skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often feel like highbrow journalists allow themselves to get a little bit loose and sensationalistic when they take on the tech industry, because tech is looked down on in their circles and nobody is going to hold them to their usual standards, but I have personal experience with the myth of Tony Hsieh. Multiple coworkers have told me that Tony Hsieh's book (Delivering Happiness) changed the direction of their life, reinvigorated their enthusiasm for work, or defined how they personally approached business and personal relationships, and they recommended it to me almost evangelically. (It's on my Kindle, so far, unread beyond the first couple of pages.)

I'm pretty far from the center of startup culture, both personally and geographically, and I often read things about startup culture that I never personally experience myself, so the fact that the myth of Tony Hsieh reached me makes me suspect it was a pretty big deal.

Usually when people talk glowingly about tech industry titans like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, etc., they start with, "Of course he is/was a complete asshole, but...." Maybe that's how people talk about Tony Hsieh now, but for a while at least, a lot of people saw him as an inspirational person.
they can submit an I-D if it were so desired:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/#:~:text=Anyone%20can%....
Do the weirdest thing that feels right
https://netblocks.org/reports/internet-disrupted-in-pakistan...

youtube, twitter and facebook down
memory, internal iteration and scratchpads can and have been added. Foundation models don't include this yet, but it's not unexplored territory. Online learning is more difficult but I'd argue that various fine-tuning and control approaches are slowly working towards that.

So what is a brain other than a very complex non-linear function which takes inputs, iterates on them, integrates them with memory and eventually generates output?

> is that it doesn't truly understand anything at all, but is just instead (in simple terms) a large matrix of inputs to outputs

The first step to defeating the tiger is to realize that it cannot hurt you, for it is only made of simple atoms.
There is an amusingly high level of irony in going out in public for a private conversation. :D

Granted, I also don't have the same level of concern that is being expressed here. Nor the level of fear that my phone is always listening. Seems rather unlikely, all told. Unless I'm the target of an investigation or the victim of a stalker. In both cases, I'm far more likely to have active threats against my privacy than a passive phone of my own.
I think it's probably the opposite -- they've probably hired him to help build their new entertainment+surveillance stack.
The media seemed extremely motivated to point out race for George Floyd and other anecdotal cases. It seems only fair to then also look at race when it comes to statistics. Otherwise, one is effectively lying by cherry-picking which cases to focus on.

Besides, others seem quite confident the issue is guns. Without examining other causes, we can't be sure that's the case.
I am far less free now that there are daily mass shootings. Me and millions of people stay in their homes and never go to populated places. It sucks and I would be willing to go to a deeper level of hell if it meant undoing these shackles.
In a world of consumers who would salute as the next cool thing to have a device like a button that interfaces with brainwaves and connects online with devices and social media from the user's forehead, all running on closed non auditable platforms, what could possibly go wrong?
I love how Microsoft GitHub doesn’t allow you to search the code base unless you’re authenticated. /s
I'll see your blue hole and raise a "Blautopf" near where I grew up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blautopf

Rayleigh scattering on nanoscale limestone particles!
I was more referring to dragonflies' low neuron count with efficiency, but really efficiency is relative. You're describing speed, or efficiency with respect to time. We're able to do these things faster than a slime mold, but it take a lot more energy. Slime molds can be dropped on the floor and start solving problems, we have to build tools to hunt animals to roast over a fire we've built so we can sleep in a shelter we've built.
GraalVM native compiled binaries rarely beat out their JIT compiled counterparts - is that enough evidence?

The time spent optimizing is more than enough when you can focus the resources for the actually relevant parts.
Same, but i also favorite the ones i want to read later and in the evening go through the comments of some of them. Some never get read though
They must be doing a terrible job since Apple is selling more Macs now than they ever have.
I don't think this is fair. Knowing what should be avoided is a prerequisite for figuring out how to avoid it. Communicating what should be avoided should be done even if the "how" isn't really understood/thought out.
Arguably kinder as the dead won't be terribly bothered by it
> Sure, you could use some kind of external service that parses the underlying data, but what user is going to use that?

I already do this for Twitter, given it fucks up Discord embedding, and also use a similar tool for Bluesky, called psky. All you have to do is turn the "b" in "bsky" upside down, and change it to "psky". Not hard to use. I've heard some Bluesky clients also give out "share" URLs that are world-readable.

That said I agree that posts should just be public (and my understanding is that the current state is temporary).
>The monarch has zero power but also controls the military and can violently oppose the government?

