skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's when I learned what a greedy exploitative platform it is

I bought a game (Spelunky) on the Switch online shop. Nintendo then proceeded to send me constant emails about how my “coins are expiring.” So they award coins for purchases which you can save up to get “free” games, but then make them gradually expire if you don’t use them. What kind of high pressure sales tactic is this?

I was really turned off. I can see how this would be highly manipulative to kids though.

Why is Nintendo doing this crap? They’re a privately owned, family-run company. They don’t have outside shareholders to please. They could just choose to be less profitable and focus on protecting their family-friendly brand. This excessive greed is highly unseemly.
The article mentions

> Georgia Power’s 2.7 million customers are already paying part of the financing cost, and state regulators have approved a monthly rate increase of $3.78 a month as soon as the third unit begins generating power. The elected Georgia Public Service Commission will decide later who pays for the remainder of the costs.
Wow - vampire taps. That brings back some memories :-)
Nearly 600,000 #HDFCBank customers data exposed on #darkweb for free! involving #HDBFinance & #Lentra.ai. triggering #Phishing attempts
Perhaps the site should be renamed "Hacker Discussion" rather "Hacker News"? Though I'm not sure "Hacker" is accurate either...

Don't you think that certain links can be newsworthy despite generating predictably ugly discussion threads?

It does seem that you're saying the site is not about news per se.
The only thing that is vastly better in VR than in reality are horror games. While one can laugh on how silly/unfrightening the movie nightmare on the Elm street is, a proper VR jump scare can easily lead to a heart attack when following some quiet period of gameplay. Not sure if this was the intended effect as it would likely reduce the number of consumers once for all.
you should post publicly about this on a blog or social media if you can
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056548.
I once (about 10y ago) experienced hardware that got tired. A customer replaced the usual hard disks with shiny new Seagate SMR drives, because they had more storage capacity. Funny thing is that they could not handle the sustained 100MB/s we were feeding them. So after about 20 minutes they started slowing down and after half an hour they stopped working for about 20 minutes and then they were fine again. Obviously the customer complained about our storage product and forgot to mention this small fact. Once we figured it out we had good laugh.
Okay, is there like a book or some other resource besides your awesome blog that you'd recommend for people looking to get into this some more?
Ask HN: What happened to the PDF HN news magazine
There was someone publishing a beautiful monthly or semi regular HN news magazine I believe in PDF and perhaps a physical version. Does anyone know status of this effort? Thanks.
I just searched for Blender and I cannot reproduce this.

... but what I suspect happened is they got reports, took a few days to down the ad, the ad goes up under another URL, they get reports, take a few days to down the ad, etc. The malware vendors are tenacious and have a pretty much bottomless well of Turking for CAPTCHAs and backup accounts.

ETA: none of this to imply that Google shouldn't fix the problem or that they don't need to divert more resources to it (if for no other reason than it does actually threaten their bottom line if they can't get on top of it and people conclude it's not worth it to keep recommending Google search to naive users). But the problem's generally harder to fix than most people believe.
Why on earth is this flagged?
It picks up some context questions that aren't there.

Consider the example question of "I won't be able to pay until the 9th of this month, will I get a fee?" - are you going to search for "fee"? There are 66 occurrences.

Modify the question to "If I pay on the 4th of the month, will there be any late fee?" and you get the correct answer too.

For the question "What restrictions are there on parties?" it appears to get that correctly answered. If you search for "party" you'll get 19 results that appear to be legal entity parties rather than the possibly noisy type.
Great concept, but if it’s limited to static screengrabs it’s unfortunately not worth much to UX engineers.

Take Nicelydone’s “Accordion” page for example https://nicelydone.club/components/accordion

Compare it to a couple of component library pages for accordions,

Ant Design https://ant.design/components/collapse

Hope UI https://hope-ui.com/docs/data-display/accordion

Tailwind Elements https://tailwind-elements.com/docs/standard/components/accor...

They all have interactivity, you can play around with how it feels to use the element. That is critical. Ideally you would embed their element directly on the page (IANAL but for publicly served webpages there should be no issue with reproducing their html and css for the element in question as long as there’s clear attribution, an element library is very clearly not attempting to misrepresent itself as the website). At the very least, clicking the image should take you to an instance of the UI element on their site, or as close as feasibly possible to one.
seo farming "18-year property cycle"?

and the advice is "time the market"
I know I'm probably not their demographic but this garbage really kills the experience for me and is the reason I stopped playing diablo immortal.
On prem is definitely not dead. I know a few angry Atlassian customers that are now forced to shelling out 50k a year so they can continue to use jira on prem because it is still cheaper than migrating to an alternative. Not every one can dump their data into some cloud that is located somewhere in the void.
Governments create money and sustain its value. If you are relying on saved money for retirement then you are relying on government.
It's not illegal if nobody is punished, really. Just naughty. But with no actual repercussions for the people who ordered, and carried out, the illegal surveillance, and no restitution to the people who were violated, it doesn't matter and will of course continue. That's the thing, stuff that's illegal for the government to do usually isn't because there's rarely any accountability.
A 1 hour down time every infrequently is nothing, but at the same time a codebase can be brittle. Are you saying the two are mutually exclusive?

