skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Chinese Culture Has Not Conquered US All
Latency is a killer for real-time purposes. Maybe things have improved, but years ago these were all more trouble than they were worth. May as well just use the usb direct.
Europe's healthcare isn't perfect like many Americans make it out to be. It has its own list of cons. Although it is very nice when you go to a Dr there and talking about money isn't even a thing.

My wife is German. There are Dr's that refuse to work with insurance altogether. There are procedures not covered at all. The employer pays for half the insurance, the state (aka taxes... so you) pay for the other half. Self employed people who failed to pay their "half" can still end up with life crushing bills (personal experience in the family). Not sure what happens if unemployed (I assume the State does step in there to cover it 100%?).
Basically just “find something you are passionate about so you enjoy your career”. Meh, seems harmless in a commencement speech and not race/culture specific advice.
the generation that went thru the industrial revolution would have said the same thing, except they'd wished they were in your position today.

People just don't realize how good today is compared to the past - and of course, how good the future would be (nuclear war notwithstanding).
You can also play Super Motherload on Playstation and PC.
It is also an NSAID. You mean “other NSAIDs”.
What if you were a down & out blues musician and all you had left was your creativity?

It doesn't make very much difference what you do, it's going to take 5 to 10 years just to get back on your feet enough to even consider the opportunities ordinary people have the whole time they are less unfortunate.

So it's a toss-up, you can use your creativity very heavily and allow it to direct your rise, OTOH you could drop everything and gravitate toward something different that might be more promising once the difficult-survival period has beeen overcome.

It can look a lot different when you consider the points of view taking action for survival purposes versus to achieve prosperity.

If you're going to survive on your creativity, you may need to double down on both the survival activites and the creativity.

If not, you may need to become stabilized or even prosperous in some other way before you can indulge very much creativity in the long run.

There can be quite a valley between those two extremes.
While true at cruise speeds/altitudes, any supersonic transport still has to climb up to those altitudes. On any american flight (not to alaska/hawaii) i doubt the greater efficiencies at 60+ thousand feet would be worth the fuel to get there with a supersonic wing. These would only be 2 or 3-hour flights at most anyway.

If we really want time savings, fix the entire airport experience. Thats where time can be most saved. When travelling domestic I ussually end up spending far more time waiting for flights/bags/security than actually flying.
Exactly. Conventional wisdom said that the 16 MiB barrier was impossible to break. After that was broken, the next thing that was impossible to break was the 2 GiB barrier. That was broken too. I'm talking about 32-bit S/370 code. Obviously IBM independently broke the 2 GiB barrier by switching to 64-bit programming.

But in hindsight, a "properly-written" program from the 1970s would have been restricted to 16 MiB at that time, but magically turned into 2 GiB in the 1980s, and then magically turned into 4 GiB in I think the 2010s (but this is murkier about when you want to start counting - real hardware was only demonstrated in 2022 or 2023 - can't remember).
I'm no longer a practicing Mormon, and I understand where you're coming from, but that's not what's happening here. They'd be banning wider swaths of the internet if they were trying to keep kids from learning about sex or church history. This is a more generalized "protect the children from the world" instinct.
The context of "authoritarian theocracy is the first to do X" really helps highlight how bad of an idea it is. No social policy that Utah's government does first is a good idea.
> No one employed

i highly doubt no one will be employed even in the advent of a true AI singularity. Just differently employed - there will be reasons why someone would pay for your labour.
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?
Yeah absolutely, author seems to have some sort of a deranged trad-fash agenda. Wildly infantilizing and inflexible viewpoint, it very much seems like they started with an opinion, and then wrote an article to justify it.

> since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling

> has free rein to show Westerners what it wants; “tittytainment” and “sissy men” are everywhere on the app.

