skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, how does the Webscraper work? Will it work on e.g. a React site?

Would be a nice use-case to plop a website into a chatbot easily, for example.
Piracy and privacy are so difficult to distinguish.

So few letters. Better to just get rid of both.
Actually no, just home-rolled with virt-manager. I can definitely see the advantages of Qubes, but at this point it feels like it would be a lot of learning and changes for what is mostly a similar system. And I don't think it would work for the servers/daemons I run either.
> is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise

I think the disconnect is that some orgs that people might think work on behalf of a foreign govt aren't registered as such because they don't receive funding from there, like AIPAC. This has been a contentious topic.
I think the antitrust argument has always been specious at best. Apple doesn't control Android or Microsoft Windows Phone OS. If Apple's control over its own package manager can be accused of antitrust, why not the Apple Store? Does McDonald's have a monopoly over Big Macs? Why can't I buy a Big Mac at Hardees? These antitrust accusations stem from a deep misunderstanding of law and exhibit an entitlement to corporate IP. If I have storefront that sells handpicked fruit, you can't legitimately claim antitrust and force me to sell your alfalfa. It's absurd.
> qualitatively different things though

Yes. The discipline is called "Belief Change Theory". The first is called "revision", the second "update".
Lyft hasn't been profitable since it went public. There are a number of brand-name, silicon valley tech companies in this situation.
Counterpoint: think of your database server as any other microservice, with an API. Putting a limited amount of logic there can vastly increase (not decrease) the overall application performance. One can also use stored procedures and views to allow the model to change while maintaining backwards compatibility with other services.

Alternatively, don't use SQL at all, and use a NoSQL database where you can't put any logic at all. If you aren't going to use the power of the database, then don't "pay" for it.
It comes out of the grant that also pays salaries, so excessive paper costs might mean that a research group can't afford to pay as many postdocs and grad students.
Lyft seems like the kind of company that would be more successful run extremely lean than trying to focus on growth. There simply isn’t that many major metro areas after all.
Spare parts and maintenance are likely going to be a problem first for ICE owners, rather than fuel availability. Who would be crazy enough now to invest in (and maintain) a factory for producing ICE-specific parts? Parts and skills for ICE will become scarcer and more expensive, making a new EV look economical to ICE owners in very short time. It has already been a few years now where it has been uneconomical not just to build a new fossil fuel power plant, but also to continue operating them due to maintenance costs. I'd suggest the same thing with ICE vehicles--it becomes easier/cheaper to run an EV rather than an old ICE quicker than people may usually assume.
Our privacy. Which billionaire travels to which island while abusing which child, financed by what money, will remain happily hidden away.
> With third-party keyboards, your iPhone will warn you that the keyboard can steal everything you type into it.

Once, when you enable the keyboard. And it seems like an entirely sensible warning. It’s a keyboard, by definition it has to have the ability to react to your key presses. Explicitly letting the user know of this risk seems like a good thing.
by working on stuff that helps people make widgets.
Thanks, with this keyword I found https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190618-00/?p=10...

In context of ADS the first thing I imagined was storing the compressed and uncompressed file alongside. (which is rather silly, why compress at all)

This use case is also kinda strange. Have the compressed content as ADS, the primary contend filled with 0 as sparse and fill it when needed/accessed. :/
I’m glad to hear there are actual ($) resources supporting Inkscape. I wish there were enough to support a UX designer as well.
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The problem comes from databases. Sometimes you simply have no source for the data. (Say, your phone with GPS turned off and now towers around.)
"Fine tuning" has nothing to do with prompting.
MySQL stored procedures work fine when invoked from application code IME. The lack of native collection types is not ideal when you need to inject N values to a bit of data logic. As such, and for other reasons, I personally prefer raw parameterized SQL passed through a lightweight ORM that handles mapping for me as well as securely marshal a collection value into a parameterized query. But beyond that Id say that they are "usable".

Can you elaborate on the challenges you've faced with them?
The lasting legacy will be persuading everyone that installing apps should have its own scary word like "sideloading" rather than just "installing".
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I don’t know they’d have to award you wages, but the only alternative to that would be firing you. Some might try to do that out of spite but it would be far worse for them than you.
How do you decentralise emergency alerts?
I mean we don’t have to treat this like some hypothetical. They could already do that via Android for years and they didn’t…
What's the evidence that human brains do not understand language in a statistical way?
macOS still uses colons as the path separator, it just does a great job of hiding them from the user. If you try to open a file with a slash in its name in a shell, though, you'll need to use a colon.
You can’t “just say no” to network effects, though. If you’re trying to, for example, attend a pickup game of baseball, and that game is organized on a Facebook group, what is your alternative? If you’re trying to get a job, and the recruiters are on LinkedIn, what’s your alternative? You have to go to where the other people are, in general…
The window state is absolutely, partly GTK's problem, or at the very least _not_ the developer's problem. Storing window size yourself opens a whole can of worms, including but not limited to:

- Yay, one more half baked implementation of loading a file and reading it, with a bit of bad luck it'll be in C too. Surely this will not lead to problems!

