skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fun doing hypotheticals on this. I'd actually argue that 'perpetual' humans would be much less likely to explore the stars! Take, for instance, the people who recently died on the Titan. They knew they were taking a risk going on it. At least one of them had also recently flown on one of Bezos' rocket launches. Their mindset is really easy to understood, as it also happens to be my own.

They were looking to experience all that life could offer, because in the end - what's the worst that happens? Well you die, but you're going to die anyhow. And living a rich life, ended prematurely, seems infinitely more desirable than living a drawn out life, doing everything to minimize risk, where you die all the same but perhaps without having ever given yourself a chance to live.

But imagine those individuals could have reasonably expected they might be able to live forever. I expect there is exactly 0 chance they would have even considered going on that sub, in one of Bezos' rockets, or engaged in basically any activity with any possible risk whatsoever. Because suddenly what you're risking, your life, has literally infinite value unless you happen to be suicidal to begin with. And this would pose a major problem for society doing much of anything.

There's going to be a high rate of mortality for the first colonists on Mars because there's a zillion things that can go wrong, and we aren't going to be able to anticipate even a fraction of them. Who in the world would ever want to risk this if you could live forever?
I can't see on your features page whether you have a proprietary format and to which degree I can easily export my notes & data.

Evernote being a cautionary tale, I think you understand why no one would or should move their notes to closed system.

Being based on Markdown means notes are stored somewhere in the file system, like Obsidian?
I feel like these kind of questions will be explored more in the future when LLMs are more powerful. You could get some equivalent corpuses of different languages and train an LLM on each one and then see how capable is the resulting LLM of the respective language. Presumably if everything else is equal the language with more capable resulting LLM would be better in some sense, maybe this sense would be called 'expressive power' or maybe called another thing.
Those might work to some extent but keep in mind the model doesn’t have access to outside information, and it’s going to be nearly impossible to build a social graph given Twitter API limits.

IMO the easiest way to fine tune your model would be to use something like BERT embeddings fine tuned with triplet loss i.e. (example, positive, negative) to train the model to minimize distance between similar examples and maximize between dissimilar ones.
The parent issues around MPEG-4 had effectively zero influence on media tags in the HTML spec prior to HTML5. In the late 90s and the early 2000s it was the W3C's opinion that video and audio media was best left to plug-ins using an object tag. They were far more concerned about XHTML/DOM and related technologies than media support.

You're trying to draw a connection to unrelated issues. The MPEG-LA has a pretty clear licensing structure for h.264. Mobile SoCs with hardware h.264 decoders come with playback licenses just rolled into the cost of the decoder. Microsoft and Apple both shipped playback licenses. Adobe also had playback licenses for Flash because it supported h.264 in both FLV and MP4 containers. Only Firefox had any problem with h.264 licensing because they insisted on shipping their own decoder instead of just hooking into the OS' native decoder. That was a problem of their own making and was only really an issue on desktop Linux. The vast majority of people in the web have no need for concern of MPEG-LA licenses.

Even that is immaterial because the HTML5 video tag spec doesn't have a "must implement" codec specified. It readily supports references to multiple video sources based on what the browser/OS combination supports.

That still has nothing to do with issues around video delivery in browsers. Even YouTube didn't have HTML5-based playback until 2010 (for a limited amount of content). IE still had over 50% usage share of browsers so Flash-based video players were the most reliable means of video playback for most users.

Licensing of codecs just was not a limiting factor. Licensing for h.264 wasn't any more onerous than licensing for Sorensen Spark, VP6, WMV or Real Video video streaming sites were using before they started to adopt h.264.

It's fine to complain about software patents but don't conflate unrelated issues. MPEG-LA licensing didn't make the W3C ignore media playback for years. The MPEG-LA didn't affect IE's outsize influence on the web for a decade.
I see that the article says "will", but CEOs and their companies will square the circle every time they are drumming up publicity and impressing potential investors. If they have squared the circle it would be such a feat that there will be a press release talking about it in the past tense, not the progressive or the future.
Typo-O donor.
I've been (proudly) noting these elegant one-liners for ... 18 years now:

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

mysqldump -u mysql db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"

... but what is the equivalent command for SQLite ?

I see that there is a '.dump' command for use within the SQLite console but that wouldn't be suitable for pipelining ... is there not a standalone 'sqlitedump' binary ?
It's reached Wikitionary.[1]

We do need a word for reduction in quality for the purpose of increasing profits. For liquids and foodstuffs, the terms are "denatured" or "adulterated", and for solid materials "ersatz". None of those are applicable to services.

