skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again, what you are saying represents a view that is decades superseded now and only hangs on in out-of-date references.

A paper / theory being recent doesn't magically make it true or generally accepted.

> I work in the field of historical linguistics myself (...) so what I am posting is informed

This is a clear "appeal to authority fallacy".

But in all Matzinger's work he doesn't actually claim that Dacian words aren't to be found in Romanian language, is it?

Without proofs of what an extinct language actually sounded like, saying that there isn't any trace of it in any other language, and backing this up by making an appeal to authority is a biased view from my pov.
Late-stage capitalism is getting pretty wild.
>One developer behind Invidious explains in an open letter that Google is wrong and that they will not comply with the request to shut down Invidious. The argumentation: Google appears unaware that Invidious is not using YouTube's official APIs for providing its service. Since Invidious does not use a programming interface from YouTube, it is not bound by the conditions that Google states in their cease-and-desist letter.

It's amusing when people try to use a technical argument to explain why the law doesn't apply to them.
To make it easier for people to potentially help, which country are you in? :)
The fact that you had to pick an example from a casual board game from 1957 kind-of shows how much of a non-issue this is.
That seems silly though as presumably that is a different set of people then those generating the images.

Any security system that requires the adversary to be on board is doomed to fail. If the adversary was willing to play by the rules you wouldn't need a security system.
How is an error like "Error in foo(): error in bar(): reading abcd.xml: file not found" clear to a user? What do foo() and bar() mean to them? What should they do about this missing file? This is just a more simply formatted stack trace, just as useless to an end user.

The proper error message for a user in this situation would be something like "Couldn't read required file /home/user/program-name/abcd.xml. Please try to create the file by hand." or "Couldn't read list of entities. Try reinstalling the program or contact support@program-name.com".
If the data doesn't belong to anyone and therefore doesn't need to be kept secret, would you be okay with <Insert Big Corp> publishing your precise location history that reveals where you live, when you leave for work, when you come back home and when you're on vacation? It's just a fact of what happened and, at least according to your logic, you don't own it.
Ask HN: How do you do pre-orders the right way?
I have a HW product I am working on. Initially I will only have a small number of units available but I expect I will probably sell a few more. To accommodate this I would like to offer a pre-order page on the website. Some things I am trying to figure out:

- What percentage of the unit price should I charge for the pre-order if any at all or the full amount?
- What kind of conversion should I expect from pre-orders that did not commit to any or partial payment?
- What kind of wait is acceptable? I estimate it will take around 2-4 weeks to produce more products but it's highly dependent on part availability which could extend this to 2-3 months.
- Should I not do any pre-order but just sell as soon as I have stock? I don't want to run too much stock because I have no idea on the demand.

Has anyone done something like this before and can you give me some pointers? I highly appreciate any feedback, thank you.
Perhaps they reverted article back because an hour ago I was checking French text (thus my comment) in a new private window and uBlock wasn't mentioned and now indeed, it's there
Wow, I must be the most boring person on Earth. I don't drink, smoke, do drugs, or otherwise alter my consciousness or mood by way of substances, and yet I can enjoy the 'little things' like the adrenaline rush when flooring it on a powerful car, or montane scenery, or the smells of a bakery.

The way the comments here put it, it seems like people have got to get wasted/stoned before they are able to be remotely 'happy'...
yeah, I've sort of observed this... my gf is in a people-centric / customer service job, and thinks nothing of picking up the phone and making life-related calls in an instant that I would probably procrastinate for days before making.

I've thought maybe it was her job that led her to it. But I've also wondered if it was something in my blood. See, my father was a lawyer. As a kid I'd sit in his office and listen to him make tough phone calls one after another all day. But when it came time to talk to anyone at all at home, he always made my mother do it. I've found myself doing this with my girlfriend if we want to order food or something. Because I'll simply drink all night and delay the phone call.

So when it comes to any work flag that arises, I'll call my clients obsessively until they pay attention to the problem. But if I need someone to do something for me, I basically almost can't make the call.
I seem to recall reading (though quite some time ago so I may be mistaken), that `yield` was developed for use in robotics as part of the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime), and it's inclusion in C# 2.0 was to support this.
Yes, demonstrating the problem with relying on conventions instead of compiler-enforceable patterns.
I feel you – I had heard a _lot_ about dark launching and never actually worked at a company that actually did it until I worked at Hashicorp. Now in my mind it seems mainstream. I truly am in a bubble.
> If you did, you would do these things that you think make them better with no effort.

There is a whole lot of assumptions in that sentence. To start, why would doing the right thing be effortless?

Add to that, if you are in a bad state you are likely to be pessimistic of the outcome of the task which makes it even harder. And fighting that is anything but effortless.

