skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The more hegemonic the system, the more the imagination is struck by the smallest of its reversals. The challenge, even infini­tesimal, is the image of a chain failure.

Seriously though, the purpose of those regulations is to prevent upstarts from making simple, cheap, reliable vehicles and to protect the incumbents. Gotta have a big bank account and a lot of lawyers to redesign and crash test a handful of vehicles every few years.

Modern hybrids still don't match (or barely match) the gas mileage of old, small, lightweight cars despite being substantially more complex, less recyclable, less repairable, and using substantially more (and more exotic) materials in production.

Ouroboros regulations only exist to justify their own continued existence. Cars get bigger? More regulations on smaller (less safe) cars, making cars bigger. Rinse and repeat.
That is a problem how?
There are none. There are no Twitter features that I miss on Mastodon.

What I miss are the variety of users on the former that aren't on the latter. That's the only real difference between the social media services I use a lot and those I rarely use. The people and ther work makes it valuable or not valuable.
OpenWRT 22.03.4
This is probably too far in the other direction, in that it seems not to have a web crawler, and only indexes submitted and curated links that meet some useability criteria, but, http://wiby.org/
Will you be interested in this employee-based social network?
Exploring ideas for a pivot and we're wondering if a private and internal social network for employees is something you'll be interested in.

Check out the link for more info, but basically the concept is a feed of story-like content uploaded by you and your team members.
That's a rather biased way of phrasing it. Did humans evolve mouths and ears specifically to destroy evidence? Those settings were chosen because the platform was designed to emulate hallway chats, and the "records" are an implementation detail.

If this goes through, all that will happen is that Google will re-engineer the backend to evade whatever standard set by the ruling. Who wins from this outcome? Perhaps the engineers getting paid and promoted to work on said project. Certainly not the courts or the "people".
Is there any value to keeping it non-free? Do they still sell it to commercial customers?
I believe this is the code for their work, which I believe the authors didn't put in the paper: https://github.com/philzook58/egglog
I have the same question. Happy to prepare a PR if that is welcome.

The one I would be recommending (to the niche museums site, and also to everyone who is around) is the Yokohama Coast Guard museum.

It has a really unassuming name, I only went in because I got caught out in the rain without an umbrella in Minatomirai. Dare I say it is the best museum I have ever visited. It is organised around a single curious event: In 2001 a Japanese Coast Guard vessel encountered a suspiciously behaving fishing travel. They wanted to board them when the fishing vessel took off at high speed and started shooting at them. During the pursuit they even seen the crew wield shoulder mounter missile launchers.

Turns out it was a North Korean spy ship on a mission to raise funds by smuggling drugs to Japan. The incident ended by the Korean crew scuttling their vessel. The coast guard has raised the sunk ship and built this museum around it.

Website of the museum: https://jcgmuseum.jp/en/

More info on the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amami-%C5%8Cshima
Start a side project, this will teach you more things than just marketing.

A quick list of learnings:

1. How to do deploy solutions quickly and efficiently. As a software developer, you will start by trying to make everything looks/works perfectly. Only time will teach you that this is not really required. Perfection is the enemy of a startup.

2. If you're going to build a product as a side project, you will learn than progress will not be as fast as you anticipate.

3. SEO, traffic, and building a network around you as some comments pointed out.

But if you'd like a book to start with before launching, I would recommend Value Proposition Design [0]. It will help you to understand who would benefit from your product and why they should care. This will be an ongoing process, but it will help to filter your ideas to make something appealing to your audience.

[0] https://www.strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design
The cheapest.
Not so fast. New evidence suggests Africa’s birth rates are falling fast.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/04/05/...
I tend to disagree here. The isolation reduced travel between, which could in turn cause those burbs, to build their own stores and libraries.
My closest gym is 8km away. My closest corner store is about 5km. I have a McDonalds at the 1km mark, but that's about it.

I def don't want my kids riding their bikes along the strode to the "corner" store.

Now. for playing. We have a 60km road, and a river. I can tell my kids to stay inside those and know that most cars traveling in there are local, so driving a bit slower.

I wish we had a community center/library around here. I'd love to meet my neighbours.
Absolutely number one course is CS 50 from Harvard:

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...

If you talk about beginner course - you need to cover the basics, knowing what are memory pointers, will make you a better programmer even if you use languages, which you don't need to explicitly use memory allocation. The course covers basic of everything and gives you a base to set of in any direction.

There are quite a few exercises in CS50 that use Python, but at that level is more of tool to practice writing decent code logic.

I would say that the course is extremely beginner friendly, but gets to a good depth as it progresses.

