skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know, humans are non-deterministic, but at least they dare to say "You were right. I don't know what I was thinking" when you point out their mistakes (if they don't say that, that's on you: they were a bad hire)

Underappreciated sentiment right here. I can work with anyone that I can correct or can correct me without yelling or will at least point me in the right direction to understand their viewpoint (as opposed to "just because"). I've always seen it as a red flag when someone says they don't need people skills because their work should stand on its own (never met someone like that that also has an impressive resume). We have to work together. That's been a major reason for the success of humans. Cliche or not, it is underappreciated and I feel like it is becoming more so. (Despite this, I still don't like open office settings. That's an over correction)
> Infinite scrolling in Twitter etc. is much less obnoxious.

Yes, Twitter's much better on that aspect, partly because how different its design is, and partly because how they handle browsing mechanics.
The comments rightly ask for clarification: did the user witness or experience discrimination or bias, or is the user equating criticisms of China with criticisms of individuals of Chinese descent. If the above user doesn't make that distinction, then it does invalidate the user's observations.

Criticisms of the Cuban government are absolutely independent of criticisms of individual Cubans like myself. If another Cuban person felt that they were being individually criticized when other people criticize Cuba, I'd tell them they need to learn to distinguish between the two - it's not the responsibility of the public to avoid any criticism of the Cuban government. This isn't an attempt to "deflect the discussion", it's using another country as an example to make it clear that this is a distinction we're perfectly capable of making for other ethnic group.
And yet, every single java enterprise project has a shitload of files, and compiling and running all of those takes significant time, in the 10s of seconds, all because of how Java is structured.

Trying to edit something means you have to
dig through layers of inheritance into factories and injection frameworks, debugger is a slow piece of shit that almost needs ide wrapper to run, and as far as safety goes, people seem to have forgotten about log4shell, REALLY quick.

You can believe that strong OOP and all the theoretical bullshit in JDK21 matters, but in the future, Java developers will be the first to go as the world moves towards much smaller dev teams that are well versed in a super high level, AI powered language+compiler, where you can knock out production web apps in a day.
This isn't remotely comparable. Those .DS_Store files are created in arbitrary directories by the Apple file manager or something. The SQLite temp files are created in the OS-specific temporary directory (e.g. C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Temp or whatever on Windows) which is specifically intended for that purpose. SQLite isn't doing anything wrong; that's where it's supposed to store temporary data that doesn't fit into memory.

The problem is that virus scanners sometimes misclassify those temp files as belonging to malware apps, or sometimes they might be written by real malware apps, but even in the latter case, that only happens because the malware uses sqlite as a library. The malware isn't written by the SQLite authors, so complaining to them is pointless.
LLMs are not so impressive when you understand how they work approximately. This new Apple thingy is very impressive even though it’s much easier to understand. Apparently even if yoou worked on it from the beginning.
Huh, that's weird, when I used to use reddit often, I didn't care at all which users are posting the content.

Its a part of why I liked it, if the content is good, it doesn't matter if you have zero followers, or a superhero, you just post it into the right subreddit.

I needed subreddit-specfic user descriptions to know that a user is the developer or whatever, the person posting the content was never important.

Same thing with HN, there are always exceptions, but the user posting the comment/link doesn't have to be important on such platforms, reddit isn't Twitter.
Thank you for making and sharing this!

Also, nice to see decent documentation -- esp. explaining the concepts up front, and readable sample code too!
"30% of All Rural Hospitals in the US Are at Risk of Closing" | 140 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36048464
> Solar and wind do not have negative electricity rates. Negative electricity rates are caused by a fixed/hard to ramp down source (nuclear/coal/gas) whose electricity is not needed.

Funny how that never happened until recently. Only with the introduction of renewables did such things happen.

I agree that there's no point in continuing to talk to you. Your mind is made up.

I will leave it up to history to debunk your argument. It is a repeat of anti-wind and anti-solar rhetoric, that something made from free electricity and water cannot ever be cheap. It is obvious that that cannot be true, but for some it will take more than words to convince them otherwise.
I know we shouldn’t comment on comments but I appreciate this rigorous and even-handed reasoning.

Comments that are reactionary and unnuanced (“all big tech is bad! Because they’ve done this in the past.”) do not contribute to the discussion and are merely venting.

I distrust comments made on this type narrative thinking that doesn’t address the precise issue at hand.
I see. I mostly agree, though I definitely think the delineation problem is more difficult with vertical rather than horizontal monopolies, e.g. (to stretch the example), McDonald's franchises currently cook all the food they sell. They could instead buy pre-cooked food from a separate business, but would such a breakup of functions benefit the economy? Where that line is seems like a hard problem for a court to solve.
https://archive.is/RW15Y
Sure. It certainly seems that this is being proposed for reasons more aligned with the interests of patent holders than patent challengers.

