skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this has been done in the past.

Having to be at the airport 2 hours in advance is solely due to the security theater we all participate in. Back in the 90s you could indeed show up 15-30mins before takeoff. Magic pods aren't going to solve it: you'll just sit for two hours in your pod instead.

Trains in Britain used to detach some cars while driving at high speed, so-called "slip coaches". Turns out it is needlessly complicated while providing negligible real benefit. High-speed rail already operated in a hub-and-spoke structure, and one 5-minute stop every hour 100 miles or so is barely noticeable.
Do you actually have anything in your checked bag that you care if it gets stolen?
Is there even a notion of “friends”? or is it more like Twitter where you only follow others who may follow you back
Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition
Aesthetics is not disjoint from utility. Indeed, there's a convertibility because the utility of a tool is related to its beauty as tools are essentially defined by their utility. A tool that has higher utility is more beautiful according to that measure, whereas one that is mediocre is far less so. There may be decorative aspects that may enhance the beauty of a tool in a way that perhaps does not contribute to utility (though I am not certain this is entirely the case as the function may simply be subtle), or the decorative aspects may be considered beautiful apart from the tool's utility, but the beauty of the tool is not simply decorative. A beautifully machined screw driver of the highest craftsmanship is ugly if it fails to function as a screwdriver.
All invite-only early-access things that get hot are like it; once they go to general availability they go to shit, it seems.
At a first or second tier school, it would be basically unthinkable. None of the professors would even be willing to give you lessons -- they fill their studios through the audition process. It would be a huge waste of money to pay college tuition for remedial music lessons. Also, a big part of college music study is playing in ensembles that are coached by faculty. You have to be at a level where you can hold your own in an ensemble or you can't even participate. The schools are careful to admit only those students who can hang in the ensembles. Getting into music school is an application process on top of getting into the college.

With that said, you could get lessons from a graduate student who wants to earn some money.

My observation (two kids in music school) is that undergrad music is almost like grad school in other fields, in that you sign up with a specific professor who is your teacher for 4 years, and their job is to turn you into a fully fledged professional. The kids who are coming out of those programs are ready to start an independent professional career, the only obstacle being competition and not competence. My daughter, who is graduating this spring, is in fact playing professionally.
Even on large platforms you can (technically) download all posts. Might take some time and you might need to cycle some storage, but it's doable. So I don't really think that's a great metric to observe usage.

Ignoring that judging usage based on a still invite only platform is also a little silly.
$100 in US is INR8000 in India, if the job timeline is one week, and they took up 4 jobs in a month that is 32,000. Which is more than the entry level software job salary.
Upwork is a global company, not just the US market, so thinking in local currency won't make sense.
I was on Fiverr 7 years ago I explored it a lot, during my course of finding work there I came across interesting things. There were dedicated shops that took up 10-15 projects a week in the same bracket as u mention, the owner of one such shop bought a Harley Davidson in a year(Harley Davidson bikes cost a lot in India) his shop was 4 fresh out graduates who exclusively built WordPress websites. And there are many such groups.
Also funny enough most of the logo/graphic design/video edit jobs a remixes of PSDs/templates found on envato, freelogogenerator etc. You rarely find quality in such sites, you get what you pay for.
“Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.”
No "friends", only follows and followers like Twitter.
Yeah, the barcode only makes sense if you value secrecy over your brand. But streaming and content creation is way more lucrative than tournaments, so branding is more valuable. Even in major sports like golf or baseball, your brand is way more valuable. Pro athletes like Tiger Woods make way more money from their brand than their tournament winnings.

In the games I'm familiar with, pro players can still practice together secretly when prepping for a major tournament. But everyday play is just under one's own username.
Ask HN: Mods what games interest you?
Thanks to the author for taking the time and effort to have a very heartfelt and deep dive into their personal life - especially on subjects this nuanced.

Their comments on "hurt" rather than bad, and their feeling that they couldn't fight back unless they became "dirty", or just as bad as them, were especially resonant.

Their comments about their dad living through the cultural revolution made me remember the scene in the Three Body Problem where Ye Wenjie confronts the three communist youths that had killed her father many years after the revolution, and they explain that their own suffering and how it brought along her fathers death.
Nor do most voters, so it all balances out.
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Sometimes either just relevant or actual citations, I've seen both. If you ask for specific citations for a specific phrase it's basically a coin flip what you get, what you get could be fake citations
I think you meant 4 miles/kWh (= 15.5 kWh/100km).
I think what's surprising to me is all the people who seem to think that the chief method of conquest is replacement, when it's long been established that it's indoctrination. The Romans didn't kill off native peoples - they subjugated them, taxed them, and forced them to comply with some Roman norms. Their greater success though, was getting the people to want to be Roman.