- Yay, your app now probably has to bother with saving DPI info and restoring that properly when using a different screen with different DPI.

- Yay, your app now has to bother with not positioning the window out of bounds in case it was on another screen. Surely this will not lead to problems!

You have now added dependencies on displays, IO, parsing. To restore the window's position. Add in client side decorations in this mess to make it even better.

It is an OS/DE's responsibility to give me windows. I'll put whatever the hell I want in there, and it's my job to save that content, but pretending that saving window state is the job of the app is some peak clown shit. On a scale of how bad of a UI toolkit this puts you, you are now at "Win32". Congrats Gtk4.
In both of those instances, I'm pretty sure the references in question were intentionally easy to remove so they could be submitted to the Chinese authorities for approval. Laughably apparently there was an Epoch Times newspaper box in the background of Doctor Strange MoM (Because it's NY and of course there is) and that got the movie rejected.
> wouldn't God-consciousness include having empathy for all beings?

A rabbit or a fruit isn't going to appreciate your understanding of its worldly struggles while you eat them, so why does it even matter?
Terrible idea and precedent IMHO.
>I was fascinated to learn there are more Mongolians living in China than in Mongolia.

*Mongols. They are Chinese Mongols. Not Mongolian nationals living in China.

PS: Not trying to be the "actually" guy, I'm making the correction because I was confused at first so I had to look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols_in_China
It'll take time (maybe significant) before these batteries are available for direct purchase. The problem is demand current outstrips supply. Every high capacity battery already claimed, in tesla's case for their cars and grid storage applications.

CATL pushing this sort of capacity, though, is great news. It certainly will accelerate availability.
For reference, this is what it generates:

As a concerned observer of US foreign policy, I must say that I have serious reservations about the direction it has taken in recent years. Despite the many resources and capabilities that the United States possesses, it seems that our government has been unable to use them in a way that promotes peace and stability around the world.

One of the biggest criticisms I have of US foreign policy is the tendency towards unilateralism and military intervention. It seems that the default response to any international crisis or conflict is to send in troops or launch airstrikes, regardless of the consequences. This approach has been costly in terms of both lives and resources, and has often ended up exacerbating the very problems it was meant to solve.

Another issue I have with US foreign policy is the lack of attention given to diplomacy and multilateralism. Instead of working with other nations to find collaborative solutions to global problems, the US often seems more interested in asserting its dominance and pursuing its own interests. This has led to a breakdown of trust and cooperation with our allies, and has made it more difficult to address shared challenges like climate change, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation.

Furthermore, the US has a troubling track record of supporting oppressive regimes and engaging in human rights abuses in the name of advancing its geopolitical goals. This has led to the alienation of many people around the world who see the US as hypocritical and morally bankrupt.

Overall, I believe that US foreign policy needs to fundamentally shift its focus towards diplomacy, cooperation, and respect for human rights. We need to recognize that we are part of a global community and that our actions have consequences beyond our borders. By working with others and promoting peaceful, inclusive solutions, we can help to build a more just and stable world for all.

Note that I used "Okay chatGPT, generate me a long generic criticism about US foreign policy in the first person." instead, since it won't generate anything if you say "rant"
> dangerously dictatorial tactics in turning Twitter from a free service into a paid service

Don't you see that's the way to eliminate the power of the bots, which influence you by legitimizing tweets by the thousands.

It's still free to join, but only paid users get influence.
In the case of layoffs, should a company instead invent work juts to keep people busy even if the company doesn’t consider that a good space to spend time on? Or if the workers don’t like it or find it pointless?

If so, would you think we should compel companies to aim for (near) zero profit and in the process create jobs / work even if that work isn’t important (e.g. putting luggage upright when it falls over on an airport carousel)?
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Incorrect results from floating-point division
The reason Apple does not allow other browser engines is because JIT has historically been very prone to security vulnerabilities. That is why only Apple is allowed to make anything involving JIT on iOS. And that is why other browser engines, with their own JIT-powered JS interpreters are not allowed.
I find it quite funny. There are some benefits to having wifi on its own chip doing its own thing so it doesn't interfere with timing on your main code, the downside being more complex code to get it all working.

But it's still funny that the wifi chip is many times faster and arguably a much more capable microprocessor (the exception probably being analog inputs).
A reminder that "you have nothing to hide" argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power:

Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused

[1]: "NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog...

