skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they did anything of the sort during the elections. Only now that the brazilian government is trying to pass laws that could very well drive them out of the country did they make their own position clear.

This has also happened to WhatsApp by the way. Judges blocked WhatsApp nation wide for days because it failed to provide plain text user messages in a criminal investigation. Zuckerberg posted his opinion about it on Facebook.
"Search will keep evolving to answer any question in any format"

I can't help but think who/what is going to pay/feed the training data for all this innovation.

As a content creator, this feels like the bottom in the race to the bottom. Google was already keeping users on their site as long as possible (e.g. snippets), this will only worsen the bounce ratio from content creators like local news sites & niche blogs (worse ad performance, less sign-ups) who fuel traffic. It also feels like an extinction event for sites like StackOverlflow and Quora, gamification to get users to write 'free' content will die-off if Google keeps front-running sites like this.

I feel Google will eventually need to go into the content creation/syndication business to keep all this going (and pay up vs. Google News), because the incentives for everyone else are just not there, if they want to keep everyone on Google.
So true. I can totally relate because I had the same problem.

Whenever I write code, it either runs, or does not. It’s my fault, or I could say: it is my responsibility.

This is different with marketing. It depends not only on me but on other people’s behavior. And most of the time, I couldn’t see any relationship between effort and results.

Therefore, I have on my product roadmap a gamified loop with feedback, so that reluctant marketers have fun and keep being engaged to use the platform and stick to their habit.
They were upset when StackOverFlow, a for profit company announced using their answers to train a model. But they added content to the same for profit site for free?

Especially when they knew it was allowed by the CCL?
They’re trying to bring them into streaming too but I refuse to watch something with ads on a paid service
Briton pleads guilty in US to 2020 Twitter hack
the whole point is to make it easier on mobile, not desktop!
Ask HN: What do you do to combat loneliness and isolation?
I'm older now but in my teens and twenties I suffered significantly from loneliness, isolation and depression. I don't think I ever found a good way to deal with it. I think spending time with friends was a distraction but never solved the underlying problem. Being married and having kids fixes some of it but I believe a lot has to do with becoming separated from a community you grew up in. Especially for me now I feel more and more like I'm in search of that community.

Just curious to know how people are dealing with or have dealt with these things.
Show HN: Aider, a command line GPT coding copilot
And I'm saying this strategy does absolutely nothing to alleviate the need for an actual raise.
Don’t complain about that or you will end up with forced telework days. Our office now requires everyone in office TWTh, where so preferred working MWF because of how my work products and some meetings are scheduled. Telework and flexibility are at risk here.
Ahem https://open-assistant.io/
Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches
It'd be interesting to see citations for this.
Thank you! I don't care for logos personally, if you'd like to hide it on HN add this to your userstyle:

a[href='https://news.ycombinator.com'] img,
display: none !important;
}

These can be managed with a plugin like Stylish.
Fast becoming economical? How fast? Current cost for battery storage I've seen quoted (open to correction) is around $600K per MWh. For every MW of wind or solar power that would be $120 million. Wind farms at around $1.5 million per MW ie., around 80 times that. And are there that numbers of batteries available? Currently dependent on availability of cobalt, lithium,manganese and nickel with China as the main supplier of these and world’s largest producer of graphite, the primary anode material for Li-ion batteries.
It might be useful to keep in mind that culling trees means that a forest that was in steady state and pulling very little net carbon can go back into more active growth. But I suppose that the total carbon sequestered would be less with a decrease in the average age of the trees.
What a tiresome article. It's laced with the stupidest kind of anthropomorphism - always interpreting a creature in nature as though it is a human mind. For example, the first sentence including "fluid, nonbinary way of being". For those in the know, these are references to genderfluidity, non binary and queer ways of being. None of this - as it applies to humans - is relevant to the study of slime molds! There may be a weak (very weak!) parallel, but such a matter doesn't affect the slime mold, nor inform how a human being should live in the world.

And then later it refers to some lesbain poet who talked about slime molds in a poem. And meaningless speculation about how slime molds are "unstudied" due to a revulsion of slime, which is pointed out to be feminine. Not an argument I'm going to buy, for if there extremely well studied from early times, then this article would perhaps be talking about how slime molds are seminal in nature. So, meaningless in the sense it's unfalsifiable. Maybe search for actual reasons why they're unstudied and improperly categorised, like they're difficult to study? Or that good scientists try to be as parsimonious with category as possible, so that those categories retain explantory power? But that has to be ignored, so the Queer theoretic "violence of categorization" can be undermined with nature.

