skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use spreadsheets but not for content. Not only is it not guaranteed to be available before the design starts, but "design" is much more than just making the UI look nice. Also, applications (which is what I tend to work on) are much more than content.

My method is meant to expose the business rules. I start out with a single column, and I list every "rule" of the application. So something like "A user cannot export their dashboard without a premium account". Once I have a complete list, I go back and tease out any significant nouns and verbs.

So given the sentence "A user cannot export their dashboard without a premium account", the significant terms are "user", "export", "dashboard", and "premium account".

For each of these terms, I create a separate checkbox column and mark the checkbox if the rule applies to that term.

Once you've done this with enough rules, you'll start to see your domain model form. It exposes all sorts of inconsistencies in your rules and forces you to be very clear about how the application is expected to behave. It also forces you to clarify your language because there will be multiple terms that refer to the same concept, and part of the process is removing these duplications.

It's a great way to get clarity around your product before you start building out the experience.
Veritas wasn't the problem here. The problem here is that Democrats basically accepted the narrative because it was politically convenient at the time, even as everybody knew exactly what had happened. Didn't matter.

While ACORN was a heavily Democratic organization, it wasn't a party front like so many nonprofits have become. Democrats that didn't do anything for people had trouble with ACORN, and they were glad to get rid of them. Democratic congresspeople eventually joined in, and their outlets ran cover for them destroying a grassroots community organization. Definitely one of the largest in the country of that type, if not in the history of the modern US.

Blaming it on O'Keefe is easy. I wish Democrats would stop using their failures as explicit justifications for limitations on civil liberties.
French parliament approves camera and microphone remote activation
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36240885

The bill, which allows authorities to remotely access microphones and cameras on devices without the target's knowledge, has now been fully adopted after passing in the National Assembly this Wednesday. The measure is said to be reserved for cases of terrorism, organized crime and other crime (délinquance).
For anybody wondering, the AC in these buildings can become very cold, so it’s quite an efficient system. I kind of liken it to NYC’s shared steam .
If you have an apple card, just change your number.
Is it me or does this sounds like a fools errand? You are building something that will prevent a yet does not exist system to prevent a risk by such a system
The worst example of curriculum dead wood?
I am really still trying to figure out what the problem is with Twitter...
It depends on your frame of reference.
You kid yourself if you don't think people will hook them up to bipedal robots with internal batteries as soon as they can.

I guess we could shoot it, and your gonna be like boooooooo that's terminator or irobot, but what if we make millions and they they decide they no longer like humans.

They could very well be much smarter then us by then.
Pipes are not temp files, they’re more like kernel buffers associated with no file. When I think of temp file, I think of something that is at least associated with a filesystem.

The reason that running a binary needs a file is because execve() takes a path as an argument. But, as you said, there are other ways to load code into memory.
Are they as good as he mentioned?
I'll save you a click and spoil the answer: he's a dumbass who thinks he's smarter than the FDA because he's rich.
Yeah I was thinking this kind of ban only passed because too many government officials were being caught saying some shit on tape and once it is illegal to have recorded it then it’s no longer valid evidence.
At this point it feels like the only thing that can stop Meta shittifying the web even more is the EU launching an anti-competitive measure against them.
Surprisingly, most states (39) are one party consent: https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/one-party-consent-state...
I work in the HVAC industry and "heat pump" in the context of A/C units exclusively refers to models that cool and heat by reversing the refrigerant flow.
The only thought I had while reading this post was: "Obviously?"
Instagram comments are not very good and rarely create a discussion, if that's what they're extrapolating it's going to the Meta-Graveyard pretty quickly.
I stopped using smartphones when Android stopped supporting a phone recording software.
Even for something like HDPE? I did a project a while ago that was effectively a pontoon workboat. We used HDPE pontoons in lieu of stainless steel and the cost savings was about 25%. I assume that the raw materials (basically large diameter HDPE pipe) and plastic welding tools were just that much cheaper/easier.

I was interested in doing a new HDPE product development on my own, but I'm a bit nervous this is a deep tooling rabbit hole.
Consider: these are the engagement numbers for the now-defunct Google Plus.

