skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, still working through the financial aspects. The financials page is definitely demo data!

This link should let you subscribe: https://non.io/admin/first-time-signup if you're really keen. That said, I've allowed all functionality on the free tier for the time being until I get things like that financials page complete.
Dustin Moskovitz: A.I. will make work more human
Nothing better than being rich, a truism that's true.
These are all health risks associated with smoking, not with nicotine itself. If you click through to the pages those risks link to, you'll see they are talking about smoking, not nicotine. There are some risks from nicotine (high blood pressure and faster heart rate), but it does not cause emphysema or cancer.
One interesting development that I've found in recent years is the emergence of "fat chairs" in most medical waiting rooms. You've got your ordinary chairs for normal-sized people, and then, scattered around, are a few "fat chairs" which are nearly double-wide and presumably constructed so that they will not collapse under the extra weight. I kinda like these chairs myself, because there's space to set my bag next to me.

Now I am overweight, or perhaps obese, and perhaps yes, this is a choice or series of choices that I've made. Several years ago I had to come to terms with the fact that I was significantly overweight, and the condition had crept up on me so stealthily that I hardly realized the changes. Having identified it as a problem, I resolved to fix it, and I dieted 3 times. The first time I lost 30 pounds and then gained them back. The second and third times, I lost significant weight, and in fact I went all the way down to 143 pounds (I'm 5'10"). I exuberantly donated away a bunch of "fat clothes" and purchased all sorts of new wardrobe, like skinny jeans, size "S" tee shirts, and the like. Then, guess what, I gained it all back.

And ultimately, the diet I eat now is less of a choice and more of something I've been forced into. I went over it in a previous thread and I don't want to rehash that. But just suffice it to say that I really, really long for the diet I had when I weighed 143 pounds, and I wish I could eat fresh healthy food, but circumstances and my disabilities make that an impossibility. So I live at 250 pounds, for better or worse.
Do I need OCaml installed to use this, why not a single binary?
maybe the metaverse isn't for you. just because you don't want to do a thing doesn't mean there aren't others out there that do.

maybe all that blather about "the long tail" in the late 90s was halfway correct. the intarwebs allow relatively small communities of people who are interested in a particular thing to do that particular thing. But a small percentage of a very large number can still be large.

if 99.9% of people don't want the hassle of maintaining an alternative identity online, that's fine. but that still means that 0.1% of people do.

if your critique is "the metaverse is laughable because the majority of people don't participate in it" you may be missing the point. if your critique is "it's entirely possible meta over-estimated interest in the metaverse," then i heartily agree.

i think second-life-like online experiences are useful, but they seem to have been over-hyped (to say the least.)
This does not align with my experience with HN. The pitchforks were properly out and aggressively poking at Apple when Apple declared that images uploaded to the cloud would be actively scanned and reviewed for illegal content. It got to the point where Apple reversed its decision.
State sponsored actors are not magic. Basic crypto primitives and systems that have been already available for long time have proven to be robust against even the most well-resourced attackers. Everything we've seen so far indicates that generally attacks happen by running malware, exploiting opsec failures, or some such leaks/implementation faults, and not attacking cryptosystems directly.

Furthermore this scenario relevant for this thread, decrypting discarded hard drives, has very limited opportunities for complex attacks such as evil maids, cold boots, or other such more active methods.

Notably Snowden said following, and while no doubt some progress has been made since I believe the basic idea be still valid:

> “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.”
I think the most important message of this blog post is this:

“ Designating a dedicated team or individual for documentation in an early-stage startup can seem extravagant. But trust me, it’s one of the smartest investments you can make. Why? Because knowledge is the lifeblood of your startup, and a dedicated handbook team acts as the circulatory system, ensuring that this vital knowledge flows freely and efficiently throughout the organization.”

So many startups lack technical writers, let alone docs teams. Not even OpenAI has one, as far as I know.
If it makes you feel any better I still remember a time when it was exactly the other way around
I'm using both, with with Rescript primarily on the front-end and Melange on the backed... both targeting JS/NodeJS.
Python is excellent for "medium scale". A little too verbose for very simple ad-hoc scripts, a little too unstructured for very large applications with a large number of developers (but this has improved substantially in recent years).
Where in Linux is the user generally the product?
Please don’t give up praying about FOSS to the masses. It was a post like this that convinced me to try Linux Arch. I will never look back.
I didn’t boot into my Windows drive for more than a month now. I just keep a bare installation for online games that don’t run on Linux. For now.
A Perl object is a reference, meaning it will only ever present itself as a scalar (using sigil $).
Hi, WHO. Are you okay?