No. They dont.

>He’s also powerful enough that people can be arrested for protesting his coronation.

Also No. That was the government.
No, you could definitly call into native DLLs from a Java applet. Everything had to be code-signed, and at some point a permission popup was introduced, but it totally worked (that's how I "integrated" a Windows D3D game written in C++ into browsers ca 2010 until Chrome removed Java plugin support).
What if they know servers really really well? That could be boring for them. Kind of like hiking the same trail every week.
Bitwig and LMMS work in the Steam Deck although touch mode in bitwig is indeed a bit odd due to monitor size assumption.
That doesn't tell you that all of those people left the state, though. A lot of SF folks moved to other parts of CA; housing prices in Fresno went crazy during the pandemic, anecdotally because it was all Bay Area folks discovering that they could now remote-work from anywhere.
Textualism as practiced is already calvinball and there is little point in trying to identify rational legal arguments that may persuade the court. It is much more explanatory to just look at the biases of the justices and assume they will reverse-engineer a textualist interpretation that supports their position.

See Bruen where a lack of laws regulating guns indicates public carry is a right rooted in historical tradition vs. Dobbs where a lack of laws regulating abortion before quickening does not. [1]

The conservative legal movement has turned constitutional interpretation into a shell game where choice of framing and selective use of historical examples can yield whatever result the justices already want.

All of that said, the argument is that parking minimums constitute a restriction on your property rights for public use without compensation and a similar argument could be made with things that did exist at the time such as carriages. Again see Bruen where Thomas "refutes" a weapon ban by arguing handguns are more analogous to daggers than to lances.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4187143
Being poor sucks. But it's a hell of a lot better than it used to be. And it's getting better every year.
"Don't go on a downloading spree."

Why not? Where is the harm?

It is better to have a book you don't need, than to not have books you discover you do need and memory is cheap.

I spend lots of time off grid and I surely did not touch every ebook I had in my collection, but it was still nice browsing through what I had and then choosing the one I wanted that moment.
Why would Apple only sell iPads when they can sell iPads + Macs?
> while _actual_ creative professionals will more than willingly pay $5/mo and love every minute of it.

I doubt that:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23662000/waves-audio-engi...

> Music producers revolted against an app’s subscription scheme — and won

Actual Music producers hate subscription schemes.
How next-gen protein innovators are planning to win over consumers
The taste and texture of meat and dairy analogues have come a long way. But according to alternative protein experts, ‘there is still room for improvement’. How will the next generation of innovators win over consumers, and what hurdles will they need to jump to get there?
> It's the only way to get woke types to listen to you.

That word does not mean what you think it means
Because it's off-topic for HN. From the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of the page:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic"
hope so!
I would hedge my bets and also download plenty of fiction. The risk of becoming blocked by one little thing you need to download, but can't, seems quite high.
Larry's endgame for Google Search was a brain-embedded knowledge engine. Like, literally reading minds to answer questions.
Your interpretation is wrong then.
We have that rain -> drive home; here is the truth table.

rain | drive | rain->drive home
false| drive | true
true | drive | drive

Thus, the statement could be true, if you have driven home, but you did not provide such information.

Just because something is on the right hand side of an implication doesn't make it true. The statement A=>B is true iff A is false, or A is true and B is true at the same time.

Or alternatively, (not rain) || drive home

rain | not rain | drive home | (not rain) || drive home
true | false | true | true
true | false | false | false
false| true | true | true
false| true | false | true

So it is entirely possible to not have rained, and not to have driven home.

The contrapositive is !drive home -> !rain

(drive home) | rain | !(drive home) | !rain | !(drive home) -> !rain
true | false| false | true | true
true | true | false | false | true
false | false| true | true | true
false | true | true | false | false

Thus whether the statement is true depends entirely on whether it rained; but you can not infer that as both options yield a true statement.

This whole thread and chain is affirming the consequent.

> In propositional logic, affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, fallacy of the converse, or confusion of necessity and sufficiency, is a formal fallacy of taking a true conditional statement (e.g., "if the lamp were broken, then the room would be dark"), and invalidly inferring its converse ("the room is dark, so the lamp must be broken"), even though that statement may not be true. This arises when the consequent ("the room would be dark") has other possible antecedents (for example, "the lamp is in working order, but is switched off" or "there is no lamp in the room").

