skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, this is more-less what a student does when writing a paper, when they're forced to cite their sources. They first come up with an idea based on their own understanding/recollection, then they try to figure out where did they first took that idea from. If they remember a specific source, they'll cite that; if they don't (because there may not be one specific source they learned from), they'll search for some existing work that expresses the idea in question, and cite that.

I.e. in case of both the student and an LLM, correct citation doesn't actually mean the idea originates from the cited work - only that the work contains this idea.
Finito, the missing AI assistant for Mac
I don't care about most blog entries, but then one catches my fancy out of the blue. The serendipity and humanity of it is wonderful and a welcome breath of fresh air from polished mass media. Why should I care that personal blogs are default uninteresting? It's a weird hill to die on.
That's valid, but orthogonal. If you want to claim that British society is collapsing, I think you could write a convincing blog post.

But don't try to claim that the UK's economy is structured more like Bangladesh than the US. Or, if you do, at least directly support that claim with some facts.
The day my ICMP ping took countermeasures
Angular Signals and Observables: Differences
ChatGPT Drops About 10% in Traffic
> Britain is a failed state. It might be the first truly modern state to properly fail.

The UK is nothing like a “failed state” (the monopoly on legitimate violence is not seriously in doubt.) It may be experiencing decline in relative economic condition, but that’s hardly novel.
Most likely, replying to user queries :)
Would you say that it's because they're probably at home chasing green squares?

Joking aside, I've known only one person who did (does?) this. They're a great engineer but frequently get into the weeds on assignments. This is just anecdote, but these types of people definitely exist.
On the other hand, handing ad revenue to the worst people on the internet was the final straw to get me to kick my twitter habit again, since at that point not only were the hateful bluechecks annoying, at that point they were actively being funded by my complicity.
I had an interview where I had linked my SO and my GitHub. The latter just because it wasn’t completely empty.

He cheekily complained that I didn’t have much activity.
https://www.makeareadme.com/

(clickable link!)
Companies blocking disposable email domains are doing it to prevent many users from using their service with a disposable email.

A custom domain that only I use specifically for disposable emails would look indistinguishable from any other custom domain out there, and nobody else would have used it for them to even be aware of its existence.

To block it pre-emptively, they’d have to either be omniscient or block every single custom domain in existence. The former I highly doubt is the case, the latter would generally do more harm than good to them.
Climate Change Is Making Travel That Much Harder
That which was asserted without evidence could correctly be dismissed without evidence. AT THE TIME the anti-vax crowd was basing their positions entirely upon anecdote, rumor, and often badly misread prepublication research and stats. Their methodology was inherently flawed. Even if the conclusions they came to have been "validated" their position was still built upon this same flimsy scaffolding. It's not like the "do your own research" blogs and videos somehow gathered the same evidence used by this paper. This also does not indicate that other positions held by the same crowd, which are similarly based upon "anecdata" and rumor, are somehow made more evident by this paper in Nature.
3/4 of the way down they finally give a half-ass description of the process:

While working in a lab in the Netherlands in the late 2000s, Strous noticed that a type of methane-feeding bacteria often found in lake sediments and wastewater sludges had a strange way of life. Instead of taking in oxygen from its surroundings like other aerobes, the bacteria created its own oxygen by using enzymes to break down the soluble compounds called nitrites (which contain a chemical group made of nitrogen and two oxygen atoms). The bacteria used the self-generated oxygen to split methane for energy.
Kinda? I'm in a rural area outside of Phoenix, but I travel around the entire state for trips
Ummmm ... what is grub? Didn't see any links to it from the three random grub2 repos I looked at.
Ask HN: Best compiler/interpreter books for hacking on Scheme?
Hello, I'm starting an interdisciplinary PhD in the fall between computer science and music to continue working on Scheme for Max, my open source project that puts a Scheme interpreter in the Max/MSP audio-visual low-code platform. I want to learn enough to work on improving the GC and (soft) real-time capabilities of s7 Scheme, which is written in C and originally came out of the Tiny Scheme code base. There are a lot of books that get recommended here on compilers and interpreters! I'm hoping to get recommendations for my particular use case, and for someone like me who is brand new to the field. (My Masters was on the music side, so lots of catch up to do on comp sci)

thanks!
>Clearly both companies lost the bet (that self-driving cars would work in time for their price model to work).

Of course, the companies may have known it was a rash bet in the vein of this fable about teaching a horse to talk:

https://naomistanford.com/2009/02/09/teaching-the-horse-to-t...

Uber and Lyft could win--depending on location--based on product. But they also deeply undercut taxis on the basis of price until people got used to using them.

>What if Lyft and Uber were 25% cheaper than taxis; primarily because they didn't need to pay a dispatchers' salaries?

