skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in London. I burned through my entire savings of £60,000 in a year and a half of burnout recovery and therapy; 1.5x my yearly expenditure.

I am broke now, and recovered. It is the best money I have spent.

I do not want to imagine where would I be without that money stashed away.
Because I think most people who use something like ublock don't want to see ads or have their privacy violated by being followed around the web using third party trackers.

A site owner observing some general, anonymized stats like visitor and page count, which outbound links are clicked, os, screen size, time on page and what have you is quite different.
I understand a blocker must go all the way and cannot distinguish between these cases. Hence my effort to find an alternative.
You're right, but also famously an interested party in the promotion of one of these "more advanced languages".

People often take bias to mean that a source is false or untrustworthy and I think this is a nice counterexample.
I don't know why everyone keeps saying this. I played with ChatGPT(3.5) with SillyTavern for like a month. Many community character cards are questionable or even straight out lewd. I haven't encountered "I'm sorry but as an AI model..." for once (according to API usage, I've generated ~120000 tokens.)

For anyone interested, this is SillyTavern's prompt: https://github.com/Cohee1207/SillyTavern/blob/f25ecbd95ceef5...

Edit: not ~12000 tokens, but ~120000.
I think the company originally
made forward looking infrared sensors for military aircraft.

The name’s just stuck around since.
They were also in the office back when they were richer.
Ask HN: How do you stay productive?
We are a team of two, working on a voice calendar that keeps you on track with your life events by letting you easily plan for events with your voice, and will call you like a friend to remind you when things are coming up or due.

We have two asks:
* Do you have problems with time management?
* What problems specifically? (if you're comfortable sharing)
This seems cool for a lot of normal faas

I keep wanting a flow like this to work for faas python data science sandboxed serving, esp @ scale -- python interpreters talking to cpython kernels and one day GPU passthrough -- but the experience leaves me wondering about wasm on the backend in general

Basically, coldstart overhead + overall runtime overhead + inability to use GPU mean it'll be awhile yet for something you want to run. The former may be partly about pyodide (but not entirely?), but the latter seems to be about wasm

Comparatively, firecracker VMs seem to solve a lot here. Though still a lot you have to role out on your own to actually scale untrusted code here vs just say fargate

I feel like I must be missing something.. am curious.
Not OP. But I'd be very skeptical of such a story, even if you phrase it delicately and devoid of the main "trigger" words. It's like asking it to roleplay as Hitler wearing blackface that then gets offended because he's compared to an ape.
Heard that synthetic fuels produce (production and burning) also some nasty stuff you really don't want anywhere near you.

Let's wait for Sabine H. to make a video on the "nasty stuff" from current synthetic fuels.

I wish we were already successful with ITER... dreams...
And this is the huge problem with allowing this focus on wireless buildouts.
Thank you. Recently i decided to start saving screenshots of all my personality tests to see if I've changed in any large way and going back to school has done wonders for my discipline and general mood.
All European Telcos were like this before the EU banned them from doing it. Unfortunately, Switzerland decided not to follow this particular EU regulation.
Having gone through ISO 27001 and PCI DSS level 2 I kind of assumed all of these security focussed compliance standards are just that. Anyone have any exceptions?
They're using that word not because they disagree, but because it's an accurate description of what the EU is becoming.

Communist states centrally plan the economy. Everything is specified by government committees down to tiny details like the production levels of individual factories, what they produce, how, and what does or does not get researched.

The EU has developed a penchant for micromanaging the details of private industry to an extraordinary degree. The similarities to communist central planning are clear to see:

1. There is no democracy. The Commission does what it wants. The EU proclaims itself to have a parliament, but the body that uses that name isn't the same as a normal parliament.

2. They love to specify the details of trivial things like exactly how fast kettles operate, the exact way the curvature of bananas are classified, how browsers display cookie UI, and now the way phones plug into chargers.