In 2011, Google+ had 10 million users two weeks after the launch.[14] In a month, it had 25 million.[15] In October 2011, the service had 40 million users, according to Larry Page.[16] At the end of 2011, Google+ had 90 million users.[17] In October 2013, approximately 540 million monthly active users used the social layer by interacting with Google+'s enhanced properties, such as Gmail, the +1 button, and YouTube comments.[18] Some 300 million monthly active users participated in the social network by interacting with the Google+ social-networking stream. According to ComScore, the biggest market was the United States followed by India.
For anyone who may not be aware, Apple Notes can import Evernote .enex files. The process was mostly painless, and I’m glad to be rid of the Evernote dependency.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205793
Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for using git? Is it to get a history of notes or just for sync? If it's the latter, I believe obsidian has a paid offering for that, or one can MacGyver it with syncthing.
I cherish the fact that I got my Twitter account in 2009 and thus have my actual name "danielvaughn" as my handle. It's gonna take something really special to pull me away from Twitter, much as I dislike the direction it's going in. Threads is not special enough to pull me away.
Can you please clarify whether this is a joke?
Yes. You can load the decompressed code into memory, mprotect() it to give it execution permissions, then jump in. Hard to do in a shell, though.
There are numbers greater than 2, and colors between black and white.
To be honest, I do not see the issues with allowing Veritas to record under existing 1 party consent state laws.

Their behavior amounts to various other crimes such as libel, fraud, etc. Use those laws to punish their bad behavior.
LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens
Both in programming 10+ years ago and in painting ~2 years ago did the same way; I didn't need "confidence" since for long time initially I was just playing.

Follow a bit some tutorials, then play around with code, try to make something, its ugly AF so keep trying until it's no longer horrible. Rinse and repeat.

How to know when you are "a skilled craftman"? As long as you look back 6~12 months and think "that was ugly! I'd do it differently today" you are learning (good!). Otherwise you have become a skilled craftman (also good!) or are stuck, but at least in my case it was obvious when I was actually stuck and not improving.

Note: this "playful learning" didn't work for me with learning a language (prob need a base good enough to just keep the ball rolling) nor with piano (probably because painting is satisfactory from the first stroke, but piano is only after you can actually play stuff).
At the risk of I told you so, it was always a stupid idea.

Any service like this that "requires the cloud," but is personal or individual and could be replaced by completely non-cloud software WILL go obsolete.

Obsidian, et al understand this.
Bad incentives, broken promises, pay-to-play, often broken app, weird decisions made and reverted with dubious reasons ...
I've recently had two engineers assigned to help me. I feel the same as you - I know a lot of my work is trash (for good reason, but still - not code to be proud of), and it is also true that I forgot just how many varied skills I had to acquire to be able to do the work I do.

> There's always going to be more things to learn, but looking back every once in a while can put things in perspective a bit.

Well said! Thank you for reminding me of this.
Just speaking from personal experience. The methods that I observed are very modern and very efficient. The parts for the entire building are pre-fabricated and then assembled at the construction site. So the stagnation narrative is more than likely overblown and the folks that think things are slower now should visit some of those Truebeck construction sites and observe for themselves.
how big of a pain point is this?
People are bad at imagining something a lot smarter than themselves. They think of some smart person they know, they don’t think of themselves compared to a chimp or even bacteria.

An unaligned superintelligent AGI in pursuit of some goal that happens to satisfy its reward, but might be an otherwise a dumb or pointless goal (paperclips) will still play to win. You can’t predict exactly what move AlphaGO will make in the Go game (if you could you’d be able to beat it), but you can still predict it will win.

It’s amusing to me when people claim they will control the superintelligent thing, how often in nature is something more intelligent controlled by something magnitudes less intelligent?

The comments here are typical and show most people haven’t read the existing arguments in any depth or have thought about it rigorously at all.

All of this looks pretty bad for us, but at least Open AI and most others at the front of this do understand the arguments and don’t have the same dumb dismissals (LeCun excepted).

Unfortunately unless we’re lucky or alignment ends up being easier than it looks, the default outcome is failure and it’s hard to see how the failure isn’t total.
That price is absurd. Quoting an equivalent sized commercial installation from my company with union labor would be half that.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitt...
Especially when it was a C++ application, not C#.
And while it might feel counterintuitive how obvious a good idea it is, it becomes a lot more intuitive when you consider the contrary implications. You can not only be a party to something without being able to demonstrate what you observed, but you can be a party to something where any convincing accusation about your own involvement is equally compelling to your own recount by default. Even if you don’t realize you’re a party to anything in particular.

Being able to record your own experience is a matter of basic autonomy and self defense. Being denied it is a gift to anyone with the power or motivation to exploit that.

Edit: I didn’t even look at who was involved in the case. I am not remotely surprised to find the ruling favors political opponents, and I’m not swayed by that either. If anything, it’s better for everyone if PV has to play by the same rules as anyone they’re interacting with.
We are actually the people training the AI. It won't "derive values" itself for the case of terminal values (instrumental values are just subgoals, and some of them are convergent, like power seeking and not wanting to be turned off). Just like we didn't derive our terminal values ourselves, it was evolution, a mindless process. The difficulty is how to give the AI the right values.
I know it’s easy to be critical, but I want to provide feedback. That placement into the base looks difficult and frustrating.

