skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's ridiculous - The Guardian?? The Washington Post? New York Times?

Yes, those. I'm not closely familiar with NYT and Washpo; but I'm a long-time reader of the Guardian. It's role is to delimit the left end of the Overton Window, which is roughly the left-ish end of the Shadow Cabinet, and is currently well to the right of Labour Party membership. From my limited exposure, I'd say NYT and Washpo are well to the right of The Guardian, as the Democratic Party is well to the right of Labour in the UK.

Your WP link doesn't speak to any strong bias in English Wikipedia; it says roughly that WP content is "establishment", which isn't surprising, considering the Reliable Sources policy. It also says that older articles exhibit a stronger "left-wing" bias (i.e. pro-Democratic). And the article is written from a US POV; in the USA, socialism is still a "bad word", and the word "liberal" is used instead.
simply having it opt in would be a better solution.
My wife is a psychologist (MSc @ university) and psychotherapist (system and family therapy, which is a modern & rather evidence based variant), and we've talked about this recently. According to their training, the stereotypical midlife crisis is a plot device for stories and not rooted in actual observation.
Even in a perfectly deterministic universe, the accessibility of that determinism to models hinges on knowledge of the state of the universe.

We're surrounded by highly nonlinear interactions that we just approximate as linear - if we want to truly predict anything, in general, we'd need infinite precision on the variables that describe the state of these systems, because an infinitely small perturbation in the initial conditions can cause an almost (limited by conservation laws) arbitrary deviation in the predicted state.
Interesting parallel with smoking ... I always had a pretty poor sense of smell, then smoked for a number of years, and for about two weeks after quitting I could smell everything. I didn't know office bathrooms were so bad...

And then similarly it went back to baseline.
Yeah, then it seems we agree. I was just pointing out that it's not necessary to finetune OSS models to behave like OpenAI functions if you're able to do something similar to what we did (no tuning involved!).
The post is ostensibly about GDP growth. However, if you read the comments both here and on Twitter you’ll see that we humans are quick to jump from cold economic facts of GDP into more broad points about economic stagnation.

My point is to suggest that maybe top line numbers don’t tell the whole story. Maybe in a society where wealth is hyper-concentrated, the heuristic coupling of GDP growth and social progress breaks down.

Flip the US and EU, it makes no difference to me. My point is that GDP is a poor metric for most things we should care about, and maybe we should get off the paperclip maximization train and onto the well-being maximization train.
> Windows 10 also had WSL2 which made it an okay development system.

To be honest, I would have preferred WSL1 which implemented the syscalls directly under Windows for the best possible integration, but they eventually just threw that away and switched to using virtual machines!
It's easier to do an update with a single security fix rather than an update that rolls in a ton of new functionality that ends up breaking your device. Seen this time and time again with OS/dependency update.
I'd personally recommend liberating Venezuela
With all these LLMs browsing the internet and picking up ideas, i wonder if anyone has considered making "ads" targeted at them? To influence them to promote a particular way of doing things, etc.
>This seems like a degredation compared to the current abuse potential which is mostly limited to logging you out.

I think it depends on who you ask. IIRC there was a stat that showed a substantial % of people only use WhatsApp rarely and they might not notice the deactivation and/or miss the 30 days deadline, getting their accounts deleted.
I think it’s because of the statement “you can only copy what you understand”. I get the sentiment, but comes off as paternal rather than collaborative.
China launches its first open-source desktop operating system
> I literally don't know a single person who uses FF regularly anymore

Perhaps the FF users don't feel the need to tell you ?
It’s a lost cause. Updates will turn things back on, things will break because of unnecessary dependencies, etc.
22 might be difficult depending on what you use from Ubuntu 's repositories; they are converting apt apps to snaps.
That's a lovely idea.
If the new stuff gets more expensive second hand stuff that has some useful life left will become more expensive.
If a new washing machine is €5000 a second hand washing machine with a year of useful life left will be €500 instead of €50. These things are not unrelated.
If iPhones cost multiple monthly salaries people will substitute with cheaper options and the supply of high quality second hand phones will dry up.
> If so, it sounds like those parking locations need to be charged for.

I agree, however once you make it the norm then people expect to have parking for free, and anyone attempting to change that would be voted out of office
Doesn't Debian Stable have the very same problem? You get dated software with bugs that are solved in newer versions. The fundamental model of freezing and (endlessly) testing some state of the packages that makes up a distribution simply doesn't make sense in a world with so many and so big changes.

