skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Nietzsche's dreams, I guess ibuprofen comes to mind (discovered in 1961 by Stewart Adams and John Nicholson). How many of his headaches would have been easily relieved with just a pill. Chemistry was the fundamentally transformative science of the first part of the 20th century, Better Living Through Chemistry [1] and all that.

And Nietzsche knew that chemistry was the future, it was in the air. "In a letter of January 1869 to his close friend Erwin Rohde, Nietzsche, reflecting wryly on the vicissitudes of fate, breaks the news that has just intervened to dash their common 'dreams of a Parisian future': 'just last week I was going to write to you and suggest that we study chemistry together, that we throw philology where it belongs, among the household effects of our forefathers'" [2] However, he doesn't pursue chemistry, "In commenting on this same episode of 1869, Mittasch muses: what if Nietzsche had carried out his plan and begun studying chemistry, for instance with O.L. Erdmann and H. Kolbe in Leipzig: would we be counting him nowadays among our great German chemists?" [2], as we know, he falls back into philology and publishes The Birth of Tragedy in 1872. Incidentally, in 1869, apparently in one day, February 17, Dmitri Mendeleev conceived the first periodic table of the elements [3]. No one could have guessed the power that lies in those scribbles, and that's the point: if Nietzsche could have dreamed all the polymers and drugs of today he would have forgotten Greek and Latin.

Yes, in physics, plenty of "low hanging fruits" such as general relativity or black-body radiation have been picked early. The incompleteness theorems have crushed the mathematical optimism for only 5 years, from 1931 to 1936, when Turing showed that even without an algorithm to solve the halting problem, you can still build an computer, as we are well aware.

Hopefully not even 150 years to cure all illnesses, I'm hoping for 50 because, you know, the clock is ticking. The source for this hope is the work that is being done in regenerative medicine and in programmatic tissue control [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Living_Through_Chemistr...

[2] Nietzsche’s Conceptual Chemistry, by Duncan Large in Nietzsche and Science, p. 190, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/97813152479...

[3] https://www.asbmb.org/getattachment/f3f8ab0a-4766-42d2-8a47-...

[4] Regeneration, Intelligence in Life & Memory - Dr Michael Levin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bwq1oOST7w
I always found this interesting because this phenomenon exists all over the internet (there's even a dedicated subreddit for it: /r/usdefaultism). If you don't make it extremely clear where you're from, for some reason the internet just assumes you're american.
How is anyone meant to respond to this? You’re asserting it as some sort of irrefutable fact. It’s not. It’s how you’re choosing to operate. I for one find this assumption frustrating on an almost daily basis. I think less of people that do it.
If America has taught me anything, it’s that I absolutely can choose to be irritated by something so minor. ;)
Yeah that could make a huge difference. Doubt there’d be many nighttime readers from the US
I love that the citation to GPT-4 is a Rickroll :)
Problem is, many would like to live just as this tiny minority.
I prompted ChatGPT with the following prompt:

System Instruction: You are a the environment of a text adventure. The user will navigate and interact with the environment by describing their action with text.

You will act as the environment. You as the environment will respond with more information that helps the user to make their next decisions.

Now you will enter their first message to start the game. Then the user will reply. Make the adventure compelling, interesting, fun, mysterious and engaging.

And then proceeded to copy/paste between ChatGPT and the Text Adventure game in this link, making ChatGPT the environment and this link the player.

UPDATE: In two occasions, the app in the link (let's call it AdventureGPT) reversed roles and started to act as the environment and ending with "What do you want to do next?". I managed to reverse it back to being the player.
I think the frustration is less about that they weren’t involved in the recent successes, but rather that they can’t build on models like GPT due to their scale and non-openness.
I didn't claim ChatGPT constitutes a self. I agree with the description of 'stochastic parrot'. But the underlying intelligence GPT4 is demonstrating in order to be a better stochastic parrot appears to be, while it's obviously difficult to directly compare, at least comparable to primitive creatures.
If water is plentiful and accessible, that could be used as shielding, no?
Dude, I've lived through a tornado. It left a path of destruction 800m wide. We evacuated in our electric car, and drove to a friend's place 5km away. Range was not an issue.

Many gas stations were down because of loss of power and lines at the working stations were an hour long. But our friend had power, so we just plugged into 115V at their house overnight.

I know dozens of people with electric cars. Every single one of them has a plugin at their home, and every one of them plugs it in over night. A couple of them plug into a regular 115v outlet overnight rather than a faster charger, but everybody plugs in every night. Why would you give up one of the main advantages of EV's to save yourself the two seconds of effort it takes to plug the car in?
Intelligence offices in foreign countries, sensor packages on high-rise buildings, what don't they do, our proud men in blue? :)
Article 21 of the GDPR allows an individual to object to processing personal information for marketing or non-service related purposes.[24] This means the data controller must allow an individual the right to stop or prevent controller from processing their personal data.

