skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> New Zealand's Cigarette prohibition

Is brilliant and the only way to realistically ban cigarettes without screwing over entire generations who are already addicted to nicotine.

Let's give a real example. My great aunt in her late 60s has a 40 year pack a day smoker. There is zero chance whatsoever she would be able to quit before she dies and it would be cruel to try and make her. There is no way you can pick a single date after which smoking is banned for everyone, it will be so loudly, and rightly, fought that it would never pass. I don't want to live in a world where a not insignificant percent of the population simultaneously goes through nicotine withdrawal. Because I've seen my friends quit and patches and gum don't keep you from being miserable.

If you don't think cigarettes should be banned, fine. Valid stance. But if you think they should this is the way.
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Once something is on the internet, intentionally or not, it is public and uncontrollable, laws be damned. If you don’t want your blog post or your half-naked selfie to be scraped, don’t create it in the first place. This has been a fundamental rule since at least the days of Usenet and BBSes (i.e. for 40+ years).
They don’t use NGINX anymore
If you do not wish to watch videos of fox hunting, Mayfair house parties and Etonian high jinks, then commons-tube is for you.
For front end, there are a ton of UI libraries and CSS frameworks out there that can minimize the amount of styling OP would need to do. I am a big fan of Tailwind, but that might be too much. Maybe some Bootstrap/Material UI React components would do the job.
Pretty much every single time I've networked it was by mistake. I am very much an introvert but I also for some reason I'm gifted with a gift of gab. People enjoy talking to me and I'm really good at conversing. I just don't like doing it. It's overwhelming and it's a whole bunch of work. And speaking of work I'm not employed. I collect SSI because I was disabled before I turned 18... Anytime that I've tried to do job placement or just any kind of job I end up quitting or stopping going because I can't deal with all of the overwhelming signals that I'm picking up from everything or I end up thinking in my head too much.
What you’re talking about is called a collision avoidance system and it exists and both of these planes have it.

It doesn’t alert you to planes on the ground because it would never stop going off. How is the system supposed to know that the pilot approaching the threshold as you land is going to stop? It can’t so it would issue an immediate correction alert and you have to go around.
if data can be scraped, it can be used. privacy ends at the end of the wire.
Convincing developers to try a new web framework – the effects of launching beta
Good idea! I'll create a user signup notification thingy.
They are more malicious being part of MPEG-LA themselves (later they decided to join AOM though). So their attitude to codecs is not accidental.
The early Britons were much more sophisticated than many people realize. See e.g.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170410-why-i-lived-like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ness_of_Brodgar
LTS is a promise that the devs will break less things.
Uhm, do you have sex in front of your kid?

Maybe I'm a spoiled westerner, but (save for that one time that my kid barged in because I forgot to lock the door,) I've never had sex in front of my kids.
Maybe you should match your figures with those of the Physicians for Social Responsibility:

"However, should the number of Iraqis killed from the 2003 U.S. invasion until 2012 actually be around one million, as the analysis of the existing scientific studies presented in the present study suggests, this would represent 5% of the total population of Iraq .."

Of course Americans' aren't going to own up to the magnitude of this crime. But it should be noted that this report was issued in 2015 - and a lot more death has happened since then. 5% is a conservative estimate.
the value that visa brings is gamifying spending

plus amazing fraud protection

i’m so much more comfortable buying from random online websites because visa has my back

yes i know we collectively play 2.5% for that privilege, but seems worth it to me.
OpenAI’s huge advantage is several months of training by hundreds of millions of users. Google never risked putting a chat model out into the wild for fear it would lead to embarrassing misuses - typical behavior for a giant company defending a legacy business at all costs.

OpenAI has no such legacy business to defend and so was free to take the risk.
Dunno, I think it should be clear for all experienced devs that the "never" part is still not achieved.

Personally though -- and in my work -- I'll take any improvement that I can. I am sick of reading about yet another important piece of software having yet another memory safety zero day pwnage bug.
To be fair, that's less than one a second.

But I dislike the whole GOPROXY design, like it breaking private repos by default and having to set some env variables to make this stupid tool download stuff from server I told it to download.
Let's not pretend for a second that people are actually looking for privacy whilst they walk around with iphones, with tiktok, facebook, money apps, location tracking fitness apps etc.

Anyway, I think governments could regulate better to make payments more of a public infrastructure type deal. The banks will still make a stack of cash on all the other things they do.
ChatGPT is not a reliable teacher
they are very similar. I've tested both intensively a few months ago, ended up w Typesense for performance reason.

