skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I the last 3-4 years LEGO has definitely decided to focus more on the adult market. There's a lot more 18+ big sets now than there used to be in the past.

Kind of make sense because a lot people who played with LEGO in their childhood in the 80's / 90's are now at the age where they are more likely to have disposable income and get back into the hobby.
Or just realize that the formula for stopping distance due to friction is independent of mass.
Campaigning (for anything) is good, I see nothing wrong about it.

Active people will (and should) win, that's the law of nature.
> with an iPhone, I can't disable the screen lock digital clock, so whenever i look at my phone for notifications, I try to avoid looking at the clock.

You can sort of hide it by setting a flat background color and then use the same color for the time.
wow -3 and counting! Didn't anyone ever toss you a charged capacitor in class?
Will the Internet Democratize Art or Destroy It?
I only had strong visuals with high doses of LSD, with a normal tab it’s usually more subtle for me, in a similar way as mushrooms.

But visuals as strong as you describe I had only when I tried 25C-NBOMe. But there the mind trip was only barely present and the body feel was rather uncomfortable.
There's no report from any investors who suggest they were confused about IP/original-work in any way. There is an assertion to the contrary in the article: "Stability told Sifted that the investors that backed the company were fully aware of Stable Diffusion’s IP ownership."

So while it's possible investors just don't want to admit they didn't look too deep, it's also possible everyone relevant knew exactly what was being offered: a fast-moving team of opportunists, adapting core tech originating elsewhere. That alone is plenty valuable in a hot area. 'Fast-followers', rollups, & integrators can do great in a tech boom.

So, this story might mainly be resentful competitors/employees taking potshots. (Or maybe even: potential next-round investors trying to win for themselves a lower-valuation via media spin.)
totally in agreement, my kids are just the same. me and wife, we read a lot of literature, poetry, classics, they don't touch books.
I had a mild giggle to myself when I read the playstore app rules after they updated something unrelated and sent an email out.

Ireland and the UK have an exception to the rule banning gambling apps, and their in-app payments. So you could gamble with money from your phone bill/prepay credit. I'd be interested to learn the history of that.
That would always be an interesting experiment, if only the people in power would ever allow it. Unfortunately, all political parties try their hardest to perpetuate and foster “illegal” immigration to fill their own pockets.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot increasing productivity?
Would love some real examples where these tools are helping you write less boilerplate or other code, debug faster, and ship faster in general. If they are, what's your sense of time saved or productivity boost?
> The problem with all of these sites is they start to service the lowest common denominator in the name of next quarters profits. [...] It seems so clear to me that billionaires mean we can't have nice things"

The pressure to increase quarterly profits to the detriment of the long-term emerges from the very nature of short-term investment, particularly as facilitated by stock exchanges. Eliminating billionaires would not eliminate this dynamic.
I had some weird experiences after smoking weed in high school, probably 15 or 16, where repeating patterns I observed while moving would sort of make my vision glitch so that they seemed to be still. It was like if you watch a car in a movie/commercial the tires will appear to be moving backwards or standing still as it’s driving. This happened while I was mowing the lawn with the blades of grass, waking down the hallway of my school with the lockers, and once while I was driving at night with the lines of the road, which kind of freaked me out since I still felt myself moving but my vision made it feel like I wasn’t. I feel that I had seen this happen when I was high and it had triggered this pattern recognition in my sober state as well. However I have never had these kind of visual phenomena happen with weed I have purchased after legalization. I’m not sure if I got something laced or could just handle smoking a lot more weed back then. I had also taken some dissociatives and psychedelics around then as well, so maybe some effect enhanced by them.

I did try mushrooms when I had just turned 16 and it really brought a storm of existential questions to the forefront of my mind that were very difficult to sift through with everything I had going on as a teenager. I developed a somewhat unfounded fear of tripping randomly and losing control of my ability to distinguish reality that greatly frightened me. At times I would be susceptible to this thinking, having read about HPPD, and any visual disturbance might lead me to feel tremendous anxiety again that I might be tripping or worse going crazy. One notable occasion I was driving at night and noticed halos around every light. I thought I must be going mad, but nope, it turned out I just needed glasses. Not to minimize the anxiety I felt at the time, but reading too much into some of these things can really make it worse. I never randomly started tripping at any time and my grasp on reality was only made worse by the anxiety at the thought of it potentially happening.

Many years since then and feeling I have a much firmer grasp on reality, I just think “my eyes must be playing tricks on me” and bring it up with my optometrist if I see anything weird.

However, I do feel for the author having recently gone through a lot of health anxiety after the sudden death of my cat. I did get to the point where I couldn’t drive across town and a sip of caffeine would send me spinning. I guess a lot of things in life can affect you this way if you’re not ready for them is all I’m trying to say, especially if you’re already anxiety prone.