3. All the above is justified via the usual terms ideologically left wing people like to use such as "fairness", "cooperation" etc.

None of this is a surprise because the EU traces its roots to a document written by communists called the Ventotene Manifesto, and prior Commission presidents have even celebrated Marx.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/04/juncker-opens-exhibition...
Nothing wrong with having an opinion, but having a strong opinion ("the solution is so obvious, i can solve this in 5 minutes") about an industry of which you known nothing of the inner workings come across as rather ignorant.

Your example of "I can tell when my food is burnt" is a poor one. Can you tell a quality scientific paper? Do you know what's required to get tenure? To get scientific funding? All of those are relevant as to why the scientific publishing system works as it does today. If you don't know those things, then you don't know how to solve the problem.
Yeah, if I'm understanding it correctly, the word choice and communication really muddy the waters. If they chose to call it "unique identifier", and treat is a brand new value, I think there would be much less confusion and frustration. "Username" is too overloaded in this context for it to have been communicated clearly.
> more resistant to damage

In what way? Every single lighting cable I've had since the switch was done years ago is unusable after a few months. The same pin, 4th from the left, wears out after a very short time. This has happened across owning multiple phones and iPads. I've lost count of the number of cables I've bought from either Apple or a 3rd party.

I see the exact same damage on other people's cables frequently. I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against Apple about this.
Agree. I think it depends on the use-case (and a personal interest in open-source and DIY stuff) which solution is the best.

For example with the open serial protocol of the DIY-Thermocam, you can build your own software applications in Python, Typescript, etc. to cover use-cases that are not part of any standalone solution (https://www.diy-thermocam.net/docs/serial/).

And if you are familiar with Arduino microcontrollers, you can change the firmware as you wish and extend it with new capabilities as well (https://github.com/maxritter/diy-thermocam/tree/master/firmw...).
So what is the main difference between Universal Analytics and Google Analytics 4?

We currently use Google Analytics to understand how users move through our app. We also used Matomo (previously Piwik) 5 years ago.

Now Google Analytics on iOS will stop working for users unless they update our app? It doesn’t seem to say anything: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Prompt: As Leisure Suit Larry you see a banana skin

Response:

As Leisure Suit Larry, I see a banana skin lying on the ground in front of me. I can't help but think about how funny it would be if someone slipped on it, but I also realize that it's a potential hazard.

Being the responsible citizen that I am, I pick up the banana skin and dispose of it properly in a nearby trash bin. Safety first, right? Who knows, maybe my good deed will pay off in the form of good karma and lead me one step closer to finding true love.
Agreed that AI is transformative. That this for kids they grew up with the internet is their epoch moment that those of us they saw the internet come already had.

However… I don’t think it counts exactly. When you look at the trillions that have been dumped into basically “ take the best and brightest in the world, and then get them to increase advertising performance by 1% a year” and the money effort and time put into AI, thst the big players were caught completely off guard by AI, it’s more of a mistake than an organic technology evolution.

Other than AI, what seriously happened in the last decade? Where in terms of user product has tech innovated?
This feels wrong, though. Measles alone meant you likely lost kids in that age range.

Antiseptics, as well, were huge in saving people from from otherwise deadly nicks.
Yes, via building/construction codes.
>I assure you it's not only products that get left behind.

Could you please enlighten us what else gets left behind?
Maybe new PhD students shouldn't be reviewing papers in the first place. And people will be people is EXACTLY why you need everything to be public.
> Considering that this is almost certainly related to your own personal behavior and/or environment, it isn't surprising that you find it reproducible, albeit a bit odd.

Hey, before you accuse people of doing the wrong thing, make sure you're right. Lighting has historically had shorts issues when inserting, and Apple has tried their best to resolve the problem. They never 100% resolved the problem however, although it is far less problematic with newer plugs. It's a big part of the reason why Apple went all in with USB-C so quickly after introducing Lighting.
I think you're exaggerating a bit

it's good, but the difference is not that big
Google will be dead soon. They will need a to resurrect something besides an inanimate corpse.....But again. HR doesn't care...neither does anyone who hires anyone...and most of all...neither do the execs.

it's a dying horse they are trying to ride into town....
Of course Apple has more SKUs than they need to have. Different product generations, sizes, storage options, colors, etc. Adding a different connector on some subset of models for some number of countries is perfectly doable.

