skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure exactly how I feel about English libel law, I think a bit too strict but wouldn't want to lose it all - but surely libel tourism just shouldn't be allowed? Is it just too hard to stop without blocking legitimate claims too?

edit: I read the rest of that Wikipedia article, seems a decade ago something was done to at least reduce it -

"On January 1st, 2014 the Defamation Act 2013 came into force, requiring plaintiffs who bring actions in the courts of England and Wales alleging libel by defendants who do not live in Europe to demonstrate that the court is the most appropriate place to bring the action. Serious harm to an individual's reputation or serious financial harm to a corporation must also be proven. Good faith belief that a disclosure was in the public interest was made a defense."
Ah, yes, the famous social network platforms of 1993. More to the point, <13 year olds have been effectively outlawed from social media platforms since 1998 due to COPPA. It hasn't really stopped kids though. They just, go on the internet and lie.
Now that is a tshirt design I would get behind. Or into, I guess.
Wow, that is sort of flabbergasting, including the history of the thing. To think that the car has been armored and protected like a tank for so long, yet all it took for JFK was an open convertible top.
Exactlt.

One of my go-to examples is that I asked ChatGPT to write a DNS server. It didn't get it perfect and needed followup questions, but it 1) got it better than I could (having written a couple in the past) without spending time reading the RFCs, 2) because it's something I have done before, even though I'd have to look up docs to do it again, I could instantly tell which areas it doing the right thing, and where I needed to check specs and adjust details.

But if I didn't know how a DNS server works, on the other hand, it'd have been little help to do it that way because I'd have no idea what.it got right or not, and it's have been far more productive in that case to ask it for a step by step guide of what to do and which portions of the specs to look up.

You have to treat it as a junior:

Either give it tasks you can trivially validate and improve because you know the subject, or ask it to help condense down and explore the search space.

Don't try to get it to complete a task you don't understand how to quickly validate, because you'll waste tremendous amounts of time trying to figure out whether the answer is right.

Most of the people complaining seems to expect it to work well for the latter even when told it's not (yet, anyway) a good use.
Before and after using it?
Well, if you did not understand it before, in the non autocratic western world some (many?) people simply get their lips sealed so tight, they cannot physically (well, more or less) utter a word. In return, though, you get to live under democracy.
I don't get your comment, maybe you could clarify. Kids know technology better than older people, yes. Scamming is already illegal and should be dealt with accordingly. Banning kids from social media will not work, other apps and games will just add features that will essentially provide the same experience. The fact that kids are suffering from social pressure is a human problem, not a tech problem.
> the prices are based on speculation of supply and demand, months to years in advance.

There’s also an element of speculation on speculation driving short term trends.
Hey, author here :)

It was a bit of a surprise seeing this on my feed this morning, 3ish years after publishing.

Some updates:

- Bear is running smoothly and profitably

- I still love what I do

- People love products that are made with love

https://herman.bearblog.dev/praise-for-bear/
For a serious answer: nix-on-droid has roughly a thousand times(*) more packages available than termux.

(*) Not a scientific estimate.
This is so cool!!! I didn’t even know the Pinecil existed.

We live in the future :D
Still, This isn’t the help desk!
No it's not. Finance bros like to tell themselves that, so that they can justify their place in morality.
Are you aware that private data hiding is also available in classical imperative languages, functional programming, logical programming?
I had not realized just how bad SlideShare had become over the years. One full screen ad every 6 slides is crazy
The way it is being used here is a marketing term. It's marketing a software product by calling it artificial intelligence. By what standard is a generative model AI?
When you buy cigarettes in a store, you normally get carded.

It stands to reason that an equivalent online system would require a similar online solution; most people are not particularly enthused by the idea of having to present an ID to consume any information that could potentially considered to fall under “social media.”
Yeah just give a scan of your ID to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Snapchat, etc

There is absolutely no chance that it will ever get leaked, misused or stored unencrypted
I'm all for exercise, but useful and environment-friendly exercise

- why putting bikes on a car to go riding? just get on your bike directly and save that extra pollution

- why taking your car to go at gym and run on indoor machines?

- why taking your car, ordering your food, etc and then lift weight? recently I saw a person traveling in a van, with a whole weight lifting bench and heavy weights, there must be more useful thing to take for a trip no? there are plenty rocks or wood branches on that site, or you can just lift your own weight, or lift smaller weight for a longer time, there are plenty "natural" oppoturnities

same thing for the diet, you can pick more local and less polluting, less or no-plastic wrapping
Was that an April fool?! That’s a privacy nightmare if it’s real, a couple days ago I read how similar service were used to access employee current employers then she was fired after they found out she had 3. Any data collected about a person nowadays will be used against him/her, why give employers such power and access, and how is this beneficial to the employee? Nothing, absolutely nothing!
> But I understand the way it was designed (unverified students, double ratings, correlation of positive reviews to ease of the class...) did it in.

