skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
still-ahead-of-its-time.

the new llm craze should make moderation and metamoderation even easier. i think we will see a resurgence of some slashdot inventions, albeit more automated.

collect votes from power users. extrapolate how they would have voted on stories they havent seen. feed people stories based on similar voting patterns, to test if you predicted their votes correctly. maybe a synthesis of two random voters accurately predicts a power voter.

id like to see something akin to a reverse subreddit. instead of having posts, i add 50 people to a list and turn them into a voting block. then i follow multiple voting blocks. i can follow other peoples voting blocks. my feed tells me which voting block elected to show me a story. let teams of people build voting blocks together, collaboratively. different voting blocks can have different purposes, like populism or expertise. being able to stumble into well made, premade blocks solves discovery and initialization problems, without having to bootstrap a feed from a low number of my own votes.

despite having a lot of blogspam, https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-sitcoms... ranker has a some good reranking ideas (like being able to rerank the list by bbt fan votes.)

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Circa_News?lang=en is another idea that will pop back up. Stories being composed of smaller elements, stitched together, and appended.

https://modo.org and https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news have some promise.

there are so many building blocks of good ideas, of which metamoderation is still one of the best, that it leaves me both exited for a future where somebody picks up the baton, and disheartened that somebody hasnt yet. is it time for a slashslashdotdot?
Also checkout https://jsonresume.org/ not my project but also amazing work
> There is no dearth of articles on how the blockchain will eventually disrupt everything. I actually believe we will see most of the envisioned use cases come to pass, though some will take years or decades to fully play out and will go through multiple iterations before succeeding.

> It is only because the blockchain has already done so much for us that I expect it to do so much more.

I am not completely sure what the point of the article is, other than "the author believes in blockchain".

I don't.
They won’t be able to export them to other countries then
Can someone explain what eight-mile has to do with any of this? It's only mentioned in the title and not in the article's text.
Redrawing means erasing the racist history, little by little. Just like they've started to rewrite novels (see the recent Penguin controversy for example). Over time, without the majority noticing, this becomes reality:

>Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
Software market segmentation was at one point borne entirely from technical considerations between different hardware platforms. Form factors, architecures, performance etc. To some extent it still is, but the differentiation has mostly dissolved down to screen size and the tradeoffs that need to be made to accommodate those differently sized screens.

The technical reasons for justifying segmented software markets have faded away. In spite of personal preference, your wife could play that exact same solitaire game on a PC or laptop if they wanted to, just like you could play PS5 games on your iPhone. Just like you should be able to play Xbox games on a PS5, or vice versa, with the only barrier existing to prevent this being the walls the platform holders themselves built. This absolutely results in market segmentation, but of the anti-competitive kind.

This will come to a head whenever AR glasses catch on proper, since that dissolves segmentation based on screen size. What's "mobile", when everything is mobile?
All the jobs dominated by woman are highly in person work(nurses, dentists, assistants, hairdressers etc.). Tech is by far the biggest sector with most remote friendly job and has the one of the lowest ratio of female.
So in a sense, you've made a resume builder you can now put on your resume that you've built with the builder itself? Very meta.
> If they could invest in only the hits, they would.

Apple TV has been quite good for this. There isn't really bad show so far.
Oh that one... I practice it since forever: I don't have FB / WhatsApp and I don't have Instagram.

They're simply not part of my life.
contractually, using gmail addresses and fake identities might land you in hot water, if you are buying the product under a contract.
Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you are looking at
Rebasing patches is pretty hard I'd say. Much harder than just explaining someone the logic behind /lib, /etc and /run. I mean, this directories are seperate for a reason. Knowing the idea behind the directory split (a.k.a. Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) is more essential than knowing how to use the patch command line tool. There are more and more people who don't want to use the command line. And that's completely fine.

> - It also works better than the systemd unit style of configuration for sophisticated users. In particular, if you add a now-incompatible option to the file in the suggested place (next to the documentation and commented out default version of the setting), then the package management system can detect that you've made a potentially breaking change before installing the new software, and ask you what to do. This works in the absence of sophisticated data modeling, schema mapping tools, etc.

Anecdata, but still: Every single time the package manager asked me what to do, it was not because of a breaking change, but simply because the base file changed in a way that the patch didn't apply cleanly anymore. That is, I, the user, had to work around limitations of the patch format. If the distro configuration and the user configuration had been separate files, things would have just worked fine.
> Officials added that the worker – whose identity has not been publicly released – was ingested into the one engine which the plane in question had on at the time.

...

