skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pipe dream, do you really believe trump’s obsession with military might was just going to end at having parades with tanks and fighter jets? Kennedy so far looks like yet another extremely cynical manipulator.

Populists politicians love war because they always over promise and under deliver, and war is the ultimate distractor and rallying cry.

No one wanted this war other than Putin.
It's not about understanding, it's about seeing these sort of rules bent dozens of times first and then finally doing it yourself. Rules are only as strong as their enforcement and in many cases it turns out that no-one has neither the incentive nor the ability to enforce them very hard.
Your comment is greyed out as if it was downvoted a bit, which seems quite bizarre to me.

I think we’re pretty clearly talking about a small number of contrary data points, here? I’m not trying to prove a general trend at least, just point out that we should at least double check the assumption that expensive implies shared.

If someone is really invested in that idea I’d love to see an argument for it, rather than silent downvotes.
Climate change is a problem.

Bret Victor did a good subdivision into sub-problems for a technologist here - which probably suits this audience:

http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange
(Rustc does know what crates are. You pass a crate root to rustc. You pass —extern to point at other crates. Rustc has no notion of packages.)
They're going for the same approach they always do. You don't need word-of-mouth if you have every product placement slot.

People won't get hyped on the Vision Pro by their best friend, they'll get hyped on it by their favourite YouTuber.
Definitely, not Spain
> The state of climate will not have a direct effect on your life, the span of years you are alive. Not to a significant degree.

The state of the climate already has a direct effect on my life by making summers way hotter than normal. I hate the warm temperatures over weeks, and my grandparents literally haven't known these kinds of summers until the last couple of years. This wouldn't have shifted so fast if it was just the exit of the ice age.

And that's just me disliking warmth. There are people living in areas that now literally are getting too hot for humans, which they weren't previously. There are people living through catastrophes which most likely would have been less severe if not for climate change.

> It can have an indirect effect on your life by the introduction of harmful regressive policies designed to "account" for a changing climate and assign blame to everyday people.

It's having a worse effect just by itself!

> Everyday people do not cause any of the drivers of climate change. Large corporations, governments and militaries do cause these drivers.

And to work towards that fact you spread climate change denial in the form of "we're just exiting an ice age"?

> So what I'm adding here is sense.

You're adding lies.
I love how the comments have coalesced to discussing the fieggen website, ignoring bigthink.
i fully understand and appreciate the distinctions, and equivocations, you're describing here. i also agree with you that the best "stuff" acknowledges and maximizes both left- and right-brained parameters

my point is less about these abstract concepts, and more about the perspectives that human beings have when engaging with this "stuff"

concretely -- when i'm playing a musical instrument, my brain is in a mode that is completely different than, and totally incompatible with, the mode my brain is in when i'm writing a program, or working on a math problem

it's one or the other

why's book reads to me as a "playing an instrument" perspective on a "writing a program" problem, which doesn't work for me, at all -- personally!

other people, it works, i get that
Apple probably wants to tap into the "Apple Watch Edition" crowd that will spend absurd money for the exclusivity and not complain much.
Not that this would justify it, but I'm curious if it even works.

Like most other things companies do in the hiring process (e.g. endless redundant interviewing rounds, ridiculous culture fit questions) -- or the stuff they do in their day-to-day work ("Agile") -- it doesn't need to actually "work" for it to be widely adopted.

It just needs to appear to work, and to give off a warm, buzzy feeling.
I don't want GDPR. I want two things.

No sale of personal (even unidentifiable) data without consent coupled with no punishment for not consenting and a requirement of explicit affirmative consent.

Deletion of data upon request.

As a bonus third, retrieval of data on request.

I want those in that priority. I'd be pretty happy with just the first one.
> So we're gonna be stuck writing a precambrian prototype language till the end of time because there's so much legacy code already written in it?

Yes. Unless somebody steps up and rewrites everything in Rust or Lisp or whatever, that's exactly what's going to happen. Lack of backwards compatibility with existing software will condemn programming languages to irrelevance on day one.
Huh? What are you saying?
- Figuring out how to build resilient, long-lasting kinship structures capable of surviving reduced state and market capacity. This means comms platforms that are encrypted, easy to set up and use, decentralized, and safe.

- Novel food sources (we just had the four hottest days on record, in succession)

- Adversarial health care (e.g. getting an abortion in a dominionist state)
Paywall less link?