My test data set is 1.5M doc * 3-10 fields * 10-50 characters. Meilisearch has slightly better multi-language support, but typesense is much better on batch reindex speed and ram usage while a bit shy on supporting asian languages. The query speed is similar in light to medium load, I didn't stress test on query.
I don't see any evidence that either of these two have influence on "the left's" policies as seen by actions and laws passed.
My wife, who uses whatever default is offered unless I provide a compelling enough argument, said she'd actively switch to Bing if it incorporated ChatGPT even in its current form.
Usually it means you are buying the item from the person who made it or the store you are shopping in bought it directly from the person who made it. It's low volume production with very little or no automation involved.
For 'enthusiasts', a dual heat source system is a good plan.

But regular folk want to just pay the energy bill and have a warm home, whatever the weather outside.

They don't care to worry about lighting the wood stove on super cold days. They don't want to have to have a wood delivery separate from their energy bill, and be carting it around in boxes. They don't want to huddle into the room with the wood stove because the rest of the house is too cold.

Regular folk aren't interested in heating systems, so will pay a small premium for a system that just works, whatever the weather.
Sorry buddy you just have to force yourself. Never turn down an invite for a beer if you can avoid it, yes you probably have things youd rather do. It gets way easier when you become one of the usual crew. There are lots of introverts at happy hour and they are the ones who engage you on some deep level for an hour and a half vs. "Hey man how are things lately"
FYI: while the game is running one core of my 5600X is always at 80% load (current Firefox on Fedora Linux), although nothing's really happening. It looks as if there's a busy loop in the background burning CPU cycles.

Apart from that, nice game, well done!
That's useless in this case. You need to be able to prove that it will work with all inputs, and there are too many combinations of inputs to exhaustively enumerate.
Mapbox added offline map support a few years back on their SDKs,
Found a couple medium articles on it, but no code to share. Wondering if there might be any mapbox FOSS replacements that offer this?
They could block big instances but have no chance of blocking smaller ones due the distributed nature. But the same goes for blogs, e-mails and other forms of information exchange. The problem is none of those have global audience like Twitter does, love it or hate it.
That looks awesome! What else did you try before going to SeaweedFS?
We need more stories like this. Installing a heat pump is a win for everyone except big oil and gas. Reasons for refilling an oil tank must be harder and harder to justify every time. Perhaps one day we can repurpose our buried gas pipelines into wire conduits.
Elixir has different goals than Erlang - it aims to be general purpose, while Erlang is clearly a DSL, though the D there is kind of huge. Erlang may be a better source of knowledge of OTP because it lacks distractions and doesn't hide as much as Elixir behind a convenience modules/macros/functions. As long as you don't want to run on the BEAM but learn something to apply in other environments. If you think you'll be using the platform, go for Elixir :)
I really like Mehrling's theories but I think anyone that points to his work should reasonably caveat by saying a) there is not a lot of broad agreement with it in economics circles and b) its describing a system that was dramatically changed by the 2008 financial crisis and the Money View might be found completely wanting before it achieves uptake as a major economic theory.

I've not watched the listed course so this shouldn't be seen as a criticism of it, only as context for the theories broadly espoused by Mehrling.
Yes, +1 for SymPy being the perfect tool for teaching (very little to new learn learn after the initial call to `symbols` to create the symbolic vars).

The best part for me is the SymPy API methods have the same names as the concepts I am trying to teach: solve, expand, simplify, factor, integrate, etc.

Here is a short tutorial to introduce SymPy for anyone who hasn't seen before: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/sympy_tutorial.pd... also available as notebooks: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/minireference/sympytut_notebooks/...

It's also worth checking out the SymPy Live Shell, where you can try things out without installing anything: https://live.sympy.org/
Wait what?

the web, skype, modern cybernetics, thermographic cameras, automatic gear box for cars, printing press, space suit, ashphalt, modern economics, banks, telephone, power transformer,submarines,heart rate monitors, aerosol cans, loud speaker, telescope, aquaducts, internal combustion engine, eye glasses. contact lenses, parachutes, bullet proof vests.....
I enjoyed this so much that I began sharing the link with friends. Well done.

Your journey is my journey, many times. I've tried so many different game engines and such. What I've learned that works for me and scratches my creator itch perfectly is:

- Make small games. And I mean SMALL. Like what you've done

- Write them for the web to trivialize sharing them with the world

- Use very basic HTML + JS/TS and maybe add React if you've got a lot of UI. And Canvas is great.

- Look into Pixi.js as an abstraction on the canvas API that gives you a ton of great features and huge performance for free (free WebGL if supported). I love Pixi because it just tries to be a renderer. It isn't a game loop or sounds or IO or physics.

- Explore the game you're developing, but don't succumb to scope creep. Know when to decide "that's a really cool idea, maybe I'll save it for my next game." I have too many games that are large in scope but totally incomplete.

