly works with minimal flakiness" but it flatly was not... and the intel NUC was extremely flaky compared to everything apple I've used. And everything besides the NUC that used Intel wireless chipsets was a complete disaster that was basically unusable. When I have to put a USB bluetooth adapter in my B550 motherboard to get something that works... yeah.

know what I haven't had to fuck with since getting an intel macbook for work, and a M1 MBA for around the home? bluetooth problems. somehow apple can figure it out, even when using that same flaky intel hardware. nowadays I can just reliably assume that any connection problem means my peripheral has a dead battery for some reason.
Except it’s closer to 23 feet right?
That’s an optimistic take, in reality it’s proof of the fundamental truth that we don’t actually matter and that nothing we do will ultimately matter.

You couldn't even know the name of a person who had one of the skulls, much less know anything they ever did. Their lives were, like ours, completely irrelevant long term. This has to be one of the hardest things for a living human to accept.
Thank god. One of the things that make reddit unbearable.
I had the impression 1 and 6 weren’t as rare anymore (even a single game is a lot of dice throws, and I usually played several in a row and restarted a lot), so I sampled again. No chi-squared test this time, that was just for my learning, because it was obvious without.
> if you started with ML syntax, you'd feel the same way learning a language with C syntax.

I always wonder this but I’ve always found Lisp syntax to be a lot more intimidating and less readable for whatever reason. I should give it a fair shot one of these days.
This is all beyond the point which was that stats about no-JS users are almost nonexistent. You can keep saying "but there can't be many people using web without js" but they literally fly under your radar.

> There are multiple ways to track people with similar precision as common JS trackers without using JS.

And almost no one uses them.

> I would go a step further and say that JS tracking is mostly limited to a certain very small subset of people which making it likely less then 0.01%, potentially even much less then that.

I barely see a project that does anything except Google Analytics at default settings with a script tag.

> Most of the web is inaccessible without JS including many of the most widely used websites

"Most of the web" actually works. Some of the popular ones don't but Wikipedia/Google/Amazon/Facebook (to a degree) are OK. All latest front-end frameworks are built to deliver working HTML with minimal JS instead of SPAs.

> most users don't even understand why not using JS could do anything good. Or understand what JS is.

There was a time most users didn't even understand why not using IE could do anything good or understand what a browser is. Times change.
That's why I left Elm. There were major unfixed bugs for years. I liked the concept, but I couldn't deal with the slow progress to fix things.
> It's deflationary not in a USD sense but that over time there is less and less ETH because it's being burnt.

This isn't what the word deflation actually means though. Deflation is when the purchasing power of a currency increases, and inflation is the opposite.

The purchasing power of ETH hasn't been very stable over time at all. It certainly hasn't been consistently deflationary.
The 2008 crisis was directly caused by human greed, at all levels, and failing to be reigned in by regulatory bodies.

It's unreasonable to blame one source for something that metastisized over years, involving most parties in the financial sector, until exploding.

Banks could have chosen not to do this business or to hedge their risk in a better way. Credit ratings agencies could have shown some independence and objectivity. Derivatives buyers could have done more due diligence on what they were buying. Home buyers could have looked at the market and said "This is way too hot, and the party can't go on forever."

Deregulation handed everyone rope, including us, and we all hung ourselves.

It stings when you get personally @+$#ed, and it feels good to blame massive, systemic failures on one source, but they're systemic failures for a reason -- because the entire system was culpable.
Well, there was that entire huge NFT crypto scam bubble.

To a first and probably second approximation, crypto is only good for getting scammed and scamming others. There's a lot of overly credulous people in the field, which just attracts crime like a moth to a flame.
If it literally only transfers “4”, how does it know where to put it?
>> At one gathering, he summons "a man called Mukesh, who is dressed in a vest and is not wearing a shirt" from the crowd.

>> When such a man appears on the stage, he writes down on a sheet of paper what ails Mukesh and his family without talking to him. Mukesh readily agrees when he hears his troubles read out from this sheet.
Why I'm Leaving Elm
Was this your opinion or ChatGPT’s?
I don’t have proof of this, but I think you can still do the method without the tinnitus risk if you skip the pressurizing part of the recovery breath. I started to get tinnitus, and it went away when I stopped that. I’ve also read similar accounts from other people.
> dozens

Even if there are 7 dozen extra customers, that's maximum (looks up price of most expensive Apple Watch) of 7 * 12 * $799 = $67k.
Get a copy of "Your code as a crime scene", then check out two GitHub repos

https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat

https://github.com/smontanari/code-forensics