skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sheer amount of hubris in your post is astounding.

Good to know you consider the World Happiness Index 2023 as hubris. We can finally agree on something.

> I won’t be replying again to you because I don’t think you are capable of accepting that other people disagree with your world view

Funny how you believe "I don’t think you are capable of accepting that other people disagree with your world view" and in the text rejected my valid argument which you had absolutely zero counter for.

Either accept that the World Happiness Index is a fabrication of the West or rebut with facts as to why India ranks below Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. You got stumped with just this easiest piece of fact that you couldn't even counter. Tells me everything I need to know.

> when we’re discussing actual issues like arresting protestors

Cry me a river. The West is so pristine it doesn't arrest protesters at all. Nor do Government agencies kill people randomly. Nor does it indulge in assassinations both within its own soil or in countries that it has no jurisdiction over. Nor does the West bomb other nations to bits. Nor does it arrest farmers and confiscate their properties and bank accounts. The West is epitome of truth, fairness and justice. While puny Indians back home, which you incidentally rejected because of the deep seated hatred, are the horrible ones who do not have capacity to discern truth from fiction and do not understand how a Democracy functions.

Give me a break!
Personally I find .com and .sh to be much worse as it refers to actual executable files.
Link to a web page with the content of the example email. You don't need to do anything fancy to provide a preview, just let people see an example of the content they are about to start paying for.
This is very rare and unfortunate, I hope that Stripe resolves this quickly.

There must be viable alternatives to Stripe that are popular, Paddle and Gumroad and maybe Square are good options here.
How do we know that the non-smiling images are not the fakes? part of an operation to foment discontent with the ruling party by making a false accusation of dystopian manipulation of photographic evidence?

No, I don't think it likely. It's just we live in a world where this kind of stuff is just so easy to do now.
Pretty sure my second-grade teacher invented it. Writing "I will not talk while the teacher is talking" 100 times on the chalkboard is proof of work, and it definitely cut down on unwanted chatter.
Arm does not produce chips. They license the instruction set and architecture and provide reference designs.

the article is about the performance of one of the reference designs.
MD PhD student here and this is 100% on the money and what many I work with try to do. The diagnostic classifiers seem to be about pushing papers and getting funding.
You need energy to do work.
This can do work that doesn't release CO2. That's the point.
I'm guessing this is using GPT4? Otherwise I'm having a hard time understanding how you'd deal with all the emails with follow-ups as demonstrated on the landing page.

But the Privacy Policy / Terms of Service doesn't mention any 3rd parties what so ever, which if you were using OpenAI's APIs, you'd mention them surely.

So I guess the conclusion is that a human writes all of this then? If that's true, you should make that clear, as currently it looks like it's powered by GPT4. Without knowing how the content is produced, it becomes a bit misleading.
Is this a worse is better argument? I'm having a hard time understanding how it makes this a better solution than fluoridated water. It sounds like a moral argument against sugar rather than a practical solution to fight tooth decay.
> Now they look more like prophets.

Not to me. They just look like another group claiming grand and sweeping theories of truth.
I don't think your statement is true - AI can definitely improve my work and has done for a while now. It lets me be more productive, but it certainly isn't capable of being left unattended or even lightly attended to.

As long as you know the limits of what you're doing, tools like ChatGPT are very helpful. In about a minute, i was able to generate a skeleton app using a go framework including tests, the infrastructure as code to deploy as a lambda, a makefile build and run it, and a buildkite pipeline that will build and deploy it all. It's also correct.

Now, I can't rely on it to do everything, but it can give me an app scaffold for a tech stack I'm familiar with, quicker than I can Google for it.
It's pretty clear to me that Rossmann decided he would go after Micay to protect himself in some way. Louis has openly and proudly stated he has "no patience" for anyone with mental issues that aren't "putting in enough effort to be normal". he's made videos about this and commented to this effect. I believe Rossmann grew fustrated with Micay at some point and then decided to bait him into a reaction so he could take him out of context to.. i dont know get back at him? Its not very clear to me exactly why he would do this.. but i urge you to rewatch the original rossmann video with a sober eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0&
then watch this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Pj0Z2__SI
- Daily essentials / safety-critical stuff that requires an account and/or doesn't work reliably anymore (pay for parking, pay to charge car, call 911, etc...)
A friend was temp CFO for an assisted living corporation for 2 years. He also teaches finance for an MBA program. He takes these short-term roles to inform his teaching.

Afterwards, I asked him what he had learned.

"I learned to never end up in a nursing home."
Thanks very much! I'm trying to make it easier to install before porting more features from gron.
This is, of course, precisely the logic that got the Diary of Anne Frank banned from some high schools in Florida.
A customer I am working with can’t even set up CI/CD with GitHub.