Brittle code means it's hard to change, and causes issues when changed, but other than that it's stable when running.

And I have every right to point out the drama here. People here do somewhat have the right to create drama, but it is distasteful and unprofessional and I will continue to call it out.

Glad for you to admit there is drama here though :)
interesting that malware is now stealing 2FA desktop app credentials

those 2FA desktop apps should not exist in the first place

yeah it's annoying having to get your phone out, but having to get another device is sort of the point
I don't think this is the case for suburbs, at least for water. Septic tanks are used I think
Actually I just realized because the "looking" comment format includes "remote: ", filtering by "remote" doesn't do much. You should filter by "remote: yes" if you want to see people who want to be hired remote.

I was thinking of preventing this using semantic search with OpenAI's embeddings, but I realized that the total size of the embedded comments would be around 2GB, which most people probably do not want to download.
Setting aside the relative investment risk issues, perhaps customers are happy that they are getting a reliable source of power that is carbon free? Is zero cost the right threshold when looking at the larger benefits, nuclear or solar? That being said, I personally think we are headed to a combination of some always on nuclear combined with a lot of solar. Look to Texas for recent lessons on lack of robustness in power generation capability.
> many of the companies that provide 401(k) were on the verge of collapse in 2008.

The stock market went to shit, not the providers.
The 401k appeal is that it's an account you *own* and the government can't touch for money, it would be the same as expropriating a bank account, which to be fair, the Argentinian goverment kind of did in 2001, hence why since then, people there save money in usd cash or in a foreign account, not in the local financial system.
If the US government has to expropriate or do weird stuff in general with 401k accounts, we are in a situation where shit hit the fan long ago.
What ever happened to just playing a game, without having to install deamon programs on your PC, without having to consent to them tracking you, without having to create fifteen new accounts, without having to endure in game ads, without having to constantly be reminded that I don’t have the special in game currency that is the only way to get that pink hat?

Of course I understand what has happened. But it’s kind of taken the fun out of gaming. Or maybe I’m just old, grumpy and nostalgic.
All I'm saying is ansible is essentially that and no it isn't at all scalable.
Very interesting stuff, both this article and the one originally posted.

This stood out to me:

> This is also from The Soul of a New Machine: One of the engineers in the book burned out and quit and he left a note that read: “I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.”

The idea of slowing things down is a very interesting idea to me. I'm fairly certain that all the fluff in the world about moving fast actually slows us down in the long run. I also really need to read The Soul of a New Machine.
> The current path of world communism

It's not communism what's destroying the earth.

> bug eating

No need to eat bugs ... plants are enough. Why kill thousands of living beings for a burger you don't need. We need protein, not meat. Meat supplies just 35% of protein globally, the rest is already from plants.

> pod living in the 15 minute prison cities

> path being charted for us by our billionaire overlords is as dystopian

You're obviously a yankee. Where do you think you live? Free country? Democracy? Fair society? Think again.
Congratulations, you've found something to describe, in a dull and useless way, the concept of energy efficiency in a home. Blown-in cellulose is "advanced," huh?

It doesn't answer any of the specific questions about what's specifically different in a Zero Energy Ready Home from something Energy Star rated, and it's filled with weasel words and vague handwaving statements.

I could nitpick the response further against the actual PDF linked elsewhere in the thread, but there's no particular point.
You may like Rhai:
https://crates.io/crates/rhai
I agree on low humidity being bad, but your remark on insulation does not seem correct. I'm only familiar with cold climates, so perhaps I'm overlooking something, but mold needs moisture to grow, so it will appear where water condenses out of warm air on a cold surface. You can typically see this in windows.

So you need to prevent cold surfaces. The best way to do that is improving the insulation. The reason you can see water drops in the windows is precisely because they are inadequately insulated (e.g. only double paned).

Now, it's true that if you make an airtight home, then you need some kind of air exchange. And if it's really cold outside, then even if it's wet, once that air is warmed up, it ends up at a low relative humidity. In that case you need a humidifier. I guess depending on the outside air, you'd probably need both to stay in a comfortable range.
First, worth jumping on tryhamilton.dev -- we made it to make it easy to get started.

And, as always, it depends on your use case! If it’s all analytics and DWH manipulations — that’s not Hamilton’s expertise. If you want to do any DS work (model training, feature engineering, fine-grained lineage, etc…) and need to work in python, Hamilton is a great choice!