And who wouldn't want to be Roman when the simple words "Civis romanus sum" were an effective passport through an empire that stretched months of travel? When it opened commercial opportunities with a large and relatively effective bureaucracy? A nation that built roads and exported consumer goods, spices and wines and finery, like none had ever before it? Most of Europe is still interconnected by the roads the Romans paved. They've been repaved with macadam, but the lines are the same.

People imitated the Romans because they were powerful. They formed alliances and married their daughters off to Romans who would keep them in relative luxury. The conquest was equally about minds as of arms.

This has been true in all conquests. Some have been more brutal about instilling their culture than the Romans, and to that end, they were more effective at suppressing or destroying the previous culture. But ultimately, it is the conquered people taking on the aspects of their conqueror more than genocide and recolonization that has succeeded in spreading cultures throughout history.
The change in albedo is due to ice receding and revealing darker water, which absorbs more energy than ice does. The net effect is more solar energy being held in the ocean and atmosphere.

The same thing happens anywhere there is ice. Think of mountain tops revealing dark gray rock which heats to 30 degrees Celsius in summer in a location where there was previously ice. The ice would melt, yet reflect energy and still be cooler than the air, but the rock just radiates heat into the atmosphere (and remaining ice surrounding it).
I think this is a good take that I don't need to add much to, to be honest.

Maybe this doesn't add as much to the discussion as vehement agreement or disagreement might to the curious HN reader, but I do really personally appreciate it. <3 :)
By this do you mean that doctors are changing their minds, and since doctors do things like run advisory boards at the FDA, that causes the FDA to behave less restrictively?

In other words, why would the FDA bother to go with any flow? On the view of some economists, bureaucrats should never deregulate because there's no incentive for them to, and mere cultural pressure shouldn't really be an incentive.
People seem to be generally anti-social-media and, furthermore, anti-social-media-magnate.

I'm a fan of publishing. I think any-to-any publishing is one of the most important applications of the internet.
What? Outside of like minecraft on espernet and a few obscure old games which have communities on quakenet nobody was really using IRC for gaming communities. Those existed largely on various forums, Skype, reddit, teamspeak and steam.
> I felt like there was an ideal point where Pidgin + XMPP interfaced with everything and we've slowly walked away from that high water mark. So, approaching communication at the protcol level has a certain appeal. I get the reasoning behind the goal.

One thing regarding bluesky that is often overlooked, and is related to XMPP (Jabber), is that Jeremie Miller, the inventor of XMPP is one of three board members, the others being Jack of Twitter fame and Jay Graber who is the CEO.

Hopefully, the combined experience of running a platform the founder himself consider a failure with the experience of inventing a open protocol still being used today, can create something cool.

But it's way too early to tell, as you say. One can only stand by and see where they end up. They certainly have interesting ideas, but the crux is always in the implementation.
ISS requires too much constant maintenance. No-one would be willing to operate it at what it costs NASA. Any future space stations want to learn from the lessons of ISS and build something that doesn't require constant work and monitoring to function, and with modern launch prices you can get the baseline capability up there for just a few years of ISS maintenance.
No, but you can with the curves that the NSA proposed to NIST.
You said up above that you’ve never done psychedelics, so it makes sense that you’ve never experienced it. This is not a simple example of hyperassociation, it’s a classical case of psychedelic apophenia. If you spend just a few minutes browsing r/psychonaut, you’ll see if for yourself. I’ve also found that one can replicate it by drinking too much coffee. The connection between apophenia and psychedelics is well known.
That seems like a temporary issue. Right now we've still got lots of expensive/high class EVs where ludicrous mode is a thing people are excited about, but once there's real competition on the low end... "doesn't waste tyres" sounds like both a good selling point and simple to implement.
Can you give us some links so we can look too?
I'm not sure at what point in life, someone with your HN score ends up dismissing reality (examples of people making real use of blockchains) in favour of contrived logic (inventing absurd scenarios like buying pizza with layer 1 blockchains, preaching the upsides of a taliban regime and bringing up the industrial revolution in order to move the goal post), but I sure hope it won't happen to me.

> the opinion that this Kool-Aid is poisonous

my opinion is that it's a certain type of person who is the poison
Is there a way to know if it is safe to enroll my own keys? I always wanted to, but always didn't do it, because I often read that it can make the system unbootable.
Which broadly describes why things are going okay there. There isn't anything to moderate, there's no spam, there's no fixated person harrassment.

There's nothing hard being solved.
If ChatGPT is impressive when discussing any subject, unless you’re an expert, it should be a journalist.

Okay, I know that sounds like a sleight but I mean it in reverse: we give it a hard time for failing at something humans can’t do either: be an expert at everything. Journalists do a great job despite regularly driving SMEs nuts.