Be careful with psychedelics if you have anxiety!
MS-DOS is still widely used in embedded, MS still sells it to OEMs. There is also the Free and Open Freedos. Maybe you have a small program you developed on Linux and maintain on several OS's, and you don't want to go through the nightmare of maintaining a DOS port as well.
ublock can also work with this list, I've been told.

However I have had no success in getting it to work...
I once got high with weed for about a week. I was kinda depersonalized, my time perception was off, and I was not truly feeling things when I was touching them for about a week or so. And there was barely any info about this on the internet. None of my friends had ever experienced it, their high only lasted a couple of hours at max.

After a couple of days of being in that state, I got really fearful thinking I might be stuck with it forever, that I had damaged my brain permanently, but thankfully I got off of it after a week. I promised myself I would basically be a good boy from now. I got a newfound respect for this normal state of consciousness and I became super grateful for just getting out of that nightmare. I would not wish what happened on my worst enemy.

Even though I've heard MDMA can do wonders for some of the mental issues I have, I am basically never gonna touch it.
For others, the definition is generally https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
People also ask: “Why did the US sink the Lusitania?”
My kid is 9 - YouTube is her search engine. All my efforts to explain that is what Google is for have failed. Every time I use Google she laughs at me and calls me old :)
He didn't even ask if they identify as someone who pays their bills on time. Solvency is a social construct.
> How is that far fetched? There are plenty of recent examples where investors didn’t do enough due diligence in projects seeking huge valuations.

Is there examples of investors investing in a project without even visiting the homepage of the project or trying to understand even 0.1% of what the project is about? I don't think it's super common, but maybe I'm not hanging around the right/wrong circles in SV.

> And why are you putting leaked pitch deck in quotes?

AFAIK, this is the only article that mentions a leaked pitch deck from Stability AI and it only includes one image, which puts into question if there really is a leaked pitch deck, or if it's just one image that got sent to them.
How do they plan to handle moderation? The strong majority of subreddit mods still use old Reddit because modding on new is suffering. Many will give up modding and some will abandon using Reddit entirely. Do they have a plan to replace the thousands of free employees that currently keep Reddit habitable?
What will folks accessing sites at a library do? They can’t access their cloud account, it’s a library computer.
This is anecdotal, but not everyone reacts the same way to drugs (any drugs).

I only tried pot a few times and it makes me feel miserable. It's funny for about 5 minutes, after that I feel like shit. Sometimes even nauseated, I never had the munchies, I don't know what they feel like.

A few years ago I was in a bad bike crash, and it was the first time I had opioids (they tried fentanyl and tramadol).

I asked the doctors to just take them away, the pain of a hip and ankle fracture was way better than the feeling of the opioids.

There's definitely something different about how my brain deals with some of these drugs which makes me think that for me, it would be a really bad idea to try anything else, even in a controlled environment.
What about those who are stuck with it because of the huge legacy code base? They wouldn't choose it deliberately for anything new, but there isn't much they can easily do about it in the above case.

People who chose C as the best option at the time might not be even around the project anymore.
This is one area where I think legalization has helped. In my state, I can now get an inhaler using the same basic tech as asthma inhalers, and it can fairly precisely dose 2.5mg of THC per activation. Added benefit, completely smokeless. Even vape pens cause me to cough pretty bad (let alone actual smoking), so it's a huge upgrade to the experience.
Falcon 9 is a specific clear example of landing != takeoff.

Starship != Super Heavy

Lunar Starship != Starship

Earth != Moon

All of these differences combined make the test not the slightest bit indicative of how things would work for a lunar Starship landing.
To answer your question about macOS, major version updates are yearly, things don't change much within the same major version, and you're never forced to update by the OS. However, major versions only get 2 years of limited security updates after the next major version comes out, and major versions do tend to change things (i.e. the major redesign in Big Sur, or the new System Settings in Ventura). So probably not what you're looking for.
TLs should have 7-10 people. Bonafide middle managers should have ~7-10 direct reports meaning they're dealing with around 100 people underneath them.

My better half deals with management and a lot of cross functional management. The amount of junk she has to deal with due to politics, BS, people problems, and power struggles --- on premise data centers v. migration to the cloud is a major recurring theme because it involves a lot of people and budget ripe for power struggles --- is insane. Three or four proper Middle Managers could help *a lot*. I would point out, however, work at all levels esp. for middle management remains really hard if upper-management is clueless.
Has anyone considered porting the flash language to JS. Wondering if there is some way to emulate it in the browser despite it not being officially supported
My pet theory is that Stability was a surprise viral hit during aug/sep. Then got a massive capital round. And NOW, growth is already slowing and investors are getting buyers-remorse?

Or maybe growth is accelerating, and those who passed on series-A are upset?

