skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting name "Ping West" XD
"Is there something dystopian about India or Soviet Union that is unlike the Global North?"

Actually, I would place the soviet union in the global north (you cannot go much further north, than russia is). And the difference is the extent, what they did to rewrite history. The famous removal of Trotzki out of revolution pictures, after he was not with the main party anymore. Stuff like this, did not happen in the west. Lots of other manipulation and misinformation, sure, but not blatantly rewriting history.
In my article, I delve into two distinct strategies for preventing migration conflicts in Django during development. The first involves the django-linear-migrations package, which is an extension to the makemigrations command. The second uses GitLab's merge pipelines and merge trains to catch migration conflicts using CI. Both strategies aim to streamline the development process and minimize deployment errors. I welcome your thoughts and suggestions.
This reads like a grieving spouse blaming themselves for their partner's cheating behavior. "Maybe if I looked younger, they'd have stuck with me. Maybe if I was more fun, they'd want to be around me. Maybe if I changed, they'd still be here. Maybe if I was different, they would've kept me."

OR (and I say that in the angriest way I can manage via text) the business is completely looking out for itself in the short term without consideration of its needs beyond a quarter. When a department has served its useful purpose to the very specific goals of the business then the department gets discarded. When a company needs a design for a website, it pays for a UX designer. When the designs are finished, they fire the designer. Does that mean the business never needed a designer? No, instead, they believe that they _no longer_ need a designer, and continue to profit off of the work that the designer did for them. The designer then gets to leave and write blog posts blaming themselves for the pitfalls of capitalism and the absence of design unions.

There is no way to stay around a hungry tiger and survive for long, no matter how one ingratiates themselves to the tiger. Designers, don't write blog posts claiming that getting fired is 100% your fault. You're not Jack Welch, you're the body he spent no time thinking about leaving behind.
I've got an M5Paper laying around and something I've always wanted to build for it (for myself), but I never quite figured out a good dev setup or starting point for development. If this had some sort of personal use version it would be perfect, but I understand well enough that there's no money in that.
If it did, you'd think it'd be gone by now, much less have articles like https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/millennials-happy-not-having-... written about it.

I think it's a lot more complicated than a simple genetic trait: people weigh the cost and benefits using a lot of no-single-gene high-level reasoning and (in this environment, the massive inequality in haves and have-nots, the relative lack of material support for raising a child from the larger community, the overall ease relative to decades past of access to the tools of controlling pregnancy, and the removal of most of the patriarchal obstacles to women in particular remaining marriage-free) decide that it's not worth the cost. It's not like there's a risk of failure to propagate the species; if anything, the risks seem most associated with increasing the headcount, not decreasing it.
I'm not an astronomer or physicist, but I believe it is possible for a galaxy to be 25 billion light years away, even though the universe is thought to be less than 14 billion years old, because of the expansion of space while the light was traveling.

It seems to be conventional wisdom at any rate.
I understand your point about taxi drivers, but our driver was someone very different. He was well educated and a sophisticated gentleman who owned his own nice car. He was also a ‘tour guide’ superstar as far as knowing locals to introduce us to, local activities. We only covered about a 400 mile radius area around Agra. Anyway, I found him believable, but he was just one data point.
Code can be simplified. Change:

linkTitles.map(title => Link(title))

to

linkTitles.map(Link)

Only teasing. In all seriousness this looks really nice and reminds me that I want to get a new e-ink reader! It's been like 8 years since I last used one so I imagine the technology has come a long way.

Anyone here recommend a reader if money is no object? I want the highest quality one on the market that will last years. Primarily for reading, but perhaps also some note taking.
I was going to suggest avoiding sulphites.
> Back in the real world, there will be 2 months+ of fossil fuels to support the lifestyle you've chosen.

Nuclear, hydroelectric, etc. Lots of places do not get a majority of their electricity from fossil fuels. Washington (and Canada) use a ton of hydro power. https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=WA
The better question is: Why use Javascript at all for a static website?
Ever wondered why these "laws" were not repealed or even questioned by the ruling party in the last 9 years, even with an overwhelming majority in parliament?
Can't speak to age, but there is a well known phenomenon that fighter pilots only have girls.

What data there is backs that up, too.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/12/01/Air-Force-fliers-rea...

Wouldn't surprise me if similar factors, e.g. stress on the body via aging, also impact the Y chrom and lead to more girls.
Very excited about this, because one of my favorite ways to "doodle" during a Zoom call is to fiddle with compressors and EQs and see if I can make everyone sound better. Switched to Linux as my daily driver from Mac a few months ago, and haven't done as much in this area. ;)
Fine Tuning vs. Prompt Engineering Large Language Models
It's a mix. For loose issues, it's mostly people's time. We have a large format scanner and it takes maybe 10 minutes per ~16 page issue or so once you get into the flow. For bound volumes, they'll really need to get sent out to somewhere that has specialized equipment and that will cost $1 to $2 per page.
> Great API documentation

This sounds great, would like to see a link to this documentation.

