skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least with WASM we have some slim hope for those tools to run on non-retarded stack
I agree. I found this article obnoxious and immature, just as I found his anti Why We Sleep tirade back when it was posted last year on HN.

My overriding thought is "why do I care what this random guy thinks about anything?"
Creating new things, e.g. electronics is a good outlet for when I need to feel productive and creative. A lot of the work I do day to day translates to the craft.

And then I get to pick how to enclose the project :) that's my favorite part since I get to trawl design magazines and blogs for cool ideas:
https://www.designboom.com/
https://www.yankodesign.com/

Watching other people be creative helps too. In addition to the design blogs, Twitch has a lot of art streams that help unstick me.
I experienced the closure of The Literary Guillotine, the small, academic bookstore, in the fall of 2019. But on the other side of the same block, there's Bad Animal[1], a small bookstore/restaurant: they have an incredibly impressive used selection - it was my go-to spot.

There's wishing the town returns to being affordable because high costs only rids places of their proper energy. Despite being in my mid-twenties, these days I, maybe foolishly/naively, dream of living in Bonny Doon.

1. https://www.badanimalbooks.com/
It's particularly funny that he stalked and "debated" some people online about their opinions on random stuff. Who cares?
:)

Yes. I assume there are like 20 scampers saving everything posted in HN. Including big search companies, intelligence agencies, alternative interface projects and overenthusiastic users.

Going back to the original question:

I don't remember how HN is implemented. IIRC they are still using text files instead of databases. I'll assume they just mark it as deleted, not a hard delete, but I'm a bit paranoiac. Even if it's deleted, I don't think the swipe the hard disk, or all the backups and old machines that have the last year version, or ...

Anyway, if someone makes a huge mistake, they can email the mods and they may try to take a look and perhaps hide or delete it. Anyway, contacting the 20 scrapers may be more difficult.
Twitter definitely punched above its weight as the go-to forum for companies, politicians, celebrities, media, etc.
While this articles point out all the right explanation on why telemetry is needed and how it can be made little more transparent by Go toolchain acting as intermediary and publishing the telemetry data publicly, it fails to point out the disadvantages/risks of such system. At the core, the issue is about trust and the user not having any incentive.
This is the course of action that goes back to the, in my opinion, ill-inspired motto, "strong opinions, loosely held." For some, this is an admirable position. To me, a scientist, it is a cautionary tale: don't trust strong opinions, always verify.
My current idea is probably: store the latitude and longitude of major cities in the world in a txt file, load it, and then estimate the distance based on the difference between them and the current photo, not sure about the space taken and the time consumed.
I built a lower end linux machine out of consumer grade parts in order to self-host this. I think it ended up being $600-800 with 8TB of storage but could be done a lot cheaper. Hard to beat $10/mo though unless your needs extend beyond storage. I ended up using it for a lot more in the end (mealie, wordpress, etc). Something to consider if you the budget and time.
Getting some real Poe's law vibes off this post.

> Meditation is terrible -> meditation is amazing

> By “meditating” I mostly mean sitting around with my eyes closed. I haven’t done any research at all on what meditation is supposed to be.

Definitely ok with this person calling their practice meditation - who cares? But I'm more likely to listen to reflections when someone can commit to a particular meaning of a word. Is the meditation that you thought was terrible the same as the one you think is amazing?
well i will agree on one thing....

corporations are constantly looking for a machine to do labor for free. life itself did not evolve just to do labor for a corporation so by trying to copy biological intelligent life, the result won't necessarily want to do what you tell it to do or be interested in your profit motives.
Compared to gains in computing power? yes, it is entirely miserable.

I could press a button that I looked at in native app 20 years ago. Current day apps can't even get stable layout displayed 99% of the time. The "see the link, click the link, whoops something else got moved under my cursor in that 200ms interval" is soooo common if you try to use anything web quickly.
What does this means?

human-centered developer experience
It's such an interesting dilemma. I've been photographing things since I was 8 (which, for the record, was the early 80s). I know what certain Fuji and Kodak and, more recently, Ilford films look like, how to shoot with them, and what looks good to my experienced eye. I have spent a great deal of time trying to find an excellent film simulation workflow in linux because my "headcanon" of a photo is very clear.

But I don't try too hard, because there's a hell of a lot of merit in either (a) just whacking some sliders around until I hit an unexpectedly great look for the shot or (b) just letting the camera give me a JPEG that is better than just about anything I'll end up with and spending my time shooting. I still use emulation, and probably always will (and someday I'll find a good emulation of the VSCO A-series iphone filters) because of that easy headcanon situation, but the fear of getting stale is real.
There are plenty of "alternatives" that are not censored. There's media all over the middle east and asia that's not friendly to the US that isn't censored. It makes perfect sense to censor the aggressor in a war because of course they're only going to say things that benefit themselves, especially in a country that's passed laws against the criticism of the war.