It's tiresome. If you've found an interesting creature in nature, then write what makes that creature interesting. It doesn't (ever) need to include what a lesbian writer thought it taught humans how to live. Because it doesn't, really.
I was wondering the same, would be interesting to be able to 3d print models of cities.
Boasting about 0.2 requests per second, even on a minimally spec'd VPS, is damning with faint praise.
That is because you are cherry picking the ideas you want from the wiki page. The first line reads:

> The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software.

The open core movement is about finding a way to financially support open source development so people can eat and work on open source. It is quite obvious that the model which makes some of the code open source and some of the code not, is the best model we have right now. Some of the best open source is produced by these for profit companies. What are the alternatives? We'll before this model gained popularity, there was low quality open source or closed source alternatives for many of the projects we enjoy and see competition amongst today. All of this leads to a more vibrant software ecosystem.

Do you support open source in words or money?
> "when hosted on a $6/month server"

So with hardware specs better than the Chinese laptop I bought second-hand for 150 EUR (which has a Celeron J CPU), the very same one that can serve 2000 req/s on Elixir and 5000 req/s with Rust, then?

Sure, waiting on the DB is often 95% or more of the request, I get it, but 0.2 requests per second (which is the 500K orders per month when you do the math) is nothing to brag about regardless of which language or DB are being used.

It's even below the level of having a bash script doing the heavy lifting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230511130509/https://milkyeggs...
I want to disagree, but I think you are right. Java and Flash were the only alternatives to javascript that ever gained a foothold, and both of them were second class citizens. Circa 2001 I tried to use Java to interact with the DOM and ran into a browser bug that iirc took about a decade to fix. If the technology had ever been usable things might have turned out differently (or it might have turned out the same, who knows).
In contrast with the sibling post, I do exactly this- support a wide variety of YouTube creators on Patreon.

I then use adblock and sponsorblock on YouTube. It seems like a good balance to me.
It's goofy to me how many devs think the art of writing software necessitates continually updating dependencies to have things not break. You're running in place! You could be working on something new that generates value, or adding features to what you have in that time.
Likely a total coincidence.
I was curious so if anyone else wants to know: the last #1 instrumental song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US was "Frankenstein" by The Edgar Winter Group
Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover
OOP, codegen, vendorlock, and bloat-magic...

Those resonate with me reminding menof some of the worst development experiences in my career. Different language, different domain, but I recognize it. The simplicity is alluring, and even enticed me at first. It just doesn't scale for problems that are complicated vs the ones you are shown as marketing. The managers and architects like it because it hides the confusing or non-elegant details from view, but that just makes it hard for the devs to work on it.
Well, we all live in bubbles, don't we? That's why it's interesting to have a glimpse into other people's bubbles, and be reminded that our own experiences are often not representative of the whole.
Would love to see this added to https://kmzview.com. I could (almost) stop using Google Earth for my clients.
How about “unregistered securities offering”?
If it's just a background-image, why not just build the triangle in CSS? Saves a network request (and a whopping 525 bytes)
Nice! Have you tried using Markprompt too?
Parental wealth is a superior predicator of success than intelligence.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/schooled2lose/

EDIT: Genetics do play a part though!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/12/191218153459.h...

> The study, led by the University of York, found that parents' socioeconomic status and children's inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of educational achievement.

> However, the research suggests that having the genes for school success is not as beneficial as having parents who are highly educated and wealthy. Only 47% of children in the study sample with a high genetic propensity for education but a poorer background made it to university, compared with 62% with a low genetic propensity but parents that are more affluent.

> The researchers found that children with a high genetic propensity for education who were also from wealthy and well-educated family backgrounds had the greatest advantage with 77% going to University. Meanwhile, only 21% of children from families with low socioeconomic status and low genetic propensity carried on into higher education.
Interesting website. Looks like all their products are out of stock.
I think the long term goal should be to reduce the power of the executive. The desire by people to bypass congress via tue courts or executive, is short sighted and extremely damaging to our democracy.

Instead I’d rather changes that incentivize congress to act. Say a law that would automatically increase the debt limit as long as a budget or continuing resolution in force. And a second law that said that to the extent a budget is not passed that the 1/4 of the respective house or Senate’s membership of the party in control gets automatically term limited out in the next election cycle.
This reminds me of the individual who asked, "Is TikTok making us dumber/hurting our focus?" My harsh response was, "You have access to the internet and its wealth of educational information; if TikTok is what you seek out, then you were already dumb to begin with."

I don't think AI makes a person dumb, but rather is a magnet for those BS'ers who'd rather hire a ghost writer or shamelessly plagiarize than expend effort. An intelligent person should want to write, draw, and code regardless of what AI can do. They should understand the joy is in the journey, not the destination. Conversations like this reveal a deeper problem with the culture and its misplaced values.
Tweaking Vegetables’ Genes Could Make Them Tastier
Price is set at the margin. Take a look at this graph: https://www.economist.com/img/b/400/507/90/media-assets/imag...

