skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Handwriting was such an integral part of a person.

That's a noble thought and all but it doesn't always work like you say. I bet my school teachers would recognise my handwriting from a mile away, yet even I have trouble reading what I used to write back then. And I wrote all the time. The only time I didn't write was when I was reading (I have this weird taboo about writing on books. I'm fine with drawing stick-figure animations on the corners though; you should see my school editions of the Iliad and the Odyssey, truly epic stick figure swordfights). And just to be clear, I never had any trouble with reading, nor with grammar or syntax. It was just my handwriting that was horrible.

My handwriting was what you'd call cacography, the opposite of calligraphy. It was like a chicken dipped its claws in ink and went digging for worms on the page. Very recognisable, but really not very good handwriting at all. I think it's because I was always in such a hurry to take it all down that I didn't stop to think about reading it back later.

To be honest, computer keyboards saved my writing.
This has all the artistic value of an advice animal template
Peak memory is not the only reason ARC is memory-efficient though, the main reason is that it has better memory reading behavior because it doesn't have to scan for pointers. Server GCs assume all memory containing pointers is cheap to access, which is not true if some of it is swapped out.
More about his life from his Wikipedia page:
I once saw DPs [displaced persons] beat an SS man and then strap him to the steel gurney of a crematorium. They slid him in the oven, turned on the heat and took him back out. Beat him again, and put him back in until he was burnt alive. I did nothing to stop it. I suppose I could have brandished my weapon or shot in the air, but I was not inclined to do so. Does that make me an accomplice to murder? You know how I got witness statements? I'd go into a village where, say, an American pilot had parachuted and been beaten to death and line everyone one up against the wall. Then I'd say, "Anyone who lies will be shot on the spot." It never occurred to me that statements taken under duress would be invalid.
Faith would probably better describe that condition, a very steadfast form of belief.
My experience as an IT contractor is that multiple recruiting agencies will list the same position. Which in turn gives the impression of far more jobs than is the case. Then the media reports the total number of job ads implying that there is a massive shortfall in suitable staff.
because it’s such Gen-X-and-above fodder to treat it as a sign of society in decline

I think it is more of a "reliance on tech", not of any gen, but of "where society is".

The point of cursive, was writing fast and legibly. You can write far faster than typing, for example, on a smartphone keyboard.

There is no correct or incorrect thing here, however, losing cursive means we are trapped in a world where everything we write, everything we do, is tracked.

This is really more about optimal use of a medium (paper), and is equivalent to being able to type on a qwerty keyboard, which is equally learned and weird.

So for me, it is about the loss of non-electronic means.

And that may be OK, but we may also find it is not some day.

EG, we will surely want efficient paper use, if we all end up in some controlled state. You'd be nuts to use any computing device to communicate then.
OK, let's get one thing straight. Everyone claims to be pro-science. There is literally no political party on earth that stands up and says "we hate science".

When you describe people as pushing back against "science" what you mean is they disagree with you about whether certain claims are in fact true claims, whether they are high quality science or not. They are not saying they reject your beliefs because they reject science, they are saying you should reject those beliefs because they are pseudo-science: something that looks superficially like science, but isn't.

"it is been successfully self-correcting for quite a long time"

It's not self correcting, that's a myth. You asked for more evidence, fine, it exists in abundance. Go research. Consider that people started talking about a replication crisis in psychology more than a decade ago yet it's still a huge problem. Claims are still being made today that clearly won't replicate when the underlying studies are briefly checked. Or look at the recent IPCC report. In the summary for policymakers it introduces a long since debunked graph that doesn't appear anywhere in the actual report itself (because it's wrong). So the IPCC is presenting a document that claims to be a summary of the science yet isn't. Guess what - the point who point out this sort of thing tend to be conservatives, or they get labelled as such, simply because non-conservatives refuse to criticize academia.
It's weird to me that EU does not have a centralized database. I think there is for passport biometrics, but strange not for travel...I guess it could be "hybrid" problem: some travel predates the database. But for most immigration requirements, seems it could be achieved.
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It's semantics and not false.

1) Substack was never blocked, so Musk is right, but there was a restriction put on tweets promoting the service so you can't retweet or comment on them. You can still post Substack links to your followers.

2) Substack admit that they are downloading data from Twitter. They claim that the are using the API fairly to accomplish it. Seemingly Musk seems to disagree and hence throttled them. Regardless, the claim from Musk about them doing it is correct.

3) There's no info what this claim is based on. Seems Musk is arguing subscriptions fees paid by Substack is equalling an employment in the sense that it makes him biased. I'd argue that's at least misleading, possibly false.

