skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's far better to let someone else manage security updates, availability etc..

That is where I will respectfully disagree, having seen many companies do a lot of hand-waving (and acronym-throwing) and have abysmal practices underneath. There is no way for me to verify that. And I really do not want to have to explain to my customers that I'm sending data about their activities to an external business.

I'll stick to my own data gathering solution for now, I guess.
I occasionally remark or ask, how is it that LLM APIs are always either text -> text, or at best (for smaller models) text -> embeddings, with the idea being of you stuffing the latter in some database for future lookups - where the most interesting thing to expose should be embeddings -> text.

As in, I want to be able to feed the LLM arbitrary embedding vectors - whether they come from averaging embeddings of different prompts, some general optimization pattern (textual inversion style, indeed), or just iteratively shifting the input vector in some direction, walking down the latent space and generating output every step, just to see what happens.

I ask that, and I get blank stares, or non-answers like "oh, it's always been available, you can e.g. put text in, get embeddings out". Yeah, but I want to do the reverse. It's like I was making so big a category error, asking such nonsensical question, that no one can even parse it. But am I?
If you cannot control yourself you're an irrational animal that needs treatment. Please don't take my words on a bad way, we're all animals after all, but some more rational and controlled than others. Man up and control yourself.
Seems like UDP is completely exempt, which would allow UDP-based VPNs, like Wireguard through.

SSH is also exempt...
I you have factual arguments instead of ad hominem attacks I'd like hear them.
OnlineOrNot Diaries 12 – On failure, learning sales, and quitting ads
its 70k to 90k PER MONTH, not per year
Why truncate the conversation? Why not have the LLM generate a summary, and use that instead of a truncated conversation?

That seems closer to what we do, we recall the important bits without every single word said.
People buy annuities for the guaranteed income. That's an existing product people want. Annuities get ~5% interest, and when you die you usually forfeit the principal. It's also not FDIC insured.

This CD is 4.75%, FDIC insured, and you get the principal back. It's superior to an annuity for a good chunk of people. Sure the principal degrades in post-inflation buying power (excluding the interest payments), but that's not the point because it's competing with $0.
Offshoring is contractors. They (usually) will code exactly what you tell them, and no more. They are not "product oriented" and won't push back on things if they make no sense -- they'll just shake their heads and get it down in the fastest way possible. They are not here "for the mission" and often don't care about maintainability. It's not their fault, they know they could be let go at any time, and any personal relationships they might build in the company won't save them come budget time. So you know, they're kind of checked out. On top of that you have timezone issues and potential language barriers.

Hiring internationally, you might have TZ and language issues but none of the other stuff. If you do your hiring right that is, you'll get somebody who actually wants to be part of the team and is product oriented.

It's mercenaries vs. paladins.
You're not wrong, software development is costly, and we have a team of bright and experienced engineers tackling this problem!

There is a lot more to timecraft than improving the debugging experience, and we tried to put into perspective some of the opportunities we see in the README.

If you happen to try it out, let us know what you think about the tech!
Decriminalising all drugs and treating drug addiction as a medical problem has worked well in Portugal.
You might be interested in https://kroki.io and https://github.com/JoelCourtney/mdbook-kroki-preprocessor.
I've only ever seen the initials being used for Contract for Difference in a financial context.
Exactly, the problem isn't the phone or apps, the problem is the user.
First Look at JetBrains AI Assistant
I’m taking a break from my normal content this week because JetBrains have just released an early access preview of their AI Assistant, and I wanted to be the first to make a video on it!

As luck would have it, I needed to make a diagram of the package structure of the Gilded Rose codebase, and I couldn’t find anything in the IntelliJ menus, so I thought that I’d see if AI assistant could help.