If demand decreases, the supply/demand intersection will switch to the next highest cost producer. Or the same thing could happen if the supply of cheap electricity increases.
That's certainly a possibility and worthy of testing as a hypothesis. Income and IQ hold a positive correlation for the vast majority of the population. (I think the same is true of wealth, given the highly positive correlation for most of the population between income and wealth.)
India first democracy to ban encrypted messaging apps on scale
It may well have just been a deadpan joke full of deadpan teenagers, the first of whom to laugh is deemed the least cool.
Agreed! Additional bonus points for calling snake oil out.
But those N resources are not independent, which is why it makes sense to think of them as one singular resource. For example, if you were to remove the first byte from the file, or prepend a byte, all the other bytes' addresses would change. And arguably, we already have an interface to logically group different filesystem objects together yet retain the ability to address them individually: it's called a directory.

I'm sure you could define a more granular format to address all elements within a file individually (for example, a lot of files in a typical Unix /etc directory have rows and fields), but people would call that interface an object store rather than a filesystem.
Vigilantism and revenge are often two sides of the same coin. If people were just rounding up criminals and peacefully providing them to the police for justice along with evidence and testimony then it wouldn't be vigilantism. Vigilantism is essentially just retributive justice without the benefit of due process.
NaCL is another example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
> I am certain

Perhaps a cursory check is in order?

The UK has 28% on-land protected areas: https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/country/GBR

Venezuela 57%: https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/country/VEN

Germany has 38%: https://www.protectedplanet.net/en/country/DEU
Everything plays a role but genetics is the most defining factor.
It's sunny here.
MSG Is Finally Getting Its Revenge
I've tried Laravel, it's a beautiful framework.
But I see no reason to switch from Rails, it's a beast.
Republicans are following the Two Santas strategy. The democratic Santa is increased social spending. The Republican Santa is cutting taxes during their administration. The debt ceiling is used to force the next administration to pay for them, either by raising taxes or cutting spending.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski#:~:text=The%20...
Does anyone know if there any good links to current benchmarks between the diff types? My googlefu is only finding stuff form 2019.
> the claim of a 52-week lead time is wrong

It simply hasn't been updated and at this point likely won't be until it shows "in stock" instead.
Would IQ be a confounding variable with wealth?

Maybe I'm using the wrong term, but: a smarter person would (in many cases) make more money.
I hosted a phpBB forum as a kid in the early 2000s.

15 years later I joined a marketplace startup that was doing 10,000 transactions a day.

Built as a PHP monolith.

I was sooooo confused at first. “PHP??? That strange language I used to host a forum is powering this app??”

Turns out the founding engineer was self-taught and PHP had the most tutorials or something lol
That sounds pretty obvious but it has nothing to do with IQ.
Wow, thanks for that. So much to unpack here!

1) 200 people with diarrhea and vomiting. Can't imagine how the plane smelled.

2) JAL's catering manager committed suicide after hearing about this.

3) If the pilots had eaten the food the plane may not have even landed safely - at the time pilots did not eat different meals to the passengers, but this is now commonplace.

4) Ultimate cause was actually American - Alaskan cooks in Anchorage prepared the food, and one had infected blisters on his hand.

5) Could have been prevented if the food wasn't stored at room temperature for 6 and then 8 hours. Matches my experience with Japanese people who have no problem leaving cooked food out in supermarkets all day long, or leaving leftovers overnight at room temperature without chilling it, very different to the US or UK.
I zoom this site at 200% for my old eyes and the old logo was very blurry. Finally everything is sharp, so I like it.
> from which you lose about 50-60% when turning it to electricity

Does this include transmission losses? I think they average 10% for UK electricity.
Yes, but your investment from the home made up some of the difference possibly depending on when you bought. That’s a different source of wealth and one not everyone has.
Funny story...

Some of you only know math a certain way as you used programmable calculators etc...
i learned math the way of one of the founders of Chaos theory learned via graphing and manual math operations. And the difference is that I can grasp new math fast as my meta-language of math objects in my head is formed of those manual operations and graphing snapshots.

It's the same with human thinking-writing connection as writing helps us refine and enter new meta-language objects into our brains, without it we make our IQ -level die.
I think that if you're a public figure, people making fun of your physical traits is inevitable. There's a whole industry based on throwing cheap shots at celebrities, the yellow press. Ignoring them is the only rational response, because they feed off controversy - they're the journalist version of internet trolls.

The fact that a public figure would put so much effort into proving that they don't have small hands shows a comically non-proportional response to something they perceive as harmful to their public image. Such sensitivity could most plausibly be explained as a narcissistic injury - and considering Trump's general behavior (always talking how he's the best, the smartest, the most loved, etc.), it fits with the rest of the data.