I agree that Python might not be useful as JavaScript to ship things quickly to public via website. In that case I used an online version of the book to get general basics of JavaScript in the pure Vanilla form:

https://eloquentjavascript.net/

Eloquent JavaScript also start slowly with some basics specific to JavaScript, but quickly moves on to all the essential caveats core features of JavaScript. There are also good interactive exercises for each chapter

Afterwards you are ready to jump into the world of React/Vue tutorial on YT ;)
I wish I had studied more math during highschool. University killed any free time I had and was so fast-paced that proofs were omitted, entire chapters skipped and I'm not even talking about building intuitive understanding of the subject.

In contrast, high school was three years of repeating the same equation solving with some calculus sprinkled on.
Ok. So this area has to be accessed by some special commands and is not exposed as part of a block device.

The "SD Memory Card Formatter for Linux" mentions this non sequitur seemingly to confuse users and cause FUD.
Vivaldi 6.0 Organize tabs with Workspaces and personalize it with Custom Icons
Well clearly the pointer to c is on address 10111699.
Eh, I wouldn't agree with this. As much as it comes up a lot on Hacker News, it's not always as easy as 'build it and they'll come'.

Many mediocre products and services have won out over good ones due to decent marketing, and you can likely name many of them in the enterprise world especially. You'll probably need a base level of competence for people to keep using your product/service at all, but most people's attitudes are "if it does what I need it to, it's good enough"
RC: A New Shell for Unix
A lot of people conflate marketing with promotion (i.e. advertising). It's not.

Marketing is about identifying the needs of a market and finding a way to serve them better than competitors. If you don't understand your market, how can you create a successful product for them? You can't, unless you're just lucky. And in that case, if you fail to understand the sources of your luck a more attuned competitor may steal market share from you anyway.

If you develop the product without understanding marketing you risk wasting time on something people don't want or that is strategically difficult to grow. For example, a hyperlocal events app faces different challenges to a two-sided marketplace like ebay, to a service company, etc. Even backed up by solid marketing it's difficult enough to create products people want. You can't just sprinkle on some magic marketing fairy dust after the product is built and expect to turn it into a hit.

You also need to understand your competition so you can find out how they're failing to meet the needs of niches. Or if they aren't and they're nailing it, come up with a different idea and move on.

If you're an idea guy, the most important thing to learn is to test ideas. That fundamentally involves marketing, perhaps combined with a prototype/MVP for ideas that pass initial filters. Don't fall into the trap of staying in your comfort zone as a developer unless you can find a marketer to work with who'll be the business brains behind your projects.
Some German cars display current usage as kWh/h, which is just a stupid way of saying kW. If you're using 3kW for one hour, that means you're using 3kWh ... per hour. It just doesn't make any sense to write it like that. They correctly display the average usage over a given distance as kWh/100km.

There's a lot of fuzz in the EV space since everyone is advertising WLTP (previously NADC) numbers as an indicator for range. It uses a standardized test, so this means the numbers should be comparable. But they're not. Some BEVs are much more efficient in cold weather than others, due to things like heat pumps or just better engineering, like aerodynamics. This isn't well reflected in WLTP, and people get disappointed.

You can easily argue for both kWh or Wh. I've always been a proponent of using the smallest units possible, since then everything is just addition, regardless of what you want. With everything being in units of 10, it's fairly easy to do, either way. You could argue that the logical conclusion would be to use Ws/m, which is just ... Joules/m, another SI unit. But then we're using units that most people have no fundamental understanding of.
So who wins exactly if this precedent is set and companies all move back to less efficient but "safer" channels of communication? That would represent a huge loss of productivity and efficiency for society.

Because there will always be such channels used in private business. Or is the government going to enforce mandatory private monitoring?
Learn how to sell. I can't tell you how. I don't consider myself good at it. But if there was something I wish I was good at 15 years into my career, it's selling. Everything is selling. Especially if you're into building a startup in the future - convincing someone to buy into your business, or convincing customers why a feature is worth the price they have to pay.
I agree that the problem isn't progress, and that there are problems being denied. I don't think the root of the problem is most people's human nature though.

Culture has been cynically and scientifically hacked by megamedia conglomerates, blasting brains with full volume fear porn 24h a day for decades over every outlet. This is great for media, great for politicians, great for advertisers like insurance companies to tell us how kind they are, and for energy companies to explain why they're great for the environment.

It's phenomenally bad for us, as a species and as a biosphere. Don't confuse natural human reactions to relentless state-of-the-art propaganda with actual baseline human nature.

Energy companies, politicians, and the media didn't just lie to us about the reality of climate change - they actively made things worse, sowing doubt just like the tobacco companies did.

