skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The long-term risk usually isn't disintegrating into smaller nations, it's being conquered by a larger nation. And that's exactly why it matters if your country is dead - you could have the greatest constitution in the world, but if everybody lives under the totalitarian dictatorship next door, it's not doing you much good. Realistic governance needs to be a balance between quality of life for citizens and the continued survival of the state and independence from conquering powers. Arguably many Native American tribes were a lot happier before the white man came, but that doesn't do you much good when you get genocided.

Relatedly, I'm not sure if the GP's Scalia speech actually gets the causality right. I think we could make a good case that the United State's dominance and longevity comes from two oceans, fertile cropland, and advanced technology, and form of governance is a mostly-irrelevant sideshow. You could plop a different government down in North America, and as long as it had adequate incentives for individual innovation, it'd still end up a superpower.
Desirable to who ? Windows 11 users are the product not the _customer_

You, a windows 11 licensee, are a captive market for microsoft to sell your eyeballs to advertisers.

"I am going to sell clicks to advertisers and the cost of customer acquisition is negative $10 per customer -- they pay us to get advertised to!"
why didn't the law prescribe an API for the cookie updates to begin with? it could have been a first class feature of the browser, and then maybe it would actually be used as intended.
> At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective.

Didn't know that! So how pervasive is this principal? Would it apply to a descriptive reference to a diagram in a book for example?
> if you refused to open a safe for the cops, their fallback would be to drill it, not incarcerate you for failure to disclose the combination.

Or, more likely, they would do both.

They would drill it, and prosecute you for failing to comply with a valid court order (obstruction of justice, interfering with an investigation, contempt of court, or whatever...).
It would if anyone with self-respect works there. I've done similar things at Apple, and I would damn well do it at Microsoft.

At some point in your career you decide you don't have to suck up anymore. Could be day one; could be year 10. But it should happen.
Compex's march upwards in price has been absurd. The 3x3 wifi-5 cards were like $75 originally. I don't know how much Qualcomm is to blame here but all one can get a 4x4 cards now and they're almost all well over $200. With absurd constraints that make them hard to use in a normal system (weird shape, weird power needs).

It's also just so so striking to me that it's been most of a decade with Compex as the only company making add-on cards. There are some clones (Wallystech), but there's just like no market here. Qualcomm clearly Does Not Give A Fuck about selling chips to anyone else. No one else cares about add-on cards. The whole access-point market perpetuates on the vastest wave of apathy & disregard.
I think if we had an economic model to support this, we would definitely be in a way better system then we are right now. So many artists and musicians don't have the resources right in our current system, and have to seek day jobs or stop making art already.
Right. The bank can generally resell a repossessed building to recover the loan principal, but repossessed software may be worth literally anything, including zero in many cases. That makes loans for building software extremely risky, which is why software companies are rarely ever funded by bank loans.
Seems to hijack Cmd+D on Safari Mac so you have to use the menu bar to bookmark it.
I just use the Node APIs with TypeScript.
> Related to this, the government now requires accounting Software Developer salaries to be amortized over 5 years, instead of all being booked in the year you pay them.

This is being discussed in another thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313
I feel like I'd have read about it on twitter or mastodon or whatever else people are using these days.
The Jelly one is super cool. I was hoping it would slowly assimilate back into its original form if you let it sit for a bit.
It's terrifying how many people in business clearly have a complete lack of understanding of what consent means.

I've heard comments like "behind every no is a yes" made with a straight face, as if it wasn't insanely horrible and gross.
Version 2.0 has mechanical Turk. Version 3.0 introduces airline success manager associates that will chat with the pilots live and write it down in a notebook.
Re-volt and its contemporary, Toy Commander, really kindled in me a love of literally 'small scale' games. As a kid I thought it was pretty cool to do a race around a super sized garage, darting under the car and up and over the lawnmower, or having a dogfight around a mountain sized christmas tree in the lounge.
Is the IRS willing to let companies make payments of the tax over years? Would would the IRS want to put companies out of business?
Linking to a PDF? Please put that in the title.
There was a similar case where some NY-based startup had thousands of small antennas and DVRs, so you could stream NY TV, and in theory the entire pipeline was being just rented to you.

Went to the Supreme Court, and they got owned. Company was shut down.