I use it not for querying immutable truths but for exploring topics. It trivializes what used to be paralyzing for me: “where do I begin if I want to learn about X?”
Warren Buffett is a brilliant investor, not a domain expert in AI. He’s just out of his depth here and his opinion doesn’t mean much.

When people talk about AI they often mean general AI which doesn’t exist and I think is a lot further away than many people are suggesting. I’m a middle aged software engineer, but I think it’s quite possible I don’t live to see it. Maybe not the most likely outcome, but definitely possible that it’s much harder than we think.

But general AI would be a titanic sea change, a singularity beyond which we cannot see. It would at minimum be massively disruptive and at maximum be the end of the human race.
The Coggers – history and tragedy of the first US mountain railroad
Shouldn't the title read "Modern Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and English people found to have Pictish ancestry"?
Would be interesting to see if your comment has any basis at all by comparing how things looked for Twitter at the same timescale, or Facebook, or any other social media.

Just to look at the numbers in isolation is hardly interesting.
> Regulation is an algorithm

I am not frightened by AI, I am frightened by people like you developing an amoral, inhumane pseudo-ideology to justify whatever they do and feeling entitled to act on it "because it was always thus"
I think /highlights just shows the top upvoted, parent-level comment per thread. Do you observe that too?

It may be coincidence that PII just happens to be in there. Folks love a good yarn, and establishing context helps.
I've been automating some of our team's most menial tasks and since we're in a corporate environment we don't have control over what is and isn't installed on our servers, so using bash is the sane default choice.

None of the scripts it produced are incredible or whatever (the tasks being more menial than lohic-based), but considering the intricacies of bash and how often I just faceplant into them as an experienced sysadmin, if feel as though the ability to just say "write a script that compares a list of agents against every manager and outputs the ones not found anywhere" and have it output basically a working script first try is impressive.
> I suspect there’s compilation optimizations to be made

There definitely are. I've spent a lot of time with UBT, and a "reasonable" amount of time with cmake and friends. UBT isn't quite the same as CMake + Ninja. UBT does "adaptive" unity builds, globbing, and a couple of other things.

> but I don’t think it would save more than 30% here and there.

Agreed. The clean build with UBT is painfully slow compared to Cmake + Ninja, but the full builds themselves are pretty good, and I'd bet that there's probably less low hanging fruit there.

I did a good chunk of work on improving compile times in Unreal, and there is definitely just low hanging fruit in the engine for improving compile times. Some changes to how UHT works around forward declares would also make a significant difference too.
Some people just actually pronounce it as Mastadon over Mastodon.
Do you know if diversity collapses in the ocean is more severe than on land? I know vast deforestation and destruction of the water cycle (either by reduction or degrading via pollution) has a virtually incalculable impact on this, but perhaps in the ocean it’s even worse.
Nothing's prevented you from reading the firmware - this is a signing key, not an encryption key. Multiple people have spent time reverse engineering the ME firmware, people have found bugs but no evidence of a backdoor.
"Better ones are better" is meaningless because there's no objective standard. What I think is better, you may think is worse. All we can say about style guides is, "different ones are different". They reflect the needs of each publication. And Wikipedia's style guide takes no stance in this case. Also, style is about preference, not correctness.

It may not be your personal preferred usage, but it certainly isn't bad usage if a major American dictionary approves.
This chain of messages was unexpected but filled with great info. Good advice - thanks for sharing.
Agreed, nice and simple, minus the Corporate Memphis art style.
Looks like Bose is already there: https://www.soundly.com/product/lexie-b2-powered-by-bose
I believe my question is warranted. If you do experience blatant xenophobia and the opportunities are scarce to none, why endure? I seriously don't understand.

The remainder of you comment is a pretty one sided take. I think the US and EU don't give each other much if you want to migrate from outside the Schengen area.

I'm not a fan of my governments current policy on migration, nor that of the EU, but the truth is, until a large portion of voters dies, I'm limited in what I can do about it.
The same thing happens with organ donations. And sex work, sometimes.

As a society, there are things we don't want people to be coerced into via need for money. Trying hard enough to avoid that coercion gets in the way of fair compensation for those things.

If you can solve that problem (and not by just saying "universal basic income" very loudly) they'll probably give you the Nobel for economics.
> If just 20 people adopted such a process, there would be 98% less complaints of this kind.

Okay so if 20 people did the same work over and over it would reduce 98% of the complaints.

Contrast that to if the author did the work once, it would reduce 100% of the complaints!
None of this is supposed to be more important than the way you handle your shopping cart.

Unless maybe you're not getting any kind of exercise at all or something like that.
I thought it was onomatopoetic?
this stuff is so fascinating.