Did big sugar threaten you? Offer you money? Are some governments/sponsors making you say these ridiculous things?

This is an extraordinary claim that defies common sense. And your evidence is, what? Oh right, let me quote from the paper:

> The recommendation is based on evidence of low certainty overall
From another getting-older millennial, your best tip will be to be lucky. Barring that, manufacture your own luck. Hey, it works for some people(just not me, apparently).
Is there anywhere on earth I can move to where it’ll take longer to get terrible?
I barely even want a remaster. I'd love the exact same game with a bit of new-style generative AI to mix up the coded messages and communiqués and such so they aren't as easy to spot. The dithered EGA/VGA art style already feels like it went all the way back around to Papers, Please-chic.
Search is useless in a Discord server, especially one sufficiently busy enough. You cannot tell at a glance whether a keyword uttered at a specific moment in time is a crapshoot or not. You may have just a single person asking saying the word/phrase, or you may stumble upon whole conversations.

Threads are "ok" but still more ephemeral than a reddit thread.

I'm aware there are subs running discords on the side... and it's just on the side. I've had occasion to visit a few, and most of the time (from my own experience), they are just rehashing discussions already had on reddit and there is usually a channel or two that reposts links to reddit. It's great if you already spend the majority of time in Discord but I don't. I don't have time to sit in a discord and wait to have interesting discussions.

Earlier today, I was met with someone getting upset at me trying to have a discussion; editing prior comments because I called them out on something they had said [snide comments about people being asexual] and blocking me because "I don't fight on Discord".

All that said, I'm willing to give Discord a try here and there- but my prior experiences don't instill a huge amount of faith or hope in me. Until I find a Discord community that provides an analogue to normal discussion, which may never happen.

I can't imagine having to explain things to someone in real-time or helping them with programming issues. I imagine the vast majority of help channels cater to people coming off beginners' tutorials. Many of which can be covered with a simple search through Reddit or Stack Overflow.
Fair point, but what if the desert starts greening again? I don't expect it to, but having what nutrients there are NOT blow away would be a start right?
Maybe in other communities, but MSFT gets thrashed pretty thoroughly around here, especially when it comes to Edge and Windows. The response to this post is nothing like "meh", and what I'm seeing here is pretty typical of Edge or Windows posts these days.

Here are some of the recent posts I can find about Edge and Windows. There's no shortage of outrage and frustration:

Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud - Jun 2023 (186 points, 118 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36267087

The Day Windows Died - Apr 2023 (1146 points, 894 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415758

The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge - Mar 2023 (506 points, 377 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207830

Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 - Dec 2022 (543 points, 654 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943777
Nobody's going to make you give up your Coke Zero. The sweetener epidemic has, however, deprived me of things I enjoy. Coke, fortunately, remains available in "Classic" form, but here in the UK many drinks are no longer available without sweeteners: Vimto, Irn Bru, Tango, Lilt, Ribena, Robinson's Barley Water, Schweppes Tonic Water - all are now full of aspartame and saccharin in their non-"diet" variants.

As a person with a healthy weight and the self-discipline to maintain it long term, with no diabetes or risk of it, who is not and never has been addicted to sugary drinks but who enjoys them (greatly) as an infrequent, calorie-counted treat, the loss of these childhood tastes is saddening, especially since there is very little evidence of any actual public health benefit.

If I were magically transported back to the 1980s the first thing I'd do is buy a bottle of Corona Cherryade.
No need to choose, just treat the packages as what they are, object files to link into the huge program that is your operating system. https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=net...
This is an emotional response and not a scientific one. The Haber–Bosch process was the biological equivalent of a deferred-interest loan. It gave us enough food to scale from 2 billion to 8, but now the planet is coming to collect its dues. We never had the natural resources to support humanity's current numbers, and by inflating our Nitrogen supply and stripping the Earth of everything else we need, we've utterly fucked it all up. Degrowth would be the worst tragedy in human history, but it would at least give future generations a chance. Geo-engineering is like paying off one credit card with another. It's a recipe for further disaster and doesn't solve the underlying issue. Humanity has to default.
>Do you believe slack messages are private? Or DMs on twitter? How about the content you store on Notion or Google docs.

No, so I would never choose to use them for communications with my intimate small groups, and nobody should.

