skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Berea College in Kentucky doesn’t allow first year students to park cars on campus, so even in the summer there are many bikes lined up outside the buildings.

I wandered around a few weeks ago taking photos of all of the pink bikes because I appreciated them: my Jeep is a lovely fuchsia.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through Blind Man's Bluff. Highly recommended if you have any interest in Cold War history; it's a gripping read.
If I subscribe to a user they get 50% of my subscription. So if I wanted to use this to support streamers and not Amazon, I’d expect 50% of it to go to streamers.

How many minutes of ads do I “skip” that they get paid for when I spend $12 on Turbo? I have a feeling the answer is going to be disgusting, and that no, Twitch Turbo is a terrible idea if you want to support streamers.
Pursuit of pleasure could doom all intelligent life to a blissful extinction
> In Oregon, Kei cars are specifically illegal...

That's what the OR DMV suggests, but this is their own made-up policy, not law. They didn't even bother putting it in writing until relatively recently. So far they've failed to put their actively enforced kei policy into Oregon law [0]. They simply decided to stonewall a subset of 80's and 90's Japanese cars.

It's not about safety, or emissions, or top speed, or size. Titling and registering underpowered microcars from not-Japan is quick and painless. Pre-80's kei is fine too. Multiple pre-'80's Subaru 360 and Mazda R360 literally-kei cars sport current Oregon license plates, also relatively more common eventually-kei pre-'80's examples like Honda N600/Z600/S600. Also kit cars, street rods, from-scratch homebuilt cars, and literal golf carts the DMV is explicitly happy to title and register [1]. All they're unilaterally regulating is the taint of one specific Japanese initiative that they don't like.

Just for fun, kei trucks now get a vaguely worded exception. So if you feel like a gamble it could be possible to buy one and legally drive it to your mailbox or tow behind your RV. Or you'll draw an uncooperative DMV employee, and depending on where you live, zoning or your HOA might force you to destroy it if they catch you keeping it quietly locked up in your garage. The DMV can create an illegal situation that you are liable for by refusing to title a car, even though the car itself isn't illegal by law.

Oregon DMV's policies have long been inconsistent, arbitrary, capricious, and some other things besides.

[0] https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors801.html

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/Pages/vehicle/vehicletypes.a...
MiniApp Standardization White Paper
The AI Organization, part I
Same, realizing it's possible to convert coax cable outlets into ethernet is a game changer.
I wonder if this is Android-based.

That said, a custom homescreen launcher like O-Launcher and using ADB to manually uninstall/disable certain system apps, the stock browser, and app store would get you a similar outcome, but with a bit more flexibility.
They're called servers because we wanted to pick words that were familiar to what we were originally competing against, which was team-speak/ventrilo/mumble servers.

Picking words people are familiar with in order to convey a concept is a generally smart thing to do. A discord server was meant to be analogous to a ventrilo server. Calling them servers made that idea clear to our users, which helped users understand our product and what purpose a server served. I would say that the term has served its purpose well.

Internally we call them guilds, because having a "server server" is a bit ridiculous.
Cinematic AI Prompts with Documentary YouTuber Dodford
I don't use it, but have done in the past, and can see why it became popular.

Textual communication is nothing new.

But a relatively platform agnostic system which enabled anybody to quickly set up a room, or form and administer a private or public group, while also covering multimedia like voice comms and file sharing, in a modern and arguably elegant package, well developed even 5+ years ago, it's clear why it gathered a following in it's own right. Successful business strategies played a large part in the extent, of course.

The fact does remain however that textual communication is nothing new, and content in Discord is subject to the same old principles of merit and efficiency with respect to data format, usage, and availability.
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A Lone Norwegian Trader Shook the World’s Financial System (2019)
Looking at the specs this looks like you're paying mostly for the software (skinned android) and the hardware is an ancient (microUSB?? 8MP camera?) no-name phone. While the aesthetics of this are nice the hardware seems a bit too weak to justify the price, I'd personally rather stick with a few-generations-back flagship android and look for a nice minimal launcher/custom ROM.
Although it's written "LOGO" in this seminal work, it's been "Logo" since forever. It's not an acronym of anything. It hasn't been LOGO probably since language names stopped being all caps.
The screenshot with airplane mode suggests it's Android (?) Then the whole thing is just a custom launcher and a minimum of preinstalled apps, so I can achieve moreless the same result by using a launcher like Niagara and I can keep my current phone.
2 things that solved my problems with moca was buying a moca adapter to filter the signal out from leaving/entering the house (adapter on the primary incoming coax) and then another adapter on the coax plugging into your cable modem.