I'm pretty sure dispatchers are cheaper than expensive SV engineers.
I don't literally mean that they only have to think about them.
Hmm, well, if those are accurate numbers than the us spends more than the next 9 countries combined.

Still, the us spends more than 2.5x per year than China.
There was no procrastination, this is called "content marketing."
That doesn't make any sense. The point is not whether or not we should dismiss nonsense, it's that often it's the "stopped reading at X" type comments that are the real nonsense
Right now there are two contributing factors to inflation. Increased money supply is the biggest one. Second is the actual shortage of goods production which we are still seeing some long tail effects of from covid shutdowns. The slowing of inflation has been because we are getting caught up with goods production.

There is still 1.7 trillion in Reverse Repos. The increased rates have been able to draw some of that out into long term treasury products. Which is great. But it's still astronomically high.
There are launchers on Flathub and Lutris for playing Bedrock Edition on Linux, but at the end of the day it was originally called Minecraft Windows 10 Edition.
I switched about a year ago as well, partially because of performance pains but also because I tried to leave as many google products behind as I could for privacy reasons. I have not been disappointed so far... There are a few plugins I miss on Chrome but nothing I couldn't live without or find an acceptable alternative.
What does your data stack look like? I'll put something together specifically for you.
It's interesting that there was a working group to build a new protocol that fixes the issues with the Signal Protocol. Maybe more alternatives to Signal could emerge now.
Cochrane revisit topics from time to time to update their reviews as new studies appear. The question of mask effectiveness was reviewed in the past also. There's an interview with one of the authors of this round's review here:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/06/dr-carl-heneghan-intervi...

So, a Cochrane review is a study which synthesises all available studies – all that we can find or identity – on a particular topic. It follows a highly structured format and is always preceded by publication of a protocol. All this is to minimise the bias. Also, it is extensively transparent. In this case we are looking at about 300 pages of review. Now, the review called “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” is called in code A122 for short and I will be using that acronym simply because it is just too long a title. So the protocol was first published in 2006 and then the first version was published in 2007, updated in 2009, 2010, 2011, and then 2020, so this 2023 is the fifth update of this review. And the reason why we update the reviews is they are soon out of date if we don’t do that, especially in some fast moving topics.

This update didn't change the conclusions from any of the prior reviews.

Because masks are so politicized there were numerous attacks on Cochrane this time around, though nobody cared in any of the previous rounds. The Cochrane authors are aware of all the criticisms, but there were no justifications found in any of them to alter the conclusions of the review or their procedures for doing them.
ClickPipes: Seamlessly Connect Kafka to ClickHouse
How Apple Maps protects your privacy when navigating (2019)
GitHub Copilot Litigation
Why is it taking so long for Framework's products to become available in other countries? It's been more than two years and three product generations + an entirely new product, and you still can't even pre-order in the vast majority of regions.

There are plenty of electronics products on Kickstarter that can be ordered from dozens of countries even while the product is still in development, so why is this so difficult with Framework?
Flowchart.fun looks very very cool. Solves many problems I've faced with existing tools.

Has anyone used flowchart.fun for "architecture" diagrams? Which are similar to flowchart/mindmaps, but a bit different.

I'm trying to make something like this webapp diagram, but struggling: https://bezkoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/react-node-e...
Others are saying they experience this, but couldn’t that be solved by using one of the many projects that completely spoof the history?

I mean there are folks with histories which would make you greeen with envy, but you can have the same history with ~0 effort, making it immaterial.
I think the reason Stephen Wolfram is using "human-aligned" is because that is the only feedback loop that is training the models. If you haven't read "What is it like to be a bat?" by Thomas Nagel, I highly recommend it.
I mean, fair that "plagued by" is a very vague term that has no quantifiable meaning. But appeals to emotion to cast doubt on all studies is frustrating. "Healthy skepticism in the face of bad studies" would be a great headline and is accurate. But too much of the skepticism we are exposed to on a regular basis is not healthy.
There are even a few regular contributors on the Git project who complain about the workflow being `git send-email`/email centered.
I don't think it is sustainable for Twitter to hand out ad revenue site-wide at this point. All they have done so far is to pay out to a small group of people. Musk has said that ad revenue is down 50% and that they are not currently profitable.
I love web apps because they mean I have to trust the developer a lot less than with native apps. Of course there are still things you'd have to monitor (e.g. network requests) to fully trust any web app. A good solution could be something like OpenBSD's pledge, to allow me to prove to the user nothing malicious is possible (e.g. by disabling fetch and any new requests, even from src attributes, altogether).
The design is one of my favorite things about sourcehut. It's clean, to the point, and doesn't get in the way. (Of course, taste is subjective, so this is just me offering a different view, not saying you're "wrong".)
It wasn't the ending per se that everyone got mad about. It was how the ending was written. Silicon Valley has showed us that execution matters as much or more than ideas.
No, they don't. And £6k is not ruined because everything else is being paid for you.