By the way, to access the tool, you need to download IDEA 2023.2 EAP, and log in to the AI service - details are here https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2023/06/ai-assistant-in-jetb... There seems to be a bit of a waiting list, so I hope that this isn’t too much of a tease if you don’t get access straight away.
> IBM will grumble a bit and then ultimately join the foundation because their alternative will be just writing off the investment they made in Red Hat and watch from the sidelines how most of the ecosystem stops depending on IBM's Red Hat.

You could have said that if they switched to using CentOS Stream, and that would even have been my favorite outcome as a Red Hat employee.

However, Rocky Linux is neither a sibling nor a fork of RHEL. It's a debranded clone that by definition cannot even have a single bugfix that isn't in RHEL. For Oracle it's okay because it's peanut money in order to annoy Red Hat, so they can afford this; for Amazon or Facebook it's no good and that's why they forked upstream at the Fedora or CentOS Stream level.

As long as Rocky Linux stays a RHEL rebuild built by a third party like the CentOS of 2010 (except backed by corporate money rather than a guy in Nebraska), Red Hat is already putting millions into "the foundation". That's what they pay for the thousand people that develop Rocky Linux, ahem RHEL. Without them, there can be no Rocky Linux at all. So, as long as Rocky's money making side keeps undermining Red Hat's money making side, game theory predicts no other outcome than death for both RHEL and Rocky.

_EDIT_: if you downvote, I'd be very glad to learn where I'm wrong
AI-generated content, SEO, and Embeddings
metadata like keywords and description is for machines to parse, and AI-generated or AI-assisted content is for humans to read.
Nothing compares for battery life except really slow ARM laptops like Samsung makes.

But if 10 hours is enough I think ASUS Zenbooks and the ProArt line are pretty good Linux machines. They have faster GPUs and betters screens (OLED) too.
> I don't want to go to Akihabara at all because I'm sure it will be a disappointment

I am afraid it will be. It was for me: I remember it from 2000-2005, and having visited it a couple of years ago, it was nothing like what I remembered. Mostly dominated by creepy schoolgirl-uniformed girls inviting people into cafes.
I lived in Göteborg for six years, and Stockholm for a year. Also lived in Halmstad for a shorter period. I’m fluent in Swedish, and I’ve traveled the country a fair bit — including to Gottsunda. A [severely disabled] friend of mine lives there, so I’ve visited a few times. It’s a total ghetto.

I’m assuming your question is friendly curiosity, and not an attempt to disqualify my opinion.
This is the same as increasing taxes then, except that instead of the taxes going to the government to vote for the redistribution, they go straight to news agencies bypassing the government.

When viewed with this angle, the next question is why news agencies get their own dedicated taxes and nobody else?
Decriminalisation and seeing drug use as a medical problem rather than stigmatising it seems to work.

(Portugal is an example of this approach, generally considered a success)
You’re right in that they are not ruggedized. But for “normal” laptop use, it works very well and looks good too. However, if I were to do a geological survey or something like that, I might not use MacBook.
What's interesting is that until very recently, the interest rate on treasury bills were higher for shorter term ones versus longer term. That is, the 4 week ones had a higher interest rate compared to the 26 week ones. In fact, the daily treasury bill interest rate for May 26, 2023 was

5.78% for 4 weeks
5.30% for 8 weeks
5.16% for 13 weeks
5.28% for 17 weeks
5.18% for 26 weeks
4.98% for 52 weeks

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
modern western societies shame is placed upon many activities that are normal and necessary for a human to enjoy a good life

Where are my Italians at? They don't do this. Probably Spaniards and Greeks also, but I have met far fewer.
yesterday on a thread on DMD somebody quipped "Funny how WalterBright seems to comment in every single HN thread other than this one..." and I thought it was hyperbole. Next HN thread I open, I'm proven wrong
First thing that caught my eye is how 地図 (map, in Japanese) is annotated マップ (transliterated “map”, from English). This language is out of control!
That's true, but I was referring to a hash table as a mere mental model, not an actual implementation. A better name would be a dictionary instead of hash table.
MLIR is "LLVM done better", in fact by the same person. It fixes many of unforced LLVM problems, for example LLVM's inability to parallelize code generation.
At that point, a more salient question would be whether anything at all exists outside our minds.
Funnily enough none of this is really news to me (and no it hasn't been more than a decade)

