skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently flew back to the US from Argentina. After clearing customs in Houston, I went through the TSA line, where they confiscated my jar of dulce de leche.

Dulce de leche is thicker than peanut butter and the label on the jar listed the weight in grams, not milliliters. The jar was unopened and was in the bag sealed when I purchased it from duty free shop in the secure area of the Buenos Aires airport, with the receipt attached. The TSA agent attempted to justify this by saying, "these bags are meant for liquor," even though that's unquestionably a liquid and would have come from the exact same store.

It's ironic that for all of the warnings I read about pickpockets in Buenos Aires, I didn't get robbed until I got back to the US.
>What prevents you to resize your browser window?

I'm talking about how electron apps prevent you from a wider range of window resizing
The remark is likely a joke, referring to the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Do you have any reason to believe that or do you just disbelieve positive results on principle?
Farming provides food. Predicting the probability of water spontaneously combusting, while interesting, provides much less food.
I've never left !
PeerTube 5.1
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of P2P and WebTorrent protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube instances because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find an instance available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

report bugs and give your feedback on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38)

submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate)

Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube. (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)
The ship AIs in the culture are clearly the most interesting characters. The exchanges between the AIs in Excession (the Interesting Times Gang) are absolutely hilarious.
> I was re-reading the Lord of the Rings recently and I couldn't get Peter Jackson's big screen images out of my head while reading.

Why? You shouldn't be able to get Alan Lee's illustrations out of your head while watching the movie :)
Put your same prompt into Bard and it didn't even hallucinate for me first, just telling me "I can't assist you with that, as I'm only a language model and don't have the capacity to understand and respond."

Only about 10 minutes into Bard right now but this is the first time its been stumped. Haven't tried much code yet though

Overall, UX and speed are good. Results are not bad.
Is this like a Babashka - https://github.com/babashka/babashka for Common Lisp?
Are those direct dependencies or the full dependency tree?
True but not really relevant to this story. Wine was drunk watered down and "short beer" was usually around 1% alcohol.
Would be pretty cool to be able to order custom shapes SendCutSend style. Would be real useful in demolition and construction settings in cases where you don't do enough of a specific job to buy or rent expensive non-explosive equipment to do it.
> This is why corporate taxation is so important as well as the real solution to rising inflation.

How does corporate taxation reduce inflation?
Winning the project with a very cheap offer and making money with exessive claim management. The customer can't leave the contract and at some point has to deal with it and we're over budget...
Not a joke, but it makes me shudder when people have these borderline idiotic smiles/psycho grin on their faces stickied somewhere on the page while I'm reading their blogs. The worst are the google dev video thumbnails. I mean, those are horrible, like straight from a bad horror movie.

It's like when people show their nonexistent body/beautiful life on Instragram, just fake.
I had no idea you could serialize an SVG with computed properties. Huh! Very clever.

That is a lot of trickery involved indeed, I applaud your ingenuity!
I would be willing to bet a lot of money that no websites are going to block Google and Bing's crawlers over this. Less traffic is better than no traffic.
What are some things can be run locally in your opinion? I'm interested in learning more but am wary about how much of this is being gated inside every bigco's walled gardens.
Unless of course you were to work in that area. If I did, I would be terrified.
It can also depend on the depth of the bureaucracy; in my little town the town owns a pothole/miniature paving setup, and fixes their own minor things; they don't have to contract out with a company to get it done.

A (larger) town nearby they contract, and everything gets pretty bad before they sign a huge contract, and the company works for a year and fixes everything in one long go.
Increasing the cost of alcohol not only decreases the relative cost of cheaper substances, it also decreases the relative cost of more expensive substances.
HolyC
Sad i dont have more of his books signed. I did go to a signing, but the only books of his i had to hand were from the library.. so i got them signed and didnt say anything when i returned them incase i was charged for damaging the book.

He just chuckled and did the dedication to the library directly.
This is already the case with cameras in consumer phones.
Yeah, it was a slight variation of it that I used where it gave me the hallucinated code (EDIT: just found the prompt, tried it again, and got a different hallucination [0]):

> Write a React program to display a counter, and a button labeled "decrease." The counter should start at 0. Clicking the button should decrement the counter by 2, unless that would cause the counter to go below 0. Every second, the counter should increment by 1. If clicking the button would cause the counter to go below 0, the button should be disabled.

Agreed the speed is impressive, although some of that might be due to its limited context memory. The UX is fine, but it's not like that's a difficult thing to implement.