>securely and privately

You cannot do that without E2EE. There are hacks constantly, if you have any security awareness.

>At the end of the day we still need a way to ensure certain terrible content never exists on the platform which is illegal

E2EE is not illegal and in reasonable jurisdictions you can simply have a report function so users can report something if they see it in their groups.

>totally aligned in doing it for the public good

Given your posture on E2EE, you seem to have a completely different alignment than me and I would expect most hackers who tend to see the issues with mass surveillance and how difficult it is to make a secure platform. You seem to be intent on wanting people to just trust that you'll never sell the business and all the communication history, for confusing reasons
> a philosophical and political commitment to free speech

Surely this is a meme by now? Any CEO that has ever said this about a website they control is just pandering to the crowd. Musk's Twitter has complied with more government takedown requests than the previous regime had.
Salesforce launches AI Cloud to bring models to the enterprise
$25-$50 iPhone sized power banks good for 10,000mAh or more are now pretty common!
> Very much so, insofar as code written a few years ago probably doesn’t work anymore.

Citation needed? Just a week ago I used a Python library completely unchanged from 2013.

> Some of that comes down to libraries not being careful about versioning, but a lot of it is the language itself making seemingly random changes in direction every few years.

"Seemingly random" is both wrong and insulting. The BDFL did step down and was replaced with a steering council, so maybe that's what you're seeing. I do agree that `match` was a bad addition to the language, but that's one small example among many supporting the opposite opinion.

> 10 years ago: range 5 years ago: xrange Today: range again, LOL!

Huh? Python 3.x has only ever had range(), so it's been range() for at least 10 years.
> If some are, then "everyone" has to

Very clearly false dilemma.

> I debunked what he wrote.

That's a strong word for what you wrote.

> What's that?

I'd link it to you, but you said you don't want to read "silly blogs". So I'm not sure how I can communicate anything to you. I don't feel like it'd help. I think we're done here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

> Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution.

Even if the whole world isn't built this way, much of it could be, especially groups and interactions.
Every time humans try and fix nature, we tend to make it worse due to not understanding the problem or consequences.
Ask HN: Is it possible to divorce ads from content, and should we try?
Now that Reddit and YouTube is clamping down more and more, and Twitter is reeling from the lack of it I see a lot of interest in federated clones, but I can't help but wonder if it's really a cultural rather than a technological problem.

So how did we get here in the first place? As far as I can tell there seems to have been a watershed moment back in the 1990s when Christian conservatives found out that they could get their way by complaining to the advertisers when they saw something they didn't like on TV, but in retrospect this seems to have been a Faustian bargain, since the same Christian conservative values is precisely what's being clamped down on now in the name of advertiser friendliness.

But does it really matter to the average consumer that your brand takes a strong political stance one way or the other? I'm pretty sure Bud Light tastes the same no matter which way they let the pendulum swing. So maybe we need to focus on negotiating a truce between advertisers and platforms, for the benefit of both sides, rather than trying to cut either one out of the loop.
Hibernate is usually used to allow the computer to shut down completely and not remain in standby, saving battery. It’s not about boot speed anymore.
GPT Weekly Newsletter – 12th June Edition
Bankers are known to be responsible and have a fantastic history of being responsible with others money. There are no reasons why a collection of individuals would make a bad decision which would impact other people 10, 20, or 30 years in the future for an immediate gain.
> I see reddit less as a website and more as a collection of communities.

I always called it a low effort forum of forums. Low effort because all you need is one account and you can wander about and annoy people in any community. But that was reddits strength - you didn't need to register and keep track of different accounts and sites.

> I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere.

The issue with focused reddits is once all the interesting shit has been posted and questions have been answered, where is the value in the community? At that point the sub has saturated and cant grow and the members are bored so memes and shitposts take over. I mean how many times can the same "n00b here - how do I dive into X" question be answered before users either ignore them, down-vote them or tell them to search the forum for similar answers already posted? Its stagnation that any community will face.
The front page material does look startlingly less 'interesting' than it does normally.

I think reddit will be die the same way 'The Simpsons' died -- we all know seasons 8-13 are the by far the most critically acclaimed and the 'soul' of the series. You could point to the next 20/30 seasons as proof of 'success' and maybe you've a point and I think the same will happen to reddit. It will probably grow for years after June 30th but it will be 'Zombie Reddit' just like 'Zombie Simpsons'.