It's still there and being used.
Wouldn’t it be nice if a somewhat “positive” thing “leaks” just to give the people something to talk about? All that chatter about antitrust, sucking personal data without permission etc doesn’t give a very positive image. Right to repair on the other hand... oh that fixes everything.
https://archive.is/0WtTm
All languages have warts.
And betting at the horse race track is just second order horse riding?
Particularly so if you're trying to treat a patient with limited insight.
I don’t think this will work, for the many reasons other comments have laid out, but I hope something can be done.

The power imbalance between landlords and tenants is outrageous. Tenant legal rights are rarely respected. Agencies basically ignore the needs of tenants. I cannot think of another product category where the buyer is treated so poorly - and for a service costing 1000s of dollars!

Clearly the current incentive structures are not working.
And write(1)
B-Sides: Reading, Race, and “Robert’s Rules of Order”
This seems a bit too far reaching of a legislative act under the guise of protecting the children.

Surely we could come up with a solution that isn't an outright ban? Especially as technology has become so commonplace and many of our social interactions happen in digital spaces.

In any case, maybe it would be interesting to evaluate how other countries have approached these problems. I know that in South Korea you need a government ID to play certain multiplayer videogames, it would be interesting to explore the impact of these systems and what lessons can be gleamed.

Since I'm not a parent myself I haven't really considered the problem domain with much care or consideration, but maybe some hacker parents could share their thoughts and insights as they've dealt with the existing ecosystem?
I am pro banning gas stoves but that doesn’t mean electric is great. Electric sucks ass, even ignoring some things you just cannot do without gas (like make proper rotis) their heating is slow and uneven. At the least induction is fast.
> from that, you conclude

I don't.
And now people start to understand why ad targeting developed...
Why does it need to be rare? How about Music Theory for Dummies:

https://www.dummies.com/book/academics-the-arts/music/music-...
> For anyone who isn't who cares about hanging on to old hardware, it's perfectly fine to just keep running Windows 10.

Increasingly hard to get this days, especially through official channels. Currently, Microsoft actively prevents you from getting a Win10 installer/image, by redirecting all the relevant links to Windows 11 pages.

> All those guys saying "yOuR sYStEM iS iNSeCurE!!1!1!1" are snake oil merchants wanting to sell you something.

You mean like Microsoft? Saying that the new system is more secure is equivalent to saying your old system is insecure, given everyone's insistence that you either are fully secured or not at all.
Except in many dep management systems they purposefully don’t keep only one copy to allow multi versions to run side by side and other benefits like having a deliberate piece by piece upgrade of everything in the dependency tree. Forcing all deps to be on the same version of all other deps sounds like it would cause more problems than it would solve.

Also the ideas of immutable deps mean this property of “duplicated” deps comes naturally.

I think many bugs can come from what you propose. A large dev tree would need everyone in the tree to coordinate to upgrade all at once. That seems basically impossible for any dep tree. Especially in a system where the deps are small code snippets like this one. Even small programs can have 1000s of deps.

Why are you implying that this model is “normal” dep management?
It is a great concept, the only way to force developers that feel entitled to reach out to implementation details and then go cry on social media when their beloved app breaks, to actually follow what is available to them.
Or someone who went through an intense trauma. Or someone who's done something terrible in a dissociative fugue. Or several different anxiety disorders/phobias. Or certain personality disorders come to think of it.

There's a lot of cases where certain information, if presented in the wrong way or at the wrong time, can be harmful to the patient, the relationship between patient and therapist, or both.
I don’t think supply and demand has much to do with morality.
> There is more plastic polluting the environment in Australia thanks to plastic bag bans

Do you have a source for this? Specifically, plastic litter (not in landfill)? Preferably attributable to plastic bag bans and not just following a pre-existing trend?

> they have been replaced by paper bags which emit 10x more CO2

First up, who is giving you paper bags? I haven't come across one store that has replaced plastic bags with paper. Second, this argument was never about atmospheric CO2.
Generally pretty well considering that those who you describe are a small subset of society. Though plenty of news networks would like to convince you otherwise because scare stories attract viewers more than “society is generally doing ok” style stories.

