skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drive across country in the American West and you'll find: McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Starbucks, Wal*Mart.

Truck stops, ubiquitous on the interstates, always have the same stuff, usually a Subway or similar fast-food chain, food and beverages on the aisles just like any city. Some but not much regional variation, usually manifest by something like the variety of Doritos flavors available. Inside the only way you can tell where you are is to look for the always-present postcard and souvenir racks.
Remote URL handling in weechat and tmux (2019)
That is another matter.
What was gained that would not have been gained without the existence of the lab?
> That would be less interesting, since it's the method taught in every first course of linear algebra, right?

But it would be interesting to mention that that's what this method is doing, just using that, in the distinct-eigenvalues case, A - \beta I maps onto the \alpha-eigenspace, so you can simply apply it instead of explicitly finding eigenvectors. In fact, every time I teach linear algebra, one of my students discovers this 2×2 trick for finding eigenvectors, though usually accidentally thinking that they are finding \beta-eigenvectors, rather than \alpha-eigenvectors, by computing the image of A - \beta I instead of its kernel.
Is there some kind of objective standard for version numbers I’m not aware of? Maybe you could call only LTS versions “major versions” if you wanted.
It wasn't even just for MS applications. You could embed the Agents in your own application via ActiveX. There were some samples from MS of how to embed it in websites via VBScript. There was also an Agent Editor so you could create your own agents.

There were also downloadable agents from MS. I think there were around a dozen or so different ones before they pulled the plug.
The recipients sometimes transfer the treatment to home as well. Which is something that I feel that the government should be able to be sued for.
> The ElasticSearch Golang library is a glorified wrapper around an HTTP Client that adds only frustration to the experience.

That's been my experience with SDK and adapter libraries regardless of the language.
Seamonkey browser reveals no visible content at all when visiting this site - just a blank window. I can see content in 'view source' but the main window won't resolve anything.

Links on the command line can resolve the text but of course does not display images. So when the OA says...

"Desktop AND mobile: projects must work across both desktop and mobile web"

...could we perhaps focus on what 'work' actually means for a Web site in 2023?
Unfortunately the aphorism is created by victims of trauma in order to justify their experience. "Hurt people hurt people" is accurately based in reality.
Personally I prefer the bureaucratic sabotage manual the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) published during WWII, to advise Nazi-occupied workers on how to slow business to a crawl. Which, funny enough, sometimes reads like a description of bad management practices in general!

https://www.hsdl.org/c/abstract/?docid=750070
There is probably some threshold where consolidation is good for economy and consumers. This likely comes down to market share. Hard to say where upper bound would be, but 25-33% at least seems reasonable. If consolidation means more efficiency with less overheads and more buying power.
A timestamp would be appreciated, from a quick look at that video he explicitly says we don't know whether AGI is possible; not that we will have agents killing people in 2 years.
I basically don't use a mobile device, but I am adjacent to a large media market. It would be nice if the radio stations still did this, so I could get some variety on the commute.
FTPs with strict Up/Down quota.
Tax the fuck out of them. On income, not profits, based on marketshare they own.
I did not enjoy this - you need to get all the way to the end to see that he is ok with silos as long as his get to survive. The article is a bunch of breadcrumbs to get you to the point where he springs his models on the reader.

Which is would have been one thing he if was honest but the frame is bogus. If he wanted real diversity at the popular level he would not have cherry picked so very hard so assign blame.

His frame is that ‘wokeness’ is the real problem with AI, since results from AI language interfaces will be governed by whatever that is. But all sorts of systems can present the problems he wants us to understand. You can’t tell me that Thiel/Zuck/Q/4chan or any other entity on any spectrum could not pose a problem of similar shape, depending on ownership or algorithm mastery.

Having a bitcoin guy tell us the free market is gone and info homogenization will come because commie cat ladies, with no mention of megamergers and market capture through non competitive means, seems like he is burying his own values just to print some dunks he thought was clever.

It is rare for me to more insulted by other terms in a text when the author uses the word ‘ideate’ non-ironically but it happened here.

I am eager to see good debates about language mediated interfaces and debates whether LLMs will expand or contract knowledge, but not starting from his set of assumptions.
Series Hue – Mid 2023 Update
What made Web 2.0 different from Web 1.0 in your classification?
I think they mean {a: x, b: y, *c} = d, which is a nice idea now we have a stable order to dicts, but I've rarely come across times when I needed this that I can't simply use .items() and such for, or care about more general pattern matching like values for specific keys, which you can just do a, b = d["a"], d["b"] with little loss of clarity, sure {"a": a, "b": b} = d is cute and all, and maybe we'll oneday see it now we have match as syntactic precedent, but I don't really feel concerned by its absence.
I tried turning off Adblock and wow.... I didn't even mind the ads, but the loading just never stopped. Some of the article images wouldn't load because they were trying to load so many ads.
I don’t know about this counterexample. Refusing to think clearly is what Russian apologia is made of. A world in which only the US has agency and only the US can do wrong is not clearheaded.
We could have ended up with ActiveX, VBScript.
I'm sure others will reply with their own, but I can give you several examples where it specifically sped up some of my development. I'll start with just the one though, because otherwise this could get quite long.