I’m just pointing out that without a discussion of the recent events which clearly motivate this rule change, the narrative is missing important context that makes the USPTO look like mustache-twirling villains for proposing this. They may in fact be villainous, but readers still deserve the full backstory to come to that conclusion themselves.
My favorite are all the XSS injections lol
Direct Link to incident page:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/z4lmb920dm09
I'm on an EC2 instance. Most of the effort was on cuda/pytorch/pip nonsense. Once stable diffusion webui was working, diffusers worked basically out of the box, which was really nice. (Trickiest bit was figuring out that I needed to use their tool to convert my safetensor file and that the version of python I was using wasn't working with it for some reason). Stack is flask + gunicorn which was what chatgpt recommended (lol). I had a websockets version of the progress bar working on flask-socketio on my local machine but could never get the server version through nginx to work correctly. So eventually I just gave up and switched it to polling so I could launch.
I've been impressed by render so far (using them at work, no other affiliation) https://render.com/

Pretty straightforward infra-as-code -- this spec is basically all the documentation you need https://render.com/docs/blueprint-spec
I agree with this post, but I don’t think he makes the most convincing argument.

Risk taking is hugely important to growth and profit. All investments come with some level of risk and riskier investments, on average, provide a higher return.

Continuing to do what you have been doing is the safe choice. Making incremental tweaks will result in incremental gains. When you make a big change, you take a big risk and you should be chasing the possibility of a big reward.

If you “blow up your life” without a reason and without a goal, I doubt it’ll go that well. But if you leap at a big bold goal, you may find yourself achieving it!
Sibling comments say/explain how it is done 'properly', but surely you could just 'lock to the ground' and then animate it flipping 'in post'? It's not like we need the fancy camera mounts to know how the rotation goes?
Personally, I have so many great, local breweries, I never think to get anything from out of state, usually not even out-of-city. This sounds like a reasonable move seeing the proliferation of great beers.
Copyright isn't really ownership and only applies to creative works, software and works that exceed the threshold of originality. It doesn't apply to metadata, location information, secrets and facts about people.

Ownership as a concept doesn't really apply so well to digital things because they are infinitely copy-able. I can have something digital, and you can have it too.

There's certainly a need for better privacy laws which applies to PII but that doesn't really need to be conflated with copyright and ownership.
It is still a thing. News sites have them. Most bloggers I've come across do. HN even has one which is what I use.
Lobbying isn't bribes to congresspeople. It's hiring some specialists who are known to congresspeople in order to sell those congresspeople a line. After a point more money doesn't buy you that much more benefit.
Do you have JS disabled or something? OP’s page loads fine for me and shows content
Yeah, that is pretty painful - how does it compare to other sites in the USA? I'd be interested in seeing a traceroute. JMAP is designed to be pretty good in that situation (we're in Australia and ~280ms away from our primary datacenter) with minimal round-trips.
I also felt this way about hosting simple projects on AWS. I tried https://fly.io and I think the experience there is exactly what you’re looking for. Super simple to deploy anything that is dockerized and setting up domains/ssl is the easiest I have experienced from any hosting provider.
GPT-4 is by far the best 'general purpose' LLM and, at a mimimum, any claim about instrinsic flaws in LLMs absolutely needs to use this as a test case.

If you want to go above that low bar then you could also test with the #2 and #3 model according to the chat LLM arena [1], currently claude v1 and claude v1 instant. In a perfect world you would also test against med-palm-2, which ostensibly is the least likely to hallucinate but unfortunately none of us have access to this.

[1] https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena
I wonder why users were angry about some files in their temp folder. Did McAfee fail to cleanup those files, or were they too big?

Edit: more information here: https://www2.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=McafeeProblem Apparently, McAfee kept those files locked when it was using them, so the files couldn't be deleted and people got angry that they couldn't clean them up. Sounds like a loud minority to me.
Bitcoin has a centralized development team who is focused on increasing the coin's value. By writing more efficient clients, coordinating soft forks, and curating standards, the Bitcoin Core dev team is directly supporting the asset. So why did the SEC declare it not to be a security? We could speculate as much as we want, but at the end of the day these are the hard-hitting questions that the SEC has been avoiding, and their avoidance of these questions has been bad for everyone involved.

Right now everyone is guessing why exactly the SEC considers most of the top 10 coins to be securities, except Bitcoin, with Ethereum apparently in limbo. Most importantly, it leaves companies guessing whether they'll have to wage a bankrupting 50-million-dollar lawsuit against the SEC to try to defend themselves if they launch a coin they believe not to be a security, but that the SEC later classifies as one through their opaque reasoning process.