This model is the "waterfall" model for operating systems.
A more likely explanation: https://xkcd.com/1279/
Do you consider even automatic crash reports as a spyware? (Asssuming they are properly anonymized)
Phind’s base model, which is GPT3.5/4 doesn’t itself do attribution, it’s made to do that with prompt engineering which provides the most relevant materials on the web based on a word embedding vector search, and then asks it to reference each source in the answer.
Sounds obvious, but broadly speaking the trick is to operate like a business, not an employee.

A good accountant/tax advisor can help here. They do know how HMRC categorise disguised employees and can help you not get burned.
Important to point out that dentistry in England does not follow the NHS model of "free at the point of delivery, available to all regardless of ability to pay" but follows an insurance model, with a bit of state provision for those who can't afford insurance.

And dentistry is why people in England are scared of changing the model for NHS healthcare, because we see that dentistry is fucking awful for huge numbers of people.

The problem with the NHS is not the model, it's the funding.
The systems administrator can use ballooning to give more memory to a VM before launching a new application. This avoids the need to shut down the VM to give it a new role.

There is still a benefit to ballooning support even if it's not exposed to userspace within the VM, because VMs aren't always used purely to host a single infinitely-long-lived application without outside intervention.
Or is the exchange rate an artefact of the size of their economy?
Yes and then if you read paragraphs 3, 4, 5, etc. there's no substance on what is actually sent. We all know what Wireshark is, and what it can do, but how it was utilized here is up in the air.
> Microsoft had a good licensing model that sort of worked.

Microsoft is the second-most valuable company in the world, with revenue comparable to the GDP of a small country.

Seems like it's still working quite well.
I thought I could, but now I realize I can't.

I quit my job twice to start companies. Neither made a cent. I read all the YC startup school articles, watched the talks, looked at successful bootstrapped founders and thought "Yeah, that's me! I'll do it!".

Now I am a little older and a little wiser. I realize that I don't have the skills to start a company. Not just tech skills but people skills, sales skills, organizational skills, emotional skills. I think most people, apart from the truly exceptional, shouldn't start a company until they have a great deal of experience. Maybe 40+ is the right time for the average person to start and be successful. Then you have experience, skills, insight, experience and you know yourself well enough.

An aside: I suffer from ADHD. I didn't know when I started my companies, but if anyone reading this has ADHD and is thinking about a startup I suggest be extremely cautious. There are a lot of articles out there that say something along the lines of "Entrepreneurship is great for ADHD! Be your own boss! Be flexible and creative!". It's a bit of a myth. If you don't have your executive function under control while working a job then it won't get any better when you start a company. And mistakes and issues while running a startup will get away from you a lot quicker and more spectacularly than when you are an employee.
The US would be a spectacularly successful country for its most of the population if its land use/transportation policies were not such total shitshow.

A lot this growth just doesn't reflect in most people quality of live, mostly because of health care and land use.

Tons of people are richer, but a lot of the extra consumption goes to health care and cars (suburban living).
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Ask HN: NFC/Bluetooth enabled door lock with SDK not tied to SaaS?
Hi, I am looking for the following:

* A door lock which can be unlocked with bluetooth/NFC

* Ideally an SDK so I can lock/unlock this from an app

* Not tied to any SAAS offerings, I want to be able to send a bluetooth/NFC signal directly from my App to the lock

Can anybody recommend one? I've seen quite a few bluetooth/NFC door locks with SDK's, but they are all tied into services.

After paying for the lock, you end up having to register the users of your app with the third party service, then you are tied into monthly plans forever on top of that, based on how many users you have.

Thanks!
No, they don't. Planing permission typically allows a 4 bed with 2 parking spaces, but one is a garage, meaning it's 1 usable parking space. Given that the only way you can afford a house is to have at least 2 workers, that leaves either 2 cars or public transit. Public transit in the UK is far better than the US but is still not good enough for most people.

With increasing numbers of children staying with their parents past education, you end up with 3 or 4 commuters per house.
I couldn't agree more with this! I actively don't want plugins for Helix either - as tempting as it sounds. Nvim is already a create plugin based modal editor with a rich ecosystem, so Helix's no-config philosophy is kinda it's whole selling point.
But why is that a criticism? I tried running SD on my computer a few months ago. I spent several hours trying to install the dependencies and eventually gave up. I'm sure it wouldn't have been a big deal for someone familiar with python but for me it was a massive hassle and I eventually failed to make it run at all.