It's not that our nature needs a patch! We need to stop letting greedy and self interested psychopaths use media, education, politics, regulation, finance, etc. to get around our very natural human reactions to these issues.
Hotbed are grand, but the article is a bit scimpy on important details

You will need a layer of something over the raw manure to make sure it doesn't scold/burn/kill your seedlings. Its not just the heat that will kill, but the raw piss. You will have difficulty putting seedlings in raw manure.

https://plantura.garden/uk/garden-design/hotbed this has better pictures.

You will still need to think about thermal management.

The victorians used to have hotbed out the front of green houses. They were made of brick, angled at about 120 degrees. They had a bed for the manure, that ran around the outside and took up ~50% of the space, and a bed inside that was just soil. This allowed them to change the manure to keep the temperature even.
The basicis:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-to-brainstorm-great-bu...

High level:

https://www.oreilly.com/content/how-to-create-products-peopl...

How to get started:

https://stackingthebricks.com/guides/your-first-10k/

A helping hand:

https://stackingthebricks.com/launchftw/
The author of the article is also the person who wrote the HN headline.
Developing an aging clock using deep learning on retinal images – Google AI Blog
Yeah, maybe my question was a bit too general. I am not sure I would consider decision trees and the like as 'AI' in any sense. They are just another form of algorithms to me.
So you are right: ChatGPT and similar tools are the type of technology I'm asking about.
From the few answers I got it seems that there are no general search engines left that have not jumped on the LLM and GPT bandwagon. At least nobody has suggested any sites, only questioned me about my motives for asking this.
I never used Facebook and Instagram, yet am used to the names. "Face book", a book of faces? "Insta gram", hmm instant telegrams, old-fashioned? They are equally weird imho.
It sounds like you missed the point of what parent was trying to say. As one of those people who was in the exact situation the parent mentioned, your concise and incrementally more correct explanation wouldn't have helped me when I had the same question.
In what way is go not in the compiled camp.
No, "wrong opinion" in the sense of challenging overreach carried out in the name only of your examples - normally by unpleasant people in mobs who have appointed themselves arbiters of the limits of public discourse.

But of course, this is very well known and its unfortunate it keeps needing to be restated.
And don't forget, the situation is extremely messy from a legal perspective. Taiwan is an island, run by the Republic of China, the losers of the Chinese Civil War, and both them and the PRC (mainland China) say there's only one China, and it's them. That's what the world recognises too, only one of them is the real China, and there's nothing else.

For all intents and purposes Taiwan is a separate independent country nowadays thay doesn't actively claim to be China, but it's too late to change the situation (like by amending their constitution or status to say they're a separate country, Taiwan, and don't have anything to do with China anymore) because anything done today just might piss off China(PRC). Technically if China invades Taiwan, they'd be within their internationally recognised legal rights to retake a runaway province from the losers of a civil war. From a humanitarian perspective it would be a disaster of course, but on what grounds does anyone defend Taiwan when barely any country recognises Taiwan exists in the first place?
would you consider page rank AI?
We’re not talking mass evacuation were talking outage.

But anyways, how many people died from the wildfires started by power lines?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/22/pge-power-l...
Rebasing on Linux would be replacing the great part (the kernel), while keeping the broken part (shell, ads, millions of GUIs, …)
Could you use Kubernetes to solve this? Have a single pod running the Redis instance and then multiple running Node.js talking to the Redis instance via something like DAPR (https://dapr.io/)
Wow! I have been surprised two times, once when listening to the podcast:
Someone who seems to grasp some global understanding not given to most and articulate them (the central role that progress plays in our society, the progress having peaked, the need to study and understand the notion of progress) being so short-sighted and individualistic that he fails to even take into account the nature of progress itself. He wants and believes in a brighter future (I do to) but what he is advocating for leads us to catastrophy, I am all for progress, but I think we really need progress on moral standing, a progress in mindset etc... Basically a progress of ideas and spirituality, and NOT more technical/technological progress!

My second surprise was to see this heavily tech-oriented community not bite into this bait and remain very critical without falling into cynicism, this makes me hopeful that something can be done about this. A lot has been said to highlight the shortsightedness of the guest speaker's argument and even more could be said, but I want to ask something else, what are we doing about this? What can we do as techies/engineers to address this madness?
I think of it more like "Corporation X making whole species extinct because it has better uses for rainforests" not like "Skynet hates people". But the end result is the same.

Humanity doesn't hate polar bears. We just love burning oil more than we love them. Polar bears die as an unintended side effect. We might even be sad about that. We might even keep a few alive in ZOOs. But we won't change our whole economy to save a few cute bears.

Of course these kinds of threats will start to appear only when it's smart enough. The main problem with AGI is that we probably won't know until it's too late, because of how fast this technology develops once it can improve itself.