As a weekend project I did a DSL for helping to interact with LLM's called Prompt (prlang.com), kinda like an declarative LangChain. The language is unimportant, what is important is that syntax highlighting is just one of those things that people expect a language to have now, and every editor wants to do it differently. Figuring out syntax highlighting is one of those super tedious things that makes writing a DSL very boring. ChatGPT4 is very good at translating from one language to another though, and so I could use it to help me write the vim syntax file (I don't know VimScript at all) and then translate it to other editors as necessary.

To get specific, it helped me write this vimscript file:

https://github.com/PromptProgrammingLanguage/prompt/blob/mas...

and then with almost no editing from me turned it into another syntax highlighting file (for hljs) that's used on the website.

https://github.com/PromptProgrammingLanguage/PromptProgrammi...

I don't know how long that would have taken me to figure out on my own, but diving into VimScripts docs, and then the HL.js docs, and fully reading and comprehending them would have been a total slog. Doing it with ChatGPT4, I could keep open the docs for Vim, ask it questions about how to do something, then quickly reference the docs to cross check if it was telling the truth, write, and then test the syntax in a very quick loop. Then the process of translating what I had to another library was incredibly fast, if I recall it misplaced one line while translating, which was thankfully obvious, and that was it. I didn't read the docs for hl.js at all.

ChatGPT is definitely better at some tasks than others. Anything that takes shallow knowledge of your specific code base, but broad knowledge of the wider languages ecosystem, is a good fit for it's use.

I could give a more impressive example of where it helped me tackle a super specific bug in my code that had to do with the wider Rust ecosystems libraries, it really blew me away with that one, but the above was easier to document. You wanted specific though, so there ya go :).

And of course ChatGPT4 is leagues ahead of ChatGPT3.5, so if you're not getting good results you really want to pay for the better model.
It's stored inside the CPU of the secure element, in something like a register. Otherwise both the key and the ciphertext would be in the ram and the protection would be pointless.
Actually I think that's a reasonable stance. Not everyone wants to use the newest and greatest JavaScript framework which is will be completely reworked in six months because there's a need for a newer and greatester version. The speed of evolution of JavaScript frameworks is amazing, yet they're all still worse thought out than Elm.
Do you know if these are just Java features, or if they're backed by new JVM bytecode intrinsics to ensure that these destructuring matches are able to be performed efficiently? (Think e.g. Erlang's recent "fused checks", where it can figure out whether something is an integer and whether it's non-negative using a single abstract-machine instruction.)

That is, for languages that already have features like this (e.g. Scala), will those languages be getting any benefits as a byproduct of Java getting these features?
Off topic, this is super impressive website. Thanks for sharing.
MK-ULTRA was only one such program.

It had predecessors and parallel programs. Beginning at least as early as the post WWII 1940's.
> AI takes the power from creators to create, and gives it to the individuals of the world

AI gives everyone the exact same connect the dots and paint-by-numbers toolkit as everyone else. Creativity? If you think coloring outside the lines is creativity.

> whatever people ask for is going to have to be within the bounds of AI, but humans are not going to sit idly and let the AI determine what they get

Just like people didn't sit idly by and let social media or Wal*Mart determine what they get?
The point of GPL is to allow end users to benefit from open source, instead of getting closed software or hardware.

In this case caseysoftware clearly benefits from the GPL code that gets replaced. End users get no guarantees.
YouTube cares too, but yes it's rare and annoying.
> The Reddit CEO's negative karma (-111,199 at this time)

Perhaps he's trying to pull a Nuclear Gandhi[1] and go 'deep' enough to underflow to being extremely positive?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi
How much more would you pay for hardware with this extra protection against you hacking it?
I noticed that too, the radio seems to be playing the same stuff they were playing when I was in high school.

And I think it's a consequence of the fact that the only people listening to the radio are the same people who were listening to the radio when I was in high school, everyone younger is on Spotify.
Setting up a CDN is free, quick and easy. It should be the default if you're deploying a static site. Definitely not overengineering.
Its Citadel, not some random company. They are infamous here in Chicago for paying people gobs of money and working you 80 hours/week. I would be highly suspect of any Citadel position under 100K.
Maybe that's simply because you are older now? Sorry.

More seriously, I suspect this is mainly an artifact of how we currently perceive every form of human activity from a purely economic and commercial perspective. That automatically renders invisible any form of culture production that is not obviously commercially relevant today. Historic subcultures remain visible if some of their aspects had time to get exploited commercially.