I do take issues with the drug laws in a lot of countries though. They are, in part, based around marginalising individuals rather than protecting people from harm. But this is a whole other discussion.
Textbooks on Every Subject (2011)
Seeing so many submissions related to Linux on Android makes me surprised that it wasn't common knowledge on HN.

Another such gem: userland.tech (let's you run full distros or apps on linux, including Debain and Arch). I use it to run LibreOffice on my Android Tablet.
For full NixOS on an android device, something more like postmarketOS, see also https://mobile.nixos.org.
The problem is not that people are not turning to real journalism anymore
Ask HN: Do you build your own antivirus?
Do I really need antivirus software? I'm pretty good at telling apart safe from hazardous URLs and Websites. And MS Defender never caught a single virus/piece of malware anyway in all those years.

The goal being reducing a lot of the background work constantly being done on my Windows machine, which makes it real loud for seemingly no good reason whatsoever, as if I was mining Bitcoin when I'm just surfin' the damn web.

Is it enough to "build" your own antivirus by simply blocking some hosts and being otherwise careful, and disabling Windows Defender? Do you guys do that?
I've experienced the same thing! We laughed so hard.

https://twitter.com/royvanrijn/status/1214162400666103808

It is caused by an electric EMI spike from gas lift office chair. There is even an official Dell issue about it:

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...
Social pressure from a local group is one thing. From a global group, selected by algorithm for unknown reasons, another thing entirely.
It's nothing to do with morality or any justification, it's just what it is. Since there's an instrument to gauge supply and demand, that instrument can also be wanted, so there can be supply and demand of the thing that measures supply and demand.

You can also do "bad" things on first order by hoarding the items themselves.
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You both seem right. While the base criticism is correct, the emotion attached to it is only an impediment. Python+ML seems apparently in a "move fast and break things" phase. We should expect rough edges and be calm if we're to address that well.
and when exactly do you think that changed? if “these days” are in some sense bad, when were the good ones?
If you have massive buy/sell orders between finance bro speculators - how does that equate to real supply/demand for the underlying commodity?
"... use LXD containers to provide a clean slate to run the Docker containers inside of .."

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-run-docker-inside-lxd-co...

If you use podman you can just use the default storage backend (zfs).
It's a whole list of reasons, not just this. I was finally able to find the interview with David Weston that goes over all of the requirements:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-11-understandin...
What was the peak altitude reached in this test launch?
Counterpoint - consumption/sin taxes.
> At the time I thought they were just incompetent ('do you do espressos? Hot water?' I would have not been able to resist retorting) but now I think probably it was similar to your experience. Stupid.

Yup, your aunt got a dose of coffee snobbishness I'm afraid. The worst I've experienced recently was when several of us went into a specialty coffee shop that I'd been recommended in Saigon. All except for one ordered ordered coffee. My last friend can't handle anything with caffeine so she asked what other drinks were on the menu. There were none, no non-coffee drinks and no decaf either. Eventually we asked what the ~5 year old child on the table beside us was drinking. Babychino (foamed milk). Great, it's not on the menu but she'll have one.

They charged us $6 for the babychino, or more even (180k VND I think). When we complained they pointed out the tiny print on the bottom of the bill that there's a surcharge for anyone who doesn't drink coffee. Imagine if a bar did that.
You are quite right. You can also find the book PLAI by one of the authors of HtDP, Shriram Krishnamurthi. The way he teaches programming languages is eye opening too.

I looked at CMU's curriculum once. The first course they take is based on a language called C0 which is a safe version of C. But the amount of syntax and memory handling you had to learn in a first course was intimidating. The main concepts remained in the background. Although I am not sure how it happens in the actual class. But the number 1 contender amongst CS schools shouldn't let their freshmen go through such hellhole.
I wouldn't trust anything that background checks potential dates.

I've met folks that decide their exes are "theirs" - my sister's ex harassed her and her now husband for some years, for example. (He's still not an upstanding person, just has less harassment. They have a child together, so no getting away).

Some folks are abusive. There is no real catch for that. Some of the abusers won't do it until living together or married: Understandably, not all victims want to talk to random services about their experience. And worse yet, the date in question might not have that many exes, so they are going to know it is you.

Similar things can happen with mental illness: It might have made the relationship rocky and contributed to the end, but you also might have enough compassion to not really want to talk about this. After all, perhaps they'd do better without the baggage of your past relationship and might have found a combination of medicines/care that works for them. (I have this: I hate my ex, but I don't actually wish them suffering)

We end up with vague information on-par with a 5-point system, one that folks aren't willing to answer in some circumstances.
I've heard that landlords in Bangalore, India demand the equivalent of 1 year's rent as deposit, your grad school scores, a write up about yourself, linkedin profile, caste, marriage status, scores of hidden charges, living rules that dictate food and dress rules and even specify curfew timings. There are also instances where some landlords have even demanded to see the mobile history of renters.
Except women have been entering the workforce en-masse only about 70 or so years ago, in the post-WW2 industrialization.

