skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really following your logic there. The endgame of domestic produced disinformation is where we're, more or less, already at. In the best case scenario people believe nothing. In the worst case scenario people feel justified in arbitrarily believing whatever they want to believe. You lose any sort of notion of institutional authority, integrity, or trust. There was a recent article shared that today "only" 25% of Americans believe the media is not actively misleading them (50% do, 25% undecided). [1] I put only in quotes, because that number seems quite high to me!

Imagine if something like The Pentagon Papers was released today. There's a good chance the mainstream media simply would not cover it. And the government itself would also likely claim it was just some sort of a Russian or Chinese disinformation campaign. At best, it'd end up being some sort of a partisan issue. Those that supported the war in Vietnam, or supported the current political party in power, would claim it was all disinformation. Those against it would claim it was the worst thing since Pearl Harbor.

The solution to disinformation is not disinformation, censorship, or anything else. It's simply more information. Because the truth always finds a way. Even in the days of the Soviet Union where the political powers had not only complete control of the media, but even strictly controlled travel in/out of the country, people knew the politicians were full of it. And that's kind of a nice moral from 'the truth always wins' type story, but really shitty from the reality of living in a society where the most correct response to basically anything is to assume, as a default, that it's, at best, a half truth. And that is the endgame of domestic disinformation.

[1] - https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/trust-in-media-low-misinform-...
You've broken the site guidelines so badly in this thread that I've banned your account. This is a longstanding pattern and it's seriously not cool on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786906 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227145 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29665289 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407968 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590539 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22893867 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880789 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827321 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 (April 2020)

I hate to ban you, because you've been here a long time and you've posted good things. But this kind of abuse is simply not ok, and if we don't ban accounts that break the rules this badly—not to mention ignore this many warnings—we might as well ban nobody.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Well, it actually depends. I do admit that some people take AI as a new Google thing, like there have been students that complete their education with merely Google and Wikipedia and never really read any piece of literature on their own.

Cheating will always be there regardless of AI or not. The niche is how far we are comfortable using these tools to help us speed up our productivity and make things faster (and, at a certain point, more accurate).

And when this comes to the workforce, it becomes rather different. If we're to look for someone to do repetitive tasks, there's nothing bad about hiring AI and automation tools. But as human, we really should think about the philosophical value of our own. Does job itself meant to be doing repetitive tasks until we retire and die? Worth thinking.
You've also broken the site guidelines in this thread and continued to do exactly what we asked you not do to in the past. I'm not going to ban your account right now because (a) I don't think you broke the guidelines quite as badly as the other account did in this thread (though I haven't read it closely), (b) I understand what it's like to be representing a minority view, and (c) we haven't given you nearly as many past warnings. But you're seriously breaking the HN guidelines here and we've warned you before. If you keep this up, we're going to end up having to ban you as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, when I look through your comments, it seems that you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts, because that's absolutely not the intended use of this site. If your primary interest is to argue about politics and national/ethnic/ideological struggles, HN is not the site you're looking for. Please don't keep doing this.

Past explanations are here, in case they're helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Kind of true, however I still mostly work on .NET Framework, because of third party stuff that might never be migrated to .NET Core.

When it does get migrating, surprising as it may be, many companies are more willing to move to another platform than keep it on .NET, as full rewrite is almost required anyway. Dependencies on missing APIs, COM wrappers and such.

It is quite different to use an ecosystem born and raised on UNIX, and one that only in the last 5 years kind of matured into UNIX.

Additionally there is the whole issue with politics in VS4Mac/VSCode versus VS for tooling, which makes anyone outside of Windows to shell out for Rider if we want the same level of tooling.
If you’re wondering what it’s talking about when it says the triads of red/green/blue rectangles on a CRT display don’t correspond to pixels, here’s a Technology Connections video that explains it:

https://youtu.be/Ea6tw-gulnQ

But on an LCD, the display really is made up of a bunch of solid-colored rectangle-ish shapes, and if the LCD is using standard RGB pattern, each red/green/blue triplet does correspond to one pixel. So if you zoom in, “a pixel is a little square” is very close to the truth. In other words, the article shows its age…
> It's just to give you an idea of how slow Rails is.

IMO, it doesn’t. Your first benchmark mostly hits your memory allocator, the second exercises both ruby and ActiveRecord (a component of Rails), and, I guess, does more (depending on the complexity of your User class)

That it takes more time may be because ruby is slow, because ActiveRecord is slow, or because of it doing more. It probably is a bit of each, and may be largely because ActiveRecord is slow, but that benchmark doesn’t tell us that.