For this one, as long as my browser supports WebGPU (which will be widely supported soon) and I have the system resources, it will run. Barely any technical knowledge needed, doesn't matter what OS or brand of GPU I have. Isn't that really cool? It reduces both technical and knowledge based barriers to entry. Why do people criticize this so strongly?
I agree. MCs like this are an absolute marvel of modern technology and the fact that they’re as cheap as $21 continues to blow my mind. It just seems disproportionately inexpensive considering how complex and powerful these things are.
I think even if you fully pool finances, it is best to each take an agreed "allowance" out of that for personal consumption. I don't think its healthy to be a position where any and every purchase you make could be questioned and/or criticised. Some things should be your own private decision.
It wasn't end to end encrypted either before Meta bought it. Maybe it's not all bad?
I consider that is. Unless as most software used to do, show a popup to politely ask me, can it report the crash to vendor.
> BITD

For the sake of comprehensibility:

"back in the day"
Yes, that's a very US centric view. There are European countries, such as France and the Netherlands that have overseas territories and generally are quite diverse. Or Belgium with three official languages, where you can walk 10 km and suddenly most people speak another language.

The US as a whole might be more diverse than a single EU country, but it will depend a lot on your metric for diversity.
Ssssh. He probably hasn't noticed yet; don't point it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOxWQ9CF-y4&t=1440s
One of the things I noticed about LunarVim is that they were not very receptive about it in the official NeoVim rooms whereas people there (including NeoVim developers) were quite positive about LazyVim. The other alternative they suggested was https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.nvim

TLDR is that with the global lvim object, custom path, breakages because of unstable plugins it causes a lot of support issues where people go to the official NeoVim channel and not the LunarVim one.

I switched to LazyVim, which is developed by folke (one of the main developers of most of the plugins (trouble.nvim, tokyonight, which-key, lazy.nvim etc) https://github.com/folke?tab=repositories) the other "vim distributions" use anyway.

It worked out of the box, the method of simply overriding a few settings https://www.lazyvim.org/configuration/general was a lot easier to understand.

I'm also very happy I only maintain now "one configuration", I really disliked having "nvim" and "lvim" simultaneously on the same machine.

The method of checking out the "starter" repo https://www.lazyvim.org/installation and simply deleting the .git folder is a LOT nicer than an annoying installation script that does a gazillion things (LunarVim).
A Girl Who Turns into Bone While Her Identical Twin Remains Healthy
When I was 38, I took upon a challenge to start my 40s on a high. The challenge was simple. I would run 40 half marathons before turning 40.

Before this, I was running occasionally.

For about 18 months, I ran 2-3 half marathons every month and completed my challenge. By the time I reached 40, I was in the best shape of my life. Also, I figured out that my mind and body can now take any challenge and complete it.

I turned 41 in June and already ran more than 70 half marathons and one full marathon (Copenhagen full marathon).
This will likely be operating a large PBN network, all of which reference your product or service so that it is overly represented in the dataset.
The dream-like appearance of AI generations is really interesting. Humans, when creating art, use our representations for objects to control muscles to move a brush or pencil across (digital) paper. What we see from AI is what you get when you remove the "muscle module", and directly apply the representations onto the paper. There's no considering of how to fill in a pixel; there's just a filling of the pixel directly from the latent space.

It's intriguing. Also makes me wonder if we need to add a module in between the representational output and the pixel output. Something that mimics how we actually use a brush. How we consider what to paint where.
The people doing the defunding say that it's defunding. They're proud of it. They wrote a manifesto saying they were going to do it, and then they did it.

It's pretty blatant dishonesty to say that healthcare hasn't been defunded, and then only focus on NHS provision of healthcare while ignoring public health, social care, nursing care, etc.
Large language models have a huge problem with hallucinating incorrect information and censorship of it.

Right now, most of those services very strictly refuse to say anything even mildly controversial or pornographic. Because LLMs have an increasingly large amount of influence on society, this is quite concerning, because many things will simply get memoryholed if the creators of the models deem it's not "safe" or acceptable.
I'm not sure which university they are talking about, but both the universities I went to had both smaller (like weekly) programming assignments and large projects.
They also had a similar valuation with the old non-abusive model so that does not contradict the grandparent comment.
Can you point to a single case where this was in fact used for that purpose? Cause for obvious reasons I cant prove my assertion though its fair to say we all know its true
ah yes, 60 billion because your daughter watched a youtube video, makes sense
"With high quality software that everybody loves" - Said no one ever...
> Train lines only go one direction: towards London. If you're going from town A to town B and public transport is your only option, you may find yourself needing to go into London and then back out again.

This plagues public transport in a lot of countries.
Want to go with public transport in 2 neighboring towns ? You might need to go a couple of tens of kilometers through another town because there is no direct connection.
Hi HN,

I'm launching a plugin for Figma that reduces meetings in the design process. It works by letting designers share work through a link with a video intro attached - and then get video feedback.