> But the cause of worker’s death hadn’t officially been determined

Wait... what?
Why should they? Why does there need to be a dichotomy between doing something good and living in poverty, or else do everything possible to squeeze out the next short-term dollar. It strikes me as a profound failure of imagination to think there's no possible way to structure our economy where more companies could pursue profit in balance with other goals that can not directly be translated into next quarter's P&L statement.
It's a cost optimizations exercise. Why give you tax breaks when I can get the same thing for free?
Helping without consideration of the cost is something we do because it's an essential aspect of our identity as humans. The ability to reimburse the cost without unreasonable hardship might play some role after the fact, but reimbursement must never be mandatory. We would inevitably start considering the ability to pay before deciding to help. In so doing, we would be denying our core identity.
Thanks for your kind words. When creating the resume state structure, I have considered making it a JSON Resume format so it is compatible with other JSON Resume as well as tools that built on top of JSON Resume. However, after looking more into JSON Resume's schema, I find it to be a bit more restrictive than I would like, e.g. it includes a startDate and endDate as date type for work experience, but I want to combine both into date so user can type anything they like `June 2022 - Present` or `06/2022 - Present`. Also, for skills, JSON Resume has a very fixed structured but I want to give users the freedom to type anything in any format. Overall, I think JSONResume works well on its own and defines each field very well. But when thinking in product level, these restrictions might pose too much restrictions, so I ultimately create my own custom resume state type.
‘Spider-Verse’ Animation: Four Artists on Making the Sequel
“console wars” got brought up multiple times in the most recent FTC hearing.
Probably because it’s interesting to see how people structure their prompts.

I’d hope that phind’s secret sauce is more than a few paragraphs explaining how to clean up and format some text.
Absolutely. But it's ludicrous for people to say this means the EU is becoming "totalitarian". This is how we cheapen words, like we used to do with "Nazi" before Godwin's Law saved us from the worst of it.
Right. Although there wasn't any cover on the headphones jack, and apparently newer phones can have waterproof open ports.

Engineering excellence or not, the fact is that that old phone was both weatherproof and had an easily replaceable battery.
Similar to social media. You try to balance between engagement and user-hostile decisions (ads etc.).

As long as the users stay and they bring you the money, it is good enough.
Think it'd be even more useful in F1, where timing of pit stops is all important, and the state of the tires is a strong indication of whether the other teams will be coming in very soon or holding on for a bit.
SpaceX successfully launches world’s first “space factory”; it’s making drugs
That was likely due to the Reddit blackout. I'd imagine a lot of those users will go back to Reddit since HN generally doesn't appreciate shitposting.
> I live in apartments in Austin. The only reason people get dogs is because everyone else has one.

I don’t know if I’m parsing this correctly. Are you saying that the only reason people get dogs in your particular apartment building in Austin is because everyone else has one?

Or are you saying that, in general, the only reason that people get dogs is because everyone else has one? The latter just isn’t correct. And I can’t speak to your particular apartment building, but I’d expect it’s not true for everyone there either.
My Grabdma passed away ten years ago, and aside from wishing she was still with us, I wish iPads had been more prevalent for her last several years. I had her comfortable on an older Windows laptop, but it always intimidated her some. She would move the laptop around when she wanted to sit in the kitchen or her chair, but it was heavy and clunky, and she preferred an external mouse, which was just _one more thing_. I had an iPad when she died, but couldn’t have dropped the money to get one, but dammit I wish I could have. She felt so isolated in her final years (despite living with my parents), and having a 2lb window to the world would have made such a difference. Especially when I see the improvements coming in iOS 17, I think it really would have been a game changer for her.
I think it's 79 but yes agree that it's a masterpiece.
It's good to be skeptical, but my wife works in this field and I can tell you that there's a lot capital flowing to this area of research, and a substantive body of research that supports it.
> frieze of Ice Age beasts

I wonder how long the headline writer has been waiting for an opportunity to use that one!
Season 5 & 6 are the lowest rated seasons by both critics and consumers, so seems like it's somewhat universally agreed upon.

Personally I thought the episodes I watched were meh at best in most of the categories you listed, but obviously that's subjective.
Sounds very much like {Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, Robert Berwick}’s brand new paper on the mathematics of Syntactic Merge [0]:

workspace :: nested forests of binary trees of syntactic structures (with no label order) (= here, thoughts and meanings are assumed to be composites of mental syntax objects that can be re-combined with others. Big assumption? Maybe)

externalization process :: some mental faculty that decides the order to use when outputting thoughts into ordered strings (eg vocalization of thoughts into sentences)

The thing is, you can put a probability theory onto anything that you can count or record states of. Of course, counting the external observations may lack the richness of the internal process. I feel that this linguistic program will work its way into a lot of future LM tooling, in some incarnation or another.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18278
Brains are complex probability machines but doesn’t work only on language. It interacts with and learns from the environment, sets its own objective functions and tries to learn better.
Yeah, obviously, but good to mention.

