skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still works just as well in England...

Things that are driver-side in the U.S. are also driver-side in England, because the layout is designed around the position of the driver.

"Starboard" comes from Old English "steor bord", which meant "steering side of the boat" back in the days when a steering oar was used to steer the boat. Most sailors were right-handed so this was almost always the right side. It was easier to dock with the other side of the boat facing the port, so the left side became "larboard" and then simply "port." English is the international nautical language owing to its centuries of dominance of the oceans, followed by the U.S. dominance of global politics, so the English terms became the standard nautical terms. (Note: technically the international nautical language is "Seaspeak," which is a special dialect of English created specifically for nautical use.)
I can already feel the outrage dying. Yesterday Elon was tech hitler for it, today Reddit is just doing 'what was inevitable anyway'.

One of the best parts about social media is watching swarms of people who know nothing pivot around things you know something about.
So how can you deal with Bluerays, let alone DVDs
Having grown up in a large transit-oriented city, I learned to drive as a grownup. I really struggled with the concept of reversing. "Turn the wheel left!" "You just turn the wheel the way you want the _back_ of the car to go." "No, the other left!"

At this point I was still limited to driving in empty 1000 space parking lots and was getting frustrated. One day I realized, I could ask my driving companion-turned-instructor "hey when you say left and right, can you just say passenger-side or driver-side?" After a few iterations at this, it all clicked. My new-driver brain could do absolute positioning consistently with minimal effort, instead of having to calculate relative positioning each time and getting frazzled.
Those ferries should be switching the direction the crew faces (perhaps in a different structure on the other end of the boat) and turning on the appropriate lights so port and starboard are lit correctly. They should have two sets of colored lights to handle travel in both directions.
For bidirectional ferries, I assume they just pick a direction all the way back at design time and stick to it.

The direction might not matter, but consistency does.
Because "boat left" and "boat right" just didn't catch on.
Potential versus Actual Infinity (Joel David Hamkins)
> It would have ended because the Industrial Revolution made slave labor un-economic, in the worst case.

…except slavery still exists all over the place in industrialized countries? There’s nothing incompatible between industrialization and slavery, as myriad historic and contemporary examples have shown.

https://www.walkfree.org/reports/global-estimates-of-modern-...
By your rule

g = arcsin
f = sin

g'(x) = 1 / cos(arcsin(x))

But that's not the usual form. Can you show that the denominator is sqrt(1 - x^2)? Doing that requires you make the same observation as in the parent post.
Ironic that their VR goggles run Android
I know that a lot of people would disagree with this, but having gotten an EE degree I can say that it was one of the most important things I ever did in my life. It was hard. But it was transformative. An engineering degree forces you to learn how to identify problems, use science, use math, solve problems, be creative, work together and most importantly cut corners to get to usable solutions as quickly as possible.

I took 5 years and did a co-op job experience with my degree. I was able to socialize a little, but I’m not going to lie—-the program demands a lot of study time. So there isn’t much time for partying on weeknights.

With an engineering degree, you can go and do so many different things for work. I can’t imagine the skills you learn ever getting stale. And it’s great for future entrepreneurs.
This would interest me as an employer of tech people. Interest in topics like ML/AI or quantum computing or crypto algorithms or reverse engineering all show that you're capable of figuring out complex technical issues without help from others.
The problem is that people (especially in stressful situations when they’re not thinking carefully) will say things like “that one on the left!” and the person they’re talking to (who is often facing them and thus reversed) won’t think to ask “my left or yours?”

But if you train people to use specifically-invented unambiguous terms that can’t be screwed up, their brains will reach for those words when they’re in trouble.
You still have the same problem... You cannot describe a technical field with plain English. If you did so the semantics would be incorrect. There is a reason jargon exists.

The first two paragraphs alone are absolutely chock with terms that would not be easily explained to a layperson:

"The current system is an online whiteboard system. Tech stack:
typescript, react, redux, konvajs and react-konva. And vitest, react
testing library for model, view model and related hooks, cypress component
tests for view.

All codes should be written in the tech stack mentioned above.
Requirements should be implemented as react components in the MVVM
architecture pattern."

What is every library in that list? What is a model? What is a view model? What is a hook, component test, view, MVVM, etc?

If a layperson could understand explanations for all these things then they would not be a layperson.
I believe that would be accounts receivable.
Hasn't unlocking to use USB been the default for a decade now?
Which means that someone who forgets their passcode because of the stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison could easily be wrongfully convicted. It's a horrible law, even for those who don't care about privacy.
You aren't wrong. In that mistakes can be made. But if I ask you about your left hand, is that ambiguous? By your definition here, that is an ambiguous question. But, that just feels wrong.

