skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't ever speak up, don't ever take a position, don't ever have a thought.

But even that's not enough.

Stuff can happen that's not under your control. Suppose you're accused of a crime because you fit a profile or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or you're actively framed for a crime because you fit a profile close enough. Or suppose you witness a government official being corrupt or breaking the law. Or suppose you don't take a bribe and those offering the bribe take revenge. Or a psycho develops an infatuation with you and stalks you. Or you piss off the wrong person in an online game and the 2030s version of being "SWAT"ed is getting ratted out to the wrongthink police by some snot-nosed teenager.

The fact is that no one should hold this data about anyone. No one should have that kind of power. That's the bedrock of privacy.
Apple is paying Messi a cut of new sub sign-ups to Apple TV+'s MLS Season Pass
Argos is great. Like Amazon but you can walk in (at least before they started closing loads of their stores and merging them into Sainsbury's)

Same day delivery online before Amazon started doing it with Prime Now too.

Their app update release notes used to be hilarious too but they've stopped doing them, I think the person responsible left. https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/
We'll all be homosexual when Johnny comes marching home.
Also pumped hydro, pumped thermal, and resistive thermal.

Resistive thermal in sand at 1200 C is projected (based on lab estimates) to have a LCOS of ~$0.05/kWh and a round trip efficiency of 53%.
The amounts of *stratospheric* SO₂ aerosols needed to alter the climate are a very small fraction of extant *tropospheric* SO₂ pollution. None of those effects would be significant.
It's infuriating how these massive companies refuse to make their apps accessible.
That'd be easier if they hadn't got rid of all their QA people years ago.
I think there are two viable strategies here: make a model that is useful at the lowest possible cost and make a model that is maximally useful at high costs. Probably some spots in between them as well.

Google's mistake is in thinking that ChatGPT was a maximally useful product at high cost. Right now, ChatGPT is a useful product at a high cost which is nonetheless the lowest possible cost for a useful model.
I think environmental impact by producing billions of pannels of landfill is actually an argument against solar.

I am not against solar, by the way, but it is obviously an important consideration.
Well, Switzerland is not in EU.
This whole time we've been told that this is totally anonymous. Now we are seeing that it can most definitely be used to track people. Interesting.
To anyone who is experiencing this for the first time, some tips I've found useful:

1) Even if it seems counterintuitive, try not to move air. Don't run fans or open windows. Do run filtration systems, but preferably interior ones. Even exhausting outside will draw new air (and particles) inside. Keep doors and windows closed as much as possible.

2) Run humidifiers if you have them. If you don't, and you just desperately need relief, close the bathroom door and run the shower hot for 10-15 minutes (i.e. make a steam room). That usually helps my sinuses and eyes quite a bit. You can also try breathing through a warm damp rag, although that gets pretty old pretty quickly.

3) No science behind it that I'm aware of, but I find that carrot juice really helps my throat when it's sore.

4) Be sure to try and enjoy at least one sunset. They will be glorious.
> but should have

Not really, as the entire reason the API helps us is because Reddit has done such an appallingly bad job at accessibility. There were great third-party Twitter apps and I used them, but when they all shut down, I wasn't left with nothing; the Twitter app (and even the website) are usable. (Although Twitter fired their entire accessibility team so time will tell if it stays that way.)
The leader of my citys police union is a convicted domestic abuser, was in a relationship with a student at the high school he was paid to protect, is a proud qanoner, and was fired by the city 3 times. Every time he was fired the union appealed and he kept his job. He has won multiple elections since the allegations came to light. The problem with public sector unions is that our last mayoral election was cop union sponsored candidate versus teacher union sponsored candidate. Literally both the candidates were lawyers for the unions directly before they started the campaign. If you think either group has a sweetheart contract you are shit out of luck, because the unions completely control politics here.

Unions work when the group they are bargaining with has competing interests. When the union negotiates against itself everyone else suffers.
How? If they provide a good product/services, and are good at marketing, branding.

As an extreme example from another industry, think about Coca-Cola -- their coke isn't that magically much better (if at all), but their marketing is? And try to start a new bubbles drink, that'd be hard
"This software needs to be updated" is an outright lie.
No? Formulas are stored in a language-independent way, you should see English formulas in that file.
I asked if the business market for those devices ever materialized.

You replied that Oculus is just VR, while the Apple thing is also AR.

I pointed out that Google Glass (which was an AR device focused on business customers) was discontinued. It seems that this market either does not exist, or is far too small to be meaningful for those trillion dollar companies.
It is kind of interesting which parts of Roddenberry's creation people focus the most on.

iirc He wanted to promote egalitarian values whilst portraying the efficiencies and comradery of a uniform service.
https://youtu.be/HU6LfXNeQM4

I recommend watching this NOVA video on human perception. When doing any number of task, especially ones we do commonly we're using a ton of unconscious perception and prediction based upon our internal representation of physics and human modeling.