IIRC the trouble came down to the notion of retransmission (thus copyright violations). The argument that it was being sent to just one customer was not really accepted by the justices I think.
"And yet" implies an unexpected consequence.
Who cares how old something is, if it works well, why not use it? You can easily avoid callback-hell by making the callback you pass in to expressjs async and use await inside of it, without much drawbacks. Just because the first closure into express is a callback doesn't mean you need to use callbacks everywhere, just use await/generators/whatever you want in your application code.

expressjs at this point is battle-tested, minimal, easy to understand (both in usage and internals) and have a huge community still. It's very mature and does what it does well.
From Wikipedia:

“Vessels with bilateral symmetry have left and right halves which are mirror images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where access to a boat, ship, or aircraft is at the side, it is usually only on the port side (hence the name)”
Out of interest how do you know it's being relayed through an Akamai DC? I assume you're talking about private relay which I also use, but I thought cloudflare was the 2nd hop for that?
I don't have that in my title, but I have built a bunch of fun little apps using various levels of what you might call "prompt engineering" so I'll take a stab at explaining how I think of it: the task of a prompt engineer is to build an interface to a model that produces the desired output somewhat reliably. They might also work to improve the quality of the model's output by testing and improving the prompts, or they might try to optimize token count, or to tie models together via generating prompts with prompts...

The fun app I'm building right now is yourdrink.is, it takes the name of a drink (real or imagined) and generates a plausible recipe, complete with a photo. I'm using a prompt that asks for the model to complete a JSON object like this one:

{title: <user submitted>,
description: <str 150 chars>,
product_photo_prompt_for_dalle: <str 150 chars never includes the title>,
ingredients: [<str like '1.5 oz whiskey'>,...],
instructions: [<str like 'add whiskey and soda to a rocks glass'>,...]
mixologists_notes: <250 char, public-facing, promotional tone>}

I've built some other features in too: I noticed the model loves to put Blue Curacao in every cocktail... GPT-3.5 REALLY loves blue curacao! Rather than banning it entirely I look at how over-represented that ingredient is, then use a proper random function to choose a prompt that suppresses that ingredient proportionally to the over-representation--in other words, if we see an ingredient 10x more than we want to, use an rng to choose a prompt that suppresses it 9 out of 10 times.

Those are my arm-chair definitions of prompt engineering. Other sites I've built that involved this kind of 'prompt engineering':

poetic.am (poems from your pictures)

support.rip (type what you want to say, get out perfect Support Tone)

uplift.boo (uplifting friend that tells you you look great or otherwise showers you in positivity)
Wait, what? There's more than 1 way to make metal squares, and which you want to choose is gonna vary based upon your needs and the fabricator, even if you, for whatever reason, pre-determine you want them welded!
If you can't remain silent then what are you supposed to do to not accidentally incriminate yourself?
The remaining Blockbuster store enters the chat.
> Then it had to compete with "native tools".

Did anyone see it as “not native” in its native environment, Windows? Weird. It was a straight continuation of Turbo Pascal and Borland C++, both as native as anything could be since DOS and Windows 3. I think you're just plain wrong there. I don't know anyone who saw Delphi and C++ Builder as “not native”.
Who's come back? Recent articles[1] suggest the top ten advertisers have not and that revenue is down pretty far, so I suspect that's not quite right. I haven't seen any notable advertising consultancies start recommending folks resume their ad buys on Twitter. I would be extremely surprised if all ad buys, across all platforms, went down as much as Twitter's did. A handful are going to come back if you give them a really good deal, but that's not exactly recovering ad spend, just advertisers.

As for "the ESG crowd", who do you really mean?

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-12/elon-m...
They are probably trying to shake the tree. Voluntary departures save the firm on severance.
Koa is relatively outdated at this point. Fastify is generally what I and most people I know look towards when starting something "new". Express is still in a lot of things, though.
There are 'scrutineers', as well as the election officials: they are representatives of the various parties, monitoring the count.
Because they have other things they need to do, and mastering it may not provide benefits that repay the investment.

I say this as someone who has run Linux on the Desktop for over 20 years. I do not give a crap about knowing the ins and outs of everything on my system. I have zero interest in learning how bluetooth & Wifi & and all of the hundred other subsystems on my computers work. 99% of the time I want to install the OS, and get on with work.

Sometimes that work means getting down and dirty with a subsystem when I want it to do things that isn't on the normal happy path, but the rest of the time, I want Wifi to autoconnect with a saved password and my bluetooth headphones to autoconnect like a normal person and not futz around learning the intricacies of every daemon and config file in the OS.

It's same reason I pay someone else to service my car. I have fully capable of learning to do it, but I don't care. I have better things to do with my time and money, and there's only so many hours in the day.

(Several edits because I misplaced lots of words pre-coffee)
Theres been 3 layoffs at Amazon so far, but not all three have been focused on AWS. The first targeted HR/recruiting, the second physical stores and .com, and this current third one is hitting AWS and ads.
Does the time shifting doctrine really apply to rentals?
If there's one thing AI has done for us, it's killed Zuck's metaverse
Damn, what are they thinking right now?
I feel API pricing is fine if the API money is more valuable for a platform than what's being built with it. If you have something valuable and you're not getting value from giving it away, sure.

