skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tbh I have no idea how you came away thinking I said lead is hard.

I did not, in fact, come away thinking lead is hard. I did, however, explain and spell out for you how @kragen probably did so; I'm not sure how I can make it any more clear.
being labelled neonazi is about as easy as being labelled "libtard". The very left oriented people often have a strong sense of moral superiority, and will directly accuse anyone who does not agree of being a neonazi. in general i would say though, when you are pointing with one finger, 4 are pointing back at yourself (and by this I dont mean you, its an expression)
What is sad is that ad-blockers would have never become a necessity, had advertising remained fair (as in: static images, no code execution on browser, no tracking).
I expect that in a language that has such blessed, boilerplate-free delegation tools, inheritance will be less overused.

Delphi has support for delegation[1], but sadly not partial delegation.

However it doesn't seem like a big thing, compiler-wise, in a language like Delphi or C# to support partial delegation. You could then have one line saying that by default all calls are delegated to a given instance, a member/field or similar, and the compiler could then just automatically generate the forwarding calls for the methods you don't implement explicitly.

But wait... this is starting to smell a lot like inheritance! There the compiler automatically handles the delegation of the calls to the base class unless you override.

Of course there's still a big difference, in that typically inheritance is bidirectional while delegation is unidirectional.

[1]: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Using_Im...
Its quite sad that ad-blocking is framed as killing this business. Surely it's more akin to a subsidised business failing to move to a more sustainable model? Don't get me wrong I love free no nonsense business models, but as Google and Facebook have shown us, ads are only part of the equation. If we didn't collectively lose trust with the ad industry, and ads weren't so intrusive, I for one (and many others I've spoken to) wouldn't be blocking ads. I go out of my way to disable ad-block on friendly websites and blogs that need the ad revenue; sites that have a responsible and ethical policy surrounding their ad usage. Zippyshare seemed like one of those sites. Unfortunately the rest of the industry had to ruin it for them.
Even more sad, this will become the norm and sites will have to move to a paid subscription type model to keep their services alive.
What if digital image of your conscious gets leaked and people will create copies of it and coerce them to control mundane tasks for them?
This is great, been using it for a while already, but I really wish it worked over a VPN, and that you could run the server component on Linux...

EDIT: Appears someone built a Linux version of the server component, https://github.com/NyaMisty/AltServer-Linux

Will have to give this a try!
That's really curious, do you know where else this is the case? Other phobias?
I can confirm that when you live in a remote area the internet becomes your lifeline as there’s almost no local culture or social opportunities. It’s incredible but also terrible.
This has been my experience: Chat GPT is astonishing in terms of producing plausible natural language text that looks related to the question. That's an astounding achievement imho. It does not (and I suspect wasn't expected to) produce correct answers to questions.
Sure, the concept of a social network wasn't novel, but Zuckerberg had some insights that led to FB becoming the dominant network within a few years - for example incubating inside US colleges to gain traction among younger demographics through word of mouth, building an ecosystem around games and apps, creating a social graph based on real identities and relationships that yielded lucrative marketing data, and so on.
Interesting look back at a time when software design was methodical and graphic, and the author is implying that coding is a better way to design for software.

Now that we have AI, I would suppose that the author would agree that an even better software design process will be 1) a set of design prompts for an automatic code engine, and 2) the output will be software that is the validation of the design.
Biggest mistake in my career was trying to follow trends instead of pushing more with what already served me well.
If bootstrap serves you well, only change when you find a better servant.
Ethical ad-blockers exist. Do ethical advertisers exist?
Aiming to make a few millions (presumably in savings) before you are 35 is extremely ambitious and overall, you will most likely greatly exceed your current expectations, but perhaps not on exactly the timeframe you set.

Do not let anyone slow you down.
Paper WiFi
On the 20th anniversary of Iraq war, which continues to cast its long shadow on us, I thought it appropriate for us to revisit the events leading up to and the aftermath.
I'm a big fan of the Schwinn recumbent I bought pre-pandemic. It was <$250 and has seen a lot of use.

Not the nicest bike by a long shot, but it gets daily use.
AI as a Creative Copilot
How GPT-4 is supercharging creativity
Bicycles are the best machine from the industrial revolution. Quiet, healthy, efficient, harmonious with our sensibilities. I think it is precisely these aspirational qualities that is enraging the morlocks in their cars (speaking for US only now, it's better in other countries). A bicycle is a shameful reminder of the virtuous path not taken.
I was updating my car a few months ago and found it runs Linux for the user-facing systems, and of course uses libcurl, according to the open source licenses.
Not sure why I'm downvoted - I literally used it last week. I got an API key from my account and made several calls to it, using the OpenAI Python library.
10 years. That's the risk.