A fairer benchmark would create a pure ruby class similar to your User class, populate it similar to what ActiveRecord does, and compare timings.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a normal level of comments? Ok maybe slightly more than I would normally do... But if I was reading it my thought would be "thank god they wrote comments" not "they commented the heck out of this!"
Really disappointed with this pricing. Such pricing will kill their product and move regular consumers away from the product.

I have used Brave search that gives similar search results for way less money.
I understand that they may need to adjust prices, but having a search limit just feels ... bad. Imaging being on the go, trying to look something up quickly, only to be presented with the message

> Search limit reached.
1. Regarding the first part, many people want something plug and play. And even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience with debugging might suck, and you don't have AI helpers.

2. There are some unannounced viral parts i didn't get to show in there. Up to x people trolled, tiered plans above that.
This list looks very much like the list of most downloaded apps. Apps that people download and install a lot will also be deleted a lot.

I was expecting more surprising results like bloat or stock apps.
I just want specifics. "Eating in moderation" often results in 50g of protein/day.
I used to use DDG, but the search results were so bad that I had to !g all the time. With Kagi, the results (which are mixed from various services, not just Bing) are actively superior to Google (so much less spam!) almost all the time, and the only Google search service I still use regularly is Maps.

That said, while I've been happily paying $10/mo for the pro plan for a while, I'm not convinced the 1000 searches/mo will suffice. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

Update: I checked https://kagi.com/settings?p=consumption and to my surprise I'm averaging under 20 searches a day total, even though Kagi is my main search engine on both mobile and desktop. So looks like I'll be OK after all.
Our son does this when negotiating his Minecraft screen-time allowance; we call it "creeper commitment".
I disagree, and wish to determine the precise location of that line for no particular reason, in a thread that continues for days replete with a veritably endless level of pedantry.
Strange to not see Microsoft on the list of supporters.
> What I'm most afraid of is to be let go after 2-3 months because I'm can't meet their standard which from the interviews I had with them appear to be higher than my workplace.

High performing teams often (though not always) excel at everything, from speed and technology to mentoring and culture which means you might like it there, too. One approach to the situation is to trust that they know what they are doing by hiring you. I think you should discuss your concerns with them. If they still want to go with you, that's a very good sign (or a very bad one, eg. more skilled candidates smelled the trap and dumped them). If they don't, you probably dodged a bullet and can stay at your current job which you love.
I am surprised the OP deleted their repo after the backlash here and potentially elsewhere. The messages seemed to say "do not execute arbitrary code coming from ChatGPT".

That's fine.

The scope of it, the way I understood it, was for educational purposes. To that extent, a simple disclaimer "Only run this in a sanbox you can afford to lose or throw away" would have been sufficient.

OP, nice work anyway!
> frequency bias

aka Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

(since I learned about it, it keeps popping up everywhere)
I don't think I can say any more than I have already, but I've essentially been attempting to put forth the view of Deutsch in The Beginning of Infinity. I find his model of personhood to be relevant and interesting to this kind of discussion.

But if you do want to engage with a challenging viewpoint I recommend reading the book; I can't really do it justice.

Is there something I could read which has influenced or informed your viewpoint?
Even if it turns out to be useless, this was a research project. Testing if this is feasible in practice is part of the point. Although it is a bit odd that they don't show any stats on the main page.

I looked it up in the paper[0], section 5.2 discusses power consumption/generation and pasted it below (I hope all symbols survived the clipboard).

TL;DR: the buttons generate a very small difference in power generation relative to solar panels. HOWEVER, this still seems to be a significant difference in how quickly the battery drains. If solar panels generate 10.5 mW, and the buttons 0.5 mW, but the system requires 11.5 mW, then this doubles the up-time of the system. That would actually be quit a nice insight to share on the main project page IMO!

> We have measured ENGAGE’s power consumption, looking into overall power consumption whilst first measuring the consumption of MCU together with the FRAM and display. The MCU and FRAM combined consume 11.15 mW and the screen consumes 344.31 μW during game execution taking a ten second average. During idle time the screen only consumes 3.90 μW, resulting in a combined system average power consumption of 11.50 mW. As a comparison, the original Nintendo Game Boy consumes 232.08 mW during game execution, varying slightly per game and cartridge architecture. While not necessarily a useful or meaningful number, we conclude that our platform is more than 20 times more power-efficient than the original Nintendo Game Boy (representing normal technology advancement, but noting that ENGAGE is an emulator). The measurements were conducted using a Fluke 87V [33] multimeter and the X-NUCLEO-LPM01A [123] programmable power supply source with power consumption measurement capability