But I always went back to XFCE or Gnome2 because the slowness was palpable (Unity was a very bad OotB experience).
How does inheritance tax treat this annuity? Are you landing your loved ones with a tax bill without liquid assets to pay it off.
I think GP means to ask if Excel can read files with ASCII 29,30,31 separators.
> which can be read by "borrowing"

Reminder: based on the idea that "if the library holds a physical copy it can lend an electronic view over it, respecting the same principle of the physical object, i.e. one user per item per period (i.e. one user per use instance)". Such principle is being fought.
I owned a Surface Go for two days before getting an iPad Mini.

What made me return it was the file save dialog. I bought a device to read and doodle on, two things I used to do on paper. I browse through my sketches by turning pages, and finish the activity by closing the (note)book. Procreate and Google Play Books work similarly.

After a whole day of installing updates and removing bloatware, the Surface wanted me to name and organise my drawings on a filesystem before I could do something else.

My goal was to draw and read, not to use a computer. The Surface wanted me to think about files and updates and the device’s state. My iPad Mini is a book with benefits, paper with tricks.
> how many people have $150,000 to lock up for a century

Realistically 100yr and "the rest of their life" are synonymous, and plenty of people. Sure I don't have 150k in cash just hanging out in my checking account, but if I thought this would be a critical supplement to my retirement, then I could scrape 150k. My parents who are near retirement age certainly have 150k they could put here if they were so inspired.
I'm interested and not trying to be sarcastic. Which non Apple laptop is arm64 with endless battery, good build quality, and descent performances at a fair price?
I feel this is the same discussion as with veganism - anything that's not 100% pure it's getting called drunkard and berated for that. Meh.
Upcoming RPGs 2023: Every tabletop roleplaying game you should play this year
Nitter is still working, although searching for users seems to have stopped working you can still use the tweet search tab or manually type a twitter username on the end of the URL.

List of nitter instances:

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

They unpredictably say "This nitter instance has been rate limited", you can try a few from the above list to find one that is getting less traffic.
For Europeans where this website is blocked:

https://archive.is/gIbkY
Over the years I’ve tried many many databases of all flavors.

I always come back to Postgres.
Sample bias
> Decriminalisation and seeing drug use as a medical problem rather than stigmatising it seems to work.

But Portugal hasn't legalized, taxed anything. (illegal) Recreational drugs are still illegal. There is no need to legalize any drug to do harm reduction. Not even Cannabis is legal in Portugal.
Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed with an FTC Antitrust Suit
https://archive.fo/U4Z3g
There is always a gap between rich and poor on violent crime like homicides but the cross racial gap persists (in the US) at any point along the continuum of SES.
Search was broken for me a week ago, but it suddenly worked a few days ago.
Bowling with two hands versus bowling with one hand is not an obvious difference?
> But alcohol is a cheap, readily available blunt instrument against this pain. No matter how bad you feel, if you down a litre of booze, that pain will definitely, and quickly, stop.

Never happened to me. I'm not a drinker but I have of course consumed alcohol. Life is as painful as usual with or without alcohol in my body. If any, life is more miserably with alcohol because I look more pathetic than usual (classic drunk face), my voice is not clear, my mouth smells like shit, and I walk funny (if I can walk at all).

Not sure about other drugs, though (never tried).
> The new trend however is to close games down, DRM, “life service”, fewer possibilities and very strict IP implications on derivative work (we own everything you create etc.)

I don't know of any popular game that didn't have DRM and didn't have very strict IP implications on fan content (say, after the early 90s maybe?). It's not like the teams behind the original DOTA or CS or TF ever made money selling those, and would have likely been blocked even if they tried.