Locking up your money for 10 years is a huge risk. SVBs risk department told the business that slapping the money in 10 year bonds was wrong and that they should put it in short dated bills but the exec team didn't like the lack of profit that would result in so decided to take a massive risk instead.
Taxi in London for road purposes usually means the London black cabs, which may drive in bus lanes. Ubers are like normal cars.
https://github.com/Miceuz/paper-wifi/
The first button I clicked is timing out for me. How long is ChatGPT API taking to get back to you?

I'm having similar problems with a pet project https://categorcle.app/ - for me it's 15-20 seconds which is way too high.
Right, but that's more of a problem with diversification, it doesn't make a 10-year investment inherently high-risk.
What exactly is not a virtue about Bob’s eagerness to be able to eat lunch with friends and associates without having random people poking in and saying cruel things about his existence?
> Did levels drop because stuff got easier?

Where did I say that that's the reason? You're coming up with developments that made school "easier" without any further similarity to ChatGPT, and don't consider adaptations in the curriculum or testing following those developments. I specifically mention that schools will have to get rid of (some of) their lazy evaluation processes.

> Also, is there an actual drop in levels? I can't seem to find a source that has decent data on this. And the only stuff I can find says 'IQ' has been rising over time. So please share it with me.

1. The Norwegian IQ study: https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...

2. A comparison of exams in Dutch secondary education: https://nos.nl/artikel/2465434-eindexamens-wis-en-natuurkund...

That trend has been observed everywhere, but has rarely been investigated for uncomfortable reasons. The Flynn effect wasn't actually believed, not even by Flynn himself.

> Lastly, I'm personally not convinced any of this will lead to a net negative per se.

That's such a bad basis to mess with the foundation of modern society.

> The calculator caused people to stop learning mental arithmetic

Agree.

> and start learning more complicated math

Doubt it. Mind you: I mean arithmetic, which is what calculators do, not maths. People rarely do arithmetic, even with a calculator, let alone more complicated calculations. Engineers, ok, they benefit from calculators, but the calculator has not engaged other people in more complicated arithmetics, I think.

> Which might be more valuable and interesting than writing emails.

I don't disagree, but it will still have unforeseen effects, and doesn't alleviate my worries about education levels.
Zippy was cool for mp3s, cracks, plugins, books and smaller files. Then dropbox, google drive and many others came that had no ads and larger file size limits BUT with an actual business model: upgrade to pro/plus/premium etc.
The best example of this is the Thameslink. Loads of towns like this in Hertfordshire. You could live in Biggleswade which feels very rural when you are there, and be into Kings Cross or Farringdon in 45 minutes. Very frequent and reliable train.

edit: to take this further. You could live in Broom, a hamlet, which has a population of 579. Cycle or drive 10 minutes to Biggleswade station and get the 45 minute train in. In theory if you got really efficient, you could be in the heart of the City of London 1 hour door to door.
Interestingly, Bromptons[0] using Sturmey Archer internal hubs, and I believe you can buy an upgrade that puts a derailleur on the front, to double the number of gears.

[0] https://www.brompton.com
Its fascinating, that even such a entrenched industry such as the car industry, can be banned from urban centers. There is hope for change yet.
Obviously there are numerous valid reasons to flag submissions, many of which Dang automatically does — issue is the invalid reasons.
More like "I tried this new self-driving feature on my automobile and it veered into oncoming traffic"
> The 24-hour traffic count was conducted on a wet and windy November day last year.

Presumably that means on a nice summers day the numbers are even higher.

This is of course countered by the fact the City of London is becoming increasingly hard to navigate in a motor vehicle. There's a proliferation of camera-enforced road closures and turning restrictions which, along with the congestion charge and very high parking charges make driving anywhere near the City only really possible for the very rich. It's long been the case that the majority of vehicles in the City (or anywhere in central London really) are taxis and commercial vehicles. It's great that cycling is increasing, but it's probably at the expense of train travel rather than driving - I don't think I've ever met anyone who works in central London who drives to work regularly.

One peculiarity of the way the City of London is managed is that it has its own local government. Maybe with this evidence that cycling is important they'll finally invest some money into their cycle infrastructure - you can essentially see the dividing line between the City and Islington just by looking at the quality of the road surface.
Ask HN: Computer games for the blind?
Do you know any? How would you design one?
> each time it runs out of disk space I can buy more disks.

There's only so many that you can buy.
If you want to continue with semantics, the worker did not expect to hit his thumb until the hammer bounced off of it, hence the tool did not work as expected. Until regular hammers are able to put nails into wood by themselves, we are talking about the success of the complete system that includes both the hammer and its user.

Either way, when working with humans we already deal with plenty of misses and mistakes. Programmers create 10 to 20 bugs per 1000 lines of code, 9 out of 10 businesses fail, accountants make detrimental blunders, etc.