Happy to pay $1 for article but absolutely won’t get into a subscription. Unsubscribing from NY times is a nightmare.
I propose a system of statutory damages for offering to sell personal information, similar to those imposed for sharing copyrighted music recordings. This might create an industry of bounty hunters who track down violators, for a percentage of the damages.
Just read Nothing to Envy myself and one important point is that that work is from almost two decades ago at this point. With the advent of computerized surveillance, it is understandable that the difficulty has increased. A country such as China, it’s probably quite easy for the surveillance systems to loop in a human any time that an unknown face crops up. Paired with the pronounced physical and cultural differences between North Koreans and an other people in the world, it’s probably easy to guess when someone is attempting to escape from NK.

Does anyone have book recommendations for modern insight into NK? I have been reading about the country much more in recent weeks.
I think monkey pox was mostly contained through contact tracing and then vaccinating those who were potentially exposed.
Last year I had a meeting using Skype, because the main profesor of the other research group still uses Skype. All other meetings (for work and with friends) have been in Zoom, Zoom, Meet, Zoom, Teams, Zoom, Zoom, Jitsi and Zoom.
Until they get that "cybersecurity" is a process and not a deliverable... should not be that bad.
The problem is that the modern tech interview process was created by large companies like Google. They needed an “unbiased”, scalable process to hire thousands of engineers with the main goal of reducing false-positives.

Most companies don’t operate anywhere close to this scale and should not imitate this same hiring process.
Let the internet be grimy
Makes sense. Weeds out people unsure if they’ll like it and returning it. Might even rule out the YouTubers that but and return after they make a video.
All I've seen so far suggests they're almost entirely focused on virtual 2d screens floating in 3d space, and not other virtual 3d objects at all.
Beyond the issues surrounding the failure rate, it's worth thinking about the extra work to keep satisfying investors, the likelihood that you'll lose at least some measure of control, and fundamentally the ethics of extraction that VC models necessitate, meaning you will need growth even if it's not good for the company or the customers in the long term, and that kind of growth often also means that there's an impetus to ignore the negative impacts on environments, communities, and economies.
“X group wasn’t censored because I can find an instance of X that wasn’t censored” is quite the argument.

You know you can find plenty of racist and sexist scribbles all over the internet, not [deleted]. According to your logic: proof that they are not censored!
Okay buddy. Masks absolutely help reduce the spread of particulates but you can pretend that’s not true if you want.
I’ve been asking where the hell these companies are getting our data to begin with for awhile because it has to be through shady means, even if technically legal.

Tracking a user and selling that data should not be able to be slapped deep down in some TOS that grants intrusion into your life at that level. I wish laws would be changed to require explicit tracking requests for this type of data, that has to be conspicuous and separately authorized in addiction to any TOS.

I wonder if these are all shell companies to hide the “origin server” for this CDN of unauthorized surveillance data.

I’m also curious how many of these are just middle men that do nothing but markup and resell, vs how many of these companies do anything to enrich the data before flipping it.

Wouldn’t it be funny if someone were to use these systems to get the location information for the executives at all of these companies, and it ended up online everywhere? I wonder if they would change their opinions on technical loopholes allowing the tracking of people without consent
1998 is too late, it was all over. PHP was used on over 50k sites by mid-1997. https://ifj.edu.pl/private/krawczyk/php/intro-history.html

Netscape Navigator was released late 1994, so this was the point of time where perl developers should have seen the light.
It's also worth noting that this is dependent on model. E.g. I can handle an HP Reverb G2 indefinitely, but a Meta Quest Pro for only about 30 minutes before I feel ill.
The photo in The Famous Article clearly shows non-use of the heel-lock[0].

After 50+ years, I have finally figured out heel-lock usage, and formally promoted myself to Heel Lock Snob, and therefore must issue a stern: "Tut, tut" to lesser mortals.

[0] https://www.roadrunnersports.com/blog/heel-lock-lacing
"We uploaded a malicious thing to a website where people likely assume malware doesn't exist. We succeeded because of lacking security controls. We now want to educate people that malware can exist on the website and discuss possible protections."

Combating malware is a challenge of any website that allows uploads.
Can you please share a link about understanding "what's going on and learn to read the room"? For real-estate and venture capital.
> Everything I've read indicates that this actually improves fit and comfort.

Everything we have read at this point comes directly from Apple
or from “reviewers” invited by Apple which is the same as coming from Apple considering Apple blacklists reviewers who don’t play ball from futur events.