"Enshittification" captures the concept of reducing quality to increase profits not by reducing product cost, but by degrading the user experience to make the product more profitable. It's not the same as "quality fade", where the product keeps getting worse and the seller hopes no one will notice for a while.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
A Review of Threads by the Guardian
It was only coined in March!
Threads is definitely going to be dominated by friends and family. It already is, it’s just that and memes. Twitter is much closer to your Google+, and Threads in no way will be anything like that from what I’ve seen of it over the past few hours
On the same site, another author posted a rebuttal 11 days later:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...

> While it’s pragmatic and laudable to constantly monitor for any potential emergent effects, the overwhelming weight of the evidence to date does not support the hypothesis that our current cellular technology is carcinogenic. Even at higher exposures, there is no reputable indication of carcinogenicity. Long-term studies of radar workers do not show a hint of increased cancer incidence, despite the exceptional levels of RFR to which these subjects are exposed.

> [...] To put it in context, the weakest visible light is more than 17,000 times more energetic than the highest-energy 5G photon possible. Were they consistent, anti-5G activists should be orders of magnitude more concerned about light bulbs than cellular phones. The fact that they aren’t is indicative of a gross misunderstanding. The reality is that for [radio-frequency radiation], there is no known plausible biophysical mechanism of action for harm, nor does the combined weight of epidemiological data support this conjecture.
What about Syncthing ? It’s Dropbox like (you sync folders over different computers) but it’s totally P2P (so no cloud).
Though a billion does seem high, I'm happy with some of my tax dollars going to the CBC
Never had a FB account. Never used Whatsapp either.

I got bad vibes from Facebook from the very start, and steered clear.
It probably depends on what kind of insulation work needs to be done.

My parents' house in France is one of those hundred-year-old stone ones. It's fairly cool in the summer, but it gets quite cold in the winter. My father did the insulation work himself (he's not in construction) for fairly cheap and saw his gas bill halve.
In the old days, execs would decide what to build. They would decide amongst themselves, perhaps talking to the customer a bit (if there was one).

Next, the analysts would begin the requirements analysis. They would talk to their customers to ask things like "What would you like to see feature X do?", write up ERDs and DFDs, flowcharts and such, and then come up with a huge document listing all of the requirements of the software. At no point in this phase would an engineer or even the prospective user of the software be consulted.

As an aside, UML wasn't really a thing yet, and mock-ups were rare. Information would just be crammed into an available space on the screen or perforated printout.

Next, the architects come together to decide upon technologies and the overall shape of the software. This was done in a vacuum, with no input other than the requirements document.

Next, the systems guys would decide how the rubber hits the road, injecting their requirements for the system this will run on.

Next, the programmers would implement what the previous guys had output in their documents.

Once all that was done, the testers would come in, use the software and compare to the requirements.

Then the software would be shipped to the customer.

Note that nobody lower would communicate directly with anyone higher in the waterfall.

If at any point in this process something was found to be horribly off, you would decide whether to conceal it to stay on target, or to raise an issue. Once an issue is raised, you go back up the waterfall until it reaches the person responsible for that thing, and then the documentation process adjusts as it trickles down the waterfall (this usually takes a couple of weeks) before you continue where you left off.

The main issue is the lack of communication. Those higher up rarely have any interaction with those lower down. The company has very little contact with the customer, other than to ask questions and then write requirements full of biases and assumptions. There's high pressure to stay the course and not change when the product doesn't satisfy because that would lose money. This is why the customer was asked to sign off on each phase of the waterfall (containing thousands of pages he didn't understand).

And the thing is, this worked (in the sense that software houses made money, not that customers got anything wonderful) because everybody did it.

The changes since then are not only agility (although those are huge wins). There's also MUCH better communication - keeping everyone in the loop (including the customer), observation-based analysis (watching the user actually do things in their day-to-day as an input to requirements, and a discussion springboard for innovation), a/b testing, automated testing, continuous deployment, ticketing systems, UX, etc. All the good stuff that we just take for granted now.

The "agile" manifesto was a good catalyst to modernize software engineering, but it's not an endpoint, and rigid adherence to an ideology is what caused all the mess in the first place.
Now watch Citadel do the same, but properly, with their new crypto exchange (and also with the entire US stock market).
Can we call it "Good Practices" instead, and make sure they qualify when they apply? Practices are rarely the best in all cases, and often change over time.
Once every business can one line invoke an LLM to sufficiently create apps, assuming we reach that stage (possible), isn't that going to kill 90% of VC B2B SaaS especially the YC style round robin of funding each other without generating actual value? Think the CEO's SWEs are the least of his concerns.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I just place mine to the right side of my laptop and use it like normal. It feels natural and is what I'm used to at my desk, and lets me sorta position my display wherever feels right while I work.