I have no doubt that AI is not going to kill us because 95% of companies won’t even be able to build it.
> If you say 2+2=4 and then in the following sentence say 2+2=5 without any change in definitions or axioms, something is fucky with your theory.

Sure, but assuming 2+2=5 has some really bad external outcomes you can point to. For example, if you try to build a plane assuming that 2+2=5, it will almost certainly fall out of the sky.

> I can accept "the sky is red," and I can accept "the sky is blue," but if you tell me the sky is blue and then in the next sentence tell me the sky is red with no intervening information you probably made a mistake somewhere.

Alright, but what if I told you that "this random number generator returned 4" and then "this random number generator returned 5" with no intervening information?

Your line of thinking works quite well for external, verifiable phenomena, but it does not automatically follow that it can be applied to internal non-verifiable processes, and I've yet to hear you make a case that it is proper to do so.
This used to be an option in Chrome when running in an extension. Sadly sockets were removed in manifest v3.
So why don’t we just put fluoride in the excessively sugary stuff.

Coca Cola, more fluoride, same classic taste!
> I’m confused by your defensiveness

It's because you say something is superior, and that "not all and (min-width: 480px)" negation syntax is by any programming language standard unreadable. The .98 thing is terrible too, but for me, I don't like when I can't easily parse using parens and PEMDAS. I don't think there is a single correct answer so I felt the need to point out that the breakpoints you disagree with are fine. I think it's fine if you use something else in your code but I don't really want the authors of frameworks I use to move over to "not all and X" that is really "not (all and X).
Their paper is more for the case of "we can't gather more data, so what to do?" but your solution is in line with optimal experimental design and choosing a utility function to distinguish between models using as little data as possible.
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> Well, just like the giant oak that falls and gives nourishment to the forest saplings seeking to grow, so do senile old people give away their wealth to young hungry people in other countries seeking to sustain their internet scam businesses.

Why aren't these young, hungry people building something of value instead of stealing from abroad?
I'm not trivializing anything; they're different things, with contextual phrases.

Removing these books from school libraries is done with the understanding that the students won't otherwise be able to access them, i.e. they can't get to a bookstore or public library without their parent and their parent will also refuse to keep it at home. That is a de facto ban.

Now: you might happen to think that it's good that these books can't be accessed, which is something that can (and is) being discussed. But I don't think it's worth mincing words over what's happening, especially given that it's a standard (and non-partisan) use of the phrase "book ban" in the US.
Ask HN: Are you looking for an offshore dev?
Would you want to hire or not a now offshore developer who have had an onsite work experience in the USA in the past?

What would you want to know about them before considering for a hiring?
I'm generally not picky with page load times (some cookie nags are far worse), but sometimes even my patience gets tested.

The worst offender is substack combined with many comments. I tried opening a Scott Alexander blog post in mobile Chrome on my aging mid range phone:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mr-tries-the-safe-unce...

It's not that it's rendering slowly, it apparently doesn't finish rendering at all. At first a few paragraphs render, then everything disappears. I basically can't read articles on this blog.

This website says the above has a total blocking time of 15.7 seconds:

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/astralcodexten.substack.com/3y8...

That's on more modern hardware I assume.

I also tried https://pagespeed.web.dev/ but unfortunately it timed out before it finished. Great.
> In one experiment, people gave impromptu speeches on controversial topics in front of a friend who offered feedback. Unbeknown to the participants, the researchers had randomly assigned the friend to give ambivalent or negative comments. Receiving mixed feedback caused higher blood pressure than pure criticism. “I would have gone about the topic differently, but you’re doing fine” proved to be more distressing than “I totally disagree with everything you’ve said.”

I can’t read the actual study, but this description makes it seem like the ambivalent feedback case is the growth opportunity. “That was great” and “that was completely terrible” aren’t really actionable feedback, but “that was decent but I would change this” is helpful. Maybe helpful advice is more stressful because it is a chance to change and grow and those are stressful activities? So maybe if we want to push ourselves, we need more frenemies?

Put another way, should going through life with the minimal possible stress be the goal?
What's the intended way it's supposed to be used? Are the managers and directors supposed to subscribe to it or the developers? If it's the developers, when they need to explain a concept do they just copy-paste the explanations? Forward an email? Send some kind of a link? It seems like an awkward interaction to me.

