skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: FreeRSS – RSS Viewer Portal
FreeRSS was inspired by the former Google Personalized Homepage (iGoogle). Auto-detect RSS feeds from a url, drag to arrange widgets, add a new account (free) to remember your settings.
I think it’s a wrong question to ask. It’s an impressive piece of technology for which people are trying to find use cases. But the right questions are: 1. What are the tasks where LLMs out-perform humans, or, at least deliver similar performance? 2. Are LLMs more efficient in these tasks?
What I read in RTE news made it sound like it was due to China relations, so naively I would imagine this could be US pressure more than EU. Also there is still an "entrepreneur" visa program still available I think.

Edit: here is the link: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0214/1356617-immigrant...

International Organizations are mentioned (which is probably code for the EU)
And also, why do they block loading XPI extensions on mobile :(
Education has always done a terrible job of keeping up with technology. Kids in school now will graduate into a world in which all information will be instantly available and will be presented in whatever format is most suitable. They'll have computers correcting their grammar, improving their ideas, completing their sentences and paragraphs. Instead of learning those technologies themselves and instructing students how to best utilize them, teachers tell kids, "that's cheating". When you graduate and get your first job, your boss isn't going to take away your books, phone, and laptop, and ask you to write a report about a well understood subject. I understand why that's a common practice in education. Maybe it's time to change.
In unrelated topic, I liked your puzzly "Get in touch" in your bio :)
My Takeaways:
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- introducing large change creates dissonance in organizations
- people are pretty good at aligning themselves to work well
- implementing dozens/hundreds of smaller changes will better align organizations and people in a less tumultuous way
- save on $$$ of consulting fees, coaches etc.
Documentation is not a substitute for reading the code, but rather a complement to it.

Code by itself is a limited medium that can only do so much. Asking someone to rely solely on code to explain a complicated subject is counterproductive (the more complicated the code is, the harder it is to guess whether something in the code is a mistake, or working as intended with some unknown reasoning behind it).

Documentation points out the non-obvious parts, the reasoning behind it, the subtleties, the gotchas (things to watch out for), the best practices, etc.

Documentation is a map to guide the user, not an end-all-be-all about what the code does.

When the code does non-obvious things or has non-obvious reasons, you need both code and documentation.
Not quite what you were describing, but perhaps Netiquette [0] would be of help here?

[0] https://objective-see.org/products/netiquette.html
Thomas Metzinger would agree with the assessment that we are a hallucination of a self and that we are Being No One.
At least in Austria that's not how it works.

The new "owner" will keep the bike as he has bought it in good faith.
The shop will claim that it cannot check every used bike.
The rightful owner could try to get money from the person who stole it (if found), but they most likely don't have any money.

It's the perfect crime and the reason why we cannot have nice bikes. People are literally sleeping with their expensive bikes in a room.
Frankly I’m much more disappointed that Cinerama is still gone. https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/seattle-need...
Petro-agribusiness is a racket.

The US subsidizes cheap, unhealthy crops like cow corn to manufacture HFCS.

Without subsidies, cane sugar would likely be cheaper than HFCS or beet sugar.

And that Walmart can grossly underpay its employees so much that they need social benefits to survive is another indirect, but pervasive and perverse, transfer of wealth from the lower and middle to the wealthy owners of corporations.
>As of November 2017, the quotations (with the exception of tips relevant to system operation) have been removed from FreeBSD entirely after user complaints regarding quotations from Adolf Hitler being contained in some of the files

http://fortunes.cat-v.org/freebsd/offensive
It's a great example of Poe's law at work. Tesla apologists are just that absurd when it comes to holding the company to a double standard about anything that could make them look bad.
Interesting. We are in the process of judging how much to raise price for https://serpapi.com plans. Costs of everything (including servers, IPs, and other infra costs) have indeed increased at equal performance. The ratios I am toying with were more like around 3x max (and we thought it was too aggressive already) not 5x though.
So my stolen bike went via Poland to the Ukraine's Lviv, where it was probably disassembled because the traces of the tracker are disappearing.
"Our estimate of the number of youth who identify as transgender has doubled from our previous estimate"

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-ad...

There is some evidence of a sharp increase in transgenderism in young people .

None in the article people are commenting on and I'm not aware of any data linking that increase to chemical influence.
There's a reason why VAT is not enough and we also pay income tax to fund any country's budget and all the infrastructure. Being a digital nomad is basically a taking advantage of a bargain that is getting away with that VAT only.
Per the article, the parent company laid off all of the museum staff in mid-2020, so if they were working a year or two ago, they were doing so despite a lack of maintenance. Something probably broke at some point and there's no one left to fix it.
If we're talking about the 1990s, SQL Server/Sybase ran on UNIX. Not to mention it's just a fork of Ingres lol
I think it might be interesting to compare countries with a high rate of obesity (e.g. US) and countries with a low rate of obesity (e.g. Singapore) here, both because it very likely directly affects men's health and testosterone levels and also because it'll likely create a different level of optical stimulation, thereby indirectly affecting testosterone levels.