All you're really arguing for here is that the west should openly allow Russian propaganda to infiltrate minds of the general public.
I think the point is that there is no ethical supplier of natural gas.
I should add we do plan to make the Indie license available for Linux this year sometime.
It is! We did Scheme (the media scheme distribution), C, Java, Python and then implemented Scheme in Scheme. The theory was that students need to learn the science of algorithmic thinking before worrying about dirty machine representation and limited resource engineering problems. The downside was listening to the incessant complaints from the other sciences students "I just want to take an intro CS class that can teach me what I need to know to succeed at being a script kiddy". Well sorry, our department teaches computer science, not how to script R and how to read DNA sequencer strings in Python.
How about a bike shed [0]? from twitter Massimo:

[0] https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1623295579542659072
You’re so right it’s hilarious to me. I’m currently going through this phase now. Relearning the same lessons that have been relearnt and forgotten ten thousand times before me.

Sitting outside watching bees go about their day is a good use of your time in your 30’s.
Yes, and it is trivial to find:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-blog-post-...

Are people try to derail this story by flooding the submission with innocent questions?
The current language pairs available are Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Persian, Italian, Polish, and Romanian from English.

And English from Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, and Polish.
The Most Popular Game on Steam Is a Scam?
You asked an issue that _you_ faced in prod, you have the benefit of hindsight.

I'm assuming that you are interviewing candidates where this bug is not common.
Alliance Space Guard – Game Devlog
Show HN: Breakdown of a ShaderToy Demo
or if the full prompt is that long, but one word is different, or ...
We do the same. I haven't tried Robusta, so I'll take that as a recommendation.

Is Vietnamese coffee blended (eg- with chicory) like madras coffee?
Welcome to Universe 25

- Housing deficit

- Overpopulation

- Excess food
The person you’re talking about is my grandpa, Robin Butler. He has some great stories! Cool to see him mentioned on hacker news
If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field.

There are so many things this world needs smart people doing. A slowdown in the tech sector might just be the catalyst.
Thank you for letting me know about this.
> The author didn't point fingers at anyone.

I didn't say he did. (I was referring to comments here on HN.)
That's what I immediately thought of also. Oddly enough, I was just talking about the Kentucky Coffeetree this week and found this quote on its wiki, which seems apt -

> When Kentucky was first settled by the adventurous pioneers from the Atlantic states who commenced their career in the primeval wilderness, almost without the necessaries of life, except as they produced them from the fertile soil, they fancied that they had discovered a substitute for coffee in the seeds of this tree; and accordingly the name of coffee-tree was bestowed upon it. But when communication was established with the sea-ports, they gladly relinquished their Kentucky beverage for the more grateful flavor of the Indian berry; and no use is at present made of it in that manner.
0.75 gpm: https://www.moen.com/nebia-by-moen

Or DIY 2 l/min = 0.53 gpm: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/10/mist-showers-sustain...
Seymour Hersh is also 85 years old, long into his retirement with likely partially declining faculties. When you get older your "bullshit filter" starts to go away as well. Also he has a long career of attacking the US government so anything that "rhymes" with that is going to fit his own confirmation bias.
There will always be bad things people look back on and hate but that doesn't mean there won't also be bad things people look back on and get nostalgia for. Non-media query adapting layouts, janky scrolljacking pages, an over-abundance of CSS transition/animation effects come to mind. I'm sure there will be plenty to look back on. E.g. people don't look back at the 2000s web and only think pop up ads, flash vulnerabilities, and browser crashes.
I said it in another post but AI is a feature, not a product. You just add it on. It doesn't become "the thing." People that are saying this are the same people that said Stories would kill Instagram or Facebook. It's just a feature you add in.
>If it’s the former then I imagine the case is pretty strong to discontinue usage and switch to Paxlovid.

Molnupiravir is already the last line treatment, it's been that way from the start. It should never be used in cases where the patient can take Paxlovid. Well it's above Convalescent Plasma, but that's because that's barely beneficial and I don't know if anyone is even using it now.

In order of preference:

1. Paxlovid
2. Remdesivir
3. Various IV Monoclonals
4. Molnupiravir
5. Plasma

https://twiv.s3.amazonaws.com/COVID+treatment+summary+020223...
Humans do already have implicit rules baked in, it's called social etiquette. If you deviate from these rules you get weird looks.