Can I ask you another question - what do you think will happen?

1. it won't get smarter than us
2. it will care about us
3. we will somehow keep it in check despite the fact it's smarter than us

Cause it seems to me that most people still intuitively think (1) because it's "too sci-fi". And even if they became persuaded that (1) is no longer certain - they didn't updated the rest of their beliefs with that new information, they are still believing AI is safe like they did when (1) was assumed true because they haven't updated the cache, or maybe they don't even realize there's dependency somewhere in their train of thought that needs to be updated.

This is how living in a world undergoing singularity will be like, BTW - you can't think one thought to the end without realizing the assumptions might have changed since the last time you thought about it. So you go down and realize the assumptions there are also changing. And so on.
Are there actually any small businesses left in Portland?
https://www.startpage.com/ doesn't use AI currently. And it proxies Google search results.
China 'began developing two Covid vaccines' months before official outbreak
> Lithuania doesn't have free college

My bad. I assumed free college is standard in that region.
I was about to reply something similar. The Netherlands is also experiencing a loneliness epidemic, so just density and bikeability are not sufficient answers.

For anyone that's curious about numbers on this, every western country has a long-running social survey that asks how many close friends the respondent has. This data is usually freely available.
No, American suburbs are good enough compared to American cities that are just filthy. Cities outside of US are just fine for raising children.
You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_(search_engine)
I'd gladly pay 100 bucks for Win 11 as it came out. But since then it's just getting worse, it's buggy (frequent BSODs/freezes/not-waking-up-from-sleeps on my AMD desktop), Windows Update is still shit (it reboots automatically without even once asking, yes I know there's a setting; sometimes the update takes ages on one of my laptops), it's an uphill battle, very reminiscent of ~2010 Linux desktop era. Oh that reminds me, "i know unix", why am I using this? And then I installed Ubuntu on the desktop box, and it works. And Steam and wine works, and it goes to sleep and wakes up, and amdgpu driver works, and HiDPI works, and so on.
I agree with all your overall points. Minor nit though. Advertising is just one form of promotions that can include trial periods, sales, even meetups, blogs, newsletters, and things like that.
Surely there's a registry key.

Or a utility with a funny icon, named in camel case, that fixes it.

Or a utility written by a demoscene group that somehow manages the behavior through a DOS TSR.
Yeah I think what's happened to OpenAI is the same happening to all tech companies. They were spending a lot of money building these LLM's and now they've been told to cut back costs they no longer have the funding to build the next "double the size of the last one" model.

Interestingly what's makes ChatGPT work is the size of the model so I think they've found their dead stop.

Lot's of the bullish comments have been talking about how ChatGPT is a bit shit right now but will exponentially get better and I think the answer is now the progress will be much slower and more linear. That is if they can stay funded which is a very big if. As an org they are bleeding money.
At its simplest - they attack the middleman. Most crooks aren't tech nerds, they're not a lot smarter with technical devices than your average user.

So all the cops need to do is go after the central server and then quietly hijack it. After that the choices are pretty much endless. If they used non-standard encryption, ggez, they're probably not smarter than the police. If they did, chances are that the server has an OTA mechanism to update the message application on the phone, so just push out a malicious update that quietly just resends every message to a police controlled server and uploads all messages still stored on the device. Less useful (not as much access to historical messages) but still very useful for tracking criminal activity if you run the tracking net for long enough.
Antibiotics has worked well, since its invention and continues to work very well to this day.

Sure, resistance to antibiotics is an occasional problem. But it's also a problem that doesn't seem to grow much worse over time.

Problem is, when people are thinking in the abstract they are bad at figuring what is significant and how significant it is. Living in the age before antibiotics was a completely different world, with a lot more risk. Living today with a moderate and constant amount of antibiotics resistance is nothing like that at all. And if resistance becomes too severe a problem, new antibiotics will be invented quickly as the general principle has been figured out.

Problem is that people want to or are driven to obsess over all these, to a vast degree, imaginary dangers, instead of focusing on how far they've come and how far they could yet go and how wonderful that would be.
The way you described it, I cannot imagine any way to interpret that as "delete all such emails". Perhaps I lack imagination, or perhaps you grossly misunderstood him.
Off topic - what a pleasant UX - it loads instantly, it scrolls instantly, it doesn't reload/reflow several times while scrolling down, and there are no bloody adverts!
Please explain.

From what i understand it takes more than a decade to create a new neurosurgeon.

No amount of money can create one today.
Wow thanks that eloquentjavascript looks amazing.
I might just read it myself!
In here it was the Soviets, actually. And equating current-day China with the Nazis makes companies like Apple what? Collaborators?