skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah ok, looks like I've been doing it wrong but that's great to know.

Reading around on Nix, I'm starting to wonder if I should use a functional package manager for a functional language...

One issue I've had with analysis projects is that when my R system upgrades I find old project code for previous analyses don't run anymore. Would Nix allow me to specify/run different R and R package versions for projects in different locations/folders?
>It's not really relevant to this conversation though, which is about the children of divorced parents, and how we've chosen to mediate their rights under the current system.

Things are to be examined in context, relatively to similar concerns, and to societies priorities and decisions at large, not as isolated domains. At the very least one should ask why this class of people deserves more than another, why their "lifestyle level" is relevant and is not for other cases and so on.

>The problem with what I think you're proposing is who gets to decide what is a reasonable minimum amount for a given area?

The area shouldn't matter. Use minimum wage as a calculation. If they kid is supposed to live on that while working their ass off as an adult, they can live on that as a kid too, especially since they still have a parent they live with to supplement that. If minimum wage is too low, the lawmakers should raise it for adults too.
So you agree there’s room for speculation.

That’s all I was saying. Did not state if I think it’s relevant or not.
It won't be worth much once the consequences are borne out.
Why is GitHub Actions installing Go 1.2 when I specify Go 1.20?
Strange Science Can Help Us Find Life on Saturn’s Moon Titan
That's a service, not a social network which aims to beat the network effect.

Also gmail can talk with other email users.
JavaScript doesn't override perfectly clear HTML structure, it generates it.
Show HN: Self-Hosted AI Powered Chatbot Platform for Everyone
Hello HN!

Chatness [1] is a project I've been working on for a little while now and would love to get your feedback.

My take is that you don't need to purchase expensive software or subscriptions to run a chatbot on your site.

with a one-time purchase you can deploy Chatness on your own Google Cloud account, using your own ChatGPT key and have full ownership over your data.

I offer unlimited future updates at no cost, users can update their Chatness instance by just drag and dropping a zip file.

this business model allows me to focus on development and shipping fast, without having to worry about all the complexity of running a SaaS company.

Thanks for taking a look.

Stewan.

1. https://chatness.app
Dow jumps 500 points, breaks 4-day losing streak. Regional banks and Apple surge
Sounds more like we spend as much on cryptos, which have provided the tiniest fraction of value, compared to all other computers, which have provided immeasurable value.

Turning off the cryptos is sound environmental policy, that energy will be needed for the electrification of transport.
People do care about usability. When things work as you expect, you find your way around quickly and are less likely to get frustrated.
How the Legend of Zelda Changed the Game
I base it on sevearl things- I worked at Google on TPUs and regularly saw google training so I would expect they likely have GPT-4 parity or better internally but can't figure out how to productize it.

I was also an evaluator for Google Ventures, which meant I'd go look at all the details in a startup and decide if it made sense to invest. I've seen many companies with similar splashy hype who failed to reach orbit.
The baby steps makes sense, but you gotta admit Phoenix has to be thr easiest metro area to test with: Little inclement weather, little terrain change, newer infrastructure, streets mostly laid out in an east-west, north-south grid with consistent naming and numbering.
Nothing really, though I'd argue it's not built to move the heat around well, but there's good odds that that home heater is going to be fighting with the AC units that are being used to keep the home cool for the months it's not winter and in locations where there is little to no winter.
If you're willing to pay 50% more, require a driver's license, be 75% longer, and not include solar charging, you should get a different vehicle.
How is this any different than servers on the Activity Pub network?
You can have a nice centralized layer over a robust decentralized back-end, which people only have to use if things go south. And then that will keep the big players more honest, because users can just leave when they don't like what the client is doing (instead of being held hostage, like they are on twitter right now)
This seems to ignore the fact that the prices are consistently low if you are tracking the lesser used instance types/regions, even when talking explicitly within AWS.

Why would that change?
I've been learning Rust over the last few months, because it seems like a good language to have on my CV.

It's certainly a taste thing, but I am not enjoying it at all. I find it unpleasant. I think it's going to join the short list of "languages I can use but would prefer not to".

I've never learned Crystal, but if it's like Ruby, then I think I'd enjoy it just fine.
Same here! SX with 2MB Ram.

But... one day i learn that you can make "swap file" on DOS4GW just like on Windows. And i make it! Opening game, menu and first level screen took ~30 mins.
Coal Butter: Margarine made from coal
My number one advice is, if you enjoy it, to play board games. I've met people of all ages and most board gamers are very friendly. There's a wide selection of social games, or if you're similar to me, the more "thinky" strategic games, where there is less talk during the game but some good discussions afterward.

It's easy to reach out to others and say, "hey, how about a game?" because it's sets expectations with others, and there are plenty of cafes to offer neutral meeting spots.