> Converse errors are common in everyday thinking and communication and can result from, among other causes, communication issues, misconceptions about logic, and failure to consider other causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
A philosophy should not be judged based on its abuses.
You will be surprised when you find out how many amazing piano players have practice in a piece of wood/cardboard with the keys drawn/carved
> Legally, a corporation is a person. It's not a human being, but it is a person.

A corporation is a unique legal entity that has a limited subset of the rights of a person, but is not considered the same as a person as a blanket statement.

Specifically, a corporation is considered a "person" for the purposes of being able to enter into contracts, being able to sue and be sued, and similar.
DNS is not used much (at all?) for real world problems, but LES has become much more common.
IBM Dromedary: Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch
Is anyone else tired of the snobbery, condescension and down right hate around this topic? People are writing articles like this saying how AI is useless (also, the sarcasm is so spicy), yet I feel this underlying sense of fear towards this. Can they please make up their mind? And I know the argument is that investors don't understand quality and this takes away resources from quality writers, but quality writers have lost the war anyways, apparent from the decline in the percentage of quality content. Are they fighting for the right to produce low quality content?

I was not old enough when internet was coming up, but I wonder if there was a similar tone towards internet when it came along. I've seen some quotes in places complaining about how early internet destroys the human part of booking a holiday. That was interesting to read. I wonder if there is a book about this.
We used to do hacky stuff on Windows Mobile pre iPhone.

My first streaming setup basically used SSH to control my MPD server but it worked.
AFAIK, Georgia still requires you to have a paper copy in the car even though cops can verify off the tag.
Yeah but can I get one of those lawn mowing robots so I can instead feel accomplished by my guitar playing?
Show HN: Instant Answers – Have 1:1 conversations with any given text source
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Is iPad GarageBand different from iPhone GarageBand? Or are they the same app?
If only we could get a new version of Java for the browser. Something more of a scripting language that is not compiled but interpreted. Could probably knock out a proof of concept in a week, might call it Javascript or something...

In all seriousness, anything that spits out canvas for a simple textbox is completely misguided about what the web is.
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1
It's off by default, so all the people who have it on know that option exists.
Showing how his life ended up could help others from going down this path.
EDIT: I misread: it's $5 per month not per day.

The fact that the surrounding market sucks does not make this intrinsically better.

It's the same situation as rent, except that a DAW is not the living necessity that a home is.

If the best deal you can get is to buy someone lunch every day, that's still prohibitive enough to price a lot of people out of the digital music scene. That's terrible for the market of creativity.
Interesting discussion around how abouts this sort of move might be legal. Similarly in Canada the federal government is often begged to get involved, but it's highly theoretical about just how much they can intervene,

Someone has to step in as the adult in the room and do what would be the right policy for the society level, even if it's unpopular or more accurately unviable and politically challenging to implement at an extremely local level. A state or Federal government is exactly the agent who should be doing that.
This situation wouldn't happen if the country were not a monarchy. Further, there has never been a referendum on the matter of the monarchy.
Why do you think helpful doesn’t include accurate? And what you’re saying doesn’t conflict with that framing at all. They were trading helpful for harmless.
If you don't advertise your product in our newspaper, this is the sort of articles you will get.
Vehicle Privacy Report – Want to know if your car contains personal data?
> No. They dont.

I'm responding to this post:

> If the UK ever needed to revolt against the government the monarch serves as way in which the public (and armed forces) could side with the state over the government. I cannot express how much I like that our armed forces swear allegiance to a largely powerless Monarch that represents the state rather than Rishi Sunak.
Web Assembly in 100 Seconds (2020)
Everything should be decided locally, unless that inconveniences migrant worker gentrifiers and the people who want to get rich off of them in any way. Then we need a federal mandate. Virtually an anti-Civil Rights Act. Legislation to federally protect blockbusting.
You can't escape it, however emotional it might make you. Society cannot exist without social hierarchy.
I read the whole article and I don't see anywhere the author mixed up weather and climate.

Also it is not about little ice age, it is about every old civilization, to find clues about their rise and decline. No way you can find any old document written about how hot it was in the summer of 6000BC, but scientist can easily find the climate record from Greenland's ice core. Or how many fish was available in 10,000BC in Chile, by studying the amount of ancient plankton's remnant on the sea bed to estimate the number. Measuring 1000 years old tree rings can give you more accurate weather report and any old documents.