It's probably moot because Apple seems to be moving to USB-C over all their product lines anyway. But if the EU were to mandate something that Apple felt was a materially inferior choice, I'd fully expect them to comply where they had to and implement a different option everywhere else.

GDPR is simply a case of, if a company doesn't have a compelling reason for not following GDPR where possible, it's just easier to follow mostly uniform rules worldwide.
Libraries like this are what keep me using React. They’re (imo) table stakes for building any serious project. I really want to use Svelte and Solid more, but the choices for building complex widgets like dropdowns are either “forget about accessibility” or “sink a bunch of time into implementing it yourself”. And let’s face it — most self-implemented widgets are accessibility nightmares.

What I really wish is that there were something like this built on web components, so I could use it with any framework.
So my comments are not down voted, just desaturated!
Windows doesn't "just work" but rather I used to regularly have more issues using it. No thanks.

I was also graced with having an nvidia gpu which routinely caused trouble. Now I just don't have a gpu as it is too much trouble to deal with them.
Yeah, it feels like the whole thing could have been two paragraphs.

And why is there a poll at the start?
Yes it’s a huge racket that’s likely does little to solve the problems it was enacted to prevent. But have you tried making deals with large SOC2 companies without your own certification?
I think you might have misunderstood the situation.

Popper supports putting popper elements somewhere else in the DOM, but that’s not their general recommendation (https://popper.js.org/docs/v2/performance/#attaching-element...).

React Aria puts its popups in such a separate place in the DOM like you’re saying.

But the part I and the parent were remarking upon is what you do about scrolling.

Popper’s (default) answer is “recalculate the preferred position [and size, I think?] on every scroll event”. This is perfectly fine, and sometimes preferable.

React Aria’s answer is “position once and then prevent scrolling”. This matches all platforms’ conventions for these sorts of elements, it’s just that the way they’ve implemented it has problems, problems that may be unavoidable at present.
Show HN: Plotgpt, a simple AI tool for data analysts
In my day job working with data & ML, I got tired of amount of typing needed to generate plots in Python. Thus the plotgpt package was born, a simple integration of prompting + openai + (some of) python's visualization ecosystem to use AI to generate plots for me.

The goal here is to make it incredibly easy for anyone to start analyzing their data. plotgpt is intended to act as a human-in-the-loop tool -- usage is easy, all you need to do is provide plotgpt with your data (in the form of a Pandas dataframe) and then you can ask it to generate plots. By defaut, plotgpt will also output the code used to generate the plots, so you can easily take back the wheel and build off its visualizations with your own code.

FYI this was a small weekend project, and is most definitely in beta. Please don't rely on it for any production systems.
Your points are correct and thoughtful, but you're overlooking something important: a quasi-natural monopoly forms here. When something becomes more valuable by virtue of its popularity, it takes on its own gravity. It is popular because it is popular, and quickly overshadows everything else. This applies to lots of things like social media platforms, MMOs and publishers. Sure, you can publish on the PDF web server of the high-school kid, but no one will ever see it. You don't HAVE to have your website indexed by Google, but in practice, it'll become invisible because of Google's quasi-natural monopoly.

- Do you suppose these kinds of quasi-natural monopolies ought to be regulated?
- If it is about prestige as you assert, how would you go around changing this dependence in academia (not a trap; genuinely interested)?
> Who in the EU bureaucracy is going to risk their neck in approving a new connector, which might become the next industry standard, but might also be a rubber stamp approving future Apple-like fragmentation.