Minor note, or question maybe, I'm not sure why this needs to be in typescript though. Eink is often accompanied by low power devices, Python and C are the usual choices for these cases.
> It is only in "secular" India that organized religious conversions were allowed that led to Christians going from less that 1% of the population 100 years ago to 90% today in some states

But all that happened before India was even fully independent so how is it relevant? Are you saying Christian should be forcibly converted back to Hinduism?
On high end phones it is more of a "battery impact" than a "delay impact".
> And what exactly does a bike courier spend all this time carting from Alpha to Beta?. Undramatically, it is mostly just legal documents and cheques. I fear that once average people get more comfortable with internet encryption, courier companies will go out of business.

Any data on how this has panned out? I'd imagine that it has declined a lot, but sometimes you still do just need to deliver a physical document.

One thing that occasionally stands out to me in Agatha Christie novels is that London had twice-daily mail delivery in the early-to-mid 1900s. You'd post a letter in the morning and it would arrive in the evening. It wouldn't replace the "we need this across town in an hour", but it's always been interesting to me that delivery service downsized when telephones became commonplace. It would make sense for courier services to do the same with email, the web, and SSL.
Just updated the post with pictures. Thank you for bringing that up.
I read your other post explaining what you meant after I asked. I don’t think the initial claim was clear but I get where you’re coming from.
How to Build a Copy AI Clone
Are you asserting the smiling photo is the real one?
Simple circuits are efficient and last forever.
> Why else would they come up with their own insurance?

If they had evidence that their cars were less likely to be involved in accidents then it would pay them to set up an insurance company and charge just below the usual rates.

Even if they are merely as safe as other cars then Tesla could provide insurance at lower prices because they need only break even and they have better statistics.
Why would this affect torrenting, isn't this only for explicitly added port forwards? Or am I missing something?
The PDF is _right there_.
Excellent advice. I will now look only for things that I have no chance to understand.
Proprietary systems are probably the best bet since we are, by definition, not allowed to understand. Only windows for OS and secure pulse for internet connection for me - there couldn't possibly be any major security flaws with that logic right?
From my experience the terrible experience is pretty often because of bloated features (and the bad UI that comes with it) that are shipped quickly in order to be first to market and capitalize on the novelty of some new technology. Move fast and break things. Then hardware technology improved so bloated UI etc got a pass because no one needed to optimize anything unless you're developing for 3rd world with outdated hardware and poor internet speeds.
That's pack-level density. Cell-level is ~280Wh/kg.

Reportedly packs of comparable size from Amprius are 70% more dense, so 340Wh/kg. Still a very good number, which could lay to rest concerns about curb weight and range of EVs.
This mostly matches up with the "business > users" point that the author was making. Businesses have decided that degrading the end experience for users through dark patterns, mandatory updates, walled gardens, and online only services is acceptable because users either have to use their product (electric companies, as an example), or because they offer a genuinely compelling product that people want to use despite the terrible experience (another point the authors made).

For performance overhead and unnecessary JS, that sounds like poor development practices that happens to also degrade the end experience for users, although some of that unnecessary JS could be some sort of tracking implementation that was included through business requirements.
Exciting times for VTOL companies. They've been called various flavours of "scam" or "vapourware" a lot because of their energy demands, but ultimately they're all bets on the continued improvements of battery tech, which is a pretty safe bet. There's tens of billions of capital flowing into battery development every year (https://report.volta.foundation/annual-battery-report/public...), so if you have everything else nailed down and just need better batteries, you're in good shape.
Heh, I've been there as well a decade ago when switching from windows to macos. Far manager was also the first program I'd also install on any box. I can assure you, this will eventually pass :)

To be fair, far is also not a match to modern file browsers like https://binarynights.com (forklift), especially if you need s3 integration etc
There is a law (maybe a Supreme Court judgement) that only lady officers can arrest women.

And in these cases, a high powered officer, like the SP/DSP calls out for every lady police officers in all local police station to be present.

It doesn't need to be a "all female squad".
> When was it not true that you could live larger without needing to support children?

When most of society was agrarian and labor-oriented, more people meant more hands to do the heavy hand-work of maintaining the city.