I mentioned it in a comment above, but the SEC needs to release something like a 10-step process for determining whether a certain crypto is a security. Something that's clear enough that a company's lawyers can apply it to their products to determine without a doubt whether they are in compliance with the law.
You need a new name.

zsync is an rsync-like tool optimized for many downloads per file version. zsync is used by Linux distributions such as Ubuntu for distributing fast changing beta ISO image files. zsync uses the HTTP protocol and .zsync files with pre-calculated rolling hash to minimize server load yet permit diff transfer for network optimization.
Ah, I had no idea about the artist! It came to mind because it’s pretty representative of the general theme I noticed, but also because the art was definitely striking in its own right.
This was my experience on Twitter for telling someone they were getting angry, and starting an online mob, at someone who was clearly in the middle of a psychological breakdown. This persons feed went from normal tech stuff for almost the past year replete with good spelling and sentence structure to a sudden flood of reactionary and misogynistic content, 90% of which the structure of sentences barely made sense. While I'm not a mental health professional one of my best friends at the time was a schizophrenic - the behavior is pretty telltale.

This woman captured the image of me with my dog and posted it for her feed calling me a slue of slurs and various labels. I spent the next few days in bed and was afraid to leave my house. I had to delete my Twitter, scrub the internet of that image, and get a new email address because her followers would not stop trying to contact me to continue what I could already see them saying on that Twitter thread. It took Twitter over a week to remove the thread, even though it clearly doxxed me and violated their policies barring inciting harassment.

Personally, I think some people just wake up and choose violence, and other minds can't help but dabble. Sorry this happened to you.
The Sahara has started greening. The desert advanced in the 70s and 80s but more rainfall has resulted in it retreating since the 90s.
There's no host file syntax for NXDOMAIN, it has to be an IP. 127.0.0.1 with Port 80 assigned to a dummy page can be an alternative solution if you don't like 0.0.0.0.
Yes, the people, not disembodied anonymous avatars.

It is too easy to ostracize members of a group in online forums, too easy to silence dissent.

My physical neighborhood has a diversity of lifestyles, backgrounds and opinions that just does not exist in a place where people are quick to act on their shallow judgments.

A middle eastern immigrant family, an elderly black couple, a flag and sign maximizing Trump supporter, a Black poet and his African Studies professor wife, a Facebook PR team lead, a retired HP programmer.

To me, this a community. People living together in peace with very different opinions and lifestyles. We’ve all got each other’s backs.

A couple of months ago I marched over to the Trump sign household and had a three hour long conversation with the wife… who surprisingly happened to be a bit of an old hippie and pot head and said she didn’t realize how upsetting some of her husband’s flags were to people. Since then it’s just been an American flag with a “Jesus Loves You” flag beneath. No more crossed AR-15s with skulls!

Try that on Reddit!
Times change quickly. It was less than ten years ago that the second wing of the mall was completely renovated, with a food court that was an eclectic and upscale delight. Now it’s destined to become yet another dead and haunted mall.
I am not sure if I understand your point. Are you saying that poorly written patents should be litigated, and that such a law would make this much harder to do?

I can see how something like this could be an issue. Ultimately, I don't think there is a perfect solution, but I feel the current way the system works is very far from optimal in its costs and benefits.
It's clear to me that you're either not a long-term user of the site, or one of those users who consumes only low-value content, which has never been the true value of reddit and in my opinion has continued to destroy the value of the website. Reddit's value is not vested in image macros or other low-effort memes; its value derives from its communities, and their power to enable in-depth discussion in almost every conceivable variety, in a way that no other social media platform has achieved. These are the reason people append "reddit" to the end of almost any Google search to get a (relatively) unbiased opinion.

All I can say is: if you think the value of reddit -- what draws and has continued to draw users to the site for years -- is low-effort screenshots and memes that could be posted on almost any image-hosting site -- you are wrong. Go ask 9GAG and FunnyJunk how that plays out in creating a social media platform.

> I think the platform would be much better off is moderators were on a much tighter leash

I think they'd have to -- you know -- actually pay them, if they wanted to exert some level of control. At this point, the only draw to being a reddit mod is caring about influencing a community in a particular manner; I don't see any particular interest in doing unpaid work for people who are clearly ungrateful and ignorant to how much work it really entails. But I shouldn't be surprised that the entitlement here is real.
No, in this context, "grep" is more of a threat than anything.

This snippet just sets a few variables before returning "R" if the function was called in a functional context, or quitting with no value if the caller doesn't expect a value.

Since "K" is a non-truthy, but non-null value, "l1" is never added to S in the T label. "l1" is another non-null-but-false value, so S wouldn't have changed value anyway. The entire thing is just an ugly looking no-op.
Because it changes the kinds of things you can build: https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

With SQLite, it's often practical to issue several queries in situations where that would be too slow for a traditional client-server database.
.DS_Store files are totally out of control: https://twitter.com/rdohms/status/1667554818603245570
We don't control those databases. I've tried to update them. We're very clear about where our servers are.

