skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, wouldn’t you expect paranoid orgs to overwrite with zeros/random or crypto-shred the data before physically shredding the device?

It does seem far fetched that someone would go to the trouble of putting a 3mm chunk of platter on a testbed only to most likely recover something that may as well be random noise.
I work in tech (like everyone else on this site). So, to buy my house I did the standard tech thing of selling the company I built. Why doesn't everyone just do that?

Jokes aside, the housing situation in the UK is a joke right now. Places like Skye are forcing out locals because rich people are buying holiday homes there that are empty 99% of the time. This also means there is lots of job vacancies because its impossible to afford to live there and do minimum wage work.

Article about Skye from last year
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islands/families-forced-to-lea...
Now, appointment booking, lead qualification, and more through LLMs on WhatsApp
Abhinav, Giri, and Akhil are here from Superdash. In the last few months, we have seen multiple Q&A applications built on top of LLM. We have decided to extend it further by building a workflow builder on top of LLMs, which opens up many more interesting use cases.

So far, we have built:

- An assistant that helps companies onboard employees at scale.
- A WhatsApp app that guides users through a specific flow and increases appointment bookings.
- Another one that helps companies qualify incoming leads.

We are looking for early users who want to implement different flows in their companies. We are happy to answer any questions you have.

We have covered more use cases here → https://superdashhq.com/

If you have any use cases that you want to solve through LLMs, kindly leave a comment below or drop an email to thomas@superdashhq.com.
If you think that population trends are still exponential then you’ve been living under a rock
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Although not as outrageous as V, I do find the Mojo claims a little misleading.

On the main page of the website, they claim it lets you "Write everything in one language" and "Unlock Python performance" – but what they've actually got at the moment is two languages glued together, where one of the languages will "unlock performance" and the other language is literally the CPython interpreter.
Not until the next version, at least.
One however also has to keep in mind that on Reddit you need either a tight-knit topic specific community, or a lot of users to have an active subreddit.

Just randomly clicking around I see that subreddits with ~50k users already qualify for Reddits top 5% largest subreddits.

If you randomly browse subreddits of that size you will notice that for many of them the newest threads are at least days old. So in reality the amount of active subreddits, let's say subreddits that get at least one thread per day or more, is probably in the realm of a few thousand.
> get_height gets which height, outer or inner? Are there error values, e.g. 0 as "don't know any height"? Does it have side effects?

In my experience, if your documentation covers all these aspects it's guaranteed to be either wrong, misleading, or out of date on any of these details, and you better read the actual code to be sure.

In particular, the answer will often be "it depends on what the rest of the system does". Perhaps it delegates the actual calculation to an API, and this doc won't change when the API changes in a _mostly_ compatible way.

I mean, even with the best efforts given, code has bugs, words are vague, there's no way you should trust the dev who wrote the code to properly convey what it actually does.
Textbook false equivalence. A potential meteor strike is very, very unlikely.

At this point catastrophic climate change is almost certain. The only question is whether it's just a mass extinction or whether it crosses a tipping point and creates a runaway greenhouse effect.

Climate scientists are not relaxed about this. They are running around in terror desperately trying to warn people. And - so far - getting shouted down by the polluter lobbies.
I would still say that even FOSS apps off F-Droid are less user-centric than the web. They're more likely to respect the user, for sure, than even most web apps. And a user who is comfortable with code can always fork them and customize them. But the barrier to entry for a custom experience is much higher on an app than it is on the web. Browser extensions are highly accessible to many people and can allow tweaking the experience beyond what the developer natively enabled.

As a simple example: Dark Reader has 5 million installs on Chrome. That's 5 million people who can view a web app in dark mode even if the developers didn't think to provide a native way to do so.
I also quit smoking. I recommend the book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" by Allen Carr, which basically spends a like a hundred pages explaining that no, smoking isn't fun, at all, you've just been brainwashed to think it is, but really life is much nicer without it. Focus on enjoying your freedom from a completely useless vice :)
The validity of the judgement and and the question of if corporations have too much power over their trademarks are separate issues.

The court is almost certainly correct that the law of the land is that trademark protections are this strong. But trademark law is a creation of congress, and one can believe that the protections are excessive without believing that they are unconstitutional.
Yup, that's what a "system out of equilibrium" looks like
Reddit cannot even deliver video properly on its own app, if TT is banned, there are at least 3 other apps that will crush it from a video standpoint.
Where I live currently, that’s simply infeasible. It’s a city, just very poor public transit and the city was designed without pedestrians or bikers in mind.