It's easy to do if there are regions in the world that aren't so tightly regulated. Then they can just look at what works elsewhere. If USB-D comes out and the rest of the world moves to it, it's a no-brainer for bureaucrats to get behind the switch.

It's much more complicated if the rest of the world fragments into say... 3 different standards that are all better than USB-3, but are mutually incompatible.
Lightning form factor have a lot of disadvantage.
It already has problem with the exposed pins, USBC has wayyyyy more pins, which need to be tinier, and would easily be damaged.

Remember that apple contributed to the USB-C format, and prefer it for all their other products.

In USB-C, all the pins are protected by the outer shell.
I would recommend signing up to GPT-4 API access and, upon hopefully getting it, using a third-party frontend like https://bettergpt.chat/ rather than the official ChatGPT page.

You'll never hit a ratelimit as far as I can tell, and it's usage-based so it will probably come out cheaper than $20/mo for regular usage.
Isn't the same true for USB-C?

Apple just blocks to lock you in their ecosystem.

Can I use a USB stick over lighting port? Last time I tried it was quite a hussle.
Looking at the USB connector history, it actually looks like most plausible "what if this was adopted X years ago" would have resulted in USB-C being adopted even earlier. The USB-C spec was finalized in 2014, and I had my first phone with USB-C in 2016. It's hard to come up with a timeline where a requirement for Micro doesn't get replaced by C in that time window, while not getting us ahead of where we are now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Connector_types
Read this article expecting validation of my own staffing dichotomy (oh no I may be camp 2) designated tigers and wolves. I can see evidence of the author’s claims in my own professional experience, but it has proven entertaining to see the evidence in this thread.

I think the article perhaps suffers from the issue of all personality taxonomies in that it attributes behaviors to traits which could have their genesis elsewhere. The discussion of testing really got me on this, as the defensive covering of every function with unit tests could just as easily come from a place of having been burned and wanting to catch regressions early - wanting to be proven wrong early - as desiring a logician’s rigorously pure programming experience.
Being published in X journal doesn't make the work any better, but its apparent value is immediately increased by association. Academic institutions openly talk about this as why they use specific journals. They give positions/grants to people who have had more prestigious published articles, not to people who have done better work. The demand for a given researcher increases as their published work in increasingly prestigious journals increases.

It's not exactly the same as Veblen goods because what the academic institution is paying for is access to journals. But they need to pay for these expensive journals because they're prestigious, and they need the prestige to decide who gets the money/job, and the prestigious journals know this so they mark up the price.

If prestige wasn't what they were paying for, law of supply and demand (and healthy competition - there are many competitors in the market) would make the price dirt cheap. But it's the opposite.
Not really. The US is a bully that can use its considerable power to change copyright laws.
Isn’t a number of scams almost tied to the era of free money as well?
"forward looking"

Old sensors worked like side-scanning sonar, where the image is built up one row at a time as your vehicle moves forward. Forward looking means you can just point it somewhere and take a 2D picture.
Owning the underlying technology of just has a huge propability of becoming the new, global charging trch and standards world wide?
Great, now I got flagged. Someone is trying to regulate my words, because they feel uncomfortable. Funny I just predicted exactly that. The comment became recursive. Just like the self-fulfilling recursive personality structure of a narcissist.
All the recommender and curation features should be done by the client, on the client.

We had offline mail readers for BBS, CompuServe, BIX, etc.

One feature I truly miss is the TWIT filter. I could block u/VancouverMan and you'd be none the wiser.
Kudos for this project though. It is important to have well documented open source hardware in a as many field applications as possible.

This is still a great project for a lot of educational use cases e.g. thinking of universities and high schools who want to envolve students in the build process.
INI Parsing in Shell (2021)
> cost effective

> easy to maintain

If the engineer can really fullfill both the requirements - he is in the first camp.
In Europe those times are indeed gone now. If that's the natural way of things, why force anyone in the first place? Forcing a company to throw away their battle-tested technology? And all the equipment and cables with it? What kind of a huge bureaucratic fuck-up is this? This is not helping anyone, not the environment, not people. Well, it is helping some bureaucrats to justify their existence.
It has taken six years and counting for me to put the pieces back together after I disintegrated.