> Then, to give more insight in the energy harvesting on the ENGAGE platform we have measured the amount of energy the solar panels generate using a Fluke 87V [ 33 ] multimeter and compare this to the energy generated from the buttons. For the buttons we use the minimal energy generation figures from the specification of the harvester [ 153 , summary] as a worst case scenario3. Assuming that a single button press generates a minimum of 0.66 mJ and knowing the amount of button presses per game is specific to the game as per Table 1 , we can assume the buttons generate between 0.66 mJ for one press per second and 1.98 mJ for three presses per second. At 40 klx and 20 klx, the solar panels generated an average of 10.14 mW and 8.33 mW, respectively, i.e. less than the required system average power consumption of 11.50 mW. We can conclude that ENGAGE is mostly powered by solar panels and supplemented by the button presses although the button presses can significantly increase the on-time of the platform, as shown in Section 5.1

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3411839
They purchased it for a flight from Sydney to Frankfurt in the mid-1990s... They so knew what they were doing, even when I didn't!
Very cool project. 2 questions:

1. How did you find working with the Sharp Memory display as a tinkerer? Did you like building with it and would you recommend it? It's pretty new tech to me and I've been mulling whether to splurge for it for a potential pet project of mine.

2. How's the refresh rate on it? Judging from your video it looks pretty dang swell. It looks to be a lot faster than the typical 15hz one sees on higher end e-ink displays available right now.
CrowdStrike Fiscal Q4 2023 Earnings Review
Safe bets. Experienced teams starting something in a field they know well, promising to gradually improve something and make decent returns.

Essentially the opposite of the frothy bubble startup, where Stanford dropouts with zero experience promise to completely revolutionize an industry where they've never worked.
Joining Stripe at 600 was not that kind of bet. It was significantly derisked by that point was really a question of how far that early momentum could carry them.
Website owners believe that your account on their website is the most important thing in your life, I guess.

Personally I never enable 2FA. I've even disabled it on my google account, after it had been forcefully enabled.

I think the chances of me losing/breaking my phone are higher than the chances of an hacker hijacking my account.

I'm completely ok with having 2FA for my bank account, or similar things.

There are important differences there:

* A bank has an office where I can show up with an ID if my 2FA should fail. A website will just lock my account.

* The stakes are much higher

* I have the option to have a hardware token that is NOT my phone.

As a side note, totp 2FA is the best kind. It's easy to back up (if you don't use google authenticator).
Who cares if the parent is drawing on the walls, the kids are doing it!
Almost like human psychology hasn't changed that much. And plus, you don't need to get carried away, simply investing in a decent mic and having a camera that isn't pointed straight up your nose is enough to differentiate you in most meetings.

I'm shocked at the pushback on this, it shouldn't be surprising that people like seeing decent looking people. You don't need to loom like an Instagram model, I certainly don't. But spending 15 minutes on Amazon and 20 minutes of setup time to make yourself look better on video calls isn't a huge ask. Hell, BO issues from not showering would be a more major career-limiting move in an office, and on zoom the only way your coworkers can tell you didn't shower is if you actively look greasy. This is way less of an ask, acting like making yourself presentable on camera is a huge burden is crazy to me. It's way easier to be presentable on zoom, because again just spending $30 on a mic is a game changer.
Several companies do use,

It was the scripting language for Autocad before being replaced by .NET.

It is the scripting language for Gimp alongside Python (which came later).

It powers Google's travel agency (CTA)

Is powers the Syscog infrastructure (a company for trains and trucks management software/hardware)

It powers NuBank (alongside Erlang).

Just a couple of examples.
The noise generated by AI-generated content is a problem that will need to be addressed soon
Founding <whatever> only makes sense if you're giving them a founder-sized slice of equity.
Ask HN: What's the best Lisp for a Python hobbyist looking to learn?
I vaguely remember toying with newLISP [1] almost a decade ago, but I'd like to start exploring the language again and write some hobbyist-level programs in it.

[1]: http://www.newlisp.org/
I was mostly looking for protein. Nobody "eating in moderation" includes 500g of beef/day in there. It's usually just carbs or empty-stuff (salads that are mostly water).
> it took a 94 year-old intellectual to see the forest for the trees

As we massively devalue the humanities, many fewer people in later generations can muster this kind of analysis.
But pixels aren't just points. By sensible arguments, they are usually squares in the sense that a 10*10 pixel area will be square. Otherwise they are non-square rectangles. After all, pixels are actually arranged in a rectangular fashion. They could be arranged like hexagons, but we settled on a square filling. They could have also been arranged randomly, like ink droplets on paper, but no, they are pretty square.
love elixir. hate Mix.

it's like using Maven or npm all over again. but even worse because it generates a lot of code.

it creates disposable projects by design. No way to keep track of what to change when mix create outputs something different next year.

and now things like https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main... where is ecto even installed? download from where? so annoying this trend.
They pretend it is about your own safety, but it really is about preventing spam. The second factor increases the cost for a spammer to create fake accounts.
all list are paginated and you can search over the entire dataset.
The ingenious micro mechanisms inside your phone
> I belive fusion 360 is free for personal use and much more popular than solidworks.