Excellent watch on the Fall of the Simpsons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
They definitely have hardware blacklists in the OS. I could not run my Dell Thunderbolt dock on my Mac, even though it used all standard components in it. It was literally a blacklisted piece of hardware and said so in the "System Report."
Only a matter of time until Ryan Gosling shows up in someone's X Ray[0]

[0] https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
I want to reserve the phrase "child abuse" for real child abuse, so that it gets taken as seriously as possible and not diluted. I think that is a sufficiently good motivation to stand on this hill.
I mean, they have as much a right as you do to not care and not do anything, right? Its clearly not just people who use third party apps but also the opinions of people who believe in more than just apathy.

"They don't have the right to organize and decide on collective action" just reads like, "I'm entitled to not be inconvenienced by things I don't care about"

/shrug, just my two cents.
You need to use turn signals. Using those the algos know what line crossings to expect. My dad went through this because it forced him to start signalling. This is also probably why I'm seen more and more BMWs use turn signals... maybe it wasn't faulty turn signal wiring after all (/s)
Great work on this write-up! Super informative and well written. It's refreshing to read posts like this
Typically I dislike having to be forced into a package manager's version of a given language. For example I recently upgraded ansible on my old MacBook and brew decided that it had to install its own version of rust which meant compiling it from scratch. 12GB later and I got ansible installed. Yuck.

Likewise I've found CPAN to usually get out of my way… but at least in FreeBSD land I've not had to fight perl packages too much. And I've definitely been missing having Perl in the FreeBSD base system recently.

And if you don't install the third party rustc from out of repos your rustc
is only able to compile code written $now till about $now + 3 months.

If you're not doing things that rely on nightly you generally get a lot more than three months. The catch is, of course, that a lot of things depend on nightly.
Your response to this:

> What is a hate organization?

Was this:

> Hate-based, terrorist, and criminal organizations attempt to use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members (1).*

The point is that "attempt[ing] to use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members" is in no way exclusive to "hate organizations" so that can't be how you identify them.

Then you quoted a definition of hate speech from Facebook. But even putting aside the problems with "direct attack against people... on the basis of protected characteristics", that doesn't get you a definition of hate organizations.

Under this definition a feminist who advocates the killing of men is engaged in hate speech since sex is a protected characteristic. Does it satisfy you that once that has happened, feminists would be classified as a hate organization? I don't like that outcome, but if you don't like it either then you need a better definition.
Agreed. I made this as a personal experiment and it was not all that hard to make form-fitting buildings for straight road networks:

https://andrewq.myportfolio.com/procedural-city-generator

Curved roads are a bit more difficult, but definitely possible.
> I don't feel it's appropriate to dictate or even advise others on child-rearing decisions

Why not? It's appropriate to dictate and even advise on lots of things that are personal/private.

We have laws and social norms to keep people from being horrible to their own children, even behind closed doors, but only after those children are born.

My suggestion is for those bits of advice, backed by the government's monopoly on force, to kick in just a year earlier than that.
OCR in images is becoming the norm. It was a big relief on social media for blind and visually impaired people. Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. So ML found one of its first public use cases. Composite image description and OCR. And yes, the quality is bad. But nobody really cared about this, esp. not those offering the feature. Holy heartlessness basically says "it is for free, so be happy that we gave it away. If it fails, that is not our fault."
Did they give any justification?

I guess hypothetically in an extremely niche situation— signed documents for coders who can actually read the code and decide they want to sign whatever it output—that could make sense… but I can’t imagine any market for such a tool.
Would love one as well.
I think it’s really unlikely that anyone will buy the IP because Zume wasn’t a serious robotics company, it was a vibe/feeling/vapourware thing. My understanding is they never reached the point where they could automatically place most toppings. They were becoming less robotic as they attempted to expand.
$50M raised by founder accused of fraud/rip-off from A16Z and General Catalyst
Now do it on reboot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390782
I've never had slowdown issues with PCs or Macs unless hardware is outright failing. You can stop gaslighting us now.
It’s part of the Paradox business model. There will be lots of DLC.
It's to distinguish between references and non-references. pass-by-reference rather than only COW (such as in some languages) is quite useful.

You would prefer *ref like in C? You can actually do that (it's a GLOB type).

The place people get tripped up is that $scalar can be a string, or a ref.

You check that easily with ref $scalar eq 'ARRAY' or whatever guard you want.
Reddit goes down just as a site-wide protest kicks off