I hope to move soon, and being able to walk/bike/take public transit is a priority for where I choose, but it makes me think there are so many places in the US where going anywhere without a car is not a realistic option. Car dependency is a big issue in the US.
> As an aside, I don’t get all the people loudly expressing being depressed about the graphs and whatever. This is in line with predictions. People knew that was going to happen. It’s pretty useless to bemoan things which are unavoidable.

One tweet said he wasn't so much depressed about this happening, but about people doing nothing to stop it.

We've known this for over century, have had political debates about it for 3 decades, have made agreements to reduce our carbon emissions, but our carbon output keeps growing, and temperatures keep rising, and new coal power plants keep getting built.

We should have banned coal and oil power plants 2 decades ago. We should be investing only in emission-free power plants. We should have made fossil fuels too expensive to use for any purpose for which there are viable alternatives. We haven't done those things, and we're not going to do them any time soon, so these graphs will continue to get even worse in the future. That's what's depressing.
Far all we know we're the only place in the universe where complex life exists, if we die other species may still stay around to experience it.
So use more.. to one day maybe save the lucky ones.
What is the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon?

I am very confussed at the moment. I am trying to understand how Lemmy works and then there is people saying that you can read stuff from Mastodon on Lemmy.

Please help.
is this a longtermism?
What a wonderfully contrarian statement. Surely a climate that destroys our way of living is less than optimal, no?
This has happened before. I joined FB and Twitter when they were new, and loved the interaction with people I knew, people in my city and some very few online-only acquaintances. Both over time pushed people into following random people they have no real connection with, and that is now how they work.
Climate Engineering

Pumping heat out of the ocean and capturing it as energy
>Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

I grow my own food and meat. I think growing your own food is the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth. All that industrial farming and transportation required to feed people. So many people living in single family homes could turn their lawns into gardens and produce _surplus_ vegetables. Several times what their family can eat.

And even people in dense urban areas could have community gardens ie rooftop gardens.

It seems popular to want solutions that doesn't involve any sweat equity. Which I find unfortunate, at best.
At least we pushed the next glaciation forward - provided we survive what's happening now.
At least in Europe, electronic signatures of a certain form are legally equivalent to handwritten signatures [0], and are increasingly used as such. Emails don’t provide that legal value.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDAS
>, but I really can’t stand Friedman. I would much prefer a more intelligent interviewer asking many of those CS giants he interviewed.

Fyi... CL said he likes being interviewed by Lex Fridman:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831157

So for your wish of someone else instead of Lex to be granted... (1) the hypothetical "more intelligent interviewer" you'd prefer has to ask CL to be interviewed -- and -- (2) in turn, CL has to say "yes" to the interviewer.

So far, Lex got (1) and (2) to happen. (Three times.) So here we are. Any suggestions on who else should interview CL and would CL grant the interview?
> As usual, where "negotiations" means "surrender".

A quarter of Ukraine's population has decamped, now lives in Russia or died, 15% of what was their their land in 2010 is now in Russian hands, their infrastructure is slowly being pulverised and their allies plan on having them die gloriously to achieve geopolitical objectives. If a generation of young men haven't been killed off yet they'll get there at this rate. The last 6 months has achieved the grisly fall of Bakhmut and not much more that I recall. Lots of bodies. There are nukes being set up in Belarus pointed at Kyiv and/or the rest of Europe. And pouring weapons into one of the most corrupt countries in Europe is also going to have repercussions, somehow.

They can keep fighting or they can stop fighting. Fighting isn't working out very well. Life is unfair.
Great to hear!! I'm also always on the hunt for books similar to this - a weird mix of psychoanalysis, sociology, deep thought - so happy to hear your recommendations as well!!
Lol! What makes a lung epithelial cell different from an alveolar cell? They both carry a copy of the entire genome. How do cells transduce mechanical, chemical, and environmental signals / stresses to alter gene expression?
> I would like to make music, video games and movies, too, and AI lets me do that.