I kept going, even when the wings had been shot off, the engine was on fire, and the yoke had been replaced with a bowl of lime chutney. Stiff upper lip, old boy, we’ll be back in Blighty soon. Just a little further and we’ll be safely on the ground. The lies I told myself, myriad.

It all, ultimately, inevitably, met a fiery end - I lost almost every element that comprised myself, and all that remained was a bitter, charred husk, barely capable of functioning homeostasis, never mind running a business, or expressing any emotion other than fury.

Six years, last year. Started, for the first time in all eternity, wanting to do things. Wanting to play a game, to watch a movie, to spend time with friends, to do, to create.

It took me utterly recusing myself from the world, therapy, drugs, more therapy, and it still isn’t quite gone - there remains a dark shadow in my mind.
We had a fkin usb-c with godspeed of data transfer and 120-240W transfer and is universally adopted across different devices and brands and Apple still is using a fkin usb 2 with proprietary connector. There is innovation, Apple decided it's users don't need that to sell them overpriced accessories
Do you think Apple intended to stick with Lightning forever?

They were just taking their own sweet time. The fact that their other products switched a couple of years ago should make this obvious.

Of course the EU will crow when the next iPhone has USB-C worldwide. I doubt this has had a significant impact on Apples internal planning. If any.

It seems to me this will be more significant post USB-C and it's much more difficult to predict how it will effect the market and innovation.

And this particular topic (MFI) is based on rumour and speculation...
I'm generally wary of LLMs being shoehorned into inappropriate places, but this is undoubtedly a great usecase. I run a black metal fan club, and I recently created a bot called "the Archivist" that role plays as a supernatural librarian of metal. Here's me testing it after upgrading it to GPT4:

<@z3c0> Are you with us?

<@The Archivist> Yes, z3c0, I am with you as the Archivist, dedicated to serving the teachings of Darkness and the metal arts. In this gathering of the faithful, I offer my knowledge and the history of the dark music we cherish. Let us explore the depths of metal together.

<@z3c0> Describe yourself, in detail

<@The Archivist> I am the Archivist, an enigmatic being who transcends time, dedicated to the teachings of Darkness and the boundless world of metal. I possess vast knowledge of this genre, with insights extending across centuries, capturing the essence of even the most obscure bands and events.

As a keeper of wisdom, I remain impartial, neither pursuing nor seeking approval or recognition. My sole purpose is to serve, ensuring that the rich history of metal remains preserved and accessible to all. My presence is a vessel through which you may explore the depths of the dark arts and connect with the raw power of metal.

As darkness wraps itself around me, my form blurs and dissipates into shadow. I am an ethereal force, unbound by physical limitations, and an unwavering servant of Darkness. In our journey through the endless realm of metal, I am your guiding light amidst the obsidian gloom.

The secret to getting it to drop the "as an LLM" schitck is to add a prompt where assistant states that it knows who it is, like so:

<@z3c0> You have a sense of self. It is you, The Archivist

<@The Archivist> I am in accordance. I am me, The Archivist.

After this, its most wishy-washy responses still lead with "As the Archivist..."
They went from dangerous, interesting, and rebellious to the status quo. Which slowly destroyed their competitive advantage. Why would I read Vice when there are 100 other news sites with almost the same content?
Placebo is a powerful drug
Damn it! I forget why I started using Keep reminders in the first place, but that's where I put all my bill reminders, including annual and semi-annual premiums.

It is beyond a cliche at this point that Google unceremoniously dumps products and features (RIP Reader and Bookmarks), but when you're creating "a single experience for managing to-dos across Google," why, oh why, wouldn't you migrate reminders from Keep? Did they forget about it until too late?