Because Luxembourg has a contribution-based welfare state. The money you are being paid is your own money that is being returned to you by the state when certain conditions are met (and yes, if you look at any contribution-based system, there is heavily conditionality, universal systems are the only ones without conditionality). The UK annual benefit bill just for people of working age is larger than Luxembourg's GDP.

The UK has a universal system that everyone can access regardless of circumstances. You just don't understand how it works at all (this is quite typical, Brits do not understand contribution-based systems either because they are used to a system where the state pays out massive amounts of cash to people in excess of the amount they paid in).
Very nice! I was looking for something like this-- A diagramming tool with plain ol' css.

Given the features I think it's a nice step up (flowchart.fun is $3/month) from an Open Source diagram tool like MermaidJS [1].

One suggestion: a link to the diagram-coding docs from the editor.

[1] Here's an example of how MermaidJS styles a flow chart:

https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html#styling-a-node
Clearly OP is able to complete 41 points per week. If low performers also did 41 points per week, are you saying OP wouldn't do 41 points per week?

Assuming tasks are unlimited, to OP's perspective, the entire team should be doing 41 points. It isn't that he is doing 'their' work.

I think OP is upset that he delivers more work, but is still paid the same. Companies reward the extra work via promotions and bonuses.
Thank you for the feedback! We'll fix it :)
Taxis probably aren't great in smaller areas, and if Ubers were primarily trying to locate themselves there and compete against cars that come when you call in those areas it would probably would work fine. I have to admit my experience with taxis is less dense areas was fine, but is probably more skewed, because taxi services were optimised to take people to/from transportation hubs (e.g. airports, trains) and hotels, and that's how I used them.

However, those smaller areas don't have taxi medallions to avoid and typically have less taxi regulations in general. Obviously, there is still a dumping component where Ubers are sold at a loss, but the main concern I heard most people have with Ubers was them ignoring the various taxi regulations that made it work in dense areas. Things like horrible traffic jams caused by too many Ubers all converging on one location, refusing to pick up minorities, etc.

Edit: To clarify, since I was misunderstood. I don't mean taxis are good at picking up minorities. They, historically and through today, have not been (with some minorities). That's why there are laws that try to make it so taxis have to pick them up. That is one example of a regulation that Uber/Lyft have ignored. AFAIK, this has caused some issues with Uber drivers and no way to appeal except to hope that Uber corporate believes your story.
I used to run something similar on my Mac - key command to write python. Selected text as stdin. Stdout to replace selected text (or to insert at cursor).

Tbh, the hardest thing was remembering to use it. Though using native language as input is probably so much easier, maybe it solves that problem too. Thanks for sharing.
https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib

https://1lab.dev/

You can watch the next generation, or participate, right now.
It was 5 days ago
Adam is somewhat analogous to an audio compressor on the gradient "signals".

(Edit: eh sort of ...)
Got tipping rage? This barista reveals what its like to be behind the tip screen
It seems clear to me.
As a PM, I find it best to put together a straw man project plan before I talk with people, then revise it progressively as I talk with people. Not always, but it's often a good idea, particularly if the project crosses multiple departments or companies. Sometimes I can't get everyone in the room at the same time. Sometimes (often) people will see their own team's area of work as being the main focus, while I have to coordinate with other groups, while trying to minimise the "hurry up and slow down". Sometimes there is a need to get people started on the bits we know about and accept that other bits will need changing. And sometimes you need to get the person responsible to estimate the length of the piece of string, and putting up a wrong estimate is a good way to get an answer.

I'm sure everyone is thinking "agile" now. Yes, I was in to that back when XP was the thing. But it only works for some sorts of project, typically where there is only a single company developing a project, and the customer is internal. If you have a big contract with specific deliverables, a contractual time line, multiple organisations, and perhaps large non-sw parts, you often find that you have to start planning even before the developers are engaged, then accept that some of your assumptions will be wrong.
GRUB is a common bootloader for Linux systems: it gives you a menu of boot options when you turn on your machine, and boots whichever installed operating system you choose.

So with this theme, that menu for choosing which OS to boot looks like the Minecraft menu!
Wh....why?
As someone unfamiliar with grub, the screenshot leaves me with more questions than answers
You can link to images in OSM too[1], but you need to find a place to actually host the files. So far the best option seems to be to upload the images to the Wikimedia commons and then link from OSM using the wikimedia_commons tag[2], though the UX of that is pretty awkward.

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:image

[2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons
This is one of the reasons why I'm contracting in The Netherlands! Though also because of the flexibility (3 billable days / week)...
Not to do a "you're holding it wrong", but why would you want so many tabs that they go offscreen?

