skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this ai can browse the internet, it can open urls, therefore it can act

That is one super-weird image of NN functioning you have in your head. It obviously doesn't "browse the internet", that's the job of the crawler service, which then feeds the data to the data pipeline, that prepares the data for another iteration of inference job, which calibrates the weights of the NN.

It can't "act", it can only respond to queries, that's it. Everything else is done by other hard-structured components, which are out of NNs control or scope.

Let's keep it real, there is nothing magical here, we've been managing thousands of models similarly for probably nearly a decade now.
I have two Airthings View Plus and I am very happy with them. I have them set up in Home Assistant to turn some fans on and off based on air quality.
Abraham Lincoln was a huge technological optimist. He was the primary counterweight in the 19th century to the ideas of Malthus and Darwin. The opening of the midwest to grain production was a huge rebuke at the time to Malthus's overpopulation pessimism. Lincoln wrote a number of speeches where he extolled the greatness of unlimited technological progress. They were influential worldwide and inspired the trans-siberian railroad among other projects.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/02/abraham-lincoln-the-t...
It's not so cut and dry. Yes, there are some people who never pay for anything and only pirate something. But for most people it just depends on what's easily available. See e.g. movie and music streaming services being successful today, despite widespread piracy 20-25 years ago.

In the case of Dreamcast pirates, while I'm sure they wouldn't pay for every game or even most games, many of these folks would very likely purchase some games, had pirated copies not been ridiculously easily available for free.

In the specific case of the person I knew, he had purchased games for plenty of other consoles.
Roald Dahl: Rishi Sunak joins criticism of changes to author's books
A hard drive under constant write load is unlikely to last a decade. And replacing them in some of these devices isn't trivial (even if the physical connector is straightforward, how many of them understand receiving a new drive that needs formatting, how do you get to the panel to do it, etcetera etcetera). In isolation, the smartest thing a hardware vendor could do is make this process difficult so you give up and buy a new one.

You could say "well, filter on reviews", but the review space has been drastically compromised with the rise of "influencer" types, too.
History repeats itself with anti-China land ownership proposals
Ignoring the politics involved, I thought about this for a bit. I asked a simple question: What would be fair, regardless of which two countries might be involved?

My take comes down to what I will call “bilateral fairness”. Put a different way: If country A does not allow country B to buy property, then, country B adopts the same rules.

Why should B allow it if A does not?

To me that seems common sense, or courtesy. I’ll treat you the way you treat me.

I realize something like this, implemented without thought, can be a serious slippery slope. This is just a thought exercise, not a rule to change the world tomorrow.
Hey thanks for checking it out :)

I have been thinking about the comments feature. It's like peas and carrots having comments on a blog. I have almost added them before, but didn't for fear it would sacrifice any of the simplicity - which led me to think about modules/plugins. I like the idea of plopping down a folder or zip that the Bearclaw binary then reads and incorporates. Maybe that's feasible, maybe it's not.

I'm going on a walk in a little bit and will give thought to a plugin system. Any ideas you have in mind?
For a senior/staff engineer/principal/architect sort of role, I don't think it would be a problem. If you were applying for a junior role, it might be a different situation.
On my grandmother's computer I did the "install this site as an app" function for the sites she uses and they open up in frameless windows. The only browser controls available to her are back and refresh. Highly recommend.
The Beam VM handles memory copying, afaik. It is very much multi-process. It has very lightweight processes, of which you can spawn thousands. Those are then run in as many OS threads as makes sense and are available to the virtual machine. It is unclear what you mean by Erlang (the language) being single threaded. The VM easily runs on as many cores as you give it, probably by using as many or more OS threads.
Thanks, I didn't knew about that. Into my RSS it goes!
> You're supposed to get the audience first, and then create for them

This is certainly the smart thing to do, but there’s something about “creating something for an audience” that stops my creative juices from flowing. I guess there are too many thoughts about how this will be received and what people might think, that it stops me from creating truly great work.
If you wrote your child's essay that is cheating. If the child cannot formulate the arguments themselves, I'm not sure what the point of the assignment is.
What is missing from it? It doesn't seem to be raw performance, at least.
Long ago in the age before the semiotics of standing-desk superiority came into fashion, I worked with a gentleman who made his own stander from plywood and screws and so forth, and stood all day every day, and he was in fact a Lisp programmer in good standing. It was rumored that he had patootie problems but I chose not to pry.
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Why is Japan Fortifying its Small Islands [video][30 min]
If you want growth stop draining nearly over half your take home pay in rent and council tax.

Relatively high income people can cope with increasing bills, rent, and food, but that means they aren't spending money at the pub or whatever, reducing economic activity. Those with lower incomes can't even afford food.
Ask HN: What is the most barebone back end solution?
Through sheer luck and even more stubborness I somehow ended up with a very small web game (in the realm of games like Wordle) in pure Typescript.