Otherwise hamilton is a library - we do have an example of integrating with dbt

https://towardsdatascience.com/hamilton-dbt-in-5-minutes-62e...
I spend most of my time in the parallel universe that is scientific computing/HPC. In this alternate reality SQL (not to mention databases) never really took off. Instead of scalable, performant databases, we have only the parallel filesystem. I'm convinced the reason contemporary scientific computing don't involve much SQL is sociological/path-dependency, but there are also very good technical reasons. Optimizing software in scientific computing involves two steps:
1) Think hard about your problem until you can frame it as one or more matrix multiplications
2) Plug that into a numerical linear algebra library
The SQL abstraction (in my experience) takes you very much in the opposite direction.
TBH I never see them. I don't know what charmed allow-list I'm on in Google's infra, but 98% of my attempts to repro these reports on Reddit, Mastodon, here, et. al (Incognito mode or no) fail.

This suggests to me that what people are generally seeing is churn, not lack of action (i.e. individual bad actors get taken out but they're up again soon).
12 years is nothing for infrastructure and because BEVs are reliant on infrastructure, it is impossible deadline.
you can just use hammerspoon to get the same effect, turning off the bluetooth/wifi right after entering sleep mode and turning them back on when the Mac is unlocked.
Nope, according to https://community.signalusers.org/t/sealed-sender-still-brok...
Sure, it's not about news in that sense. Is that not clear from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?
You can use models (OpenAI have some, there are other open-source self-hostable ones that are better if I recall correctly) that will take a sentence or a paragraph and spit out a vector. These vectors are called 'embeddings'

You then put those vectors in a vector database (e.g. pinecone, pgvector, chroma).

To run searches, you generate an embedding of the search term (could be the raw user search, could be something a model like ChatGPT was asked to transform the user's search into), then query the vector database for the n closest vectors. The trick is getting a model that generates good vectors for search (and transforming the user's query into some text that'd be useful vector(s) to search against). If feeding that into an LLM context, the next step is making sure that you get your prompt right, and don't overload the model with unrelated information (i.e. bad search results).

The key is that the vector representation embeds language concepts in how close vectors are to one another. An easy way to gain a feel for this is to look at single-word embeddings. Computerphile have a great episode on it[1]. You can take a vector for 'King', subtract the vector for 'Man' and add the vector for 'Woman' and the closest vector in that search will likely be 'Queen'. Scale up this idea to whole paragraphs (and larger vectors as a result).

LangChain has an example of searching a database of facts[2] (although I find their documentation pretty inaccessible - they explain their library, but don't step back from inside the weeds of what they're doing to really explain why / what's going on). Many of the features LangChain implements are distilling (or sometimes simply lifting and providing a toolkit to directly apply) LLM papers.

1: Computerphile Word Embeddings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8

2: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/use_cases/questio...
This is a really good point, and it could also be used to find the 'middle ground' that the author found lacking, between ANC (blocked too much) and transparency mode (didn't block enough).

Somewhat relatedly, the accessibility settings for AirPods also allow you to enable ANC when just one AirPod is being used. I don't know why this is in the accessibility settings, but I find it super helpful because it allows me to hear what's going on (with my open ear) and listen to podcasts at a very low volume, thanks to ANC on the single AirPod.
If you assume that most government programs have on the order of a very few % misspending or outright fraud (which is the case, aside from fiascos like the pandemic stimulus payments) then you just have to assume that the real decisions to be made are the "should we have this program at all" or "do rates need to increase / benefits need to decrease". The auditing and details will get worked out by an existing government apparatus designed to ensure this. You cannot let yourself get lost from the bigger picture believing that what is missing is the audit. The big questions are what need to be solved.
Three dollars and seventy eight cents?!?!?!
Why are they accepting ads for a product from anyone but the verified maker of the product in the first place? Surely there's budget in that river of ad money to do the most basic due diligence?
The most important thing is that someone pisses off the people you don't like. Anything else can be forgiven
Same here. Usually I am randomly picked for conversations that I was not aware and people ask me an opinion on that.

I think I've made myself numb to feeling something for my opinions but I would prefer to stop and think for awhile.
What the person is asking? What the person is really asking? Why is this important? What are the consequences? What are the pros and cons? Etc etc.
All the questions come to mind instantaneously but none of the answers.

So people go along with those who sounds more convincing. After some time if I come back with a major problem on the process of thought people judge me as being envy or too late for helping on something.