I did change them. Very quickly for the important ones, more slowly for the others.
Really what needs to happen is like a non profit SAAS movement to create minimal modern versions of these services that runs at minimal cost. Then they can basically be feature compete and like run off an endowment. More like roads or highways that just need maintenance.

I guess more like signal.

The alternative will always be enshitification.
You index JSON columns in SQL Server by creating an index on a computed column. I am very open to the strict argument that this is a workaround if you'd like to make that more verbosely. Nevertheless it is very effective and adds minimal IO overhead and is dispatched with one extra line of code (more if you prefer newline-heavy formatting). From a practical perspective this has never been a sticking point for any of numerous clients I have seen using the features, and the performance is as good as any other btree index.

You are correct that there is no formal SQL type in SQL Server for JSON. And I am sorry for implying otherwise. Type safety requires a constraint on the column intended to hold JSON.

There is no equivalent to Postgres's GIN indices which would allow indexing on an array in the JSON column. Such a requirement would need a normalized table holding the array's values in SQL Server. Whether this is a limitation or a lack of support for JSON, full stop, seems to me a matter open to debate.

I have seen many successful projects (and participated in quite a few of those) that utilize JSON in SQL Server databases. I will amend my former statement, though, because it obviously lacked nuance: SQL Server's JSON functionality has covered all use cases that I have had and personally seen, but my experience is obviously much lesser than some others', so you can take this experience with as much salt as you like (:
Hello fellow Belgian! It's always been tough to maintain the collecting overseas, what with expensive shipping costs. I've always found it peculiar that scanned francophone comics are not as prevalent as both American and Japanese comics.

I feel like any graphic novel fan would eat up our classics like XIII
> How would constructing a new ship from new materials ever count as being the same as the original ship?

If it's a perfect replica (as you said in your original comment) then by what parameters is it different from the original ship? Sure, cooordinates might be different, but cooridnates can change. If the exact replica switches places with the original, then even that difference would disappear.

By the way, I am strictly speaking about this topic in the context of the thread we are in. If a replica is built according to exact blueprints of a snapshot of the original (and assuming no mistakes are made), then why would the result be any different than just replacing one part on the original with an replica part made according to exact blueprints of a snapshot of the original part?
Queering the Map Is a Crowdsourced Archive of Queer Memories
The sad fact is that the fediverse has the worse of both worlds where, in the end, it still seems like following a block list of an admin who is accountable to no one (instead of a popular person with some specific track record) and the fragmentation means the discoverability and interaction is minimal.

Until there's a way where one user can decide what instances to see, it will be a crap experience unless you agree 100% with the whims of an admin, who made you jump through hoops only to defederate at the slightest disagreement.

Such a think skinned way to approach online interactions, one of zero tolerance for dissent (and terrible for the exchange of ideas).
Everyone in the world is not reading Hacker News.
> Yes, they have to.

you say that like we don't all know it already. Most readers of this site likely work at these places.

No kidding they have to do this, if they exist. Their existence is the problem, whatever the cause.
According to the wording of the draft legislation (according to the article):

It also says that spare parts should be available for up to seven years after a phone’s release, and, perhaps most importantly, “the process for replacement shall be able to be carried out by a layman.”

This means, that basically every phone where you can unscrew the back, disconnect the connector, remove the glue with a pull tab, and put in a new battery, is already compliant. Its basically the same set of steps any corner shop repair tech would do (but its something you could do yourself).

It just states that manufacturers cant interfere with this process, and have to sell the parts to you for 7 years after purchase.
Most have to do with the current underregulation of cryptocurrency that makes it possible to transfer money to scammers in Russia without controls.
Happy birthday, Day of the Tentacle! This adventure game left me a really strong impression, with all the humour, dialogues and excellent art. The first game I ever posted to the Internet was very much influenced with Day of the Tentacle (and thanks to Windows it can still be played :) ) - https://www.ciroduran.com/games/tomate-un-descanso/
The best advice I’ve ever received is to treat everyone I work for like a client. In that vein, asking a senior leader what other tasks you should deprioritize is asinine.
Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell?
This is actually self enforcing for the most part. Raising kids who can behave themselves in a modern restaurant (e.g., 100+ dB crowd noise, large open spaces, and hour-long waits) involves a certain amount of luck. It's hard to be the only person expected to sit still and be quiet with no explanation as to why.