I see two main issues.

1. That clearly requires the installer to apply non-trivial force to lock it into place. Beyond it being awkward, a Graco Keyfit is a drop in, no force install. Amazing.

2. In most vehicles, fire-aft distance is a huge, limiting factor. It seems difficult, if not impossible to tell if the seat has latched into the correct position, without additional tilt. The Keyfit base makes this obvious since it will not latch into place at incorrect angles.
Systems, math and explosions (in no particular order)
Systems in particular are prone to “blowing up” if they get too big. And that’s because systems aren’t just the sum of its pieces, but also the interconnection of pieces.
Way cool. Just added this to my Christmas wishlist.

As a non-techy nerd it’s a perfect niche with built in usage and no need to hack. Thank you for posting.
Evernote lost my note when I tapped on an email notification in Android in ~2011. Nevernote for me ever since. How. in. the. heck. do you call it Evernote if it loses your note when changing apps?!
Seems like serious overstatement to say "[Project Veritas] brought down the biggest international collectivist organization on the planet" if you're referring to [the national US branch of] ACORN.

They did cause the national US ACORN organization to be dissolved [0], but individual US state orgs (CA, NY etc.) continue [1], new organizations such as the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action, and non-US orgs continue unaffected.

I don't even know that ACORN was the "biggest international collectivist organization on the planet", certainly not one very cohesive organization.

As to "This whole case is about people recording each other in private", it's not about mere random invasion of privacy or prurience, O'Keefe/Veritas did try to claim a public-interest journalistic defense.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ACORN_in_the_United...
Right. I'll also note that this strategy probably assumes something about the search task itself, and may not work for all possible search operations. Think about what happens when your haystack is GBs big for example.
You can't cold start like that. There has to be something when you open the app or it's DOA.
The app size is somewhere around 497MB. Crazy.
It feels exactly like the explore feed on instagram, but textual. Perhaps a little too early to call it but that's already a little off putting.
I have obsidian on my iphone, ipad, and windows desktop all synced across devices to a single private github repo. You do not have to use the git plugin. I use Working Copy app on ios devices and the free github desktop on Windows 10.

If you want multiple workspaces, you can create a separate vault that is backed by a different private github repo.
You don't even need to macguyver really. There may be some potential conflict issues, but you could probably put the obsidian vault directory inside of dropbox, apple cloud, etc (I'm doing this with apple cloud, but I really only use one device)

Maybe a little bit of Macguyvering to add backups is a good idea
Today when creating a new next app, you get this:

> Would you like to use App Router? (recommended)

It seems like users shouldn't yet be funnelled by default into using RSC.
Won't block Threads? Oh god.
That's called price discrimination and almost all successful businesses do it.
Have language X implement language Y and vice-versa?
Mostly SQL related posts

https://medium.com/full-stack-architecture
Facebook minus all your annoying boomer parents/relatives (who have no idea what Instagram is or how to install an app) and their political posts and screeds sounds amazing.
Can’t view anything unless you sign up for an account. Even with an account you are rated limited in the number of posts you can view. Darn thing seems to be falling apart. No better timing to launch competitor.
At least in this case they have confirmed[0] that it will intern with the fediverse, which makes it difference from other social network launches in the past.

[0]: copy/past from threads.net:
"Soon, you'll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find people on Threads using full usernames, like @username@threads.net."
Even OpenBSD has better wifi support. I'm able to use the WLAN adapter in my Pi 3 with OpenBSD, but it doesn't work in FreeBSD.
Great strategy: start off with a horrible first impression, then promise it gets better. It's like sex with someone who comes in 10 seconds.
You could make it so you have to have your blog in your HN profile and have a karma of at least $x to reduce spam.
> The same thing happened in Australia and as soon as Facebook blocked links they cried uncle.

Australia didn't blink, Google and Meta did .. after that brief shutdown of Facebook news feeds in the country, both Google and Facebook agreed to pay:

Since the News Media Bargaining Code took effect, the tech firms had inked more than 30 deals with media outlets compensating them for content which generated clicks and advertising dollars, said the Treasury department report, published late Thursday.

"At least some of these agreements have enabled news businesses to, in particular, employ additional journalists and make other valuable investments to assist their operations," said the report.

"While views on the success or otherwise of the Code will invariably differ, we consider it is reasonable to conclude that the Code has been a success to date."

Australia says law making Facebook and Google pay for news has worked

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-says-law-making...

Australia pressured Google and Facebook to pay for journalism. Is America next?

https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/australia-pressured-goo...