I feel detached front reality l. Even more lately. It seems everybody has a ready-made thought about everything and only I need to take time to think.
You should be able to tap the speakerphone icon on your iPhone, choose AirPods, and they’ll switch immediately in my experience
The "D"? That might be misdirection, as the "I" is said to be quite huge. (They took out a $13B loan, and Bloomberg estimated their interest at $1B/year. That's a massive chunk of their revenue.)
Seconded for SQL. Don't sell yourself as a SQL person unless that's what you love and want to work on data-heavy systems. For everyone else, being fluent in at least one dialect of SQL and being comfortable jumping between dialects will do wonders for you. I spend far less than 10% of my time on SQL but the time that I do spend on it is incredibly valuable
I'd argue that >50% of bytes on the web are malicious. We're past the point where it still makes sense to attempt to load the page and just block the bad parts. Ad blockers are bringing a knife to a gun fight.

I'd like to find a way to crowd source an unauthorized CDN for just the good parts. Maybe the ads need to be rendered once by a server somewhere so we can extract the content from the page, but after that we ought to be able to gossip content that's been pre-stripped of ads.

The web of trust that would be needed to make the gossiping safe can also help us figure out who to pay.
In what way? It can do more or less?
Suburbs aren't generally described as the "sticks." That would be exurbs or lower.

A typical suburban subdivision will have city water and sewage, though depending on the details, you might have a couple community wells and individual septic fields (or a link to city sewage).
> There is always value in truthful statements.

As long as we're not talking about nonzero value.

I think GP made a worthwhile point, but in general the universe is full of uninteresting truths. Like take two large, distinct numbers, assert that they are unequal. Is that specific truth valuable?
This is a really neat project. It reminds me a lot of Inform, in the sense that a full “modern” language was designed around creating an older-style of game.
Twitter and Reddit have shown that the population doesn't care if porn is mixed in with everything else. It's fine, it's fun, and it's harmless.

The American WASP prudishness needs to die. We love our violence in film and drama. We should love our sexuality too.

Game of Thrones was better for it.
Yeah I know. I was making a point about arbitrary statements and anecdotes. Relax.
With just a 3% APR on a savings account, if you took the 12.4% that everyone currently pays into social security and deposited in that account for 40 years (25 to 65) of your working life, at the current median annual income, you'd have $715k in cash saved.

If you had invested that into a Roth 401k and invested it in the market at an annualized average return of 7.3% instead, it'd be $2.25M in retirement savings.

Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme because it's taking money as an "investment" from people working today, to pay out returns to previous "investors" who are now retired, while the government has raided it and filled it with IOUs to support spending unrelated to the pension.
> I let my hunger and energy levels guide my food choices.

Perhaps "inform" (as in a signal that does not determine decision) might be a better approach. Hunger is not strictly correlated with need. That is, hunger and appetite are also subject to habituation. If someone is accustomed to eating three large meals a day with snacks in between, they will likely feel hungry when one of those meals is eliminated, or even when snacks are reduced. We hardly need as much as we generally consume, and the last thing we need is to be led around by our appetites. Like children, they can tell us what they want, but it is we who must assess what is actually needed or within healthy limits. Lack of hunger should also not form the basis for not eating. I suspect that's why you included "energy levels" as another signal. If you're not merely hungry, but feeling weak, and you know you haven't eaten in a while, then you could probably use some food.

I would argue that adopting a schedule and using fasting to reduce intake and "noshing" and conform hunger reoccurrence to this schedule are a good approach. Fasting also has the benefit of helping us discipline our appetites, something people are generally miserable at unless they practice self-denial or have them disciplined by outside causes. Disciplined appetites sharpen the mind and strengthen the will and contribute to virtue and therefore true freedom (in the classical sense, not the liberal sense which is a recipe for enslavement). This latter benefit is more important than the first. Furthermore, human beings are animals, but we are not beasts. We do not merely guzzle slop from a trough. We eat meals. Meals are not merely about obtaining nutrition.
For what it is worth, the Yamauchi family has been slowly selling their portion of the company for nearly a decade. (https://www.campdenfb.com/article/nintendo-heirs-sell-stake-...). The shareholder structure is the only thing keeping in control and they definitely care about how happy shareholders are. Luckily, the particular shareholders they are concerned with tend to hold for an extremely long period of time (Japanese banks and holding cos).
> I don't understand why this argument keeps coming up.

Not comment should be read as argument or part of a debate for or against using Rust or any other memory safe language. I made the comment because I've seen tool after tool come about to end the scourge of bugs in software... and so far my unconscious, untrained ability to find new and spectacular ways to create bugs has exceeded the ability of the makers of bug prevention tools to stop me.
Fair point, thanks for bringing it up.
I don't like java - but I have to appreciate Java has the strongest job market.
everyone uses java. the problem now will be separating yourself from people that claim to know java and people that know java.
the people that know java are a few i.e can do useful things with it at acceptable quality.

just my 2c.
I just read your Coinductive guide to inductive transformer heads paper.

My mind is blown.

Is the Hopf Algebra based ML framework you are working on on your github? I took a glance, but you have 1500 repositories and it wasn't on the first few of them.