skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my speculation is that the main goal of Chinese covid lockdown was to train and simulate mass policing of population in case of upcoming war.
How is tiktok any more or less brain rot than say hacker news?
Cool domain. A buddy and I made https://tlwsd.com similar
After having been an assistant professor for three years, I have given up on Academia. I quit to get a job in the industry. The big concerns were

* Academic freedom. So many restrictions on what one can say; from state institutions, from society, from the university administration, even from departmental politics.

* Bureaucracy. Academia becomes more and more a David Graeber style "bullshit job" every year. I spent almost a third of my time doing compliance paperwork or attending useless meetings.

* Answering to MBAs. The power structures in universities are almost completely out of whack. Administrators using their power to force nonsensical policies about teaching or research - things they understand little about - just so they can get some self-designed metrics up.

I haven't given up on academic stuff. I am writing a book, and in the future hope to publish papers, but as an industry researcher or an independent scientist.
I live in a city center and don't want to leave - in fact, I want to move to a larger city often.

I'm also single and wish to have a life partner. If and when I find someone with whom I find peace and contentment to share my life with, I imagine being in the middle of the bustle won't be as necessary.

(I'm aware I should not look for a life partner to make me at peace, but it sure would help).
I remember seeing the /r/pinball threads on this, replete with pin fans complaining about how simple the playfield was. Nice to see it reaching completion.
Just FYI for all QGIS fans, QGIS had a recent call for funding.

https://blog.qgis.org/2023/01/16/crowd-funding-call-2023/
I did read the article.

The entire article is about wash trading.

The thing about tax is that "strategies" like this which are clearly contrary to the intent of the law but which technically fall within the letter of the regulations can be made explicitly illegal after the fact, so the lack of prosecutions to date is not an indicator of their illegality. See the Bermuda loss harvesting scandal from the early 2010s.

Goldman's partners are simply banking on being able to place enough former employees in the regulatory agencies to get away with it this time. It didn't work for the Bermudan loss harvesting schemes and it probably won't work this time.
Cheap balloon vs expensive missile, seems a good way to bankrupt us by sending continuous balloons.
The bottleneck is clearly Google's hesitancy. ChatGPT is better because I can use it right now. I don't care how good the research demos are if I can't interact with them myself. Google has a track record of discontinuing products and having weird user/developer unfriendly policies.

One of the most recent was Chrome's plan to force manifest v3. But many of the features promised to devs from v3 wouldn't have been ready by the time v3 was supposed to release. I would approach Google's AI stuff with similar hesitancy as I would have approached Stadia within the last few months before it shut down. Just like with Stadia, Google very clearly does not care to prioritize this kind of AI tech. Google failed to proofread its own ad about Bard. I can't understand how rushed they would have to be for something like that to happen.

In my opinion, this is why new ChatGPT users are going to stay with ChatGPT, even as the aggressive filtering makes the output slightly worse as time goes on.
This is not a good faith question.
The same would have hypothetically been true for plenty of sites like Stack Overflow.. Which is an example that sites themselves penalize anonymous internal search over fresh Google search.

Controlling the search pages is of low value compared to staying fixed at the top of Google searches (thanks to obfuscated interaction rankings) by having a lot of people who search dozens of times a day always selecting only your page in Google's responses and of course never applying captcha to a new visitor from Google.
This is just factually untrue. AML policies unjustly affect millions of Americans.

At US Bank, you can’t deposit cash without an ID which is standard post 2018 or so. Yet go to a US Bank in a low income area, deposit $100 in a family member’s account and they will ask for ID, social security number and your job.

US Bank has been involved in multiple money laundering scandals leading to deferred criminal prosecution.

Many friends have times where they can’t withdraw their own cash, have had accounts closed, have been falsely reported for fraud without any recourse etc etc.

Also because financial fraud and identity theft is rarely prosecuted, regular Americans are bombarded with friction and hassle to transact.

