skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Imagine homeless people. You wouldn't be able to give them money.

I've seen homeless people with QR codes and chip readers.
"A camera that takes pictures of other cameras..." <g>
Probably not, unless you don’t want to keep the data long term.

The initial load might be faster, but you’ll end up repaying that time saving when you turn on logging back on, and Postgres is then forced to read the contents of the table and push it into the WAL anyway. Thereby throwing away any saving you originally made by avoiding the WAL with an unlogged table.
https://archive.ph/84hiN
I've made use of sips(1) for years to un/bundle application icons for build processes and other things. Great tool, more or less unknown like so many other hidden userland gems in macOS.
Then you can't use anything else than C/C++/Rust with that argument.

Also the twice as fast therefore using twice less power is wrong.
It's a partisan issue in that there are those still trying to convince the American public that climate change isn't real, or that it's not caused by humans, or that it's not a real problem for people, or that doing anything that would impact the profits of the corporations who contribute the most to it would be entirely unacceptable.

We've known for a very long time that large parts of the western US were at severe risk of desertification and that combined with increasing temperatures there could come a time when they may not be fit to sustain large populations. I'm surprised to see projections that it'll be so bad in the midwest as well. It's sort of telling that they've been preparing for likely civil unrest as a result of drought (https://drought.unl.edu/Publications/News.aspx?id=388)

There's no one solution to the problem, but the good news is that this isn't a problem limited to the US. Governments around the world have been working on finding solutions for decades. (https://www.dw.com/en/holding-back-the-growing-desert/a-1862...) so I'm still hopeful that however broken our political system is or becomes, it won't prevent the exploration of new restoration techniques.
On HN, we go by article quality rather than site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

The current article, I would say, easily clears the bar for interestingness on HN, despite its culture war aspect. Interestingness is the thing we care about here (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

(Also, the submitter did a fine job of rewriting the title to be less baity, as the site guidelines request: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Thanks GavCo!)

It's true that https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=telegraph.co.uk contains a lot of ideological battle articles that probably fall below the 'interesting' line. For that reason, that domain has a penalty on it—a medium-weight penalty that we put on every site in this category, regardless of which ideology they support.

However, it does look like there have been other good articles from this domain. For example:

Elephants born without tusks in ‘evolutionary response’ to poachers (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33862385 - Dec 2022 (128 comments)

So I'd say this domain is a good example of the kind that we'd penalize but not ban, and try to turn off the penalty when the occasionally genuinely interesting article does show up.
Well Node-red does not really have an execution thread concept, meaning that you can't really define when nodes are executed. Luna Park does have execution thread wires, which are separated from variable wires.

So I'd say that Node-red is more of a workflow editor, not a visual scripting editor. You can create almost anything you would in code with Luna Park nodes. This is not the case with Node-red which is a bit higher level, and you do need to code the complex things you want to run.

Other than that, there are a lot of convenient features in Luna Park like:

- can be integrated withing any webapp (feels like Node-red needs a dedicated server to run)

- generate standalone JS code from the logic graph (to be run headless, with native performance)

- merge nodes into function that can be used as custom nodes

- type and value inspection at runtime

- a lot more nodes (generated from standard JS functions)

- and a few others features (integrated documentation, node customization, inspector, console, etc...)

Basically, Luna Park and Node-red might seem similar when looking at their UI, but they have a pretty different purpose. Node-red would be useful to automate workflows between systems. Luna Park would be useful to build those systems.
Similar to portable-secret? https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret
Substack Has an 11.5x Higher Conversion Rate Than Squarespace
A monopolist search provider paying off a potential competitor is arguably abusive of market power and looks much worse.
I have a NexDock 360, which I have primarily used with a Samsung S21 but also with a PinePhone.

The NexDock 360 is an OK device. The battery life lasted me about 2-3 hours, which isn't long enough for me. On Android with DeX there is no palm rejection, so I ended up keeping the touchpad switched off most of the time. PureOS might handle this better. The screen has touch input, but it's a pretty poor display - colors are washed out, and it isn't terribly bright.

It was nice to be able to take notes without carrying around a full laptop, and I think with a better screen and battery life it would be much more useful for traveling. It has a mini HDMI port, and I did use it as a third monitor for my laptop for a bit, but I eventually just got another desktop monitor with a better screen.
A good take from the time

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/05/11/Sell-Babel-8
That wasn’t the intention obviously. You may call it shortsighted, but they certainly wanted to kill the old platform and start fresh. Only now we know that wasn’t as easy.

In reality we should be thankful that it hasn’t happened (yet) rather than bashing the choice to keep MV2 around longer. They could very easily pull the trigger, I don’t think many will actually switch to Firefox just for that. Most won’t even know.