You could argue that when you are in a perfect state stars will align but even if you truly believe that the effort to get to that place will often be nothing but heroic and most people will never achieve it.

So it just feels like moving the goalpost? Which is fine if framing it like that gets you closer to where you want to be. But I'd need more convincing to believe that would be easier (for me).
This may raise a lot of hackles (pun unintended but retained), but IMO, that practice, and the one just above (the mom/dad and bed points) may be being done (grammar?) as a substitute to having good human relationships, due the somewhat common phenomenon of alienation that seems to exist for some people nowadays (anecdotal, just observed by me, but also heard others talking about it, including with me). And by relationships, I don't mean just a male-female or other intimate relationship.
What Can AI-Generated Images Tell Us About Society's Biases?
> Today you're a productive member of society, seeking pleasure and satisfaction in family, career, hobbies and curiosity, tomorrow you're an absolutely happy wreck in the corner.

By that token, anything that could disable a healthy member of society would be a huge problem warranting a war on it.

Cars litteraly killing people fits the description but you don't see governments pannicking. Same way severe disabilities from workspace risks are mostly seen as a business risk and the OSHA won't have half the budget of what is spent on anti-drug efforts.
People have been slow-boiled and don't quite seem to realize the closest regime in Europe in terms of concentration of powers is Russia.
I think discussions around potential behavioral impact of this tech category is a must, particularly with the existing forces at play that subsidize the literal engineering of addiction.
Therre is this amazing political theory book called The Dictator's Handbook [1] by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith which itself is a popularized version of their Theory of Selectoriat (i am not sure if it is a cortect translation) from Mesquita's book called The Logic of Political Survival. I highly recommend it, for me it is one of the most important books I've ever read. It explains exactly what you wrote about.

CGP Grey made great recap in one of his videos [2] called Rules for Rulers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook
[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&feature=share8
It literally does. Dont play ignorant.
It's a comprehensive telling of something that's becoming more commonly known. There's little sinister intent, more a giving readers information to conclude themselves. Some countries, Japan and USA come to mind, put themselves at the centre of 'their' world maps. Also, the distorted headshot is incredibly demonstrative. And seeing how much different sizes appear if you alter the orientation.
I think it is more about fear silences sane people. Not that support for shady things increase. E.g. at work like 2 or 3 out of 20 are phsycotic war mongers to different degrees. There is always this implied "we will shoot you as a traitor if you disagree" if things turn to shit when you deal with that kind of people.
> (but it's absolutely not zero)

I agree that nobody knows for sure until a court rules, but it absolutely could be zero, and there are reasonable arguments for it being zero, especially in the usa [uk maybe a different story] (e.g. non-human angent, is a prompt really a creative endeavor?).
I think your edit sums it up. I would direct your anger towards people like Altman running around telling them to legislate so nobody else can compete. Politicians can’t know everything. You would think they could rely on the leading minds in AI to help explain the pros and cons to them but unfortunately those leading minds are self-interested greedy capitalists.
> This is a clear "appeal to authority fallacy".

On HN people usually defer to experts in the sciences, as it is about taking the word of someone with the required training in the field and familiarity with the literature. As I said, I would be happy to cite lots of publications, but on a general forum like this it’s not clear that other posters have the time and interest in reading it all, plus the necessary background for it – this field usually involves 6–10 years of initial university study, after all.

> But in all Matzinger's work he doesn't actually claim that Dacian words aren't to be found in Romanian language, is it?

Matzinger’s view (which generally represents the consensus now inside the field) is indeed that that layer of the Romanian vocabulary can be explained through Albanian without any need to conjecture about Dacian influence.

> Without proofs of what an extinct language actually sounded like

The respective phoneme inventories of Proto-Albanian, Vulgar Latin, and Thracian and Illyrian are well established. Why did you think that proof was lacking?
The most aggressive lobbying seems to be companies behind the game just looking for suppress and catch-up strategies. There are legitimate concerns and calls for oversight and transparency (e.g. in law enforcement use), but they've been drowned out somewhat.

The lobbying by Big Tech companies, including Alphabet and Microsoft, is something that lawmakers worldwide will need to be wary of, says Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute, another think tank. “I think we're seeing an emerging playbook for how they're trying to tilt the policy environment in their favor,” she says.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-global-battle-to-regulat...
Interesting; I haven't heard of Invidious before (which apparently runs on a host as a website, not as an app on a device), but there are many apps which access YouTube without showing ads. And of course, ad-blockers like uBlock Origin will block YouTube ads in the browser.

Will Google be going after them next?
Wait till you hear about your tax dollars subsidizing bigco's poverty wages.
They can make life difficult for anyone seeking to compete with the (American) incumbents
Perhaps it helps:

Don't entirely copy-paste your code base.