> Two unfortunate victims of TikTok-induced brain damage.

big yikes
LLaMA-based Emacs Search plugin
Reading these comments about people relying on SO - a site founded in 2008 - at age 11, doesn't make me feel any younger, and I'm not even that old (inching closer and closer to my mid-30s). I got into Linux and bash/Python scripting by following tutorials on random shady sites and reading official documentation and manpages. Let's just say it wasn't as seamless as Googling an issue and having a SO thread directly answer my question.

Yes, I do realize I now sound like I just said "back in my day, we walked to school, uphill both ways".
It's kind of silly to say "the FDA would never approved it today". The FDA pulls drugs off the market all the time.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/12/11/2018-26...

Approximately 150 people die in the US each year due to accidental overdoses of acetaminophen.

At the peak, 16,500 people died in the US from NSAIDs (aspirin, ibuprofen, etc) each year, mostly from GI bleeds.

Acetaminophen looks massively safer than the other alternatives right now.
Flash was an amazing platform and we should not forget it.

We lost incredible capabilities when Adobe abandoned it and Apple signed its death warrant. Moreover, we lost the best authorship tool of its kind. Nothing has ever been as easy to use, easy to deploy, comprehensive in capability, and complete in functionality.

Adobe let Flash languish after the purchase of Macromedia.

Google hated Flash since they couldn't index it and use it for making money. Flash also competed with YouTube for eyeballs. (In fact, one of my favorite analogies for Flash is to imagine if YouTube was interactive - that was Flash.)

Apple hated Flash as it undermined their complete control over their device (no runtimes).

Microsoft hated Flash because of the security flaws and how deeply their browser integrated into the host OS.

Creators, however, used it to make the best experiences. If you discount the awful splash pages it enabled, the work being done in Flash was leagues above the web games you see today.

I wish Adobe had donated it all (editor and runtime) to the w3c as open source. We could have started to iteratively polish it into a standard.

Maybe WASM deployables will fill the gap.
Known to whom? I've never seen it called that.
Facebook starts a career networking subfeature in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Am I an "extractive industries" "affiliate" if I just fueled my hatchback up with fresh tank of gasoline?
Yes really, there is no law of accelerating returns as far as I’m concerned. Kurzweil clearly tried to opportunistically generalize Moore’s law and take credit for what he thought was a bigger idea, but sadly doesn’t produce a compelling argument, given that 1) Moore’s law died a decade ago, it no longer holds, and cost of calculations per second is no longer decreasing exponentially, and 2) Kurzweil claimed that things like US GDP and human life expectancy are evidence of his so-called law, and these claims are clearly bullshit. And not just wrong but intentionally misleading, that’s the part that bothers me. Did you look at the final figure? It’s not possible to make that diagram or write the accompanying text without knowing you’re lying. How about the first or second ones, wtf even are they? The majority of plots in Kurzweil’s piece, some 20-odd figures, are direct byproducts of Moore’s law from after Moore observed/predicted it, and nothing more.

In case you missed it, my point is not that flops didn’t increased exponentially for most of the last century, it’s that Kurzweil wasn’t the first to observe it, and didn’t add anything rigorous to what Moore & others had already done. Kurzweil only made a mockery of it by fabricating some of the data and using the larger argument to claim we’re headed toward immortality, joining an illustrious list of people who get attention by hawking the fountain of youth.

BTW feel free to re-read Kurzweil’s predictions about computation growth in the article and ask yourself whether they’re true. One of his scheduled predictions is up this year. He’s off by a few orders of magnitude according to his own definitions, and furthermore his definitions are off by a few more orders of magnitude according to other researchers, and on top of that his claim that enough flops equal human brain capability are, to date, false. These things put the remainder of his predictions really far behind schedule, and possibly slipping at an exponential rate, which kinda undermines the whole point, right?
Being through some shit isn’t a reason to alienate everyone else though.
Dystopic. These things we do to discourage seeking actual human relationships is detrimental to the future of the human race in a very literal way.
> It is also an NSAID.