We switched to those IPs from a range which was owned by our old datacenter and we were continuing to lease, to give us more network independence and the ability to route our range through better DDoS protection systems.
You wonder if Reddit will have to file for bankruptcy soon, if that is the case. The recent events should be causing a massive crisis.
It means the headline is not wrong.

You're also kind of walking a fine line on the "No True Scotsman" concept...
What's crazy is that people are still surprised every. single. time. Microsoft does something like this. It's been 30 years, folks.
They make it very difficult to uninstall that crap. I set up a new windows 11 machine the other day. And then did the obligatory removal of the weather/news, cortana, and 15 other pieces of crap I don’t need or want. While I was doing that it was downloading updates and once the updates were installed, the weather/news thing was back.

The stories on there are so bad. Like, borderline conspiracy thinking / conservative media gossip rag stuff. I can’t believe Microsoft puts their company name behind the content that shows up. (Though I’m in Australia. Maybe the people in charge of that content have no idea how bad it is here).
Yes, I had to run the script several times, but it eventually edited and got rid of stuff that was super old. Basically every single comment made by me is gone (which I wanted).
I ran it before the blackout though, not sure how it would work with Reddit in its current state.
> We fixed the hole in the Ozone

y2k too... that could have been awful
Moderation is actually your core challenge. Since you believe that it's something other than moderation, I don't think you are familiar with Masnick's moderation article. Anyone hoping to build a social site needs to read it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

If you do not have a viable plan for these issues, you will be on the hook for both unsavory and illegal material. It's not 1995 anymore and governments are no longer giving a pass to libertarian idealism. Most other countries do not have the robust tolerance of speech that has sometimes been a US trademark. And even in the US, not all everything you can post is legal (CSAM being the big obvious one).
Even if the payload is inaccessible, consider the implications of leaking an URL like:

medical-intranet.example.com/uploads/secure_link/adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc/john_doe_1987-04-23_chlamydia_1.jpg
maybe the neanderthals were more advanced in some aspects? who knows? just dont know why everyone thinks neo's were 'primitive'. maybe they werent as aggressive as sapiens and thus didnt survive contact with us.
TFA is about India. Don't automatically apply its perspective to other cultures, because the motivation of dowry/bride price can vary considerably.

When I worked in Arabia, I had occasion to discuss wedding arrangements with some traditional families as they were going through negotiations for a wedding contract. Although they used "dowry", what they were concerned about was not really that or a bride price. When getting married, the husband is expected to give the bride a large lump sum of money. The bride is then expected to hold it in reserve in case something happens with the husband (e.g. divorce or death).

Another example is the historical case of dowries in England, such as you read much about in Jane Austen novels. Because of primogeniture, women couldn't inherit estates, but fathers were still concerned to pass wealth along to their daughters. Dowries allowed a transfer of wealth that couldn't be done through inheritance.
I still have a 80 character line guide. Not because I'm using punchcards but because it helps create readable code. It lets me know when to linebreak. No one wants to read a line of code where you have to scroll or where linebreaks are random. It's not a hard rule, but guides help. Side benefit is that with 80 characters I can usually fit 2 or 3 vertical splits and comfortably read the code, depending on the monitor size.

May not be a direct answer to your question but I think it captures the spirit and reasoning.
We did not know the missles were already physically on Cuba. We thought we had successfully blocked transport.

See McNamara's recollection of that meeting in 1992.
The original plan was to publish only the revised editions, and not the originals. This ALSO meant that e-book copies would be automatically updated. I don't think "we'll make the original writings unavailable to anyone" is a good thing. They walked back on that after the controversy though, and you can now buy both the original and revised editions.

It would be like someone deciding that only the NIV of the bible can be bought from now on, and the KJV wouldn't be sold any more and all e-book versions of the KJV would be updated. For modern readers the NIV is clearly the better translation IMO, but there's obviously also a lot of value in having the KJV around (as well as other editions).

I also have some gripes with some specific edits they made – at times it feels like they weren't even trying to replace the original with something decent and some edits are ridiculous – but that's more minor. The biggest problem was the "here are the new versions and these are the versions everyone should have and the original versions never existed" kind of attitude they seemed to have.
> And yet, today Firefox has single-digit-percent market share, and the dominant player is in some ways worse than Microsoft was. MS seemed to want to make the web stagnate, while Google wants to turn the web into (more of) a privacy-free, advertising machine, and has been steering web standards in that direction.

I think that reinforces GP point that consumers aren't driven by privacy. Firefox didn't take off due to privacy, it took off because IE6 was a miserable experience. The killer features that drew people to firefox were pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing and less crashes.