It can be a slow process to build a social hub around it, but the key is regularity and common interest. Could this be applied to other hobbies? Yes!

My fallback would be bridge playing groups, knitting, or woodworking groups. No book clubs, I haven't had good experience with those.
I don’t see that Zuckerberg avatar, or whatever Apple equivalent of that, pans out in coming 5 years… who does? Who bothers to visually stimulate themselves with recreated face of a living person in VR?
And assange.
It is now, for business purposes. It was started in New Zealand by a New Zealander with New Zealand investors. It even got an investment from the NZ government. Their first rocket was named after the Maori word for 'Space'. Before acquiring SolAero last year, they had 525 employees in New Zealand and 150 in the rest of the world. January this year was the first time they actually launched from the US. All normal things for American companies clearly...
Am I reading this right in that I do not see airbags listed under the Safety header on this page? I see brakes, seat belts, lighting, roll cage, and "safety structure".
Meanwhile the US government is arguably doing the same with SLS. Nobody's expecting it to ever be cost effective for anything, but it provides said strategic independence.
Three years ago, I wrote a whole post on HN warning about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220992

Earlier this year "Ordinals Theory" and now the "BRC-20" tokens have been taking off like crazy... https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/05/02/first-mover-amer...

In anything that's NOT proof of work, I would be willing to engage and help the ecosystem. But with proof of work, I'm worried that the Bitcoin blockchain having MORE applications is bad for the world. I've spoken to people whose job it is to defend Bitcoin and they had to admit that, if market forces continue, then Bitcoin will start to cause blackouts for people around the world (in some parts, it already has).

Ironically, the Bitcoin maxis probably hate that their beloved blockchain is now going to be overrun with degens bidding up their transaction fees to the moon: https://twitter.com/IntercoinOrg/status/1654355480569839616

Anyway, I am wondering, maybe helping NFTs on Bitcoin and making degens have a mania and crowd out the Bitcoin transactions will actually make Bitcoin LESS attractive to the HODLers? In that case, I'd do it. I wish Bitcoin price would fall and make it uneconomical to mine it, while non-PoW projects like Polygon break free of it and see a lot more adoption.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, I’m just saying the tech has enabled it to be ubiquitous. And when that happens, you’re going to get bloat all over the payment process- if it’s not tipping screens, it’s supermarket POS systems asking you to donate to random charities. At some point you need to take it as less of a moral social affront and just screen it out.
Sorry for your losses. On the other hand, if my employer offered 45 days of paid time off under certain conditions, I'd do my best to maximize that benefit.
> Meanwhile, the solutions to our problems today basically mirror the ones we've been using for centuries.

What exactly does this mean?
Yes why build a technology when you can sell just the promise of that technology to your stans.
Backend as a Service (BaaS). Interesting because the move toward headless this-and-that, "You just focus on how it looks," and the seeming ease of integration among multiple vendors (disparate services) promises a lot of things.
Sure or just random luck, maybe this submission just happened to take place when the only few people who care about this subject happened to come online, or vice versa for bad luck before etc.

But unlike sites like Reddit, with the exception of self / ask HN / etc posts, nobody really pays attention to who the submitter is, so enjoy the conversation finally breaking out on it as consolation for not getting karma points, but skip linking to dead submissions :)

FYI, if you ever submit something that fails to get any traction / upvotes, then I've seen mods say before (@dang will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong) that a) it's OK to try submitting a second time maybe after a day or so (but not keep submitting over and over) or b) send the mods an email with a brief reason why it's a link that should interest HN readers for it to be potentially added to a "second chance pool". Though in the case of this link, between three of you it was posted two days ago, one day ago, and today which has finally got a bit more notice, so worked out alright in the end :)
I believe that's what the app shows if you have already signed up.
It's a lost cause. Californians are way too talented at sucking money out of so-called non-profits.
Bitcoin is 14 years old. There are many alternatives in wide-use by now, that can settle in seconds, for sub-penny tx fees regardless of transfer amount.
Where credit card transactions are reversible even to 60 days later, crypto txn's are final.

There are many pro's and con's on both sides. Crypto's unique and fills a niche it built for itself. People have mocked it, attacked it, misrepresented it and underestimated it for over a decade now. It's still here, and it's still growing hugely.
The people on bluesky are not actually upset about the "hellthreads", they're mostly reveling and laughing about it. It's a fun piece of chaos, feels very early-internet
Regarding the risk of stepping out in front of a Waymo vehicle, I personally wouldn't be too concerned about it as long as there's adequate stopping distance to begin with. You're most definitely being picked up by at least a few different sensors, even from hundreds of ft away. If the car is able to correctly categorize you as a pedestrian, it's constantly re-assessing the probability of you stepping into its path based on multiple visual cues, adjusting its behavior accordingly. If the car isn't able to categorize you, it's still seeing you as a large blob that isn't in its static world map, so it's going to aggressively stop out of caution rather than try driving through you.