As a product manager, I don’t know what they’re waiting for exactly.
ThreatDragon[0] is also looking nice.

[0] https://www.threatdragon.com
If the seller has to ship the product to Amazon anyway, why not just ship it to the customer instead and not pay the extra fees? What need is Amazon fulfilling that Fedex or DHL do not?
Here it's more of a genetic fallacy
Is there somewhere I can keep up to date with books progress?
You make a persuasive argument!

If almost inevitable, then I'd also expect life to form readily in many other places too. Unless Earth was just very, very unusual in some way.
I like the essay a lot and I find it intellectually amusing that many negative comments here manifest exactly the flaws that could be prevented by learning the essay writing as described in the blog. The article clearly states assumptions, definitions, context and limitations of it's arguments and in that specific area it's very hard to refute them because they are sound. On the other side the gist of many comments here is that article is negative towards GPT and should be positive, i.e. the same generalist aproach that GPT generated text would take and which is hard to argue about.

I'm not going to analyse particular flaws of separate comments because the article itself is really comprehensive and answers for many objections are better in original form there than any reproduction I can make here. But the high number of rebuttals that obviously have problems either understanding the essay or formulating a solid counterargument is curious. An obvious explanation is that some people couldn't resist the pleasure of letting AI dismiss the statement about insufficient AI capabilities, but that's a lazy one.

Comments saying current AI is comparable to actual human inteligence may be right even though I can clearly see that AI is not performing actions I consider necessary for thinking. It's because I consider my own mind as a model of human inteligence, but as I learned many times before, the thinking process may be hugely different for different people. I have no idea if other people also do need to create an explicit model of something in their head to be able to "think" about it.

It would explain A LOT for me if thinking of some other people really works in the same way as in GPT. That situation should however still be viewed not as a technology enhancement so big it reaches human level but reconsideration of what we consider a human level.

This happens to me a lot. I want to make a joke, but it gets so long an complex that it becomes an analysis.
The FTC recently fined Twitter for using 2FA numbers in ad targeting. I wonder if the Blue sub includes a clause about being able to use numbers in such a way. Or the fine has reduced the value of having those numbers.
I think the difference between chatgpt and a good teacher is that a good teacher knows when to say "I don't know" and not feed their student BS that makes no sense. That's where the real damage happens
> and some empirically falsifiable hypotheses

Where?
Likely a very basic GPT under the hood, cross-trained on specific corpuses for each author.
I wonder if this is actually an alignment with the responses that an exhausted worker in a sweatshop could give. What you put in is what you get…
Content will follow the same law of supply and demand as everything else. Since we literally can't increase demand anymore (everybody is online all the time already), the exponential increase in supply is going to drive the cost of content through the floor.

Content creation is not a good business to be in now.
Yeah, I think most complaints about Safari come from web developers. I do a fair amount of web dev yet use Safari as my default browser. As a user, it's great. It seems faster and leaner and it's definitely batter for battery life. The one downside is the extension ecosystem isn't as good as Chrome, but Ad Guard works ok (not as good as uBlock Origin, but good enough) and that's really all I need.
We took Action right away. I think many companies wouldn’t have aces as fast. Not everyone gets it
In the modern day, digital continuity of identity is -almost- more important than physical, and being a "cyborg" (constantly in contact with your phone/portal to Internet) is increasingly critical. And we live in an increasingly climate-hostile world. Low tech is underappreciated by many, not just the usual crowd here.
The problem is that Google removed a very important API that is crucial for ad blockers. They did that change along with the update to Manifest V3. Mozilla is trying to do the right thing by implementing Manifest V3 without the problem introduced by Google. It will "save" ad-blockers by not removing a specific API that is important for them.

Firefox will keep supporting both V2 and V3. They want to implement V3 in order to avoid forcing most developers to have different manifests for different browsers. This is a good thing in general.

If you want details on what Mozilla is doing, here's a snippet from the linked blog post:

> While other browser vendors introduced declarativeNetRequest (DNR) in favor of blocking Web Request in MV3, Firefox MV3 continues to support blocking Web Request and will support a compatible version of DNR in the future. We believe blocking Web Request is more flexible than DNR, thus allowing for more creative use cases in content blockers and other privacy and security extensions. However, DNR also has important performance and compatibility characteristics we want to support.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signi...
I saw a super simple example of this back in the 90s when I was first leaning web development (was in Web Development for Dummies or some such).