[0] https://codesandbox.io/s/trusting-kirch-c2c575

P.S. If you can't find your previous prompts, make sure you switch to the right account on the "Bard Activity" page.
>In fact the manufacturer might sell through the distributor that pays the least, if they have high enough sales/coverage (think Walmart) and the total profit is acceptable.

There's where you lose the thread. They sell to Walmart not because "total profit is acceptable." They do it because they believe it will make them the most money in the long run. Maybe potato chip manufacturers are different than lumber manufacturers, but I doubt it.
If such a thing can be scaled and made reliable, the implications are staggering.

Imagine ammunition that fits in existing firearms and is fully self-contained, mixing into a viable round only when entering the chamber. And then made “smart”, such that it can be geofenced and therefore refuse to mix near schools or stadiums or government buildings, etc.

If this becomes possible, then all traditional ammunition may become legislated or litigated out of existence.
It's a fun action novel; I loved the part with the cult on the island. But yeah, it has nothing on Player of Games.
Loved the read. I know I am on a list somewhere now, but I don't care. This is what HN is all about. Interesting knowledge.
> It's in the zeigeist so you get a marketing boost for free.

I never thought about it that way, but now that you mention it, it makes so much sense.
One motivation for artists to create and share new work is the expectation that most people won't just outright copy their work, based on the social norm that stealing is dishonorable. This social norm comes with some level of legal protection, but it largely depends on a common expectation of what is considered stealing or not.

Once we have adopted the attitude that we can just copy as we please without attribution, it would be much more difficult to find motivated artists, and we would have failed as a society.
Thanks for clarifying, this does make it sound like you want to be more careful than the comment above seemed to imply.

> You’re jumping to conclusions not supported by the comment at all.

That might be true, but you’re making assumptions that your first comment is clear and being interpreted the way you intended. I think it’s fair to point out that your words may imply things you weren’t considering, that asking people to re-read the same words again might not solve the problem you had.

The bigger picture here is that you’re talking about using AI to write code that for whatever reason you couldn’t write yourself in the same amount of time. The very topic here also implicitly suggests you’re starting with code you might not fully understand, which is fine, there’s no reason to get upset because someone else disagreed or read your comment that way.
you require every write to be acknowledged by 3 nodes for consistency

How would that work? Someone else could get a different 3 nodes and write the same key, so they wouldn't read my write before writing their own? This isn't my area but I would assume the data has to be sharded ahead of time, not just write to any 3 out of 50 nodes that are closest to me.
There's very little reason not to upgrade from Java 8 at this point. Everything should be a drop-in replacement and there are significant performance benefits (garbage collection is leagues better) to doing so.

The bigger problem is that a lot of places are stuck on Oracle JDK - 8u252 is the last free version so a lot of places just decided they'd never upgrade, nor do they want to look at whether Temurin or Coretto would work for them (the answer is usually yes).
Aphantasia can be a gift to philosophers and critics like me
Netflix confirms work on its cloud gaming service is 'underway'
Increasing Threat of Antimicrobial-Resistant Fungus in Healthcare Facilities
ChatGPT's Satire of VR as a Fad
I asked ChatGPT to write the satire about VR and it being just a fade. I couldn't help start laughing at its response. Thought I'd share for the laugh regardless of your position on it.

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In the year 2023, the world collectively sighed as the once-promising world of virtual reality (VR) officially shuttered its digital doors. What was once heralded as the next frontier in technology, a gateway to immersive experiences and unparalleled escapism, had devolved into little more than a fad, a flash in the pan, a digital dud.

It all started with such promise. VR was poised to revolutionize the entertainment industry, transport us to far-off worlds, and create unparalleled immersive experiences. But instead, we got shoddy motion controls, underwhelming graphics, and a never-ending slew of nausea-inducing rollercoaster simulators.
The VR hype machine was in full swing, churning out headlines about how we would soon be living in virtual worlds, conducting business meetings in digital boardrooms, and exploring the depths of the ocean from the comfort of our living rooms. But the reality was far less glamorous. We ended up with a sea of subpar games, clunky hardware, and experiences that were more likely to make you queasy than leave you in awe.
Companies rushed to cash in on the VR craze, churning out headsets that were more akin to ski goggles with screens taped to them than sophisticated pieces of technology. And the prices! Oh, the prices. Consumers were expected to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for the privilege of strapping a bulky, sweaty plastic contraption to their faces.