As a developer, it's always been my job to explain things to non-technical people in as few words as possible during conversations. I'm not sure how a newsletter would fit in that use case.
When the simple majority of Americans are priced out of this kind of care from bloated profit margins how does that differ substantively from a lack of vacancies? While you're grappling with that here's another one: Mondragon and it's constellation of affiliate co-ops rather soundly puts the lie to the notion that profit motive is the sole driver of human activity. Apparently the world isn't entirely populated by sociopaths so it's still possible to get shit done without making a handful of individuals grotesquely wealthy in the process.
You've just described every major cloud provider.
it's always interesting to me how people try to pretend someone who is 'not as nice as i'd like" is somehow now a bad person and their cancellation is justified.

have they done anything legally wrong? Have they hurt anyone (besides feelings) You people are really something. This isn't grade school anymore, we are all adults here. Emotion doesn't translate through text, so stop being so sensitive and trying to tone police everyone.
If I make more money, and my spouse and I agree to split expenses evenly and keep our separate finances, and as a result I'm enjoying luxuries without them because they can't afford them, I hardly see how my spouse is more equal in this scenario. They'll probably resent me for not sharing my good fortune with them, and it will absolutely still lead to bad power dynamics in a relationship. If we don't split expenses evenly because I make more so that we can end up with roughly an equal amount of "fun money" each in the end, then it's just shared finances with extra steps and constant adjustment of percentage expense burden as relative incomes change.

Most couples will try to cover shared expenses with their combined income and then equally distribute the remainder, so that neither of you is left wanting. Of course if you're the one making significantly more (or a sole income provider) you might see this arrangement as mooching or unfair as you're contributing more. But there's more dimensions you can contribute to in a relationship than just financial, and hopefully both partners can recognize that.
I will say thank you as well.
I support these projects on GH.
I used to poke at the python API in blender and most of the wrapper work was done with magic.

Very rarely would you have to implement any custom C code aside from what you’d have to do with any other embedded scripting language to deal with the differences between the two languages and/or blender wonkyness.

I’ve also played around with lua embedding a bit — I just like python more so didn’t do anything with it. I do remember that I got it to work as an experiment but I would have had to start writing some serious C code (the kind you claim is unnecessary) to do anything useful with it and I’m pretty sure the maintainer of the game would have been opposed to being able to script things.

But, I’m one of those people who actually enjoys wrapping C libraries to use in python so…
FLOSS developers are real heroes, but so are the people willing to spend time testing newer non-LTS versions of the code and report their issues.

I have enough on my plate just dealing with the issues arising from using stable code, I think it’s admirable that people find the time raising their glance to future releases and helping us all enjoying a less panic-inducing experience.
> AND @stripe MAY CONSIDER giving a company their cash back.

With the way chargebacks work, it isn't necessarily their money.
That specifies "an account that has an active subscription" and they only seem to be using the term "subscription" in the ToS for auto-renewing plans.

>If you wish to subscribe to the service, you can sign up for a PayPal subscription. With a subscription, €5 is automatically deducted from your PayPal account each month.

Otherwise they just talk about "using" or "paying". It has also been absolutely possible to a) add new port forwards if you have paid for Mullvad b) pay for Mullvad when you have port forwards, so those ToS wouldn't make sense if they referred to all Mullvad accounts.
Currently, I am not using OpenAI's APIs for this project, at least not at the moment. My primary focus is on validating the idea and gauging interest. Scaling is something I haven't given much thought to yet.
I appreciate your reminder about Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, I will definitely update it if I end up using OpenAI's API.
You're missing my point (and using the term greenwashing in a way that I don't understand).

I'm not saying that corporations won't act in morally wrong ways in the name of profit maximizing.

I'm saying that there is no legal requirement that they act in this way. There is a meme/idea that goes around saying that there is a legal requirement to profit-maximize or maximize "shareholder value" over acting morally. That is false. Anyone claiming that is wrong and probably trying to cover for something terrible they've done. The fig leaf isn't real, and we need to call it out. Doing shitty things for higher profits is not a requirement, and never has been.

Of course it is legal to profit maximize in unethical ways, and some companies will do this, even though they don't have to.

Many a CEO has been fired for not profit-maximizing, but many a CEO has been fired for profit-maximizing while trashing the reputation of the company. Boeing and Equifax are two immediate examples of CEOs who got fired for making extremely profit-focused decisions that were severely unethical. It happens.
Looks MUCH nicer. I remember some library, which I saw used in an accounting package, that had a very OpenWindows look that worked well on low resolution screens.
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> Humanity didn't get good at building houses by building the same house a million times.

The amount of quality variation that we are willing to accept in our houses is much greater than what we are willing to accept in an automobile. The quality of the automobile is BECAUSE we make millions of the same car over and over again.
I really wonder how they made something like the windows2k interface in the 90's.
Compared to that, today's interfaces are garbage. And this is especially true for the web or anything that is even remotely in contact with Javascript.