There are some instances where this objection does not apply. For example, if:

1. Legal or official authority is being carried out
2. "Legitimate interest", where the organisation needs to process data in order to provide the data subject with a service they signed up for
3. A task being carried out for public interest.

2 is the key here. Make an entire ML model that generates a website layout based on the request, claim its core business logic, oh and btw, it just happens to load advertisements from companies based on this contextual data, but that contextual data has nothing to do with the user. Look, we don't store any advertising cookies or session data, don't request any either, and here is our model. Investigate it as much as you want, and we don't have the training data anymore because we delete that.
How about Bangladesh?
Or they embed the ads in the programs as “product placement”. You see this on late night TV and I rewatched episodes of “silicon valley” and it seems all over that (Tesla, big gulp, Fage yogurt, burger king…)
We AirBnB the spare bedroom in our basement and it brings in about $2k/month.
+1 for being a bit irritated when I read claims about laws and regulations without any specification of the geographic place they apply to. It happens more on reddit than over here.
PS: I think it was GNOME 1 with the sawfish window manager. KDE2 did support theming the windows decorations, but on second thought, I don't think one could set different looks per window.
> Do you actually know someone who can't read the text, or are you concern trolling?

The author of that website claims that they’ve seen multiple comments that complain about headaches and eyestrain. This is the first item in the FAQ, which suggests that it’s one of the most common complaints.

> There are 10 themes. do all of them make any one person's eyes bleed?

The theme selector is at the bottom of the page. It’s unlikely that a person who gets a headache/eyestrain from the design will find it in time.
They are not part of a continent, but simply islands (well, groups of islands).

Some definitions would include them as part of Oceania.
Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
I bet that a factor is that, while not the majority, it's the largest group
That can be changed far more easily than which planet we live on.

Arguably most people are forced to under-consume, but they’d be happy far below the most conspicuous of over-consumption now happening.
The term "continent" is illdefined, but English wikipedia defines the Continet of Australia to comprise the country of Australia and the country of Papua New Guinea, as well as part of the country of Indonesia (Western New Guinea)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)

This is a separate Australia to Australia the Mainland (which doesn't New Guinea), and separate from Australia the country (which includes Tasmania)

Therefore I'm not convinced that "Australia is a continent, so it cannot be an island by definition" rules out the Australia Mainland.

If we look at the wikipedia definition of Island

"subcontinental land completely surrounded by water"

And accept that "Australia the continent" comprises "Australia Mainland", New Guinea (both PNG and part of Indonesia), and nearby islands like Tasmania and Lord Howe (but not New Zealand), then Australia Mainland is surely subcontinental and completely surrounded by water.

Once you leave the English speaking world though, Oceania as a continent comes into play, which goes back to that "definition of continent"
I still suspect your sample is heavily biased towards university-educated / middle class people.
If in the US, major metro?
I don't like that France's color in the chart is more orange than the Netherlands'.

Come on fellow Dutchies, we gotta move up one spot!
What browser/OS are you using? What country are you in? Are you using Tor?
X-15 and the pioneers of hypersonic flight
I take it so that zig build system is Turing complete, isn't it?
There is a reason why, for example, meson build system DSL is made to be non-Turing complete. It makes reasoning much simpler.
What’s your RPM? That much income for a software download page seems impressive
I run HTTP Toolkit (https://httptoolkit.com) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors).

I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most of the world that's enough for you to go full-time and try to take it further. If you can make $2k/month on something working only part-time, you can definitely make a lot more if you focus on it.

On your questions: HTTP Toolkit is a desktop app (plus a mobile app and other components for integrations) but it's an Electron app that effectively functions as a SaaS (with a freemium subscription model) that just happens to have a component that runs on your computer. And actually getting to $2k wasn't overnight at all - it took a couple of years of slow steady slog. A few inflection points that made a notable difference (releasing rewriting support & Android support particularly) but mostly it was a matter of "just keep pushing", trusting the trajectory would keep going, and steadily grinding upwards. It's great where it is now, but it's hard work - a solo business is not for the faint of heart!
Here’s a 2013 picture and a little writeup about P-22, the “great cat”:

How this photo turned a reclusive mountain lion into a Hollywood icon (2022) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/p22-holly...
Nope, It is the estimated time-frame between which that post was the top post on HN.

It was on the first page for ~10 hours, starting around 10 UTC.
My problem and solution is probably too wide to explain here, so let's take an easier example.

TDD where you write the test before the code, is a widespread concept now. Imagine a time before this was the case. Would ChatGPT be able to come up with such a concept? Probably. Would it be able to really understand all the consequences of such a setup? I highly doubt it. Even if it did, would we trust it?