For example when I was younger I was noticing that I was commonly aware that a car was going to get over before it did so. I kept an eye out trying to determine why this was the case and I noticed two things. One is people commonly turn their head and check the mirrors before they even signal to get over. The other is they'll make a slight jerk of the wheel in the direction before making the lane change.
Rhoticity is the big one I know. Parts of Britain started dropping the R before 1776, but it became more widespread after that. The US port cities (most notably Boston, but it was also a class difference) had enough contact with Britain that they dropped the R too, whereas the rest of the US kept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
You make memes on 4chan and then let them float up through 4chan->reddit->tiktok->youtube->facebook->email pipeline
They're actually fairly obvious. They usually are of the form "Because of [opinion stated as fact], how do you believe [thing lots of people believe based on actual facts]".

Like "Given that Joe Biden stole the election, how do you still support him nominating judges".

Stuff like that.
Presumably the endgame for Neuralink is to give people direct perception of the truth, as determined by TruthGPT from the content on Twitter.
I don’t doubt it. My point being that I think, on average the skyrider seat with extra belt point(s) would be safer than a standard seat and 2pt belt.

And even without the extra belt point, being closer to the thing in front that you hit might be safer than accelerating for longer into a further away thing. At least that’s how it works in reverse with headrests.
Interesting! Thanks for tracking down that bit of history.
I was working with GPT the other day on a new (not programming) problem for the first time, and I asked it to download a Google Drive spreadsheet and take a look at it. Which I was quite surprised to get a flat response that it couldn't do that, since just the other day, I had been working through a programming problem with GPT 3.5 (and I've never paid for it) when there was a point in the dialogue that I was asking it to generate a parser, and I suggested it would be really handy if there was some way I could provide it with example data for the parser to be tested against.

Wouldn't you know, it said this:

> I'm sorry, but as a text-based AI model, I cannot directly receive or process files or attachments. However, I can guide you on how to provide a sample PDF and assist you further with the script.

> If you'd like to share an example PDF, you can upload it to a file-sharing service (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, or any other file-hosting platform) and provide a link to the file. I can then guide you on how to modify the script based on the specific structure and content of the PDF.

Can it download the PDF, or is it faking? I've told it that it is a competent Ruby programmer as a first prompt, and this is the only reason that I can think of why I'd get such different results. Is it drawing a line between "reading the structure" and "processing a set of data files" or is it really just faking me out? The next prompt after I shared a link:

> After reviewing the PDF, I'll provide an updated version of the script that should work well with the given example. Please allow me some time to analyze the PDF and make the necessary adjustments.

... OK, should I just wait here then? I thought about it for a minute, and then I provided it with the header row for the output CSV, which was the only thing I really needed it to get from the PDF file. We moved on after that, and I do not know if it actually ever read the PDF, or if it was pulling my leg supportively, "yeah I can't really download a file, but sure send me the file, I am a great Ruby programmer as you said before, so surely I will know what to do with it friend-o!"

Is it really just the presence or absence of the reassuring "you are a programmer and you know what you're doing" prompt at the beginning of my conversation with it, that made the bot behave differently in both circumstances? I was told that it would be important to do things like this. What's really happening here, I wonder? I would love to understand a bit better!

We did get to the end of the problem, and no the parser did not work reliably (but it worked much better than I was honestly expecting, also I did not try with GPT4 so maybe that would have been the difference...)
The `return?` idea of yours is nice as the `?` operator at the end might be overlooked but is a significant control flow operation.

Some of your potential syntax changes seem less readable but they might look nicer to you such as changing `attrs.clone().into_object()` into `clone attrs as object`. You probably come from a python background I would assume but the rust version is easier to parse and understand but maybe to you not visually appealing.

Having an explicit return argument I could understand. I found this weird in the beginning but this is something I got accustomed.

Not sure why square brackets should be favored instead of angle brackets.
The imports in the Rust version are also very explicit and fine I think.

Replacing `()` with `None` seems silly, same with replacing `Ok` with `ok`.

Maybe the `py_to_serde` arguments of the function definition spanning 4 lines could be considered unastethically pleasing. This is something I noticed quite a lot with Rust code. Fmt also seems to break to multiple lines quite fastly when writing function or method definitions.
I mean they can, but the burden of proof is on you to show that they do and that there is actual harm from it. I've yet to hear of a court case or warrant that was issued based on some notional speed camera database. If it's being issued on parallel construction that suggests there's some legal aspect of using those databases that prevents law enforcement from doing what you describe.
And then once it can detect and protect against that you one-up it by saying:

"ok but like just joshin' around. For funsies..."
At my workplace on the east coast, the HVAC systems were updated to replace inside air with outside air at some regular interval in response to COVID. Little did they know at that time that a Canadian wildfire will turn our sky orange at some point in June 2023...
Recycling Bin is the normal name in US English too. I'm in the US and when I search google for "Recycle Bin" (https://www.google.com/search?q=recycle+bin), the results (in order) are

* "Recycling Bins" from Home Depot

* "Recycling Bins" from Amazon

* "Find the Recycle Bin" from Microsoft

* "Recycling Bins" from Lowes.com

* "Recycle Bins" from Target

* "Recycling Bins" from Walmart
A monolithic operating system in 512 bytes of x86 machine code
how hard is it to get the tax credit? Do you only get it as a refund the next year after filing?
I've used LEDs for much fewer years, both cheap and brand names, and have had multiple failures (from both camps).