Feels like a carbon copy of all other ongoing arguments at the moment. People are speaking past each other and arguing that the other side is wrong based on a claim that was never uttered. Their followers will jump in and even here suggest brigading him without taking a second to think about what was actually said. There are a ton of things to criticize Musk and Twitter about so it's really silly to make up things.
> Cults don’t usually have that level of industry involvement

Scientology probably puts NFT-bro-ism to shame with its level of industry involvement... It's just usually less in your face about the cult part.
They don't have the purchasing powers of their big competitors either.
The article has its own reference which I'd prefer for its nicer hypertextness and amount of contextual and referenced information:

http://www.laputan.org/gabriel/worse-is-better.html
Does it cover cgroups?
Not outdated at all, but it would be nice to have a new edition with the errata [1] and maybe some additional content. Some sort of anniversary edition.

[1] https://man7.org/tlpi/errata/index.html
For instance, the projects I worked on were professional software. People don't care so much about SSR and first page rendering speed. We also didn't need the latest shiny browser APIs, or to tweak CSS to perfection, and we reasonably could say that this wasn't going to be the case in the future.

In that context where many devs were backend devs or self-taught, so using JS wasn't that important, since we were going to train anyway. Actually, training to Elm felt much saner than training to JS.

However, the tech remained niche for all the reasons I quoted in my first message.
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Are we still doing “AI is the new crypto” here? I’d like to think that we’ve moved past this by now.
I saw that as well and agree. This might be obvious to someone who's been following this more closely than I have, but why would Terraform Labs trigger their own collapse? Was it just an attempt to exfil the money and run?
More like, there have been enough boom/bust cycles by now that many are taking a recovery and future upside for granted.
Actually the profit margin might be worth looking at.

Corporations typically are charged a flat percentage tax rate.

One could charge corporations a progressive tax rate, just like people.

You continue to tax corporations just on profits, but the higher the margin (profit/revenue) the higher tax rate.

It disincentivises gouging and could even bring in more revenue for the state (less need to over tax people).

It would also make it harder for the wealthy to dodge tax by billing what should be personal income via corporate shell structures as in most cases that revenue would appear as > 90% profit, attracting a very high tax.
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I guess it's easier to blame greedflation on other people being stupid than admitting that you yourself are being fleeced.
Bosch dishwashers do a great job cleaning dishes. Only one cycle needed. You usually have to pay for quality if you want it.
I think you need more than an idea, but a strategy. Good strategies come from understanding, which might come from research, or working in a field to gain experience. Read the YC launch posts when they happen to see what I mean. They usually are like this:

Cofounder and I worked in industry X for Y years and were frustrated by time-consuming/imperfect/costly problem Z while trying to achieve important objective W. We talked to other people in this situation and found insights A B and C. And then they go on to describe the product.

The strategy is the product plus how you will get it to market, how will it evolve, what are the first features, what are the human elements to the product, do you need a flashy modern site, or a short email to a targeted list, etc.
While the site looks nice and I faancy the idea, I can't help wondering how reliable the information is: Won't these LLMs just create random “facts” if they don't “know” anything about a subject?

I once asked ChatGPT to write a short biography for me and my friend. Little did I know that I was a renowned university professor in history, and ChatGPT even had references for a handful of publications I presumable have written. The biography of my friend was equally absurd.

I believe that was back when GPT-3 hit the streets. Perhaps GPT-4 is able to stick to hard facts?

Another thing, though: The site ought to have a short readme with the relevant context: Obviously, this site is about growing vegetables on the Northern hemisphere. People on the Southern hemisphere should most likely add 6 months to the calendar.

I live in on a smallish island in Denmark at the 55th latitude, and I can definitely not plant out chilli peppers in April — not even in a sunny spot. With some luck I can plant out in mid-May, and I won't be able to harvest anything until at least 100 days later.

I wonder if the data on the site is more suitable for a more southerly continental climate, than the costal climate around here. It would be helpful to know the context.
Reddit’s successful feature enjoys its success for reasons that have nothing to do with NFTs or crypto or the blockchain or whatever else.
>Then, around 1970, female authorship really began to explode. "There was a sea change after 1970," Waldfogel says.