In my opinion, such things can only be tested in the real world, where you work with real projects, developers and testers, and gather all the impacts. I don't think a LLM could derive such things.
In similar vein: Using two-letter abbreviations for US states that might as well be mistaken for two-letter country codes. For a long time I assumed people talking about CA were referring to Canada...
Funnily enough, my HN account is 12 years old and back then I was located in Bangladesh with no concrete plan to come to the US. The US-centric nature of HN (or Reddit, 8yr old account) never bothered me, rather it gave more context to those post/comment tones.
The parent commenter is correct. You're the one mistaken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
Personally I'm 100% fine with this. US-based company hosting this forum - US quirks (and features).

I only take issue with extrapolating US-specific things to the rest of the world. Case in point: I don't agree with around half of the statements on HN that explain something as "human nature" when in fact it's something that usually just the Americans say or do.
1 crore = 10 million for those who aren't all about doing the needful.
Hi there, and thanks for the comment. No I'm sorry not right now, but an Android app would be pretty straight forward and I might create one when the app is more complete.
I've got no use for it now but damn this used to be such a pain point in an old job. Looks great!
A website can be designed so that it adapts to the user’s needs. For example, there exist CSS media features that allow websites to honor the user’s preferences for color scheme, reduced motion, and increased contrast, among others.

https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/mediaqueries-5/#mf-user-p...

The website can both have a shrill design and be accessible at the same time.
It is still in your face. It takes a large part of a mobile screen.

If they care enough about privacy they would only use “essential cookies” and get rid of the others.
The Procedure Fetish (2019)
How to get the most out of your time
I think it's always been the case that if industry really gets interested in making progress in some particular area, they make it, and way faster than academia ever could. Not just in computer science but also in fields like chemistry or engineering. Academia is great for doing basic science where there is no profit motive for industry to do something about it. That's what the niche/"few care about" sections talk about, where IMO the strength of academia lies. computer science is I think in general comparatively in a good position compared to other sciences in how easy it is to get funded.
The unambigious definition would be a contiguous landmass surrounded by water at sealevel, which would be in descending order of area

Afro-Eurasia *

Americas *

Antarctica

Australia landmass

Greenland

* This of course depending on how rivers and man-made canals of Suez, Panama, and other canals like Kiel, or ones linking rivers, are treated, there could be arguments that Suez should be included (no locks), but Panama shouldn't be, or all should be, or none should be, or Suez and Panama should be, etc
Should be supplemented with a per capita weighted graph.

Yeah, this is a tantrum... sorry...

I cannot wait to have IPv6/IPv4 HN access stats too... :P
Adding up the percentages from the graph, roughly 25% of clicks came from continental Europe.
No, it's the difference between normative and descriptive categorizations.
* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3347377

Podcast interview (audio+transcript):

* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/podcasts/ezra-klein-show-...
Wouldn't this apply to other continents too? Given for example Vancouver Island is part of North America, then North America (the island, not the continent) would qualify as it too is sub-continental. Europe and Asia would be the only continents excluded by virtue of being connected by land.
Consulting, speaking for my line of work, is something like 200 €/hour, web development is around 100 €/hour for larger agencies. That's for Germany.
"'Super Troopers 2' director talks about raising $4.6 million from fans and why critics don't seem to get its humor"

https://www.businessinsider.com/super-troopers-2-crowdfundin...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/super-troopers-2#/
And duration. E.g. session cookie holding serialized shopping cart data is ok, but longer term storage is not ok.
I wouldn't use it just because plausible's design is so shamelessly copied.
Can you debug zig in any MS/jetbrains IDEs? I type in nvim but debug in whatever has the best experience. I think I asked this question like 2 years ago and was told you can write tests, use lsp server or look at assembly.. has situation improved?
It's weird how many tools treat Puerto Rico as if it's not part of the U.S.
Indeed, as a French I find many Americans are lacking basic English skills.

/s
>otherwise the largest island would be the Americas, or perhaps mainland Asia + Africa + Europe.

Just curious, why perhaps? the second is much bigger
I have a stackoverflow account for many years but I don't manage to log into this community. When I press "Join this community" it says "completing login to Area 51" and the UI looks as if I was logged in, but then when I go to e.g. https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32892/what-i... it says "You must have an account there to participate." and I can restart with "Join this community".

I also did the "commit" dialogs, even twice, but nothing changes.

Any hints?
The burden of the proof that AI techniques of today can approach consciousness is on who believes they do, not the other way around.
The grocery store buys the milk it sells. The UK government on the other hand has no input in what makes the UK appealing: nature, climate, humour, low fraction of religious bigotry etc etc.
It came from the energy that the Sun pumps into the system.
It's quite an interesting defaultism though, it gives us some insight into what people think.