But perhaps the biggest nail in the VR coffin was the realization that we didn't really want to be fully immersed in our entertainment. It turns out that sitting on the couch, controller in hand, was just fine for most of us. Who would have thought that flailing around in a tangle of wires and sensors wasn't the pinnacle of relaxation and entertainment?

And so, with a whimper rather than a bang, the once-bright future of VR faded into obscurity. The headsets were relegated to the back of closets, gathering dust alongside other failed tech experiments like the 3D TV and the Segway. VR had promised to transport us to new worlds, but in the end, it couldn't even transport itself out of the novelty bin. Farewell, VR. We hardly knew ye.
The default install script asks if you want to install key bindings and adds that to your bashrc. How did you install fzf?
Definitely not a boom, but there is still a sizable niche community that I would thought to be big enough to support a good website.

For example there is no boom of home audio systems anymore, but there are enough audiophiles to support a number of sites and magazines
You're not entitled to anyone's opinion. Secondly, I think the silence and downvotes are conveying a strong message, people don't agree with you. Your faux outrage about thought policing is a non-starter for serious conversation.
Yes, and for public projects this is often mandated by the 'lowest bid' laws.

> Vendors need to be rated and penalized for this kind of bait and switch

That wouldn't make the process more transparent or honest, it would just drive up the starting price.
> Bottled water in glass bottles is a luxury good for yuppies in America. Store-brand seltzer water bottled in plastic is about $1 per liter.

I think in some countries, water in glass bottles not a yuppie luxury product because they actually reuse (not recycle) the bottles. Sort of like what they used to do with milk in the US.
And compare features between models to see actually what has changed with each revision.
I don't think alcohol abuse is that fungible with other drug abuse. People probably do switch, but it's hard to imagine that every alcoholic who reduces their drinking by so-and-so much increases, say, heroin use by an equivalent amount (in terms of expected mortality).
This. It doesn't even matter anymore how great the thing is that they sort-of-release. They're dead, the precursors of a giant falling are already there, even though current quarterly earnings don't yet reflect it at all. Wait for it.
I work on Dart which is also adding pattern matching [1]. When we designed the syntax for guards, we also considered exactly these three choices before ultimately landing on "when" too.

Our main reasoning was:

"&&" is intuitive but it means that you can have a pattern that is immediately followed by an infix operator. That can be problematic if you ever want to make "&&" a valid pattern infix operator. And, in our case, we ended up doing exactly that, so "&&" would have been ambiguous. If you were to write:

case foo && true:

Then it could be parsed as either a pattern that matches when the value is equal to the constant "foo" and is equal to the constant "true". Or it could be parsed as a pattern that matches when the value is equal to the constant "foo" followed by a pointless guard that always succeeds.

"if" is nice because it's already a reserved word and the semantics are pretty obvious. But in Dart, an if statement always has the condition in parentheses. Those are pointless in a pattern since we already have another explicit delimiter separating the guard from the case body:

case foo if (condition):
// ^

We could say that the if condition in a guard doesn't need parentheses but if conditions elsewhere do. But that's likely just an annoying footgun where users will write them unnecessarily (but harmelessly at least) in guards and forget them in if statements and get compile errors.

If Dart didn't require parentheses around if conditions, we probably would have used "if" for guard clauses to (like Scala and Rust do).

So we tried "when" and most users and team members seem to like it. Syntax design is a human-centered process so often the right answer is just what feels right to the most people.

[1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...
I think Gmail was a special case: a highly anticipated product that was better than anything else out there, it had a killer feature that was unheard of (1GB of storage and growing!), and you could immediately use it as your main email.

It didn't work out so well when they tried to reproduce that success by making Google Buzz invite-only. My feed consisted of a few people posting "buzz!" and then never posting again. Google+ was similar.
In the faq they explicitly say yes
"Can I still use the backgrounds I already installed?"

— Yes, you just can't save/download backgrounds for future use.

"If I pay monthly, I want at least monthly updates."

— Great point and I'm trying to get better about this. The bulk of my income is from freelancing, but as SVG Backgrounds grows I'm carving out more time to make improvements and add new graphics. One day, I hope to be able to make the site my sole focus.

Pricing: If you're curious, I explained my choice in detail here:
https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/why-our-design-assets-are-pri...
I think of how video game walkthroughs have gone this way. It used to be you'd find exhaustive 300k text explanations of everything in a game. Now there is a "let's play" video that goes on for 40 hours, you have to find the right video to watch, then seek to the right place in that video, it's exhausting.