The point is that in the end the ML systems need only to replace these already non-perfect systems. I'll refrain from judging the consequences of this as I think it's out of scope.
A good number of bikes in London are folding Bromptons with 3-speed hub gears or similar.
There's https://www.ethicalads.io/ if you're only targeting developers
It would not have passed a stress test.
And these arguments are different from those employed by the OG Luddites, how...?
> Do you have sleepless nights because you know that the device you use right now required slave labor to be constructed?

Yes. Literally yes. It sucks. I try to minimize purchases, I research the most ethical sellers I can within the bounds of available information, and I try to reuse as much as is possible.

> That's the main issue at play here and needs to be remedied by fair and empathic argument - not by railing against a group of people who you paint as unequivocally evil.

When they stop acting like their mission in life is to drive everyone else into precarity and then to ruin, or even at least stop acting like it’s so horrible that people in their gunsights are upset about it, I’ll stop drawing from their actions the obvious conclusions.

UBI is a great way forward. Never said it wasn’t! But. It is clearly not on the radar of the people bankrolling this. If it was? They would expend the money and the political capital to do it. They would be on that goddamned stump. But Sam Altman isn’t out there buying congressmen for UBI. Could! But isn’t. So why would I believe that it’s any kind of priority?

But okay, that’s uncharitable, I’m sure. Altman is busy. So show me who should convince me that there is an argument at all beyond “you can’t stop us”, could you? Show me who is making fat stacks off of the AI craze and is also doing the political work, won’t you? Show me who is going “I am now making bank and I want us to give back structurally.” I have looked. I don’t see them. I want to push those messages. But I am reasonably confident they don’t exist. I’d like to be wrong.

I never said that there is any expectation of putting the genie back in the bottle, either. We do need political action, we do need to be emphatic and we do need to push for solutions (and UBI is a good one), and in so doing we might even fix the problems they create…but that doesn’t change their souls. It just means maybe we can work around them.
Even the EUs own government websites don't implement the cookie directive nicely.
looks more like lack of effort since drop box exists.
not even all the financial district(s) fit inside the City these days

I've marked them in the map, roughly: https://i.imgur.com/GieyqDm.png
> I actually feel more anonymous and self sufficient in a city

Anonymous, sure. But how can anyone be self sufficient in a city? Do you have a large garden? Rainwater tanks? The tools and workspace to do your own plumbing, construction? Do you have solar panels and batteries?

If the utilities all shut down and the grocery stores all closed, everyone in a city would die or flee. It is impossible to be self-sufficient in a city.
Which is why it's pretty much the safest area to cycle because motorists are primed to expect cyclists on the roads but you only have to travel 2 minutes east and traffic becomes much heavier and more chaotic pretty quickly
My comment was about entry level programming job.

AI/automation will help more seniors developer to a point that most basic tasks can be done instantly and you don’t need to ask a junior dev to do it.
+1

A smallish city will provide 90+% of what you'd get out of a big city without the dystopian backdrop.

I grew up in a small town, moved to a big city, then moved to a smaller city during COVID, with the intent of it being temporary until things go back to normal, and now I don't want to go back. Just as much to do, with less traffic, lower cost, and it feels a lot safer to walk around.
But the human brain is a much more mature product (although I will concede there are still a ton of bugs to work out that we really have no idea how to repair because the product is extremely complex and still pretty fragile).
Boy I would hate to work for this guy
>Also, the "correct worldview" in this context means not being a racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic asshole.

This is oversimplifying things.

Here is the example: https://gts.superseriousbusiness.org/@gotosocial/statuses/01...

>We do not work with transphobes/fascists/racists. If you open an issue or PR on our git repo and we see you are one of those things, or hang out with people like that

So I can't really be part of the team if a person whom I follow on github or somewhere else is somehow "correct worldview". I may even not be aware of this.

Not to mention that many people actually have no idea what they are talking about and use words like "nazis" only to describe abstract "bad people" as opposed to their image of "good people"

Example from the same link:

>we are a strictly antifascist organization. we have zero tolerance for fascism or anything that enables or allows it. (yes that includes capitalism)

Apparently I won't be able to participate if I follow Bill Gates blog.
Everything that involves resources is certainly at least an economic decisions, or political-economic decision, etc.
Yeah for searching movies, for example, it is terrible. I also don't really see how it is going to get much better than it is since it inevitably seems to try and steer its way to non-obscure stuff even when you are explicitly asking for something obscure.

Just for example. I was trying to remember a film that is basically a knock off of war games involving two teenagers using a scientists small helicopter to do stuff. I typed into Google "film with small helicopter" and it was not only the first result, it was in a little cut out section highlighted at the top. The film is called Defense Play and it has a grand total of 144 votes on IMDb. Incredibly obscure.