It's not ideal, I guess, but the trackpad barely takes up space in my daily carry and is always charged at my desk. If I'm headed out for a longer productivity session, sometimes I'll toss it in my bag just to work a little more comfortably.
Exactly. I'm OneNote user for last 15 years or so. I got roped it in because it was free and good enough for my text notes (with image and PDF attachments).

I transitioned to MacOS 10 years back.. and lo behold, free OneNote application available there too with free cloud storage (OneDrive) and cross device sync story (mobile, Windows). Works great.
Injunction forbidding officials from communicating with social media on content
I cringe everytime I'm forced to use perforce for work. Every action is more convoluted, slow and painful compared to git. Perforce might be great for binary files and non-technical users. But there is absolutely no reason to choose it over git when working with source code.
I think you are right (although I now wish I had not abandoned my old account). However, I have always felt that karma systems are too biased towards old users who had more time to accumulate karma. If only the karma system had some "aging" of results built in, like the tennis ranking system.

And I am only partially saying that because I have a new account here.
>Take a good look at your hands. I want you to admire them for a moment. The dexterity of the fingers, the sensitivity of the tips and the palms. Trace the muscles in each with your other hand, noticing how the ones in your fapping hand seem a little bit bigger and meatier. Think of all the wonderful things you use them for - pulling a trigger, petting a kitty, warming your girlfriend up for sexytimes, pimp-slapping a distinguished urban gentleman, holding your slippery dragon dildo.

>Do you want to keep those hands? Then read this section very fucking carefully

Parts of this are poetry approaching that of Ignition!: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ignition-john-d-clark/11031...
hehe. Im sure the xkcd guy is happy to have your approval, random internet person.
I dont pretend that Twitter is not censored, but Facebook censorship is far more intrusive, random and puritanic. This is not about some political views, but I just practically dont see how platform like this can succeed.

After all Instagram and Twitter have really different audiences for a reason.
Rebuttal
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...
“every spreadsheet is an app waiting to be born” or something.

But seriously; I love working in a csv to start and then just parsing it into whatever go or rust or Python I’m working with when it comes times to scale it up further. A lot of MVPs would be better suited as a Google sheet shared between customers or friends.
Looks like it's nuanced but the same set of considerations apply (ie whether people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a given context and whether or not they have consented). https://uni24.co.za/are-you-allowed-to-record-someone-in-sou...
Ironically universities have already found a way to defeat that behavior, too:

At some places, advisors now also consider a list of students ranked by grades. I have seen advisorship being offered only to the top student in the Professor's class.

If you lack ex-ante information how and where your grade rank matters in a year, this just adds a fun new challenge to the first year PhD!
I moved to Standard Notes a while ago. I like free things for basic things like notes, but was happy to pay for E2E Encryption to support what they were up to. I think I got a 5 year licence for $150 which was not outrageous. I just looked up their current prices - $80 a year which means I'll migrate back to Joplin soon.
Just start numbering your list with 0 instead of 1 and you'll have solved the last one.
Why would an American talking on an American phone service lack protection provided by American laws?
BofA had a online tool (Flash based I think) to generate and manage virtual CC numbers linked to your real card.

When Flash was sunset -- they gave a BS reasoning and shutdown this tool as well whithout making an effort to rebuild / replace.

I am surprised there was no big backlash from customers given the increasing online fraud and privacy/security consciousness of banking users.

Which (US) banks currently offer this virtual CC feature? I am a customer of three big banks/CC and none of them have this.
love the simplicity and UI, gonna add to my bookmark now

edit: spending more time on the site, i kinda wish the sites are tagged. from the original thread there was a site that someone wrote about <plants> which i find pretty cool. if i get "get a random blog" from the tags i like, that might be more relevant. i understand that this is going to be a difficult ask since you're largely dealing with unstructured data here
https://ali.af Adding mine to the list here :-)
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1. Being able to take a problem, break it down into progressively smaller chunks and methodically work through it. This often looks like binary search (eg. When trying to understand how a codebase works or debug an incident).
2. Being able to decide what detail is unimportant and what’s worth focusing on to work on whatever the current goal is.