Edit: I'll note that it is amusing to compare to cars. It seems the etymology of the terms is literally "driver side".
Why the taxes are only growing and never go down? Is there going to be a day when they'll be like "We'll reduce taxes"?
sure, if you feel like applying to the companies claiming unfilled positions:

Chipotle, Mcd's, Target, Walmart

etc
Great description of the meaning behind the red and green lights on boats, thanks for sharing.
Paul Graham has some nice advice on this in his essay, What You'll Wish You'd Known. http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

"In the graduation-speech approach, you decide where you want to be in twenty years, and then ask: what should I do now to get there? I propose instead that you don't commit to anything in the future, but just look at the options available now, and choose those that will give you the most promising range of options afterward."
As an maintainer/implementor of an ASN.1 compiler and an x.509 stack, I have to say I rather like both, ASN.1 and x.509. Well, except for the x.500 naming bit of x.509, which like x.400 naming should never have happened.

Hatred of ASN.1 is misplaced and has been extremely counter-productive. Hatred of BER/DER/CER and all TLV encoding schemes ever is fair (so let's adopt OER!). Hatred of ASN.1 has led to things like Protocol Buffers, which... uses a TLV encoding because... probably the designers didn't really take the time to understand what came before.

But I suspect -and keep in mind that I wasn't there- that for DNSSEC hatred of ASN.1 was only part of it, with the other part being a desire for proper name constraints[0] and trust hierarchy[1].

It does make sense that if the names we wish to authenticate are hierarchical in nature[2] then the PKI for it should use the same hierarchy. The only reason that the WebPKI isn't structured the same as DNSSEC is that historically the support for x.509 naming constraints wasn't there, then the business model of the WebPKI made all those on the inside not want to fix that. Now that we have Let's Encrypt the latter problem is going away, but the underlying issues remain.

This is where you and I part and disagree. You greatly dislike DNSSEC, while I greatly like it. You especially dislike DANE, and I especially want DANE. But it's nice to know that we at least agree on ASN.1 and x.509.

[0] x.509 has this, but it's ill-supported in WebPKI land.

[1] x.509 also has, kind of[3] but which, again, WebPKI does not.

[2] DNS naming is strictly hierarchical, though one can be forgiven for thinking that the com. zone is just one big flat swamp as it really is, but it's not the whole of the DNS.

[3] Well, in x.509 the hierarchy of CAs is based on x.500 naming, which is just not appropriate for a web where URI authority names are DNS names (to say nothing of what a disaster x.500 naming is). There's alternative issuer names, which includes dNSName, but once more, the issue is how widespread the support for those is.
Support contracts. Custom features built to order. Other commercial products based on the open-source libraries for parsing and analysis. Running a hosted service.

All this while remaining a team of 2-3, hopefully, with all company-running stuff minimized and outsourced.
As great as that is I still don't think it will make me hate them any less which is why I love Firefox for trying to address it at the browser level.

As a designer I despise mandatory content blocking modals and each one will still have a new design you have to decipher. Maybe if they clarified some design rules (2 or 3 big buttons with clearly defined text in legible colours/fonts etc) then it would be tolerable.

Regardless making it always have Accept/Reject/Custom is a good step forward, even though fingerprinting and browsers like Firefox blocking 3rd party cookies by default pretty much eliminates their utility.
"It's complicated."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness#Causes
That already happened years ago, in my experience
Strauss–Howe generational theory holds that upheaval or major crisis (like a world war) occurs every 80-100 years

If that holds true the next fews years are going to be interesting
Have You Seen the Man Who Lives Inside a Clock at Paddington Station?
Meh. Fair point, but that isn't the only topic being discussed. And when the topic is whether ruff the tool is worthwhile, the discussion is more a pile of complaints.

I agree that the topic you're describing, and that is suggested by the URL posted, are worth talking about. It makes me nervous to invest time into a VC-backed linter. Though it seems useful enough to be forkable if things go sour.

"VC-backed linter" is a bizarre phrase, though honestly I think you could have described something like Purify in Ye Olden Days as a linter, and it was worth spending money on. (And the issues with being VC-backed go well beyond simply being whether or not something is worth spending money on.)
DVDs pre-date my youth. I used to do it with records. There was a record store where you could “buy” a used record for like $5 and they’d take it back within a week or so and refund $4. They also sold a lot of cassette tapes.

For music it makes sense to me, I’ll listen to records I like over and over. For movies, not so much. Once I watch a movie I have very little desire to watch it again.
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The accounts by Elon where he cut its valuation from 44 billion to 20 billion to start. Or do we think its valuation dropped more than half with record breaking profits that aren’t disclosed?

We can use the accounts from advertisers and firms that have shared they no longer work with Twitter too.
Because you need to differentiate between "my left when facing the boat" and "my left when on the boat facing forward" or really, left from any other perspective.