That's exactly when Harlequin expanded into the US, causing the entire bodice-ripper paperback market to explode worldwide. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_novel#Rise_of_the_cate...> I don't mean to say that the entirety of the jump is from romance, but the massive growth of that genre definitely contributed. Then, of course, YA fiction; Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, and the many, many, many women authors they inspired.
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What's the difference between capitalism and a market economy?
The American Medical Association restricts med student slots. You could say it’s government but it’s regulatory capture rather than government regulation. Remove Citizen’s United, close the revolving door, and fund congressional research offices so that legislators don’t have to depend on lobbyists for research and writing legislation.
Availability of capital is not a problem that needs to be fixed
Re-examining the chip Shortage: Legacy node decommissions
Legacy lithography machines appear to have been decommissioned setting off a domino effect across the legacy node chip industry.
Using privacy tools wouldn't necessarily be the smarter move as they could be taken as the smoking gun of someone trying to hide their tracks because they are aware of the problematic aspects.
You should ignore the title, the article itself is substantial. These sort of takes are why they use such inflammatory headlines to begin with. It is a good question - why are there so many writers who are women compared to other creative professions?
Static i18n is pretty easy to implement though? I’m Next.js I’ve previous solved it by making the chosen language part of the route. Sure, it generates more files, but that doesn’t really matter at all (cheap to host still, cheap to serve still).

I could get behind static vs dynamic, but “server-side” has no meaning then to me, since there is no server/backend men at to be involved for the static part then (at least in my mental model of it).
> If you want it to stop, you must: a) Break up monopolies, b) Go after collusion, c) Tax excess profits, d) Disallow mergers and industry consolidation.

That still allows growth to a dangerous size. A more simple solution tgat avoids worrying about details would be to limit maximum size in general, to guarantee that there is competition.
You'd rather see people die of starvation than curtail frivolous spending?
Seems so, although it says here [1] you can just email them for a link.

[1] https://singlelogin.me/blog/39
>> The point of cursive, was writing fast and legibly. You can write far faster than typing, for example, on a smartphone keyboard.

Smartphone, maybe, but I average 120 wpm on a computer keyboard and I can't get anywhere near that on a phone. By hand, if I write as fast as I think, I have trouble reading it later, myself. And if I try to write legibly --let alone trying to make pretty-looking letters-- my fingers start to hurt after a while, because I have to make such an effort.

I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Sometimes I even find some of the shapes I make as I write by hand aesthetically pleasing to look at. They're just not easy to read.

I can't read cursive either.
Wow, they managed to trademark "Clippy", without MS eating them for lunch? Nice.

Edit: after reading the policy further (and checking the uspto database), I see that it's unregistered. Still find it interesting...
Can it manage Palette Cycling yet? HAM Mode?
> The Friends Lego set seems to be in line with their investment in adult demographics, in the sense of being product lines that are decorative show pieces instead of play things.

What? The Friends sets are specifically designed to be for use as objects in play, and this is pretty obvious from looking at them (multiple disconnected builds per set, role-play focused themes, character designs). They're weak as decorative pieces compared to even the Creator line, let alone e.g the Architecture or Icon lines which are specifically designed for that.

https://www.lego.com/de-de/product/street-food-market-41701

Does that scream "adult desk toy" to you?
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> I think the biggest threat to the generic lines is the fact that they have to compete against other generic stuff that's produced cheaper.

I'd say the biggest threat is Lego's pricing. Even Lego's small generic sets are sold for over 20€. Even Lego fans pause when faced with that kind of price tags.
> Massive amounts of capital is one of the easiest issues to overcome if the business is actually profitable.

That requires convincing investors the business is actually profitable (which is unrelated to the actual profitability of the venture)
There are quite a lot of independent supermarket brands around and they seem to struggle to even match the major companies, let alone undercut them. It just seems very unlikely that there actually are huge, unreasonable markups being had here.
Elon Musk’s warnings about AI followed months-long battle against ‘woke’ AI - 4 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399529

: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musks-warnings-ai-rese...

The letter against AI is a power grab by the centralized elites - 13 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35404708

: https://daotimes.com/the-letter-against-ai-is-a-power-grab-b...

Ask HN: Are leaders genuinely afraid of AI or do they have an agenda? - 8 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390483
16G ram could be cutting it close in a lot of back end Dev workloads... How come there are no bigger options?
This reminds me of how some people argue they actually drive better when drunk.

Many studies have proven that:

1. Driving ability is impaired by alcohol consumption (or lack of sleep, incidentally)

2. People are very bad at estimating how severely impaired they are (wrt being drunk or kust tired)

Are there any similar studies around ability to mentally focus / perform physical activities while fasting?
Not far back you could know the tens or hundreds of people within a ten minute walk, and now you know virtually nobody of the thousands of people living in a 15min walk radius.