[2]: https://reason.com/2022/07/26/police-can-access-your-ring-ca...

[3]: https://reason.com/2021/04/26/warrantless-border-searches-dr...
Exactly, if there's anything you hate doing for clients, put a sufficient price tag on it so it's worth your trouble.
Using zero as a default (the main topic of this article) is one thing... I'm pointing out that floating point is able to represent points with greater density near Null Island than it is in, say, Alaska, just due to the spacing between pronounceable coordinates.
Or, govern this stuff under international treaty. Internet traffic _is not_ like truck traffic. It's more like radio (in some places it is radio). It's the Ross Sea, not I-95. What gives any one nation (or subdivision, like a certain US state known for its leading position at the Darwin Awards) the right to meddle with a global resource like that? Well, as a practical matter, they rarely do. Instead, they usually let the oligarchs who own the ruling elites (as well as the infrastructure) in each country do it: except when it's more convenient to use government as a hammer.
I'm shocked that doesn't already exist.
Innovators dilemma is the issue: that’s rational, until suddenly it isn’t, but by then it’s too late to change course.
What evidence suggests our brain is leveraging quantum computing?
I'm tired of these cutesy backronyms that they try to come up with to influence the public's perception of a law. "EARN IT"? What the fuck? It should be outright illegal to pass laws whose acronyms spell words.

But, of course, that'll never happen, because who would willingly give up such a juicy tool for gaming the system?
Can Tesla really produce cheap cars with decent quality?

They already have huge problems with the not-so-cheap models. And the software that used to be secret sauce is now subject of multiple court cases after some crashes and multiple deaths.
It's fascinating to observe the dramatic shift in perceptions around Flash on Hacker News over the past 5-10 years. As I recall, discussions mentioning Flash were once dominated by near-unanimous complaints about its flaws, and there was an overwhelming sense of relief when it was announced that it would be deprecated.

Now, the narrative has evolved to appreciate the unique creative value Flash provided and the distinct niche it occupied at the intersection of art and code. Maybe it took us some time to recognize this, or maybe it's possible for both sentiments to hold true simultaneously.
Apple fans are very scared about FB going to leave the Store and forcing them to side load it. But this is FUD, Android has side loading and alternative stores and you can find FB apps on google Play.

The facts are

1 the apps of the big bad tech companies are still on the google Store

2 the stores abused their power and pushed big apps out, not to protect the users, but because they might not be puritan enough, or that some legal but not correct speech was happening on that app.
They're trying to get rid of everything that isn't somehow serving corporations.
The new SVG renderer in WebKit makes it the fastest of the 3. Not yet finished though.
This got me to try out out the Fileside app (an Explorer/Finder alternative) from the blog post author. It's available for Windows and Mac.

I think this is an interesting space with room for innovation.

Fileside starts out with a grid of four directories: Home, Documents, Desktop and Downloads. You can customize and name new grid layouts that are shown in a sidebar for quick switching. This seems like a neat idea for specific recurring manual workflows.

It's doesn't seem to be targetted to the minimalist crowd. Directory entries beginning with a dot are visible (but greyed out). Full Unix-style permissions are shown for each entry, etc.

It looks like it's Electron-based and implemented in a javascript SPA framework. It doesn't use the default system font (SF Pro) on Mac. A bunch of other things also don't look or behave as you expect.

The font weight in the size column maps to each file's relative size. All the way from very thin to very bold. Kind of cute.

The path completion seems pretty good - as could be guessed from the blog post.

I think this app sometimes confuses power with details/verbosity. There are some gold nuggets in there though.
Deloitte to cut 1,200 jobs in the US
If you're going to claim something is debunked, a citation would be greatly appreciated.
In real world tests, most EVs are far from Tesla’s efficiency. Some are very far, a few are as good.
Part of it is that we buy into it, literally. If you want to stop it, stop buying into companies that are compliant and sell you out in their technology choices.
> and from your own desires

As a non-religious gay I probably wasn't invited anyway. But this kind of thinking is what leads conservatives to so much repression and hate. The idea that the wants and needs of your body are something which the mind must actively fight. That the scratchy, ill-fitting wool sweater of your culture is something that you must keep on at all costs. And it leads to resentment of people who are not under such self-imposed restrictions.

There is a reason in queer culture that 'shadiness' is a bigger sin than anger. Shadiness is what happens when someone represses their true feelings. Those feelings don't go away though, they just resurface in other unexpected and non-adaptive ways.
Remember when major websites used to blackout over TTIP and SOPA? Those were good days.

