skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It perpetuates a cold war approach and vocabulary, making Russia look like the superpower it was (and is not anymore).

It isn't the "superpower" status of Russia that makes this a cold war, but the "nuclear power" status. It is precisely a proxy war because you have two nuclear powers that are explicitly avoiding direct conflict due to the risk of nuclear war.

However, One might argue that the true cold war is between the USA and China and that both Ukraine and Russia are proxies.

> The cold war way of talking about it, additionally, makes it look like there are two sides, two alternatives, which are equally valid and justified.

In what way? "Cold war" absolutely doesn't have any connotation of moral equivalence between the two sides.

This is the sort of weird absolutism and rejection of nuance that is a hallmark of propaganda. It is absolutely possible to assign culpability to certain actions taken by the US without even remotely asserting that both sides are equally culpable for the war in Ukraine.

It is possible to think that containing an expansionist nuclear power without triggering a nuclear war is hard and requires a walking a fine line while also thinking that there are powerful forces inside the US that stand to gain a lot by encouraging and then prolonging this conflict.

Part of the power of narratives is that they become an easy way to group and dismiss dissent without engaging with any of the specific concerns expressed in that dissent.
I know this crowd / silicon valley is accustom to these kinds of stories. But we should remember that this is a college kid, who saw an opportunity and took initiative to build a business. The comments here are WAY too critical. We should celebrate these kinds of stories, instead of nitpicking.

Additionally these 'A.I apps are just gold rush' comments are too dismissive about the potential. It may be that there are some low hanging fruit that will get picked first, but I personally think that the vast majority of opportunity requires some level innovation, creative thinking, and grit to utilize.
I think it is a little like when people trick out their honda civic with led lights, and new speakers, etc. It is fun, but you can get to all the same places just as well with a stock honda civic. IOW it seems there are a subset of hackers that are sort of terminal hobbyists.
Would be nice to filter news by ie above 100 points.
>These loans should be dictated by the free market for a multitude of reasons

It is a crime and tragedy that education needs loans at all. Students are not for your personal profit.
If you experience dramatically worse symptoms at night when attempting to sleep and therefore laying down flat, first: sleep on your left side. Due to the physics/geometry of the esophagus, sleeping with your left side facing down is the most helpful in terms of preventing acid from being able to work its way up the esophagus. Don't quite get why, but it just works.

Second, investing in a full length bed wedge that goes either under your mattress (and extends the entire length of the mattress from head to foot) or the same but as a memory foam topper, it really does alleviate the night time unable to sleep problem. I used one made by Avana comfort with a ton of success. The partial bed wedges or pillow bed wedges are too uncomfortable for me personally but the ones that go from head to foot at a gradual gentle incline are fine.

Figuring out dietary triggers is also a huge factor for many.

For me, I discovered if I eat any tomato at all, even tiny pieces - I will have acid reflux symptoms for like at least 12 hours. So I just don't it anymore except at a rate 11am lunch and even then I still often suffer.

For me, cutting out coffee is the other biggest solution, but I'm an addict and can't stop permanently, but I've found that cold brew (NOT hot brew over ice - aka many 'iced coffee' methods) - with specifically those labeled Dark Roast - to be the least aggravating (because both the cold brew extraction method and the darker roasts have a lower amount of acidity) and adding milk to make it less harsh as well, for me I do a 1:1 ratio between cold brew and almond milk, and finally only drinking it first thing in the morning as soon as possible after a breakfast, is fine.

I don't need the bed elevator/wedge if I follow my proper dietary alterations (barring certain late night alcohol situations).
> Define Sandboxes using a simple YAML file, specifying customizations relative to the baseline environment. Maintain these YAML files in your git repository and standardize Sandboxes across your organization.

It looks like these yaml files are not k8s files that I already have?

Also, is it open source? (I couldn't find a link to source on mobile)
My first thought was: Good on him, that's solid revenue.

My second thought was: This sounds like another idea that could easily be killed off by Google or similar companies, if they just add a "this is googlebert, your personalized analysis robot - just link your website/upload docs and ask away!" function.

Or this kind of functionality simply becomes part of the batteries included package for ChatGPT etc.
Launch HN: Dittofeed (YC S22) – open-source customer engagement platform
Hi HN - we’re Max and Chandler, and we’re building Dittofeed https://dittofeed.com. We make it easy for growth and marketing teams to message their customers across multiple channels. We're an open source alternative to platforms like Iterable, http://customer.io/, Braze, and OneSignal. Here’s a short demo video showing how to run the platform locally, and use it to automate a customer onboarding journey:

https://www.loom.com/share/0f7b67170b3a4205add00c22844ca06f

We created Dittofeed to tackle some commonly felt pains with customer engagement platforms:

First, existing platforms make it difficult to keep imported user data accurate and up to date with your primary user datastore. To solve this, we’re building first-class support for importing data from your data warehouse, for better data consistency.