The issue I have with Twitter's new API pricing is it's not either - it's paying a lot for a little, so feels more like an explicit move to stop companies building on Twitter. Like it's trying to kill the API altogther.
Isn't a lot of this silliness due to them feeling like they needed to "poach" talented developers, so that the competion wouldn't get them?

That, of course, is absurd on the surface. Hiring people for the sake of hiring ... so they can stand around the watercooler discussing the weather.

That led to double or triple the headcount! 85,000+ employees to work on Instagram, Facebook, and pet projects.

That number alone boggles my mind. I work with three other senior developers and we run an entire phone company with five-nines uptime. Yes, three.

And now suddenly everyone is shocked about layoffs!
You get that every call you make to an emergency services contact centre is recorded, right?
That’s a valid point. IMO the executive should have been more limited.
It wasn't just a failed pilot: It was a pilot which prevented advanced students from taking algebra. Lines up with Harrison Bergeron perfectly.

And on top of it they claimed it was a success as failure rates went down. The failure rate went down because nobody was being tested.

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/algebra-for-none-fails-in-...

> The district had bragged that algebra failure rates had dropped. Families for San Francisco, a parent group, analyzed the data: Failure rates dropped after the district dropped the end-of-course exam.
LOL. Steam can reach in and take games from you at any time. (Ask me how I know.) If you don't have a copy, then all you have is temporary, DRM-encumbered access until they decide to take it away.

Then you need trakt, torrent search engines, and plex. ;)
I'd like to ask how they made all the diagrams in this paper, they look great.
SICP Distilled: Wizard Book in Clojure
Oh man! DVD Shrink. I haven’t once enough about that in the past…15 years, at least.
You could have a single senator block the entire senate from delivering anything. The only back stop on this is whether a party would kick out a miss behaving senator or primary them.
I do spent a lot of time in Jira and my teams do work out of Jira backlogs, but we don't have time tracking.
Switch modder Bowser released from prison, likely owes Nintendo for rest of life
> I just use the Node APIs with TypeScript.

You write your own middleware stack, and router every time you start a new "typescript" server project?

Of course not. If you're not using a third party library you're using your own framework. The Node.js API is too barebone for any serious web application.
In my experience with man overboard drills clock faces are used as you describe. Port/starboard is only for low precision things.
Or they're so full of themselves that they think laws apply to the peons who aren't as smart as them.
You just need to add a manifest to your app indicating that you support high DPI. To test your app just change the DPI in the display settings.
Bee fish! What a delightful idea. We do seem to insist on the weird when we elect officials in democracy lands. On the bright side we do actually get to elect these odd balls rather than have them dropped into place from above.

Back in the day, in England at least, otters were classified as fish too for the purpose of allowable nosh on a Friday for your discerning Catholic. Nowadays we munch on depleted cod stocks and chips. Yum!

How on earth that became a thing in a country where it is impossible to get around 70 miles away from the sea beggars belief. There are also rather a lot of rivers hereabouts but we don't generally munch on freshwater fish here either - WTF?
Correct. But when they're gushing over $Age_Old_Concept as if it was some incredible new revelation from highest heaven - that's pretty much my standard reaction.
Are there artists who create in isolation? I.e. the ones who somehow can prove that their art is not based on what they've seen?
^^ This is the core issue.
I sure hope not. NodeJS is a FOSS project under the Linux foundation (via OpenJS) and is not driven by profit, while Deno is developed by a for-profit company (Deno Land Inc) which has bunch of closed sourced projects to fund the company.

Hopefully, NodeJS learned from the whole Npm Inc history and tries to remain more independent from for-profit companies.

The whole io.js thing was a very different thing than Deno. Contributors tired of slow pace of NodeJS forked NodeJS into another FOSS version, with no for-profit motives, which meant it could eventually be merged back once the people behind the two projects reconciled.
LitGrades: AI Generated Flashcards
Where is the line?
This sounds like it was written in 1860. States have not been tantamount to independent countries in a time where anyone currently alive could remember.
How would explain you were able to unlock and use the device within in the past minutes or hours? (Which could be easy to prove)
Sorry to see they settled. I wanted FoxNews and Dominion’s dirty laundry aired in court. There’s a lot there.
I don't even live on the same continent as my best friends.
Feels like these large models are the pinnacle of ML. These will be built for various sensors/inputs and verticals. Then what? Can we go another level up with the tech we have?
Reading a lot of really good, insightful comments in this thread I have come to this conclusion: It's just another arms race. Like spam, CAPTCHAs, user engagement, and ads. There is no permanent solution and there cannot be because there are innovative humans (and now their ML tools) on both sides of it. All "good" solutions will be temporary, and laws are only as good as their enforcement.
This is the same Europe that's trying to implement blanket surveillance of all chat communication. Just, you know, by the way. To illustrate how much they actually care about your privacy.

