skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT Drops About 10% in Traffic as the Novelty Wears Off
I think I made it clear that it’s my opinion, when I used the words “in my opinion”.

Your comment is a passive aggressive way of saying you disagree. I expect some people will disagree.

I’m one of those dangerous people not afraid to break rules, any rules, if it’s my judgement that the breaking the rule will lead to the better outcome for all involved. A lot of people don’t live that way and can’t fathom that kind of attitude. I don’t always make the right judgment call, but I’m not going to shirk the responsibility of making a judgment call, nor be afraid of making it. I’m willing to take responsibility for the consequences of my actions.

If you follow all the rules blindly, you are still a child.
IMHO, demo coders should be on the same level as other artists. In the same way that a painter uses a canvas, brushes and colors, or a sculptor uses a block of marble/wood and chisels, the same is true for a coder who uses a programming language and some computer hardware in order to create something pleasing to our senses without fulfilling an immediate practical need (i.e. art).

So many demos, groups, parties and people to mention, so head over to any of these sites:

https://www.scene.org/

https://www.pouet.net/

https://demozoo.org/

https://www.hornet.org/
> senseless

Maybe if the police didn't kill anybody none of this would have happened.

> direct assault on police

The citizens are showing exactly the same restraint of the police?

> and elected representatives

There's a joke that goes something like, "When did the French Revolution end? Soon!"
> “elite overproduction” is a major source of cultural instability

I'm ambivalent about Turchin's work, but there are corroborating theories on this; see the idea of "change merchants"[0], which posit that as more people (and especially more people with higher social rank and influence) deal in the virtual as opposed to the physical, there is an increasing amount of personal incentive on those involved to make sure that things change rapidly.

[0]: https://www.city-journal.org/article/change-merchants
One dynamic I experienced that also isn't in the simulation: if you focus too much on classwork early on in order to pass your RPE, it can actually be hard to find an advisor. Classwork is basically dead-end work and the more you focus on it the less you have to show for yourself when trying to convince an advisor to work with you. Your goal should be to optimize for doing just well enough to pass your classwork.

Also, random catalysmic events, like in year 4 your advisor accepts a job at a different university in another state.
The numbers I’m familiar with are: 120M rods and 6M cones (each eye). What’s the derivation for your number? Is it projecting the rod density at the fovea over the whole visual field?
Well for one, the article reads like a summary of Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, a book published in 1985.

This indicates that the book advertised by this article doesn't add anything original, novel or interesting to the world.
Any recommendations on specific web based tools for this?
> So little of the news is actionable, as the article points out. The only remotely actionable news for me is what’s happening in my local community; but the gradual demise of our local newspaper has made that difficult to track.

> Yes, the news - national and international- shows trends that an ordinary person could act on; but not in the rapid cycles that define modern news presentation. I believe Tyler Cowen once remarked we’d be better off reading far more history than about current events.

Honestly, I chafe a little bit at expecting the news to be "actionable" by a regular person, because I think there's some general value to being informed about your environment (especially in a democracy). However so much of modern news is neither, it's more akin to feelings-based political advertising. It's so bad that it's obvious even on the news pages of prestige outlines like the New York Times. I subscribe to their app, but I have to do a fair bit of eye rolling as I'm searching for informative things, and they're just making it harder. They've been pushing their "Opinion" section even more heavily: in the last few months they moved it up to the 2nd section after "Most Popular, knocking World News down to 3rd (or more accurately 3rd/4th since they've also stuck "Games" of all things in the 2nd slot).

One sad casualty of modern times is the weekly news magazine. The slower pace and longer deadlines meant they were much better at keeping a regular person informed without all the noise of daily updates. They were also more accurate than daily news, since they weren't as rushed they could do better fact checking and research.
I have a hard time following that logic. To me, the opposite seems true. It's a privilege to habitually consume media that has no direct bearing on one's day-to-day life.
> He does not suggest cutting communication during peaceful protests.

What I've witnessed first hand+ and some friends suffered++ is that "peaceful protest" is not a useful metric anymore. Police action is completely indiscriminate and overboard.

+ a dozen people walking back home together down a street, 6 vans chock full of police forces raced to them out of nowhere, swatted them with an entirely uncalled for volume of tear gas and rubber bullets with zero warning, grabbed a few and flew away.