In what sense is that still you doing the creating?
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I used to be a Linux fanatic (arch, i3-gaps, etc) but then I tried mac. It’s like Linux, but it just works. Highly recommend just getting an M1/2 laptop and enjoying yourself.
Inside. They live inside.
Politicians from the left criticised him for giving an advice ("get an opinion from a second doctor") that they deemed a privilege unaffordable for poor people.
As a child, there seemed to be some "excitement"[1] around The lion, the witch, the wardrobe. I really didn't get the allure and ultimately the whole cs lewisian fiction arena was something I stayed away from. I figured that lewis was just not for me.

Then as a young adult, I happened across abolition of man by accident (honestly, it might even have been HN where I first came across the link). This is one of the most fantastic things that I've read. And this was the start of my discovery of cs lewis' serious writings.

It's been a while since I read them, but I would put forward: the abolition of man, screwtape letters, the great divorce, and the problem of pain.

As a christian, I don't really buy all of lewis' arguments. And he even goes on record in one of his essays about how you shouldn't read too deeply into what his actual beliefs are based off his essays (which feels kind of like a cop out, but whatever). However, he was able to take a line of reasoning and then build a compelling body of text around it. The experience is impressive.

Even if you have very little sympathy towards christianity, I would suggest at least giving abolition of man and screwtape letters a shot. Abolition is all about the possibility of society becoming a machine to destroy humanity, and screwtape letters spends a lot of time trying to convince you that a non-human intelligence is going to be non-human.

[1] - I think the idea was that this was christian fiction that children should be happy to read. No necessarily that anyone was excited per se. But more like, youngish christian families wanted to build up a wholesome peer environment for their children and this was a christiany media that they didn't have to worry about.
No, of course not. But nature has no mechanism to handle extremely rapid change in climate.
Unless TJ Miller was also a writer on the show, he wouldn't have been able to save the last season.
The planet by itself can only support a few million humans. It’s human technology and intelligence that support the rest.
It appears that Discord have been hiring former FAANG employees(esp META) based from their glassdoor reviews which was found by a redditor https://archive.md/asyPC
> Apple chose vendor lock-in with Grand Central Dispatch

I will note here that this vendor lock-in is one of the (if not the) main reasons Apple et al. moved away from the GPLed GCC.

The ability to lock in users is the central difference between open source and Free Software.

As such, this is WAI from the Open Source perspective.
# El Niño
i dont see the link between the api policy change and all of reddit becoming unmoderated.
> I think it's the culture in which those large projects were developed.

Definitely you can keep your Perl under control with a strict(ish) culture but that tends to be the kind of culture Perl acolytes traditionally chafe against. I do somewhat blame the "there's more than one way to do it" Perl culture - that definitely encourages a, uh, "cowboy" approach to development that I've seen a lot in Perl houses (compared with, e.g., the Go houses that I now deal with because Go has a definite "one way to do it" culture.)

But yeah, pretty much any language can be twisted into a monstrosity if you let the devs run wild.
Note that the first step of human reproduction is you feel lonely, then you seek out a lover, next you have more people.

When it is too crowded people don’t have the instinct to make more people. Places like the UK and Japan are way too crowded and of course people don’t want to have kids, it is entirely exacerbated by the problems with housing.

The problem will take care of itself if the population drops enough, if you want to be proactive the important thing is to reduce the perception of crowding which could be some combination of (a) dispersion (just tax people 200% of the median income if they want to dogpile into London or Tokyo and if rich folk complain there are no service workers they’re going to have to pay them more), (b) better housing and (c) psychological tricks that reduce the perception of crowding.
https://venturebeat.com/business/linkedin-faces-lawsuit-for-...
The "Entourage" strategy.
IndexedDB Performance Benchmark
It’s depressing that public institutions mishandled this so badly that a huge segment of the population has lost trust in them.

I can agree that the messaging I got was that the vaccine was meant to prevent serious illness. Regardless, the absurd policies, suppression of information and discussion on vaccine side effects was unforgivable.

People went full retard because the institutions meant to provide them with good information instead treated them like children and suppressed detailed debate. The only alternative was to go online and risk the lunacy that is internet research, so people did so.

Now more people are anti-vaxers than ever before, and not just for mRNA vaccines but old-school shots like measles.

At a minimum many institutions need change of leadership after this fiasco, and maybe complete reform of others.
DVD R/W but no bluetooth on a modern laptop? It feels kind of like a joke...
The recourse for a power-abusive SO diamond mod is to contact Stack Overflow the company through the contact us form and explain your grievance.