And it's easier than ever to find books in non-traditional form or with non-traditional content because it's nowadays possible to publish decently made books for minority audiences. A credible path to commercial success is no longer a precondition, as long as someone is willing to pay for publication (but of course the visibility issue still applies).
They'd never come out and say "We are recalling our workers because we have data showing they're less productive while working from home.".

Saying something like that would cause a lot of bad PR. Piss off your workers even more. The media, pro-WFH people, HN will pan the company for saying something like that. There's no winning for the company to take this risk. It's best to say something generic like "culture".
What metrics and tests do you have to support your petabyte scale claim?
Years of therapy to remove that memory... Wasted.
Harlem is also a neighborhood of Manhattan. Manhattan is the entirety of Manhattan Island plus Marble Hill (a tiny neighborhood on the mainland to the north).
Novak Djokovic beats Casper Ruud to win Roland Garros title and claim 23rd major
Boomers are pushing millennials out of the housing market
CTs.

How often must someone explain why there are no stars visible in the moon photos or why the flag moves?
Ask HN: What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?
Inspired by this article: https://collabfund.com/blog/mental-liquidity/

Which is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280772
CS:GO skins can sell for thousands of dollars, using an exploit like this for spear-phishing attacks against whales flaunting their expensive inventories could easily net more than the $7500 bounty which the OP received for responsible disclosure. It's probably already happening, highly targeted attacks aren't likely to make the news, and even if they are publicised it's hard to determine exactly how they were achieved.

https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/blog/cs-go-two-million-usd-inven...
The whole situation seems quite chaotic for me, as I've read here in the comments. Different tolls on different tunnels/roads, different transit providers etc. It seems suboptimal.

I wonder why this is not better designed? At least the public transit situation can be improved, I think. While public transit in germany is quite complicated, I think it stems from a similar federalistic design and maybe the solutions can be translated?

We usually have local public transit owned on the local level, with regional rail owned by the state or the federal railroad company. So different actors like MTA or NJ transit, as I've understood (are there more?).

But we usually have another layer, a transport association. For example in munich it's the mvv, which is owned by the state of bavaria, the city of munich and the neighbouring districts, or the VBB in Berlin, owned by the state of Berlin, the neighbouring state of brandenburg and the districts of berlin and neighbouring of berlin in brandenburg. The transport association usually doesn't own tracks or rail cars, but it's responsible for uniform pricing, ticketing, coordinating schedules and distributing the money to the actual transit providers, which can be federal, local or the state (or multiple states as with berlin).

It is quite complicated and usually in germany nobody knows the difference between the transit providers and the transit association etc., but maybe this system can be translated? It usually leads to a situation where the transport association is perceived as a uniform system and hides the federalists structure behind a common front, and also as a common actor and formal way to coordinate on the future of the system between the different actors.
Science fiction book "Children of time" has a lot too say about what ants can do (and spiders).
Is the HN hug of death truly only single digit QPS?
That's not really the will of people though, it enforcement from elites and their control of international global corporations, that destroy cultures for profit.

Before Coca-Cola entered India, tea and coffee were the predominant beverages. However, Coca-Cola's aggressive marketing strategies aimed at the younger demographic positioned their carbonated drinks as trendy and fashionable to shift cultural norms away from traditional Indian drinks.

De Beers, a multinational diamond corporation, is credited with the creation of the diamond engagement ring tradition in Japan. Prior to the 1960s, the concept of diamond engagement rings was virtually unknown in Japanese culture. However, De Beers launched a powerful marketing campaign that successfully associated diamonds with Western ideas of romance and status, thus changing the cultural norm.

Global Corporations are trying to achieve economies of scale. So they benefit from global cultural homogenization, you can see that with many Japanese Gaming Companies likes Capcom promising to include western ESG principles in their games.

The only real backlash in recent history that's been effective has been the Bud Lite fiasco.
TONS of open source software embeds phone-home spyware these days. Most developers see nothing wrong with this sort of covert data exfiltration, thinking opt-out preferences are fine.

It's not fine.

I install Little Snitch from USB before ever allowing a freshly wiped Mac to connect to any network.
I don't tolerate the new Reddit, I prefer it. It's nice how the new one shows posts large enough to read/see them while scrolling, resulting in a lot less clicking overall. Normally I dislike newer web design, but they did an ok job not bloating it up like Twitter and Facebook.
A Cavernous Cantina Returns to Denver, Cliff Divers and All
I jumped to the section on Europe and the only entry for the last 20 years is:

> In late 2019, CIA agent Anne Sacoolas hit and killed a British teenage pedestrian named Harry Dunn with her car, while she was driving on the wrong side of the road, near the RAF Croughton base in the UK where she and her husband (both CIA agents) worked.