I thought it would be fun to ask ChatGPT roughly the same question and at first it just gave me a list of very popular movies with large helicopters. So I said, no this has a small helicopter or a toy helicopter in it. And it gave me a list of films with helicopters but three in Toy Soldiers, Small Soldiers (which probably does have a small helicopter in it) and GI Joe (which is based off a toy and has a helicopter probably).

No matter how much I insisted that this movie is obscure it can't quite figure out how to do anything about returning things that match something as vague as "obscurity" even though there are measures (e.g. IMBd votes) available that could reasonably give it such a notion. It probably does know about the movie, but whenever I ask about obscure movies while it often can give me a year and the first few actors in it it does seem to make up the plot even when asked to just paraphrase whatever plot synopsis it has available to it.

I do see it improving but I also wonder if a model which is heavily weighted towards guessing the next section of text will have difficulty with the unlikely scenario of someone being specifically interested in an obscure film a handful of people have ever bothered to watch. Seems really useful for searches where a person doesn't really know what they want, and very not useful in searches where the person knows they need a specific and obscure piece of information potentially.
Do they lack familiarity with those subjects, or do they lack expertise? Understand programs just aren't long enough for much expertise to be developed. But they should solve the "know what you don't know" problem, and provide tools for deepening expertise when needed.
Moved from London to Newcastle.

My personal experience is that, despite London indeed having an impressive offer in terms of culture, entertainment, food, social life, etc. it's an illusion. Most people do home -> work -> home, with the exception of the local pub. Even meeting with friends which are not work colleagues is complicated, usually involving 1 hour commuting each way.

So in London the choice is amazing, but I enjoyed almost none of it. In Newcastle the offer is more reduced, but I do find I can enjoy it _all_.

Also I'm closer to nature (where I live), I can afford a big house and I actually _know_ my neighbours.
In Berlin most newish city oriented bikes I see have internal hubs
Fully agreed there, we should indeed be focusing on the lack of regulation of the bank rather than whether 10-year investment are good bets or not. Because even a bank with lots of short-term bets can be driven into the ground without those kinds of regulations.
Just like 40 Mph doesn’t tell you how far you have traveled. But if you provide a duration as well then you do know.
Feel free to explain disconnect between downvotes requiring 500 rep - but flagging only requiring 31 rep.
An API to Download from OpenStreetMap
Tbh even not protecting American war criminals would go a long way. It’s a bit sad that none of the responsible for My Lai got properly prosecuted.
It's in your profile settings. Only found it myself 10 days ago or so. I thought from the very start I was seeing dead submissions and comments but I must have been mistaken.
Seems like the system working well to me; government moved swiftly and is protecting depositors.

Not sure if we need more regulations or we don't. It's a balancing act because we want a certain amount of risk taking along with security and public confidence.

I am sure though that there seems to be a concerted effort through rhetoric to convince people a "bail out" is occuring and "rules are being broken"(re 250k deposit insurance) and this seems to be working it's magic.
When I was a student representative on the Computer Science curriculum committee (over ten years ago now, at an engineering college, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) the concerns were not about how we can ensure students learn more about database systems or concurrent programming. They were solely based around an almost exasperated set of older professors who were shocked that new students didn't seem to know what they knew before, and were unable to handle the curriculum as it had been.

For example several first year students not only had no familiarity with calculus, many were having a hard time with algebraic concepts. Concern was around finding some way to add a remedial math course before Calc 1. This pushed everything else out farther.

CS grads may lack foundational knowledge simply because high school grads lack foundational knowledge. What it took to "pass" high school 30-50 years ago seems substantially more rigorous than today.

The administration didn't care. They didn't even care if the students dropped out. Butts in seats = more money. That's it.
New Translations of Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ (2014)
Monkey Dust is the most underrated tv-show I've ever watched
The article seems to place more blame on skyrocketing energy costs.
£15/day. So more expensive than public transport but less than if you took an uber.
I don’t know where you live but kids in the UK certainly don’t do much exercise through their childhood
Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I live in a mid-size EU city and dumped my car for an e-bike a few months ago.

Surprisingly, it hasn't been that hard (my GF kept her car, and I have a car-sharing subscription):

Pros:

- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall;

- about €300/month in additional disposable income. That's basically a free lunch everyday!

- significantly faster if parking is taken into account for most trips. The bike is faster for any < 10 km / 7 mi trip;

- do not have to worry about car maintenance, parking tickets or theft;

- you will not kill someone if you ride after a night drinking;

- amazing when the weather is great;

- (almost) no emission.

Cons:

- might be impossible depending on work or children;

- weather might make the ride unpleasant;

- somewhat dangerous when the infrastructure is lacking.

I'm pretty sure I'll never own a car, unless absolutely required by work. Improving the infra and the car-sharing network would be awesome.