Second, graphical “journey builders” are fragile, and difficult to debug at scale, so we’re building git-based workflows to check your messaging automation into git as configuration, as well the ability to run Dittofeed locally in development, or in CI with our testing sdk, for improved ease of debugging.

Third, companies in industries like finance and healthcare are often forced to implement their own solutions in-house to avoid sharing sensitive PII with third parties. As an open source platform, companies can now self-host us to keep their PII in their network.

Chandler, having worked in marketing for startups, experienced these challenges first hand. Max, on the other hand, was a senior platform infrastructure engineer at Braze, where he witnessed similar challenges from a technical perspective. Our combined experiences sparked the idea for Dittofeed.

We decided to create an open source, developer-focused customer engagement platform, because the often unspoken truth is that maximizing the effectiveness of these tools requires ongoing engineering involvement.

Dittofeed is built on Clickhouse (OLAP store used for storing user events, performing user segmentation, and aggregations) and Postgres (OLTP store for persisting application configuration, and serving user aggregations for efficient single-row reads).

If you can use the following, we’d love it if you checked us out:

Email support via sendgrid (other channels coming soon).

User data import via Segment integration.

We have a cloud offering, and offer paid support. You can find our pricing on our site https://dittofeed.com/pricing.

How to try Dittofeed out:

Check out our demo site to play around with the app https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard

Run the app locally via docker compose (https://docs.dittofeed.com/deployment/self-hosted/docker-com...).

Join our slack and we’ll set you up with cloud hosting (https://join.slack.com/t/dittofeed-community/shared_invite/z...)

We’d love to hear your thoughts, opinions, and experiences with these tools. What’s been your experience working with this kind of tech?
Pastel: Next.js-like framework for CLIs made with Ink
It's a common line of thinking that forcing a greater good onto others will lift them up to your level of moral righteousness. Those on the downward arc of the evolution are learning to deal with the world around them. They can be greedy selfish predators and it's good and appropriate for them. If you stopped predators in the wild from hunting the peaceful animals, you would derail evolution of both kinds. If you somehow ended greed, the vast majority of people would go lethargic as your higher ideals don't resonate with them at all, and you've just taken away their only reason to act. On the other hand, those few who are tired of selfish endeavors are turning to the upward arc of the evolution and to them your ideals of equality might do some good.
Always good to see novel uses of ML. However, let's not pretend this will ever offer any benefit to people with spinal cord injuries.

Any research that does not involve repairing the physical damage to the spinal cord itself is a distraction. Anyone who claims otherwise does not understand the physiology involved or is being deliberately disingenuous.

It's hard to think of an apt analogy, but perhaps consider a patient who walks into a doctor's office with a broken arm. Instead of setting the break and applying a cast, the doctor offers them a referral to a psychologist to help them adjust to life with a broken arm.
I think you're describing a false dichotomy. A language can become more expressive through any of these processes (e.g. neologisms or shifting meanings described before), often working in tandem.
I can’t speak for professional development, but for hobby projects I personally had a lot of fun with WinAPI and GDI. SDL is good too. The churn of everything you mentioned was too much for me and it’s comforting playing with something that isn’t going anywhere for better or worse.
Microsoft's goals and 3rd party developer goals stopped being aligned and it's taken just about this long for them to realize that it isn't going to work.
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure he's right. Large orgs doing projects with 30-40 engineers... don't get anything done. But people somehow have the belief that 30-40 engineers is what it takes, whereas 3-4 ones would get it done faster, although with a lot less of the details polished off. But in a quarter of the time.
It never comes because we fight it. If you stop fighting it, and let it gain ground, it is an inevitability. There is a reason why back in Lincoln's day, the preservation of Liberties for fiture generations was extolled to a near religious degree. The transfer of fewer liberties between generations is hard to notice, as the incoming generation is removed from the state where the apparatus was not around.

This is why Jefferson wanted sunset dates on everything, so every group would have to fully come to grips with why things are the way they are instead of going with Madison's view of a state of affairs where "deference to the dead" was the norm and an eventual State where all the laws in existence were handed down or made on the basis of the lives of people who are long dead.

Governments should serve the living. Not the dead. Governing is hard. Anyone who jumps into it thinking otherwise is a fool.
A Hidden Serverless Peril
> No one making $300,000 a year "needs" a paycheck to "live."

What does that mean?

The 300K is the paycheck (annualized). It's what they use to pay expenses to live. If the paycheck goes away you no longer can pay those expenses.

i.e. of course they need the paycheck to live.

Are you suggesting someone who made 300K once can now retire instantly and never again need a paycheck? It doesn't feel like the above quote is fully thought through.