Also, the time range of the diagrams in the article correspond to a time when the weight of an average american roughly 1.5x-ed. I'd guess that diluting the same absolute testosterone amount to 1.5x the volume will also have measurable effects.
I went to Twitter and read what ML scientists say. They don’t think it’s anything like a layperson imagines it to be(I’m also a layman when it comes to LLMs). But it’s an impressive technology IMO. I just think we don’t know all the limitations and strength yet because there’s a vocal majority that suffers from survivorship bias.
That's what they meant. The count is gone.
The fun part about the panspermia theory is that it's a very old idea first proposed by Anaxagoras (c. 500 – c. 428 BC), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

He had also imagined the concept of a "Cosmic mind" (Nous). If i understand well, for him, this "Cosmic mind" is not really an external metaphysical god, but more a physical part of the universe itself. A mind inside the universe, but isolated from the rest, and who try to organise everything else in the universe (including life).
What's amo?
I prefer ViolentMonkey's UI to Tampermonkey's, and it's open source and likely technically superior as others have mentioned.
Ad blockers have never worked for me on YouTube.
if the adblock you're using is ublock origin then you can add this to your filters to block shorts on the homepage

www.youtube.com##.ytd-rich-section-renderer.style-scope > .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer.style-scope

there's probably more filters to block shorts in other places like the suggestions sidebar if you look for them, but i have the sidebar disabled completely so the above filter was enough for me
Kagi does not use their own indexes, aside from perhaps very small things.

They use both Bing and Google indexes. It is why the cost per search is relatively high.

This change will impact them and it's currently a discussion topic on their Discord as well.

Pretty sad. I just started using it a week ago and am still planning on not going back.
At this point I guess one can only hope they don't let the roof start to leak.
Just a small reminder that everything you work for and thought important, everything you poured your soul and life into and consider your legacy, will die at some point after you. Sometimes only a few months after, when some random bean counter expressly breaks your wishes for some self-interested reason that you are no longer alive to dismiss as moronic.

Very, very few people can leave a lasting mark and especially change the world for the better.
This is not ChatGPT. Bing is using a new model called "Prometheus," which Microsoft claims is more powerful than ChatGPT.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Rosett...

"However, there is now direct evidence that some of the so-called chemical ‘building blocks’ of life – organic molecules – can be found in comets."
Working a 8 to 17 job, my best hours are from 8:00am to 13:00pm.
It is when I get most work done. The reason why it slows down in the afternoon is because I have a designated hour for lunch break that won't count as "work" and it completely gets me out of the zone.

At home I can easily skip it and have lunch at 16:00pm, or just eat while I work and finish at 16:00pm.

On top of that, if I have to commute for 50 minutes before getting at my desk at 8:00am, and I know I'll have to commute back for 50 minutes when I finish, BE SURE my best hours won't start until 10:00am and that my afternoons will be even lighter.

AND FOR WHAT? I spend my day with headphones on without speaking to anybody unless it is lunch break or we have a meeting. I don't think I socialize more irl than through slack and calls.
It seems like if the company does want to try to operate it then they should transfer it to a non-profit and it can be operated by volunteers. Obviously that still requires money but theoretically it's less money. It seems like it would be a no-brainer for some local schools and universities to pitch in for funding.
Yeah, just avoid attributing traits to other poster's behaviour and that should prevent downvotes.
Metaphors don't have to apply to every conceivable perspective of looking at the subject. They are there to simplify transfer of knowledge

I'm sure there's some way the shed and skyscraper metaphor fails too
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"The best is the enemy of the good" -- Voltaire
The article said there might be "missing cues of fertility that would otherwise increase sperm production" which reminded me of "study shows that when men smell T-shirts worn by women while ovulating, it triggers a surge in the sex hormone testosterone" [1] which would be exactly such a cue of fertility.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20100115/womens-scent-trigger...
Oh the things we did to woltlab burning boards.

So much stuff that they actually never should be able to do.
Like the integration we wrote that would score member uploads by release date and give.. on an FTP server.

PHP Chatbot with IRC integration? nooo problemo ;)
Side note: How on earth did I not know about the cute little websites she makes?
They are amazing!

https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com/

https://sql-playground.wizardzines.com/

https://questions.wizardzines.com/
Last time I bought speakers before this was 2007! Last TV was 2013. Previously I'd managed to run a pc made of second hand parts from 2008 to 2017 with no upgrades.