You underestimated how important modern technology and scienctific advancement is to historical discoveries.
Why wouldn't you, very similar workflow and more portable. For sketching ideas you don't need multi terrabyte Kontakt plugins.
I don't have specific recommendations for improving your development skills, I can suggest a few things that may be helpful given the circumstances:

- Download as many ebooks as possible. You can try using websites like libgen.rs(or search the r/piracy subreddit for alternatives)

- Look for software like Briar, which allows for local communication over Bluetooth, WiFi, and of-course the internet. If you have an android phone, download an APK for it(and keep a backup of it to share with others).

- Host a local linux mirror for whatever distro you wish. Also download all the manpages.

- Download a copy of Wikipedia

- Consider setting up projects like Internet-in-a-Box, which aims to provide offline access to digital resources(including some of the suggestion I said above).

I hope these suggestions are helpful.
If an officer believes an arrest is lawful he can arrest you. Trying to prove he knew it wasn't lawful but did it anyway is very difficult.
I have noticed it's mostly FAANG developers which leads me to believe that it's not "public DNS" that is giving them headache but DNS based service naming and discovery in the large-scale distributed systems at FAANG companies.
Bitcoin’s BRC-20 Explosion Sends Users Scrambling for Options Such as Lightning
Microsoft doesn't "ignore" the license, there is a disagreement on what the license and copyright actually mandates. Those are quite different things.

Given the current state of the law and how licenses are written it's impossible declare that "yes, this is absolutely illegal". People may not like it, and (arguably) it may go against the spirit, but that is also a very different thing. Right now the situation is just ambiguous and unclear.

All of this absolutely matters, because the solution to "Microsoft is acting illegally" is a lawsuit (which, I believe, is already underway) while the solution to "the license and law is unclear" is different licences and/or laws. The solutions are completely different.
Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories
> Everyone works off laptops already

I doubt the truth of this statement, especially for younger people. When you look at iPad revenue compared to Mac revenue it's plainly obvious that Apple sells more iPads than Macs.

I subscribe to a YouTube vlog where the creator is seen editing their videos on an iPad, not a laptop or desktop computer.

I learned how to get work done on a personal computer because my parents had a family personal computer. There were no tablets or smartphones.

That's not how kids today are growing up: they're growing up with tablets and phones, and even their schools are mostly providing tablets for schoolwork.
Silicon Valley Was Wrong on EQRx (Taken from Bruce Booth Twitter)
Late reply, sorry.

My company got a default judgement in small claims court ($3k) that I only learned about months after it happened because the state of California had a totally wrong address (mixed up with some other company) in their database. So I was served at some random address that was fortunately only 50 miles from me; “fortunate” because I still had to appear at that county’s courthouse to make any appeal.

The fact that The California State Corporations Board had the wrong address had no bearing on my appeal - that was “my fault” for not monitoring it and having it corrected.

So I filed for an actual appeal, appeared before the judge with the plaintiff (and a lawyer on my side that cost $2500), and won the appeal on the merits of the case. Had I not won, the state would have issued a bill and denied the business renewal unless paid.

It was an utterly bogus claim by a plaintiff that admitted he made a hobby of small claims court. Most of his cases he won because he defendants never showed up; as I didn’t originally because of the wrong service address.

Two lessons: check the state records for your business religiously (because it’s your fault if they get it wrong, no matter what), and fight the claim no matter what or you’ll become a target for future small-claims rewards because the judgements are public information.
Show HN: Forth.news – a news feed for credible news
Hi HN --

I want to share a project I've been working on, aiming to make a better online news experience.

We're journalists who were frustrated with how news works online. The vast majority of Americans -- and even more under 40 -- get at least some of their news from social, even if they say they don't trust social media. Further, local news is even harder to get in the hands of people who want it, because by definition it appeals to a more narrow audience.

Forth.news is a newsfeed that looks like social media -- you can sign up to follow individuals, topics, and organizations -- but the feed is exclusively populated by vetted journalists. We're definitely still ramping up our coverage, so there are some blind spots -- but the idea is that you can see what's happening in your area, and get news you can trust, free of spam, misinformation, or hate speech.

We have lots of stuff in the works -- including a mobile app, liking posts, etc -- but we're building as we go.

We'd love to hear any thoughts - founders (at) forth (dot) news.

(And if any journalists are reading this, please reach out to join -- https://journalists.forth.news)

As an aside, since it's been asked here before --
"Forth" is not a reference to the programming language. We want to be forthcoming, and in a forced pun, we're also looking to represent the Fo(u)rth Estate.
This Exoplanet’s Weird Orbit Defies the Rules of Physics