It's true though that live service games are quite antithetical to modding because of their need to control player progression and sell it.

Still, I would say the divide between games which supported modding and games that didn't has always existed, with much fewer games in the first category, and there are still huge games coming out today that do. It's even become possible to create mods for console games, so it's not all doom and gloom.
Very few sites die entirely. Usenet, BBS, AOL, nethack.alt.org, AskJeeves, MySpace, and Facebook all still exist. That doesn’t mean they remain culturally relevant.
What app did you tried on Surface? OneNote works without treating files. (as it's also available on iPad)
Again there is no need to legalize anything to do harm reduction, as demonstrated by Portugal.
History today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11da-YAOXBI

the inertia on that curve is crazy
Which is both brilliant and surprising that RH didn't see it coming
I was wondering about simply using VPNs, which is not mentioned in the article at all, but checking GFW on Wikipedia, it tells:

> The use of VPNs in China can provide individuals access to the international internet, but in China, it can be a potential legal risk. In 2017, the Chinese government declared all unauthorized VPN services to be illegal.[94] An example of the use of this punishment is Vera Zhou, a student at the University of Washington, who, when visiting her Hui parents in Xinjiang, China, used a VPN to access her school homework. She was arrested and sent to a Xinjiang internment camp from October 2017 until March 2018, followed by house arrest after her release. She was not able to return to the US until September 2019.[95][96]
Now that I’m at my laptop I can see that you are correct on most things at least now being vendored­–though it took me a while to find it since the scripts in the <body> like it’s last decade instead of in the <head> with async or defer attributes.
Unfortunately, many things posted to HN are not on the Internet. Paywalled links, links to articles where the publisher does the idiotic IP-based regionalization and denies access to those not in his "region", etc.

I believe HN should make a rule that only links to things on the Internet are allowed. If it's not readable by anyone with an IP address, it shouldn't be on HN.
Bad move on Elon's part. Many people deleted their accounts when he took over, but some portion of them are still "addicted" to twitter and browse it anonymously. Thus still generating views and revenue for the company. Once the login wall comes up, most of them are leaving for good, as their egos will not allow them to create another account.
My reason: it’s too big. I can’t comfortably carry a big MacBook plus an iPad if I walk around a lot. The iPad is my reading and drawing device.

I settled for an iPad Mini and a 12” MacBook and I’m reallY happy with that combo. I just wish they made a faster M2 version.
Show HN: Paper List Generator
For each query, it filters and weights the citation graph of ~5000 papers to find the most important ones.
I write and maintain a GPLv3 multiplayer game for Android to satisfy a creative itch. While writing the game, sustainability of the server component is top of my mind. I'd hate for the game to stop working for others down the line because I lose interest or am otherwise no longer able to tend to it.

For those interested, I've documented the process I adopted to try to increase the bus factor beyond one [0]. I want people who download the game and open it to be able to find a public server instantly from the main menu, even if I am unable to maintain the main server myself. This is done via the game requesting a manifest containing public servers from a GitHub repo, which accepts PRs from those willing to maintain their own servers. Although I am the only one able to accept those PRs right now, it would be silly not to be liberal in onboarding others who show an interest in maintaining the list. That way the game lives on beyond just me.

I also make sure to offer local multiplayer, and in other games I've built I which don't need realtime multiplayer, I try to offer "Play against others by sending an SMS invite" or other novel approaches that don't even need a server.

It is a fun space to work on and try to come up with novel solutions to ensure games continue working into the future.

[0] - https://peter.serwylo.com/2021/07/03/sustainable-server-infr...
Yeah already 10-12 years ago was clear.

My university vpn only worked for a few days while studying in China.

But there is this tiny little vpn software being spread around. Not sure if it's true but I remember it's falun gong teaming up with the CIA. Which at the time was able to go undetected, I think they keep rotating the IPS or something.

Was interesting how fast that tool spread "offline" between international students. Also Chinese have it but its less known among them.