I want the state of the game to be shareable via following process: Player A presses save -> a JSON is saved onto my server -> A link is generated and shown to Player A -> Player A shares that link with Player B -> Player B clicks that link -> The game is loaded with the state of Player A

So the only interaction between front- and backend would be saving and loading that one JSON. My problem is: To me, the web might as well be magic, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with how I can get the ball rolling.

I think my options are:

A) Amazon Lambda + a S3 bucket (appeareantly this is somehow the cheapest and the most expensive option at the same time?)

B) Renting my own VPS and interacting with it through a REST API (I think I would need a managed server rather than a web hosting option, right?)

C) Something like Google Firebase/AWS Amplify

I feel like option B would be the old-school way of doing things and a good way for me to finally overcome my web-phobia, but do I really need to pay 50€/m to host a game that probably nobody every will play?
It's called "Hacker News" for a reason.

We get to be all practical and stuff at our jobs.
Rich Hickey says “the computer is the worst place to work“. I guess he means precisely for the reason you state. The best ideas come when there’s no input from outside.
A lot of those revolutions almost worked out though - and with a less educated populace. Though I suppose social fabric/cohesion matters just as much as education.
As the article points out, there's no way short of carbon taxes to make this economically viable. Cargo ships keep getting bigger and bigger because scale increases efficiency, the limiting factor is the max size ports can accommodate.

Anything the size of these is never going to be wind powered: https://www.scf.com.au/news-articles/largest-shipping-contai... , the sails/foils required to get adequate propulsion would be impossible to maintain.

So at best this tech is going to be for relatively high-margin goods where shipping time is at a premium but not so prioritized as to spring for air transport. Like old-school clippers. Maybe there's a niche there, and I guess every little bit helps, but I imagine the total impact on climate change to be minimal.
US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’
Old people read the Mail and Express, not Murdoch media.
In my opinion, the term "Data Science" is becoming vague. Similar to the term "Web Developer" which lost its clarity in the 2000s and was divided into various roles like backend, frontend, UI, UX, app developers, and so on. Currently, "Data Science" has expanded and there are multiple subfields that have developed into their professions like data analyst, data engineer, machine learning engineer, machine learning scientist, and more. So in that sense yes, it's dying. But dying of success.
I think it is the market, and by market, I mean baby boomer legacy. They were always taught that bigger is better (because crumple zones didn't exist in their parents cars), and now they guilt x, millennial, and z.

I feel this pressure from my baby boomer parents and millennial partner - especially in the southeast; they ignore the likelihood of rollovers in SUVs and the proven safety of modern suspensions and airbags in sedans.
meetup.com offers a large collection of interest groups to join. It probably is less useful for low density areas, and I don't know if they operate outside the US. If you live in a large urban area (I'm in Austin) there are literally hundreds of meetup topics. Knitting? Music? Hiking? Books? Psychedelics? Religion? Sports? Investing? Meditation? Learning a language?

There is no guarantee that you'll make a friend there, but the odds are much higher than watching TV at home.
the old adage in show business was to never spend your own money. with the plethora of streaming options, that has been turned on its head. look at all of the shows where the lead talent is also an executive producer (the ones that write the checks).
> Bottom of the heap? Ai essays suck. They’re painful to read for the most part.

I'm just responding to that part
Hi layer8, thanks for the feedback! I must say that your standards for thoroughness are pretty high. Since I claimed at the very top that my article covers all aspects of modern email, I don't mind your criticism at all.

I haven't thought about the prefix chaining issue, and I'm happy to mention this in a future revision of the article. I would still argue that this is below a reasonable level of technical significance as neither conversation grouping nor message delivery is affected by it. It's more like displaying "(No subject)" instead of actually displaying no subject.

Do you have any source for what you say is an old display name convention? I've just checked the standards, and as far as I can tell after a quick glance, RFC 822 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc822#section-6) doesn't mention display names at all, and its successor RFC 2822 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2822#section-3.4) mentions display names only with angle brackets.

PS: I have quite a few topics on my todo list, which I should add in a future revision of the article in order to live up to the claim of covering all aspects of modern email. These include MAPI, Microsoft's autodiscover mechanism, direct mailbox addressing, domain-to-domain encryption, and link rewriting in incoming mails. Some information is also no longer up to date by now.
Not quite. A lot of it, no doubts, but I spend more and more time seeking inspiration and querying my peers. I involve other people both as a type of rubber ducking, and as a sanity test.
First, I'd say that using chatGPT actually lead to more critical thinking here since the essay had to be proofread for mistakes. More importantly though using ai to assist in writing is the future, there's no point in ignoring that. And as the OP points out, getting good output isn't that simple, it is a skill that needs to be trained.
Would be interesting to know how much of the increase in long-term illness is due to long COVID and how much is other health impacts of the pandemic.
Wow! this is super cool!
That seems like an acceptable excuse until you recognize that America also has about 23 times the GDP of the Netherlands - about 15% more money per person.
> This is what we call the Myth of the Profit Motive that underpins a lot of capitalist propaganda. The myth here is that nothing happens without the profit motive.