The legislation, known as the News Media Bargaining Code, has enabled Australian news organizations to extract more than $200 million (almost $150 million US) in the year since it went into effect.

As a result, the public Australian Broadcasting Corporation can place at least fifty new journalists in underserved parts of the country, while the McPherson Media Group, which publishes such papers as the Yarrawonga Chronicle and the Deniliquin Pastoral Times, expects tech money to fund up to 30 percent of editorial salaries.

> Maybe if these news articles actually did research rather than focusing on clickbait headlines they would have learned about that.

Perhaps if certain HN commenters did research they would not be making false statements.
I remember getting access to Google+ first in my group of friends. I was up late and got in at like 1am. Nobody else was there. It was an absolute ghost town. No content anywhere. I thought, "wow I should treasure this moment. Soon and for the rest of time G+ will be filled with content!"
I wonder if market manipulation is statistically higher during highs of hype cycles? or is it just always happening?

> Faking volume allowed the site to climb in the rankings on these sites, which exposed it to a greater audience of people, and, ultimately, more customers. Because the site had large volume numbers, potential customers immediately thought that it was legitimate.

It makes me wonder what is happening right now in the AI hype cycle, specifically with regards to faking legitimacy, that we'll look back on as being simple manipulation in 1-2 years time
In general, SCOTUS wouldn't tend to pick this up unless another circuit has ruled the other way (in which case, yeah, they generally would to prevent unequal application of the law in different states).
Another big fan of Lee Valley. A good example of a company that doesn’t need to go public or appease VC and appears to be focused more on quality rather than quantity. I hope it always stays that way.
I had an entire implementation that used a proper state machine but I couldn’t get it simple and small enough for this single file thing. The regexp chain is dumb but clear.
Elon watching $44B go up in flames
https://savraj.co/blog.html
This was added recently, and is not enforced as far as I can tell.

See my blog post: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2023/chatgpt-plugin-vul...
obsidian is worth looking at imo
Ish. It’s usually more useful to test hypotheses about why something is. If that something isn’t then you can’t get an answer & will often demonstrate the counter-factual.

Simple “we confirmed water is wet” tests are not very good science. Whereas “what is wetness & why does it happen” is.
110 Mb so far. In just a few months, HN will be full of comments praising the original version of the app for being so much snappier compared to whatever they have then.
As someone who's used Metallic for ~15 years now it's one of those rare gems on the web — stable, basically unchanged technically and full of invaluable information for the loyal audience it's accumulated.
I was surprised to see the invitation to follow all my Instagram friends. Now I’m getting follow requests for my friends.

I use Instagram to network with friends “outside of work” and largely outside of the political sphere, and scroll through memes and silly content. It’s kind of like “friends + America’s funniest home videos”.

Twitter is all about politics, current events, thought influencers, and work networking. Totally different sphere. I don’t want to share silly stuff with friends on Twitter, or share work and my thoughts about current events and my industry on Instagram. Not to mention that my Instagram account, as well as virtually all of by friends’ accounts, are private.

I feel like by inviting people to follow their Instagram friends, Meta immediately precluded “taking on Twitter.”
Maybe they changed their stance? I found a support article from google on how to record calls: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9803950

iPhone is (unsurprisingly) more “locked down” as in you can’t record with the default phone app but they don’t block phone recording apps from their app store either which is better than nothing considering the (foolish) stance apple could take here.
>Banning recording private conversations without consent by one of the conversation members was always weird to me because of the “chilling effect” it has in people’s minds about recording perfectly legal things, or potential criminal behavior

I've never liked or thought 2-party consent requirements made sense because it felt like an extremely overly broad restriction on our own potential memories, discrimination based on mental ability, and with negative implication for future prosthetics. Like, why should someone with a photographic memory inherently have a right to have better recollection of their own personal interactions then someone with memory loss problems who wants to use a life log so they can go back over the day later? What about future implants and such? I'd much prefer if the law was more fine grained and focused on the negative edges. Like, perhaps consent would be required for sharing with the general public in cases not of public interest (in the legally defined sense), or that if one wanted to share any snippets the other party could demand the complete recording be shared as well. Or there could be technical requirements, like all future recording hardware must time stamp and cryptographically sign each frame so that any alteration is trivial to detect. Basically go after worries of "cherry picking" specifically. There could be specific protections for highly sensitive conversations like medical, or to address power imbalances (clients/customers/patients vs service providers).

But giving any party to a conversation a total universal veto over anyone else having a personal record by default never felt right and I'm glad I don't live in one of those states. After all, everyone can (and does!) demand NDAs or the like as they wish.