The page prompted the user for the password, and then used the password to generate the URL for the hidden page and redirected the user there. Of course this wasn’t over HTTPS, and you got a 404 if you entered the wrong password, but it was still a neat hobbyist trick for the era. I think the author even wagered that readers couldn’t defeat it.
What's the long form of "-v"? Shell scripts should use long form options for clarity. As it stands, `command -v` is inscrutable.
Bertrand Russell is great. He's an outstanding philosopher in his own right and thus equipped to be a great interpreter of others. If you tire of that there are always his tart opinions on philosophers like Nietzche.
I'm for dissociating the metadata from the files. I have a custom (Text) DB of Artists and Albums, enhanced by online services metadata (last.fm, RYM, Spotify). I'm more interested in flexibility (filters, notes...) than in "exactness" (Versions...).
Yeah they were. We are writing a blog about it so everyone knows.
Reflections on Random Selection
I wonder if it is partly because nobody really wants to have to use Babel, and maybe people are starting to stop using it. Most people don't need to support IE anymore.
Wow what a nasty comment.
Huh, I was just thinking of that myself, but I didn't know Steam already had this feature. It's a great idea and something I'd like to make more use of.
The vast majority are responding logically to it. Kids use it to do their homework, the kids don't think that it is a person doing their homework, its just a tool. I've only seen a few strange people online who argue it is like a person, meaning there likely are extremely few of them around.

But since extremists are always over represented in online conversations we get quite a lot of those extremists in these discussions, so it might look like there are quite a lot of them.
The total stimulus was less than $3000 for most people and last provided a year ago. How can someone not work just getting that?
What a beautiful dystopia we live in
I think that’s a big generalization and depends on the company of course. I made a point at SkyFi about treating every customer as if they were Carmack
It helped you understand why dropping app bundles in the trash does not clean out per-user property lists.

App bundles are never installed anywhere as they are self-contained products, hence they cannot be uninstalled. For applications that actually come in the form of package installers which may place files in "annoying" locations like /usr/local/, you also get the functionality of uninstalling the software, because these packages contain manifests describing what files go in what locations.
I wonder if the image in the tweet was made by an AI?
I didn't think I need to state the obvious, but clearly I meant "for so long". If it's been secret revenue for any length of time in a public company, that is the part I'm trying to understand.
> …as far as I recall CleanMyMac was a paid closed course app?

Yes.
I tend to prefer the method of defining clearly named variables, but I agree those names are ridiculous.

hair_col_matches && size_fits && in_budget

is less than half the length and imho more readable because it doesn't turn each variable intoNeedlesslyWordyCamelCaseSentences.

> you can't just boil "readability" down to some simple universal rules

Yes, in the end blindly following rules doesn't turn out as well as understanding why those best practices exist in the first place.
I had a Motorola Atrix a decade ago that did this. It still looks extremely modern.

Shame “phone as a computer” hasn’t really gone anywhere in all this time.
Not the end. Just the exact opposite attitude that an inquisitive and humble scientist should have. So unlikely to go anywhere.

A “scientist” looks out at his living room. My Roomba and my cat have their own lifes. Who’s to say that they are not in fact the same in kind (but not degreee)? Good luck with that, professor.
On the Internet, nobody knows if you are a ~dog~ chatbot.

So basically, impersonation and emotional spam might become a problem. (Depending how easily ethically compromised people will be able to profit from it.)
Before Ohio derailment, train operator lobbied against safety rules
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This just makes no sense to me, then why try to replace C++? After all, all languages are memory unsafe.

Rust let’s you write unsafe code, that’s so different than say python.
I've found sips very helpful dealing with JPEG 2000 images in places where ImageMagick would not render them correctly.

Another very helpful Mac utility is textutil which will convert text documents between different formats. It uses the same underlying frameworks as TextEdit so it's not a replacement for {Microsoft,Libre}Office but it can spit out an OpenOffice document from an RTF or Word document in a pinch.
that isn't quite the same, ds download play sent a small multiplayer-only to the guest device, independent of the host device. Remote play merely streams your whole session over.

The only thing close for the PC market I can think of is It Takes Two and its "Friends Pass"
The lack of helmets is totally absurd.
Store files inside of YouTube videos for infinite cloud storage
West Palm Beach Was Transformed into ‘Wall Street South’
According to sources, in West Palm Beach, on the eighth floor of a modern office building made of glass, there are employees from Goldman Sachs and several hedge funds.
He had this charm about him that made anyone talking to him feel heard and excited.
I didn’t enjoy this one. He lost me at:

> And this, for some reason, appears to alarm us more.

At that point I skimmed the rest of the article because I didn’t feel the foundations it was built on were sound.

I agree though, it is fun when he pulls some disparate shit together into a coherent whole out of nowhere but this one didn’t do it for me.
"If anything that's impressive."

I'm conflicted about this statement. On one hand, it's almost passive revenue for the seller. On the other hand, Amazon offloads the risk of carrying inventory and takes half the revenue.

I'd argue that it's impressive with one caveat: the "partnership" heavily favors the house.
> Imagine homeless people. You wouldn't be able to give them money.