The strawman here is that capitalist ideology requires "nothing happens without the profit motive" to work. It doesn't. Take food for instance. There's no doubt that there are altruists willing to feed people for free (eg. soup kitchens/food banks), but you can't rely on altruists to feed the world. The point of capitalism is that you don't need to rely on people's charity to get fed, or whatever other products/services you want. As Adam Smith puts it:

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. "
Childcare's also an issue. Plenty of grandparents are providing free childcare so that their children can continue to work.
I started cheating on book reports in the 3rd grade when I realized there's no way the teacher can know about every children's book, and as long as I picked something relatively new and obscure, I'd be safe.

In later years, we had to write reports on books everyone read, this strategy broke down. Cliff notes were a thing back then, but mostly I just skipped around through some chapters, talked with other students, and wrote the reports based off very superficial knowledge of the story with a few examples sprinkled in.

10/10 would use this to not have to suffer reading Shakespear or whatever the book du jour is, or whatever other topic I don't care about.
Yes, but the number of people wanting to do software over a certain age also goes down. I was working with a developer/tester in his early 70s until recently. He's not working now but I messaged him the other day and he was working on so ML project in his own time. His previous companies would hire him back. Even I'm past mid 40s now and many of the team are older (although they're called architects now).
Or just learning how to write - most people simply can't write well. It's great that people are learning how to carefully craft a Google search query to give them the results they want, but they'll never be able to write a vulnerable love letter to their wife.
Yes.. But "a SIMD" is not established computer architecture terminology, SIMD is a characteristic of a processor instruction set - but a processor core (or SMT thread thereof) might eg have multiple SIMD execution units. It's like saying "a CISC" or something. So it begs the question, a SIMD what? A SIMD lane, one SIMD unit of many in a multi threaded processor, a SIMD register context of a thread, something else?
If I understand you, if the URI database outlives the URI itself, the URIs in the database would still be useless, right? If somebody buys uber.com, it does not matter if we preserve "uber.com/xmas-sale", since the uber.com domain can be pointed at a different server. So you need to save the content as well, which means you'd need something like IPFS. I could see the usecase for something like IPFS on a blockchain (assuming IPFS is not working well enough as is; I have no idea)
This isn't about software engineers, it's more about the nurses, GPs, teachers and everyone else who has said "well, sod this for a game of soldiers" and retired early rather than be paid to little to be the ablative armour of a system stretched to breaking.
No mention of the effects of Covid here at all including Long Covid.
From someone else in the article's comments:

> if we treated the customer's phone number as a hex representation of ASCII, it spelled something that was recognisable as a command.

And the WAF team suggested they ask the customer to change their phone number.

Goodness me.
Indeed this is super scary. I see it growing among peers and a part of this trend myself. We simply no longer hang out unless there's some particular event or need to do so. People plain out lost interest in it. It's absurd how quickly the (rather mild, i'm not in say, UK where it was really strict) lockdowns killed the social gene in us.
The biggest clue we have right now is illustrated by last year's nobel prize. Particles in an entangled state can interact instantaneously, disregarding space and time entirely.
> Or the initial buyer can sell the smart doorbell to a customer that does have the patience to deal with local recording.

I think this would require a drastically different consumer mindset. Because I don't think there is a market for used doorbells.

> It'll always be hard to use tech for non-technical people

As much as I don't like the products, Nest and Ring are not hard to use for non-technical people. They remove the moving parts that may demand maintenance and may cause failures that are beyond a power cycle's reach to fix.

In that light, the best regulatory solution is probably to ensconce terms-at-purchase as indefinitely binding for SaaS-attached hardware. No price increases, no end-of-service so long as the company is still in business.
> but have wrought havoc in recent decades: the government estimates the country’s approximately 6 million wild, or feral, pigs cause $1.5bn of damage each year.

If 6m wilds can do $1.5bn then imagine the damage from factory farmed pigs.
I didn't assert that Fox isn't dependent on ad revenue, nor that people who have/administer ad money are uniformly in support of trans people.

Do you have a larger point? I don't really see what your replies are getting at.
> I also don't think most corporations are just dumping externalities on society and reaping benefits

Are you measuring most in terms of where the money goes or just the number of corporations? Because some of the biggest are quite literally causing climate change, poising the land, and getting people killed (if not killing them directly).