No, its not. Acetaminophen is not an NSAID (which is why NSAIDs are better on inflammatory pain.)
There is no market for feral hogs. Sure, casual hunters may pay to get to hunt a bunch of feral hogs, but professional hog hunters get paid a lot for it (they use helicopters, to give you an idea of how much farmers and ranchers will pay for that service). The value of a feral hog's meat on the market is zero.
Oh i feel so old.

I probably wouldn't be a programmer without sourceforge.
What's your point? Many people would be happy if they are lucky enough to be born in a wealthy country and save a bunch of money by the time they're 48 and retire, move to a poorer country and be happy tending a garden. Not many people are this lucky and it will be harder going forward as such desirable cheap places are becoming less cheap rapidly, and less accessible. "Golden visas" in such places are under scrutiny as they are just driving up real estate prices with little benefit to locals.
I read this thing three times, searched for every variant of "months" and "8" and "eight" I could think of and can't find a single thing that remotely indicates 100+ people dying from an unapproved vaccine.

Can you help me understand what exactly you're referring to? Is the EUA? Is it the concept of clinical trials? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong link somehow?

(I should probably delete this comment, given that the article, referenced materials and studies make it pretty clear that the increases in mortality are not from vaccines, or properly-used prescribed medications and I'm bored of non-topical COVID ... ideologies... derailing HN conversations)
This seems like a reasonable list.

I’m not opposed to the idea of whitelisting healthy online activities and limiting anything else. They could go further and whitelist sites like HN, arch forums etc where it’s educational

Sibling comment mentioned how group chats aren’t exempted. I’ve seen group chats get very unhealthy before. 2 is low, maybe 5 or 8 participants max would be ok.
AI is definitely coming from some jobs previously considered creative. See [1], on HN today. I expect it to come for many web-related jobs in the near future. Large language models by themselves are basically cut and paste programmers. But that's good enough for some routine work.

This is just getting started. Large language models coupled to more structured systems are going to be very powerful agents.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308498
You can measure how much money you have in your bank account and money is a social construct. Spending money leads to having measurably less money. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

You might be confusing "social construct" with fake. That's not at all what I'm saying.
> First, you are thinking about the airlines that exist today,

I don't see how business structure affects my suggestion at all. The main tax would be on fuel purchases.

> Second, international refueling has historically been the main reason why jet fuel cannot be taxed properly.

So make it an EU thing. And the US can do pretty well by itself despite that.

And you can charge planes at landing based on any fuel they recently used that wasn't taxed enough.

> Third, if you want to tax climate impact, it's not enough to tax fuel. You have to collect data

Nah you don't have to do that. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and don't try to make taxes too complicated.
"Natural numbers were created by God, everything else is the work of men" — Kronecker
Programming language pl research in haskell omega has a lot of bleeding edge theoretical cs stuff too
Yeah, more on that:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Growt...
And Intel is, as usual, doing nothing
Except those doses might not be right if you're consuming certain things that interact with those drugs that seem innocuous. Like Grapefruit, for example. If you consume grapefruit and take acetaminophen, more of the drug will get into your bloodstream than expected, and prescriptions doses won't take that into account. You have to be careful taking a lot of drugs if you eat grapefruit, btw, for this reason, not just acetaminophen.

"White grapefruit juice increased concentrations of acetaminophen in mice both 1 hour and 2 hours after feeding compared to controls. In contrast, pink grapefruit juice increased acetaminophen concentrations 2 hours after feeding compared to controls."[1]

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19053875/
50-70 bushels of wheat per acre. $7.5 dollars per bushel of wheat.

Still, every year you’d have like 2 tons of wheat from your acre. You’d be able to live on that, even if your diet is a bit colorless.
> Over 30% of employers in the US exclusively hire remote employees.

[X] Doubt
That shows how little you know about this. In Texas you can hunt feral hogs all day every day of the year and you don't even need a license. That's how much of a pest they are. There are more than enough feral hogs in Texas to last a lifetime of hunting and then some. No one releases hogs into the wild in Texas so there's more to hunt.
If you were to take Ruffle and then create an open source creator, would that lead to trouble with Adobe?