The reliance on a static world map is a very big safety feature in my opinion. I wouldn't be as confident stepping into the path of a Tesla.
The real power was unlocked with uplevel, upvar and switch regexp for a variety of reasons. I miss sane language extensibility. It was meh in clojure by comparison and too much in scala.
> nerds and idealists have moved to Mastodon, the twitter elite have gone to BlueSky, the Bitcoin bros have gone to Nostr, and the people who have to use Twitter professionally have stayed with the bigots and conspiracy-theorists that are taking over Twitter

…and everyone considers themselves better off without all those other groups shitting up the place.

I agree with the other commenter saying that having everyone in the same room is overhyped.
Or pay a few bucks a month for an email service that has an aligned set of incentives.
I think where we're ending up here is that—while all these points ("tool for the job", "here for the mission") may be true—they are often cited by people who are full of shit, so seeing them in job postings, interviews, etc doesn't really send any useful signal.
Do you think it's factually incorrect that the HN comment section is more likely to find problems which invalidate the conclusions of the paper than the journal-driven peer review process?
The Age of Silicon Is Here for Batteries
It's wasteful compared to using hardware that is purpose built for climate control. Also, what do you do in the summer, turn off the miner or increase the AC? (which is more expensive than heating)
Intel to Show Off E-Core-Based CPU with Backside Power Delivery
Have you used typescript? Because to my eyes, that's a massively successful "bolted on" type system.

Sure there're holes in the system, but the utility is significant, especially relative to the cost.
Does the fourth passenger sit in the "driver's" seat, or is it a three-packed-in-the-back kind of situation?

Never seen a self-driving-car in person, but I assume it's the standard 4-seater sedan layout, right?
The lack of verification of the claims made related to the "bogus document binder hack job" doesn't preclude the possibility of conspiracy, sedition, etc. actually occuring, and the dossier played essentially no role in subsequent investigations. He also wasn't exactly anti-war. On the campaign trail rhetorically he was, but aside from the (disastrous but did need to happen) withdrawal from Afghanistan mostly continued the imperialist status quo. Iran and Syria are high-profile examples. He is an authoritarian populist, yes. I'm not sure why only people with money would have a reason to oppose that. The main reason people oppose him is he is an ineffective, narcissistic leader who did his utmost to personally enrich himself, continue to fan the flames of division, and forcefully push through fiscal policy that was basically the opposite of what should have been implemented at the time. It was not all bad, but it is hard to find much good. The market does not like uncertainty, and a bombastic cult of personality ball of teenage angst is not who you want with the levers to the world's largest economy.
As someone who isnt a programmer, why are those "guides" done so poorly?

def double(val)
val + val
end

The example does not show what happens when you try to connect text and a number. Will it glue them together? Give an error?

Also, "for humans", the whole x = x + 1 is illogical.
I am a little afraid of the long-term safety implications of people driving these massive (literally by mass, not volume) EVs. As if being a pedestrian, biker, or small-car driver wasn't already dangerous enough in the US. For context, a compact SUV EV weighs almost as much as many full-size trucks:

Current Cars

* 2023 Compact Gas SUV (RAV4): 3,370 lbs

* 2023 F-150 V8 Supercab: ~4,500 lbs

* Your typical American short school bus: 10,000 lbs

EVs

* 2023 Tesla Model Y: ~4,500 lbs

* 2023 F-150 Lightning Extended Range: ~6,500 lbs

* 2022 Hummer EV: 9,000 lbs

Except now the 9,000 lb SUV can go 0-60 in 3 seconds.
I've felt the same way and it's good to hear I'm not alone. I feel like log4j should have been enough of a jolt to push back on dependency hell enough that devs would start writing directly against codebases they can trace and understand. Maybe this is just a byproduct of larger teams not having to do their own DevOps.
There’s Still a Long Way to Go with Generative AI
It’s true. But the current state is also untenable. People are dying that could be saved if we weren’t making medical trials and environmental review so costly.
Agreed. Where I work, less than 10% of users even seen the footer regardless of the pages they visit.
>How much of that is just a garden variety "grass is always greener on the other side" effect?

In my example not so much. I'm working in a number of frameworks, use them regularly, sometimes ColdFusion is just faster / better suited, sometimes some other system.
That demonstration as per OP is dumb or targeted to React-ists. You can, with HTMX, do the classic AJAX submit with offline validation.

In the last years, for every layer of web development, what I saw was that a big smelly pile of problems with bad websites and webapps, be it MPA or SPA, was not a matter of bad developers on the product, but more a problem of bad, sometimes plain evil, developers on systems sold to developers to build their product upon. Boilerplate for apps, themes, ready-made app templates are largely garbage, bloat, and prone to supply chain attacks of any sort.
Carmakers are ‘pushing’ SUVs because a large fraction of buyers want SUVs.