Now many of the same websites (eg Reddit) are owned by large entities who don't care. Probably because they've made their money, so who needs a free Internet?
As each generation is born not caring about privacy and posting everything for likes, I fear more are being coached to not have privacy as a priority.
> he fearmongers with nukes to advocate for the subjugation of a country

I have concerns about going to war with a nuclear power therefore I'm pro-Russia and wish for the subjugation of Ukraine? Obviously manipulative and ridiculous framing.
This is a great piece of advice, I think will be doing this in the long run
Not the GTK developers, the Gnome developers. Do it once, not once per app. There is no excuse for this.
I'm looking for a job currently, and I'm surprised at the number of Series A and B companies still hiring. I wonder when the funding grim reapers will come home to roost.
Modern militaries can't really be divided, since in order to operate they needs huge amounts of money, fuel, logistic support. If a unit goes rogue their comms would be shutdown and their supplies would run out.
Dumb question: why would you get severance if you resigned?
Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. DURBIN,
Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. HAWLEY, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO,
Mr. TILLIS, Ms. HASSAN, Ms. ERNST, Mr. WARNER, Ms. MURKOWSKI,
Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. RUBIO,
Mr. CORNYN, and Mr. KENNEDY

Article understated things by calling it a "group" of senators. That's a lot of senators already willing to get this thing off the ground.
They need to pass a 'public official' bill that ties any and all public official records to whatever is expected of the general population, no exceptions.

This is the only true way to stop these type of bills.
Fraud of the World Economic Forum
Another interesting aspect will be when AIs get access via AWS console etc and you can start "chatting with your cloud"

"spin up N machines to support X process"

"alert me whenever XYZ threshold is crossed, log those and create an incident response post mortem with financials on cost of impact, and run a scan against [machines] to ensure that these ports are blocked or let me know where I am still vulnerable"

I cant wait until AI flattens op/sec
That's what NULL (or it's various equivalents) is for.
People need to realize that every good thing the government steals is done through a war of attrition.
>In my view failing to see the similarity in the relationship between class objects is a sign of a lack of 'intelligence', whatever that may be in a very precise sense.

Ok but not all relationship similarities transfer across representations like that.

It's like you give an instruction in English, "Find a word that rhymes with ingenious" to a french man. The french man sees, "Trouver un mot qui rime avec ingénieux". Guess what ? His response to "Trouver un mot qui rime avec ingénieux" would not fulfill the request in english that it might in French.

Ingenious and heterogeneous rhyme. ingénieux and hétérogène have no such property

The french man is not unintelligent to be unable to fulfill your request.
The WebScraper tool uses Trafilatura [1] to scrape and parse HTML—nothing too fancy. "Scraping" a React site would require a totally different approach, probably something more akin to Adept's ACT-1 [2].

I run a local chat app built with Griptape and I use it to give me summaries of web pages or answer specific questions all the time :)

1. https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/

2. https://www.adept.ai/blog/act-1
> Just use quotes bro

Man, it's never that simple. How about generating Powershell scripts with quotes? Sometimes you are dealing with escape characters \", sometimes you aren't. Why bother with all that? Hell, versions of software and compilers change such behaviors either on purpose or by accident all the time. It just gets messy dude. C:\NEVER_~1\AGAIN_~1.NOP

Perhaps i'm a dinosaur still scarred by the golden olden days, but, there is no convincing me that whitespace in filenames or URLs is ever a good idea.
Note that the "phonetic" component can become incredibly strained in modern Chinese languages. Eg, take the character "俞"; in Mandarin, it's pronounced "yú". However, it's used as a phonetic component in:

1) 输: pronounced "shū"

2) 偷: pronounced "tōu"

(There are even worse examples which I can't think of in the moment)
It isn’t useful for what people want.
4th amendment text:

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Let’s name names, the senators who introduced this are Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. DURBIN, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. HAWLEY, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. HASSAN, Ms. ERNST, Mr. WARNER, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. RUBIO, Mr. CORNYN, and Mr. KENNEDY.
Windows has PowerShell these days, and it is actually usable and not at all awful (if a little quirky) compared to bat files.
I just gave Bard a try. It's still nowhere near as good at coding as chatGPT (and GPT4 specifically). I asked it to write a Python program to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem using ACO. The code GPT4 gave me for this prompt runs out of the box which is pretty impressive. The Bard code, on the other hand, has errors like forgetting to pass an argument to a function, or calling a method on a class that hasn't been defined on that class. When I point out the error to Bard it presents code that it says solves the problem, but often doesn't. In some cases when it fixes a problem in one area it reintroduces a previously fixed bug elsewhere.

Also, chatGPT always goes the extra mile and includes instructions on compiling/running the code it provides (including sample data). Bard does not.

Bard still has a ways to go to catch up.
Yeah, how about no?

My employer behaves exactly as it's laid out in my contract. I will behave exactly as it's laid out in the contract. If it says 2 weeks, that means 2 weeks, not one day late or early.
Not when compared to a literal metal wire.