Eg. I adjusted the prompt to the logical separation in my project ( Eg. the module and the task of the class can be derived from it's namespace) and then indexed the codebase through the namespace + classes + method names with their parameters.

It helps adding more codebase to the prompt.
I don't use Amazon but the alternatives I regularly use all clearly label returned items as "opened box" or "B-stock" and sell them at a ~15% discount.
There needs to be better regulations around subscriptions. If you don’t use a subscription for 3 months you should be offered an unsubscribe link in your email that isn’t some convoluted set of dark patterns and often phone calls!
I like the fact minimalist approaches, like svelte, htmx and alpine.js are getting more and more traction.

I felt like fighting this fight alone for years in the golden years of node, webpack and react where everybody was creating crazy stacks and adding GraphQL and so on, to basically get what Django + jquery did 10 years ago in a tenth of the time and code.

So far I also survived:

- xml is the future

- let's use nosql for all the things

- you must use the same language at the back and front

- yes, you site must have an AMP version (ah, you forgot this one, didn't you? It was sooo imporant, and then pouf, it was gone like tear in the rain)

- yes, your home page must be an SPA

- you can't code anything without async

- you can't live without a message queue

- everything must become a micro service

- of course you need a container for that

- of course you need a orchestrator to organize those containers

- of course you need the cloud, it would be crazy to deal with those containers and orchestrators yourself

- dude, why do you have a server? Use a serveless backend!

- dude, why do you have a backend? Just call saas from the edge!

Every year, some generation of engineers have to learn the concepts of "there is no silver bullet", "use the right tech for the right problem", "your are not google", "rewriting a codebase every 2 years is not a good business decision", "things cost money".
People always say that coroutines make code easier to understand, but I've always found normal asynchronous code with callbacks much easier to understand.

They're equivalent except that asynchronous callbacks is what actually happens and you have clear control and visibility on how control flow moves.
> Eta reduction/expansion has nothing to do with performance.

It affects inlining. GHC only inlines fully applied functions, where "fully applied" means applied to as many arguments as it was declared with. So in something like `g = fmap f` your first definition of `f` would never get inlined into g whereas your second definition might.
Is there an updated version of this?
mr fake laugh is genuine. ok, maybe he's different irl.
It literally does not apply to them though.

They effectively write an ad blocking proxy for Youtube. It is open source and decentralized. Google has no way to stop this and they are desperate.

Anyone can contribute code to the project anonymously from any country they want. This will go about as well as the silly attempts to stop youtube-dl.
Well I actually used to think - before being educated about map constraints and the Mercator projection - that "Wow Greenland is HUGE".
Already discussed multiple times over the last couple of weeks. I don't think there's any significant new information in this content marketing rerun?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262722

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306479

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36250582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368811
I don't think so.

The hype cycle is hiding the inevitable trough / AI winter that will come when we get past the mimic abilities of LLM. When that trough happens, then there will be an opportunity to legislate before somebody gets it to do something game changing.

The trough is where the real innovation will happen, because desperation is the best motivator.
It will be funny to watch them waste a lot of money trying.
Hi!

Over the past 17 months, I have been collecting data on job offers from various job boards such as Glassdoor, LinkedIn, StackOverflow, Dice, and many others. In total, I have gathered approximately 14 million unique job offers for developers. I have written a blog article where I explore this data and rank the top 8 most in-demand programming languages.

Please note that this analysis is based solely on job offers and not on surveys conducted with actual developers! It is an objective study that considers ONLY the job offers that were found.

I hope you find it interesting!
Google can use the DMCA to shut down all repositories, all hosts, and put this guy in living hell.
That's why you leave the dog outside.
I knew someone would the fail “the IQ test” of the parent comment.

There’s a reason I specifically noted scoring high on subsets/subtests, Raven Progressive Matrices being the most popularized form online, of full IQ tests (latest WAIS revision). So no neither here, nor in the previous comment was there any dismissal of the existence of intelligence or its means of estimation.

Many like to brag about getting high on this subtype and therefore believe they’re on the far-right end of the distribution, however to get an accurate estimate of your position there, you need all the additional tests that measure processing speed, verbal reasoning, short-term memory, maybe other types of non-geometric abstract reasoning tests.

As I said I’m not a big fan of the way Americans obsess over the reliability of RPMs for an accurate score estimation, but I’d wager a test with the types of questions found on the SATs/GREs would help form a very robust intelligence population distribution.
Yeah naming things and off-by-one errors - the three most common bugs in CS ;)
the underlying assumption is that there is no tension between satisfying the world and satisfying your own need for tranquility.