I find it concerning that this seems incomprehensible to many people.

You can’t really change what people want without enacting dystopian/fascist policies.
nice, some examples?
I know of a 15 years django project that runs on 2.7 that is still making money. It got reinstalled this month on brand new Ubuntu servers out of a rubbish requirements.txt, and it worked.

So much for saying python packaging sucks.
The way to fix this with the system is by voting locally and federally to remove the gears of power that don't want to move to their constituent's will. While I appreciate a certain resistance or hesitancy toward action (or inaction) it's unfortunate that we as a society routinely elects the same people to the positions of power and then expect anything to change. It won't. If you want to change the DNC you need to have a majority of the DNC on your side. That means getting involved not only in governance but also politics. Barely anyone does the former and even less do the second.
The thing that made Duke Nukem 3D great was its irreverence, compared to the seriousness of its contemporaries. It wasn't meant to be "great." It was fun.
The trend of EVs getting larger is frustrating for those of us with shorter than average garages. Something like a Bolt EUV fits mine (~177") just about perfectly, while the Equinox that's slated to replace it is too long. I could modify my garage by moving around HVAC and such to make more room but it's rather silly for that to be necessary.

It would be one thing if the lack of cars in this size range also extended to ICE cars, but it doesn't. There's plenty of gas-powered options, some of which are variants of mainstream models (like the Corolla hatchback). It's just EVs where all of the best-regarded models skew larger.
> The people who pick up corpse parts on train tracks are paid very well and it needs no education.

Lol I have a friend looking for work, I'll make the suggestion.
For these exact reasons, I'm more comfortable with Xi Jinping's cronies spying on my every movement than my own government. The Chinese only do that stuff to their own citizens and I'm a zero-value target to them. US authorities may feel like being petty one day.
Now just spinning a bit of yarn here, but this seems like a shrewd piece of political opportunism by Prigozhin.

The reality is that since he was denied additional access to Russian prisoners to use as cannon fodder, Wagner has had to commit its more experienced troops into the Bakhmut meat grinder. My money is that in his calculations, the cost of victory there would be a dramatically diminished war-fighting ability of the PMC. Not only that but it might make Russian military leadership look less terrible - definitely not something he wants. However, with a retreat, he can preserve Wagner’s fighting capacity, while skewering the Russian military leadership, with whom he has been very publicly feuding. My $0.02
And entities which conversationally consume resources are normally seen as pests, plagues and similar with a tendency for their environment trying to eradicate them.
Were they apprehended via corporate spying? I wasn't aware of that.
Then the child should stay with the parent most able to provide for them. The big issue a lot of people have with the inequity of child support is that fathers who want custody of their kids are continually denied it by the state.

Involved, stay-at-home, full time fathers are given at best 50% custody and then a hefty child support obligation and told to go out and get a job. Uninvolved mothers are given primary custody by default and then collect a massive paycheck as a result.
I don't mean to pick on your comment specifically, but I really dislike the notion that someone who appreciates, prefers, or relies on static types and a more strict compiler or toolchain is somehow not a grown-up.

[Edit]: Added a missing word
He indeed re-implemented the MaMMUT: https://github.com/lucidrains/MaMMUT-pytorch
I think a lot of Lyft's early "we're like Uber, but better for women!" marketing hints that this is a killer feature that will absolutely drive growth. Especially now that Lyft, too, is saturated to the point of equally-risky drivers as Uber was/is.
Really love what waymo have been achieving with a relatively small team, but more importantly, they’ve had their heads down working and solving hard problems instead of opting for attention-seeking behavior, making ridiculously pompous claims and false promises (e.g. delivering robotaxies that make you $30k/yr by next year!), getting into ideological (sensor) wars, etc.
(How many people know the name of their CEO? And yet they’re slowly and steadily marching along, hitting one milestone after another.)

Kudos to the hardworking waymonauts!
I run my own WireGuard VPN for my home devices, and I have had a hell of a time getting MDNS to work over it. I tried various reflectors and couldn't get them to work, has anyone made this simple?
Yeah especially with the advent of algorithmic pricing it's going to get a lot harder to regulate
How do you know when to change the password?

> You can't change biometrics and that's why they're definitely worse.

Sure you can, you've got ten fingers and after that all it takes is a blowtorch.
And of course judges decisions are sancrosanct regardless of proven wrongs. The judge belongs swinging from the gallows more than the accused.
It's tough to know for sure. Many of the instance types in these regions are at the price floor, so there could be increases in aggregate demand that just don't show up because the DCs are overbuilt. These markets are thinner so if demand shifts to them (big if because moving regions is hard) we might quickly see price spikes.
I know this is not hard science, but as we're grappling with the ramifications of AI's possibly looming singularity, I found this book incredibly useful in thinking through what it means to be conscious.