People outside normal banking use Chime or prepaid bank cards, which promptly get banned from being used in a wide variety of businesses.

AML policies and the Bank Secrecy Act is a violation of the 4th Amendment. The BSA (a misnomer) has expanded in scope since the 70s and as money has inflated. It’s went from an adjusted $70,000+ to $600 today (or $85 in 1970s dollars).

And it seems the Supreme Court is going to act on the BSA sometime in the next year. It is a crime against the individual, a violation of civil rights and indefensible.

It is purely motivated by tax enforcement and controlling the population. It does not prevent or identify crime. There is an estimated trillion+ of trade based money laundering every year.
You might dismiss it, but for me AirPods are the biggest QOL improvement from tech since smartphones. Bluetooth headphones were atrociously hard to use before them.
The magic link is used to authenticate you but we have to tie your user to your email so you can actually use AJIR’s features :-)
Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?
I remember years ago I spent sometime to learn it as I was curious how a purely functional front-end language feels like, and genuinely thought it had a good chance of being massively adapted in the near future, especially with what seemed like a vibrant community.

However, I got distracted by a data science career and toolchain. Am in the process of starting my first SaaS as a solo founder and was looking at what languages to use and was surprised to see that Elm...seems dead? As an example I did a search on hackernews and it hardly got mentioned in the last year (both comments and posts!)

Am wondering if anyone can provide some more light on what happened to the language? Is it a safe bet? And what is a suitable good replacement for it?
High-Energy Lasers
I’d read cases in your states court site and the decisions given by judges. Research terminology and process via the Cornell law site.
the person I replied to said "we dont need any of this fancy hotloading" and then gave examples of fancy hotloading, hence me asking, and pointing out the contradiction.

Like you said, AJAX isnt limited to XML, and is really just referring to any use of XMLHttpRequest to hotload data whether its XML, JSON etc.

I wasnt asking what ajax was. I was asking if it falls into the definition of "fancy."

I think my parent proved the opposite point they meant to. old reddit and hn and wp ARE the fancy html over wire sites, and airbnb and reddit are NOT the fancy over wire sites.
I used to program python plugins for QGIS, I really miss it. It made me feel really useful, I'd write visualization algorithms one day and the next it was deployed to the whole company and people would email me telling me how much easier it made their job. I don't think I've ever felt this valued since, every other job I had was a small part of a big whole.

I'd kill to find a full remote job doing that.
But then we can't harvest your email address
Why not? I’m genuinely curious.
How are you defining rural? The people who live in small towns in farm country, or the farmers living on their farm. In general farmers are not poor, but the people who live in the towns around them often are. It takes a lot of money to run a farm, you have to be great at business as you will have several years in a row where you lose $100,000 - over the long term though things work out to making a lot of money on farms.
> The sidewinder missile + F-22 flight time costs are an order of magnitude greater than the total cost of launching one balloon.

This seems like conjecture. Is there any reliable data on how much said balloon cost?
As if the site we're currently using is on the cutting edge of design. If there's utility there's value.
Creating a new e-coin has the perverse incentive of mining the low-hanging fruit in private, with the hope of it becoming valuable and making the founder(s) billionaires. I can't take seriously any e-coin that follows this path.
Some think it happened in Roswell NM. in 1947.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident

I've got a fanciful notion that the "foo fighters" are living creatures. The Air Force supposedly gave someone some of the excretions to examine and they found "unearthly isotopes" or some such.

I figure something that lives, say, a couple hundred miles down inside a planet might only even notice the surface phenomenon that are the most dense, energetic, and anomalous (certainly at first), and pay more attention to those things. How might such beings interact with us and could we discern their efforts as such if we wanted?
My ductless house has a gas combi water heater/boiler and hot water circulation system to in-wall radiators with simple blower fans.