List of atrocities, indeed…
For a while? You mean forever.
Well, they were going with 1.5, 1.8 because the 5 and 8 are minor version numbers as it's all backwards compatible.
One of the most annoying things of grafana is that panels can only be edited via the UI and the “changes” summary when you commit is near unusable with a bunch of auto generated garbage.

Having a simple language/YAML to define those panels and an easy way to preview them (eg paste in your file to preview the page, paste in a panel source to try it) in addition to editing via GUI and being able to copy changes back to revision control would be great
Dimensions of API Consistency
Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet
With the security risks of both as well.
I don't think this is right, content feels much more fragmented now. There is more content, locked into smaller premium services, catering to niche audiences. If you look at viewership, when there were just three national networks, popular shows had 10x-20x the audience. An example is the MASH finale, which had 106 million viewers. Game of Thrones finale, in comparison, had 19m.
> Holy moly. What is going on?

People took benevolent moderation for granted. Now platform owners are getting cagey.

> Is this like when Musk censored links to Mastodon on Twitter?

In the sense that users are helpless? I guess so. The primary motivation for this behavior from Reddit seems to be their desire for an IPO though, which is becoming more and more unrealistic as protests continue. Musk censored links to Mastodon because he's a known petty manchild, Reddit is censoring alternatives in a genuine attempt to clean up their image and preserve a userbase they can monetize.
Ask HN: Did you become more creative as you aged?
And if so, maybe you like your life better now for that reason?
Ah, manuals.

Lately I have been learning Moho, an animation program that's been around since 1999. It's got two PDF manuals - one that's specifically ~300p of tutorials, one that's ~600p of reference - and they are both fabulous. Gorgeously laid out, lucidly written. I'm in heaven. Fuck context-sensitive help, fuck video tutorials, here's everything I need to know to get started with this power tool. From the rawest beginner concepts to "here is how a .moho file is structured in case you need to read/write one as part of some convoluted multi-app workflow".

Sadly if you buy a physical copy you just get a DVD. I think I need to take these two PDFs down to Office Depot and get them printed out, sharing the computer screen with the program or putting it on a tablet just isn't cutting it.
It can't scale without spinning up new (heavy) instance. Its database is hosted in the same <<thing>> as the web server ( https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker... ). Note that it's a single container that exposes port 80 and 443 - the database is hosted inside of that container.

That makes scaling the main instance impractical without redesigning how its built, deployed, secured, and connects to its backend database.

Note also that adding other sites increases this load without adding users as polling for content constantly is likely more expensive than having a user connect directly (and use it for a limited time).
> Drinking the same shit at starbucks.

Yeah, that isn't really happening. The era of the US exporting food preferences was short lived, mostly at the 90's.

> Living in the same cities with the same stores?

And well, stores are dying, so that's off too.

Everyone is in a different bubble inside the same social media; clothes haven't actually homogenized any more in centuries (I'm not sure if there's room for it); and yes, the internet runs on English and the shows/movies one is spot on.

Overall, 20th and 21th century globalization has been a huge force for enabling local diversity at the expense of global one, but you seem to widely overestimate it.
This is a really good question
The armor piercing rounds. Haig said he sold them personally, though Arizona is the home of America’s most elite thought control programs (also a nest of white terror, gestating in the cul de sac of sheriff Joe’s prisons.)
If you told me I'd be parsing PDFs from cia.gov on my main mobile device 24 hours ago, I wouldn't have believed you.
Revisiting Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport, 25 years after its closure
We still don't know what happened to JFK, 60 years later.
I kind of addressed your first comment in my original post when I talked about how people are not going to just use these tools and let them determine what they get, they're going to innovate and work on it had to and find creative uses for them as we always have for every tool we've got an access to.

For your other comment, Walmart is a tool of scale and cheapness. It's designed to provide you with what you want at the lowest price possible. If you want vibrant individuality, you need to go to a store like Etsy or get a 3D printer and go to some maker spaces, which all exist and are all doing quite well.

And at Walmart you have plenty of choice, yeah you don't have infinite choice, but it's Walmart. It's a physical good store, You go there because you have a budget and you have to stay under that budget.

I don't get your point about social media, it's one of the most competitive and innovative and ever spaces we've ever had in the history of humanity.
I wasn't criticizing. It's not not what prolific means.
By type analysis, I mean Dialyzer and built-in type errors, and by static analysis, I mean Credo and its ability to define custom checks and Elixir's ability to access and walk its own AST plus the compiler features.

Yes, Dialyzer could be better, but it's pretty good if you write typespecs. But Credo is quite good and one of the best such tools I have ever used. And Elixir g enerally has excellent error messages. Why do you say it's laughably bad?

Also, the point was primarily that all these tools are effectively built-in to the language without several different competing libraries.

And I neglected to mention the official formatter.