Not sure if it still works:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate

[Edit] Here is an old hn comment saying it doesn't work anymore and other options that are also hard;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101965
You can use this opensource service to at least read other people's tweets:

https://nitter.net/
https://nitter.net/about

See an example:
https://nitter.net/elonmusk
It literally doesn't matter if its causing cancer or not, that's outright a very bad decision to do so, you will 100% fuck up your health long term. It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so?

Nobody apart from maybe sales folks ever claimed these things are safe to drink in such amounts regularly. Just like nobody ever claimed that consuming say 100g of pure salt every day would be OK, yet you can buy endless amounts of 1kg bags if you want.

Do folks really need some government agency to come to them personally to tell them how to live their lives, babysit every single decision they make, steer them away from their addictions on sugar etc? That's not how game of life works.
Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme
With global population stagnating in the coming decades I wouldn't bet on inflation staying the same.
I think it's more likely that we are headed into a deflationary crisis worse than 1930 Germany.
Apple and Microsoft generally get their pay from licensing fees rather than advertising fees and are therefore not in competition with news media companies. Reddit has generally been a fairly niche player, although if things change it might get covered. I don't know whether Twitter is as important as people have said it is, or if it is niche: it seems both Canada and a few years ago Australia both decided it was niche. And if anything, I gather than Elon Musk's purchase has made it less dependent on its limited advertising revenue and more dependent on subscriptions etc; if so it is even less in competition with news media organisations today than it was when Australia reviewed it.

Remember that even though people misleadingly call Google and Facebook tech companies, they are in fact advertising companies; and although people speak of news companies, they have generally seen news, opinion and analysis as tools for connecting eyeballs to advertising i.e. they're effectively advertising companies. This bill is about the direct competition between the two kinds of advertising companies - traditional, ~domestic companies with close and personal ties to the people who govern vs new, foreign companies who don't have such essential ties to politicians as journalists do.

If it were literally just about the provision of news, then Canada and Australia fund the CBC/RC and the ABC/SBS so why would they be so fussed? There are people who today make a living from podcasts and substacks who could not make money from traditional advertising/media companies. News would be provided.

(In fact, just to bring the point home, the original version of Australia's equivalent bill didn't allow the ABC and SBS to participate, because as government-funded media organisations they didn't suffer from the transition of advertising from news-sponsoring to tech-sponsoring in the same way as private companies.)
I just finished reading her dissent in this case, and I actually think she understands the legal difference, but because of her policy preferences (in this case, racism is actually okay but only for college admissions) she just forgot for a while.
twitter's a bit of fun. i'm loving this wrestling match hype between zuck and musk.
I go to History afterwards and delete specific videos from there with “x”. That still works.

But even self-curated history and other tips I’ve got here still produce an echo chamber. Even “New to you” tab which appears once a month for few minutes becomes too narrow. I gave up recently and removed youtube from my bookmarks bar, to suffer less often. I find the idea of paying for it pretty… strange?
But what does it mean exactly to be open? Are you allowed to monetize via ads on the work of others or no?
I believe the main reason people drink is for its euphoric, anxiolytic and relaxing effects.

These are desirable on their own, but they are also very useful specifically for socializing.
I think of it more as ‘quieting’ the mind - the internal monologue - this does help with socialising, and numbing bad feelings, but it’s still useful when neither of those things are relevant I.e. winding down after a full-on day.
I socialise (and have bad thoughts) in the mornings too, but I dont want a drink then
it's less about money and more about time. you take the plea deal and go away for 2 years tops, or you try your luck with a trial and risk 10 if convicted.
Perl culture here.
Yes, use a nitter instance.

https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances

Searching for twitter usernames isn't working, use the tweet search tab or type a twitter username on the end of the url.

If it says "This nitter instance has been rate limited" then choose a different one from the above list.

Also it's not entirely obvious that you expand a thread by clicking in the empty space to to right of the username on a post