Or maybe the lizard men are involved?
I read a report from an insurance outfit. People that live in urban areas drive about 6000 miles a year average vs suburbanites that drive 12000. That matches my living in SF experience. Bonus about 1/3 of that 6000 miles was long distance.

So I think not having a dedicated charger in the city isn't as much of a problem as one might think. Probably can charge here and there or every two weeks if needed. Hassle yes. But living in a city with a car is a hassle.
500 reviewers is what they have now and it's not working.

That it's 30% is also the problem. 30% is plenty to review a paid app in the top 1% of downloads, but >94% of iOS apps are free. Not least because Apple takes 30%, which puts a lot of paid developers out of business. But 30% of nothing pays for nothing.
> I would much rather be correct than to make this interesting for you.

Apparently you missed my point - it isn't an either/or. Making an argument with the efficient market fallacy is uninteresting in part because it's most likely wrong. cf the joke about the economist that doesn't pick up a $20 bill laying on the ground, because if it were real money then it would have already been picked up by someone else.

> You fail to explain how exactly this market maker influences banks to charge higher rates to people with poor credit scores

It's right there in the assumption of the headline. If banks didn't pass on the rates from the governmental market maker(s), then borrowers wouldn't see any changes from this.

> You also don't address the fact that this is universally how loans work in the modern world

You seem to have been taken in by the highly misleading article, directly demonstrating my original point. It seems that this change is making fees for high credit scores less low, and fees for low credit scores less high. The curve is still a sensible monotonic function, just a slightly different one than before.
There is absolutely a reason ...
Before to legally play it you had to create a Mojang account and before that you had to make a Minecraft account. Minecraft has always required an account.
Whoa. So I got a DM on Twitter about a week ago thanking me for pushing back on Emad’s claims about cluster pricing. I didn’t really take it seriously (or understand it) till now:

https://i.imgur.com/5XAndrR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OAZeZEl.jpg

So for whatever that’s worth, here’s a claim that predates this article by a week that emad was lying about stability origins to investors. I’ve trimmed the name off the DM for obvious reasons, but it’s from someone who seems credible (though I don’t know them).

I don’t like posting random unsubstantiated accusations without context. But this article just provided both.

As for what he lied about (or stretched the truth), I don’t know. I don’t even know if it matters. But this is why I never lie to investors, and why I’ve always really felt negatively towards colleagues who stretch the truth. It’s all kinds of misleading, and it’s a kind of misleading that tends to matter.

It would also make me upset as an investor if I found out that someone had fooled me. So even if it’d be to my advantage to lie for money, I can’t imagine doing it. I’d rather live in relative obscurity.
Tangentially, I really lament the current state of desktop OS's.

In a perfect world, you should be able to buy an operating system that's basically Windows 7, with all the security and kernel updates which have been applied to 10/11, and none of the ads, telemetry, and smartphone-esque UI that modern Windows tries to force on you.
> they claimed they owned the IP to said model in pitches/messaging

Where is the evidence of this? The article certainly doesn't contain anything that proves they claimed the owned the IP.
So... "office for windows" refers to the windows you have on your office?
> in 2023 who is the alternative to reddit?

I think the rapid decline of Twitter and the sputter of Mastodon indicates that a lot of us have realized that simply removing social media from our lives and not replacing it with anything feels pretty good.

A few years ago I used to visit Reddit a couple times every week. These days I only end up there if a google search sends me there.
Everyone should view the process of taking any and all drugs as uncontrolled scientific experiment.

Start with near zero amounts and ramp, taking notes and vitals (bpm, blood pressure). Understand yourself, the drug and have a friend nearby.

I have a low tolerance for THC, many folks consume way more than I ever could. But at the same time I have managed enjoy 200-400 mg doses (RSO). If I had taken this much at the beginning, I can see how I would have felt like I was losing my mind. I no longer have any form of paranoia, because I know what to expect. Everything in life comes down to practice and familiarity. Approach everything with a gradual slope and know what you are doing.
Well... first cosmonaut candidates (and many after that) were military pilots. So no wonder that they lived in military camp.

Also about appointing first cosmonaut by looks is not something strange. After all strict selections there's almost no difference among final candidates in health condition, skills or cognitive abilities. They are all as healthy as human can be and quite smart and trained. So final pick by these criterias would be pretty random anyway (even now for modern candidates it still is).
And given that sending first human in space was a big deal about political prestige it's no wonder that it was made by the looks of candidates.
I'd say that you don't want to write the second crop of the tooling in a language like JS or Python.