Modern automation and standardization has largely removed those benefits; a single person can operate a tractor that maintains acres of crops on an almost semi-autonomous basis, with the driver there mostly to handle breakdowns and deal with the unexpected. Having a family of eight kids means you've got one tractor driver and then what?
Thank you for raising this! it definitely isn't talked about as much as it should, especially in western spheres of dicussion like here on hn
For anyone wondering, the images are from the Penley T. Housefather Prison, in the greatest DLC of any game ever (“Criminal Past” in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided).
Pointing out the population size of India to suggest it's the measure to use when judging quality of a democracy has yet to be used in context of India behaving like a democracy.
sorry, I forgot that men aren't supposed to expect or want anything as part of a marriage. my mistake
The article mentions the functionality that the Javascript is used for: Expanding and collapsing sections, adding the media viewer on thumbnails shown in the page. Both seems like reasonable use cases for interactivity that is (better) achieved using Javascript.
That depends on how complex and interactive the UI is and how much lifting the server is doing. If most of the business logic is in the server and the UI is simple data presentation with some basic interactions, then a web app is what I would go with.
good question that most developers cannot answer.
While those criticisms are true, and I won’t dispute it, he was also a huge symbol for many to actually trust in science and push the country forward.

Sometimes what the symbol represents is more important than the contents itself
I concur. Meditation is training a mental muscle if you will. It is a very useful practice.

First time i noticed its effect were subtle but profound. In an argument with my ex i noticed the anger. In the past i would have reacted and entered fight mode on autopilot. I stayed calm. Later i realized this was the first time i could choose myself how to act.
The tool maintains an LRU cache on disk by default - which means repeat identical requests will be fetched from cache instead of the live API.
Ask HN: Visionary Sci-fi books in 2023
Which books from sci-fi genre do you recommend to read in 2023?
It’s a thought, but I’m not sure I agree. Isn’t this like saying that rural general stores have the greatest strategic advantage in internet commerce because their customers are less likely to have internet and it takes longer to deliver there?

It’s a bit of a buffer from disruption, but it’s hardly a strategic advantage. None of the e-commerce giants we know leveraged their position as tiny, remote corner stores to get there.
Ask HN: How to introduce a 12-year-old to Linux and the command line?
A friend of mine, a non-technical type, has a 12 year old son who is interested in computers. Their family has a pretty strict "no screens” policy, so using computers is not really a thing. My friend is willing to make an exception for his son, but he wants the focus to be on “a black screen with white text”. In other words, he wants the focus to be on Linux, the command line and programming, while limiting exposure to games etc. Using the web to learn about Linux and programming is OK, but computer time should mostly be about text rather than graphics and entertainment.

As a programmer myself, I want to encourage my friend to pursue this project. My own impression of the kid is that coding might be a good fit for him. But I’m a bit stumped as to specific recommendations.

Does anyone here have experiences of something similar? Any hints I can pass along to my friend would be greatly appreciated. Everything from types of projects the kid could work on while getting started to ideas about what distro to use, what programming language to start with etc.

In this particular case, the kid is very imaginative and writes stories, creates roleplaying adventures, designs his own boardgames etc, so the first thing that comes to mind is helping him get started making text-based games. Any suggestions on how to do that would be greatly appreciated!
Religion is a force that pulls people in a conservative direction, particularly when there has been a history of inter-religion conflict like in India
Cant refund a gift card purchase, or anything else where you’ve deliberately not saved the customer payment details. Privacy has drawbacks.
For a long time I've personally felt that if someone in my life is going back and forth from being friendly to being mean, I mark that relationship as being negative. Not a question in my mind.

Relationships are to be judged by consistent behavior over weeks, months and years. If I have to keep guessing if I'm going to get the stick or the carrot from someone, to me it's a no-brainer that I shouldn't expect kindness from them.
Probably this was the reason for the warrant they received earlier this month [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35638917
"Hey, we're just trying to democratize art.."
I was just playing with tesseract last week (I'd used it years ago) and wasn't too happy. I had a pretty simple pdf that was in what you could think of as an old typewritten font, but easily legible, and I got all kinds of word fragments and nonsense characters in the output. I know that high quality ocr systems include a language model to coerce the read text into the most probable words. Is tesseract just supposed to be the first stage of such a system?

I'll note that when I put the tesseract output into chatgpt and prompted it saying it was ocr'd text and asking to clean it up, it worked very well.
OK, let's game this out.

Say I have to go round trip to LA every 6 months. Adding up the 2 charging stops that's an hour:20 or so of downtime charging.

With a gas car, 5 minutes at a gas station every 2 weeks works out to only one hour every 6 months.

So your assertion, confidently presented, does not carry water.
I have no idea how you'd crowdsource something like that outside of a local group of some sort who could come into an office and volunteer.

The reality is that there's a near-infinite amount of stuff that could be digitized and someone needs to make a call about what's worthwhile. At some point you're just digitally hoarding and spending a lot of time/effort/money to do so.
I assume you're using ChatGPT for this, especially for the "ask a question" functionality which would scale poorly with human responders?

