skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Via SMS like everyone else with a mobile phone here, and especially around election dates. Apple’s done a few things recently to mitigate this and last election I reported a lot of phone numbers for spam to my carrier using a mechanism Apple built-in; so we’ll see if it starts to make a difference within a couple of years time.
Yeah, this works great for public/free Substacks. Unfortunately Substack doesn't offer any way to get a private RSS feed for subscribers, except for podcasts. So you end up with the truncated public versions of articles in the public RSS feed and have to click through and sign in to read the full one.
I don't know what I was expecting, but those photos weren't it.
I could not disagree more.

Before smartphones, one would "surf the web" for an hour or so at night, and physically sit down at a PC. That's a radically different experience compared to the 24/7 always-on information overload and forever temptation of the smartphone.

The very article points this out: there was a time where the internet complemented physical life, in good ways even.

Second, smartphone engagement is shallow. On a PC one tends to read more, write more extensively, because it's easy to do so.
The art of conversation includes moving between each, and pulling a phone out every few minutes stunts that normal conversational flow.

There is also the problem of what is a fact (Alaska is part of the United States) and what is a "fact" (e.g. Covid came from bat soup in a wet market, Russia's invasion of Ukraine was "totally unprovoked" etc.) Discussion is the entire point in those cases, since we can't trust our entire set of "facts" anymore thanks to censorship.
i'm really stuck on level 22, any hints?
i got "yes!" and "it is" and i've tried stuff but can't think any further
> Eventually, Ruan’s team came up with a paint that used high concentrations of barium sulfate particles of varying sizes, which was able to reflect 95% of sunlight.

This substance is also used as a radiographic contrast agent and turns your poop white.
Yes because the level of effort to choose a different phone is equivalent to moving to a different city…

85% of the worlds population uses an Android. They made a different choice, why can’t you?

There are over a billion people in China that don’t use Google’s Android. And there are phones for geeks that don’t use Google’s Android.

The other 85% are using phones that allow them to escape the “wall garden”.

It’s like complaining that you locked yourself in a room and threw away the key.
And if, in 1895, you said "flying machines have failed" that statement would be 100% accurate. And if you suggested that a business should be built on the failed flying machines, you'd be laughed out of the room.
Depends how many seconds per day you use them :)
> I'm not aware of any postal service that uses a method other then optical imaging for address reading. Further, in some countries such as the US, it is not legal for the postal service to "look inside" mail pieces without a warrant.

It could be hackers exploiting my lack of knowledge to social engineer me for their own criminal gain then. They even mentioned some of the old postal machines were for sale on ebay.co.uk, so when I looked there were 2nd hand postal xray machines for sale.
You cannot get a OPEN_API_KEY with a noscript/basic (x)html browser as far as I know.
At every point in time we are both heading for a recession and heading for an expansion, differing only by time window.
Cookie regulation is great. If you block the cookie message elements, the websites have to default to necessary cookies only.

Before the regulation, sites would do whatever they wanted if your browser settings weren't set up perfectly.
The US BLS has 6 different unemployment measures. The one that's usually quoted is U-3 which means unemployed but seeking work. But if you left the country, I assume you're not counted in any unemployment measurement. (Though I also assume that's a sufficiently unusual edge case that it doesn't really move the needle on any of the statistics.)
Some people like having access to the tech stack, which a small VPS gets you.
"COVID happened because we eat meat and wear leather" is a hilariously bad take.
Show HN: ChatGPT Bot Trained on Reddit Data
I'm heavily relying on Reddit for my online research, but there are many repetitive questions and recommendations on subreddits, so I trained a GPT bot on over 100k r/BuyItForLife comments and posts to embody the collective knowledge of this Reddit community (and soon many other subreddits).

Some posts I answered with the bot:

- Request Post: Dishwashers. What’s currently the best dishwasher for home use?

- Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=what%27s+currently+the+best+dis...

- Request Post : Recommendations for hiking shoes?

- Bot Answer: https://www.looria.com/bot?q=Recommendations+for+hiking+shoe...

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It's far from perfect and comes with limitations:

- Outdated information: I'll try to improve this by factoring in recency and some additional product information like prices, specs, etc, that I'm collecting. I also want to add more statistical significance to the results, e.g. by feeding in the amount of product recommendations over time.

- Hallucination: As always with these bots, they sometimes make things up. More training data should help here.

- Performance: Generating the answers is pretty slow and I'll look into improving this.

Take it with a grain of salt and look at it as a fun experiment :) Would love to hear your feedback!
Yes, I use a Supernote (competitor to ReMarkable) and it's socially way better than using a laptop.

The laptop has a screen turned to its user, meaning other people don't see their screen and it visually creates a "wall" between the user and the rest of the group.