And any time there's a multi-word phrase like that that gets used a lot over many years, it gets shortened.
There are two halves because you told half the victims one prediction and the other half the opposite prediction. It does not come from the probability of the outcomes. The probability of the two outcomes doesn't matter at all for this thought experiment's goal: that you can appear to correctly make N yes-or-no predictions in a row to one victim if you have 2^N-1 other victims that you can tell incorrect predictions to. This process guarantees that one of the victims in the pool ends up getting the correct series of predictions.

I'm not sure how else to explain this but please ask again if you feel like this isn't making sense; any failure here is mine, not the thought experiment's. This is an extremely well-known thought experiment. This wasn't thought up by anyone here.
Where do you live? My California county library system has something like a 20 item limit on checkout and has large set of USA and foreign DVDs and video games in addition to the expected books.
Even if you have the cash, in a high inflation environment with higher costs of lending, paying tax on ~80% today and getting that tax back over 4 years, leads to indirect costs. Especially for startups.
Yes but why would you ever be talking about your left? Use the definite article, THE left, and it should be clear by convention for the sailors.

I think it's just historical.
Sure, but you're still conscious of everyone listening. That's the problem here. You're also not 100% logical when you have issues with anxiety.
Japan's Old Art of Soba Noodle Delivery on Bicycles
I'm sure my account will be banned soon, so let me just leave one pondering here:

Does many generations of slavery and the associated genetic selection for winning survival strategies impose shifting genetic attributes to the surviving population?

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re: below [due to rate limiting]

Appreciate the honest reply.

>The death rates for slaves was 1.8%

Ah but I suspect this was after arrival in the mainland. There was a "seasoning" process in the "west indies" where as much as 50% of slaves perished before arriving to market. And I don't think that includes the long voyage across the Pacific nor between capture and initial sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slavery)
Didn't this happen only after Facebook got burned by the Cambridge Analytica scraping a decade ago ?

(Also when the Twitter APIpocalypse happened, which the article forgot to mention.)
> Linter taking multiple seconds is not a problem which occurs in any other popular language.

It doesn't happen in Python either. So that's good.

> barely ever needing to touch the terminal

Not really a good sign, point-click developers are not usually the strongest. That said I like things to work easily and don't have many quarrels with Python. Certainly fewer than most other languages.

Sounds like you're not very familiar with it and got used to C#. I don't have a problem with anything you list.
Taxes should be written in a way that incentivizes hiring individuals right? Salaries shouldn't be double taxed IMO since it reduces a companies ability to hire individuals. Maybe just do a VAT tax and remove other taxes. Is this a dumb idea?

(Note: I have little idea what I'm talking about)
SIMT is interesting because each thread looks like scalar code but multiple threads are executed in lockstep using parallel pipelines. They only had to add a few instructions (section 2.3) to enable RISC-V to support SIMT.
The issue is: who decides who is fit for breeding? You?

Maybe you do a good job, but this sort of power will inevitably become corrupted by a failed art student sooner or later.
How much does your Big Mac cost?
Why should I have to? I made enough money in 1996 when I was making $10/hour as a computer operator so I could move out on my own without dealing with every move I make being judged and asked Sunday morning why am I not going to church.

But guess what your anecdote says? You grinned and put up with it for a day and you went home. Now imagine dealing with that everyday.

But guess how long I would “put up with” anyone - including my parents or any other relatives - questioning who I marry? Yes, I checked my parents for questioning “our choice of friends” - ie a same sex couple

I find it crazy how many people sacrifice their own happiness trying to make their extended family (ie anyone who is not their spouse or minor children) happy.

There is also a reason there is such a brain drain in the US from small towns to larger cities once you go to college and get exposed to the wider world.
In one of my previous company, there was a "keeping the light on" plan. It specified the minimum number of people needed to run the company. However, CEO was clear this was just managed decline and not a viable mode of operating the business.

It allowed the company to meet regulatory obligations. However, overtime, customers would leave because of the poor service.

Meta can likely run effectively with even less Engineers. However, the lack of exciting projects will prevent them from attracting top talent. Overtime their product offering will become less interesting than their competitors.

Napster, Tumblr and Yahoo are still around, however, they are a shadow of what they once were.
>PArt of Coinbase earn is defi yield(aka lending), part of it is crypto staking.

Wrong. Nothing currently implemented in Coinbase Earn could be reasonably considered "lending". The article you linked is 2 years old and about Coinbase's prospective "Lend" product — which, as I understand it, never launched, perhaps because of a Wells notice submitted in 2021. This statement is about the one they've received more recently "regarding an unspecified portion of our listed digital assets, our staking service Coinbase Earn, Coinbase Prime, and Coinbase Wallet":

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/we-asked-the-sec-for-reasonabl...
There are also a lot of rural/metro ISPs that offer this as a service (residential IPs) if you find the right person
Nope just click on the notification to start the setup then decline by opting for "do it latter" poof notification badge is gone. It might popup again after major update if there are "new features" but the same step will dismiss the badge/notif.
>Kudos to the author for a meaningful screenshot right at the start.