I think you are correct in a way. I do like the TV and sound bar. But also I'm wary of the addictiveness of reading reviews, upselling myself to higher specs and higher price than I'd originally intended.
There does seem to be some sort of dopamine hit with researching options.
Show HN: Learning ThreeJS and Custom Game Engines
I got overwhelmed by the huge amount of features in UE5/Unity so I made my own little game engine and re-created Breakout using it. I had a ton of fun building this, learning how to do GitHub workflows, and actually publishing something I made. Checkout the source code here: https://github.com/TheRedLancer/breakout-game/tree/v1.1.0

I hope you have a little fun playing my 2 minute game!
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I was going to get treatment for burnout. Turned out the best treatment was a private office.
Sure but give them a choice. I don't want to be 'protected' from myself.
As someone who doesn't use JS frequently but still has to build some things ocasionally with it, it's funny how "Simple Modern Javascript" is a completely different beast each year. Libraries, UI frameworks, build systems, preprocessing tools, the JS community seems to have a knack for rebuilding everything from the ground up with almost zero backward compatibility with a frequency I haven't seen anywhere. For example, in this post already I see quite a lot of things that completely break how things were done in other projects or other frameworks. All for what? I don't see any improvements that would make such a break worthy.

Another example, I recently had to upgrade a Vue 2 application to Vue 3, because Vue 2 is going EOL this year. Well, apparently that means I also had to change the build system from Webpack to Vite, the test library also was a "recommended change", the state store library was different and wasn't backwards compatible, and half the vue plugins required an update or a replacement for a Vue 3 compatible alternative.

I have not seen this pace in other languages/environments. For example, in Python, there are different "build" systems (old setuptools, pip, poetry...) and yet they are all compatible. In C/C++ I still haven't heard of a framework that forces you to upgrade your build system when they push a new version.
Yes I agree, I should not have said such. The irony is it makes my comment no better than the original.
Ask HN: Dealing with people having “Computer Problem”?
Hi,
I'm sadly somewhat responsible for IT related problems in a small part of our organization. Sometimes the staff calls me out of nowhere to solve some "Computer Problem". Everytime this happens I feel a chill in my bones and imagine serious horrors, since most of them are engineers, Linux freaks and scientists. I thought they operate beyond my abilities.
So far I had, inability to change cartridge of a printer, inability to check box for duplex, montior not connected, inability to press a mouse button switching scrolling from flywheel to gear, somebody jamming USB type B into RJ 45 socket, inability to connect to NAS by forgetting use of VPN and using RDP on RDP on RDP and getting confused where the data is.

I should be thankful that I can solve these problems easily, but they don't like it. These people then try to appear smart by talking about something complex. Because I'm in problem solving mode I used to give it my 2 cents. They then quickly use sophisticated words and sometimes throw in abbreviations, which is an obvious sign somebody has no clue and wants to talk you down. When I use descriptive terms and fully speak out the abbreviations, it gets worse. They are quickly annoyed, even though I stopped what I was doing to help them.
They need to appear smart, after those embarrassing moments, I get this. I stopped giving my 2 limited cents and just try to acknowledge them somehow, but it is difficult for me to sound sincere. I think it makes it worse. Should one only ask questions and try to flee the scene as fast as possible?

It is the most difficult part of the "Computer Problem" and I honestly suck at it.

I just want to be helpful. How do you manage this? What is a good strategy here?
Only because we choose to let it absolutely no reason for us to move closer to a 0 zero sun game society.
I don't expect that. Just a single reference so I can go and have a read.

I don't know what purpose you think what you're saying has, but it seems negative for discussion purposes and for fact-finding purposes.
Anybody who has ever done arithmetic knows that human logic is more than just statistical pattern prediction. Humans can learn and execute algorithms in precise, deterministic ways, which current LLM's fundamentally cannot do.
My contribution to the heat death of the universe is indelible due to the laws of thermodynamics.
I don't think the original question conveyed anything negative about homosexuality or transgenderism. Only that they were interested if chemicals could have altered human sexuality.

It was asked without the care one would normally use when approaching such a topic and perhaps that reflects badly but I find the question interesting.

What if we are so controlled by the environment around us? Are our likes and dislikes something we have control over or is it just a result of the world around?
That would be all fine and good if it were true. But what will happen in practice is that they will think that they have access to all information, that the corrections may be subtly wrong, that their ideas will no longer really be their ideas, and that sentences and paragraphs will be completed with meaningless or faulty junk.
> I understand why that's a common practice in education. Maybe it's time to change.

not that i disagree, but what would you have it change to?

The fact that there's no need to memorize anything any more, means that any tests which allows the use of tech (like the internet, or chatGPT) to retrieve data, means that students no longer need to commit things to long term memory.

However, having the capability, and be able to recall facts when needed, and at high speed, is something that is foundational to higher creative thoughts.

This higher, creative thought, is not really easy to test, so the memorization is the proxy.