Of those that are left I'd still make the argument that they're destroying public health through marketing, but apparently "having ads shoved at you all day every day damages your mental health and that damages society as a whole" is somehow a controversial statement because marketing helps people make money.
We went through this 20 years ago when it was IE6.
This could be the death knell for the Tory party. The over-50 early retirement crowd is squarely in their voter group. Calling them out in the blame-game of a failing economy is a perfect way to turn your own voters against you. Well done.
I enjoyed the read.

For me, it's similar.

Not sure how much it resonates with today's software development zeitgeist, however.

It seems that most software development companies believe that creation happens in large, open-plan offices, filled with chattering people.
I love this, it seems like the heavy lifting is done by the web app here: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

I’m amazed that this is open source, it’s incredibly useful.

I wish there was a profiler implementation, the best profiler is in GCP’s DataPrep.
Learning to say no to management was one of the hardest things for me in my career. It has also been the one of the best things.
At that budget, you can just get an air purifier with built in monitoring.

Though usually those only detect particulate matter since air purifiers don't really help with CO2, etc.
The messaging there is broadly the same.
Hey! Airbyte was working in theory, but it was not very user friendly to handle a large Salesforce instance (this was for a client of mine with 100k+ employees)

I've just given it another go with Airbyte Cloud and I think some of the issues I had have been fixed (I remember back when I tested it was pretty clunky to select tables to sync with hundreds of custom tables) because I didn't have any major problems.

One thing that is a showstopper that is probably very specific to my use case is it doesn't allow you to filter tables before syncing, my client has offices worldwide but I mostly work within a couple regions so some of the tables I want to sync I would like to put a filter on as they have a "Market" custom field for the country.

I can of course just sync everything and then filter on the destination but as a consultant I'm wary to sync data that I have no business working with, plus it would increase the data size of the sync massively.

Overall I do love airbyte though! it's a great tool, and I use it for other data sources, just didn't work for me in this specific case

EDIT: I just noticed I was unnnecessarily harsh in the parent comment, I was more thinking about other tools that have very basic SFDC integration (only standard tables, no custom tables/fields) – airbyte's integration is overall good, it just didn't work for my specific usecase
I'm hijacking the thread but I'd be grateful to read about other people hemorrhoids experience. I'll start:

I had hemorrhoids which had to be operated because they become thrombosed. So I did a surgery (with general anaesthesia) to remove them.

The recovery pain was unbearable, a real torture. For like 3 months I was in pain all the time and had to take painkillers and put some special cream on the operated area (my ass). I couldn't sit and had to lie down all the time(I was lucky that I wasn't working at this time). Going to the toilet was really painful at first but that improved after some weeks. This was considered normal.

The thing is that even now, almost 5 years after the operation, it still bothers me, depending on my stool (if it's hard it's a big problem). Does it ever heal?

All in all unless really required I don't recommend operating your hemorrhoids. Change your diet, use a bidet, use creams and try to avoid surgery!!!
> The EU isn't even trying to be the first to send humans to Mars

I know this is an unpopular opinion around here, but I'm very glad they aren't. It's wildly impractical (humans can't survive on Mars without a lot of external help, and unlike the closest things we have to it, Antarctica and the ISS, emergency help would be months away at best), astronomically expensive, and would serve what goal exactly?

I don't want my tax euros wasted on unrealistic vanity projects. Let Musk('s children) run his dystopian colony there first and we'll see how it goes.
The key responsibility (and purpose) of a project manager is to manage and organize the execution of a project so that it achieves the goals which were defined for that project.

The key responsibility (and purpose) of a product manager is to provide a coherent vision of what the product needs to be successful and define what the ongoing projects' goals should be to effectively improve that product.

Engineer - how to build; project manager - how to organize building; product manager - what to build.
> because I'm not working from a strip club.

Like you, I mostly prefer creating in quiet solitude approaching sensory deprivation. However, sometimes I find it possible to coax a creative idea or concept into conscious awareness when surrounded by a familiar roar of external stimuli but only as long as I perceive that cacophony as a fairly uniform wall of noise. Personal examples include aimlessly walking alone around a massive trade show floor with booths all blaring their visual and sonic messages. For me, such noisy environments seem especially good for more "connectionist" type inspirations.

I've heard the Feynman strip club story and others like it, and always interpreted it in a similar way. It appears that environment was both familiar and comfortable for Feynman and perhaps his ideas could emerge as signal from the wall of perceptual noise.
Isn't the difference in it being required, and opt-out (unsafe) in rust, but opt-in here? Also, my understanding is the rust compiler guarantees "soundness" in safe rust, so it checks and validates that the function signatures (with annotations like lifetimes) are correct