I was thinking about this recently that so many projects on Github missing screenshots. I was thinking to make PRs to at least show some basic functionality.
Really excited to see more work in this space!

Does anyone know how this compares to consul?

I know Consul talks a lot about the gossip protocols that make it all work.. how does Cilium manage to sync state across its datacenters? I'm having a hard time finding good docs on this... are those still in progress?
Lots of politicians campaign on tax cuts, they've definitely been reduced in US history
>And we have plenty of inside jokes and weird humor.

You've never had a person or two in the group that was sensitive?

>I've never thought about having to impress each individual member

It's not about 'impressing everyone.' It's more about being conscious that everyone may be listening to your comments and/or judging you. This gets worse the more anxious person you are, and/or if you were an introvert.

I don't think it's a great idea to tell those people to 'get over it' either as we used to in the 80s.
Maybe they will be, but that's not proven yet. We'll see! If anything, the article we're looking at suggests that the "tell them what you want" step is not obviously much less rigorous or effortful than coding. Tuning could make the difference, or it could be one of those things that produces better demos than results.
I’ve been testing it out and from what I can tell, the HN reply box doesn’t render correctly. It still functions though
oh, wow, this is really super!

did anybody tested it?
I don’t really expect it to (and the known situation is bad enough already that I don’t expect much would change even if it did).

But I do hope it’ll shed some light on the entanglement (pun not intended) between the NSA and whatever process drives NIST’s crypto publications. There obviously has to be some, given the former is the US government crypto expert and the other is the issuer of public documents on US government crypto. But as a data point for NIST’s credibility, it’d be nice to know how screwed up it is there. Maybe I won’t learn anything about that here either? Dunno.
Apple BKC in Mumbai opens for customers today
You act like it’s trivial to fix. They’ve already sandboxed the parsers (which this exploit appears to bypass, crashing MessagesBlastDoorService) which massively drives the effort up. They also had to bypass pointer authentication.

Whilst, yes, you can wonder why it isn’t all rewritten in swift (if it isn’t already), exploits will continue to be found and exploited, forever.
Honestly, I think it's completely unfair for AIs to train on this data.

I work in ML so I'm aware of the consequences but society wasn't.

My step-daughter is finally crushing it as an graphics artist and she is really pissed at tools like Midjourney.

I asked her about it and she said "yes, they steal the artwork of real artists and generate fake knockoffs" ... and I don't think her opinion is invalid.
> Children are simply too expensive ... School for six hours a day is $1100 a month.

What? Public school is free and taxpayer-funded in the US.
If you google for "VMS Liberation Front" you'll find your answer.
Oh granted. Maybe head transplants are on the table, but certainly a brain without a peripheral nervous system filling it with data would go into shock immediately. Even if not, there isn't a less pleasant experience I could imagine.
> please please please test it on something beyond Linux and Mac

Why? Simply because you use something that even 95% of the unix folk do not?

I can totally see how they wouldn’t be concerned with that. Just as I’m not concerned with making my JS lib work for those weirdos that still run IE 5.5.
This is, in theory, possible. However, the information remains in your local district, and is not passed up the chain with the results.

It's one of those things that sounds bad in theory but is rarely an actual problem in practice.
Show HN: AI Playground by Vercel Labs
Hey, Jared Palmer (creator of this playground) here. Really excited to ship this.
I’ve been building this over the past few weeks to compare LLMs from different providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. At Vercel, I manage our Frameworks division (including Next.js, Svelte, and Turbo) and wanted to also dogfood some of the latest features in a slightly larger application.
This playground takes a lot of inspiration from https://nat.dev and is built on Tailwind, ui.shadcn.com, and some upcoming Vercel products we’re announcing soon. We’re going to continue adding models to compare and add other frameworks to generate code snippets from.
This is a literal falsehood, unfortunately, on multiple levels. The definition of insolvency is the state of being unable to pay debts, which is not what the US as a whole is, of course (or if it is, it is solely because Republicans will decide to cause/force a default).

It is probably intended here to refer to these specific "programmes" and here the headline is also communicating a falsehood. Medicare, SS, and other programs have taxes associated with them, to be sure, but those taxes pay into general revenues, and those programs are funded as general expenses. There is partitioning of those funds, no actual "lockbox" to use Bill Clinton's unfortunate term.

There many programs that the US government funds "at a loss", so to speak, the military being only the most notable. (The entire government is funded at a yearly "loss" in pure accounting terms, where the accounting of the flows fails to capture the many other dimensions that make a US "loss" in fact profitable both for the US and for most of the western world.)

Deciding to fund any program is a political process decision and having a source of revenue tied to the program is incidental/irrelevant.
> Or it is OK for the individual but not individuals at scale?

Yes, that is precisely the case.