A tablet doesn't have this problem, it lays on the table.
I’m fairly certain Deno caches the downloaded artifacts locally. There’s also tooling for downloading all dependencies:

https://deno.land/manual@v1.29.1/tools/vendor
Very cool! What’d you use for the engine?
I'd say its far easier now than say 20yrs ago and also way cheaper tbh, I'm excited for the next decade because I think there's still innovating cheaper energy, cheaper storage, easier integrations, etc.
The work process you are describing is that of the slow moving colossuses that are slowly being devoured by the earth.
High school kids are only a few years away from being able to vote. Some of them already can. There's tremendous pressure on them to pick a tribe that will identify them politically and increasingly and sadly, limit their social interactions. For those who are trying to get near-future voters into their tribe, destroying teens isn't something that matters to them, they just want the teen's allegiance, hopefully lifelong. If some commit suicide, that's a lost vote, but all of the other votes the tribe gains is worth that death. Afterall, there's no consequence to the tribe itself beyond the lost potential voter.
PFAS ban affects most refrigerant blends
Great, but they look terrible. I won't enjoy seeing these eyesores.
Thing is, I don't technically "write" most of the code today. I type the first few characters and IntelliJ fills the rest for me (and also takes care of the imports and some other useful stuff). Is it literally one click or a prompt and all my code gets generated? Well no. But I know exactly what is going in my code without having to actively read it. In case some error slips in, I know what my intention was so corrections are trivial.

I dread reviewing someone else's code. I consider it the hardest part of my job as it requires a lot of concentration lest some bug creep in.

I am reminded of some Java codebases filled with unknown annotations whose annotation processors were in some library being imported. It was a nightmare trying to figure out what was happening and I dearly wanted to accost the engineer who wrote that mess. Unfortunately they had left the company.
Well, apart from the US:

1. In Japan, the crisis resulted in a prolonged period of economic stagnation, known as the "Lost Decade," which lasted from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. The country had already been struggling with a banking crisis and a property market crash, and the dot-com bubble burst only made things worse.

2. In Europe, the crisis led to a slowdown in economic growth, particularly in Germany, which was heavily dependent on exports. The country was hit by declining demand from the United States, which was one of its biggest trading partners.

3. In emerging market economies, the crisis led to a decline in investment flows and a slowdown in economic growth. Countries like Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina were particularly affected, as they were heavily dependent on foreign investment to finance their economic growth.

Overall, IMO the 2000 crisis had rather a significant impact on the global economy, leading to a decline in economic growth in many countries. I wouldn't call it "soft landing".
You must be a real fungi at parties
The Allcott study compared Facebook vs. no Facebook. Would be interesting to also see and compare that to the results of X vs. no X where X could be messaging app, email or Tik Tok, etc.
How to make your code variables accessible from GPT-3
I think many countries will have problems with their elderly in not too long, regardless of how they handle retirements for their population.
Nice try, Taylor Lorenz.
20 years later objects are alive and well though
Parent post is right, we are inherantly tribal creature capable of really empathizing and aligning ourselves with maybe 7-10 people. We can find a tribal identity with maybe 30 people. We can productively coordinate with groups of as many as 50-75 people. Any more than that, and we simply can't hold those relationships in our monkey brains and default to 'stranger bad'.

Fortunately, at some point we gained an abstraction layer on top of our monkey brains, capable of empathizing with abstract characteristics such as nation, race, religion, etc. These abstractions are socketed right into our monkey layer and are a hack that can simulate the 50-75 people type relationship for billions of people. Unfortunately that layer needs to be trained, and it's even more unfortunately very easy and quite profitable to train in the wrong ways.
Oh boy!

Good story. And of course he just reinvents a procedure with all this.

There are things that are procedural, they should probably be expressed as procedures.

The problem is that there are many things we want to express that are not really naturally procedural, yet we have to express them procedurally as well.

2nd order problem is that when there is another mechanism, people then want to use that as the "this can do everything"-mechanism. Yes, you're clever, now sit down. I have seen fibonacci expressed as dataflow more times than I care to remember. It's not a pretty sight.

But dataflow expressed procedurally also not so cool.
Wait, before deflecting them? Why?

There’s at least a plausible need there, what with the whole “don’t want to slam an asteroid into the planet” problem.

Mining is still an utter fantasy. It’s completely economically unviable to mine anything from an asteroid and bring it down the gravity well, and we have close to zero ability to actually mine and manufacture anything in space. We are a long long long time away from that.
id say 10-20% of all content is expected to be misclassified
No. Deno supports vendoring, caching and locking of dependencies just like other ecosystem.

They are not fetched every time you run the app.
> It took David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts for people to begin taking it seriously.

You're giving developer.mozilla.org (and the existence proof that is/was Firefox and other Mozilla toolkit applications) short shrift.

The wider world began taking JS even more seriously when the iPhone launched with the imprimatur that Safari was its SDK (even if that detail was eventually reversed and largely forgotten).