Again, note that I'm European and my only interest in US politics is strictly one of entertainment. I actually like Trump, for reasons I won't explain here, as it's beyond the point. But I still think he's a narcissist.
The sad thing is, around 2010, most of the JS world (at least JSconf people, which tend to be pretty influential) were interested in Dash as a JS replacement. We were aware of various inconsistencies around typing, Arrays being fancy Objects, the language allowing developers to do weird things rather than warning, type coersion in == etc. There was an appetite for better languages, CoffeeScript was big.

Then they released a 1.0 with zero consultation about what JS developers wanted. Just inflicted by Google as "here's what you'll have". Everyone ignored Dash (and still ignores Dart).
Hi HN!

I just wrote a new blog post on using OpenAI's GPT-3 to automatically generate Python docstrings for your codebase. With the help of a GitHub Action workflow, you can automatically analyze your code and add docstrings to your Python files, saving you time and effort.

I hope this post will be helpful for developers looking to document their legacy Python codebases with GPT-3. Check it out and let me know what you think!
I can't help reading this name as Bca-chefs

(...I realise it must be B-cache-fs)
Amazing how intelligent people think intelligence can be quantified in a single number.
Large Language Model Programs
This makes sense, but "prioritize not eating what you don't want" is, in a subtle but important way, a different piece of advice than "prioritize eating what you want". The first leads to moderation, the other to gluttony. I oppose the latter formulation.
If the glass faces in, it'll start emergency dialing. If it faces out, it'll scratch.
Ok, that makes sense. I never saw much of the critical stuff, so if it was a big part of her writing identity then I understand why they said it. I just often think that these identifiers (like "lapsed Mormon" or "former member of...") are lazy journalistic shortcuts. The picture they portray in different people's minds may be far from accurate.

> She used to write a lot about leaving Mormonism and was very critical of it.

What you wrote is clearer, simpler and gives me a more accurate image.
Potato batteries are back? Quercetin would be onion/apple flavor, riboflavin will be liver/egg flavor. Activated charcoal will prevent anything from being absorbed in the gut.
What reason does YT have to NOT make changes that prevent those devices from working? Is there an avenue for these 3rd party devices to pay YT for their services? If these apps/devices are making a buck off of YT rent free, then they should be able to yank the cord whenever they want.

Your comment reads as if you feel that YT has some sort of obligation to continue letting 3rd parties make money from the work of YT without any compensation.
We've done a particularly good job of pivoting our off shore engineering expertise from north see oil to offshore wind. I see that as a massive success in reusing expertise in an old industry in a new one.

When it comes to onshore, as a relatively densely populated island it can be politicly difficult to build large wind farms anywhere but in Scotland. Add to that the reasonable argument that offshore wind is more consistent and our offshore engineering expertise, it's quick to reach the conclusion we should be (almost) all in on offshore wind.
So I can't speak to this specifically but I think it's well known reading to children when they're young improves their IQ. And that sounds pretty believable to me. In the formative years if you give the brain good info it's going to learn how to operate well. I know this is hand wavy, but I think wealth can be a proxy measure for a good home life in the formative years. So sorry I have no citations, but I find it pretty believable.
AI for Computational Gastronomy
Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSo5v5t4OQM
I had no idea what it was. Those of what I found one seemed plausible and the other worth mentioning.

Glad it was something else entirely. The localization for Brazil can be rocambole.
Worst I had was one where one guy hijacked the interview to just complain about all the other candidates. I’d try to take the conversation somewhere more productive, but this guy was really good with tangents.
How to sell to developers (tldr: don’t, sell to their boss)
Erasmus is under heralded but an incredible program. Similar to the scholar himself.
3.5 years average wait time is pretty damn bad for a device that has a life span of not much more than 3.5 years.

I'd love to try one of their phones, but I can't convince myself to pull the trigger at the price/performance/delay triangle they've settled into.
Over the past year, Adaverse has invested in and accelerated over 35 companies across a variety of sectors: Web3, exchanges, NFTs, gamefi, DeFi, and proptech to name but a few. These companies are spread across 10 countries, representing unprecedented market penetration across Africa and Asia.
exactly. Also My point was more about keeping yourself out of calling into the kernel and paying the price for the context switches. Which can add up quickly.
"Success is basically how educated you are" - A group of people who have spent decades of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars on education
Webrings, we need webrings back.

Search is fine for people searching for something, but when just "surfing" or browsing for interesting stuff, we end up on this site, or some other centralised site that will constantly try and pull value from the creator back to the owned site (like Reddit, Facebook etc).

A creator owned way to surf and discover (like the old webrings) would be great.