++ they have been protesting peacefully, then gathered for a picnic in a park, sat in the middle of families and all, got tailed by police forces that told them in unfriendly terms to move away "or else", which they could not because they were surrounded and none would let them pass, then immediately proceeded to indiscriminately teargas the whole place on grounds of refusal to comply, grabbing a bunch of fleeing people.
> So little of the news is actionable

I think the news affects people's behaviors more than we realize. Although it tends to be around NOT doing something. Smoky air...don't go outside. Flight delays... don't fly anytime soon. Food shortages...think of a substitute. Submersible news...don't go in submersibles, beware of overconfident charismatic people, etc.
That won’t work, the best way to do that is to politely point out what you think is wrong. Having an aggressive or snarky tone will make people get defensive and not consider what you have to say even if you are right
Is suc scaleable? I didn’t see any discussion of managing conversations across a cluster of ssh-capable hosts and you’re not going to support more than a few thousand with a single ssh server.
UK’s leaky water model faces a growing storm
Not a native speaker, but my assumption is that we are trying to go easy on “guys”, “man” and “he”. It is not hard to say “they”, “person”, “people”.

Also, I cannot really explain really well, but it seems like there is a big difference saying “he” about just mythical person, and referring to a real person (whose gender you don’t know).
It's a far-reaching cultural staple. I know of at least one country today in South America which uses "-gate" the same way the U.S. does.
Um..."The author is all that matters" was not my point. Nor is it my belief. It is, at most, one link in a chain.
Here is how they are calculating the actual axis refinement [0]

const scoreWidth = (Astro.props.score - 33) * (100 / (100 - 33))

[0] https://github.com/withastro/astro.build/blob/main/src/pages...

> (Astro.props.score - 33) * (100 / (100 - 33))
Where did you learn to see it like that?
Last time, arguably that was years ago and hard numbers are really hard to come by, for the heavy lifting, as in no re-use of rockets and higher orbits, Ariane Space and SpaceX were not that far apart. Back of the envelope calculations so, so a lot of assumptions. That being said, the advertized prices are not what customers pay for specific missions.

Agree on the launch capability, that is something strategic. I just hope those European initiatives continue. And Ariane still got paying customers, so their prices cannot be that outrageous, can they?
For someone who is not caught up with the timeline of things, can someone explain why this is happening and was there anything recent that Elon or Twitter did that triggered this?
I can't speak for other industries but I know in tech, the college you went to is basically irrelevant 1-2 years into your career. Even if say you have someone that went to MIT and then went to work for Google, as a hiring manager I would want to know more about what they did at Google than at MIT.

I can really only think of two professions where your school matters: law and medicine. With Law I think it's the most important as it's crucial to your "personal brand" (A "Harvard trained" lawyer). With doctors it seems less important and with most other professions it seems almost irrelevant.
> the all serverless approach isn't even possible in general

It absolutely is. You can build an entire webapp that runs completely on top of HTTP trigger functions. We are doing this right now and it's a fantastic experience. We arent even using SPA crap anymore. Final, server-rendered HTML coming directly out of the functions. Traditional HTTP form submissions, etc. The only JS exists to facilitate certain UX and multimedia integrations.

If the FaaS solutions in the cloud are feeling complicated, you are 100% using them wrong. The entire point is to take all the traditional infrastructure complexity and dumpster it onto the cloud vendor. Trying to maintain control over all the tiny details is where you go off rails. You have to learn to let go if you want to understand why these ideas are so compelling. Combining actual cloud-native (aka 'locked-in') serverless with containerization ideologies is like mixing water & oil.

In my experience, you basically have to start a new company from zero if you want to explore these ideas correctly. The philosophies of different technology persons in the org will almost certainly ensure none of it goes correctly. There isn't a lot of room for an ego on the deck of a properly-architected FaaS app. So, back to the original point - maybe it isn't possible in general. But, not for the reasons you seem to indicate.

> aren't drop-in replacements for one another

This is like complaining that the concrete foundation of a structure cannot be easily substituted with another not-so-exact approximation that you found down the street. If you want proper serverless, you have to pick a vendor you trust and stick with them. Anything else is complexity circus.
Too much fun in the comments =)

I agree that newpipe is excellent, it's a wonder they still keep it going.
(Old man yells at cloud)
Actual demosceners would use PovRay, not 3DSMAX or they choose Borland IDE's over a turd like Visual C++.
Nihilist Software Engineering:

* No code runs faster than no code.

* No code has fewer bugs than no code.

* No code uses less memory than no code.

* No code is easier to understand than no code.

* No code is the best way to have secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.

* "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code." -- Ken Thompson

* "The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there." -- Gordon Bell

* "Deleted code is debugged code." -- Jeff Sickel
The UK conservative party suddenly realising they can no longer communicate privately with each other over the internet should cause them to understand the consequences of their bill.

Should — but based on what else this particular group have demonstrated about understanding cause and effect, won't.
I wanted to go into academia to do research and teach, so I went for a Ph.D. and got it in 4 years in computer engineering without much burnout or issue. I was always cheerful and enjoyed my journey. I did have a great advisor and while I was at a top-100 university, it was outside the USA and maybe that makes a difference.