The house also has an exhaust fan on a timer, paired with small vents on several windows around the house, to cycle in fresh outside air. But practically for much of the year we just open the windows for fresh air since we live in the temperate PNW climate, wildfires aside :(

I looked in to installing a minisplit heat pump system last year, but the quotes I got were outrageous ($25k+) plus as a retrofit it's not the most elegant integration. Someday I'd like to do the conversion and ultimately decommission the gas boiler, but at that price tag it's not happening soon.

In the short term I bought one window AC and one portable AC for a combined ~$1000. It's not ideal but we only have a few weeks a year where cooling is really needed, and a few more where it's a nice luxury but not a necessity.
I wish Apple overhired a bit to fix a couple issues I have with their Terminal app... The color support thing doesn't bother me as much as the lack of an overline attribute (so I get my favorite 3278-like status bar). And, quite frankly, I'd love to see smooth scrolling for those rare moments where things are not scrolling past the window at relativistic speeds. In terms of VT-100 compatibility, Terminal.App is already on the very top tier.

And yes, of course, I know there are other terminal apps for macOS. I just want the built-in one to get fixed.

And don't get me started about Tektronix and ReGIS graphics...
edit: Maybe this?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-fo...
Laser mapping of military POIs before a war in a few years? See the recent laser rays on Mauna Kea.
https://hashnode.com/ is close to what medium used to be, I suppose. Hope it will stay like that.
It feels to me like things are just starting to spool up. Unlike during my youth, I think the playing field is much more tilted in the United States favor.

I had lots of nightmares about seeing a bright orange flash in the window back in my youth. I've had a few recently.

If they decide to take out the Steel Works in Gary, I'll be toast. If not, fallout is something that can be avoided by staying inside, away from exterior walls and the roof, and waiting it out for at least a week.

I've had Potassium Iodide in stock for my child's use since the Fukushima meltdown... I bought a new bottle when Ukraine kicked off.
No, and customers dont want that. Keeping up with fads is exhausting for users.
mmh. been mentoring few ppl.. last 15+ years.
it's not easy to find mentees. proper ones. actively interested in being mentored (not taught, lectured, tick-that-course'd, etc).. And when there is someone like that, noone pays for that. so it gets difficult..
Office had been on the Mac since the 80s. Microsoft didn’t just wake up one day in 1997 and decide to port Office to the Mac.

They promised to keep doing what they were already doing.
That's a very cool example of somewhat unconventional QGIS use.
It's boundary-pushing.

They're unmanned and ambient, yet are clearly a provocation and give China an information advantage over where it would be without the balloons, and in a geopolitical sense it asserts Chinese ascendency. At the same time, it's hard for the US or other powers to figure out an appropriate response. Very similar to Russian/NK/Chinese/Israeli/American state-sponsored hacking groups--it continually forces the adversary to ask "where do we draw a line, and what consequences do we give for crossing it?"
Can someone explain why some people here are so agitated over a claim that the US did it? Is it hard to believe that US intelligence would do something like this? Besides, if you hate Russia then it's a good thing right?
Pot calling kettle black. The US has been sending armed drones into several countries without coordination with local ATC or consent of the local government. Soleimani and a number of Iraqi military officers were taken out by a US drone.
Can't we use an AI to generate high quality email addresses?
"Tolerating" and "keeping around forever next to the good ideas" are different things. You can say no without stifling future input.
Cars, concrete and commuting ruined cities in the 20th century
There are two interesting things here from a legal perspective.

1. Licensing works on the commercial seeds because they are patented, and thus the company that makes those seeds can dictate license terms on the farmers. As far as I can tell, these open seeds are not patented and thus their creators can't really impose license terms on the buyers unless they sign a contract before sale. That would be treated solely under contract law, not patent/copyright law.

2. Apparently these seeds use some sort of shrink-wrap license agreement as quoted below, which attempts to form the contract agreement mentioned in #1.

"The license is printed on every OSS seed package in Europe. Whoever opens an OSS package agrees to never patent these seeds or future breeding of them."