[edit] I haven't done a lot of therapy, but I sought out an existential therapist in Buenos Aires and saw her weekly for a year while I was there and severely depressed. It helped me get over seeing myself as the center of the narrative, and made me realize everyone else was too trapped in theirs to notice most of the flaws I saw in myself. It also helped me come to terms with how the world being fucked up is neither my fault or something I can fix.
But the real, true house on the cliff is unattainable. In the darkest and most honest moments, I'd admit it's not even what I want. As my ex's mother once said, I thrive on crisis. She didn't mean it well.
For those looking for more detail on the engineering of the vessel, refer to this brief walk-through from Rush himself filmed by a Mexican travel blogger back in July of 2021:

(Skip to 18:05 for Rush's explanation of the sub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5SUDFE6CA
The investigation partly relies on notes seized from the defendants which mention various privacy tools: GrapheneOS, LineageOS, Signal, Silence, Jitsi, OnionShare, F-Droid, Tor, RiseupVPN, Orbot, uBlock Origin…

According to investigators: "these elements confirm they were willing to live clandestinely".

According to the prosecution: "these notes consituted a real playbook allowing anonymous use of a phone, showing the person was willing to live in secrecy and hide their activities".
life sciences is just as bad if not worse -- you can read news stories about many cases of outright photoshopped images in biology papers by respected researchers in major journals.

physics has a good reputation, but then you hear of things like apparent fraud in that quantum computing paper about Majorana fermions...

computer science actually seems relatively okay as far as avoiding outright fraud, probably because there's such a strong norm of sharing code. plenty of questionable research practices though.
The worst argument. These days how many people navigate by compass headings vs how many people base personal and policy decisions due to distorted view of the planet which downsizes planet's oceans and puts the great pacific garbage patch at the far edge of the map, out of sight out of mind?

Just use another projection? Mercator is everywhere, nothing else.

And yes, size of countries is important too (eg. how people fear Russia because it seems large and discount the importance of Africa because it's next to the equator).
We gave up on Keycloack because it was hard to maintain and add features to it. Now my colleagues are way more happier with an in-house authentication solution that is pretty nimble and we know all the ins and outs.
> Growing up in Australia in my house growing up we never took our shoes off

Across the ditch it’s not uncommon for the opposite to be true.

No shoes - supermarket, shops, mall, hospital (!), etc. Bare feet is the way to go in summer but my personal line is drawn a little earlier than many.

Presumably these people have all the same problems as the ‘always shoes’ people.
That's insane, what country is that?
Nice, I need a site like this for inspiration. Is it ranking for any seo?
Considering that until some time ago there was no alternative, if you were banned, it was the end of it, no possibility of appeal, I would say that having a third party act as a judge is not a bad idea. I am in favor of the change.
Reading this makes me want some CSI like TV show based on forensics using statistics and excel files!
We have recently moved our website[1] to SvelteKit. Previously we were on Sapper. Previous to that we used a custom Webpack + React setup to output a static site.

Our desktop app builder is also built on Svelte (not SvelteKit).

I agree with pretty much everything in this article. I wouldn't put "Reactive declarations and statements" in the "Ugly" section though. They are definitely a bit tougher to fully grok than the rest of Svelte (Svelte is incredibly easy to learn compared to other frameworks) but once you learn how they work they are incredibly powerful and concise.

I also feel like "Svelte’s lack of protagonism" is a bit off the mark. Rich Harris is a great communicator and tends to be pretty public but the focus is more on community. Svelte Society's Youtube channel [2] does a 1 hour long "This week in Svelte" video every week and it is all killer content with no filler.

[1] https://www.todesktop.com
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@SvelteSociety/videos
Yours is the only comment I see that recognized this. I may have a false consensus, but I feel like everyone either skimmed the article or only read the title. The title reads as if it is about procrastination and completing tasks, but instead TFA discusses exploring activities you would hesitate to do, and asking those around you for insight if it’s a good idea.
Time to get a jump on all of that spatial computing. Apple today announced that its visionOS software development kit is now available, allowing 3D parties to begin building content for the Vision Pro. The SDK is available at least half a year before the headset officially goes on sale in the U.S., priced at $3,500
This is why we can not, under any circumstances, budge on encryption and privacy. It is a fundamental right and I am willing to die on this hill.
Do stupid things, but faster! Just like with coffee.
What is really appaling and frightening here is the level of ignorance, incompetence and technical illiteracy shown by the various magistrates, and how they can be manipulated by the storytelling. Unfortunately, I think it's fair to say that it's representative of the general level of expertise in the french judicial system. Want some laughs ? Look for "Olivier Laurelli", "Altice vs reflet.info"...
as an avid controller user, i wonder if they keep spare controllers at hand for mission-critical scenarios. given how little waranty first-party controller makers provide (3 months for xbox), and how almost all of them use potentiometers for joysticks, which are prone to "stick drift", i wonder how many situations could have a loss of accurate control because of this.