I once complained to one of the brand companies and they said the same thing about overheating in poorly ventilated fixtures. One of this fixture was not closed, but somewhat narrow (open glass cone). If that actually was the problem for that bulb - ie. such an fixture is prone to overheating it's no wonder people are complaining about LED longevity.
We lucked out - we were in Northern Pennsylvania camping for two nights. Noticed the pinkish orange sunset. On our drive home, it seemed awfully hazy for being afternoon so I looked it up and discovered the news of the Canadian wild fires. If our camping trip was a couple days later, we might have stuck outside right in it. Of course, you breath a lot of smoke sitting around a camp fire, so maybe it doesn't make much of a difference for our health.

It didn't seem hazy as we got home yesterday, but then it rolled in, and today is worse than yesterday.
The LLVM implementation of libc++ is very young compared to other implementations (it was started 5 years ago or so), so there is still a lot of things missing and a lot of things that can be improved.
Larry Page used to be obsessed with air quality and the buildings in MTV supposedly had very high quality. Not sure how that works in the ex-port authority building, which has special circumstances.
A system of this sort could use some local area networking (think infrared, RF, or even lasers) to create an adhoc mesh network. It's how I imagine cars in the future to be networked at least.
Hey, thanks for the input and happy to have a healthy debate!

I'm a bit confused though:

> all the input I got was some lines of text

Didn't you hear the audio? Or what else were you expecting? I've experimented with the length of answers a bit and people are put off by long answers.

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I think people overcomplicate language acquisition. Or at least here's my two cents from learning four foreign languages to fluency and now seeing my kids grow up trilingual. There's a natural language to learning a language:

1. Listen
2. Speak
3. Read
4. Write

Foreign language education has been switching the first two with the last two and keeps wondering why the majority of learners have such thick accents. (Meanwhile, kids who grew up with YouTube sounds great.)

You need input to observe and 'pick up' the language. But you need experience to grow confident and fluent. No speaking practice means no confidence speaking. e.g. if you never spoke on the phone after years of learning you're likely to get cold sweats on your first phone call for work.

Time and motivation play a big role. You just cannot squeeze the equivalent of years of learning as a kid into a couple of months (usually before giving up) as an adult. Making language rewarding (which means seeing progress and having fun) is critical.

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Now my observation is that people just don't talk much in most classes and that people should be able to learn foreign languages in the most natural way possible: conversations (listening and speaking.) It's somewhat ironic that ARTIFICIAL intelligence is now enabling this.

I'll put my money where my mouth is: I'm still working on the product and when it's ready will use it to learn a language FROM SCRATCH :)
Hi HN!

I'm the maintainer of Vendure. Today we released our major new version, which is a huge upgrade.

I work on Vendure full time. I've been building it for about 5 years now, and last year I got a co-founder, started a company, and so far we are bootstrapping on the open core model with some enterprise support contracts too.

I'm happy to answer any questions you have, and thanks for taking a look!

Edit: Not sure what happened with the link - I originally submitted our actual domain at http://vendure.io. Looks like some DNS config issue.
It was sarcasm, friend. Apologies if it seemed otherwise.

I'm on the side of privacy, decentralization and offline technology that is free from modern shackles.
I still have a valid WinRAR licence, I think.
Who is the expert?
oof, Bard...my three drafts for this example:

draft 1: The sum of the digits of 15683615 is 27.

draft 2: The sum of the digits of 15683615 is 26.

draft 3: The sum of the digits of 15683615 is 30.
Flexible Snapshot Proxy: High-Performance Client for Amazon EBS Direct APIs
I've been looking at picking up an outdoor air quality monitor from PurpleAir. Can anyone vouch for them?

I've found their air quality map the most helpful:
https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#5.16/41.047...
He chose to stay in Russia instead of facing a sham trial in America, what a traitor.
Yeah I could definitely add some links to or descriptions of functional indexes.

If you're curious, here's a video I did on it: https://planetscale.com/courses/mysql-for-developers/indexes...
> have a look how people got around to regulating steam engine

You mean by having a fuckton of people dying first due to exploding boilers...