Also: thought of as a toy language, sure, but being considered one that "wasn't even as good as VBScript" is highly exaggerated.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic because there is currently a massive paranoia over child predators.
Farming in remote areas. Cities are death traps when a full scale war happens and they lose supplies, it's the same story every time. A typical picture is of some city dweller trading their valuable jewelry for some potatoes. Most recently it happened between Crimea and Rostov-on-Don, for example Mariupol.

Also every time there's a major war between roughly equal forces people rediscover all kinds of things: there aren't nearly enough munitions, there aren't enough bunkers, trenches are overpowered defensive structures, we need more water and food and fuel, air dominance or at least air denial is critical, tanks and mechanized/armour units are actually very good, etc. etc.
I don't know if my work is impacting how I'm viewing my procrastination from my work, but I view this the same way that I view basically everything I see at my job: "You don't have enough data to say that". Graph of depression scores between 2000-2018. Ok, that tells us...er... not much! And then to take that really limited bit of data and just pick a random technology that doesn't really line up with the timeline at all.... errr? Social media was at like 50% penetration in 2010, we know young people were early adopters, and yet the depression numbers don't break out of their normal range 2013. This is taking very little data and lining it up to things that happened in the world that sort of line up but not really. It couldn't be a better example of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

The reason I'm really pushing hard on the "It's not much data" side, is because here's a question - Is teen depression higher than normal? Or was it lower than normal during the early 2000s - a period of high economic growth, US cultural hegemony and monoculture? Who knows! It seems kind of absurd that we should argue one creaky theory should be our prior. If you don't really have enough data to strongly say something is true, your prior should be to say "We don't know". It doesn't help your reasoning to assume one theory at all, and points us in one direction where the answer maybe something completely different.

For example - what if it's actually the case that this is a function of social acceptability. In the past we saw a situation where it was socially unacceptable to be gay (and legally unacceptable worth noting), when that was the case you could survey people and find there were very few gay people. When it became more acceptable, suddenly the surveys showed far more gay people. There genuinely were people at the time this happened that were making the claim this was a conspiracy making people gay. Well, what if the destigmatization of mental health has had a similar effect? There were always depressed teens, but they never "came out" as it were. Then this whole discussion about phones is just... a weird distraction?
> Browsers will wait for about 3 seconds for custom fonts to load before showing a fallback font

Depends on the `font-display` value on one's `@font-face`, which is where the author's choices of "latency, FOUT, and FOIT" comes from. For instance, Google Fonts uses `swap` by default, meaning the fallback shows right away: https://web.dev/font-best-practices/#choose-an-appropriate-f... (I also think Safari's `auto` font-display never shows fallbacks, but that may have changed)

But if you use `optional`, browsers will attempt to get the custom font into the first paint: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#valdef-font-face-font-...

That's often enough. You can go another step further and preload the font, which I generally recommend. This especially helps if the font is otherwise discovered late by the browser.
I hope that one day germany will gain some influence in the european union, to counter the influence of great britain and protect end-to-end encryption.
Really enjoyed this. In general, horrible idea to accept anything other than a fixed list of redirect_uris in production.

OAuth 2.1 actually codifies that as a best practice: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-07.htm...
A lot of these things were handled by one typeface on a typewriter so the premise isn't entirely unfounded.

Visual communication and design predates CSS. Information architecture, design, guiding the user through the message is definitely a skill.

CSS can do as much distraction as it can enhancement. It's one appeal of Tailwind, it's more than serviceable while learning about the design, hierarchy, and flow.
"News organizations and social media shouters have an incentive to show you bad news, because that’s what gets them attention and clout and/or money."

Yeah, maybe there's a lot of this stuff, e.g. Vice is the major misery fetish peddler. But can't the journalists be reporting the bad news because it's actually news and needs to be reported?
> phone OR tablet

Android tablet, that is. If it's an iPad, you're SOL completely.

Even funnier is that the new native app for macOS [0] (i.e. not using Electron) is made with Catalyst… a tool made for porting iPad apps to macOS.

Somewhere, someone at WhatsApp works on a version of the app for the SOLE PURPOSE of porting it to another platform, while NOT releasing the original. It's completely baffling.

0 – https://wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-native-beta-for-macos-is-now...
I'd like to think HN is above this kind of nonsense.
This is another post illuminating the new minimalist trend in website design. The old minimalism was about "elegance", but this new trend is more about utility: we don't need CSS, just content, so why bother! I don't like this utilitarian take. It's fun to design a website.
Earth's asteroid shield is all the orbiting stuff we have up there. Musk may save us all after all.
Maybe questionable decisions, maybe selfless decisions? I don't think we should judge her.
NetKernel seemed to have gotten close to this state, it's too bad it stayed commercial and now seems dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O8PwkXfDJg
That's the same no? They are their representatives. They act with the german power. It's like saying this is trump and not usa, while his ratification is equal to the us power. It doesn't matter for the other side. (I took trump as an example as I often see him used as an example in such cases)
You would have to look at it from the perspective of the base rate (for low incidence) to properly understand what that means for the wider population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Employees can’t 1/35,000th quit the way Starbucks can close 1/35,000th of its locations.