No need to bring up evolution for that.
> speculation and gambling

Of course. The net present value of a stock or asset can only be calculated based on its expected future price and earnings. Since there's no way to know this with 100% certainty, stock prices are inherently speculative. Even value investors must struggle to accurately value a company's intangible assets.
> They are largely based on supply and demand, but most companies need to predict supply and demand months and years in advance because converting raw material into a sale to the end user is a multi month to multi year process, so a natural result is that the prices are based on speculation of supply and demand, months to years in advance.

But that practically means they are based on speculation about possible future supply and demand, and we are more or less taking it on faith that that speculation is correlated to actual supply and demand.
This story is very confusing and I don't understand how this would raise prices.

If Energizer batteries cost more than Duracell people will buy Duracell, since they are utterly interchangeable.

So how can they rise prices without involving Duracell?
llama.cpp: Roadmap May 2023
Well, at least it doesn't mess with the scrolling, so I have a chance to read it without going completely mad...
> Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

> JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time compiled language that conforms to the ECMAScript standard. It has dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation...

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Chile

https://www.ft.com/content/ebd48bbc-1390-4679-99fe-682975bbd...
> JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time compiled language that conforms to the ECMAScript standard. It has dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation...

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
It is a common and terrible method, only surviving out of general familiarity with the abomination that is autotools.
> If you stop watching videos, there will be no reason to make the videos.

Deal!
The issue as I see it isn’t going to be solved by forcing social networks to gather even more personal information about individuals (eg proof of ID and proof of age). The issue is how social networks are engineered, either by chance or by design, to promote negativity in the pursuit of engagement.

If we can find a way to declaw social networks then we’d have a healthier ecosystem for all ages.

But this is a much harder problem to solve.
Just to follow up if anyone reads this far down, an interview with David Weston from Windows 11s release also validates what I've said in this comment chain:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-11-understandin...
The equivalent talkers were a thing in 1993. I found them using gopher in the library my first year of university. Anyone else here remember Somewhere Else? I do remember lots of underaged girls and boys (but no one under 13, I think) on there.
It is in most places that aren't USA
The working theory from people on Twitter who generally "know their stuff" is that the FTS blew holes in the tanks, but where normally this would result if the tanks immediately structurally failing they didn't. This was probably a combination of the stainless steel contraction, pressurised tanks, and under specified FTS. It took a good 40 seconds from FTS to structural failure.

There have also been questions as to why it appears the FTS was only point charges rather than a cord down the side of the tanks.

There is a good stabilised video of this portion of the flight here (https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/165250639080235827...), you can see the plumes of propellant from the sides of the tanks where the FTS has made holes.

Elon also just did a Twitter Spaces where he answers a load of questions, summary here: https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/16524519714109358...

Key takeaways:

> From a "pad standpoint, we are probably ready to launch in 6 to 8 weeks.'

> "The longest item on that is probably requalification of the flight termination system ... it took way too long to rupture the tanks."

> Probably an 80% probability of reaching orbit with Starship this year, and "I think close to 100% change of reaching orbit within 12 months."

> "We're going to putting down a lot of steel" under the launch tower before the next Starship flight.

> The vehicle's structural margins appear to be better than we expected

> At T+27 seconds, SpaceX lost communications due to "some kind of energy event." And "some kind of explosion happened to knock out the heat shields of engines 17, 18, 19, or 20."

> Rocket kept going through T+62 seconds" with the engines continuing to run. Lost thrust vector control at T+85 seconds
That always bugs me when these things are reported. Something goes up 30% in a year due to speculation and/or supply chain shocks, and then drops by 5% and it's "prices crash!" No it's still up ~25% year on year.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still common.
Funny how school lessons are not applied in the real world. I worked at a Waterloo unicorn, and we had a single refund function that either authorized or denied a refund, with dozens of parameters in the function header
I don’t know enough to answer your questions but the McLibel case is another good entry on the subject:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
Nice bit of serendipity there, I’m currently reading a book called Volt Rush that talks about the battery supply chain.

Nice to contextualise some of what that’s been talking about with recent events.
Let's be sensible and set it at 21. It cannot be less harmful than alcohol.