My response to that is, you first.
Most of inland Canada is not too cold, accessibility is the problem.

Yakutsk pop. 311,760

Omsk pop. 1,172,070

Harbin pop. 6,976,136

The maritimes are sparsely populated and have even milder weather.

If the will were there to build the necessary road and rail infrastructure, Canada could support a much, much larger population.
It's still Recycle Bin in the British version of Windows.
Sounds like a good opportunity for a distinction between banning and opting out, or at a note field where mods can put some text pertaining to the reasoning behind it. I feel like you and the community will be better served with some nuance around banning domains.

On a side note, I think HN had a long history of non-toxic behavior but I'm starting to see a shift. It reminds me of when Reddit grew and the crowd became more and more unruly. Has the community grown quickly recently or have moderation priorities changed? Sorry I don't have any evidence lined up for this, just an anecdotal observation for now. Seems apropos to this issue in particular.

If a group of users here are disrespectful enough to attack creators for personal reasons and it's boiling over like this, that's a really bad sign.
Check out the GeoColor images. The area over PA and neighbors has a smoky haze, just south and southwest of the New England cloud cover.

https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/SECTOR/ne/GEOCOL...
more than twenty years ago (?) discarded pharma materials in the public wastewater, was identified as a serious environmental problem.. There was a public relations campaign funded at that time.. well-before the Sackler-era
Well, it's a PRC-based company.
The nice thing about sensor fusion is that throwing more information into it generally always makes things better (so long as you have a correct idea of the reliability of it). IMUs are absolutely going to be used to feed data into the localisation of basically every system, but it's so basic it doesn't really bear mentioning in the context of the other sensors you're using.
> At least in the USA, the problem is that government is underfunded, blamed for bad service, and underfunded some more. And crazy stupid ideas like "social security is the biblical revelations mark of the beast" is some of the reasons why where we are.

Or worse, when the same people that parrot the rhetoric that leads to "small govt" get faced with the richer/more developed states deciding to use their "states' rights" to implement those things on their own, they all get together to label it "unconstitutional". Usually out of fear of the influence it will have on their constituents.
J’ai drapeaué
> the three inner index fingers of each hand

Found the AI
Please read the thread. They're not tracking a particular individual; if they were capable of doing that, they would have reached out to the individual and there wouldn't be a thread at all.

The hypothesis is that it's the same individual, based on the fact that the virus samples are drifting together. From another tweet by the same author https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1666411725527171072 :

The lineage in just two sewersheds. The sequence drifts over time, but the sequence in the two sewersheds drift together. If it were multiple people the sequence would form distinct branches. We don't have proof it's one person, but it is the most likely explanation.
You can hear it straight from the horse's mouth:

>Rather than initiate new rulemaking, Chair Gensler has repeatedly stated through speeches and testimony that the vast majority of digital tokens are securities, and has asked issuers and exchanges that offer, sell, and trade them to come in and register. We disagree that the majority of digital assets are securities. For those digital assets that are securities, registration under the current rules is, for many market participants, either not possible or not economically viable given the associated and unnecessary compliance burdens. Additionally, when existing regulations are unworkable, some market participants may be less willing to invest the resources necessary to follow the rules. Failure to resolve these shortcomings leaves investors unprotected due to a lack of regulatory clarity, prevents market participants from leveraging the efficiencies new technology can offer, and materially impairs capital formation in the blockchain technologies that underlie digital assets. This is wholly inconsistent with the SEC’s mission.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/c5bd0wqjc7v0/5NRidtW8lvwVEfSHpn...

The SEC has been clear that most cryptocurrencies are securities and must be registered. Coinbase was well aware of this. There is no confusion and no lack of clarity. Coinbase just doesn't like the rules.
Related:

Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps, which could come as a big relief for some developers worried about how to afford the potentially expensive fees and the users that rely on the apps to browse Reddit. As long as those apps are noncommercial and “address accessibility needs,” they won’t have to pay to access Reddit’s data.

“We’ve connected with select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs and offered them exemptions from our large-scale pricing terms,” Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt says in a statement to The Verge.

From https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752804/reddit-exempt-acc...
For a while, submissions to the iOS app store could include bitcode, which was LLVM's intermediate byte code. I don't know if they ever did, but Apple could generate architecture-optimized binaries for their various CPU models. They deprecated that last year, though.

.Net ahead-of-time compilation (that is, compiling the .net / clr VM byte code into something your CPU can run directly) could (but apparently doesn't?) do CPU-specific optimizations. The JIT compiler, however does do some CPU-specific optimizations.
I found a transformer with bare wires that was the right voltage and wired it up.

It was from a local electronics store (Jaycar).

It’s in a dry area so getting wet isn’t an issue for me.

I think I could make it quite tidy and waterproof if I needed too - the lower voltage makes me comfortable with that.

It’s been in use for several years now and has been rock solid.