Considering the general dislike for/legal questionably behind shrink-wrap agreements, this sounds like a very poor way to enforce the OSS license. Also it is uncertain how valid this agreement is unless the seeds are patented (in that case the buyer's OSS rights can be granted via patent license terms).
Parent is presumably talking about recent comments by Gen. Mike Minihan (Air Mobility Command).

IMHO, people/news are blowing it out of proportion.

If the boss of FedEx said we're going to end up in a war with China, how much does that say about what defense contractors are doing?

What it was probably actually about was shocking the troops assigned to AMC, establishing an important mission and raising morale, and declaring business as usual was no longer acceptable.

Gotta be creative to make people excited about moving supplies.

See also: every ridiculous statement by every startup CEO in a bubble, ever
"alleged extortionist"
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - leonardo da vinci

I too am thrown off by this. I also don't see any substance past their video. I wonder if there are any tools out there that actually have working prototypes
I'm pretty sure nobody here knows.
From NYC, within a 15 minute walk from my door:

- Whole Foods

- Key Food

- 2-3 specialty grocers (think italian importers, etc.)

- gourmet grocer

- two butcher shops and a fresh fish shop

- CVS (yes, they sell groceries! spooky)

- 2-3 bodegas that sell shelf-stable goods, as well as a small collection of fruit and vegetables

If you go expand it to 15 minute bike, the world is truly your oyster, but the primary one that pops up is Trader Joe's.

The most remarkable part of this description, is that it identifies at least 4 or 5 different neighborhoods in NYC, those are only the ones I can think of off the top of my head, and I haven't been close to everywhere.

There's a lot of things to knock about NYC, but it's easily the most walkable city in the US, that I've seen.
What % of those wearables and services are tied to devices?

If iPhones vanished tomorrow, how much trouble would Apple be in? Wearables are 100% attach rate to iPhone, and I'd presume so are the vast majority of service subscribers.

> Before the MS deal was signed, Apple had already gotten a line of credit for a couple of billion. The $250 million that Microsoft invested in Apple was nothing.

As others said, the software support, browser + office were huge.
You can bang on about risk all you want but Adam Neuman lost $40bn and still walked away with a billion of his own.
My understanding is their vaccine doesn't work at all, they don't have a strong emergency medical care system, thus it was the only real option for them.
> You have to be careful how you do it. I was punished for turning it down.

Not only that - you may be perceived as a threat to anyone who takes the post that was offered to you and, since you turned it down, you have no actual power to control what happens.
I thought AI can't generate text? How does this have readable text in output.
Where I work we're currently developing an administration / employee-only pages using server-side Blazor.

I don't know if this counts as "HTML over the wire" because server-side Blazor contains some magic to make the page kinda-sorta act like AJAX. It's a little laggy, but for our purposes, it's "good enough."

(The customer-facing pages are going to be SPAs, for very good reasons.)

https://optirtc.com/company/careers/
Apologies, I meant to post this as an actual `Ask HN` to get the community's thoughts. I accidentally left the link in (which was originally planning on posting with a different title).

I can't edit the post, but I'd be happy to have the link dropped and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34742946#34742947 turned in to the "Ask HN" text if that would make it better. That's what I was trying to do in the first place...
> provocation

Quite possibly. Minor provocations that by themselves are too inconsequential to warrant a response, nothing to start a war over, but incrementally provokes the target into lashing out in some way that is advantageous for China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_salami_slicing_strateg...