As AS2 has been reversed-engineer that means you could create an editor right? Or would you need to branch and make a new "flash" scripting language?

The beauty of flash was that even with an install of a plugin, it worked the same everywhere. As Ruffle is an browser extension thats less faff then having to download a binary.

I guess what I'm saying is I miss flash and would love to see something rise upon the web again.
>It’s the land that is scarce and is the appreciating asset

May be appreciating. Depends on where it is. A lot of land in metro Detroit hasn't appreciated in certain timeframes. Nor on some barrier islands.
This is important and few seem to look at the simple supply/demand. It explains the housing crises in 06/07/08 and the subsequent situation too.
I guess we can get AGI and that will lead to great and numerous inventions. Of course how power works in that world is extremely uncertain. Most likely power would flow to a corporation or an authoritative government unfortunately. Not to the people.
AI won't take a thought workers job. It just sucks the life out of it. Like the person who wrote this post, I make bespoke software. I tinker, I experiment, and I produce high quality results in reasonable timelines. Executives could not give a shit about that, except that those qualities in me are a good signal that I am dependable. Now, if most companies allow AI bottom performers will speed up and their quality will likely slightly increase. As with most things, those on the top end of the spectrum will need to regress to the mean to compete. The result will be that mediocrity takes over because the AI will be in charge of the boilerplate, which is often the foundation for the rest of your code. You can either find enjoyment in the boilerplate being rote and finding places to spend your time in a higher level of abstraction or you can let what used to be your passion sail away like a little red balloon on a windy day.
Because cargo theft is not something an average person has any involvement with.

People know what shoplifting is and they might encounter it in their day to day life.

If some cargo container goes missing, what does that even have to do with me? It’s just some minutiae of an inefficient system as far as an average person is aware
As part of my degree, I took linguistics as a humanities elective. I guess at my university, they don't have many CompSci/SoftEng students take a linguistics course. My professor asked me specifically why I took her a class. I told her that I knew Noam Chomsky, a god in linguistics, helped shaped quiet a few things in Computer Science. Really surprised her that I knew that and thought it was awesome.

Also for anyone. If you get a chance to take a linguistics course, take it. It really is a fascinating topic. The implications on computer languages, but just in general it is just interesting.
Hopefully he responds, but I looked myself and this is what I found:
https://www.amazon.com/BETADINE-Defence-eliminates-viruses-I...
Teenagers need access to social activity and information outside of their parent's view to form their own identity and ideas. This is very healthy and natural. I understand social media is having a negative impact on teenage mental health, but so is having your parents listen in on every conversation.
Thank you for saving me a few hours. Really appreciate it.

I'm starting to listen to fewer and fewer of his podcasts. For me the decline has been has been obvious with some of his recent guests. I thought the Aella one would be very interesting, but as another commenter mentioned, he had an "impress me" vibe the entire time and couldn't even connect a little bit with the guest. Then the Sam Harris one exposed his weaknesses very obviously. If you want to see him being defensive and not say any of substance, that's a good one to listen to. Sam makes a lot of great points and he just goes on and on about the "power of love" and how we are all "human beings" trying to be "understood". After a while it gets irritating because it's like hearing a broken record player. Him unable to either provide a coherent argument to why he aired the Kanye episode or admit it was a mistake was very telling. That episode has more Elon worshipping as well. He tried to get Sam to reconnect with Elon and become friends again. lol.

His postcasts are on average above Joe's quality (don't listen to anymore, but used to years ago), but I think it's primarily because of whom he selects as his guests. At least Joe was significantly more entertaining. Might try going back to that.
Post-mortem from after the stream today: https://devlogs.fun/projects/127-8bitbrain/log
Wouldn't web forums, usenet, etc all be considered social media under this bill?
... completely ignoring the part where I highlighted that GP said "shoplifting is now legal" in a broad sense, and I then specified that that is, in reality, limited to a handful of cities. It would be obvious that San Francisco is one of them, and that I never argued that it wasn't de facto legal there.