The one case I found the video was better was in a certain level where the way forward was to make a jump that didn't look possible and the video made it obvious.
First, young people have a First Amendment right to information that S.B. 152 will infringe upon.

Is that true? I was under the impression that all Constitutional rights seem to apply primarily to adults, and that their application to children is handled on a kind of ad hoc basis.

Also, does the First Amendment guarantee a right to information? There's "speech" and all that, but the Supreme Court has made it pretty clear that you don't have any rights not specifically guaranteed by the letter of the law.

It would certainly be just if kids had the right to access information and speak and all that, but we're talking about law, not justice.
>Off topic but have you considered adding Chat-GPT added summaries to your videos as a TL;DW? There is a plugin called eightify.app that produces summaries. It just feel like sometimes you are limiting your audiences to the hard core nerds with your long winded rants.

No. My channel was never started with the goal of having 100m subscribers. In my initial musings, I thought, MAX subscribership, BEST CASE scenario was 300 subscribers, since I estimated the people going down the LCD-cell-only/component level repair rabbithole with Apple products to be around 300 at the time 10 yrs ago. and that assumes 100% of them watch/subscribe to my channel, which is a lofty figure.

getting to 1.7 million subscribers is ridiculous. This wasn't supposed to happen. A cursory look at my older videos, total lack of preparation, production quality, etc should make clear that the goal was never widespread viewership.

but, if 1.7 million people ARE viewing, if I've blown out my initial best-case-scenario by 3 zeros and change.... why go out of my way to do it all differently? Why adapt my content to people who admit they don't want to watch anyway?

It's not a movie, it's a 9 minute video... I totally get if someone doesn't want to watch a 9 minute video, but... I'm not making content for them.

I wasn't trying to get big, I was just producing what I felt like producing.. if doing that got me to 1.7 mil, maybe being myself is the thing to keep doing.
I love fuzzy shell history. Game changer in terms of shell productivity.

I use atuin[0] instead of fzf as I find the experience a bit nicer and it has history backups built in (disclaimer, I am a maintainer)

Some of our users still prefer fzf because they are used to how it fuzzy finds, but we're running an experiment with skim[1] which allows us to embed the fuzzy engine without much overhead - hopefully giving them back that fzf-like experience

[0]: https://github.com/ellie/atuin
[1]: https://github.com/lotabout/skim
Dry air is hard on the lungs and makes infection more likely.
https://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/cnp3.html
Good point.

I was thinking of enhancing existing capabilities to develop open world games of smaller teams or to buff out a main storyline with "world chatter".

This would act as a multiplier for writers to better use the available budget/time. Sure it may not write a brilliant and engaging story (without human editing) but given the "lore" of a village and it's geographical/political position in the world I can definitely see it being useful to "set the tone" of otherwise generic background NPCs.

PS: Maybe this is me trying to find use cases for current LLMs (with their known capabilities and weaknesses) that don't involve dismissing them out of hand or "the singularity".
The last thing people do on a photo when they are in the crossfire of multiple lights and someone holding a half a kilo dslr is smiling.
Use of Weapons horrific big moment made it particularly memorable to me and definitely not unusual for Ian M Banks.

Feersum Endjinn differently horrifying with its core premise of an actual hell and heaven existence for beings.

And finally The Wasp Factory is all about a very disturbed individual.
The Art of Postgres is probably it. https://theartofpostgresql.com/
I’ve cited plenty more cities. And could cite more still.

Besides, your statement was an absolute so the GP only needed one of example to disprove you yet gave you two.
For a very _very_ amateur web developer, why would you not want to design a webpage like this? What difficulties would you run into if you designed a web-app in this way?
You realize what you described isn't a new phenomena. Paintings that were done followed a similar principle but often even more extreme. Men would make themselves look taller, hide physical deformities, etc... They would imagine themselves being greater than they actually are.
Useful info is here:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t...

Atomics are well covered. The "wait" and "notify" primitives map efficiently to mutexes.

"Blocking on the main thread is not allowed, so we can't call lockMutex."

The main thread is special in WebAssembly land. Is it still the only one that can do graphics?
Eh, little of column A, little of column B on the "conned."

They were offered a contract, took it, got something (a home they probably couldn't afford), and then lost their home when rates exploded.

"Conned" seems a little strong for agreeing to a bad contract.

On the other hand, to the original point, it seems fair to expect bond traders to be more financially sophisticated than home buyers.