And for many people they do have to put effort into consciously following these rules, which makes them not so good at conversation.
My wife and I live states away from our respective families and once our first was born we started a self-hosted wordpress blog. Photoprism has been amazing to create albums that I later edit and document on a personal blog that the long distance families can access. We found it enjoyable to put together a post each month with some of our favorite photos and memories. Everyone else seems to love it as well. We are now working on putting together some posts on past vacations and other moments we want to remember. The combination of photoprism for viewing and wordpress for storytelling has been a perfect combination for us.
It’s a mistake to think of this as something inflicted by outsiders. Much of the early usage around the turn of the century was by native speakers, but those were activists pushing boundaries – basically challenging continuation of an arbitrary convention. That’s a reasonable thing to do but that doesn’t say what’ll become mainstream.

It has seemed like in this case the problem was that some people outside of those communities heard that debate and thought they were being accommodating by going with the loudest voices on the topic rather the most representative. In a more HN analogy, it feels like setting a corporate standard on Arch Linux without realizing that you’re hearing from a small, self-selected group because most people don’t feel strongly enough to spend time evangelizing.
Not to mention asserting that something is terrible when you haven’t done any research into what that thing actually is…
That's what I'm saying.

I think I find these types of articles arrogant, or implying narcissism.

That he feels that anyone would find this tedium valuable is almost offensive to me lol. I'm just sick of seeing these kind of articles everywhere.

If there is something to be learned in your 20s, it's that you aren't special, your likely average, and your experiences aren't new or unique.

Live your life in your own way, but for YOURSELF, because no one gives a shit.
> If you were to start another project today, would you go the same route of Metal first and then whatever else you did? Or would you go directly to the way that you are currently doing it?

Forgot to respond to this. We didn’t come up with a write-once GPU programming solution. So yeah, it’s just write it and maintain it two or three times sadly. We would probably take the same approach if we were to do another plug-in for simplicity. We went Metal first because we only made Mac software at the time.
Chrome simply using DNSSEC and NSEC(3) by default would fix this to a great extent.
When it happened it was clear that the US, Russia, and Poland were likely the only suspects, except they're all really weird! The US absolutely has not made return on investment, which was obviously going to happen because shipping it over is much more expensive than the pipeline, and in the meantime Biden has to deal with increased gas prices. His incentives go the other way on this. But why the fuck would Russia do it? Poland is like...there, which is why they're worth a mention, but they don't have the same operational capacity and also do not benefit from it at all. But I mean come on, we know it was sabotaged deliberately. Such a weird thing
> what's surprising to me here is the reaction to dang's reasonable justification for disabling the flags on this story

It doesn't seem so reasonable. It seems bizarre, frankly. It's utterly out of line with (what I percieve to be) the whole history of HN moderation on this kind of subject.
> The social contagion is so plain to see but I guess talking about it is a taboo.

This is very sad yet, regrettably, very true. It is becoming increasingly popular to promote drugging and mutilating not only adults, which is bad enough, but also children. This goes far beyond just the most obvious extreme of so-called "transgenders" but also beyond to the entire "LGBT" complex. I've personally heard, firsthand, college students express sadness about being "straight" or put various "identities" on a pedestal.
The U.K.’s Government-Run Healthcare Service Is in Crisis, from the WSJ, 2.6.23
Being open to changing your mind is of course admirable but…

From the post:

======

“What I changed my mind about:
1. Meditation was invented to make people get rid of all desires and self-mummify.

Actually, I have no clue why meditation was invented. I think I just saw a picture of a monk who meditated himself into a mummy once and the image got stuck in my head.”

[…]

“As of writing this, I’ve been meditating >=1h/day for 48 days in a row.”

[…]

“By “meditating” I mostly mean sitting around with my eyes closed. I haven’t done any research at all on what meditation is supposed to be.”

======

Clearly this is all a bit tongue in cheek but, I dunno, maybe there’s a lesson here about doing a little more research before forming strong opinions?
If Catalonia decided to join France and France went and carpetbombed Madrid, I think we'd all be equally horrified.

There's zero excuse for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I don't even see how this is semi-debatable.
> XP is uncontrollable by comparison.

You could have an Active Directory domain full of Windows XP machines in 2001.
"Gut microbiota and neurological effects of glyphosate" ( 2019, NeuroToxicology )

"Abstract
There are currently various concerns regarding certain environmental toxins and the possible impact they can have on developmental diseases. Glyphosate (Gly) is the most utilised herbicide in agriculture, although its widespread use is generating controversy in the scientific world because of its probable carcinogenic effect on human cells. Gly performs as an inhibitor of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phospate synthase (EPSP synthase), not only in plants, but also in bacteria. An inhibiting effect on EPSP synthase from intestinal microbiota has been reported, affecting mainly beneficial bacteria. To the contrary, Clostridium spp. and Salmonella strains are shown to be resistant to Gly. Consequently, researchers have suggested that Gly can cause dysbiosis, a phenomenon which is characterised by an imbalance between beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms. The overgrowth of bacteria such as clostridia generates high levels of noxious metabolites in the brain, which can contribute to the development of neurological deviations. This work reviews the impact of Gly-induced intestinal dysbiosis on the central nervous system, focusing on emotional, neurological and neurodegenerative disorders. A wide variety of factors were investigated in relation to brain-related changes, including highlighting genetic abnormalities, pregnancy-associated problems, diet, infections, vaccines and heavy metals. However, more studies are required to determine the implication of the most internationally used herbicide, Gly, in behavioural disorders."