But once you know the range of social settings where you can expect your kids to behave, you can opt out of certain situations. I have two kids, both are now college age. We rarely took them to restaurants. It was unpleasant for us, unpleasant for them, and expensive. In fact I live in a town that's known for being a place to raise kids, and most people don't take their kids to restaurants that are not overtly kid friendly.

At the same time, people being more tolerant of the normal range of behaviors exhibited by children, could also be a matter of parents doing their job.
I'm curious if you could expand -- I researched this a while ago but what I'm describing is as deep as I got from various online tutorials.

What kind of objective analysis techniques? And where does someone get high-resolution priors from? Are you saying that companies have gone out and done a one-time mapping of temperature etc. at a e.g. 1-mile grid across the US? (Which would be over 3 million points at that scale, compared to the ~10,000 US weather stations?)
I'm not sure I understand. When the "old paradigm" was new, computing power was much more limited. They couldn't afford to "burn" any computing power. But it's only stuck around, because now we have more computing power? That doesn't make sense
If you compare to the any other show, plots were quite unique, and cast was quite good. I did not think in any moment that the show was bad. Just that maybe some previous seasons had even more interesting episodes.

I guess our expectations have just gone too high.
How the Military Is Using E-Girls to Recruit Gen Z into Service
having each persons identity tied to the instance makes the whole thing way too unstable and centralized. identity needs to exist outside the bounds of instances.
Right, I've come to believe that the software development world is led by the nose by snake oil salesmen. Most software developers don't have a range of experience outside of a CS degree, so they easily fall into "this is the new best practice" traps, especially if they look flashy and professional (examples: https://12factor.net https://machalliance.org)
>Yaml gives you all the standard containers

So do JSON and TOML. If you think you need more than what they provide, something has gone very wrong.

>tools to avoid repeating yourself,

Bad. Config is not code. Settings should be explicit. DRY is not helpful.

Because of the lack of anchors/aliasing/variables etc, JSON has the nice property that you can parse it with exactly one upfront memory allocation: N bytes of JSON requires at most N words of memory.

>lord of ways to format strings so they stay readable

Bad. Too many ways: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21699210/6107981 No normal human being can remember all the rules for how a string gets parsed. Therefore it isn't actually human-readable or human-writeable, despite masquerading as such.

>arbitrary object serialization

You can write out the fields as a JSON object. If this isn't enough, then what you're trying to serialize doesn't belong in a human-readable text config file.

>Yaml only gets weird if you want to use complex objects as dict keys but that complexity is on you then.

This assumes the guy who wrote the config schema is the same as the guy who has to later use and edit it, which is seldom the case. When people do needlessly complicated config like this, they're taking an enormous stinking shit on my lawn for me to clean up.
The pricing doesn't make sense. Harvard Extension charges $2,040/4 credit course[1]. I estimated this course cost Harvard students $5,000, for low-quality access to educational staff.

Does that mean Harvard Extension students get even worse access?

Surely paying twice as much in tuition should mean something more than getting to say "I graduated from Harvard."

[1] https://extension.harvard.edu/paying-for-school/
Yeah, I see what you mean. In my case it is because I use LaTeX to create my resume, and my main concern is just that in some ATS systems it doesn't parse correctly and it would be nice to know when I'm making the resume, rather than when I apply for the job. For people without an existing opinionated workflow (likely the bulk), the resume scanner would be a good way to help them understand the value proposition of a unified builder that works with most ATS systems by design, rather than as an afterthought (which seems to be the case with most resume builders online besides this one).
Interesting. I put my LinkedIn generated resume into the parser, and it only parsed it about 1/2 right.

Which makes me wonder, who is doing the wrong thing here? Is LinkedIn generating a bad resume, or is the ATS parser not able to parse what I assume should be pretty standard, as I imagine a lot of people use that feature of LinkedIn.
23% of US households with children have just one parent and 86% of those households are single mothers.

I am not even sure what this article is claiming to compare but it strikes me as ridiculous to not take the above information into account.

Of course it is harder to provide child care if the kid doesn't even live with you and I would think most the men are providing some form of child support.
Do any phones designed by EU companies move more than a million units per year?
My answer would be trash because I don’t quite understand it, except to say it seems to regulate some common chemical pathways in the body. The way it was explained to me is that it clears up a bad signal between the brain and nerves, particularly in the gut. My gut was just overreacting to any food put in it and the pill helps restore normal “talk” between the brain and the gut. Every other doc was trying to treat my gut to make it better which is logical - this other specialist used my brain to fix it.

I know the back thing isn’t gut brain axis but I just figured I’d mention it.