I do not know what form education (and the testing of it) would take on, if tools like chatGPT is allowed to be used.
If anyone needs a "monkey" not for web pages but for any process on your computer system, may I recommend Frida:

https://frida.re

https://github.com/frida/frida

With Frida, you write JavaScript programs and then inject them into arbitrary processes, to hook and modify and call whatever you please.

It gets a lot of use in the reverse engineering and vulnerability research communities, but has broader scope too.

For instance, I used it recently to automate the UI of a video production program on Windows, by sending window messages to the main message loop from an injected thread, and hooking into various system dialog functions to override them.
The middle class is leaving. Rich people in retirement can enjoy the better parts of Cali for all its worth. The poorest (homeless) can't really leave.
Ask HN: Make social media bots or learn FFmpeg C API?
I enjoy making Instagram and Twitter bots. I also enjoy working with the FFMPEG C api - not the commandline.
This is my current Instagram bot-making course - https://zuck-cat.phoneworker.online/

I hope to make a second course and I'd love to know what people prefer:
1. Reverse engineering the Twitter and Instagram APIs to make production-ready social media bots - we find and map all the HTTP endpoints for Twitter and Instagram. Capstone project is a bot that leaves the FIRST comment whenever a celebrity posts on IG or Twitter
2. Learn the FFMPEG C api - we go through FFMPEG data structures, translate command line prompts into C code, navigate the large documentation and build a video decoder and encoder in C
Tensions can sometimes be productive (in the dialectic sense) but I am not sure this applies to the origin of life question.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but the "shell" this sets up in which it runs "node" is just some VM in the browser, right? It's not literally executing shell commands or opening ports on the host machine, is it?
The need for a more semantic web
Because you get $18 of credits when you sign up, and you aren’t supposed to get $18 of credits per email address, just per you.

(By the way, use em or lose em)

Did this really need an “article?”
I was lucky enough to visit in 2017 and loved the place.
Here are some of the photos I took:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VUVXQ1cG3zWAMWY3A
In some countries, AirBnB is like "tax evasion as a service" so I'm not surprised that politicians choose them as their target. Also, people usually hate it if their neighbor starts inviting strangers every day, because it causes thrash and misbehaviour on a level that permanent residents wouldn't.
Isn't this already beginning to be happening?
Interesting article. Thank you sharing!
There is an `og:ttl` tag which allows you set the expiration duration (it's very useful to debug).

I have a side-project which allows you to test Open Graph changes on pages [0].

[0] https://ogtester.com/
Don't get me started on when we learned about the Terminator on the moon.
If we stop looking at life as some great mystical thing, and look at it as a more mechanical expression of self replicating molecules, it’s quite likely to be all over the place.

Even “intelligence” doesn’t seem to be that uncommon, even here on earth.

Enough intelligence to look outside and leave a planet may be rarer, given that only one species has it on earth - the dinosaurs were around for longer than humans, but why didn’t they develop enough intelligence and capability to do what we did?
This can likely be related to us using our websites as a portfolio and a resume, too. And it does indeed become paralyzing if you want to always make a good impression and you can't goof around anymore.

My solution will be: have 2 blogs. One strictly professional where you post HOWTOs, and another one where you post anything and everything.
> We’re going to need to do lots of different things. There’s no need to fight about it; everybody’s favorite will have a chance.

Actually this isn't the case. Funding choices matter. And not all technology can get funding. Hydrogen investment for the last 40 years has cost untold billions, and has led to almost nothing. Its has actually delayed real efforts in places like Japan.

Here we have an article asking for investment to find some almost mythical hydrogen that might somehow exists and if only they got money they would find it. Thorium doesn't really need that, we have mines now that produce enough of it that they basically don't know what to do with it.
Platform compatibility is much easier in web compared to python or anything else native. You only have the browser to worry about and nothing else, and the variation between browsers is there but much less than the variations between cpu architectures, oses, languages etc in native apps. The variation between the two biggest ones, firefox and chrome is even narrower yet we still get "only works in chrome" or worse bundling an entire copy of a very specific version of chrome along with your app in for example Electron.
Doesn't look like it's passed yet, so probably nothing - but you can probably just go the D7 route if you've got the liquidity for the golden visa regime.
> also don't consider using word processing software with grammar and spelling correction "cheating", even though they use fundamentally the same processes behind the scene and differ only in the user interface, really.

i think it's a stretch to claim that spelling/grammar correction and large language models are similar or fundamentally the same.

that's like saying the horse-drawn carriage is fundamentally the same as a plane. Sure, they both move people around, but the differences are much larger than the similarities.
Oh, didn’t expect a reference to me at all, was thinking that the function was very similar to mine :)

That function is now in my must-haves in my new Django side projects; I usually overuse them before I finally move to a JSX-based UI library. It’s great for simple DOM manipulation… and for me it seems to create a semi-simple migration path in the case the code gets complex.