More precisely, why 100 tabs in 1 window instead of 10 tabs times 10 windows?
But any time surveillance legislation comes up, the police say they have a "going dark" problem. Surely they're not lying?
Even if they aren't faked, the ability to shut down a trial that isn't delivering the right preliminary data is a big problem for society. Why should we trust these drugs?
Also, the rate the drivers get is pretty much inversely related to the rates the consumer has been seeing. I've heard from many drivers that their pay has dropped considerably podt-IPO. When the services were trying to corner the market with investor money, they subsidized both consumer and driver. Now that money has dried up and the services are predictably squeezing both sides of the equation.
I read that Uber and Lyft respond with a "quick enough" time that you don't switch to the other regardless of if they have a driver assigned. Based on how they act, I believe it.
For OSS, Codeberg is also an option. It's based on Forgejo (a fork of Gitea) so it's much more traditional a forge in terms of contribution models than Sourcehut's email first model which can be off-putting for many.
For a 'quick' overview into the mess that is IRBs, this book review is a good starting place: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-from-overs...

TL;DR: IRBs are a mess, hyper-individualized, and the problem ain't getting any better any time soon.
you can stack tabs in a group, and when you're inside that group, new tabs are opened within that group, but not sure about the middle click for a single tab
It also has a great alternative - workspaces, that helped me much better vs. the stacking, that for some reason didn't stick
Whatever buddy
I used one of those in the past and it was a great subject of interest in my interviews.

They thought I hacked Github or something. Good time :)
The link is broken. Here is the correct one https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html

From my POV I will say that it's a sad state. MySQL 8.0 was released back in 2018. So after 5 years of development, we have 10 new features. I'm not surprised. Oracle is one of the biggest cancers in IT world.
That’s the story the FDP is trying to sell - we should be „open“ on technology, because synthetic fuels will supposedly be just as environmentally friendly as EV cars. Never mind that well-to-wheel, they’d use 5x the energy of EVs and still have most of the other issues of ICE cars, like noise and local pollution (e.g. nox).

In reality, it’s about keeping fossil fuels and ICE cars around as long as possible.
Yeah, that's not the same, or even functionally close. Just a superficial resemblance. The value of tree style tabs is that you don't manually organize anything, and the tabs are nested arbitrarily deep so that you literally end up with a hierarchical tree of tabs that shows you the logical view of your browsing history with no manual input on your part. (Note the comparison to edge has been made before, which is why I specifically said tree-style tabs, not vertical tabs.)
The analytics is similar to happy customers if you separate the customers from the bots.
Great. So a researcher publishes their code, we can replicate it, find flaws, and correct it. If only every paper were like this. Congrats to the authors for making it easily accessible and the OP for trying to replicate and fix the problem.
Not what my doctor says, but I appreciate the medical advice.
Isn't the Commonwealth mostly a quaint and harmless organization by now?
I just mass-bookmark mine into a new bookmark folder periodically. Keeps it from getting anywhere near 2k.

I've been doing this for years and have never, not once, looked at the bookmarks. But it gives me the peace of mind I need to close all tabs and start over.
I think we are talking past each other. Let me try to narrow down where I think we disagree.

1) LLM providers harvest a common to create their product (don't think we disagree here much).

2) What happens next is where we diverge, I suspect: I think they will use their products to extract rents from that common while you think they will provide a fairly priced service.

Ultimately time will tell how the business model shakes out. Both could even be happening in sequence.
Since we are on this topic allow me to do an Ask HN comment here.

Ask HN: What are some good Readmes you have found?
this is not windows
Wasn't that buggy reporting which Apple fixed?

https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-mac...
What is this crap people in the valley have to say about taxis? That's a problem with where you live, not with taxis. Taxis everywhere I've lived have always been fine, safe, clean, boring, and the prices aren't great, but neither is uber--they seem on par where I live

Except taxi drivers get paid enough to raise a family
I was thinking that exactly these points were what makes a country rich(er) - citizen well-being, delivering on the promises, and such. What are your criteria for a richer country then?
What's the point of the empty string literal "" ?
Why does he keep calling GitHub a "forge"? Is calling a code repository a "forge" something common that I just haven't run across before?
What kind of difficulties? I don't understand why this would make any difference from a compiler's perspective.
Unsafe in what sense?
Microsoft have a similar problem relaterade to them merging a lot of services but not accounts. I have an old Xbox Live account on my Xbox 360 which I can’t reset the password for since the email/username was the same as for my Skype account and my Hotmail/MSN account back in the days. This mess is still causing me tons of problems anytime I try to log in to something Microsoft related.
Google Cloud Build bug lets hackers launch supply chain attacks
It is not a problem that has been solved if I understand your last sentence correctly. It is a problem that many people have different solutions to and each group proudly proclaims they have solved it.
Okta is also a prime target for hackers, and likely has a smaller security budget than Microsoft.