- Never be deterred by "this is already been done" or "nobody will want to play this." The journey is the point. Sharing it with us is just a bonus.
It feels exactly like an electron app. Garish theme that does not respect system preferences, a memory hog, lack of integration with system services, and a general feeling of being build for some product manager rather them users.
Those of us that remember "This page works best in Internet Explorer 5" are shivering at your statement. I love Firefox and use it as my primary browser on my desktop. But suggesting to users that they should use that instead of fixing issues in your site feels bad.
Steam Deck is pretty nice, so much better than my Nintendo Switch. It's pretty great to see the iGPU getting love these days, more compact consoles would be great. The AMD 780M hopefully gets a chance at this as well.
Phubbing by partners leads to less satisfaction with romantic relationships
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For now yes, but I think the important point is that in the near future, machine learning will likely make the actors replaceable even if machine learning cannot itself replace the actors. You don't see animators or any of the countless people other people working in the entertainment industry manage to gain nearly as much fame as actors, mostly because replacing them is a lot less noticeable to the average consumer. That is what actors are facing.
The analogy to humans is probably a trap.

In the early days of software security there were a lot of analogies to physical penetration. These analogies mislead and confused statutory facts with moral claims. In the wholeness of time, at least the adults now know that computer security is different and understand how the CFAA and related statutes work in practice. We also understand how laws that pre-dated computers interact with our new technological realities. In computer security, there's usually no need for analogy at this point. At least not once you find yourself in a courtroom.

Models aren't human brains. The law will think of them differently and treat them differently. I'm not sure how these lawsuits and class actions will shake out, to be honest, but I know that the law will not think of LLMs the same way it thinks about a human at the pub.
i worry more about innocent mistakes

the thought of being unable to transact at all because of some glitch, even if it’s rare that’s no good
There is/was an active disinformation campaign on Twitter attempting to link the earthquake to Türkiye denying Nato expansion. The ridiculous conspiracy theory is that the US used a HAARP system to cause the earthquake in retaliation.

Not saying that's the reason for the ban, but twitter is not solely a force for good here.
A treasury of Zork maps
The population of Iraq is 43 million. 1/43 isn't anywhere near 5%, and I'm not inclined to credit all of the high-end estimate of 1M to Americans.
You have to admit, a famine in the region’s foremost exporter of grain, whose main export of that year was grain, takes spectacular mismanagement and neglect. That’s Soviet industrialization for you. I have to admit the genocide part makes no sense to me, though—I’ve seen no evidence that it was in any way targeted at Ukrainians specifically, only that they constituted a huge portion of the agricultural population at the time.

You don’t have to look that hard to find actual displaced peoples—the way the Russian Empire burned down all of Ossetia, the way Stalin ejected most of the population of Chechnya after that, the way Crimean Tatars constituted the bulk of the population in the Crimean peninsula and then suddenly Russians and Ukrainians did for some reason—there’s plenty. (If you really want to get into the history, care to find some speakers of the North Slavic languages for me?) It’s that the example does not seem to be a good one.
https://archive.is/SqciI
I'd somehow expect some paid pro-oil/gas/propane commenters to show up in these comments and tell us we're all wrong, no different then the industry plants going out to these people in the article!

My house has natural gas.. two setups that are both really complicated. Each unit has failed in the past during extreme weather. Fossil fuel heating units are certainly not immune to failure any more than heat pumps are.
How do we break or slow the cycle of... New great thing is awesome, new thing gets popular, new thing turns to shit...

Seems like scalable systems tend to fail with this problem. Governments, the internet, social networks, online market places.

WTF?
Yes, but do you realize you don't have to write C code without bounds checks? You can add your own.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707305, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708083, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708083
> not like the fact that there's a centralized digital currency will give the government more control over you than not

Of course it does. There is no central registry of who has accounts where and what they’re doing. Records are maintained at the edge. Modern banking is topologically decentralised.

CBDC opens central bank money to the masses. (It isn’t a new idea [1][2].) It has advantages. One disadvantage is it ports over blockchain’s centralised record-keeping. Running a search on everyone who purchased from or donated to X between such and such dates changes from a record request to every bank, credit card company and P2P app that did business with X, a request process which takes time, may cross jurisdictions, tends to require X’s coöperation, and is lossy with some payment methods, into a database lookup.

The quiet power grab is this being, with virtually zero debate, a central bank’s digital currency versus e.g. an independent public bank’s.

[1] https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GD...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-postal-banking-5217341
Nothing in life worth doing is easy.
There’s still basically one with a couple storage options - they have shipped with different fans though. My (fairly recent) unit has very reasonable fan noise.
This is a poor argument and is structured in such a way that it too common in discussion boards.

Where to begin.