It was, and I would have recommended it then, but they pulled the rug a while ago.

> Solvespace has a non existing UX. I would very much advise against using it.

Yeah it's rubbish compared to commercial options but it's still by far the best FOSS option. It has a much better UX than FreeCAD.

> People have gone from zero to first commercial PCB in 1-2 weeks using kicad.

1-2 weeks full time is a lot! You could do it in a day or two with better designed programs. PCB design is really simple conceptually.
There's an anecdote of someone hearing voices, but it turned out to be AM radio.

They found out it was the metal in two cavity filling that made the teeth vibrate and transmitted sound to their ear.

Not sure if it's just an urban legend or legit, but I like that story.
Out of the 2.7 million developers. Most don’t work for BigTech and a “senior developer” in corp dev is not the same as a senior developer in government
I’d say you can most definitely do that. You can get usb midi conversion cables for next to nothing and send an out signal to a midi hub or Daisy chain it. Midi is a seriously slow protocol so as long as the actual audio processing is happening on other devices and you’re just sending midi to them, you’re definitely good to go.
The Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians) as well as the Sumerians we're all attracted to the Mesopotamian area in general due to it being between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They flooded on regular intervals, thus creating fertile land despite the general desert like climate.
I had a bit of a chuckle; the only member of the "AI/ML industry leaders" who didn't provide a quote was Apple (not that this is an indictment of Siri).
It's about the attempt to use a domain for personal identification that was discussed in this thread.
> I have a Røde mounted SE X1 condenser microphone which picks up absolutely everything; couldn't use it without my GPU.

It's a common misconception that certain types of microphones are more sensitive to background noise. Truth is, even if a microphone is more sensitive, it still picks up foreground and background noise equally.

There are some caveats--you can reject background noise with the right polar pattern and mic placement, background noise might be buried in the microphone's self noise, and other minor quirks. But in general, changing microphones is not an effective way to eliminate background noise.
OpenCommit: ChatGPT to auto-generate accurate commits when running `git commit`
> (...) for a route that’s already served by air and road options in a state with stagnant population (...)

Mass transit systems have some peculiarities that private transportation systems don't have, such as creating mass demand and concentrating it on specific spots. Each train stop is a natural generator for demand for housing and services in volumes that urban sprawl does not, and this leads to more affordable housing with shorter commutes and with far better services that lead to a far better quality of living.

But this potential to be realized needs urban development that takes advantage of it, which require investment.

I'm not sure if the figure is $1T but there are examples in the world where railway operators get their main source of funding and incentive to grow their network by being granted favourable conditions to invest in real estate surrounding new train stops.

> (...) and declining usage of existing public transit.

I'm sorry, the US is notorious for having self-sabotaging public transportation services, designed to pay lip service for the need to provide mobility alternatives,but actually designed to be impactical and outright hostile to commuters.

If the US learns basic lessons from the many case studies from throughout the world, nothing stops the US from benefiting from identical adoption rates seen outside of its borders.
Isn't the reason you might want a lawyer in this case that you might not have to turn over the footage, and doing so when you don't have to could be used against you?

So wouldn't the alternative where they get the footage from someone else be just as bad as you turning it over without checking, and therefore something you should prevent if consulting a lawyer first is to your advantage?
That's not how it works. If you go over the limit you pay per search. Not totally sure that's better but still :P
180 lakh?
Their $5 plan makes no sense.

They're charging 0.015 per search when you're "over limit" but 200 searches would be $3 on "pay as you go" after your plan runs out, which is better than the bundled 200 for $5.

The $10 plan is only marginally better, 700 searches (cost $10.50 PAYG) for $10.
Based on personal experience and friends who have been at unicorns in their early days - the first 50 employees average about $0. The next 100 average about $0.

In every case, the stock that the employees holds gets reclassified and diluted until it’s a funky employee-only stock that’s only saleable back to the company at nominal value, but the company isn’t buying.

So sure, maybe there’s some kind of nominal value, but actual cash money? $0.

I hold 10% of a business valued at £150M. My holding is worth £0 because I can never sell it to anyone.