This fixed some (probably modem specific) problems where internet would randomly drop in the presence of moca.
the more it goes, the more I realize that the true power of LLMs is not in unstructured text that they can generate, but in structured output. but there are two approaches to achieve this:

1. LMQL/guidance/JSONformer/OP's post

2. finetuning the model to understand function calls and their (potentially) JSON schemas.

there was a comment here about OpenAI's approach (finetuning a model to understand function call) which raised a good point: since finetuning is often forgetful (previous knowledge learnt by the model gets forgotten a little bit), it's not clear if OpenAI's approach has made GPT-4 less capable than it was before. Not to mention that you're still dealing with a statistical process (LLM), not a locked-in algorithm that generates the desired schema 100% the time.

Which brings me to the other approach: steering the LLM's output __as it is generating tokens__, which is what LMQL does. This results in less token usage (you don't send function schema as part of your prompt/message to OpenAI) and 100% accuracy because token probabilities are modified (e.g., 0% chance of any character except ":" after a double quotation mark).
I went back and forth on the idea of sharing such a negative take here, but... here goes.

> You'll need to find a truck that is at least 25 years old. In the US, cars more youthful than that must comply with FMVSS (safety standards).

> No air bags, [...] power steering, or crumple zones.

I feel like this sort of thing is a fantastic illustration of the irresponsible level which most drivers (in the US at least; can't speak to other countries) feel that they are just so so good at driving that they believe all these safety features are fine to go without.

Sure, this is presumably not your sole vehicle or daily driver. And sure, you're not going to be taking one of these on a 65mph highway. But a 30mph head-on collision with another vehicle will almost certainly kill you in one of these trucks. And I know if I was the driver of the other vehicle, and survived, even if I wasn't the one at fault, I'd probably need years of expensive therapy to get past it all.

The thing that boggles my mind his how this 25-year-old grandfathering thing works. I think it's totally fair to allow old vehicles on the road that may not comply with today's standards, but did comply when they were originally made and titled (in the US). But there's no good reason we need to allow people to import old, unsafe vehicles like this.
> That is an assumption in itself. No one is obligated to act under that premise.

No, it is not. By definition, "[t]he universe is often defined as "the totality of existence", or everything that exists, everything that has existed, and everything that will exist."[0]

If we hold that everything is without meaning, we cannot hold that anything has meaning. It would be a contradiction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
Sound finally decomposed into basic components
You’re Not Imagining It: Social Media Is in Chaos
I remember my first web dev job was right before flexbox usable in all major browsers - I can't remember which one was last but the day that it was released was glorious because it meant no more float based layouts at that job.
Yes that's it! Thank you.
Yeah - there are just too many specialized or single-function apps you might want - even if you're not hard core social media addicted.

Such as Banking, Authenticator, VPN, RSS readers, etc... a hard sell. Maybe people really do need two phones?
I'm with you except...

For my side I did learn LOGO first in school. My son and daughter, I see they're being told Scratch.

Why? Simple, they're learning on iPads, not computers with keyboards. Scratch Jr. has an iPad app where kids can drag and drop the visual programming blocks to do stuff.

That's why they go for Scratch and not LOGO anymore. I hope they will teach them LOGO at some point or I will.
> Micro USB

Ouch. This is a non-starter for a new phone.
Because they were seemingly the first ones to a) get that combining these features together in a way which is easy to use and administrate was valuable and b) implement them somewhat competently. Most of IRC and the various other alternatives commonly mentioned are stuck on A even just for plain text chat before you get to multimedia, and most would-be competition that gets A either fails at B or got there too late. Privacy concerns are so low down the priority of users that there's pretty slim chance it will be enough to sink discord's first-mover advantage.
Seems OK to me. Are you using Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, or something else?
Ask HN: HN with Markdown Syntax in Comments?
A lot of us are familiar with __, *, and link syntax of Markdown. Wouldn't it be nice to have those in HN comment fields?
The world of Harry Dresden, the main character was given additional middle names by his parents to buffer against this kind of attack.

It's a little harder for attackers since magic requires them to hear your name(s) in person from your own mouth, rather than being able to read it off a page.
Was he on SSRIs when he took a 5ht2a agonist..?

Do SSRIs interact safely with psilocybin?
One of my uncles had 9. The lesson is that it varies.
It doesn’t have to be hysteria or mass psychosis or whatever Jonestown was.

There are disease processes which cause some pretty distinctive movements, and this was pointed out last time this topic came up here.

The leg movements in the below case report are dance-like and it’s epilepsy.
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12883-...

In the first link Dang has posted (early 2023) user c3534l started a thread that is interesting. St. Vitis' Dance and Sydenham’s chorea are discussed and it’s an interesting and convincing read.
For anyone who wants to give LOGO a try, there's a really nice browser-based, javascript-implementation live at https://calormen.com/jslogo/ . Source for it can be found at https://github.com/inexorabletash/jslogo .