As such closing a few locations is absolutely trivial for Starbucks if it serves some larger purpose.
Europe consists of 44 countries. They don’t have the same labor laws.
Even if the government exercised restraint and only used this technology in the manner they presently advocate for, a 10% false positive rate, presumably each resulting in an invasive investigation, is way too high.
Just changing the number of posts on the front page might be an interesting experiment.
Agreed, they are profoundly ugly objects. Looks like someone manifested a 3-year-old's drawing of a milk float.

Surely we as a species still appreciate things looking _good_ as part of an objective goal?
Japan just found 7k islands it didn’t know it had
Ransomware attack on U.S. Marshals Service (USMS)
Uhhh yeah, obviously I don't want my devices spying on me. If Apple had gone ahead with their ridiculous plan I would have dropped them if I hadn't done so already the year before (I went from macOS to FreeBSD for more control and I dropped iOS years before)
That's a fair point. I have no idea how logitech gets my mouse to be able to run a radio for a month or two between charges
It's a great example of how a little can do a lot.

The balance between design & function can be at odds when the mission of the page is not clear.

For consumption, these are awesome, your brain almost relaxes as it's easier than the usual onslaught.
Apple abruptly closes North Carolina mall store after series of shootings
There is an ES39 proposal to allow type annotations in Javascript, that would allow the browser to handle TS/Flow files without needing a compile step:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations

(That's only to allow the type annotations to be there, not to have static checking in the browser)

IMO: I would love to see this implemented. Linting and typechecking should be ran before committing code or deploying, but I want to be able to stop transpiling/bundling in all cases.
You're almost certainly right. But it also means that the postings are very unrepresentative of the broader market.
The fact that you both refer to "ES5 classes", when in fact ES5 has no classes, is very relevant to the meta/epistemological aspects of this discussion and an indicator of whether or not some of the other remarks should be taken as authoritative truths.
> I keep telling my older relatives this: yeah your house is now 800k, but so is the house you want to move to...

Well, the nice thing about being retired is that you can live anywhere you choose to live, more or less.

You don't have to pay $2-3k/month to rent a rathole apartment in Silicon Valley when you're retired.

The median house price in San Jose, CA is $1.1 million. The median house price in Gulf Shores, AL (a pretty nice resort area) is only $479k. If you went for a less-resorty area, say Biloxi, MS, you could get by for only $207k.

Edit: you could even have a summer place in Maine (median price: $299,000) and a winter place in Biloxi (median price $207k) and still spend less than half what the San Jose house would cost.
Content is King
I am currently in the market for dev roles! I am completely self taught and this is a project that shows off what I am capable of. Its the first version so there will be issues here and there.
>more coupling and layers of indirection

actually, OO claims less coupling. as to layers of indirection, i don't think it claims anything.

> OO says implicitly says "objects are always worth the cost"

don't know where you get this "always" from - objects are sometimes, maybe even often worth "the cost" (which is small), but not "always"
I’m not a fan of seniority rules, but if this is the worst you could find, than I don’t think you should worry.

Honestly I don’t think I’ve ever worked in a workplace (unionized or otherwise; service work, manual labor, tech, or otherwise) which didn’t employ some sort of senior rule (mandated or organic). I’m personally not a fan of this practice and I think there are better ways to partition benefits and organize schedules, but there are also certainly worse ways.

An example of way more petulant practice is management cutting benefits or arbitrarily giving workers they don’t like for some reason worse shifts (which happens aplenty in ununinized small shops), and an example of way more counterproductive measure is a hard systematized schedule (e.g. a 2-2-3 12 hour shifts) which bigger shops with long opening hours love hard systems like these, but are really hard on workers, and bleeds a tonne into their free time.
HTTP/2, which is getting pretty widespread now, mitigates most of the concerns about making a bazillion requests.
[spoiler alert]

An entity probing humans using our emotions and memories and generating fractal nonsense as a byproduct
I am not that familiar with the whole story, though I know it is in popular culture in US. From what I remember, it was about a bad behaving elephant who was euthanized publicly first by cyanide with electrocution as a backup. This was rumored to be a demonstration of AC current, but not as familiar with it. The story seemed cruel when I first read it, but did not pursue it in detail.

I am probably wrong about electricity, in my mind I was referring to decade of 1910s and 1920s. There were debates no doubt, but were they as polarizing as the ones we have today? Newer things are scary, but what we have today is downright fearmongering.