(Other countries do it too, of course..)
Most languages don't make a distinction between declaration and definition, and many don't even care where something is defined/declared at all. C/C++ are really the exception nowadays, and for good reason: having to keep the definition and declaration in sync is annoying and unnecessary, even though I sometimes miss the easy overview of an API header files give.
If you've used TikTok, you know
Google sounds like a Kodak or a Xerox, so enamored of their cash cow they lose the incentive to innovate. I'm not saying they will end up like those companies, though, as they're in an industry where catching up won't be as difficult. But they definitely got caught napping.
The more likely scenario is that no one will trust anything that isn’t verified with your government provided digital ID.
Also browser refreshes should definitely not lose scroll position, though I can understand how with full ones the former position might not be the "correct" one any more with dynamic content like HN... or substack comments (and how did those manage to be so slow and buggy displaying what is almost exclusively text ?!)
Truly beautiful place, and one of the more interesting museums I visited in Rome in terms of artifacts and such on display.
One is industrial strength endless stream of mindless shortform entertainment that some of the best ML engineers work tirelessly to make more addicting.
The other is a software and startup page that’s basically from the 90s that gets new content roughly about once a day.
No, I'm saying that GME is like a casino. That was an extremely lame attempt at an assumptive close.
I don't think that's how it happened. You can make arguments for all sorts of burial practices.

It was a classic argument, recounted by Herodotus:

When Darius was king, he summoned the Greeks who were with him and asked them what price would persuade them to eat their fathers’ dead bodies. They answered that there was no price for which they would do it. Then he summoned those Indians who are called Callatiae, who eat their parents, and asked them (the Greeks being present and understanding by interpretation what was said) what would make them willing to burn their fathers at death. The Indians cried aloud, that he should not speak of so horrid an act.

Herodotus used this anecdote, rather dubiously I think, it as an argument that everyone should stick to their own customs and not think too much about what other people do. But I think Darius himself, if it actually happened, used it more as an argument for tolerance, agnosticism - and cruelty.

Because it's a bit cruel to shock the poor Greeks and Callatiae like that, isn't it? And rulers of most large (and thus multicultural) empires always seemed to be a bit on the cruel side to me.

What do you do, when you encounter people, for whom everything you consider important, sacred, meaningful, just doesn't register at all, and they care about completely different things? Do you shut it out? Or do you allow yourself to drift towards indifference and nihilism, that maybe none of that stuff matters at all?

As I recall, Popper called it "the strain of civilization", how it gnaws on people to have to deal with so many people who don't share their basic values of what's important in life. And how they can resort to isolationism and cruelty to cope with it.

The Christian church's innovation was to seek a tight core of meaningful beliefs, with divine justifications of course, but be fairly tolerant of more secondary sources of meaning, those coming from custom and culture. Like Paul, who insisted that no food was forbidden to eat, even food that had been served up to idols, but that he'd nonetheless respect the dietary customs of the people he ate with because it was important to them ("Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.")

It was really the first truly multicultural faith, since up to then, faith, customs and culture had been one and the same.

So it's not so out of character, really, that the Catholic church a few years ago ruled that the Madagascar custom of exhuming the dead and dancing with them wasn't contrary to the faith, since it was "just" a cultural practice and didn't necessarily imply any beliefs incompatible with Christianity.
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A government that spends more money on their military than the rest of the world combined isn't at risk of bankruptcy from firing a couple missiles.

We're at risk of bankruptcy because our debt is 31 trillion dollars and in June we won't even be able to issue securities to continue bullshitting ourselves out of cutting spending. Welcome to America, we're broke because we spent all our money on guns rather than infrastructure, healthcare and education.
Tesla's self-driving/ADAS have more confirmed fatalities than the self-driving/ADAS of every other automaker in the world combined.

The NHTSA shows that Tesla AP/FSD is 50+x more likely to get into an accident than Ford and Toyota's systems, despite Tesla AP/FSD being available in a tiny fraction of the cars. Tesla AP/FSD is more than 3x more likely to get into an accident than the second worst automaker's comparable systems.

It doesn't matter how you try to analyze the statistics, Tesla AP/FSD is objectively the most dangerous in the world.
It is likely not legal but the gamblers are too lazy to take it to courts I would guess, and the casinos are in jurisdictions where it might be really tedious or expensive.