Everything works in the browser, so unlike other screen recording tools, your collaborators don't need to install anything. You can send a prototype to a dozen test users, or a client, or a manager - and get video feedback on the same day.

The people who could benefit most are freelance UX / designers and remote/hybrid-working startups. The idea actually came about when I was running a previous tech startup (Rota.com), and I was frustrated with the number of meetings to discuss product feedback. (Our team at Opine is also zero-meeting-by-default, except 1-1's).

There are a couple of other cool features - feedback videos are transcribed, and the ChatGPT generates a to-do list for the designer. People can whiteboard on the work, or add Figma-style comments, keeping all your feedback in one place.

Everything is updated in real- time, and there is a chat thread beside your work if you need to discuss things. The end result is design work is finalised significantly faster. One team in our beta decreased their time to deliver from 29 days to 19 days.

Here's a walkthrough

https://www.loom.com/share/047f30e62e1f40d887d11bd14a71bf30

We're live on Product Hunt today, so any support there would be appreciated!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/opine

And any questions about async / building a 2-sided SaaS / juggling responsibilities as a solo founder, happy to help!
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As per mrob's ammendment. Opt in. Every single time. No exceptions.
Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.
I drink alcohol to get plastered in social settings. I know it's unhealthy and the risks associated with it. I don't drink every day, mostly on social settings which happen like once or twice every couple of weeks.

I drink soft drinks more often than alcohol. I hate artificial sweeteners not just because of the taste, but all my life I've heard the fact that those sweeteners are carcinogenic, especially the cheapest ones (like aspartame).

Honestly, it doesn't help that most studies that say artificial sweeteners are safe were funded by the drinks companies themselves and obviously they will be biased towards what makes them have most profit from it. I think adding the sweeteners to this list of potentially carcinogenic and asking for more neutral, unbiased studies is a step on the right direction.

If a soft drink contains sweeteners, I simply refuse to drink it. Honestly, I'd rather have a beer which tastes worse than a coca-cola, for example, than to have to drink diet cola.
Color me skeptical. There have recently been a lots and lots of commercial space station proposals. Partly this is because Starship and for some people New Glenn might be ready sometime.

The other reason is that NASA is doing a Commercial Space station program (that is underfunded) and a lot of people wont in on that.

But I very skeptical of any of these actually making it anywhere close to orbit. The actual investment required to get this build and launched and operated is incredibly large. And the costumer base is questionable.
I sympathize, I lost my sense of smell and taste for two months, and almost two years later, coffee still tastes vastly different from what I remember.
Thank you. I didn't know nitter was working again.
Sample size = 1

In my life I've always come back to Firefox at some point, for various reasons. But I'm currently NOT using it anymore:

- on my personal laptop I'm using Safari because battery life is my #1 priority, and Safari is the best in this particular category. I'm also using Safari on my iPhone because it works well enough, and I find favorites and tabs sync useful

- on my pro laptop I used to use Firefox Developer Edition because I've always preferred Firefox devtools to Chrome-like devtools. But I've recently switched to Arc and I love it. I've tried vertical tabs in the past on Firefox but the experience sucks, it's half baked and ugly. Arc is not perfect but it solves quite a few pain points I had in the past. I still prefer FF devtools, but Arc's experience is better aligned with my intuitive workflow.

So yeah, for me to switch back to Firefox, they need to improve battery life drastically (they're not even bad at it, but Safari is just so much better), and try major innovations regarding user experience.
In my view Windows has always been a great development system. Been doing both php and c# development on windows for years and it always been "start computer, install wamp/editor or visual studio" then you are set and can develop great software.
I'm curious about that 940. Was that at BBN, or where? At what point in time did you see it? Why was is a spare; had it been decommissioned?
The case of smartphones is unique. There is a war waged by corporations with hundreds of thousands of employees to take the most of your attention out from you (for sweet ad money), with attention engineers working on new designs and innovations all the time. I don't think that is a battle %95 of people can win. Just look around to people. I avoid fighting the battle by making heavy use of screen time features to ban all un-absolutely-necessary features (apps, websites) and whitelist only a small amount of apps and websites. And I make those restrictions unchangeable by myself, otherwise it becomes pointless.
China Youth Unemployment Hits 21.3%
Automatic? Absolutely. "Proper anonymization" is a joke, supposedly anonymized datasets are shown to reveal PII all the time. Informed user consent is paramount, and if informed consent isn't possible because the nature of the report is too technical for the users then the report shouldn't be sent.

Even if some rare few developers can properly anonymize data and for instance, scrub core dumps of any user data, them doing so normalizes the practice of opt-out telemetry and most other developers won't be so careful.