You should really only go into a Ph.D. because you really want to, which sounds tautological but basically you need to want to go into academia or get the kind of industry R&D job that requires one (several of my graduating colleagues). If you're on the fence about doing Ph.D. - don't. There's a very real opportunity cost.
I feel the exact opposite and have been a Twitter user for about as long, starting when it was SMS-based.

Most posts I see now are flooded with replies from Only Fans girls. There are constantly tweets in my feed from guys I don't follow with greek or roman statue profile pics, posting about how western civilisation is in decline with 20-photo threads of European architecture or other really silly examples. Half of the promoted tweets I see (a significant portion of my feed now) are for "10 ways you need to us AI or be left behind!" or similar.

It's really low signal to noise for me, but I guess if you're looking for listicles on why western culture has been ruined by "cultural marxism" it's never been a better time to be on Twitter.

Examples:

- I encounter numerous account like this per day on my "For you" tab: https://twitter.com/aitoolreport/status/1671606160313696256

- this sort of thing is constantly in my feed (I don't follow these sort of meme accounts, but I can see why the algorithm might boost them now ): https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/167623162488173773...
SQL implemented in typescript types - https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
Also note some of the limitations with Lexical - e.g. you can't even drag and drop highlighted text within a block.
I would invoke "chicken and egg" here: are the leaders of this country in the Ivy League because they're from ruling families, or are they ruling because they went to Ivy League?

I suspect it's much more of the former than the latter. It's not that you have to go to an Ivy League school to run the country. Instead, the people born into the families that run the country have no reason not to go to Ivy League schools.

You have unlimited tuition money, and you're guaranteed to be accepted into Harvard since you have passably average grades and your legacy family donates to the school. Would you not go to Harvard?

Some prestigious companies hire mostly/only from Ivy Leagues, but ultimately those are mostly just upper-middle-class salary jobs (e.g., MBB consulting companies).
> In any case, we can definitely say that the map is skewed towards the cultural understanding at the time, mostly Euro-centric

Amusingly, this line commits the same "sin" of Euro-centrism. There was (nor is) no "the" cultural understanding - only "a" cultural understanding. This map, produced by a European culture, is naturally Euro-centric, just as Polynesian maps reflect Polynesian culture and views.
When Hunter S. Thompson wrote about the drugs our politicians were on, he wasn't completely fabricating. DC is high on prescription pharmaceuticals and the actual legislation is coming from lobbyists hired by people who are also highly medicated.

They don't care what the people want after campaign season is over, however they will back off from anything that generates genuine outcry, for a while, then they'll try it again later.
Show HN: Lemon AI – open-source Zapier NLA to empower agents
Hi HN, excited to share this open source Zapier NLA alternative I’ve been working on.

A few weeks ago I found myself struggling to automate a relatively straightforward internal workflow using an open source LLM (update Hubspot based on Airtable entry and personal information coming from web sources, and send out a summary via Slack). There was no way to interact with these tools in a robust way so I decided to build my own connectors.

While the existing connectors out there are helpful to reduce the risk of hallucinations by reading data from sources, agents only become truly powerful when they are able to reliably perform workflows for us. For this, my view is that a secure and robust way to execute write operations is needed.

Lemon AI allows for both read and write operations in various tools - even if you work with open source LLMs. It can be used in combination with Langchain and allows for easy integration with your existing agents.

I would love your feedback on what can be improved!
> This bill will make it so much easier for the next Wayne Couzens to find his perfect Sarah Everard

How so?
Pedantic and pointless.
Even if dogs were sensitive to Earth's magnetic field, why would they shit facing North/South? What would be the point?
Actually China seems to be ahead of their own plans and Chinese emissions might peak in 24 and decline from that point on as they are rolling out renewables at an astonishing pace.
One of the key parts of democracy is being able to vote people out. Think of any authoritarian country, and how much the people would love to get rid of some arsehole at the top. The US has managed to vote out presidents that have wanted to become dictators!
If you’re taking in data from
an external source that needs to be validated, I highly recommend a schema library like zod, that can produce a typescript type.

That way you can define the type in a single place, have runtime validation for that type, but also be able to use the type in typescript at compile time.
Everyone who's ever build on top of contenteditable has war stories, my first bash with it was about 19 years ago. But tools like Prosemirror and Lixical solve most of those issues and separate the content from the presentation. 99% of the time they do what you want, but that 1% is impossible (page breaks!). Personally I'm a fan of TipTap, it's a great abstraction over the lower level complexities of Prosemirror. The TipTap/ProseMirror/Yjs combination is insanely good for being able to build collaborative editing.