That being the case, I expect people will use (or already are using) a free GPT-based tool to summarise, simplify and clarify tech jargon.

Perhaps the quality of you're offering is much higher than that, which would be a selling point. However the sample text is hidden behind an email harvesting form, and the people you're targeting would need to be interested before they give you an email address.
Geographic location isn’t the only aspect of “Global North/South”. Australia is considered part of the North grouping.
It wouldn't create any income due to the electricity costs associated with mining, unless the users start buying ASICs. Also the most straightforward way of implementing this would be by having the user spending the token they generated in a transaction to prove their work, which would nullify their income. Maybe there is some workaround by monitoring the blockchain and seeing if a certain user generated some tokens at a certain time, but would it be worth the extra energy required due to the use of bitcoin' PoW? I think no.
Torrenting requires an open port accessible from peers for good speeds
I'd partly disagree, there are reports of forced conversions to Islam in Kashmir, and women being raped and murdered on refusing to do so long after independence, as recent as 2021.
So they market to producers of e-readers/tablets, I guess.
I generally disagree with this; the sorts of changes you might make for coarse pointers will tend to help the users of coarse pointers too; my mild inclination is to view any use of any interaction media feature as a nudge to reconsider aspects of your design. They’re really just too coarse to be particularly good, hints of how the user might interact with the document. You probably also want (not (any-pointer: fine)) instead of (not (pointer: fine)), as the spec notes suggest: https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-4/#mf-interaction. (These spec notes are fairly extensive, because these are delicate matters where it’s easy to make a mess of things.)
Capabilities based means that by default Wasm cannot do anything with the outside world. You have to explicitly declare the specific access you are giving, for example if the runtime implements WASI filesystem access you need to specify which parts of the underlying filesystem will be accessible to the module

Not yet public means exactly that. You may have a buffer overflow issue in your code that you are unaware of. There are technologies that help mitigate those when/if discovered. Wasm is one of them but not the only one (ie most modern compilers have specific settings to harden the binaries against some issues)
Hm both the 'a' in "Prague" and "brag" are the same for me, might be an accent thing.

I'll give it a whirl, I promised myself no new games until I finish Elden Ring but maybe I can bend the rules a bit, after all it's a DLC not a "game" ;)
Technical solution to a social problem. It's not that it's impossible to tell the difference between real and fake, it's that there's no consequences for posting fakes.

(A "solution" which requires end users to authenticate everything themselves is going to have the same level of adoption as pgp, i.e. near zero)
Why Your Fancy Icons Are Failing: A Call for Meaningful Design
Interesting, what are your views on that?
For sure. I'm dealing with fuzzier stuff, more in the sense of "don't refer to yourself as a chatbot", "this input should trigger X tool", and things of that nature.
It wouldn't be very helpful in preventing abuse if you could still forward ports through UPnP.
My experience is the opposite. It's quite easy and cheap to start using CF, starting with free plans for their proxy. We've added other CF services and pay them now, I think, about $25/month. Very accessible.
In the 90s people worked really hard to draft up universal standards of what makes UI usable and intuitive. Most of it tends to be ignored nowadays. Try teaching an old person how to use a smart phone some time. Just some bullet points:

* Apps feel generally disorganized. Buttons are unlabled. Many things are hidden somewhere between layers of unlabled buttons. In the past you could count on the menu bar giving you quick access to anything.

* Lack of functionality / composability. Avoidance of the file system. Tunnel menus that you have to take one step at a time.

* Every program has UI that works and looks differently, made worse because even the same programs redesign their own UI periodically.

* Flat design. Lack of 'affordances'. Buttons don't look like buttons, draggable things don't look like they're draggable. E.g. scroll bars in the past had this serration to suggest interaction. This leads to hidden features and surprises, where things that seem like static images suddenly hide important functionality.

* Lack of configurability. Configurable Toolbars, arrangeable view panes, tabs etc. And unnecessary limits even when you can configure things. Like, Firefox only has a list of preset zoom levels, to get finer zoom levels you have to go into about:config. Or the fact that it limits the size of tabs to a rather large minimum. For no reason at all.

* Lack of consistent (or even discoverable) keyboard navigation. Rebinding short cuts is not a thing anyone seems to care about anymore.

* Readability, use of space. This applies more to the web, but grey text, ultra-narrow columns, inconsistent scaling.
> But how do you advance from speculating about racism to inferring that it is or isn’t

I mean that’s why the original “btw this didn’t have to do with his race” statement existed. If you’re (hypothetical you) giving special, opaque treatment to the sole black person in the group, then it’s on you to clear up any speculation the opaque treatment had to do with being black, because it was only happening to the sole black person.

So the leadership did an opaque thing to the sole black guy and then clarified the weird thing had nothing to do with his blackness, just their poor communication or whatever.