Were UX/UI people and researchers in the 90's just better? More competent? More careful in their research?
Did the objectives change so much from usability to selling clicks?
WhatsApp is set to introduce a brand-new functionality for Android smartphones, allowing users to seamlessly share their screens during video calls. This feature, reminiscent of popular work-oriented platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, empowers individuals to record and display the content of their screens while engaged in video conversations.
Yeah this is a perfect example
The US is a highly divided society in which schools and teachers are still given the mandate to act in loco parentis. It's not surprising that there's some conflict there.
I'm not talking about showing anything to anyone. I said that I checked out books that were significantly more "adult" when I was an adolescent, and I appreciated the ability to do so.

We're also not talking about pornography. None of the material here fails the Miller test.
Show HN: Convert Python Notebooks to Web Apps
I met him in person years ago. Well-deserved praise!
Decades ago they relentlessly optimised that page, shaving it down smaller and smaller. Then suddenly they stopped caring, round about the time they gave people customised landing pages with extra junk littering the page. It must have made a palpable difference to their connectivity and serving costs when they did that. That we're back down to a "paltry" 1.9MB (from a quick test I just did) is remarkable.. and yet so much more than it used to be.
Never go with Gumroad. We had such a bad experience with them.
The thing is, after it's done, it's not a creation anymore. It's history, and you can't get attached to history. Your next thing is a creation.

Of course, this is much easier said than done.
Japanese is limited in what phonetic sounds can be written, so I'm guessing that's just a direct translation of what his name becomes in Japanese
The article includes a video showing they were able to use FaceApp on the non-smiling photo to reproduce the smiling photo exactly.

They also include analysis comparing the smiling photo to other existing photos of those people smiling and note that in the smiling photo some people are depicted with dimples that the person doesn't actually have.
But we also went through a period of trying lots of variations that ended up on the road.

I suppose your point is even more valid if we switch to planes. But I'd counter by comparing the levels of regulation between planes and apps. Houses vs apps feels like a fairer comparison on that score.
I don't see a breakdown of the costs of this layer of hardening. There's nothing on performance, memory usage, library and database support, and so on. Just a few modules that don't work optimally, noticeably the OpCode cache that speeds up PHP quite significantly.

Just stuffing something in a sandbox is easy. Set up a VM and don't add a network card and you've got a near perfect sandbox without any performance overhead. Maybe even do so for each request through Firecracker if you fear memory persistence. What matters is all the added complexity and the downsides of each solution.

Without any comparison, this attempted sales pitch for WASM is little more than a showcase, like when someone runs WINE in the browser.
Did they say which Creative Commons license? I missed it if they did. Oh wait, if you click through to the repository you can see it: CC-BY-SA.

Good! That's a relief. CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are effectively like open source licenses, as is the quasi-license CC0, whereas the other CC licenses are not due to restrictions on derivative works or on certain kinds of use.
> Serving different images depending on client ip made for fun too, as they argued with each other about why they posted "that".

Evil. I like it.
A more realistic answer is that the cost of maintaining the OS is probably high and the benefits of doing so are low with no direct revenue. Ideally devices maintenance guarantees would be factored into procurement decisions and skew the trade-off in the right way.
In-line class static variables ... finally.

if constexpr is neat (along with a bunch of the other constexpr/compile-time features that have been coming along), but I feel like this will have both... good and bad uses, and I fear for the astronauts who will go crazy with this.

The enhanced conditionals, this I kind of like though it would take some while to get used to... kind of surprised this got in, being such a departure from C.

Small thing: hardware_destructive_interference_size is nice. Wish I had this in Rust.

Looks like it was asked for (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1756) but went nowhere.
> https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mr-tries-the-safe-unce...

This doesn't load fully in Safari on an M1 Pro either. I scroll down and the content just ends. It hijacks the scroll bar too.
Haven't thought of Kuro5hin for years. Man, the memories. What a great site.
`if constexpr` is such a disaster. They were so close to getting it right (not introducing a scope) but they missed.

Similarly constexpr itself is also genuinely ridiculous: (I have said this on hackernews before) It's such a stupid idea to require an annotation everywhere you want to evaluate things at compile time, practically everything will inevitably be evaluatable at compile time, and you need the implementation anyway, so just let it fail rather than ask for permission everywhere.

Having the keyword for variables and constants is fine (i.e. top down and bottom up constraints need to be dictated) but you shouldn't need to write constexpr more than that.
Browse the /ptg/ (private tracker general) thread on 4chan's /g/ board
Great read!

> Gibson and Stephenson had taught me that the messenger, the mailman, was a vital romantic figure.

It seemed weird to me that both Snow Crash and Virtual Light had main characters who were couriers. When I read Virtual Light I thought "oh, so this is what Snow Crash was parodying," but nope, it came out a year later. I didn't grow up in a city so that job was something I only encountered in fiction (aside from pizza and Chinese delivery).
I think you have clashing perspectives, but I don't think they are joking. Both are good and interesting points of view, thank you for sharing.