The number of moderators on Stack Overflow (and the rest of Stack Exchange) is significantly less than those on Reddit and the standards that they are held to are much higher, the tools that they are given are much more powerful, and the expectations of their conduct is also much higher than Reddit.
You either recall wrongly or are looking at the wrong set of population in the world.
In Canada, China "interfering with our democracy" is all the latest rage... At one point about a month ago, 11 out of the top 20 posts on /r/Canada had some negative reference to China (most being related to the democracy interference story, but a few others I can't remember the topic of).
Sell a product or service to customers or sell the business?
Does not load for me. Hug of death? If yes, is there an alternative instance or an article describing the platform?

> Proxy Error

> The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request

> Reason: Error reading from remote server
Thankfully the graph [here](https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/) is interactive and lets you hover to see the year.
> Shhhhh! They don't all know about HN!

No need to worry, any mention of HN is being mostly censored in all the "Reddit blackout" propoganda Discords now there's actual real discussion happening here about how the strike is stupid and just a vocal minority of mods taking the users for a ride and they can't downvoted those comments into non existence.
Those numbers are usually computed by subreddits going private. More have left old content up but have blocked new posts/comments. Those have not been reflected in your numbers.
I think this site received the hug of death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230612115935/https://community...
I agree, in Europe digital signatures are very common now. Although at least for me it's almost exclusively PDFs.
Yup, if all countries got to the "1st world countries" birth rates the population would slowly start to drop, maybe even equalize at some point.
Lol very unexpected response. Why do you need military wisdom?
Are the same people interested in a GNU/Linux laptop the same ones that want to buy a VPN subscription alongside it?
no because trying to tackle gaming means they need to compete, and competing with vendors is a race to the bottom of the barrel.

apple's whole business model is completely reliant on them occupying a segment of the market that no one else can.
On Android, when you have the WebView open, go to the app switcher and the title will tell you which app provides the view: the original app, or your browser.
Coins as Tangible History
I find reading engineering blogs from other companies quite beneficial. They offer diverse perspectives, new approaches, and valuable insights that can inspire and enhance my own work.

Rather Labs has one, for example: https://www.ratherlabs.com/blog

I encourage you to start your blog and share your knowledge with the community! Best of luck!
> Why, other than because Americans have negative connotations with the practice?

But it's not just people from the US. There are protests every year in Europe against various traditions which involve blackface (eg. Black Peter). There are plenty of people who protest and given the colonial legacies of some European countries it's pretty clear to me that this is not just invented racism/conflict from "the American left".

As a European myself I understand the complaints of US defaultism and agree with plenty of them but this simply not one of them.
Pretty sure humans would wipe themselves before wiping rest of the biosphere
I signed up to try it this weekend and they gave me my own jupyterlab instance with a getting started notebook in ~5 minutes.

I thought it was odd at first that they weren't letting me run it locally too, but if they control the compute environment then they can force push interpreter(?)/compiler updates and eliminate a lot of bug reports from folks that are just using an out of date build. Seems pretty reasonable to me for something that's so early in development.
Why did people buy the dog toy? Pretty sure it's because it looked like JD, which is highly recognizable. If it was just a generic bottle that said "liquor" on it, I would guess that sales would have been lower. I agree with you - seems pretty clear that they're profiting off JD's image, and it's tough to call this any meaningful kind of parody that deserves protection.
U.S. to Allow South Korean, Taiwan Chip Makers to Keep Operations in China
So, the reason we didn't see CIA being behind 9/11 story in the Wall Street Journal because that actually it wasn't censored?

In contrast to the lab leak theory which made the front page more than once, was actually the was much more heavily "censored".
That was me specifically talking about Java. You can disagree with it, but it’s certainly not a straw man.
Spotify does. But only for Premium accounts. That would have been a good way to solve this problem, in my opinion.
Don’t forget gain of funding
Adguard blocking inside apps is exclusive to DNS methods, these methods are extremely easy to circumvent by app providers. Reddit (as an example since topic of thread) already gets around these DNS blocking methods because content and ads are served from the same location.
I moved from a WYSIWYG editor to Markdown files for the website I run. Sublime Text + Merge are a brilliant combo for editing text and reviewing changes before committing.

The best part is how fast Sublime feels on a 12" Macbook from 2017. This thing just flies.