Now, sure, if they've been making 300K for a couple decades, hopefully they've stashed away enough to eventually retire. But that's a very different statement.
I think tons of anxiety and stress can also weaken the muscle, which can make it more susceptible to been weakened by an external physical trauma.
> our dummy ancestors were around 50 million years ago

While true, this vague statement may be misinterpreted by readers. Per Wikipedia[0], about 55 million years ago is the first fossil evidence of any apes. The 'homo' genus, which is what I'd consider "our dummy ancestors", doesn't appear until 2 million years ago (and anatomically modern humans 300,000 years ago).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution
>given unionisation costs quite a lot of money

In what made up reality is that even remotely true?

Everyone I know in a union pays a couple hundred bucks tops. Is it really not worth an xbox to help your fellow worker be happy, healthy, and sustainable?
It works when the high-speed trains stop directly at the airport, and when the trains are reliable.

There are some places in the world that fulfill both criteria (increasingly, many airports in China do).
I just don't understand why people make these arguments.

When people speak of "humanity" they don't mean "the human species". They/we mean of "human society", our current variant, which just invented computers, artificial intelligent, and until very recently seemed set on ending all resource scarcity, curing all diseases, and becoming inter-planetary.

Will humans survive somewhere in the climate as our ancestral species did before us? Of course.

But losing 2000 years of societal progress is not something to just waive away as nothing.

As long as we are succeptible to a tiny rock floating in space swiping our little planet and wiping out all of us, we must progress technologically, and a regression to merely surviving and dying of a broken ankle is not an answer.
Better LLM app testing is an urgent need when you see the stuff getting put out there.
Oh absolutely, I agree with that.
Mass electrification of travel + low carbon production is a winning combination (and it's going to be a headache for countries like Germany)
"Being homeless is not always bad!" is not a take I was expecting to see today.

I'd bet 99.99% of homeless people would extremely prefer not to be.
No-paywall link: https://archive.is/Yc9f3
Yeah, if you watch the supplemental videos they mention that the patient had a partial injury and after 7 years of physical therapy was still unable to walk independently. After getting this implant and doing 6 months of PT, the patient was able to walk unassisted even with the brain interface not powered on.
Let me guess: When you have a task to start say filing a pile of unfiled mail, bills etc, you start by sorting it into other piles and then run out of time, over time those piles grow, then at some point get combined then (after a suitable grieving period) you have a task to tackle this pile, so you start by sorting it into piles...
The Problems Behind TVB’s Decline in Quality Programming (2013)
I see this argument a lot on conservative news, "humans will adapt". Well, yes, humans will adapt, and there probably will be humans carrying on for thousands of more years.

But not US, WE, todays societies will be gone. Why is this an argument with 'conservatives'? The stupid 'woke' should stop worrying about climate, because humans will adapt.

But why is this a 'conservative' argument, when all of their religions will also be gone. When we are back in the stone ages, there will be humans, but not 'Republican'. Unless, in the dystopian future, the Christian Right does devolve into a Taliban like Ameri-stan where they can go 'Old Testament' on gays. But that does seem like a pretty long game argument. Is it really: "Deny Climate Change so we can destroy civilization back into bronze age so we can just wander the desert worshiping god, like we were supposed to"
Which is exactly howbinsurance works, spreading the risk over large enough a population to make insurance affordable for everyone. One of the things Bismarck put on place, that socialist.
And, historical accounts can be revised both to correct issues and to spread false narratives[1]. So, when and not just by whom a history was written, and the context the writer was operating in is important too e.g., sources of funding.

[1] "[NELA in the United States] recruited academics to rewrite textbooks with pro-market, anti-government messages and pressured schools and libraries to adopt these rewritten textbooks. They funded academics to create new programs in high schools, colleges, and universities..."

https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/big-myth-american-busin...

random linkable source that quotes the book:
"The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" by Naomi Oreskes (professor of the history of science at Harvard University)
> The doomer argument though is coming from defending our highly affluent and privileged life

It's not at all about that.

Even if "truly general" intelligence is impossible, that's irrelevant to the actual concerns about AI apocalypse. There are multiple theories about what failure looks like, but they essentially come down to a loss of control.

Now, obviously, that means something different for the owner class and for the worker class, which can be extrapolated to have global implications as well. But this isn't an issue of the owner class ceding control to the working class. It's an issue of the owner class ceding control to an alien. Maybe that alien makes things more egalitarian and prosperous. Or maybe it makes us extinct. Any and all possibilities are options for it as far as we know because it is fundamentally an inhuman (= alien) intelligence. We can't understand it even as well as we understand humans and human organizations (that is, not very well), let alone control it as well as we do humans and human organizations (that is, not enough to prevent self-inflicted climate apocalypse).