This is incorrect on all levels. Electronic payments between bank accounts have existed for decades. Banks in many countries now support instant payments using email/phone numbers. There are QR based payment methods which do the same thing. There has even been a special jacket invented to accept contactless:

https://www.tsip.co.uk/blog/2019/2/19/introducing-helping-he...

> Imagine trade in place without data connection.

What, like an airplane? Where many airlines no longer even accept cash on the plane?
The main protagonist of the novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by Orewell worked in the Ministry of Truth and his job was to rewrite historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Basically he was a censor, who would remove inconvenient people or facts from newspapers or books. (I dont think Internet existed in the situation described in the book).

1984 was a big critic of communism, where facts dont mater and history can be rewritten.
Are we really far from that?

* Those poorly paid raters label things - and a lot of things depends on quality of their work. Do those companies even cross-check their work, when the idea is to get the lowest bidder? (on a side note, why FAANG companies dont understand the "garbage in, garbage out" concept? They can pay 300k usd to some programmer, yet they skimp on getting classifiers from USA or Europe who know the cultural context)

* Then there are probably censors, who can censor things based on their own ideas. Probably censorship can happen at two levels: first by using labels, then by deciding what to show based on those labels.

* Some websites have "fact checkers", who are necessary (with the amount of lies written in troll-farms and soon lies written by AI), but you cant really appeal about their process in any way - and those are some faceless people from third world countries.

*Often you cannot ever contact with a real person, Google and Facebook are the worst here. Microsoft is a bit better, because if you pay them money for support, you can get human support.

* Wikipedia is a constant war between vandals, but also actors that are much smarter (seem state sponsored even). When we speak about Wikipedia it is incredibly sad that it never introduced any systems to review the work of their admins (I saw a situation where some articles are "guarded" by 2-3 admins who share their own >version of facts< and nobody can do anything about that). And this could be solved by setting up panels of judges that judge edits that are anonymous. Or setting a panel of judges who judge actions of admins (yes, there is that "Arbitration Committee" that barely works). Of course then there is the question "who watches the watchmen", but still - Wikipedia Foundation has millions of dollars that they waste on various things, instead of spending it to improve their core product.

On a side note, I always thought about starting such a data labeling business; I think a lot of work done by current labelers is still low quality.
I saw some start-ups that were checking things (e.g. medical data) and they would pay peanuts to the people who labeled their data. Then they would get bad labels.. and build wrong conclusions on that with their classifiers.
> It'll be ironic and sad if they burn the old unedited Roald Dahl books.

"They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em, while arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells, Rally round the family, pockets full of shells"
You could use Nim.
Sure, cash is eco friendly!
A static site generator can be used to create an .html file that's dependent on the user to execute a javscript web application to show the content. That makes that generated page dynamic. It doesn't change the nature of the static site generator.
Or that? component names: index.js or component.js
2 year calorie restriction study shows improvement in molecular markers of aging
This doesn’t make sense. So rust let’s you write unsafe code, and now that’s the same as any language that calls C in any way?

Why replace C++ then? After all, rust is just as unsafe by your definition.

Having a language that is default safe and can only be unsafe in rare situations is way better than one that lets libraries write unsafe code, which is better than a language with no safe boundary.
Coordinated, intentional, acts of violence. Preferably on a small enough scale and against non-human entities so we can get the picture and make necessary changes without further catastrophy.
I'm pretty sure that's still the case, I don't recall them making any change that would break it
No, we weren’t afraid of a negative comment at SkyFi…we are focused on customer feedback and making things better. We treat everyone as if they were Carmack. If you read the whole thread he was still critical of our product and it wasn’t all roses and sunshine.
at first i thought this was some sort of wrapper around vips[1] which is extremely powerful, but whose CLI leaves a lot to be desired. even so, i make use of it quite a bit. here's how i'd convert the webps to png:

parallel vips copy {} {.}.png ::: *.webp

[1] https://www.libvips.org/API/current/using-cli.html
Hmm, this might be the right audience - anyone with C and JS skills want to poke at https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/75 and maybe come up with a pull request? (I got as far as I could on the C side, all the details are in the issue, but I'm not sure what shape the javascript side of the fix would be...)
TEDx video from Ramin hasani explaining his algorithm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI35E5ewBuI
Most indie games I know of can just be copied. In fact, many indie games on steam can just be copied because they contain no drm at all.
Complete agreement. I like how this is approached in German law. Everything that is not forbidden is allowed.
Chrome has a hard wall around some features like chrome.scripting and promised APIs (MV3-only) but Firefox doesn’t.

It seems that Firefox is keeping around the same MV2 APIs so Firefox extensions will eventually be able to update the MV number with no effort.