Hence the phrase, in the part you quoted, "on a broad scale". Bailing from one city is not a broad scale - I'm sitting in the parking lot of a busy Walgreens in a different state waiting on food truck tacos as I edit this.
The huge memory model supposedly has a 4% overhead in practice, cited by someone who did such programming under OS/2. Personally I wasn't able to detect any slowdown at all, which is not surprising, because you are normally expected to be bottlenecked on some application doing some calculation, not the OS.

I am not aware that I have any obsession with Unix. For PDOS/386, PDOS/86 and PDOS-generic I use an API inspired by MSDOS. For z/PDOS I use the MVS API. I specifically don't want anything to do with Posix which mandated fork() but didn't provide for simple memory allocation.
This is neat, thanks for sharing!
Do you mind sharing some? I would need some real examples to show to the team.
Doesn't DDG pay MS for Bing results already? And their AI offering so far only summarises Wikipedia articles, the article is terribly unspecific, looks like MS is asking chatbots that include Bing data to pay or pay more
The cow has to produce milk or they go bankrupt
Ask HN: Is OpenAI’s approach to safety sufficient?
Being a subsistence farmer is terrible though. There's a reason 99% of Americans stopped doing it just as soon as they were able to. It's certainly not a comfortable retirement!
As mentioned in the article anyone can delete a malicious webhook.

https://webhooks.scam.gay/ is a site that makes it easy to do for people who want a tool do it for them.
The good part about the COPPA law is that it's an IQ test. If you're under 13, you have to be smart enough to understand that it's a "don't ask don't tell" situation and know to keep quiet. I did when I was 10 and joined Yahoo (the most popular social media site at the time) so I could have a Geocities web site and play fantasy baseball.

I'd suggest that teens in Utah just use a VPN but social media sites have been cracking down on VPN users for years and many of those sites now require phone number verification to sign up. This law illustrates yet another reason why that's a bad idea.
There was an episode of MTV's Made in which a teenage girl named Kylee prepares to enter a bodybuilding contest with coaching help from an experienced bodybuilder, Amy Schmid.

Kylee starts falling off the wagon with regards to her diet, and Amy intervenes, telling her: "You're a bodybuilder now." It's an attempt to get her into the mindset if "I'm a bodybuilder, therefore I do bodybuilder things like stick to my diet during contest prep".
Longfellow and the Decline of American Poetry
Not true, such managers work extra hard achieving nothing and making things worse.
org-mode

When I was a contractor I used to generate my invoices using it.
As much as I dislike social media sites and think there is sufficient evidence of their harm to teens, I don’t think these bills have any legs.

There are already people in law that are pushing back on the legality of this in regards to violating first amendment rights. [1]

1. https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/TechFreed...

EDIT: pluralized bills, after realizing that there were two related bills regarding this.
What it would do is signal to the aviation industry that America is open for business. It’s time to build new low-boom aircraft

This is completely idiotic. There is not a single goddamn reason to operate supersonic civilian aircraft except to cater to the whims of the wealthy. This jackass read a study and sat in a simulator and thinks he has even the slightest idea of what it's like to grow up getting boomed every day. I did. It's not fun having your house rattle all the time at random. I cannot even imagine what it would be like around a commercial airport that had dozens of supersonics every day instead of a handful of small military jets.
Player does not care if graphics or code of the game are created by a person or AI. For them it matters how much fun they are having and for companies how low the cost are.
He's talking about what enables him to effectively screen for his role. Your response and a few others are trying to guilt him for screening.
This is why i created: https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
I thought Scrivener as well. Happy customer for a long time.
Unemployment is going to go up somewhat, foreclosures are a thing.