Any popup or obstruction is cancer, cookie consent or otherwise.

We need the same approach as for ad blocking. Just remove the crap from the DOM tree. Block the tracker cookies, based on curated blacklists or heuristics, or both.

We need to take back control of our devices, not leave it to every single website to hopefully obey some law.
This life one is incredible
I disagree on the amount, it is extremely unlikely based on previous case law they would have been fined any more so then they did. Proving damages, especially between 10 and 20 years of all revenue is extremely unlikely to be awarded in court.

What Fox did not want is all the details in a public trail as it would be devastating and open them up to an even further number of lawsuits. Already today investors have started a lawsuit against the company.
I have yet to see any coin be used in a manner that doesn’t devolve to a security. While there were many projects to do other things with crypto - they all still sell tokens on exchanges. I’d find the claim that crypto isn’t meant as a security more convincing if the crypto traded at 0 dollars.
Maybe not in their current state but they have the resources to hire the people that can.
Marketing lies, now in 3-D!

I'd call that 2.5 orders-of-magnitude sharper given how 4 is close to the middle of the log10 range between 1 and 10.
Types of Gears
I’m a fan of hyper-express, built on top of uWebSockets with an api similar to express - https://github.com/kartikk221/hyper-express
i mean i kinda like that HN de-emphasizes usernames, conversation should stand on its own if its to be judged by own merit. but i do have 14k karma haha
Lots of people don't own a disk player anymore.
Large corporations are utterly dysfunctional too. The difference is that when a large corporation grows too dysfunctional, it's replaced by a small corporation. When a large government grows too dysfunctional, it's replaced by a small government too, but the process is significantly bloodier.

Robust systems are made up of interacting parts that tolerate partial failures. The reason the U.S. economy as a whole remains strong is because its least efficient businesses are continually failing, and their resources get reabsorbed by more competitive parts. When this ceases to happen (eg. the "too big to fail" banks in 2008, "what's good for GM is good for the country" in 1953), the economy as a whole becomes much weaker. There is no similar ablation process for the U.S. government - lately, there hasn't been an easy way to let parts of it fail while still preserving the government as a whole. This will likely lead to the collapse of the whole government, which is unfortunate. It can't avoid the dynamic common to all systems: the way to avoid total failure is to tolerate and adapt to partial failure.
Proton update gets 18 more Windows games running on Linux, incldng Chex Quest HD
It's time.

But I have fond memories of this service, of which I was an early adopter. My sons and I were among the first to sign up for the disc we could insert into our Nintendo Wii and watch the early Netflix streaming service, too.

Netflix has been a clear positive in my family's lives.
The level of dread felt is like taking just a wee bit too much acid and feeling the universe collapsing in and exploding back out on itself. Not that I've ever experienced that.
If you have a ThinkPad, RHEL is supported on nearly every machine Ubuntu is.

https://www.lenovo.com/linux

Fedora works flawlessly in my experience.
If it were a Latin noun ending in -a the plural would probably be Draculae.
Cookies aren't the only thing involved here. The banners are asking if they can track you and that includes lots of things, your IP is the most obvious.
> Ironically, this was largely done by self-declared leftists

And they now want a similar thing in the US:

https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/9/18300749/s...
300 Years of 'Too Big to Jail'
Meta expected to announce latest round of layoffs Wednesday
I figured it was something like that as well. Looks visually impressive if you don't know the trick. I had thought about assigning edges and guaranteeing they met in the backstage area, then almost as quickly realized it'd be way easier to take the solid, break it into pieces that fly off, then do that, time-reversed, in the backstage.
Archived: https://archive.ph/sjKe0
This is one of the reasons why other countries outside the US aren't as free as the US, even though the US is a complete mess too in different ways. Freedom of both speech and silence are not really respected in law anywhere outside the US to the extent that they are in the US.
Less so, actually! I've read a lot of stuff from that era about techno apocalyptic fears, and this has the exact same sort of content. I'd put this is the same category as early Land and his technoculture meltdown predictions.
They took the existing components and supercharged them. This thing is exponentially more expensive per cubic inch.
That email (from Dec 2017) ends with “Such ecosystems come with incredible costs. For instance, rust cannot even compile itself on i386 at present time because it exhausts the address space.”. I presume Theo is actually complaining about using more than 3 GB (?) of memory, but still it really shows the different cost-versus-benefit decisions that we all make.
You could enter a password using the Yubikey instead, provided there's a way to input a password. That might make brute-forcing a little challenging especially if you added tamper evidence and heat-sensitive fuses that blow if someone tries to open the case and modify the device. At that point you might be stuck brute forcing with a pen plotter.