LOGO's great. It was my first introduction to programming back in 3rd grade in the 80s and definitely helped shape my eventual arc as a programmer. And honestly, it's just lots of fun to play with and explore.
The prompt is given to our model as a guiding aid (a suggestion), and the cfg is used to constrain the model to generate only tokens that abide by the schema (an enforcement). That's how we ensure only valid outputs at text generation time.

We also prefill some tokens depending on the set of allowed tokens at a given state, so the model doesn't waste resources trying to predict them.
A little similar to Birds Aren't Real.
Like the Light Phone, I really love the idea. But, even as someone who doesn't use social media, my whole life has become reconfigured around my smartphone. Yes there are negatives - the endless distractions - but it's just too convenient to give up a fully-featured smartphone.

Just to give some random examples that you can't do on these devices..

- I track all my workouts in my phone.
- Don't need recipe books anymore.
- Controlling TV/lighting/heating/robot vacuum.
- Buying groceries.
- Guitar tuner. Metronome. Practicing scales.
- Voice recorder (for quickly remembering a cool riff I made up).
- Playing a podcast from YouTube while I run because I don't have Spotify.
- NFC for payment, transport.
- Calendar (which this seems to be lacking)
- Paying bills.
- Watching my daughter's camera when she naps.
- Flashcards for studying.
- Dictionary. Foreign language dictionaries.
- Sometimes even torrenting.

I became really aware of how much we depend on these devices when I had a daughter and we thoughtlessly decreed we'd never use a smartphone around her. That became untenable quite quickly. "Hey wanna take little one for a walk?" "I think it might rain, let me check the radar quickly"

I just don't have social media apps installed and that's pretty good for me.
When the criticism is that your paradigm for translating Linear B is so unprincipled that your translation will say whatever you want it to say (compare One eminent Oxonian, dining at a high table, amused himself by taking the names of the Fellows of the College present and turning them into Ventrisian syllables, from which he made a new translation of them into Greek, in which they all turned out to be Greek gods -- the destination is known before the journey begins), how can the confirmation of older Linear B tablets by newer Linear B tablets address that criticism?
Sapienti sat est.
It is if you don't want your train of though interrupted.
Linux/Firefox/uBlock Origin (I don't use FB on my phone, but I had to I'd use Firefox Nightly/uBO, but I haven't tried it)
Was this office just built in the middle of nowhere? Where do people go for lunch? I’m not an expert on commercial buildings but it always seemed like immediate proximity to food, public transport, and other businesses is one of the most important factors of an office.
Well spotted. I’m also unsure why you’d need a 6.5” screen for something that won’t even render a webpage.

I’m intrigued, however I’m not sure I understand why the visual side of entertainment is banned (not even a browser, unless I missed it), however Spotify and podcasts are somehow kosher? Why no audiobooks?

In Denmark ride sharing is banned, so the inclusion of Lyft and Uber, but no car sharing, public transport or personal mobility apps makes it a non-starter (I’ve used Donkey Republic dozens of times for visiting friends).

Finally, 32GB of storage, so let’s make that 30GB usable, 5GB for the OS, 1GB for podcasts… that leaves 24GB for conversations, notes and pictures.
It's England... bring out your dead. https://youtu.be/zEmfsmasjVA
For contemporary examples, find a video of a evangelistic / revivalist meeting.(0)

People will dance, jog, shriek 'spontaneously'. Some of it would be acted but there's strong social pressure to join. The booming sounds and bright lights contribute.

(0) or better, don't unless you use an incognito window lest you get recommendations for more.
This is such a rubbish argument I wondered where it came from and it's even the DOE who writes this (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...). It is completely misleading, so yes the volume of the spend fuel if packed together would fit a football field to a height of 10 yards. However, you could (and hopefully never would) store your nuclear waste like that, you need containment vessels, cooling (air circulation) etc. and this number also completely ignores the amount of "non-fuel" nuclear waste that you have as well.

The whole statement is designed to mislead.
Yes because the flag is on your account.
Point 1 doesn't feel like a good enough reason. The number of tokens outputted as a JSON is so small if you tell GPT to output it properly.
Why do I have to buy a whole phone for this? Can't I just get the OS on my existing Android device?
I think it’s amazing that a solid system can be defunded like that until it just sorta crumbles under it’s own weight. There’s no immediate solution either.

If you build more hospitals, you need more staff, if you need more staff, you need to make it more attractive, but even if you do you need several years before the first doctors/nurses from the wave with renewed interest in the position finishes university.