3. Being able to use version control. Having the confidence that my work cannot be lost was a big boost.

4. Having some understanding of what non-developer stakeholders care about.
Funny timing, as I just described Duolingo's recent trajectory as being an example of "enshittification" to someone who was angry that they have to do even more "quests" this month than any previous one, to earn the monthly badge (merely a fun thing on your profile to look back on). Gotta drive that engagement and keep users in-app as long as possible...
There's probably a business model around refurbishing the "core" of the car seat. Take it back, run it through a CMM to make sure it's not been in any again impacts, then resell as a refurb or 2nd life unit with new padding and absorb the liability. A $600-$700 upcycled unit would be appealing. Or offer re-certification as a service. CSaaS
Nah your stuff came across as blind tolerance which is just pointless unconstructive and solely to placate people's feelings (in such instances unjustifiable/irrational).

Just because Joe or Judy "feels" a certain way doesn't mean it should actually have bearing on anything. Really...

Enough placating those with the least logic and self control.
So if you add "EVAL_AS_Y{ ... }" core primitive into X, it becomes strictly more expressive as Y until you add "EVAL_AS_X { ... }" to Y: then they become exactly as exressive as each other.
+1 on all of the above.

I'll be at camp as well and happy to meet up. Contact link in bio.
Have you tried Obsidian?

3 days ago one of the obsidian makers posted this: https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792

Key quote:

"These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last."

Seems to align with your philosophy
> 10 days from now

> 3 weeks from now

lol
Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: prefer on site or hybrid but willing to do remote

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Java, C++, Ruby on Rails, Vue, MySQL, React

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Email: jackie@benincosa.com

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It's not common in the same sense. First of all, tools are very different from software products. And there is never the same level of analogy that one has to do in software.

Imagine buying a hammer, that hammer not working, the hammer's design being so complicated that it's impossible to understand or mend, and then having to design and build your own hammer, and then putting up with that situation over and over again and accepting that as the status quo. That would be the correct analogy.
I'm loving your scope, any plans to (say) add support for 'at home' garden shed cameras to add to the global fireballs network ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network

https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/

https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005SASS...24...11K
Failure is a great teacher, but it is not the only teacher
This can be used to create the world's largest rainbow table though.

If we're already into unlikely conspiracy uses of crypto, this could have been an NSA Sigint@Home endeavour
Gizmodo publishes its first story written by AI
I disagree. They were such a great door into escapism and friendship for me, a standard guy from a small town in Italy with no metal friends at all until the internet came about.
Forums in particular provided the opportunity of meeting people with very different backgrounds sharing similar music tastes, and it was also fun to argue about silly things like what is true and not true metal and getting banned by mods.
I built amazing memories of road trips together, motorcycles, seeing bands and meeting each other somewhere basically every weekend.
Not to say that what you experienced is not true, but it’s not the case for every forum out there for sure.
Also, what made metalheads special was their status as a total outcasts of society, of course we were very much an insular culture. I miss the group spirit, the “family” side of all of this amazing subculture.
Would you explain why the XKCD was like this as well? Or provide some examples please?
Context,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36557632

https://futurism.com/gizmodo-kotaku-staff-furious-ai-content
https://archive.is/H3LNT
I think that’s mostly understood. It’s up there with “JS was implemented in a week.” Yet in both cases, the skeleton defined the rest of the animal; git and JS are still recognizable from that initial version, even if the diff is massive.

Maintainers should get more credit, but the hero worship isn’t entirely misplaced. It’s not often that someone gets to change the world.
On Windows, as part of PowerToys - there is a Text extractor. Works just like the screenshot tool except dumps text to clipboard
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/text-ext...
I highly doubt that a mining operation finds it acceptable that tools that they have purchased show up broken, undocumented, and unsupported.
can i show my tits there or can i not?
to me potential killer app is the search, you already now can find better answers fast in many verticals asking chatgpt than going through the tons of seo spam at google.
https://hlfshell.ai

Just got back into blogging.

I plan to post project work, mostly focused on AI and robotics with occasional other posts.
You can pass console commands as arguments:

sqlite3 /path/to/db.sqlite .dump
My general idea on asking this question, is how to answer the questions:

- How to add comments to my blog post ? => Just add a link to your blog post here.

- How to upvote on a blog / blog article ? => Just use HN.

- How to aggregate for facilitate search/categorization ? => There's a site here. Because Google Search sucked so hard now.

- In case of LLM feeding, you own your own policies and privacy on your own data.

Thanks you for joining.
Or maybe thanks to this strong moderation, not despite it.
Elon Musk needs payments to make Twitter an ‘everything app’