1. Different people can have conflicting opinions. The internet is not one person.

2. These scenarios are fictional, but stated to make a contradiction.

3. One thing being wrong does not make the other correct.
The light source parent meant is rendered into your 2d sprites. The colored stones for example have a shine in the bottom right.
Ask HN: Why did not USA safely brought down the Spy Balloon?
USA could have harpooned the balloon at worst to puncture it or attach some load. Or, it could have used one or other methods to reduce the destruction of Balloon.
(For ex: puncture it with a precision Laser etc)
Firing it with a missile made the debris to spread
over 10km radius. Now they are painfully collecting
the debris. And now they say, "we will study the debris!"
Any reason why was it destructively shot down?

Further, USA action shows, nearly no military has a device
to safely bring down a man-made object floating in sky at 20km altitude.
Agree, shooting a competitor's object has a subtle message.
Also, shooting a defenseless object is a no show of strength.

(If USA does not have such a technology, it is unlikely others have it or thought of it.)
I have a Samsung laser printer which is good - cheap reliable no nonsense (M2026). So of course HP bought Samsung printers to kill the product. C'est la vie.
It called a picture of my girlfriend "unbelievably cute" so she's now a fan.

And it described my profile picture on Mastodon as "my husband from the future that looks similar to travis scott and mark owen. he is also a good boy, very!!!, and beautiful!!!"...

Not sure how to take that ;)
if youre running 10 miles per morning, even half that, on the regular you're an extreme outlier. the vast, vast majority of folks don't get anywhere near that, and a step counter that gamifies making them move is a good thing.
the middlebox could just pass traffic for the unknown TLDs tho and that detectin method would be in vain
Securitization is a good example of a finance hack but I have to mention that it is half a century old innovation. Ofcourse, C/C++ is also about that age and people still talk about it on HN (mostly to proclaim its dead, but very frequently about some amazing and impactful projects based on it that still go strong)

But this brings to a second peculiarity of the financial world of today that makes it less fitting for an open discussion forum of (aspiring) fin-techies like HN. Its very proprietary, secretive and dominated by a few megaplayers (pick any subdomain: banking, asset management, trading platforms, credit ratings, credit scoring etc. there is some oligopoly milking it and they are not about to open it up to random DIY hackers)

One area that was quite intriguing for a while and maybe conducive to a more decentralized discourse (but predictably hasn't gone anywhere) is peer-to-peer lending.

p.s. my parent comment is downvoted even if it is about the only one in this thread that doesn't pitch some stonks forum or another. Alas, the milking machine is well oiled...
>> elected representative of the people.

Was he?

>>Starlink cannot override the decision of the elected executive. He needs approval for that.

Pretty sure he could given the service is in space and Turkey lacks the ability or even really legitimate authority to enforce rules in Low earth orbit.

Elon chooses not to because he has enough hot water with US Politicians than to open up that mess. I bet is more worried but US government reactions here than Turkey;s government
It’s a strong rebuttal because this is not a random sample. It tells you nothing. These are not credible interpretations of data.
If you want to have fun, dig into some subfield of computer science, like databases, ray tracing, etc. Something that has been studied rigorously. There, knowledge actually compounds and builds on itself, rather than being thrown out every two years for no gain. Build something small and see if the subject gels with you. If it does, go deeper. If it doesn't, try another one and see if it works. Once you find something you like, you can start self-studying more with books and harder projects.

"But it's hard!" That's the point: surmounting the challenge is where the fun comes from. And then you have skills that 90% of devs don't even attempt because they believed it was "hard."
Article summary: Grep is too slow for a search engine, ElasticSearch didn't work, they are using indexes and sharding.

A better starting point if you are interested seems to be https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
I usually use Racket in Emacs, but the IDE is interesting and this is a good update: “Pressing <SHIFT>-return in DrRacket’s interactions window makes it easier to edit and enter expressions without sending them to be evaluated.”

Personally I have been looking more at Racket (and to some degree, Chez Scheme) as a daily Lisp language driver. I have been mostly Lisp’ing in Common Lisp since 1982, but except for working on new versions of my Common Lisp book [1], I am thinking of not renewing my maintenance plan for LispWorks (which is a fantastic tool) and instead choose one Scheme and use SBCL Common Lisp. I work for a Common Lisp based company, but I no longer do any programming for them.

[1] you can read it for free online https://leanpub.com/lovinglisp/read
I think the real value of ChatGPT is rewriting existing text, essentially turning crappy writing into whatever you want.
It might be cool to include some photos and a build-log of each item being made. I think I’d like this as a shopper and it would let you distinguish your products from mass-produced stuff.

It wouldn’t have to be super-comprehensive, but I think it would be fun, especially if the reader could sorta track how the product evolves from the raw material: a knot being used as the focal point of a rustic table—-or hidden with an inlay for a fancy one, for example.
There is no modern system that "just works" whatever the weather. We had an ice storm when I was growing up and lost power for 3 days. Wood stove worked great as a backup, not much else would have.
Centralise logs in Parquet for faster root cause analysis and issue resolution