Amused by the nod to the Ladybird WASM idea at the end, I'm taking credit for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521878. Good ideas spread. (Joe, apologies for not getting back to your email, it's been a rather busy few months)
And yet you continue to say you can do the product manager's job. You can't.
It's quite unlikely that these local injustices appear in the news that you consume: local news are on life support, and everything else has a scope that massively surpassed your locality, whatever that might be.
AI Predicts Activity of RNA-Targeting CRISPR Tools
I for one welcome a future where (you can once again) sit in a coffee shop and watch peoples plaintext usernames and passwords travel over the ether followed by the plaintext content of their messages.
> I’ve seen this sentiment echoed a lot online and I suspect it comes from activists who wish to guilt trip those who aren't engrossed in their cause.

Exactly. There's almost nothing in the daily news that someone must have "privilege" not to care about. They have some articles about social issues that might fit that description, but that's a totally different thing than the news itself.
Not in this case, but in other cases. Though, claims wise I wouldn't want to be a part of Spencer Composites right now.
The benefits of OSS marketing sites. You can make a PR/issue and point directly at their sneaky code.
My understanding is that IoT devices are a big reason for Snap's existence.
I came across this example in the last week and it cracked me up: https://www.boredpanda.com/average-women-height-data-chart-l... (non-zero origin, but the graphics are zero'd to the axis)
I recently switched from a supposed 900 Mbps Comcast connection to FTTH, and the difference is astonishing. There's just no substitute for Fiber.
People get hurt when they become violent and police responds. Let's not turn the table.

In a democratic society people are free to peacefully demonstrate but that does not entitle them to policy change, that's what elections are for.

There's also a problem with the way people react in France, specifically. With the recent pension reform retirement age in France is still lower than the EU average and yet some people react like this is the end of the world and deserves a bona fide revolution. Why is that? IMHO there is a deeper resentment at play.
You forgot politics!
Your concern is the restraint against the police? When the riot is burning down the houses of innocents, robbing them and even taking their lives?

The kid's dead. Settle the issue with the police in court, but keep the innocents out of this. People are far too focused on what's already lost, while ignoring what's about to be lost.
It's the sense of crisis associated with it and the continuous drumbeat about it.

My Uncle Nick immigrated to the U.S. together with much of his family including his mother, his brother, cousins, etc. They wound up around Binghamton NY and did very well in this country as did their children.

Today he watches Fox News and it's breathless coverage of "chain migration" and doesn't make the connection that his family is a case of "chain migration"

Immigration is quite interesting because it's case where popular opinion is solidly to the right of both elite opinion and where elites think the public is

https://theconversation.com/politicians-believe-voters-to-be...

but also that people's support or lack of support for immigration is frequently the opposite of where their "bread is buttered". Somebody retired like Uncle Nick benefits from a growing labor pool which can help take care of them directly and also pays taxes and generates economic activity to support social programs and private pension plan values. People like that tend to hate immigration because they know they'll be dying in a world different than the one they were born in. On the other hand, young college-educated Americans are enthusiastic about it but if they thought critically about it they might conclude they're getting screwed because they're competing with people who can get a college education for much less than them. Overall politicians are constantly getting blindsided by the appeal anti-immigration policies have on people both when it is taken up by somebody like Donald Trump and when they drive support for parties like AfD and the Rassemblement National.

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Again, if you were trying to build an automated filter for pernicious "fake news" such a thing would wind up detecting emotional tones and structural motifs that are common to fake news as the process of "fact checking" is much more difficult as it involves comparing multiple sources and doing very problematic logical inference. If you held real news to the highest possible standard (e.g. in logical inference one bad apple ruins the whole batch) I think you'd find a very high fraction of articles are "wrong" in some way. Hateful, angry and hostile content is highly viral on platforms like Twitter and Mastodon and is harmful whether or not it is factually true.
your lead statement would still confuse a non-trivial amount of the general population.
https://lagomor.ph

Truthfully I spend more time tinkering with the layout and its features than I do writing but it's truly a very lovely project to always have to fall back on.

AS for other links regarding blogging, I highly recommend checking out the IndieWeb resources.

https://indieweb.org/
There were massive Twitter outages recently.

That said, the article is talking about 20 people who switched from Twitter. That’s not very many.
Ignorance is certainly bliss.

Living a naïve life of detached privilege is great fun, so long as you are surrounded by people to take care of the nasty details. Don't follow the news. Don't learn about environmental problems. Don't get angry at local businesses when they do bad things. Don't feel bad when a racist cop does something horrible. Don't vote. Don't enlist. Just passively consume and spend. Let other people keep the world from falling apart around you. Other people will guard the door as you watch cat videos.

The real joke is that 90% of the people I meet who "don't read the news" actually do. They have just turned off realworld news, mostly politics. They still know all about Hollywood and the latest fashion trends.