read more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01618...
I have been drinking Lavazza Crema e Gusto which is like 70% robusta out of a moka pot for years. It’s my favorite coffee.
Why would I install this? Why wouldn't I just ask ChatGPT my questions?
This one of the primary ideas in "So Good They Can't Ignore You"[1]. In your 30's there is a decent chance you've spent a bunch of time building career capital, so you're now in a position to cash that in.

Highly recommend reading the book.

[1] So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca...
There are a lot of soft clones of SO that you encounter at times with the exact same questions and answers in a crappier display format. Missed opportunity to whoever copped https://stackgpt.com, I foresee something like that coming eventually.
I think you're broadly right. Wolfram did some theoretical and computational physics at young age (numerical quantum chromodynamics), and in last decades he likes to speculate about how all fundamental physics (3D space, matter and basic physics laws governing them) may come out of some computational process based on a simple rule. His team does computational experiments and visualizations using discrete state machines governed by simple rules. It's looking for a way to invent the Simulation.
There's also IMMICH, pretty much a 1-to-1 clone of Google Photos.
Isn't this the same as converting websites into a GraphQL API? Aren't there already dozens of projects and services that do the "convert websites into an API", at scale? What exactly is the innovation?
“ which will necessarily be different than nature’s”

We are nature’s…
Re Manhattan project, somebody else would have figured it out, is there a side you'd rather had got there first? The cat was already out of the bag.

More to the point, openAI makes chatbots that use matrix multiplication to provide believable sentences, and a few similar things. This isn't and never will be nuclear power. Nobody is working or, or close to, any sentient or dangerous AI (dangerous in a way that a regular computer program couldn't be). The applications in contemplation here are better searching, low end copywriting, some kind of smart assistant.

(On a technical level, there's very cool stuff going on, but there is not societal risk, other than the fallout from s big hype bubble)
I would be pleasantly surprised if there were many doctors. I know that there are a few hundred online judging by what I see online, but I thought that they were a minuscule minority. What figure would you put to this many, in terms of proportion of doctors?
> All they will ever offer is a paid prompt.

Last time I checked Carmack never gave his games away for free.
>> Ivermectin beats all these novel drugs

> No, it really, really doesn't.

Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know https://doyourownresearch.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-les...
Game Boy and GBA games now playable on Nintendo Switch
On what basis are you saying this? Please, let's not jump to conclusions without evidence.
I am still upset uBiome turned out to be up there with FTX and Theranos. I had a a small sample set going and would have been super interested to have that over decades or spot check what this MB40 looks like after 6month in me in particular. Seems like such a need for citizen science to generate enough data to look for patterns across populations of both us and the mirobio.
Twitter also has made a lot of changes in the past few months. I don't recall a time in recent history where they've made so many changes so rapidly. Arguably not all for the better but "move fast and break things", right?
There was some work done on using solar furnaces to use them for the destruction of very toxic substances. 100,000:1 solar concentrators or something to that effect.
Right, I'm aware of Maslow's work, I just think it's wrong on a number of different dimensions, or at least incomplete.
Even with a decimal representation, there are situations where you have to remember to round to a cent.

Decimals are software libs; what could go wrong?

More people use the floating-point instructions of a popular CPU than any given decimal library.

If you're starting from scratch, it's probably a lot less work to write (test and debug) a Money class based on floating-point, whose overloaded math operations do the required rounding (so that code using the class cannot forget) than to make a Money class based on decimal arithmetic.

(The last time I wrote an accounting system, I made a Money class based on integers. It could be retargeted to other representations easily. I could make the change and compare the ledger totals and other reports to see if there is a difference.)
>1h a day seems like a lot. What does this look like for you and what benefits have you seen?
No. Question asked and answered. Thanks.
They hate anything that might contradict the narrative. ChatGPT does too; Try asking it facts you know in relation to the narrative. It will spout biased garbage.
Winn Dixie cashier here - my first job. I’ve never counted the clock so hard, but I’m pretty sure I forgot the content of my shift the moment I walked out.
matt taibbi confirmed it on twitter.
…and get sued by the Beckett estate; because that’s an out only if you’re in one jurisdiction in France. I suppose if the University was willing to accept liability, that’d be different.
For better or worse, I'm fairly certain statins do prevent drs from prescribing paxlovid on occasion. Happened to a family member. Tons of high risk / older Americans are on statins.