Basically, we're opening a box with a random magical spell inside it and deciding that we'll just have to live with whatever the effects of that spell are. I'm not for the status quo, but AI is just mind-bogglingly dangerous, and I think that's why there are so many wrong arguments against its danger. We literally cannot comprehend an intelligence greater than our own.
Hi HN - I’m Alejandro, Co-founder and CTO of Daffy, we built this to expand charitable giving. You can find the API docs at https://docs.daffy.org. Please take a look and let us know what you think!
Most developers completely ignored everything Microsoft had to offer since Windows 7 and because Microsoft is Microsoft all their technologies continue to work and keep getting updated.

I, for one, never stopped developing in WPF.
Upside is it’s certainly reversible climate change. Downside is humans might not be around to see the reversion. (Possibly the upside if you take the perspective of all other life on earth)
Pretend that long term net energy increases aren't happening because modelling short term turbulent fluctuations is hard, got it. That is a big positive.
Native AOT Overview
I do like this idea, and other ideas like this, but can't help but observe that it's inducing a sort of functional privation without a corresponding counterbalance. We can't just work to "eliminate automobile usage in [...] suburbia" when suburbia's physical affordances don't really allow suburbanites to contend with anything else...
that's what I meant by:

> better way than "Crash" or worse - silent corruption

My point is that the current crop of c++ compilers and standard library implementations have the ability to check for the vast majority of these issues, just they're relegated to non-default "debug" options.

Just flipping that, so you had some level of checking on by default and you had to explicitly ask for "Go fast and break things" mode would help - as it feels like the vast majority of native code doesn't need to get that last few percent. And even that is questionable, I remember doing some (micro-)benchmarks on simple stuff like array bounds checking and the performance difference on modern big CPUs was pretty much within noise. Maybe it's a big deal on microcontrollers or small embedded systems, but that's the "I Know What I'm Doing" non-default mode is for.
In 2010 we needed to act "before 2020" which seemed like plenty of time. I'm convinced we already have met the "tipping point". No one wants to say that though because it would be either admitting climate change is real, or admitting defeat.
Standardized exams measure intrinsic ability
Minikube is just one piece but it's not functionally equivalent to `docker compose run` since I'd still have to build and push docker images and edit k8s yamls manually (compose run will build containers and start them, no need to edit anything) .
Can a camera company make an app that doesn’t suck? Fujifilm tries again
PG has all the answers:

http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
I mean, from what you said, "the installer" isn't your product, no? The build system is your product. The custom installer that the build tool emits is just something you had to create as a workaround because the Microsoft one sucks, and which is a pure cost center for you, and one redundant to Microsoft's own efforts.

Wouldn't you prefer to have your build system just emitting .msix for Windows, with the expectation that all Windows systems will then run your good installer in response to opening any .msix?
I really meant “anybody.” Every group is in their own echo chamber. It feels like everybody is being harassed by people who don’t agree with them, and they’re feeling morally obligated to harass other people in turn in order to “fight evil,” whatever their personal definition of evil is, and usually with almost no evidence or benefit of the doubt. It’s a big battleground with 1,000 sides
Yeah, me too. Bruno, although ex-LM and ULA, is one of those "born-dirt-poor-but-obsessed-with-rockets" kind of CEOs that seem to be hard to find these days. That's one of the great differentiators between now and the days of the S1C; you'd have a hard time finding finance executives doing technical steering in 1967. Which, I mean, fair point, as far as I'm concerned, but I might be a wee bit biased.

From a layman's perspective, it seems like maybe DEWs should be looking at disrupting the extraordinarily delicate aerodynamics/hydrodynamics/plasmadynamics(?) of maneuvering Mach 5+ targets in atmosphere. Why do I say that? Well, if these things get consistent asymmetry in any part of their forward shock they'll spin themselves into bits, that's one. You can't shield the air with ablatives, that's second. Also, third, the sheath might be part of the communication/guidance system, so disrupting that it is good. Finally - somewhat related to second - tuning DEWs to interact with a plasma has TONS of possibilities, which helps to mitigate DEW's many many weaknesses over longer ranges. For the most part, I think DEWs will be short range wunderwaffen - particularly on the defensive end - but there's going to be niche cases.
The dystopia already exists, you just happen to be one of the lucky ones that it isn't impacting as much
From personal experience, knowing a daddy long-legs isn't dangerous or even technically a spider doesn't help when one crawls out of your bike helmet onto your face.
One likely adaptation is the deaths of a few billion people from famine and resource wars.
Now kids these days are first exposed to M.U.L.E. through the game Deeprock Galactic
Believe it or not, the small handful of people in charge got to their position by serving people to a certain extent. Any substantial reduction in emissions is going to cause substantial economic deadweight losses, which would be politically disastrous. This is why even the New Green Deal only proposes to throw money into projects rather than actively reduce emissions.