At that point, we as consumers have absolutely zero meaningful and trustworthy information about the product and that will most likely be so until it is out.
> Overall ranking#495

> Ranking in Swap#125

> No ratings

Sounds like a random dapp to push... Are you the author or related to swapping-gifts?
Exactly. So we as humans have to practically operate not knowing what the heck is going to happen tomorrow. Thus we make judgement calls based on inductive reasoning. This isn’t news.
Plenty of banks isn't every bank.
The Chinese government is beyond complicit. It’s active policy to find and capture these people, then send them back to NK. That’s why satellite countries are even intimidated into sending them back.
This is a nice wrinkle to the story, but as a reply points out, your story (3) is a hell of an exception, a fairytale if you will. It would be nice if people realise that and have realistic expectations. You shouldn't set people on chasing fairytales without them being aware that's what they are doing.
This is a great usecase for webassembly.
Jump forward, either into the plane or into the bridge, or rest on the back foot? I think that either we train reflexes or our body will take a guess but who trains for that?
LLM Agents: How to make an agent use multiple tools in conjunction
I have been playing around with agents and tools using Langhchain, Claude and OpenAI. Some of the tasks I prompt are similar to:

`Generate an investment memo on Tesla`

So the agent has access to search tools and financial APIs from Yahoo. What it needs to do theoretically for this prompt is first fetch updated live data and then search for recent news perhaps and then use the LLMChain and Default LLM tool to generate an investment memo that will incorporate the findings.

What actually happens instead: It uses only one tool. Then the data is outdated.

The same idea applies to a lot of things. Did anyone figure out how to chain tools like this?
> the b2b stuff is going great, tons and tons and tons of integrators and devs using our SDKs every day.

But how much revenue is this pulling in? Are you profitable after 5 years?
Both a specific request here and a general proposal for a norm here on HN: Can you be more numerically explicit when you say "well paid"?

Software development is a very segmented world. In the various social circles I'm connected to, I know devs who were thrilled to finally be making 6 figures 7 years out of college (in line-of-business software in a regional hub) and devs who were disappointed not to have crossed 400 k$/yr in that same time span (at FAANG in the bay area).
one day it won't...
The person you responded to is a bit of a skeptic. They wrote "i don't think it's going anywhere"
Well, we already know what he or she is going to do. Lick some boots.
The CSA seceded for the State's Right to Own Slaves. That much is obvious. The Northern response, as stated by Lincoln and understood by the majority of volunteers, was to Preserve the Union. That much is also obvious. Total abolitionism emerged only three years into the war. If the Northern population did not have a strong desire to Preserve the Union and only relied on abolitionist forces, then there would hardly have been a Civil War at all.
Which are you using & do you recommend them?
Velcro does wear out. The loops wear down and the hooks will get packed with whatever crud they pick up: grass, hair, fuzz, etc. You can’t do much about worn out loops, but you can painstakingly clear the hooks with a sewing needle.

Contrast to replacing a pair of shoelaces, which is simply a matter of relacing the shoes.
The server has been configured without content.
A VC backable startup by definition has to scale to greater than 12 million people. If you're point is "why doesn't author just start a small business?" then you are seriously missing the point
This feels like a correct summary of the situation. I wish it were not so, but that genie is so far out of the bottle, she’d need GPS to find her way back in.
That’s still not an experience people want to read about.
I find simulated fakes that have behaviour that is testable with the same test between a real implementation and fake one to be really superior.

It's even better when you've got control of the external dependency (open source project, public API, or internal project) when you can implement something I call "real fakes": use as much as possible from the real code that's fast (i.e. input validation, output adaptation, same basic logic), and have that project export a fake service as a library for easy reuse. This avoids the most common problem with fakes: outdated simulated/mocked implementations.

Eg. wouldn't it be wonderful if every project had a "real fake": imagine Postgresql providing really fast fake-pg from the same codebase and tracking their releases, or Amazon SQS providing fake-sqs instead of having to rely on externally provided simulated fakes?
Also what happens when info if only available from one tweet but you need paragraphs and multiple embeds.
It's linked directly in chapter "Rebound effects?" under footnote 7 although the link seems to be crooked.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...
I bought a converter too, but it just didnt work at all! Which adapter worked for you?
I really want to love my Fairphone 4 but they really need to improve their software support. I have a bunch of bugs with my device: the screen dims after a short period making it unusable in bright daylight, NFC is erratic and needs a restart to fix, 5 GHz hotspot hasn't worked for months. The brightness bug is the biggest killer for me. There's a whole list of bugs tracked on the Fairphone website [0], and progress is unfortunately very slow.

[0] https://forum.fairphone.com/t/known-reproducible-and-reporte...
At the moment the algorithm seems to only check for exactly 20 move solutions, so it won't find them easily.
You would however find the optimal solution followed by some silly back and forth that can be identified, as long as the optimal one isn't 19 moves.
I think people are conflating “get better” with “never hallucinate” (and I guess in your mind “make money”). They’re gonna get better. Will they ever be perfect or even commercially viable? Who knows.
Also, the system doesn't really penalize this philosophy. Try to do everything by the book and you find that you can't really get anything done. Cut some corners, you get shit done and, in the worst case, you get a mild slap on the wrist several years later.
Masks do reduce the spread of particulates by some amount. Reducing the spread of particulates by some amount has a negligible impact on the spread of COVID 19 and other respiratory viruses. To believe otherwise is, again, misinformation.
"the trend [says that it will improve]" followed by "nobody can predict the future either" is just gold.