And that’s only if there is any political will to do so.
RDS is very useful for companies which are big enough to employ, say, 2 programmers, but still too small to employ a DBA.

The hard part of running a database, in my experience, isn't setting up or running it. The hard part isn't even configuring backups.

The hard part is noticing that your backups have been broken for years, before you actually need to restore from them. Yes, yes, you know how to do this correctly. But you delegated it to the sysadmin, the sysadmin subtly broke the backup scripts, the scripts have been silently doing nothing for 18 months, and then the sysadmin got a new job.

This is the main value proposition of RDS: Your data will be backed up, your backups will be restorable, and most of your normal admin tasks can be performed by pushing a button.
awesome, so we can get hooked up w/ Spotify, and no other service, forever. Great idea!

I'm being sarcastic, BTW.
Interesting! What are the limits of `evaluate()` in browsers? I see it is available in 95% of users' browsers [1], but is it consistent in its implementation of XPath?
How does its performance compare to `querySelector[All]`?
Might be interesting to see if JS libraries that do a lot of DOM searching could get some perf gains. Maybe they already utilize evaluate?

[1] https://caniuse.com/?search=evaluate
How is this better than a custom launcher?
Imagine if this was applied to computer science... Most people are citizen developers on github! :*
It gets better after the first three paragraphs, they just decided to do something odd for the introduction.
I don't understand the anger and disdain from people about others potentially hurting themselves. The only thing I can think of is they are jealous of someone who doesn't have these sort of intrusive thoughts about safety all the time and how they get to do something cool like the OP every now and then.
You assume there isn’t a disease process at play. There could have been, eg Sydenham’s chorea.
Isn't this true just about everywhere? Someone who lives in a major urban area is going to have more prompt access to advanced emergency healthcare than someone who lives in a remote rural area, simply due to factors such as travel time, and the clinical need to physically concentrate specialist medical resources (specialist clinical teams need a certain minimum case volume to properly maintain their skills, and if you try to spread them too thinly, you can actually worsen patient outcomes)–but that inevitably means that some people in remote rural areas will die before they get the treatment they need, whereas they may well have survived if they'd lived in a major urban area instead. Inefficiencies and inequities in healthcare systems can no doubt worsen this phenomena, but even if you could have the most efficient and equitable healthcare system possible, it would still inevitably happen, even if to a somewhat reduced degree.

The only countries which can totally avoid this problem, are those that are so small that the whole country is a single major urban area, and "remote rural areas" either don't exist at all, or are such a minuscule percentage of the population as to be a statistical rounding error – so basically city-states such as Singapore, Monaco or Vatican City
Yeah, that was the essence of how it became popular to begin with. It was the first time I'd ever seen an irc experience for the masses, thanks to browser tech improving.

I've always thought their video conferencing was better than Google, but eventually zoom just took over. Never tried voice and felt like that was just tacked on because it became trendy due to Clubhouse etc.
I'm gonna let you have the last word here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753254

Does this help clarify?
Per the picture of the back it is just a Samsung phone with a custom version of android, or perhaps just a custom launcher.

I get that they are limited because they're buying off the shelf phones but a 6.5 inch screen is HUGE if you're not gonna actually use it for anything.

Still like the concept though.
Which country has the best health care in Europe? And what makes it the best solution?

I ask from the perspective of an American, with access to great health care but it’s expensive. If we were going to reinvent health care here, who should we copy?
Nearly every country is now suffering from the age demographic bomb where senior retirees are starting to outnumber working adults.

https://www.epbmacroresearch.com/blog/the-global-demographic...

This has major implications for many social safety net programs and entitlements ie there aren’t enough working adults paying into the system, which is also exacerbated by recent anti immigration movements which was a major cause for the UK leaving the EU.

This story is now common in many developed countries that offer socialized healthcare.
But isn't that the ultimate expression of decentralization? A bunch of instances chose to adopt a code of conduct and you may choose not to do so. Instances may choose to interact with each other or not.
No centralized "political" control.
This will be an interesting one to follow. J&J may have a case but could also just be a case of supressing bad news.

The original study had a very small sample size (33 people), which one could argue would be small enough to dismiss. Are there any larger follow up studies?
WarGames is an allegory for the argument from authority.

History is replete with examples of arguments from authority which have led to tragedy.

e.g.

Trial of Galileo, Salem witch trials, Thalidomide tragedy, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Financial crisis of 2008, etc., etc. I could go on and on …

Each of these highlight the risks associated with placing undue trust in authority figures without critically examining evidence and questioning prevailing narratives.
That address is where cartridges would appear in memory when plugged in, which is why it became SOP to use it.
Costs add up surprisingly quickly. A quote-colon-space-quote combo alone is four tokens wasted. Now scale that up....