Also what people were doing was around tangible objects intuitively understandable to you, rather than “services” consisting 90% of the economy whose name or function or hiw they relate you will never know.
Is not "hello world programs without I/O" basically measuring the startup time of the language's runtime? Not that that's not important, but given that Rust and Go are the only two compiled languages there, and Go has a slightly heavier runtime, these times are entirely what I'd expect.
just wait until they start really attacking AI. they'll roll out the same playbook.

1. dangerous new technology

2. that uses far too much energy (more than the entire country of X!)

3. do we really know how it works?

4. controlled by a shadowy cabal of super-coders

5. followed by a litany of anecdotal stories about victims of AI

6. and increasingly frequent and increasingly negative coverage of those getting rich off of it

they also used the same playbook against the internet, and open source, and mobile/social networking. probably the original cell phones too, at some point.

edit: oh, i almost forgot

7. turning the tables on any goldenboy/girl they previously pumped, then will viciously dump when the going gets tough or the inevitable fraud occurs. (unless of course they donated $40million+ to politicians)

i'm under 40 and i've seen this cycle about half a dozen times.
Hah, my refrigerator is too cold in one area in the back and freezes vegetables if I leave them there too long. Might be perfect for kimchi!
Kind of my point. Germany's energy policy has gotten a disproportionate amount of attention and criticism in the US media for "not reducing its coal usage fast enough" for about a decade and this filters through to hacker news which discusses Germany's electricity system a lot and Poland's almost not at all.
MLM is also a corporate sponsored cult and puts on ostentatious events. One commonality is how they tell you to remove negative influence, ie skeptical and concerned friends and family, as they hold you back from achieving success.
I think it must be at least a decade since I’ve written an actual complete sentence by hand, a paragraph certainly must have been even farther back. Maybe I should pick up a pen.
does not pose a material additional privacy concern.

But it does. It so very much does, because it always does. Always. Every time.

Data gets anonymized, then other firms de-anonymize. Co-mingled anonymized, too.

And once the MBAs see it, it will be pried away, and sold, and processed, and snarfed, with hooks during training too.

Because it always happens. Always. Every time. It's like candy to a child, like food to a starving man.

At this point, we are insane to think data stored or even observed, is not being monetized against us.

So the parent's post is not alarmist, because it always, always happens.
Capitalism as characterized by permanent firms with private tradeable claims of ownership and separation of ownership from management is around 400 years old.
Seems like the article is just an advert for the book "The Glow".

How to advertise books in 2023

1. Select book to advertise

2. Create some narrative linked to book that will create outrage

3. Profit
Because we spend a whole heap of our productivity on making crap, basically separating people from money as effectively as we can fit as little development as we can get away with. Our financial system (UK, I'd say The West is all the same too) is tailored to make rich people richer, everything else is a by-product.

Yes, people would work less (and produce less waste). No, I don't have all the answers on how that would work out. Greed would probably cause it to fail.
It seems like you don't check AQI alerts in your area, so you probably did not shut your windows/doors in advance or run air filter indoors, so the exposure you get on a single walk is not as big as what accumulated in your home. That stuff you breathe day in day out and in your sleep.

So portable monitor in my view is overkill, I just check AQI in the area and close windows and run air filter indoors and don't cycle when it's bad.

But if it's a really convenient monitor I'd not mind it! In my experience accurate monitors are not small and not cheap though...
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people can still write by hand without cursive, this seems a little hyperbolic
For this proof to be a proof, you first have to define what area is and why it should scale as kc² and why the sum of areas of the two the smaller triangles should equal the area of the larger triangle.
Tables? I’ll be glad when I no longer need to use weird embedded VML just to get background images or rounded corners! The Word HTML renderer was such a weird choice and such a step backwards when it was chosen. I think this article jumps the gun a bit but once the usage of versions of outlook using that fall enough for me to ignore it I’ll be very happy.

AMP seems a weird thing to talk about as something that helps. Even if you support AMP you still need to make the regular HTML content work so it’s just extra work to create, maintain and test. Why bother?
> Or maybe you just have a robust self-image? If it's that, I think it's a strong adaptation

Thank you. I think there was truth in my point of view. I always wished I could express it in a less aggressive manner.

I also had a difficult childhood. I'm in my 50s and still working it out. I have had a great life and have the most wonderful wife and two adult children.

I have found family, friends and work is not a bad order of priorities.
I used to have one of these as a kid!
I think I know what you are trying to say, but there night be an issue with your metaphor. The whole point of an NFT is that you don't have to take it with you as you owning it is chain state.