> It’s pretty rational

No, that's why it's a fallacy.
as a case in point, just got randomly assaulted by a stranger outside my house! stay safe out there ;)
Collections: The Status Quo Coalition
This is horrific.

The easiest way to fix this for me is to swap the first step, the second and third steps are so deeply ingrained that I don't think I could ever re-learn them.

This has now completely ruined how I tie shoelaces. Thanks asshole! I hope you're happy that now my shoes don't untie themselves 10 times a day.

Edit: For reference I have always tied "Cross left over right and tuck, loop with the right lace, wrap [left] lace over the loop and pull: granny knot.". Somehow this suggests I am left handed (I am right handed).

The article contains some mistakes in its list of options, you can't loop and wrap the same lace. 4 items in the list make this error.
I thought about that, but you could just cram more cells to get higher resolution. Reflecting a bit more, hair cells vary by length, whereas each new cone requires a unique protein, so I'd expect hearing to respond to more easily to evolutionary pressures.
I'm not familiar with Urbit, but a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," which I have to assume is a for profit company. Ethereum on the other hand is guided, but not owned or controlled by a non-profit foundation. Ethereum is a public utility and they have a mechanism for community involvement and contribution via Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP). Hope that helps!
That's an quirk of how people think about HTTP response codes, which are defined confusingly enough already.

They started out as server response codes but once people started making web applications and APIs they started overloading the server response codes to also have meaning as application response codes, making things even more confusing.

Not Implemented is supposed to mean that the server does not implement the request verb (PUT, PATCH, DELETE, POST, etc.), not really relevant to anything that might exist or be running on the server.

Maybe there could've been a separate standard header for application status, but that might not be great either since everything would have to handle all combinations of server and app status.
> Not that this would justify it, but I'm curious if it even works.

I would think that's one of the primary concerns here, is that we can pretty much guarantee that it doesn't work. Then end result would turn hiring processes into a kafka-esque hellscape where reason has no bearing and candidates are essentially selected at random.

Given how infuriating the current crop of simulated customer service agents are, I can't imagine bringing anything like this to job selection would be good for any of us, save for the leadership team who gets to tout their cost-saving plan and give themselves a bigger bonus.

Edit: ugh after reading the article I'm so disappointed that the regulations amount to some pretty weak auditing and transparency requirements. I was hoping this was an outright ban. It seems the laws have been rewritten by the cooperations. It gives candidate "right" to ask questions about their use and possibly opt out, but all that means is anyone who speaks out will be unhireable. I mean what company is going to hire anyone who starts asserting their rights up front?
The article is specifically about this value judgement. If you do not value making a profit as a company you have to find value in something else. Which is fine, different things motivate different people and should, but at least be clear that it is fundamentally a values conversation.
Tunisian here too. Speaking English is also an advantage because the anglosphere isn't predisposed to prejudice against north Africans.
The answer is in the comment you replied to, "directly from telecommunications services providers".
My experience building a Voron 2.4
I mean, I think the “town square” analogy is bad in general, so let’s dispense of it.

I don’t understand your point though. The Internet is a communication medium, so of course the goal is for other people to interact with your site. But why are platforms necessary for that to happen? People like them, which is fine, but why does it follow that anyone is entitled to access them?
I suppose you could structure a carbon tax like an income tax.

Flying, driving etc has a certain carbon cost. You get an annual personal allowance and anything over that is taxed.

That way the poorest could live within their annual allowance, the rich could spend money to emit more.

Although then there's the danger of essentially giving permission to people to emit more carbon.
The ISP is locked down and can only run qualcomm-code. Perhaps with the right licensing agreement they'd let you run your own code on it.
It's comparing the outcome that a thing that has never happened before will (no specified time frame), versus the outcome that a thing that has happened billions of times will suddenly not happen (tomorrow). The interesting thing is, we know for sure the sun will eventually die. We do not know at all that LLMs will ever stop hallucinating to a meaningful degree. It could very well be that the paradigm of LLMs just isn't enough.
Ummmm, yes? How often does such incident happen? Seems like not that often. I don't remember ever hearing of such incident.
WOW I had no idea - after the first interview, I didnt follow her in any regard... so I had no idea...

But - I did have a secret thought when I first saw the interview on Rogan, that the reason she was largely given credence and airtime was her atractive looks...

Based on your comment, she might be a demented sociopath along the same ilk as Elizabeth Holmes. (who thought getting pregnant would keep her out of prison)