This is because the first crop, like mypy or babel or jslint existed, and has shown the general direction. But for the first crop, a slow-running but fast-turnaround language was essential, to my mind. The first iteration had to move fast, and change the direction fast, because it wasn't yet clear what direction was going to be right.
This doesn't help the "poor"-- it helps those with bad credit scores. There are some people in both camps, but there are many who are poor who pay their debts on time.
Seems like an ungrounded hit piece and it mostly raises questions about who is backing sifted.eu
I go to a lot of psychedelic festival, and I see those kind of recommandations quite frequently around me and my friends. I've grown to find those irresponsible.

I don't think we should prevent people from having those experiences of they really want to. But I've frequently noticed the people providing those recommandationa don't have any idea of the care that is required or the risks that are associated with that kind of experience.

Those risks are extremely frequently dismissed but sadly, they're real. The author of that article is one example, but they're many others and the consequences are very long lasting
The question is about scales (or proportions) -- yes, most mass produced foods, (e.g. avocados) wreaked havoc, but the scope meat production does that might be way larger.
Honestly, if you hadn't pointed it out, I personally wouldn't even notice. In context of iterative improvements, the term fits naturally, there isn't any alternative I can think of that means the same thing.
wow thanks.. looks perfect
My sense, as someone who has written more than one CiQ app is that Garmin got caught completely by surprise with the popularity of 3rd party apps on wearable platforms and MonkeyC graduated from “interesting side project” to “critical ecosystem capability” in the space of a couple months, years ago. The early CiQ SDK versions had some truly insane conventions like using constants named “THAI_SPICY_HOT” for font sizes, and the development platform (as others have noted in this thread) has always been a barely functional tool chain with minimal error handling, no compiler optimization, no debugger, simulators that don’t match the device ROMs, etc etc.

For a long time this didn’t really matter since the Apple Watch and Garmin devices really appealed to two very different market segments - Garmin had a huge moat in first party fitness capabilities, maps, and battery life, and Apple had a huge moat in UX, their app ecosystem, the screen quality and device style, and smartwatch functionality.

Now, both companies are closing the gap in both directions on many of these aspects. It will be interesting to see what effect (if any) this will or will not have on the CiQ tooling and the CiQ ecosystem.
> Watching kids watch youtube is like watching zombies.

My heart breaks when I see nephews playing dumb mobile games and watch youtube videos of someone playing games, all these interrupted with multiple full screen ads which they also diligently watch. Fuck these platforms and all their creators.
One of the best things I’ve configured with BTT is to remove the global Quit application (cmd+Q) and global Hide application (cmd+H) keybindings. I use cmd+W all the time to shut tabs and a slight miss click would close the entire app.
I won't up vote the article, but I do think that software to some degree is tied to growth companies, and by proxy to the cost of capital. When borrowing money gets expensive, growth slows down, shifting the balance of coding over to maintenance programming. That's sure to impact hiring/retaining programmers.
Not exactly caused, but the voucher privatisation was under western influence.

However, the stage was set for total chaos already in the 80s when the komsomol money laundering loophole opened.

It feels like USSR / Russia took so many bad turns in the late 80s early 90s.

You can’t blame western yuppies for creating chaos when you explicitly import them to administer “shock therapy”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Russia
Tax incentives are geopolitics. That's why all the best sci-fi TV shows came out of Vancouver for a while and every movie and TV show for the last several years thanks the state of Georgia.
The owners are and should be irrelevant.

In geopolitics (especially as applied to critical resources) -- and that's what this comes down to, really; not simply greed -- this never the case, of course.

It's always relevant who the owners of are - and what kinds of influence led them to being able to put down stakes where they have.

You might say it's the name of the game, in fact.
I think the notion is that the company has zero interest in the well being of the land because they have no ties to it.

That does have some logic, similar to out of state landlords or corporate landlords milking a property for as much rent with absolute minimal upkeep as they have no involvement in the community.

A flaw with that argument with the foreign water exporters and also with the landlord is that local landlords or businesses also can be equally bad.

But still, there is some sense to it and may have some truth if the average behaviors were quantified
I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great. Signing out of YouTube and viewing the default home page is a reminder of the horrors that lie beyond, but my little corner of it is a bit too good.

There was a period of time semi-recently when the algorithm was better than my heuristics, too. I had associated too-good thumbnails with overproduced shallow clickbait videos churned out by content mills and "grindset" individuals. But at some point basically everybody started optimizing their titles and thumbnails and some of the stuff the algorithm was suggesting was actually good even though it looked "too flashy."
The tail risk is real though. I do hope someday we’ll have accurate estimates of those risks. In the meantime it seems pretty clear to me that the expected value of these drugs is negative. I think it was Charlie Munger who said “in the best case scenario you feel good for a few minutes. In the worst case scenario it ruins your life.”
if `<title>A <h1>Heading` is equivalent to `<head><title>A</title></head> <body><h1>Heading</h1></body>` then this means the language is not precisely defined