There's this strange asymmetry: ask a non-American to name a US Supreme Court justice, a famous American businessman, an entertainer, a politician, and maybe some other categories that I haven't listed. We all know one, even though it might actually be hard to name the same for neighboring countries like Ireland or France.

Ask someone if they know the subdivisions of the USA, and if they know the subdivisions of their own neighbors. Do I know the mayor of anywhere in Ireland or France? I know the mayor of San Francisco.

The culture of what country is in the cinema, or the radio? Everywhere you go, it's the US, plus a little bit of the local. Check the top-10 lists of any country in Europe to see what I mean.

It's so strangely dominating.
I’m not disputing that the killing was targeted; like I said, the first part of the article (which had already expressed the targeted nature pretty clearly) was solid. It was the subsequent axe grinding that I took issue with.
Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20

Switzerland 2.30
Sweden 1.73
Ireland 1.63
Denmark 1.55
Norway 1.48
Netherlands 1.43
Canada 1.26
Finland 1.25
United Kingdom 1.25
United States 1.24
Singapore 1.23
Australia 1.13
Austria 1.01
Slovenia 0.95
Lithuania 0.79
Croatia 0.73
Germany 0.70
Portugal 0.68
Israel 0.53
Hong Kong 0.53

Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet calculation.

I didn't include countries that had less than 0.2% of the visitors because of the error margin caused by the low number of significant digits. Iceland at 0.1% and a population of 370k, for example...
I think the one thing that strains the eyes a bit about the layout (besides people just using it as a metaphor for saying they don't like it) is that a lot of their themes use text shadow on all of the text, which makes it look slightly blurry, which in turn makes your eyes strain trying to focus on it.
This is hilariously wrong.

Small companies have less code and complexity but don't have internal resources specialised in law, security and web development available to fix things.

They usually also don't have the money to bring outsiders to do it for them.
Advances in apparent conceptual physics reasoning in GPT-4
If he was starting his career now, he'd make a podcast and convince millions he's the modern day Sherlock Holmes.
Hacker News should hire them for a refresh.
> charity will actively suppress revolution

who knows. it seems there's pretty low correlation with charity spending and revolutions. probably CIA funding of opposition groups is more "impactful".
That's what the customer pays, not what you see on your paycheck. 100€/h would equate to 16.000€ gross a month/192k a year, and no one pays that in webdev.
I think society should seriously consider catering to that because amateur porn is to professional porn what lovemaking is to prostitution. It is different in kind, motivated differently. More genuine, perhaps you could even say healthier.
Reminds me of the poem by Ogden Nash:

A funny animal is the flea

You cannot tell the he from she

But he can tell and so can she
I run Afterplay (https://afterplay.io). It's a game emulation platform where you bring your own games. It took 18 months from first line of code to 2K. It's now my full time job :)
Show me where these jobs are. With many years of experience working in EU I can’t imagine this
You should filter out IP of VPN and hosting providers(VPS) https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn/ and
then account for day/night cycle around the world.
Pretty sure canvas is blocked by setting resistFingerprinting to true.
The holocaust is a symptom of fascism that is enabled by nazis, as a second order effect of nazis. It’s very unwise to think that a given group is not threatening because they are authoritarian enjoyers but maybe not eager for genocide. The OG nazis were not either. But they gave way for an asshole who was and then let him do what he wanted.

The recluses posting horrible shit seem like top candidates to join such a movement in OG Nazi Germany imo.
>If I understood that article correctly, the flight was mistakenly booked to begin at BHM instead of BHX (not to end at BHM instead of BHX)

Yes, but it should've been obvious when the flight to Las Vegas was 4 hours instead of 12
That's a relevant question. We're in Toronto, Canada, so the revenue is also in CAD and is net of expenses and AirBnB fees.

Even in USD, $2k/month has vastly different buying power depending on location. It doesn't go far in SF or NYC but would get you a lot more in rural locations or smaller cities.

$2k/month CAD in Toronto is decent but still a long way from "ramen profitable".
and 1 billion rupees = 12 million dollars
I disagree. A website that induces eyestrain and headaches in some people is not fully accessible, unless the user has an easy way to switch to a simpler design. Browsers have reader modes, but the website in question is not compatible with them.
Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not have more IT crowd than UK or Germany? Or most of them don't visit HN? Interested in understanding these trends better.
Fortune Cookie Writers May Be Losing Their Jobs to A.I
> But in practice, website owners are worried about breaking laws

That is weird argument. If one genuinely cannot bother to read the law or does not feel capable of fully comprehending the law why don't they simply consult a lawyer? Hiring professional accountants is somehow standard practice.