I hope that after I die I go into spectator mode, but with the added ability to move myself through time so I can see all kinds of stuff like this play out.

There are so many historical questions that I want better answers to.

The Picts are one of those historical questions, for me.
> You’ve probably noticed that the marketing for this requirement is vague and confusing, and that’s intentional. It doesn’t do much for you, the consumer. However, it does set the stage for the future where Microsoft begins shipping their TPM on your processor. Enter Microsoft’s Pluton. The same technology is present in the Xbox. It would be an absolute dream come true for companies and vendors with special interests to completely own and control your PC to the same degree as a phone or the Xbox.

Explains why official sites don't explain what the TPM is beyond "security" [1], nor that this "security" means "security against the owner" - though the computer is nominally yours, it's built to keep secrets from you.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-is-tpm-705f24...
For sure, and to top it off:

> For his part, Tapio has denied committing an offence, and claimed that the responsibility for the breach fell on the shoulders of former members of the company's IT team.
The compilation-unit-per-file model (and in fact the whole concept of linking) are a legacy incremental build solution for C which somehow metastasized into fundamental requirements of building software on current OSes. It is an atrocity and should be disavowed by all developers.
Origin of the Word Gimbal
root:root on anything is negligence and is a civil matter. This should never have been tried in criminal court in the first place.

His incompetence was exposed by a criminal act, but it isn't what compromised the patients.

Hacking doesn't just happen as random acts of God. Failing to protect against criminals should never be a crime in itself.
Yeah, this argues for the theory (which I think is correct) that A.I can't reach consciousness since there is a lot of non-symbolic thinking going on (this study says approximately 25% percent).

Does Chat GPT dream of electric sheep?
Plans for open-source hearing aids have also been developed and released, like happened on HN a few years ago (amazing work by the gentleman @zdw) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20604566.
So, I think like someone else said, this is gov't catching up to the fact that market alternatives exist and are undercutting an industry that has celebrated regulatory shielding for a long time. Really, the hardware is less complex as time goes on, right? It makes sense that low-cost alternatives will bring quality up for consumers and prices down for consumers. Question, Hearing aids are considered medical gear and therefore the regulation?
Wrote a post about sorting lines in Neovim, almost wrote an intro to Vim instead
No, they take under 10 minutes, a business will often wait for a large amount of confirmations of the block your tx is included in to ensure they aren't vulnerable to a double spend, but if you're sending to a trusted party then this delay is not required.

Can you use your MasterCard to pay a Russian person?
Yea this was standard warmup for me two years into high school (not piano, but still it's common warmup). I never even went in to music on undergrad.

Everyone I knew who went into music for undergrad could play arpeggio in their sleep in any key, and most of them could do it on the piano too even when that wasn't their instrument.

Maybe what happened is that was a class of all non pianists who were dragging their feet learning piano? Idk
SCaNN is coming to Milvus very soon (we've seen some demand from the community). Stay tuned.
History is not quite like computing, at least in terms of having a compiler and syntax/semantics matter (and are machine-verified).

Other than digesting a whole ton of history at once--or debating ChatGPT--how do you establish your axis or "quadrants" of political lean?

I wish there were a way to systematically track voting record. We're never in the room where it happens, so it can be difficult to tell if a political compromise is for a future favor, or part of a consistent policy position.
To this day, I still do not understand what can be a reasonable cause for a paper to cost >$50 just to read it. Besides greed of course. Editors review paper for free, authors pay to get paper published, taxpayers fund the research. What do the journal's staff actually do that worth that kind of money?

All those "publisher" middlemen can go eat dirt and I would be happy to shovel more dirt on them until they are 6 feet under. They do no work, take all the profit, and obstruct research and the spread of knowledge. Those are some of the worst scums of capitalism.
> I felt like there was an ideal point where Pidgin + XMPP interfaced with everything and we've slowly walked away from that high water mark.

I remember writing a tutorial on how to connect your League of Legends chat of all things to Pidgin, once upon a time. I doubt it still works, Riot's completely remade their client since then....but, yeah, those days were certainly nice.
I just think it’s funny how my usage of vim is a borderline religion. I’m just so happy with it that I wanna share how to use it with everyone!
I think there is a lot of topics one might discuss online that you don't talk with others AFK with, and then the connection between spelling<>pronunciation never gets cemented.

I see the same thing all the time with Etherium/Ethereum as well for example.

I had the same problem when NGINX first came out. It wasn't until maybe a year later after starting to use it that I actually talked with another person AFK about NGINX, and they said "engine-x" which I had never heard of.
well, I'm Scottish, but I was born in America, so shouldn't it also say American? /s

omission from the title does not mean that the unmentioned nation has zero Pictish ancestry.